Reuters Next 2021 (B) | Thomson Reuters | 1 December 2021 | Virtual Event

Reuters NEXT is a free virtual global conference that brings together world leaders, big business and forward-thinking pioneers to inspire, drive action and accelerate innovation to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges.

Combining a diversity of voices with true global outreach, this is where new ideas and perspectives can flourish.

Built around five key pillars covering the key themes that affect us all:
• Policy for Progress
• Business of Growth
• A Sustainable Future
• Radical Redesign
• A Fairer World

2021 Speakers

Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister, New Zealand

Jens Stoltenberg
Secretary General, NATO

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director General, World Trade Organization

Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Prime Minister, Greece

H.E. David W. Panuelo
President, Government of the Federated States of Micronesia

Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Antony J. Blinken
Secretary of State, United States

Christine Lagarde
President, European Central Bank

Janet Yellen
Secretary of the Treasury, United States

Valdis Dombrovskis
Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Trade, European Commission

Fuxian Yi
Senior Scientist, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr Anthony Fauci
M.D., Director, NIAID

Lenora Chu
Special Correspondent [Europe and Chinese Affairs], The Christian Science Monitor & Author, HarperCollins

Gabriela Bucher
Executive Director, Oxfam International

Alexandra Readhead
Lead, Tax and Extractive Industries, Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development

Raphael Bostic
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Nathan Law
Hong Kong democratic activist

Jena Griswold
Colorado Secretary of State

Anote Tong
President (2003 - 2016), Republic of Kiribati

Carlos Scartascini
Leader Behavioral Economics Group, Inter-American Development Bank

Dr Laura de Molière
Head of Behavioural Science, Cabinet Office, UK Government

Jose Perez-Gorozpe
Head of Emerging Markets Credit Research, S&P Global Ratings

Michael Lampariello
Director of Domino Park, Two Trees Management Co.

Robin Brooks
Chief Economist, Institute of International Finance

Arturo Herrera
Visiting Professor of Economics, El Colegio de México

X González
Gun Control Advocate

James K. Glassman
Writer and Consultant

Atty. Allan B. Gepty
Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry

Kristin Forbes
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Global Economics, Sloan School of Management at MIT

Paschal Donohoe
Finance Minister, Ireland

Elvira Nabiullina
Central Bank Governor, Central Bank of Russia

Dame Meg Taylor
Former Secretary General, Papua New Guinea

Mary Maclennan
Lead and Co-Founder, United Nations Behavioural Science Group

Riad Toufic Salamé
Governor, Banque du Liban

Tekedra Mawakana
co-Chief Executive Officer, Waymo

Falguni Nayar
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nykaa

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and, Group President, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority

Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Chief Executive Officer, Klarna

Jacek Olczak
Chief Executive Officer, Philip Morris International

Nandan Nilekani
Chairman and Co-founder, Infosys, Founding Chairman, UIDAI (Aadhaar)

Ugur Sahin
Chief Executive Officer, BioNTech

Özlem Türeci
Chief Medical Officer, BioNTech

Anthony Tan
Group CEO & Co-Founder, Grab

Helena Lopes Caldeira
Chief Financial Officer, Inter

Dan Schulman
President & Chief Executive Officer, PayPal

Kaisa Hietela
Board Member, ExxonMobil

Carlos Tavares
Chief Executive Officer, Stellantis

Alexander Lacik
President & Chief Executive Officer, Pandora A/S

Shari Redstone
Non-Executive Chair, ViacomCBS

Bhavish Aggarwal
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ola

Frédéric Chesnais
Chief Executive Officer of Crypto Blockchain Industries, Atari

Lorenzo Bertelli
Marketing Director & Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Prada Group

Sonia Cheng
Chief Executive Officer, Rosewood Hotel Group

Nandan Nilekani
Chairman and Co-Founder, Infosys

Robert A. Kindler
Vice Chairman and Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Morgan Stanley

Scott Barshay
Partner, Paul Weiss

Piyush Gupta
Chief Executive Officer, DBS Group

J. Christopher Giancarlo
Senior Counsel, Willkie Farr & Gallagher / Former Chairman, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Adolfo Babatz
CEO, Clip

