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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.

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 KIGAB Holding

Schoscho Rufener
Founder of Rufener Events

Michael Hengartner
President of the ETH Board

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