Dr. Janine Berg is a Senior Economist at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. Since joining the ILO in 2002, she has conducted research on the economic effects of labour laws as well as provided technical assistance to ILO constituents on policies for generating jobs and improving working conditions.  She is the author several books and numerous articles on employment and labour market institutions and was the lead author of the ILO report, Non-standard employment around the world: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects.  Her current area of focus is on transformations in the world of work, including digital labour platforms and algorithmic management. Janine received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York, USA.  

Dr. Ashutosh Garg is founder and CEO of Eightfold AI. Prior to founding Eightfold, Ashu was also a co-founder of BloomReach and a staff research scientist at Google. With 6000+ research citations, 50+ patents, and the outstanding PhD thesis award from UIUC for his PhD thesis in Machine Learning, it’s fair to say that Ashu is one of the world’s experts in machine learning. 

Séverine Ambrus is a Swiss journalist and has been working for Swiss French-speaking public radio and television RTS since 2010. Based in Zurich, she is currently TV correspondant for RTS in German-speaking Switzerland. Her previous roles included working for the international news daily radio broadcast «Tout un monde» and fact-cheking Swiss politics in the daily morning show «Factuel». Séverine studied literature in Paris and journalism in Neuchâtel. In 2017, she graduated from the Geneva Graduate Institute executive program CAS Advocacy in international affairs.

Elizabeth Crofoot is Senior Economist at the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (TCB). With nearly 20 years of experience assessing US and global labor market data, she researches policy and business responses to labor market dynamics, including issues around workforce training and women’s labor force participation. Previously at TCB, Elizabeth authored the quarterly Global Consumer Confidence report and led the International Labor Comparisons program for several years. Most recently, her research has focused on reimagining US labor markets and consumer spending in the post-COVID era.
Prior to joining The Conference Board, Elizabeth was a supervisory economist for the International Labor Comparisons program at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While at BLS, she managed a team of economists that developed comparable country measures of labor productivity, worker compensation, and unit labor costs. She also published research examining international manufacturing competitiveness in the BLS Monthly Labor Review. She holds an MA in economics from American University and a BA in political science and economics from the University of Washington. 

Dr. Andrej Heinke is vice president for Research and Corporate Foresight at the Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, where he pursues the themes of future research and technology strategy and is responsible for the Bosch Megatrends Report. Following his studies in Berlin, Leipzig, Stanford, and Harvard, he worked for the Daimler-Benz AG in Berlin, for SONY in Tokyo, and with the planning staff of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. 

Silvia Hernandez is Senior Partner at EY – Germany, Switzerland Austria (GSA). She is the Future Work Now Solution Leader and responsible for developing and enhancing the EY advisory service portfolio, go2market, and multidisciplinary delivery strategy. She is also a client service lead partner, and works with EYs key global clients to unleash commercial opportunities and co-innovate new solutions. Outside of EY, she is a philanthropist and advocate for equity and an ambassador for our global diversity initiatives: Entrepreneurial Winning Women. Recently inducted to the Generation CEO Network, she is a frequent public speaker at international conferences including TEDx, Oxford Analytica Global Horizons at Oxford University, EY World Entrepreneur of the Year, Daimler Sustainability Dialogue.

Dr. Alina Sorgner is Assistant Professor for Applied Data Analytics and Chair at the Department of Business Administration of John Cabot University in Rome, a Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). Her research in the fields of digitalization, labor markets, gender, and entrepreneurship has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and discussed in leading international newspapers such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, La Nación, and The Nevada Independent. She regularly collaborates with some of the world’s foremost organizations (e.g. UNIDO, ILO, Women20 and Think20, the initiative groups within the G20) and gives invited keynote presentations on these and related topics. 

Isabelle Chappuis is an economist by training, an expert in continuing education and an author. She is passionate about the Future of Work and the place of humans within it and an advocate of Human Sustainability. After fifteen years in leading positions in continuing education and passionate about the Future of Work, Isabelle founded and now leads the Futures Lab at HEC Lausanne | UNIL with the aim of scanning the major trends impacting the economy and the evolution of professions. Isabelle and her network collectively rethink and shape our future and define the new portfolios of knowledge and skills that individuals must develop today to thrive in tomorrow’s world of work. Isabelle holds a Master’s degree from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and is fluent in English, German and French. She was recently elected one of the 100 personalities who shape the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Karl Aberer is a professor at the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at the EPFL since 2000. He works on foundations, algorithms and infrastructures for distributed information management, including semantic interoperability, information retrieval, social networks and trust management. He was the director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile Information andCommunication Systems NCCR MICS, has been consulting the Swiss Government as a member of the Swiss Research and Technology Council and has been serving as Vice-President for Information Systems of EPFL from 2012 to 2016. He is also co-founder of LinkAlong, a startup providing solutions for open source document analytics.

