Edie Lush, an award winning journalist is an author, broadcaster and podcaster. She is Executive Producer and Co-host of the Global GoalsCast podcast which tells the stories of the champions making the world a better place through the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

As Executive Editor of Hub Culture Edie creates social media from Davos to the UN General Assembly in New York to the COP Climate Summits. She has been the Economics and Political correspondent for Bloomberg Television, a columnist at The Week magazine and the Associate Editor of Spectator Business magazine.

 

She runs her own business providing senior Leaders, Influencers, Academics and Executives with Communication training.

 

Before moving into journalism Edie was a political analyst for investment bank UBS in London and New York-based hedge fund Omega Advisors.

 

He has one son, Nicolas, aged 41, and shares his life with actress, film producer and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh.

 

He is an alumnus of the Ecole des Cadres in Paris.

 

In 1966, he began his career and participated in the World Rally Championship until 1981. That same year, alongside Guy Fréquelin, he won the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers with a Talbot Lotus.

Between 1966 and 1981, Jean Todt co-drove alongside 18 of the most successful drivers of the period for 12 major manufacturers, winning many international rallies in the process.

 

He was then appointed Peugeot’s Director of Racing and founded Peugeot Talbot Sport (PTS), which claimed the Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ FIA World Rally Championship titles in 1985 and 1986 before going on to take first place in the general classification in five editions of the Paris-Dakar Rally between 1987 and 1991.

In 1990, Jean Todt became Director of Sporting Activities of the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group, overseeing Peugeot’s participation in the World Sports Car Championship, which Peugeot won in 1992. It also took two consecutive victories at the 1992 and 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans.

 

On 1 July 1993, Jean Todt left Peugeot and became Director of Ferrari’s Racing Division. Under his leadership, from 1993 to 2008, Scuderia Ferrari won 14 FIA Formula One World titles (eight Constructors’ and six Drivers’ titles, five thanks to Michael Schumacher and one with Kimi Räikkönen) and 106 Grand Prix victories.

In 2001, he took on responsibility for all motor sport activities of the Ferrari-Maserati Group and then he was appointed General Manager of Ferrari in 2004. This same year, Jean Todt was appointed CEO of Ferrari. In 2008, he took up a new post as a Special Advisor to the President of Ferrari.

He left Ferrari in April 2009.

 

Jean Todt was elected President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) on 23 October 2009, re-elected on 6 December 2013, and again on 8 December 2017.

 

On April 29 2015, Jean Todt was appointed by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his Special Envoy for Road Safety, and was confirmed in April 2017 by the new UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

As Team Principal, Andrea Adamo oversees all of Hyundai’s motorsport activities. His remit covers the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), WTCR - FIA World Touring Car Cup, and ongoing development of the i20 R5, i30 N TCR and Veloster N TCR cars for customers around the world.

 

He was appointed to the helm in January 2019, having spent three years establishing the company’s Customer Racing department from scratch. From its early focus on R5, the team grew its customer base quickly and added a successful TCR project which - alongside WRC and R5 - is helping to redefine Hyundai’s reputation in global motorsport. Under Andrea’s leadership, Hyundai Motorsport took consecutive titles in WTCR and an inaugural WRC championship in 2019.

 

The Italian has been passionate about motorsport since his early teens. As a student, Andrea co-operated with Abarth on rallying and racing before taking up a junior aerodynamicist role in DTM. From there, he moved into race engineer positions in Italian and Spanish super touring series. He was involved with FIAT Group until 2008, when he assumed consultancy roles with numerous companies including Lotus and N Technologies before moving to Honda Racing to work in WTCC until 2015. The Hyundai Motorsport opportunity came at an ideal time for Andrea to undertake a new challenge.

 

Alejandro Agag is a businessman, entrepreneur and visionary. Founder & Chairman of Formula E and Founder and CEO of Extreme E - Agag has steered the ABB FIA Formula E Championship from an initial idea and a note on a napkin, to become the fastest-growing motorsport in a generation.

With a full grid of 12 teams, including the likes of Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, next season the fully-electric racing series will join the top echelon of motorsport after being awarded FIA world championship status.

His newest venture, Extreme E, is a brand new electric off-road racing series launched to highlight the devastating effects climate change is having on our environments and why we all need to take action, fast.

