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Kofi Annan Edition NEW TECHNOLOGY AS A DISRUPTIVE GLOBAL FORCE MONDAY 21 JANUARY 2019 SPEAKERS LIZ ALDERMAN YANN ALGAN LAKHDAR BRAHIMI SIR RICHARD BRANSON GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND GIOVANNI BUTTARELLI DOMINIQUE CARDON MARIA CHIARA CARROZZA PETER COWHEY STEVEN ERLANGER HOUDA-IMANE FARAOUN CASPER KLYNGE ENRICO LETTA CARLOS LOPES FRÉDÉRIC MION ADAM NOSSITER VALERIO RIAVEZ ANNIKA SILVA-LEANDER DAN SMITH MARGRETHE VESTAGER #YLSummit19 1 LIZ ALDERMAN YANN ALGAN Chief business correspondent in Europe, Professor of Economics • New York Times Dean, School of Public Affairs, Sciences Po @LizAldermanNYT @sciencespo Liz Alderman is the Paris-based chief European business correspondent Yann Algan is the Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Professor for The New York Times, covering economic and inequality challenges of Economics at Sciences Po. around Europe. His research focuses on Digital Economy and E-government. He also From Greece to Sweden, she chronicles the hit to societies from weak specializes on Social capital, Trust and Well-being in relation to individual growth and joblessness, and reports on emerging innovations to address outcomes and economic behavior, with particular attention to the role inequality. Her coverage has included Europe’s refugee crisis and the Paris of education, management, and institutions. terrorist attacks. Along the way, she has profiled numerous European movers and shakers in policy making and business. His work incorporates methods from psychology, economics and big data, including randomized evaluations of public policies. In 2013, Ms. Alderman received The Times’s Nathaniel Nash Award for her “excellence in business and economics journalism.” She was part of a He is a member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on Well-Being, and team awarded by The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is affiliated with CEPR and IZA. His awards include the Best French Young (SABEW) for international breaking news coverage of the financial crisis in Economist (2009), and his books on trust and French society have been Cyprus in 2013. awarded Best French Economics Book and French Essay (2009) and Best French Economics Book, Prix Lycéen (2013). From 2008 to 2010, she was an assistant business editor for The Times in New York, editing coverage of Wall Street and the financial crisis. Before In 2010 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project “Trust”. that, she spent five years as the business editor of what was then The In 2015, he received a second ERC grant, a consolidator one, for the project International Herald Tribune, overseeing European economic, policy and “Sowell” on Social Preferences, Well-Being, and Policy”. business news. Ms. Alderman was previously the Paris bureau chief of the financial news agency BridgeNews, directing coverage of the birth of the euro and the European Central Bank, and reporting on the European economy. She was the chief Federal Reserve correspondent from 1995 to 1999 in Washington, covering the U.S. economy and monetary policy. 2 YOUTH & LEADERS SUMMIT MONDAY 21 JANUARY 2019 #YLSummit19 3 LAKHDAR BRAHIMI Elder • Chairman, Strategic Committee, PSIA, Sciences Po • former UN Special Envoy for Syria • former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algeria Elder, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, former In 2000, Lakhdar Brahimi chaired an independent panel to review UN Peace Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algeria. Operations which produced a report known as "The Brahimi Report". Lakhdar Brahimi is an Algerian Diplomat and UN Senior Official, now retired. In 2001 he organized and chaired the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan and moved to Kabul as the head of UNAMA (UN Assistance Mission He is a member of "The Elders" a group of elder statesmen and personalities to Afghanistan) from December 2001 to January 2004. launched at the initiative of the late President Nelson Mandela in 2007. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Forum, chaired F. W. De Klerk, Between February-June 2004 he was Special Envoy to Iraq and in 2012- former President of South Africa. 