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Meghan L. O’Sullivan
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project, and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.
Dr. O’Sullivan draws on her broad experience in government, diplomacy, academia, and business to contribute insights that benefit her students and colleagues, the U.S. government, global businesses, and the public debate.

Last updated: april 2025
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Pablo Casas-Aljama
Economist at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, where he is part of the Territorial Data Analysis and Modelling (TEDAM) team. His research interests include labour economics, fiscal policy, regional economics, technological innovation and ecological economics. He holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the International University of Andalusia (UNIA).
Before joining the JRC, he worked as a research assistant and adjunct professor at the University of Huelva. Furthermore, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Management Studies at IST (CEGIST).

Last updated: March 2025
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Mark Finley
Nonresident fellow in energy and global oil at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He has over 35 years of experience working at the intersections of energy, economics and public policy.
Before joining the Baker Institute, he was the senior U.S. economist at BP. For 12 years, he led the production of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, the world’s longest-running compilation of objective global energy data. He also was responsible for the company’s long- and short-term oil market analysis, and he led the global oil market and transportation sector analyses for the long-term BP Energy Outlook.
Prior to joining BP, he was an analyst and manager at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He was responsible for assessing the implications for U.S. strategic interests of developments in global oil and other energy markets,
Finley is a senior fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. He has held leadership roles in the International Association for Energy Economics, the National Association for Business Economics, and the Conference of Business Economics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and holds graduate degrees from Northwestern University (in economics) and the George Washington University (in finance).

Last update: march 2025
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Carlos Moreira da Silva
He runs the Teak Capital fund, is a partner in the Horizon Equity Partners fund, vice-chairman of Sonae Indústria, and sits on the board of the Serralves Foundation. He recently stepped down as chairman of the BA Glass group after 22 years running the company.
He has accumulated decades of experience in company management, running dozens of companies in a wide variety of areas - here we name just a few. He was chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonae Retalho Especializado, TVI - Televisão Independente and the Spanish company La Seda de Barcelona. He managed the EDP - Energias de Portugal group and was a member of the board of COTEC Portugal.
He taught at the University of Porto between 1975 and 1987. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto, a master's degree and a doctorate in Management from the University of Warwick, UK.

Last updated: december 2020
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Anil Gupta
Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland.
He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization & Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.
Ranked by «Thinkers50» as 'one of the world’s most influential living management thinkers', he has also been named by The Economist as one of the world's «superstars» for research on emerging economies, and inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ «Hall of Fame».
He is one of only three professors, out of over 25000 worldwide, to have been elected a Lifetime Fellow of the three most prestigious academic bodies in his field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business. He is the author of several best-selling books including «The Quest for Global Dominance», «Getting China and India Right», and «The Silk Road Rediscovered».
Anil Gupta received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Last update: january 2025
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Filipe Santos
He is President of Portugal Inovação Social, a government initiative created in January 2015 as part of Portugal2020, which aims to boost the innovation and social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Portugal and create the foundations for a social investment market. He holds a PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford University and was Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD for 12 years, where he ran the social entrepreneurship programme since 2007 and the Entrepreneurship Centre since 2009. He is the author of a vast body of research on organisational theory, entrepreneurship and social innovation, and has received over 2,000 citations on Google scholar. He co-founded the Social Entrepreneurship Institute and the Social Investment Laboratory in Portugal. In 2013, he published «Handbook for Changing the World», the first guide for social entrepreneurs in Portuguese.

Last updated: June 2015
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Francesca Bria
Senior Project Leader at Nesta and Senior Consultant at Nesta Innovation Lab. She is the EU coordinator of the direct democracy and digital social currencies project «D-CENT», and Lead Researcher of the digital social innovation project in Europe «DSI». She is a Researcher and Associate Professor at Imperial College Business School, in the Centre for Innovation Studies – Digital Economy Lab. She has an undergraduate degree in social sciences and innovation economics, a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Imperial College London and a Master's Degree in E-business and Innovation from the University College of London, Birkbeck. She is also a member of the Internet of Things Council project and a consultant for the European Commission on Future Internet and Smart Cities policy.

Last updated: June 2015
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Ana Neves
CEO of Knowman. During the eight years she lived in London, she was a Knowledge Consultant at Headshift, Knowledge Manager in the UK Ministry of Health agencies and Cultural Change Manager at a major financial institution. She conceived the Citizenship 2.0 event, which she has been co-organising since 2010, and is responsible for the platform of the same name (citizenship20.com) which promotes and boosts projects for using social networks and tools as means of civic dialogue and participation. She collaborates regularly with the São Paulo State Government (Brazil) with whom she co-edited the book «We Can Do It – Knowledge Management and Innovation in the Public Sector» (2014). She also coordinates APDSI's Web 2.0 group.