Alexander Albon is a Thai-British racing driver, racing with Aston Martin Red Bull Racing in the 2019 Formula One World Championship.

 

Alex started racing at the age of 8, racing karts in the Honda Cadet class from 2005. His karting success snowballed from the off, Albon had the remarkable record of not finishing outside the Top 3 in any championship he competed in from 2006 - 2011. He became a multiple champion at British and European levels of karting - where he raced and won against the likes of Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen.

 

From the 2012 season onwards, he graduated to single-seaters. Alex's highlights in Formula car racing have come in the 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, where he was 3rd overall and the 2016 GP3 Series, which saw him finish 2nd overall - just behind Champion Charles Leclerc.

 

2018 saw Alex race in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, where he took 4 Wins, 7 Podiums and 3 Pole Positions - fighting for the Driver's Championship in the Season Finale, where he finished the season 3rd overall.

 

Alex made his Formula 1 debut at the 2019 Australian Grand Prix for Scuderia Toro Rosso, representing Thailand. Following an increasingly impressive Rookie season, Alex was promoted to Aston Martin Red Bull Racing for the Belgian Grand Prix and onwards.

 

Alfredo Albornoz is the General Manager of the Automobile Club of Colombia. He was born in Bogotá where he graduated from Industrial Engineering. Subsequently, he studied International Marketing at the International Marketing Institute in Boston, and finally obtained his Master's degree in Marketing at the EADA School of Senior Management and Administration, in Barcelona Spain.

Before joining the Club, Mr. Albornoz completed an important professional career in the marketing and commercial areas in multinational companies such as Bavaria Brewery (AB-Inbev Group) Unilever, Gillette (Procter & Gamble) and S.C. Johnson.

His professional life was complemented by being a university professor in the areas of Marketing and Market Research at El Rosario University and Jorge Lozano University in his country.

Currently, in Colombia, he leads the Road Safety Business Committee, an entity that has received important recognition from the Colombian government for its work in preventing accidents and road deaths.

Eugene Arocca pursued a successful legal career with one of Australia’s largest law firms for over 20 years.

 

He became involved in sport in 1996 when he was appointed honorary lawyer for the Collingwood Football Club (one of Australia’s largest sporting clubs). In 2005 he retired from the law to become Chief Operating Officer for Collingwood and oversaw the Club’s growing commercial operations.

 

In 2008 he was appointed CEO of the North Melbourne Football Club, where he drove a number of historic initiatives including a change in ownership to hand control of the Club back to its members, achieving record membership and the Club’s biggest profit in 2008.

 

Arocca resigned from North Melbourne and started as CEO of CAMS in late, 2012. During 2013, Arocca lead a major admin restructure at CAMS which has achieved year on year record numbers for competitors, affiliated clubs and events. He implemented a new CRM system, set up a Media Dept and created academies for elite driver development and junior participation. More recently he has overseen the move to a new National Office and managed the name change to Motorsport Australia. Since 2016 he has sat on the Board of one of Australia’s largest public hospitals.

 

Charlie currently works as Twitch's EMEA sports lead. Prior to joining Twitch, Charlie advised UEFA, the NFL, World Rugby, Arsenal, Minnesota Vikings, the ECB, and Riot Games. His expertise is in the formulation and execution of digital strategy.

 

Areas of particular experience include: digital transformation and organisational change, monetising digital channels, packaging and selling digital rights, esports/gaming, OTT & direct-to-consumer, content strategy, procurement and building of digital products and localisation strategies for regional audiences.

Irina Bokova, born in Sofia (Bulgaria), has been two terms the Director- General of UNESCO from 2009 to 2917. Having graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Irina Bokova was a Fellow at the University of Maryland, Washington, and followed an executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

As Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova was actively engaged in the UN efforts to adopt Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, particularly inclusive and equitable quality education, gender equality, the protection of the world’s cultural heritage.

Irina Bokova was on the Forbes List of the world's most influential women for 2016.

Currently, she is Member the Senate of FIA, International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Board of “Ban Ki Moon Centre for Global Citizens”, Member of the Concordia Leadership Council, New York, Visiting Lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs /PSIA/, SciencesPo, and at the University of Geneva, among others.

Ross Brawn was named Managing Director of the Formula 1 Motor Sports division in January 2017. With a 40-year engineering and management career in motor racing he is credited with having unparalleled technical knowledge of the industry, and is responsible for supporting the evolution of Formula 1.