John Maeda
Senior Vice President, Everbridge

Jessica Deckinger
Chief Communications Officer, Everbridge

Chris James
Founder, Engine No1

Rob Kaplan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Circulate Capital

Eric Norris
Head of Lithium, Albemarle

Kristen Siemen
Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors

Mark Cutifani
Chief Executive Officer, Anglo American

Paul Graves
Chief Executive Officer, Livent

Joji Tagawa
Chief Sustainability Officer, Nissan Motor

Richard C. Adkerson
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Namrata Thapar
Global Head, Mining, The International Finance Corporation

Von Hernandez
Global Coordinator, Break Free From Plastic (BFFP)

Mark Russell
CEO & President, Nikola Corporation

Julie Gorte, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing, Impax Asset Management LLC

Paul Eremenko
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Universal Hydrogen

Mary Jane McQuillen
Head of ESG and Portfolio Manager, ClearBridge Investments

Jean-Dominique Takis Kumbo
Chief Executive Officer, Entreprise Générale du Cobalt S.A

Eva Gouwens
Chief Executive Officer, Fairphone

Carine Smith Ihenacho
Chief Governance and Compliance Officer, Norges Bank Investment Management

Christian Mumenthaler
Group Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re

Dr Steve Howard
Chief Sustainability Officer, Temasek International

Torbjørg Klara Fossum
VP Global CCS Solutions, Equinor

Karsten Temme
co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pivot Bio

Bruce Niemeyer
Vice President, Strategy & Sustainability, Chevron Corporation

Dr Dieter Weisskopf
Chief Executive Officer, Lindt & Sprüngli Group

Thomas Schmall
Group Board Member, Technology Volkswagen AG and Chief Executive Officer, Volkswagen Group Components

Peter Boone
Chief Executive Officer, Barry Callebaut

Jack McAneny
Vice President, Global Sustainability, P&G

Nadia Rasheed
Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP India

Michael Peter
Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Mobility

Andre de Ruyter
Group Chief Executive, Eskom

Fleetwood Grobler
Executive Director and President & CEO, Sasol

Eoin Murray
Head of Investment, Federated Hermes International

Sandrine Sommer
CSR & Sustainable Development Director, Moet Hennessy

Joachim Wenning
Chairman of the Board of Management, Munich Re (Group)

Helen Browning
Chief Executive, Soil Association

Walter Schalka
Chief Executive Officer - Chief Executive Officer, Suzano

David M. Turk
Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Oren Zaslansky
Founder & CEO, Flock Freight

H.E. Dr. Rania A. Al-Mashat
Minister of International Cooperation

Richard Browning
Founder and Chief Test Pilot, Gravity Industries Ltd.

Mia Mottley
Prime Minister, Barbados

Yat Siu
Chairman and Co-Founder, Animoca Brands

Merck Mercuriadis
Founder and CEO, Hipgnosis Songs Fund

Nile Rodgers
Multiple Award Winning Composer, Producer, Arranger, Guitarist and Co-Founder, CHIC

Catherine Powell
President and Global Head of Hosting, Airbnb

Renate Nyborg
CEO, Tinder

Robert Dingemanse
CEO & Founder, PAL-V International BV

Daehoon Kim
CEO & President, IriTech

Toby Norman
Chief Executive Officer, Simprints

Andrew Barnes
Founder, Perpetual Guardian and 4 Day Week Global

Meghana Reddy
Vice President of People & Operations, Loom

Jin Song Montesano
Chief Public Affairs & People Officer, LIXIL Corporation

Justin Hall
Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Dmitry Levit
Partner, Cento Ventures

Eddy Njoroge
President, ISO

Frédéric Mazzella
Founder & President, BlaBlaCar

Natalie Johnson
Founder, Neuno

Benoit Pagotto
Co-Founder, RTFKT

Tessie San Martin
FHi360

Anna Kominik
Asia Pacific Region Director, Wisk

Laurie Pickup
International Director [& Honorary Professor of European Transport Policy], Vectos [& University of Aberdeen]

