Samuel Hungsoo Kim is the President of the Center for Asia Leadership Initiatives (CALI). He is passionate about nurturing and empowering talent in Asia and runs over 50 programs annually in 32 Asian countries to help the region’s emerging leaders explore ways of being socially responsible as they face today’s complex challenges. His research and training focus on building social capital and trustworthy institutions; the effective use of power, authority, and influence; and negotiations, mediation, and confidence-building. To date, some 36,000 burgeoning and established leaders from the governmental, political, non-profit, and corporate spheres in Asia have benefited from his programs. He is a visiting faculty at the Ban Ki-moon Institute for Global Education, UN Academic Impact, and currently sits on the boards of three social-profit organizations. Samuel holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; a Master’s in International Cooperation from Seoul National University; and an LLB in Law, International Politics, and Economics from Handong University. He is the editor of ten books and regularly writes opinion pieces and editorials.

Rahul Daswani is a Futurist, Intrapraneur, Coach, and Ex-McKinsey Consultant. Passionate about designing and implementing organization-wide initiatives to build capabilities, he has over 10 years experience founding or being in the early stages of 3 government startups: Strategy Group in Singapore's Prime Minister's Office, SkillsFuture Singapore (to encourage lifelong learning), and the Office of Climate Change (now upgraded to the Climate Change Development Authority) of Papua New Guinea. He has worked at both macro and micro levels, assessing the demand and supply of critical skills across industries at SkillsFuture Singapore, crafting scenarios for the future at the Prime Minister's Office in Singapore, creating sustainable development plans with provinces in Indonesia while at McKinsey, scaling up agricultural extension services in Ethiopia through good governance and business practices, and building talent at the Office of Climate Change and Development in Papua New Guinea. Rahul holds a Master in Public Policy at Harvard University, focusing on political and economic development.

Steve Jarding, Lecturer in Public Policy, is an international educator, lecturer, writer, and political consultant. He has taught at the Kennedy School since 2004 where his teaching has been recognized as “exemplary” by Kennedy School alumni, and where his course on campaign management has twice been nominated for the “Most Influential Course Award.” In addition to his teaching, Jarding is the founding partner and CEO of the international consulting company, SJB Strategies International which advises candidates and causes and offers communication training to presidents and prime ministers as well as other elected officials, business leaders, and political organizers around the world. He has lectured and consulted in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe. He has also served as communications director and senior advisor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington, D.C. In 1996, Roll Call magazine named Jarding one of the “50 most influential political people in Washington”. In November 2012, the Financial Times of London profiled Jarding and his cutting-edge methods of teaching campaign management techniques to students in America and around the world.

David A. Shore, PhD, is a recognized authority on innovation, managing change initiatives, and gaining competitive advantage. He is an adjunct faculty at Harvard University and is an advisory board member at McKinsey & Company. He is also a distinguished professor of innovation and change at Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China, and adjunct professor of organizational development and change at the School of Business, University of Monterrey, Mexico. He has held visiting professorships including in Amsterdam, Santiago, and Shanghai, consulted in six continents, and delivered keynote addresses and workshops for groups across multiple industries. As the executive director of the Schools Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education, he founded and directed Forces of Change, The Trust Initiative, and the Certificate Program on Launching and Leading Successful Change Initiatives. In 2015, he was recognized as a Top Thought Leader in Trust by Trust Across America-Trust Around the World.

Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the Founding Executive Director of the School’s Center for Public Leadership. And from 2003 to 2006 she served as the Center’s Research Director. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, Uppsala, and at both Dartmouth and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She also served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Fairleigh Dickinson, and as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the University of Maryland.

Moshik Temkin, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, joined the Harvard Kennedy School faculty in 2009. A specialist in the history of the modern United States in global and comparative perspective, with a focus on the connections between history and public policy, he is particularly interested in the interaction between Americans and non-Americans–the effects that American politics have had on the wider world, the roles that international politics have played in American society and policymaking in the United States, and the dynamics created when American and international politics come into contact, or conflict. At Harvard, he is affiliated with the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Center for European Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. At the Harvard Kennedy School, he convenes the Harvard Seminar on History and Policy and is the co-founder and co-director of the Harvard Initiative on History and Public Policy. In 2010-2011, he co-convened the Harvard International and Global History Seminar. He received his B.A. at the Hebrew University and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History at Columbia University.

