ADVISORY BOARD

Co-Chair of High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, OECD. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences Po) of Paris, where he has taught since 1982, Co-President of the LUISS University School of Government of Rome and Member of the Center for Capitalism and Society of Columbia University. Fitoussi served as President of the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE), an institute dedicated to economic research and forecasting (1989-2010), where now is Research Director. He is Member of the Board of Telecom Italia S.p.a. from 2004, Member of the Supervisory Board at Intesa San Paolo from 2010, Member of the Board of Pirelli S.p.a. (2013-2014) and Member of the Executive Committee of ASPEN institute. From 2000 to 2009 he was an expert at the European Parliament and the Commission of Monetary and Economic Affairs. He was also a member of the UN Commission on the Reform of the International Monetary and Financial System and coordinator of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress with J. Stiglitz and A. Sen, set up by French Government.

Special Advisor, International Development Law Organization (IDLO), an intergovernmental organization with a joint focus on the rule of law and development. He completed his UN career end 2014 as Director, UNDP Human Development Report Office (HDRO). Earlier, he was Special Advisor, UNDP (2010/11) on new development partnerships with the emergence of the Global South. Prior to that Mr. Malik was the UN Resident Coordinator in China (late 2003-early 2010; ambassador rank); Director, UNDP Evaluation Office and Chair, UN Evaluation Group (1997-2003) and UN Representative, Uzbekistan (1993-1997; ambassador rank). Earlier Mr. Malik worked as a Senior Economist and as a manager in UNDP, New York overseeing initiatives in Asia, science and technology activities in Africa. Mr. Malik conducted teaching and research work at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (1975) and at Pembroke College, Oxford (1974-75).

Executive Chairman of the International Academy for Social and Economic Development (AISES). He is Secretary General at Diplomatia, a non-proHit organization with institutional accreditation and international scope, having among its members Ambassadors, representatives from governments and world's top Hinancial companies and industries. He is Visiting Professor at the Center for Sustainability Leadership and member of Academic ScientiHic Committee, Strathmore Business School, Nairobi, and Professor of Financial Market Law at Nicolò Cusano University of Rome. He was Faculty Research Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School and Visiting Fellow at the Law and Financial Market Project, London School of Economics. Mr. De Luca is Director of Global Security and Foreign Affairs Program, Center of American Studies with AISES, Co-Director of Sustainable Finance and Market Regulation Project at La Sapienza University of Rome, and Co-director of Pro?it-Non Pro?it Partnership for Sustainable Development Project at Tor Vergata University of Rome. He holds a Ph.D. in European Competition Law from the University of Perugia, completing his studies in the trainee program at the Directorate General Competition, European Commission. He is a member of Italian Bar Association since 1999. From 2006 to 2012 he worked at CONSOB, the Italian Supervisory Commission on Financial Markets, as legal adviser to the Chief of Issuer Division.

Former Co-chair of Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development of the United Nations, established by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He is Spokesman of ASviS, the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, Member of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) responsible for supervising the functioning of the European Statistical System, member of the Commission économique de la Nation established by the French government, Vice-president of the High Level Group on Competitiveness and Growth of the European Council. Former Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Italian Government. Former Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD, where he established the "World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Politics" and launched the Global Project on the "Measurement of Progress in Society. President of the Italian Statistical Institute (ISTAT) from 2009 to 2013. He is Full Professor of Economic Statistics at Tor Vergata University of Rome.

President of the Energy Globe Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana. He was formerly Chairman of the World Bank Inspection Panel; Chairman of the Council for ScientiHic and Industrial Research (CSIR) Ghana; Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Central Projects Department, African Development Bank and President of the Pan-African Union for Science and Technology. He was Director and Senior Scientist during his 20 years at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He served as a Member and International Vice President of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada; Member of the Board of Trustees of the UN University for Peace; and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Sustainable Forestry Management (SFM). He obtained his doctorate degree from the University of London, and was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University. Prof. Ayensu is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Fellow of the India National Sciences Academy, Fellow of TWAS Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Founding Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Labour Life peer, member of House of Lords since 2006, sitting in the Economic Affairs Committee (2008-2013) and EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee (2015-2016). She is Member of the Board of Directors of Inditex and non-executive director of E.ON, German Energy company; Telecom Italia; IAG (International Airlines Group) ; KornFerry International (world's largest executive search Hirm); Member of international advisory board of IESE Business School); Deputy Chairman of the Advisory board at Price Waterhouse Coopers. Former Senior Adviser to the Royal Bank of Scotland and former Trustee of the Cambridge University Judge Business School. She served as Vice- Chairman of APR Energy Plc from October 2014 to March 2015 and served as its Senior Independent Director until March 2015 and as a Director at British Airways Plc (UK) unti January 2011. Baroness Kingsmill chaired the UK Department of Trade's Accounting and was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to competition and employment law in the 2000 New Year Honours and served as its Deputy Chairman of the UK Competition Commission from 1997 to 2003.

President of Green Cross International. He is also a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, of the World Academy of Art and Science, of the Club of Rome Executive Committee and serves as Adviser to the Club of Madrid. In 1991, he was appointed Deputy Spokesman and Advisor to the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. After Mr. Gorbachev�s resignation, Professor Likhotal served as his advisor and spokesman at the Gorbachev Foundation. He holds doctorates in Political Science from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (1975) and in History from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, USSR Academy of Sciences (1987). In addition to an academic career as a Professor of Political Science and International Relations, he served as a European Security Analyst for the Soviet Union leadership. Having joined Green Cross International in 1996, he is actively involved in furthering sustainable development agenda.