 

Mr. Brawn is one of the most successful and innovative technical directors in Formula 1 history. A racing legend, he has won 22 FIA World Championships and the Le Mans 24 Hours, including 11 FIA Formula One World Championships with Ferrari, seven FIA Formula One World Championships with Williams and Benetton and both of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships with his own BrawnGP team.

 

He sold the BrawnGP team to Mercedes-Benz in 2010 and, over the following three years, continued as Team Principal to lay the foundations that enabled the team to go on and win every FIA Formula One World Championship from 2014 to the current racing season.

 

With unmatched experience and strong industry relationships, Ross Brawn works with the Formula 1 teams and promoters to improve the competition and bring fans closer to the action.

 

Felipe Calderón served as President of Mexico from 2006 to 2012. During his presidency, Mr Calderón helped position Mexico as a global leader in fighting climate change. Despite the impact of the 2009 international economic crisis, the Mexican economy registered stability and growth, as competitiveness was boosted by deregulating the economy, promoting free trade, competition, private investment, and technical education, as well as increasing investment in infrastructure.

 

Felipe Calderón is President of the FIA Environment and Sustainability Commission, as well as the Sustainable Human Development Foundation, Honorary Chairman of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and Member of the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.

Jagan Chapagain is the Secretary General of the IFRC. He took up this role on 1 February 2020 and is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr Chapagain has extensive experience and a broad knowledge of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, having begun his career as a youth volunteer at the Nepal Red Cross, advocating for and representing community voices.

 

He has spent more than 20 years with IFRC, working across Europe and Asia. Prior to becoming Secretary General, Mr Chapagain was the Under Secretary General for Programmes and Operations, Chief of Staff and Director of the Asia Pacific region where he provided leadership in responding to large-scale humanitarian crises and in building resilient communities in partnership with National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and external partners across the region.

 

Previously, he held various leadership positions including Deputy Head of Zone and Head of Operations for the Asia Pacific region from 2007 to 2011, Head of Regional Delegation for Central Asia from 2006 to 2007 and Senior Regional Officer for South Asia from 2004 to 2006 in Geneva. In previous missions, he worked in IFRC delegations in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Montenegro and Thailand.

 

Mr Chapagain holds a degree in Engineering and certificates in Leadership and turn-around management and Emerging social sector leadership. A national of Nepal, he is fluent in Nepalese, English and Hindi and has a basic knowledge of Urdu and Russian.

Garry Connelly has been involved in motor sport for 40 years. He has spent considerable time as a competitor in rallies, has been an event Clerk of Course for rallying, off road and race meetings, and was Chairman of the Organising Committee of Australia’s round of the FIA World rally Championship for 16 years.

 

He has also been an FIA steward and FIA observer since 1989 at events in the FIA World Rally Championship, FIA World Touring Car Championship and FIA Formula One World Championship.

 

Garry is a Chairman of the Australian Institute for Motor sport safety and a member of the FIA World Motor sport Council. He was formerly the Deputy President of the FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety and its Environmental Ambassador.

 

His non-motor sport activities include directorships of a number of Australian companies in the financial services, mobile phone technology and media relations industries. He is also a director of the Australian Road Safety Foundation.

Scot is the Founder of The Elkins Group (TEG), a multi-faceted consulting company providing operational, engineering, safety and logistical support for the motorsport and automotive industries. Current and past clients include the Motorsports Safety Foundation, ACCUS, FIA, Formula E, IMSA, IndyCar, the Road to Indy, MOMO Motorsports, Park Place Motorsports, Hardpoint Motorsports, NGT Motorsports, RaceTrack Engineering, Driven International, Nitro Rally Cross and Mazda Motorsports.

 

Prior to founding TEG, Scot was the Vice President of Competition for IMSA. Scot directed and managed the Competitive and Technical facets of the historic merger between Grand-Am Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series. Before his career at IMSA, Scot was the Technical Director for the Champ Car World Series, where he oversaw the introduction and design of the Panoz DP-01, a new open-wheel chassis for the 2007 season. He has also worked as a race engineer in NASCAR, IndyCar, the Atlantic Championship Series, SCCA, the Skip Barber Race Series, and with the UK-based company, Cosworth Electronics.