Nishith Jain is a Senior Director at ServiceNow, a global cloud software company, and manages their Asia Pacific and Japan region as Head of Strategy, based in Singapore. Nishith’s work involves defining the strategic roadmap for ServiceNow, including accelerating financial growth, enabling the digital transformation journey of its customers, delivering great employee experiences, and helping its executive leadership team solve tough trade-off business decisions. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from National Institute of Technology, India, and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. Thereafter he joined Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, working at their Singapore, New York and New Delhi offices, and advising various C-level executives. Nishith is passionate about traveling, teaching and learning, especially on topics related to Asia and Technology – which he believes are two forces that are bound to drive the global agenda for decades to come. Having worked and lived across Asia, US and Europe, his world view has been enriched by his experiences working in a highly interconnected and interdependent world of business, society and policymaking; and underpinned with the immense potential of technology. Technology is indeed shaping all facets of life, including the future of work. Nishith is keen to witness this paradigm shift and is excited to be shaping some parts of the same.

Laura Thompson, MA, PCC is known by many as an international business consultant, angel investor, serial entrepreneur, inspiring leadership coach, and governing board member of distinguished nonprofits in the arts, education, media, and humanitarian sectors. She brings to the table a coaching mindset of what needs to emerge by tapping the inner wisdom of companies to develop social impact strategies in relationship to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Goals, CSR, and ESGs as well as for its employees regarding personal and professional leadership development. Her entrepreneurial spirit to help people, organizations, and social enterprises succeed worldwide is demonstrated through a can-do attitude. She’s also an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, and playwright. Laura considers herself a global citizen having lived as American Expat for two thirds of her life. She has a post-graduate diploma from INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France, received her MA in International Relations and International Political Economy from Boston University in Paris, France, and earned her BA in Finance at Simmons University in Boston.

Ami Valdemoro is an entrepreneur, leadership coach, health advocate, and social change agent. She is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of Three Points Ventures, Inc., helping corporations and non-profit organizations with their leadership development, impact strategies, and execution. She is a Board-member of the social enterprises MyShelter Foundation and Liter of Light USA, which is dedicated to improving lives globally through community-built solar lighting technologies. Ami’s experience spans five continents, beginning with a tenure at the African Tobacco Control Consortium, a five-year program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the American Cancer Society’s global tobacco control unit. She was the Executive Director of Friends of Hope, a Philippine-based social business, and of Hands On Manila, a non-profit organization providing volunteer service opportunities. Since 2016, as a member of the teaching faculty at CALI, she has taught in over twelve cities in eight countries, reaching over 1,500 individuals. After graduating with honors from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Ami earned her Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Junko Yoda is Co-founder of CLinked, a global women’s organization that educates and empowers women and men to become leaders in their local communities. Before coming to Harvard University as Advance Leadership Initiatives Fellow, she worked over 20 years in the investment banking and management sectors with first as Vice President and Treasurer at Goldman Sachs Asia Division in Tokyo, and as General Manager of Deutsche Bank in Singapore. She studied art history, and curates contemporary art exhibitions and art projects related to social issues.

Richard Lum is an academically trained futurist and chief executive of Vision Foresight Strategy LLC (VFS), a foresight and strategic analysis firm based in Honolulu. He has conducted foresight and strategy work on projects for organizations such as U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, the European Commission, the UK government, the Canadian government, the Singaporean government, NASA, and PepsiCo. Richard is the author of 4 Steps to the Future: A Quick and Clean Guide to Creating Foresight and his contributions were featured in the book Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (2006), A Careful Revolution (2019, co-authored with Anne Gibbon), and Strategic Latency (2020, forthcoming). He has been published in the Journal of Futures Studies, the journal Futures, International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, World Future Review, and Small Wars Journal. Richard is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the futures studies program at the University of Hawai‘i. His dissertation research focused on developing a conceptual framework for designing future governance systems.

