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DeepMind Professor at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the AI field, and a Senior AI Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.
As a former Director of Machine Learning at Amazon, he implemented solutions for Alexa, Prime Air, and the company's supply chain.
A co-host of the Talking Machines podcast, he has written a series for The Guardian and regularly contributes opinion pieces to various media outlets.
Known for his political and social work with the UK's Council for Artificial Intelligence, the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), and the OECD's Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), his research focuses on improving data management, scientific discovery, and empowering humans to regain control over large AI systems.

Last updated: january 2025

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

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

He is President of ANI – National Innovation Agency. Until 2014, he was Executive Director of PRODUTECH – Pólo das Tecnologias de Produção and Director of INESC Porto – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto. He is a member of the High-Level Group of the MANUFUTURE Technology Platform and Chairman of its National and Regional Technology Platforms Group. He is a National Delegate to the NMP+B Programme Committee of HORIZON 2020 and, since 2012, has been a RIS3 expert for DG REGIO.

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

He is the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the top 100 World Thinkers in 2011, and a poll conducted by «The Economist» magazine placed him among the most influential economists of the current decade. He is a regular contributor to publications such as «The New York Times», «The Wall Street Journal» and «The Washington Post». His blog, «Marginal Revolution», was named the best economics blog by «The Wall Street Journal», and Cowen was considered one of the 25 best bloggers by Time magazine in its 2013 edition. Tyler Cowen's other publications include «Discover Your Inner Economist», about behavioural economics, and «An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies».

Last updated: June 2015

He is head of the «Net Futures» department at DG CONNECT and in charge of research and innovation on the current Internet architecture, software and services and strategy for the EU's cloud computing system.

Last updated: June 2015

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

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.

He has been Professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since 1991 and CEPR President since 2016. He founded the VoxEU.org portal in 2007. As well as being a researcher and teacher, he has advised governments and international organisations around the world on globalisation and trade policy. He was Senior Economist in the Bush Administration's Presidential Council (1990-1991) and did his PhD in economics at MIT with Paul Krugman.