Andoni Luis Aduriz
Michelin Star Chef

Michael (Mike) DePrisco
Chief Operating Officer, Project Management Institute (PMI)

Justin King CBE
Former CEO, Sainsburys

Coral Alcaraz
Chief People Officer, Desigual

David Radcliffe
Vice President, Real Estate & Workplace Services and Global Security & Resilience Services, Google

Ong Ye Kung
Minister for Health, Singapore

Nipun Mehra
Co-Founder and CEO, Ula

Magnus Ekbom
Chief Strategy Officer, Lazada Group

Givanildo Pereira Bastos
Coordinator and Representative, G10Favelas

Margrethe Vestager
Executive Vice President, European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age

Michael Anthony Holding
Former West Indies Cricketer

Winnie Byanyima
Executive Director, UNAIDS

Thomas Mew
Partner, Buckley Beal, LLP

Dr Soumya Swaminathan
Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation

Ritu Kapur
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Quint Digital Media Ltd

Bing Chen
President and Co-founder, Gold House

David Greene
Civil Liberties Director/Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dr Mark McBride-Wright CEng
Founder, EqualEngineers

Krista L. Baughman
Partner, Dhillon Law Group Inc.

Melissa Siska Juminto
Chief Operating Officer, Tokopedia

RoseAnne Archibald
National Chief, The Assembly of First Nations

Carlien Scheele
Director, European Institute for Gender Equality

Lidia Thorpe
Senator for Victoria, Australian Greens

Dr Ahmad Sarmast
Founder and Director, Afghanistan National Institute of Music

Julie Coffman
Chief Diversity Officer, Bain & Company

Stéphanie Oueda
Head of Gender, Diversity and Inclusion, IDB Invest

Mark Schoofs
Editor-In-Chief, BuzzFeed News

Kate Bingham
former Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce & Managing Partner, SV Health Investors

Amanda Zamora
Publisher and Co-Founder, The 19th*

Gurchaten Sandhu
President of UN Globe, and Non-Discrimination Programme Officer, International Labour Organization

Dr. Rachel Levine
Asst. Secretary for Health, United States

Ellene A. Sana
Executive Director, Center for Migrant Advocacy Philippines (CMA)

Tim Cadogan
Chief Executive Officer, GoFundMe

Stacey Abrams
Founder, Fair Fight Action

Audrey Tang
Minister without Portfolio
Executive Yuan Taiwan

Saru Jayaraman
President, One Fair Wage

Liz Jenkins
COO, Hello Sunshine

Dr. Aletha Maybank
Chief Health Equity Officer, American Medical Association

Dr. Joia Crear Perry
President, National Birth Equity Collaborative

Elisa Loncon
President of the Constitutional Convention, Chile Mapuche

Roya Rahmani
Former Afghan Ambassador to USA

Mahbouba Seraj
Executive Director, Afghan Womens Skills Development Center

Alex Au
Vice President, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2)

Reiko Harima
Regional Coordinator, Mekong Migration Network

Ron Nixon
Global Investigations Officer, The Associated Press

Lukas Zeickner-Okoro
Director, Ahiamwen (Bird Guild)

Prof. Dr. Barbara Plankensteiner
Director, Museum am Rothenbaum–World Cultures and Arts

Professor Abba Isa Tijani
Director General Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments

Rosanna Landis Weaver
Wage Justice & Executive Pay Program Manager, As You Sow

Dan Price
Chief Executive Officer, Gravity Payments

Dr. Abdulaziz Sager
Chairman, Gulf Research Center

Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed
Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics

Tawakkol Karman
Yemeni Nobel Laureate

Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdella
Emirati Professor of Political Science

Nadim Houry
Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative (ARI)

Liz Shuler
President, AFL-CIO

2021 Sponsors and Partners

PILLAR SPONSOR: A FAIRER WORLD
• Bain & Company

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Everbridge
• Mastercard

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Flock Freight
• PMI

DATA PARTNER:
• Refinitiv

KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS:
• BSR
• CAIA Association
• The European Business Review
• The Sustainability Consortium
• WANGO