 

Scot is currently the Race Director of the FIA Formula E Championship and serves as the Deputy Race Director of the FIA Formula 1, 2 and 3 Championships. Scot is also an FIA Platinum Grade Circuit Inspector.

 

Alongside his roles at the FIA, Scot is also the Series Director for Nitro Rally Cross and President of the Motorsport Safety Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving safety standards in motorsport. He is currently a member of the SCCA and the Society of Automotive Engineers.

 

Scot graduated from Indiana State University with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology.

 

Scot has four children and lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Lauren.

 

Ms. Espinosa took office as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on 18 July 2016.

 

Ambassador of Mexico to Germany since 2012 and from 2001 to 2002, Ms. Espinosa was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, bringing more than 30 years of experience at highest levels in international relations, specialized in climate change, global governance, sustainable development, gender equality and protection of human rights.

 

As Mexico's representative on multilateral bodies and international organizations in Vienna, Geneva and New York, Ms. Espinosa has been engaged as leader in the global challenge to address climate change and its consequences, notably as Chair of the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC leading to the adoption of the Cancun Agreements. Named by the UN Secretary-General to the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post 2015 Development Agenda, she is a tireless supporter of multilateralism as a way to improve conditions for development in all regions of the world, understanding the inextricable link between the aims of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

Elected Chair of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (1996) she played a key role in the process leading to the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action at the 4th World Conference on Women. Previous Ambassador of Mexico to Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and UN Organisations in Vienna (2002-2006), she was Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1989-1991) and responsible for economic issues at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN in Geneva (1982-1988).

 

She has postgraduate studies in International Law from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva and is holder of a Degree in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico.

François Fillon joined Tikehau Capital in 2017 and currently serves as a senior advisor. He is also the President of the Manufacturer’s Commission of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile).

 

He started his career in politics in 1981 as he entered the French Parliament in 1981 as the youngest MP of the new assembly. He was then elected as Mayor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Chairman of the Sarthe General Council, Chairman of the Pays de la Loire Region Council and Senator for Sarthe.

François Fillon has been a member of several governments as Minister for National Education, Higher Education and Research, Minister of Social Affairs, Labour and Solidarity, Minister for Information Technology and the Post Office, and Minister Delegate with responsibility for the Post Office, Telecommunications and Space. In 2007, he was appointed Prime Minister of France by President Nicolas Sarkozy and served in that position until the 2012 presidential elections.

Yath leads the Strategy and Business Development department at Formula 1, providing long term strategic direction for the sport as it aims to better engage fans around the world and drive commercial performance.

 

As well as developing F1’s long term corporate strategy, his team has created the sport’s first ever sustainability strategy – an ambitious plan to be Net Zero Carbon by 2030 and have all races qualify as sustainable events by 2025.

 

Prior to Formula 1, Yath was a Senior Strategist at Sky Sports and Strategy Consultant at PwC, advising media and sports organisations on corporate strategy. He holds an MA (Oxon) Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.

 

James Geidel, President of the RGMMC Group and promoter of the FIA Karting European and World Championships, began his motorsport journey at an early age driving karts. Moving on as race mechanic and engineer before switching paths to promotion, marketing and developing technology to streamline events and make racing safer.

 

Today, his clear mission is to improve the grass roots level of motorsport, develop technologies and services for race organisers, and raise the profile of the sport by working closely with other promoters, commercial rights holders and federations.

Master’s Degree (bilingual) in Law from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland); admitted to the bar in 1995.

 

Attorney-at-law, partner in Fribourg law firm (1995-2001); Attorney, appointed to the rank of Director at KPMG SA, Switzerland, active in the fields of corporate law and business law, energy law, organisation and corporate management, tax law and accounting legislation, association law (2002-2011); Chairman of Assista Protection Juridique SA (legal insurance company) (since 2012); Chairman of TCS Assurances SA (insurance company) (since 2012); Chairman of TCS Training & Loisirs SA (since 2012); Chairman of Mobility Academy SA (since 2012); Member of the board of trustees of Climate Cent Foundation (since 2012); Member of the Organising Committee of Geneva International Motor Show (GIMS) (since 2012), President and Chairman of Touring Club Switzerland (since 2012).