David N. Barnes is the Vice President Global Workforce Policy at IBM. He is an experienced global executive with a history of leadership in the information technology and services industry, skilled in Government, Public Policy with focus on labor, skills, the Future of Work, and employment issues, Public Speaking, and International Relations. David is a strategic advocacy and public policy professional with a Bachelor of Business focused in Public Administration from University of Technology in Sydney.

Dr. Alberto-Giovanni Busetto is Group Head of Data & AI at the Adecco Group and a member of the Global Future Council on Data Policy at the World Economic Forum. He is a Data & AI executive with a 15-year track-record in Tech, Pharma and Consulting. He has been the Global Head of Data Science and AI in Healthcare at Merck, Deloitte-Merck Digital Champion and IBM Distinguished Speaker, selected among the Top-100 of the Nation’s outstanding young engineers by the US National Academy of Engineering for the Frontiers of Engineering, and was the US Big Data Chair of the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering. He holds a doctorate in Machine Learning from ETH Zurich and held a tenure-track professorship at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 
Gary Gan is an experienced entrepreneur and marketer, involved in the startup of several successful companies across a broad spectrum of industries. Gary was previously Head of Marketing and Business Development at TradeHero, a stock trading mobile app that raised US$10 million from Kleiner Perkins and was acquired by Ayondo. He is currently co-founder of JobKred, a workforce transformation platform that uses AI and data science to understand the evolving industry skills demand, and guides people to close their skills gaps and navigate the future of work. JobKred is used by Fortune 50 enterprises, top ranked universities, government agencies and international aid agencies like the World Bank. 

 
Nan Craig is Data Scientist at Faethm AI, the world’s data source to navigate the evolution of work. Nan previously worked at the Centre for Global Studies, researching the future of work and automation, and recently co-edited a collection of essays by leading experts from many fields on the future of working lives (Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution, 2020). 

 
Dr. Alec Levenson is an Economist and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. His research and consulting work with companies optimizes job and organization performance and HR systems through the application of organization design, job design, human capital analytics and strategic talent management. Alec’s research has been featured in numerous academic and business publications as well as in many news outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist and he is on the editorial boards of Human Resource Management and Small Business Economics. Alec studied Economics and Chinese language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

Bruce’s life purpose is to help people discover and leverage their full potential. After 10 years at McKinsey & Company, Bruce joined the Belgian chemical company Solvay with a mandate to rethink the way of working, culture and HR. Together with the employees, a “talent experience platform” was developed through co-creation to make the new culture visible and tangible. This success led to the creation of huapii (human happy) with one mission: to truly empower employees to use their full potential and make companies “future proof”. Bruce has also been Chief Talent Officer at Euroclear and is part of Belgium’s 40 under 40.

 
Dr. Elizabeth Wilke is the Tech Policy and Future of Work Researcher on LinkedIn’s Economic Graph team. She leads the team’s future of work research agenda, focused on surfacing insights from LinkedIn’s data that describe how technology, demographic transitions, climate change, and other global megatrends are reshaping the labor market, and advising governments how to create economic opportunity for workers on this future context. She has over a decade of experience in domestic and international public policy research, strategic planning, program design, project management, implementation, and evaluation. Elizabeth joined LinkedIn in 2018 from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a US government foreign assistance agency, where she developed major grant programs that reduce poverty by removing barriers to investment and entrepreneurship as Director of Economic Analysis. She received her PhD in Policy Analysis from the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, and her Bachelors degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.  

Max Blumberg, Ph.D. is a consultant and founder of the people analytics think tank, the Blumberg Partnership, where he works to bridge the worlds of business performance, artificial intelligence and analytics to improve strategy execution and design effective workforces. Over the course of his career, Max has worked alongside a list of blue chip companies and global clients including CIPD, Lloyds Register, the BBC, Rentokil Initial, Brit Insurance, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, The MOD, Barclays Corporate, and Friends Provident. Academically, Max is a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds, UK and a Researcher Associate at the University of Southern California, USA.

Ayisha Piotti is the Co Founder & Managing Partner of RegHorizon, where she works to build bridges between the needs of policy makers, companies and society at large, with a special focus on digital policy frameworks. Ayisha has over 18 years of experience in the public & private sector. Prior to joining RegHorizon, Ayisha was a senior Business Development and Corporate Affairs executive within a large multinational, where she built and led cross-functional teams and projects spanning diverse geographies, including Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Ayisha’s educational background is in Economics and Management, and she is the alumna of the London School of Economics & Political Science, Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, MIT’s Sloane School of Management, and INSEAD.

Dr. Rafaelita “Fita” M. Aldaba is Undersecretary for the Competitiveness and Innovation Group of the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) where she fulfills a key role in the formulation and implementation of the Inclusive Innovation Industrial Strategy (i 3S), which puts innovation at the heart of the Philippines new industrial policy. She is leading DTI’s initiatives in preparing industries for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital transformation, establishing Regional Inclusive Innovation Centers (RIICs), and growing a robust startup ecosystem in the country. Undersecretary Aldaba is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Philippine Board of Investments (BOI). A researcher turned policymaker, she was Senior Research Fellow and Acting Vice-President of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies.).  