John Riady is CEO of PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk and Chairman of PT Siloam International Hospitals Tbk, respectively the largest real estate and hospitals company in Indonesia. John also holds the position of Executive Director at Lippo Group, and is an active investor in the Southeast Asia technology sector, including in OVO, Indonesia’s leading digital payments company, a company which John is Co-Founder and today serves as President Commissioner. John is a licensed attorney in the State of New York and holds degrees in Political Philosophy and Economics from Georgetown University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business (Palmer Scholar) and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University. He is also a member of the Columbia University International Advisory Board, the Wharton Business School Asia Executive Board, and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (YGL). John is also a lecturer at the Pelita Harapan Law School in Jakarta, and is a regular oped contributor on Indonesian and regional social, economic and political issues. An Indonesian citizen, John resides in Jakarta with his wife Chew Xuan Wei, and three children, Joshua, Caleb and Claire.

Dindo is recognized as one of Manila’s most well-connected and savvy advisors on developments in government and business in the Philippines. Concurrent to his role as managing director for BGA’s operations in the Philippines, he is also the founder and managing director of the Stratbase Group and president of its policy think tank, the Albert del Rosario Institute for Strategic and International Studies. Since 1991, Dindo has served as a member of the faculty and is the former chair of the Political Science Department and a senior fellow of the La Salle Institute of Governance at the De La Salle University, Manila. He has authored numerous papers on good governance, political, electoral and educational reform. He specializes in strategic public management, legislative research, political intelligence and governance reforms. Dindo served as under secretary for External Affairs and Special Concerns of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports from 1998 to 2001 and deputy secretary for Administration and Financial Services of the Philippine Senate from 1996 to 1998. After he left government service in 2001, he became involved with different consortiums and networks of civil society groups pushing for reforms in the areas of governance, elections, government procurement and constitutional change. Dindo has extensive experience in policy and legislative research, having worked in Congress for several years as a chief of staff and senior policy research consultant in a host of committees in the Philippine Senate. Dindo earned his master’s degree in public administration and a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from the University of the Philippines.

Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry. Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in New York all attempted to educate him.

Gita Wirjawan is Chairman of Ancora Group, an Indonesian business group with interests in private equity investing, natural resources, real estate, sports, and music, which he founded in 2008. He served as Minister of Trade and Chairman of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) of the Indonesian Government during the period 2009-2014. As an investment banker, he has held key senior appointments at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, playing leading roles in many mergers, corporate restructuring, corporate financing and strategic sales involving leading companies in Southeast Asia. Gita is currently a member of international advisory board of the CHUBB group of insurance companies, and a member of advisory board of Alpha JWC Ventures, a South East Asian venture capital firm. In education, Gita sits at the council of Global Advisors for Yale University School of Management, and the board of Governors for Asia School of Business (MIT Sloan).

Melissa is the Chief Executive Officer of Yayasan Generasi Gemilang (GG), a foundation inspired by Love to raise an exemplary next generation and empower families in Malaysia by increasing access to quality education for under-served children and their families. Melissa oversees GG’s overall operations, communications, fundraising, partnerships, and strategy to ensure that GG carries on its vision, mission and mandate. Her personal passion lies in building meaningful collaborations that bring out the best of each partner’s strengths while working together to create effective solutions for under-served communities. She has worked with corporates from various industries including banking, insurance, property development and technology. Melissa is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a certified Corporate Social Responsibly Manager under the MIM-ARM Certified Professional CSR Manager program. She is also an Associate Member of the Malaysian Association of Social Workers.

As Executive Director of Real LIFE Foundation, Mae oversees the scholarship program that currently serves 890 scholars. Real LIFE is a Philippine nongovernment organization that exists to honor God by serving the underprivileged youth of the Philippines through educational assistance, character formation, and leadership development. Real LIFE wants to see these students become the servant leaders of this nation. In the last seventeen years, Real LIFE has helped over 500 students graduate. It currently has sixty-four centers across the Philippines.