 

Member of the Region I Management Council, Eurocouncil, Euroboard, AIT, FIA Foundation (since 2012); Vice Chairman of the Euroboard; Vice President of Region I; Member of the World Council for Automobile Mobility and Tourism (since 2016); Member of the Presidential Board of Region I (since 2017).

Following considerable motorsport success in his home country of Australia, Alan Gow moved to the UK 30 years ago, where he has since led significant growth for the motorsport industry, both in the UK and around the world, creating a wealth of investment and employment opportunities.

 

Alan has been hugely involved into motorsport for more than 40 years, both driving and preparing touring cars/saloon cars (1973-1985), then as co-owner of Peter Brock's famous Australian racing team. He moved to the UK in 1990 and took over the management of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) from 1992. Alan joined the Board of the Motor Sports Association (MSA) in 2002 and from 2006 until 2018, was Chairman of both the MSA and International Motor Sports Ltd. (IMS), being the organiser of both the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and the World Rally Championship round in Wales.

 

Alan Gow is Chief Executive of the hugely popular British Touring Car Championship and President of the FIA Touring Car Commission. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the FIA Foundation (since 2012) and a member of the FIA Endurance Commission (since 2018). He is also a long-standing Member of the Executive Committee of the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA).

 

His exceptional career in global motorsport was recognised by the MIA in 2016 with the award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Motorsport Industry‘.

 

Tom grew up loving the outdoor life in the Oxfordshire countryside, but with a nuclear physicist father the lure of science and engineering was strong. Childhood evenings in the ’70s spent in the control room of the particle accelerator lab playing a primordial moon-lander game on a mainframe; no graphics, just a command line, usually ended in collision with the lunar surface.

 

At Marelli, Tom soon joined the Motorsport group in Milan to develop data acquisition and telemetry systems and his career spans the period from the “end of innocence” that was Senna’s accident to the present day – the age of data. In that time we have seen DOS give way to Windows, floppy disks to USB, networking arrived in the paddock, spread spectrum turned from curiosity to WiFi, modems and bulletin boards had their day in the sun, then internet, mobile data, the cloud, AI/ML, big data & analytics.

 

The transition from real to virtual.

 

A stint developing KERS systems in 2008-2015 brought Tom back to the reality of mechanical engineering, his spacialisation, and to be a consumer of data instead of a producer. In recent years he has been responsible for Marelli trackside support and operations in FIA Championships then Head of Motorsport R&D and now Advanced Innovation for the Marelli group.

 

Gianni Infantino was elected FIFA President on 26 February 2016, in the period of the worst crisis in the football world governing body’s history. Re-elected on 5 June 2019, he has led the institution into a new era of stability, transparency and prosperity, making FIFA a well-respected and trusted institution and a reliable partner to many.

 

Under his presidency, FIFA went through a series of internal good governance reforms. Unprecedented financial results coupled with a significant increase in investment and oversight of football development funds in FIFA’s 211 member associations were also reached, together with the creation of a dedicated Women’s Football Division, and the integration and commitment to Human Rights in FIFA’s statutes. FIFA also signed a number of partnerships - with UNESCO, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UN Women, the Council of Europe and the African Union - aiming to use the social power of football as a tool to help face global challenges and achieve universal goals.

 

Before being elected FIFA President, Gianni Infantino was the UEFA General Secretary since October 2009, having joined the organisation in 2000. Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino, under his full name, was born on 23 March 1970 and fluently speaks six languages.

Tom Kristensen, is the most successful racing driver in sports car history. The Dane is the only person to win the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans nine times, six of which were consecutive. The former Audi, Bentley, and Porsche pilot is also the only six-time winner of the prestigious 12 Hours of Sebring. Tom Kristensen can also call himself a former FIA World Endurance Champion.

With more than 37 years in motorsport, Tom Kristensen is a true racing legend. He has won races in every series he has ever contested. Mister Le Mans, as he has been nicknamed, has been knighted in his home country of Denmark, inducted into Motorsport’s Hall of Fame and named Sports personality of the Decade – just to name some of the accolade he has received throughout his career.

Tom Kristensen has retired from professional racing but remains an active ambassador for Audi. He is also heavily engaged in the fight against cancer. Tom Kristensen is a well-known public speaker, sharing his experience on the importance of teamwork, how to prepare for success and achieving your goals.

