ILO Executive Leadership and Strategic Management Programme Turin, 12-16 January 2020 Speakers (in order of appearance) Elisabeth Kelan Elisabeth Kelan, PhD, is a Professor of Leadership and Organisation at Essex Business School, University of Essex. Her research focuses on women in leadership, men as change agents for gender equality, generations at work, and diversity and inclusion. She has published two books (Rising Stars - Developing Millennial Women as Leaders and Performing Gender) and numerous peer-reviewed articles in academic journals. She won various awards for her research and the Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch. Her research is regularly discussed in the media. She sits on the advisory board of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. She is an associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organization and is on the editorial boards of the Britis h Journal of Management, Management Learning and Gender in Management. She is regularly providing thought -leadership and consulting to businesses and international organisations. Professor of Leadership Elisabeth Kelan held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and was a Dahlem International Professor of Gender Studies at and Organisation, Freie Universität Berlin. Elisabeth Kelan worked at London Business School, King's College London, Cranfield School of Essex Business School Management, Zurich University and the London School of Economics and Political Science where she also earned her PhD. Bettina Tucci Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas is the Director a.i. of UNICRI. She brings to the Institute a wealth of senior-level experience in the Bartsiotas management of complex international organizations, with an emphasis on strategic planning, programme design, budgeting, and finance. Throughout her career, she has held leadership positions in various international organizations covering normative, development, humanitarian, and peace and security matters. When she was appointed as Director a.i. UNICRI, she was Assistant Secretary-General, Controller of the United Nations Secretariat. She provides high-level policy guidance on budgetary and financial issues, oversees the development and implementation of the UN regular and peacekeeping budgets, ensures the accuracy of the organization’s financial statements, and the effective delivery of payments, payroll and treasury functions. From 1994 to 2014, she held various senior management positions at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna Austria, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York. Previously she held positions in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Washington, D.C. She has helped define the strategy and direction of the International Public-Sector Accounting Director a.i., Standards (IPSAS) and was involved in establishing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. United Nations Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance and investments from George Washington Interregional Crime and Justice University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and business administration from the American University in Research Institute Washington, D.C. She is a dual national of Uruguay and the United States. Otto Scharmer Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and cofounder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS programme for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter coauthored with P. Senge et al). He is coauthor of Leading from the Emerging Future, which outlines eight acupuncture points for transforming capitalism. His most recent book, The Essentials of Theory U, outlines the core principles and applications of awareness-based systems change. In 2015, Otto Scharmer cofounded the MITx u.lab, a massive open online course (MOOC) for leading profound change, which has since activated a global ecosystem of societal and personal renewal involving more than 140,000 users from 185 countries. In 2019, he launched an annual innovation infrastructure called Societal Transformation Lab that supports place-based teams on reinventing economies, advancing democracies and regenerating learning and leadership systems worldwide. Otto Scharmer earned his diploma and PhD in economics from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. A member of the World Senior Lecturer in the Future Council, he received the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT, and the European Leonardo Corporate MIT Management Sloan Learning Award.The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General appointed him to the UN Learning Advisory Council for the 2030 School and cofounder of Agenda. the Presencing Institute Guy Ryder Guy Ryder was born in Liverpool in 1956 and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool. He has some thirty years of experience in the world of work, most of it at international level. He started his career in 1981 with the International Department of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). In 1985-88, he was Secretary of the Industry Trade Section of the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees (FIET) in Geneva. In 1988, Guy Ryder became the Assistant Director of the Geneva Office of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and became the Director of that office in 1993. In 1998, Guy Ryder was appointed Director of the Bureau of Workers’ Activities of the ILO in Geneva. From 1999 until 2001, he held the position of Director of the Office of the ILO Director-General. From 2002-06, Guy Ryder was General Secretary of the ICFTU in Brussels initiating and leading the process of global unification of the democratic international trade union movement. At the creation in November 2006 of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), he was elected its first General Secretary. In 2010, Guy Ryder returned to the ILO in Geneva and was appointed Executive Director with responsibility for International Director General Labour Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work – a position he held until his election as Director-General of International Labour the International Labour Organisation in June 2012. He is the tenth Director-General of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Organization (ILO) Shivvy Jervis Named one of Britain’s female Role Models of the Year 2020 and four-time national awardee, Shivvy Jervis is a Futurologist and Broadcaster cited by the Word Economic Forum as “a thought leader beyond compare”. Jervis’ talks and broadcasts on ‘human-perception’ AI, immersive workplaces, digital identity and the ‘Internet of Everything’ have earned an astonishing 24 pieces of industry recognition. The curator of TED Talks commentds Jervis as having “a remarkable ability to analyse the socio-economic impact of new technologies” and the UK’s former Digital Minister cites her “an extraordinary communicator”. Award-winning Innovation Futurist, Advisor and Broadcaster John Antonakis John Antonakis is of Swiss, Greek, and South-African nationality. He is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Antonakis’ research is currently focused on leadership development, power, charisma, personality, and research methods. He has published in journals such as Science, Psychological Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, as well as Harvard Business Review. Professor Antonakis has been identified as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Economics and Business by the Institute for Scientific Information. He has received over $2.45 million in funding for his research, and frequently consults and provides talks, trainings, and Leadership Expert, workshops to private and public organizations on leadership. See his recent TEDx talk to get an idea of his latest research on Department of charisma. Organizational Behaviour, University of Lausanne David Halpern David Halpern, DPhil, is the Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team. He has led the team since its inception in 2010. Prior to that, David Halpern was the founding Director of the Institute for Government and between 2001 and 2007 was the Chief Analyst at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. David Halpern was also appointed as the What Works National Advisor in July 2013. He supports the What Works Network and leads efforts to improve the use of evidence across government. Before entering government, he held tenure at Cambridge and posts at Oxford and Harvard. He has written several books and papers on areas relating to behavioural insights and well-being, including Social Capital (2005), the Hidden Wealth of Nations (2010), and co-author of the MINDSPACE report. In 2015 David wrote a book about the team entitled Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference. Chief Executive The Behavioural Insights Team Ruth Persian Ruth Persian is a Senior Advisor at BIT International Programmes team. Her work focuses on supporting improvements in public service delivery in low- and middle-income countries and building capacity in the application of behavioural insights and rigorous evaluation. Prior to joining BIT, Ruth worked as an impact evaluation field coordinator for the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab in Nigeria.