Abhishek Thakore is the founder of several social initiatives including the Blue Ribbon Movement and the South Asian Youth Conference. He is actively building a national socio-political movement based on pluralism and non-violence. Over the last two decades his work has been across the ideological spectrum as well as between business and NGOs. He has participated in United Nation's Rio+20 process on behalf of global youth. His interests lie in eastern thought, psychology, spirituality, deep democracy, philosophy and politics.

Anahi is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Civils Society Manager at LevizAlbania. She holds a Master in Public Administration (International Development) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSc in Economics from the Centre for Research and Teaching of Economics. She is specialized in development policy analysis, planning, monitoring and evaluation of projects and programs and has several years of experience working with and for civil society, the public sector, and the academia in Mexico, the UK, Albania and Kosovo.

Nabil Felah is co-founder of "Madha Yahduth?" (What's going on?) and the CEO of “Sens Critic Strategic Circle”. An experienced senior advisor to governments, he offers independent strategic advice to enable nations and institutions to have the best approach to decision-making in crisis situations. Nabil has 35 years of international experience with a career in EU missions, in political advisory and leadership roles and the conduct of state reform. He led fifty conferences and written twenty reports on government policy models. Nabil brings a unique combination of global experience to decision-making communities. Today, he chairs the most important Tunisian associations in the world: "TunisianTalentsUnited.org" and he is also the strategic advisor of "TunisiePassion.org" and the Tunisian Association of Citizen Journalism.

Anthony Kefalas is a British (LSE) and USA (WSU) educated doctoral economist. He has served as senior researcher at KEPE, as adviser to the ministers of economics and industry and to the president of OAE, as director of SELPE and ESIP, as editor of the bi-monthly “Agora”, as contributor to major Greek newspapers and periodicals (especially for “Oikonomikos Tachydromos”, Express, Proto Thema etc.)-- in Greece as well as abroad  (Newsweek, IHT)-- as an economic adviser to the NBG and the Federation of Greek Industries (SEB) and as adviser to numerous well-known Greek and non-Greek companies—including Delta/Vivartia, Citibank, McDonald’s, Hoechtief, Orelikon etc.  He has taught economics at Queen’s College (in London), at WSU and the Un. of Oakland (in the USA) and at the Un. of Maryland (European Campus) and Pierce-Deree (in Greece).  

He has published more than 1500 articles on the Greek economy and is the author of four books. His latest book “Aspects of Industrialization: Greece 1945-2010” was published in July by the Sideris Editions and reflects his strong interest in economic policy as well as in the history of Greek enterprises (past and present) and has been given as a textbook at the Economic University of Athens.   

Achilles Tsaltas is president of the Democracy & Culture Foundation an independent, nonprofit organization. Born in Australia of Greek origin, he started his media career in 1989 in the advertising department at News Corporation. During his tenure, he launched the business magazine Business Asia, and relaunched the paper’s The Australian Magazine. He moved to Hong Kong in 1999 to join The International Herald Tribune as deputy managing director and in 2004, he moved to Paris as vice president, international circulation and served in a number of executive roles in his two decades of service with The New York Times Company, ultimately relocating to London to become vice president, international conferences in 2014. In 2019, Mr. Tsaltas established the Democracy & Culture Foundation. With a mission to empower society through citizen engagement and better governance, the Foundation develops, programs and convenes the two conferences he conceived at The Times – the Athens Democracy Forum and Art for Tomorrow.