2014 he was Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States to Syria. Lakhdar Brahimi served as the Representative of Algeria's Liberation Movement in Indonesia (1956-61). After Algeria's independence, he served Lakhdar Brahimi taught a course on Conflict Resolution at PSIA, Sciences as Ambassador to Egypt (1963-70) and to the UK (1971-79). He was Adviser Po (2010-2012, and 2014/2015). to the President of Algeria (1982-84) and Under-Secretary General of the League of Arab States (1984-91). As the Special Envoy of the Tripartite High Prior to that he spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study Level Committee composed of the Kings of Morocco and Saudi Arabia and in Princeton and one year at the London School of Economics. the President of Algeria he mediated the end of the Civil War in Lebanon He is now the Chairman of the PSIA Strategic Committee. (1988-90). He served as Algeria's Foreign Minister from 1991-1993. From 1993 to 2005 he was Under-Secretary-General of the UN and led a number of peace missions as: • Head of the UN Observer Mission to South Africa during the 1994 historic election which saw the end of Apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as the first President of the New South Africa; • Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Haiti (1994-96); • Special Envoy to Afghanistan (1997-1999) 4 YOUTH & LEADERS SUMMIT MONDAY 21 JANUARY 2019 #YLSummit19 5 SIR RICHARD BRANSON GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND Founder, Virgin Group Elder • former Prime Minister of Norway • former Director-General, World Health Organization • former UN Special Envoy on Climate Change @richardbranson @TheElders Conceived in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson, the Virgin Group has gone on Gro Harlem Brundtland, a medical doctor, was Norway’s first woman Prime to grow successful businesses in sectors including mobile telephony, travel Minister, serving a total of ten years as head of government between 1981 and transportation, financial services, leisure and entertainment and health and 1996. and wellness. Virgin is a leading international investment group and one of the world's most recognised and respected brands. She chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development – known as the Brundtland Commission – which articulated the principle of Since starting youth culture magazine “Student” at aged 16, Richard sustainable development for the first time at a global level. has found entrepreneurial ways to drive positive change in the world. In 2004 Richard established Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation of the She was Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to Virgin Group, which unites people and entrepreneurial ideas to create 2003, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2007 to 2010 and, from opportunities for a better world. Most of his time is now spent building 2011 to 2012, was a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s businesses that will make a positive difference in the world and working Global Sustainability Panel. with Virgin Unite and organisations it has incubated, such as The Elders, She is a founding member of The Elders and served as the organisation’s The Carbon War Room, The B Team and Ocean Unite. He also serves on Deputy Chair from 2013 to 2018. the Global Commission on Drug Policy and supports ocean conservation with the Ocean Elders. 6 YOUTH & LEADERS SUMMIT MONDAY 21 JANUARY 2019 #YLSummit19 7 GIOVANNI BUTTARELLI DOMINIQUE CARDON European Data Protection Supervisor Professor of Sociology • Director, Medialab, Sciences Po @Buttarelli_G @Karmacoma @medialab_ScPo Mr. Giovanni Buttarelli (1957) has been appointed European Data Protection Dominique Cardon is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sciences Po Supervisor since 4 December 2014 by a joint decision of the European Médialab. He is working on the transformation of the public space and Parliament and the Council for a term of five years. the uses of new technologies. He published different articles on the place of new technologies in the no-global movement, alternative media Before joining the EDPS, he worked as Secretary General to the Italian and on the process of bottom-up innovations in the digital world. Data Protection Authority, a position he occupied between 1997 and 2009. His recent research focuses on the analysis of the power of algorithms A member of the Italian judiciary with the rank of Cassation judge, he has in the classification of digital information. His work seeks to articulate the attended to many initiatives and committees on data protection and related sociology of science and technology with a sensitive approach to the issues at international level. transformations of contemporary social worlds. He is currently working on the social effects of the generalization of machine learning techniques The experience on data protection includes the participation in many bodies in an ever-increasing number of situations of everyday life. at European Union level (including Art. 31 Committee of Directive n. 95/46/ EC and Taiex programs), and at the Council of Europe (in particular, also He published La démocratie Internet,Paris, Seuil/République des idées, as a consultant, T-PD; CJ-PD, DH-S-Ac, Venice Commission), as well as 2010, (with Fabien Granjon), Médiactivistes, Paris, Presses de Science the contribution to many hearings, meetings and workshops held also by po, 2010, (with Antonio Casilli), Qu’est-ce que le digital labor ?, Paris, Ina Parliaments