Michael Møller (Denmark) is currently the Director-General of the United Nations OfHice at Geneva, the Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament and the Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Conference. Prior to assuming these duties in November 2013, he was the Executive Director of the KoHi Annan Foundation (2008-11). He was the United Nations Secretary-General�s Special Representative for Cyprus from 2006 till 2008 and Director for Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs in the OfHice of the Secretary-General from 2001 till 2006, serving concurrently as Deputy Chief of Staff for the last 2 years of that period. Between 1997 and 2001 he was the Head of the OfHice of the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at UN headquarters in New York. He served in different capacities in New York, Iran, Mexico, Haiti and Geneva where he started his career in 1979 with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Executive Director of GITI Group, Singapore, a diversiHied group with interests in real estate development, manufacturing, retail and development of natural resources. She is Member of the International Advisory Board of Columbia University and the Asia Advisory Board of the MIT Sloan School of Management. She also sits on the boards of the Yale Center for Environmental Law Policy and the University of Indonesia Climate Change Center, as well as the China Disabled Persons Foundation Board and the United in Diversity Foundation. She is among the founding members of Global Philanthropic Circle in Synergos Institute in New York. Ms. Nursalim also serves on the Executive Board of International Chamber of Commerce and their newly launched ICC Academy. She is a frequent organizer of international and education forums and has won the Baiyulan Award from the Shanghai government and was listed among the 48 Heroes of Philanthropy by Forbes. Ms. Nursalim received a BA in Engineering Science and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from the Columbia Business School. She was also named Young Global Leader by the World Economic forum.

Chairman of CenturyLink, and private companies such as Red Bison, Eastern Airlines, and Flow Mobile. He is on the boards of the public companies Wipro, Polycom, and Viasystems, and has served on more than 20 public boards including Daimler, British American Tobacco and Telstra. Since leaving the military in 1996, he served as an executive or as a member of the board of directors of various companies, including Nortel Networks Corporation as a CEO. He was until recently the Chairman of AEA Investors ASIA and the Vice-Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange for Asia. As board member of the East West Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations, he has been active in philanthropy to foster Chinese-American relations. Owens is an established expert on U.S.-China relations, and he helped Asian organizations in breaking into the U.S. and American companies in navigating the Chinese business environment.

She is member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network and Post2015 Agenda Project Group Co-Chair. She is Vice-President of UN Global Compact Italian Network Foundation. In 2006 she has been appointed Head of the Sustainability Unity of ENI. She also was the responsible of the working group on Environmental Accounting and managed the Hirst Agip's Environmental Report. She has been Project Manager for the Sustainability Project for which she coordinated a team of FEEM researchers and Eni's professionals coming from different business functions and backgrounds.

Vice-President of the Fondazione TIM (TIM Foundation), formerly named Telecom Italia, since July 2014. He is a member of the Board of Directors of UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA. Former Chairman of the Board of Eni SpA. 

He is also a member of the General Committee of Confindustria (where he chaired the Foreign Investment Committee); the Italian Institute of Technology; the Corporate Governance Committee and  of the Board of Assonime (Italian Joint Stock Companies). He is Chair of the B20 Task Force on Improving Transparency and Anti-Corruption. In 1999 he joined General Electric, where he held several managerial positions in the United States  and Europe. He served as Director of GE Capital Structure Finance Group and Managing Director for Industrial M&A of EMEA.

Until May 2011 he was President & CEO of GE South Europe. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Exor SpA. He served on several boards among which the European Advisory Board of Blackstone; the Advisory Board of Invest Industrial (private equity); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology E.I. Advisory Board.

Former Minister of Justice during the Monti administration. Since 1998 is Full Professor at LUISS of Penal Law. 

She is Vice-President of the Scientific Council of LUISS School of Law, Director of the Master in Firms Penal Law and Member of the Strategic Council of the LUISS School of European Political Economy.

Member of the Ethics Committee of the Veronesi Foundation, of the Scientific Committee of Vodafone Foundation, Ernst&Young and Confindustria. 

Former Dean of the LUISS School of Law and former LUISS Pro-Rector. As a Lawyer, she defended big companies such as Eni, Telecom Italia and Enel.

Co-Chair United Nation Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), selected by the Independent Team of Advisors in order to support the second phase of the ECOSOC Dialogue on the longer-term positioning of the UN development system in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He is former Director-General of the International Labor Organization (ILO).He has held key positions in the United Nations system including: Chair of the Preparatory Committee of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen and President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. As Permanent Representative, he represented Chile on the United Nations Security Council and was its President in April 1996 and October 1997. Ambassador Somavia is at present Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile.

President, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Mr. Zhang is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Eco-Forum Global, an independent organization founded in 2009 committed to building consensus among all stakeholders for development of a green and sustainable future. He is also President of the China Education Association for International Exchange, Vice President of the International University Sports Federation, Board Member of the International Institute for Education Planning, UNESCO, and Member of the 11th Chinese People�s Political Consultative Conference. Mr. Zhang was Chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO (2005�2007) and was Chairperson of UNESCO�s World Heritage Committee (2003�2004). Mr. Zhang has held key positions in China�s central, provincial and municipal governments. As the Vice Minister of Education in China (2000�2009), he was in charge of educational policy, regulations, and international cooperation. He promoted the Education for Sustainable Development in China leading to the integration of ESD into the curricula of Chinese schools Mr. Zhang received a Master in Design Studies with distinction at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School, and was later HBS�s Visiting Research Fellow.