Ana Fontes

Ana Fontes is a brazilian social entrepreneur, founder of Rede Mulher Empreendedora (RME) and Instituto RME. 

Vice-president of UN Brazil’s Global Compact Council, member of Presidency of the Republic of Brazil’s Economic, Social and Sustainable Development Council, chief leader of W20, a group of engagement of G20 and counselor of Unimed Assist, Avon Institute, and, management of brazilian universities, UAM/Grupo  nima.

She’s elected one of brazilian most powerful women by Forbes Brazil magazine, in 2019, and was also cover of the edition about “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”, last year.

In march 2022, Ana release her first book called “Negócios: um assunto de mulheres – A força transformadora do empreendedorismo feminino”, our “Business: a subject for women – The transformative power of female entrepreneurship”, in free translation.

Cristiane Sultani

Cristiane Sultani holds a degree in Law and a Master’s in Banking Law, with specialization in corporate law and impact investments. She worked as a lawyer for 23 years at the São Paulo Stock Exchange and BBA-Creditanstalt bank; was a partner at Family Office Consenso, executive at Itaú Unibanco, and partner at Veirano Advogados. Since 2014, she has served as COO of Pedro Alberto Fischer Family Office, of which she is currently CEO. Cristiane founded the Beja Institute, a social impact organization, in 2021, of which she is Chairman of the Board. As a philanthropist and impact investor, Cristiane is associated with the Institute of Corporate Citizenship, The Forward Global, and Synergos GPC.

Eliane Trindade

Graduated in Social Communication from the University of Brasília in 1990, she did a postgraduate degree in Political Science at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 1993. Eliane worked for the magazines IstoÉ, Época, Marie Claire, IstoÉ Gente and Revista da Folha. She is currently the editor of the Social Entrepreneur Award, a partnership between Folha de S.Paulo and the Schwab Foundation, and also the head of the ‘Rede Social’ column. In 2002, she won the Ayrton Senna Journalism award with the report ‘What they will be when they grow up’. In 2005, she released the book-report ‘As Meninas da Esquina’ (Ed. Record), which brought together the diaries of six girls who were victims of sexual exploitation in Brazil. The book inspired the movie ‘Sonho Roubados’ (09), with the actress Nanda Costa and directed by Sandra Werneck.

 

Robson Melo

He is the co-founder of Estante Mágica, a social impact company that, for fifteen years, has already transformed over 2.5 million children into authors of their own books, operating in more than 10 thousand schools throughout Brazil and eight other countries. Father of Isadora and Helena (who became an Estante Mágica author at the age of six), he holds a Master’s degree in Urban Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, but his true passion lies in education. He is a member of the Lemann Foundation’s network of leaders, a TEDx Education speaker, and the latest winner of the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Folha de São Paulo and the Schwab Foundation, in the Innovation for the 21st Century category.

Philip Yun

Philip W. Yun’s career has spanned the private and public sectors for the past 40 years, with experience in security affairs, foreign policy, diplomacy, international development, law, business, politics, and philanthropy. He is currently Co-President and Co-CEO of Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California (CCWA) and of Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF).

Previously, Mr. Yun was the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Ploughshares Fund. Before joining Fund, he was a vice president at The Asia Foundation (2005-2011), a Pantech Scholar in Korean Studies at the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (2004-2005), and a vice president at the private equity firm of H&Q Asia Pacific (2001-2004).

Mr. Yun was a presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of State (1994-2001), serving as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to government service, he practiced law in firms in San Francisco and Seattle, and also served as a legal consultant in Seoul, Korea.

Mr. Yun attended Brown University and Columbia University School of Law. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an emeritus member of the Board of Governors of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.