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FOUNDATION EXECUTIVE ADVISORY BOARD

Jorge Paulo Lemann
Investor and Entrepreneur, Founder of 3G Capital

General David Petraeus
Former Director of the CIA, Chairman of the KKR Global Institute

Dmytro Kuleba
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine

Niall Ferguson
Historian and Author at Stanford, Harvard and Tsinghua

Neri Oxman
Legendary architect, designer and inventor, CEO of OXMAN Inc.

Fred Kempe
President and CEO of The Atlantic Council

Matt Kaminski
Editor-at-Large of POLITICO

Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson
Former CEO of POLITICO Europe and Executive Director of the McCourt Institute

Henry Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State (1923–2023)

Christian H. Kälin
Chairman of Henley & Partners, Co-Founder of Arnova Capital

Daniela Schwarzer
Board Member, Bertelsmann Foundation

Matt Ridley
Former Member of the House of Lords, Best-selling author and former Editor of “The Economist”

Ana Brnabić
President of the Serbian Parliament, former Prime Minister

Peter Singer
Moral philosopher and best-selling author, Princeton and University of Melbourne

Martina Hirayama
State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation of Switzerland

Benedikt Franke
CEO of the Munich Security Conference

Stefan Hell
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Director of the Max Planck Institute

Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nobel Prize in Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank

Kishore Mahbubani
Former President of the UN Security Council

Alon Chen
President of the Weizmann Institute

Tenley E. Albright
Director of the MIT Collaborative Initiative, Board member of the Bloomberg Foundation, Olympic Gold Medalist

Uli Sigg
Former Ambassador to China, Largest private collector of contemporary Chinese Art

Kurt Wüthrich
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Marc Walder
CEO of Ringier and Founder of digitalswitzerland

Jöel Mesot
President of ETH Zurich

Uwe Krüger
Senior Managing Partner at TEMASEK (Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund)

Thomas Schmidheiny
Founder and Chairman of Spectrum Value Management

Wojciech Szczepaniak
Chairman and Partner of Sparrowland Capital

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
President of EPFL

Kiana Aran
Founder of Cardea Bio, Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego Medical School

Ton Büchner
Board Member of Novartis, Chairman of Swiss Prime Site

Markus Pertl
Chairman of the Stern Stewart Institute

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Thomas Ladner
Attorney at Law

Ralph Büchi
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer

Alex Wassmer
Chairman and Delegate of the Board of KIBAG Holding

Schoscho Rufener
Founder of Rufener Events

Michael Hengartner
President of the ETH Board

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