Location: United Arab Emirates
Current: UNESCO Chair on Strategic Foresight and Higher Education; Head of the UNESCO-UNEVOC Center at the Higher Colleges of Technology; Chairman of the Goodman Award for Excellence in Strategy at the International Association for Strategy Professionals
Experience: Executive Director of Strategy & Future at the Higher Colleges of Technology; National Board Director and Vice President at the International Association for Strategy Professionals
Areas: Policy Development, Strategic Foresight & Management, International Partnerships
Location: Australia
Current: Chairperson of the Board at Consumers of Mental Health Western Australia Incorporated
Experience: Governance Coordinator at Horizon Power
Areas: Corporate Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, and Stakeholder Relations
Location: United Arab Emirates
Current: Group Chief Disruption Officer & CEO-EdTech at GEMS Education
Experience: Citigroup, Fidelity Investments, First Abu Dhabi Bank, BankMuscat, QIB Group
Areas: Digital Transformation, Product Innovation, Strategy Consulting, Exponential Technologies
Location: United Arab Emirates
Current: Head of Finance And Administration at SBK Holding
Experience: SBK Holding & The Private Office of H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Areas: Fina
Location: Canada
Current: Consultant at The World Bank
Experience: Ontario Centre of Innovation
Areas: Strategy, Multilateral & Public Policy, International Relations
Location: Canada
Current: Trade Commissioner Service (TCS)
Experience:Deputy Director at Global Affairs Canada, AÉTÉLUQ
Areas: Public Affairs and International Relations
Location: Greece
Current: CEO/Partner at ETSdesk, Member Of The Supervisory Board at PeerBerry
Experience: Strategy, ESG and Carbon Credits Trading Consultant at The House of Shipping, Board Of Directors at DNV, Technical-Compliance Director at Southpoint Maritime. In his significant 20-year tenure with DNV, Mr. Papanikos has held multiple roles, including Director on Board Of Directors and Flag Liaison Officer for the Greek Flag, as well as a Principal Surveyor Lead Auditor
Areas: Maritime, Engineering, ESG
Location: United Kingdom
Current: CEO at IAIA (International Association for Impact Assessment)
Experience: Former Managing Director, Head of Global Research, Advocacy, and Standards at the CFA Institute, Managing Director at Jefferies, and Head of European Equity Strategy at Bank of America. Gary has also held the positions of Deputy Head of Equity Research and Head of Global Sector Equity Research at Merrill. As Head of EMEA Region at CFA Institute, he was actively involved in strengthening ties with 40 country-based member societies as well as fostering collaboration with educational institutions, regulatory bodies, and institutional partners
Areas: Impact Assessment, Finance, Investment, Research and Standards
Location: Singapore
Current: Head of Strategic Pursuits & Sustainability (ASEAN), Amazon Web Services Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Experience: Build AWS sustainability capabilities in ASEAN with pathway to net-zero, Build and Manage Alibaba Cloud International business. Manage the sales team across Asia Pacific, EMEA and US/LATAM, Build a new Alibaba Group business unit for Olympics Sports and Major events with full P&L responsibilities, ecosystem development (USD 800M), Strategize and build new business entities and Logistics hubs for Alibaba Group Globalization Office, eWTP (Electronics World Trade Platform), in Belgium, Malaysia and Thailand, Plan, Invest and Expand Alibaba’s 14 Internet Datacenters across the world
Areas: Digitalization and International expansion
Location: Canada
Current: Former Global Legal COO at a Fortune Global 500 company
Experience: Manulife, The Citco Group Limited
Areas: (Legal) Operations, International Project & Program Management, Strategic Planning, Process Optimization
Location: United Kingdom
Current: Managing Director in Venture Building, Saudi Arabia
Experience: Saudi Vision 2030, Halo Transformation Ltd., Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller
Areas: Value Driven Transformation; Creation of Global Innovation Ecosystems; Cognitive Hyper-connected Cities, Economies and Governments; Venture Building and Investment
Location: Switzerland
Current: CEO and Founder of MRGN Advisors
Experience: CanSino Biologics Inc.康希诺生物, Limula, Kupando, Amoéba, UNIVERCELLS, Vaccitech, Merieux Equity Partners, Eurocine Vaccines
Areas: Human Life Sciences, P&L, M&A Strategy and Implementation, Corporate Governance and Crisis Management
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to