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Achyut Gautam is a co-founder of Khetipati Organics, a Nepali agro-based social enterprise dedicated to empowering rural smallholder farmers and reducing post-harvest loss in the Himalayan region. He envisions to create a robust agricultural ecosystem that values and uplifts the contributions ofsmallholder farmers, ensuring economic stability in the rural communities. His work focuses on creating impactful, community-driven agricultural practices that support the livelihoods of farming and local communities in the Himalayas. He aims to bring the stories and produce of these rural farmers to the global forefront
while developing sustainable and replicable solutions to this mass challenge. Achyut is a CFA Charterholder and completed his undergraduate degree from Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. He has previously worked in the financial sector in New York and is also a founding member of one of Nepal's first private equity and venture capital firms.

Aisha Raheem is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Farmz2U. With over 14 years of experience in Strategy, Project Management and Operations, she facilitates strategic implementation, business development and corporate engagements at Farmz2u. Under her leadership, the company has seen significant growth and has won numerous awards for its innovative solutions, most recently the Africa Prize Alumni medal awarded by HRH, The Princess
Royale. 

As a Harambean Fellow she is committed to building Africa’s future. She is also a member of the global entrepreneurial networks, Endeavor, NASDAQ Milestone Makers and Techstars. With a deep focus on delivering impact socially and environmentally, she is a signatory of the United Nations’ Women Empowerment Principles and a member of Rothschild’s Council for Inclusive Capitalism.

Amadeus Driando Ahnan-Winarno, PhD (a.k.a "Dr. Driando, The Tempeh Doctor") is a food sciencepreneur and activist with a life mission of giving more people access to nutritious, sustainable, and affordable foods. He does it by innovating on and promoting tempeh and tempeh fermentation, which originated in Indonesia 400+ years ago. In 2014, Dr. Driando co-founded the world's largest tempeh network, the Indonesian Tempe Movement, which now has involved representatives from 24 countries. In 2018, Dr. Driando co-founded the UK's fastest-growing tempeh brand, Better Nature Tempeh. Since pursuing his PhD in Food Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (then #1 in the US according US News and World Report), Dr. Driando has received 33 national and international awards for his works in tempeh fermentation, food science, entrepreneurship, and science communication. 

Dr. Driando first-authored "The Tempeh Bible" i.e. the world's most updated manuscript on tempeh and tempeh fermentation, published in CRFSFS, then the
world's #1 non-annual food science journal according to Scopus. Dr. Driando has invented 4 patents and launched 10 products onto the European and Middle-Eastern markets. To further promote tempeh, Dr. Driando has run 5 out of the 6 World Major Marathons and published 22 songs (including 2 albums) on global music platforms.

Ammar Azzouz is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria (Bloomsbury, 2023), with a foreword by Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent. Azzouz is the Principal Investigator of Slow Violence and the City, a research project that examines the impact of violence on the built environment at the time of war and peace. He has written for a wide range of platforms including the New York Times, the Guardian, and the New Statesman. 

Cheng Lu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, Saïd Business School. His research interests span the domains of social entrepreneurship and innovation, civil society organisations, corporate social responsibility, and state-society relations. Cheng is working with Paulo Savaget, who holds a joint appointment at Saïd Business School and the Department of Engineering Science, on a project investigating the legitimation of social enterprises in China. Cheng earned his master’s degree in Political Science from Peking University and completed his PhD in Management at the University of Edinburgh. Beyond his work at Oxford, Cheng has collaborated on several research initiatives with the Center for Civil Society Studies at Peking University, the Yunus Center for Social Business and Microfinance at the Renmin University of China, and the Nanyang Center for Emerging Markets at Nanyang Technological University.

Passionate about his field, Cheng seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice, liaising with certifiers, funders, intermediaries and policymakers dedicated to cultivating a self-sustaining ecosystem for China’s social entrepreneurship and practice.

Laura is an independent researcher and policy advisor. She joined Oxford in 2022, as a Social Science Division Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). Until October 2024, she was Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme, at the Latin American Centre at OSGA. Her work revolves around various issues such as foreign policy, international development cooperation, policy diffusion, state-society relations, and open government. Her current research projects focus on the disputes surrounding the growing role of rising powers countries like China, India, and Brazil in the current geopolitical landscape and on multi-level governance in the Amazon. Prior to joining Oxford, she accumulated over 10 years of experience working for civil society organizations and think tanks, primarily in Brazil and the UK.

Dr. Pu Yang is a researcher for the Climate Compatible Growth project at Energy and Power Group. Her research intersects climate economics and sustainable finance, exploring how social impact can be monetized to motivate more ambitious climate actions. Her current focus is to measure the social economic benefits of energy transition to promote climate-compatible growth in Kenya, Zambia, and Vietnam, aiming to harmonize economic development with environmental sustainability.

Sebastián Jaramillo is the Colombian founder of Tirando X (TxC), where he leverages artificial intelligence for massive and personalized behavioral change interventions. With over a decade in innovation, Sebastián focuses on the intersection of technology and social impact. He is dedicated to reducing the poverty trap caused by teenage pregnancies through AI-enabled interventions. Sebastián has a strong research background, contributing to significant health education and policy-making initiatives. He has collaborated with the United Nations Development Program, advised the Government of Colombia on the AI for Nations initiative, and worked with various other governmental bodies to address real-world problems using technology. He holds a Master's in Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation.