Olivier Lazar

Global Chief of FIH, RDY and EEA; Forum Moderator

Connecting Human Capability, Institutional Scale and Accountable Governance

Olivier Lazar leads three ESGIN initiatives: the Future Intelligence Hub, Responsible Digital for Youth and the Ethical Economy Accelerator. He also serves as a Board Member of Junior Achievement Europe. His work connects ethical leadership, education and the capabilities people and institutions need to act responsibly in complex environments.

As forum moderator, Olivier will guide the discussion from the definition and evidence of human capability, to the systems required to develop it at scale, and finally to governance and wider consequences. He will keep the dialogue focused on evidence, institutional solutions, accountable actors and measurable results.

Mike Chevraux

Co-Founder and CRO, N2X Labs; CEO, Management Worlds

Establishing Credible Evidence of Human Capability Beyond Correct Answers

Mike Chevraux has more than 25 years of experience across enterprise technology, leadership development and experiential learning. At N2X Labs, he is helping build Aether, an AI-native assessment architecture combining competency design, psychometrics, scenario-based assessment and deterministic evaluation. Through Management Worlds, he has delivered business simulations, 360-degree feedback and leadership programmes across corporate, higher-education and public-sector settings.

Mike addresses a central challenge created by generative AI: a polished answer no longer proves understanding or the ability to perform. His contribution examines how education and workforce systems can replace knowledge recall and output evaluation with credible evidence of reasoning, judgement and applied competence under realistic conditions.

Daniel Blurton

Managing Director, The Harbour School

Developing Judgement, Resilience and Agency Through Experiential Education

Daniel Blurton moved from investment banking at Brown Brothers Harriman and strategy and systems work into seven years at a children’s mental-health practice. He now leads the business functions of The Harbour School across two campuses, teaches high-school Economics and serves on the board of the Independent Schools Experiential Education Network.

The Harbour School is recognised for placing experience before abstraction. Its learning environments include The Foundry makerspace, a marine-science research centre and the Black Dolphin, a 50-foot sailing classroom. Daniel’s contribution examines how judgement, resilience and agency develop through consequential experience, appropriate challenge and individualised support, and what schools must change to make experiential learning a rigorous institution-wide model.

Galina Panina

Dean and Professor, Open European Academy of Economics and Politics

Building the Psychological Conditions for Learning, Judgement and Adaptation

Galina Panina combines academic leadership with applied business psychology across European and Asian learning environments. Her work addresses behavioural risk, psychological safety and the resistance that emerges when AI disrupts professional identity, confidence and established managerial roles. She has also developed approaches to digital literacy and well-being that draw on cognitive science, psychophysiology and digital-safety principles.

Galina examines the psychological infrastructure of capability. Institutions may invest in tools and training while overlooking whether people retain the attention, confidence and sense of safety required to learn and adapt. Her contribution considers how education and employers can strengthen cognitive resilience without placing the entire burden of technological change on individuals.

Gori Yahaya

Founder and CEO, UpSkill Universe; Member, UK Government Digital Skills Council

Building Trusted Capability Infrastructure at Social and National Scale

Gori Yahaya works where national digital ambition meets delivery. UpSkill Universe has reached more than 800,000 people through over 390 local coaches across 34 countries. Its programmes include Google’s Hustle Academy, delivery through Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps and AI-skills initiatives for small businesses and young entrepreneurs.

An assessment of 2,211 Hustle Academy participants found that 80 per cent reported revenue growth, access to grants increased from 11 to 20 per cent, and 686 permanent jobs were created. As a member of the UK Government Digital Skills Council, Gori also brings implementation evidence into national policy. His contribution examines how trusted institutions, local delivery and outcome measurement can turn access and certification into applied capability and economic agency.

Terry Thornton

Vice President, Client Digital Education and AI Learning Technology Lead, MSCI Inc.

Translating Data, Learning and Insight into Organisational Judgement

Terry Thornton’s work in digital education is informed by lived experience and institution building. As a child of Deaf adults, Terry first encountered technology as a means of access through closed captions and educational television. Later, teaching in a low-resource public school in Washington, D.C., revealed the distance between institutions that hold resources and the communities expected to benefit from them.

Terry went on to lead the PRI Academy, hold ESG-education roles at Moody’s and the American Bankers Association, and now leads client digital education and AI learning technology at MSCI. Terry’s contribution examines why data, standards and mandatory courses often fail to change judgement or behaviour, and how learning systems can help professionals interpret risk and act before it becomes consequence.

Enio Jaco

Board President, ESGIN; Founder and CEO, Creative Business Solutions; Former President, AmCham Albania; Former Vice President, JPMorgan Chase

Making Governance the Infrastructure of Credible and Measurable Impact

Enio Jaco combines financial-risk leadership, development-finance execution and public-private institution building. During 12 years in New York, he worked at American Express and became a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for consumer-risk policy. He later led the Afghanistan Development Fund, a USD 100 million initiative supporting the establishment of the country’s agricultural bank.

Through Creative Business Solutions, Enio has worked with governments, businesses, USAID, the European Union, the World Bank and EBRD. As President of AmCham Albania, he advanced legal certainty, fair competition and investment in the Western Balkans. His contribution shows why governance is the infrastructure of impact: technological ambition requires clear decision rights, accountable owners, disciplined capital allocation and evidence that changes decisions.

Jennifer Turliuk

President, Koru Labs; MIT Sloan Fellows MBA 2025

Governing AI Through Systems Thinking, Feedback Loops and Long-Term Impact

Jennifer Turliuk founded MakerKids, one of the earliest makerspaces for children, and developed it into an education technology company before exiting through acquisition. She later became Practice Leader for Climate and Energy AI at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship.

Working with MIT Professor John Sterman, Jennifer co-developed a framework for assessing AI’s net climate impact. Incorporated into En-ROADS, it allows leaders to examine direct emissions, delayed climate benefits, economic-growth effects and rebound effects together. Her contribution demonstrates why immediate efficiency, direct cost or a single impact measure can conceal wider consequences, and how decision-makers can use systems analysis without presenting uncertain projections as settled fact.

Marina Watt

Co-Founder, Brandstorm Communications

Where to Stop the Machine: Human Agency, and Accountability in AI-Mediated Public Relations

Marina Watt has more than 15 years of experience across communications, education, youth, philanthropy and corporate affairs. Before co-founding Brandstorm Communications, she led communications at the Yidan Prize Foundation and worked with the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups.

She is a doctoral candidate in education at the University of Bristol, creator of an online community serving thousands of educators, and an author or co-author of future-skills resources and more than 30 children’s books. Her current work includes research on online learning among primary-school students and the Read Smart framework. Marina examines what access, attendance and completion data fail to reveal about attention, comprehension and agency, and how evidence can be translated into decisions that families and educators can use.

Michael Chi On Wong

Teaching Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Translating Capability Frameworks Across Institutions, Cultures and Communities

Michael Chi On Wong holds two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree from the University of Oxford. Alongside his position at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he has worked across Hong Kong higher education, founded Oxonia Company, served on the Oxford University Alumni Board and the Chartered Management Institute Regional Board, and contributed to initiatives involving the British Council, UNESCO Hong Kong and youth organisations.

Michael’s work connects academic, professional and civic institutions. His contribution examines how learning models should be adapted across institutional and cultural boundaries, which elements require localisation and which capability standards must remain stable if educational value is to be preserved.

Mahesh Chougule

Assistant Professor, Thammasat University; Secretary General, International Consortium for Social Development

Connecting AI Capability with Social Protection, Inclusion and Mobility

Mahesh Chougule has more than 17 years of experience in teaching, research and community engagement. At Thammasat University, his work spans social policy, human rights, mobility, community development and human security. His recent research extends this foundation to digital welfare, AI-related risk and the effects of technological change on vulnerable populations and young people.

Mahesh brings a social-policy test to Future Intelligence. A technically credible skills programme can still deepen inequality if it ignores income security, disability, geography, public services and institutional power. His contribution examines how capability policy can connect with social protection so that future skills support social mobility rather than selective advantage.

Bryan Law

Professor, Fox College of Business

Translating Privacy, Human Rights, Copyright and AI Ethics into Practical Literacy

Bryan Law has more than 25 years of experience across academic teaching and corporate consulting in strategy, privacy, human rights, equality, compliance, human resources and law. He has written more than 45 books and taught over 12,000 students from more than 100 ethnic backgrounds.

His AI-related courses in Canada and Hong Kong address privacy, copyright and ethics. His professional advice has also helped organisations turn AI-related legal risks into operational rules within employee guidance. Bryan’s contribution examines how institutions can translate complex rights and obligations into practical literacy, enabling non-specialists to recognise risks, understand their duties and change decisions.

Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit

Lecturer in Maritime Law, University of Tasmania

Testing Evidence, Reasoning and Professional Judgement Under Pressure

Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit combines nearly 16 years of higher-education teaching with practice in maritime law, private international law and cross-border dispute resolution. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an accredited mediator, he is listed on arbitration panels across Australia and Asia. He also volunteers as an arbitrator in international mooting competitions.

His work requires legal arguments to withstand conflicting jurisdictions, incomplete facts and challenge from an opposing case. Poomintr examines what live argument reveals that written or AI-assisted submissions may conceal. His contribution considers how legal education should assess evidence selection, reasoning under pressure and accountability for the position taken.

Ng Yuen Yan

Assistant Branch Manager, HSBC

Connecting Student Innovation with Real Operational Needs

Ng Yuen Yan combines management experience in HSBC’s retail wealth-management team with sustained youth mentorship through HKUST and the Strive and Rise Programme. She has coached students in the Enactus business-model competition and the HKUST Global Health competition, including an award-winning undergraduate team that used technology to address an operational problem at a clinic in the Philippines.

Yuen Yan represents the professional mentor who may not build the technology but can test whether it solves the right problem. Her contribution shows how questions about users, workflow, implementation and value can move student innovation from technical possibility to responsible application.

Daphne Chun-Ping Lan

Founder, Talents Gone Wild

Translating Transformation Strategy into Human Capability, Behaviour and Trust

Daphne Chun-Ping Lan has more than 20 years of experience across technology journalism, enterprise communications, workforce enablement and human-capital consulting. Her career includes eight years at IBM, as well as work with Deloitte Human Capital Consulting and Taiwan AI Labs. Her IBM culture-transformation work twice received an Outstanding Public Relations Award in Internal Communications.

Daphne is now a Gallup-Certified Global Strengths Coach and ICF Associate Certified Coach. Her contribution examines why transformation strategies often break down between executive intent and employee behaviour, and how role clarity, coaching, talent decisions and trusted communication can turn AI strategy into sustained organisational capability.

Lai Wing Ching, Audrey

Student, City University of Hong Kong

Developing Inclusive Communication and Responsibility Through Real Experience

Lai Wing Ching, Audrey, studies English and Professional Communication at City University of Hong Kong. Before university, she designed lessons and provided tailored instruction for secondary students with autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia.

As Operations Lead for TEDxPok Fu Lam Kids, Audrey worked across venue planning, speaker recruitment, communications and event delivery. Acting as liaison for an international young speaker and the speaker’s family required her to research cultural expectations and respond to needs that were not always stated directly. Her contribution shows how inclusive communication, cultural awareness and youth agency develop through real responsibility.

Chi Yu Ling

Student, Washington High School

Sustaining Curiosity, Independent Inquiry and Early Engagement with Global Issues

Chi Yu Ling is an eighth-grade student who has independently studied the Sustainable Development Goals for four years. Her sustained inquiry has resulted in a published contribution to a United Nations Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation.

Chi’s experience is a direct example of Future Intelligence in formation. She has sustained a question over several years and turned private learning into a public contribution. Her perspective examines the conditions that allow curiosity to become disciplined inquiry and how schools and adults can support youth agency without taking control of young people’s work.