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Co-Director of the CTEI, and founder and Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU.org. He advises governments and international organisations around the world, and is a prolific author. His latest book is The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work (2019 Oxford University Press). Previously, he was President of the Centre of Economic Policy Research (2014 to 2018), and worked in the Bush White House (1990 to 1991). 

Genna Barnett is the Programme Manager for the Data Analytics Practice at Nesta – the UK’s innovation foundation. She works across a number of projects relating to open jobs data, providing project management support and strategic oversight. She is particularly interested in engaging with policy makers and other stakeholders to understand how diverse groups can make use of our outputs in practice. Most recently, she has worked on Mapping Career Causeways – an ambitious project using state-of-the-art data science methods to create an algorithm that recommends job transitions and retraining to workers, with a focus on supporting those at high risk of automation. Prior to this, Genna worked on a range of projects at Nesta exploring the future of work and impact of technology on jobs, including Digital Frontrunners and FutureFit. 

Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri is an Engineering Educator and People Researcher. She currently leads Global People Research and Analytics at McGraw Hill, where her research leverages employee data from across 40 countries to generate data-driven insights for decisions impacting organizational growth, culture and talent. Her research interests include employing innovative, ethical and inclusive mixed-methods research approaches using AI to uncover insights about the 21st century workforce. She is passionate about improving belonging among women in STEM and Engineering, and was recently elected as Senator at the Society of Women Engineers – a not-for-profit organization with over 42,000 global members and the world’s largest advocate and catalyst for change for women in engineering and technology. 

Alexa is the Digital Transformation and Skills Direction with Microsoft for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She works across the region to drive digital transformation of education institutions and digital skills development, from primary through to higher education. She focuses on enabling them to develop the skills that students need to succeed in work and life. Over the last 20 years, Alexa has worked with governments in more than 100 countries across the world in digital transformation. She previously led the global strategy at Microsoft for engaging and supporting education system leaders as they evolve their school systems, and was formerly EMEA Director of Policy, Teaching and Learning, focusing on supporting national device deployments across the region. 

Dr. Michael Fung is the Deputy Chief Executive (Industry), Chief Human Resource Officer and Chief Data Officer at SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory agency under the Ministry of Education. He oversees the development of the continuing education and training system in Singapore, through managing funding and contractual partnerships with private training providers, institutes of higher learning, and enterprises. He is an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and Founding President of the Higher Education Planning in Asia Association.

Ivana Bartoletti is Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Founder of Women Leading in AI and Technical Director of Privacy at Deloitte, London. She launched the Women Leading in AI network in May 2018, a thriving international group of scientists, industry leaders and policy experts advocating for responsible AI. At Deloitte, she supports businesses in their privacy by design programmes. Ivana is Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Co-editor of the Fintech’s Circle’s AI Book and her own book An Artificial Revolution (2020) focuses on the socio-economic impact of AI. She was awarded ‘Woman of the Year’ (2019) in the CyberSecurity Awards and is a sought after commentator for major broadcasters and news outlets.

Prof. Valerio de Stefano is Research Professor at the Institute for Labour Law and the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven. He examines the effects of AI on work and employment, focusing on the quality side of jobs rather than on the quantity of jobs that will be automated through AI. In his research, he investigates how to use the many potential benefits of AI at work and he is particularly interested in the role of the social partners in governing AI and ensuring a “human-in-command” approach. Valerio Stefano acted as a consultant for the International Labour Office, Eurofound, the Joint Research Center of the EU Commission and national governments and he is a member of the OECD Network of Experts on Artificial Intelligence (ONE AI).  

Dr. Jamie Woodcock is a senior lecturer at the Open University and a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Fight Against Platform Capitalism (2021), The Gig Economy (2019), Marx at the Arcade (2019), and Working the Phones (2017). His research is inspired by workers’ inquiry and focuses on labour, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organising, and videogames. He is on the editorial board of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism. Jamie completed his PhD in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Queen Mary, NYU London, Cass Business School, the LSE, and the University of Oxford. 

Dr. Phoebe Moore is a globally recognised expert on digitalisation and resultant changes to workplaces/spaces and working conditions at the University of Leicester. Phoebe has given many keynote talks about the current context of and probable futures for work and workers given technological advancements. She has published research agenda and policy impacting reports for the International Labour Organization, the European Parliament and the European Safety and Health Agency (EU-OSHA) focussing on digitalisation and work, and related the of psychosocial violence as well as possible benefits for safety and health. Her research has been widely received throughout the media, including BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, Financial Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Biz Tech and Business Investors Daily.