Mark is the President of the Sim Racing Association of Singapore (SRA-SG); an affiliate member of MotorsSport Singapore (MSS), the Singapore ASN.

 

Apart from its role of building a local enthusiast digital racing community, the Association also accredits driver entries for the MSS who are to participate in FIA-run digital racing events. Mark is also a founding member of the Asian sim racing community, Sim Racers Asia (SRA).

 

A passion for motorsports led him from involvement in the local karting fraternity to switch to digital race promotion with the SRA over 9 years ago. The SRA team runs racing series for drivers across Asia Pacific on 3 sim platforms and also collaborates with other Associations and Promoters on jointly run events. An example of these collaborations is a soft-launch race for the Nations Cup Asia tournament, an initiative with IR eSport that involved drivers from 12 countries across Asia Pacific, whose video broadcast on the first day had over 6000 views.

David Lappartient was elected President of the Union Cycliste Internationale at the UCI Congress in Bergen, Norway, on 21 September 2017.

 

First appointed to the UCI Management Committee in 2005, Mr Lappartient was a UCI Vice-President from 2013 until his election as UCI President. Over the same four-year period, he was President of the Professional Cycling Council and of the European Cycling Union. He was also President of the UCI Mountain Bike Commission.

 

Mr Lappartient first became involved in club cycling as a teenager, continuing to ride at a regional level in France for nearly 20 years. His commitment to the sport saw him take on numerous administrative roles at club, regional and national level. Active within the Fédération Française de Cyclisme since 1997, he was President from 2009 until 2017.

 

Away from the bicycle, Mr Lappartient is a qualified engineer who in 1998 founded a surveying company of which he was Chief Executive until 2007. A committed local politician, he was elected Mayor of Sarzeau (Brittany) in 2008 and continues in this role in parallel with his role as UCI President.

 

He is also President of the Foundation Board of the UCI World Cycling Centre, President of the Executive Committee of the UCI World Cycling Centre and Chairman /CEO of CMC Exploitation SA.

 

Simon Larkin is the Event Director for WRC Promoter GmbH – the Munich-based Commercial Rights Holder for the FIA World Rally Championship. A native Australian, Simon has lived and worked in London since 2007.

Beginning his motorsport career in Australia in 2004, working with CAMS-owned entity Rallycorp, Simon was tasked with developing the commercial rights, value, TV production and sponsorship of the Australian Rally Championship.

Having moved to London in 2007, Simon began working in the WRC for North One Sport as Event Operations Manager, responsible for all commercial interactions and activations at and in cooperation with each Event Promoter.

After spending 2012 working directly for FIA to maintain the commercial operations of the WRC during the tender process for the Commercial Rights, Simon transferred to WRC Promoter Gmbh for the 2013 season and has remained since.

His current role encompasses event overlay, strategic development, logistics, event operations, sponsorship, commercial activation and TV production, as well as working with the FIA on all sporting management issues.

Cody Nikola Latkovski was born 4th of October, 2000, in Perth, Western Australia. He is a duel-citizen of Macedonia and Australia. He has been introduced to the digital motor sport at the age of three and a half, and since then, he is constantly participating in simulated racing on several software platforms.

 

Cody's highest achievement is winning the Gold Medal at the inaugural FIA Motorsport Games, held from the 31st of October till the 3rd of November, 2019, in Rome, Italy. Since 2017 he has also been taking part in the FIA-certified Gran Turismo Championships, both the Nations Cup, representing Australia, and Manufacturer Series, representing Mercedes-Benz. Apart from the digital motor sport, Cody participated in two karting cups, once in the Junior Rotax category at Lido di Jesolo, in Italy, and the second time in the KZ2 karting category at the Winterpokal in Kerpen, Germany.

 

At the moment he is currently studying Mechanical Engineering at the University "St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, Macedonia.

Matthias Leridon is Chairman and CEO of TILDER, the leading European communications consultancy firm he successfully founded 30 years ago. He also chairs the private investment company TRUCY which has interests in media, biotechnology, publishing, art and startups. 

Greatly invested in the cultural world, Matthias Leridon has created several highly regarded endowment funds. He is the co-founder and co-President of African Artists for Development, a fund which holds a special consultative status within the ECOSOC (the United Nations Economic and Social Council) as it works with African contemporary artists in order to promote development projects on the continent. 

He is also President of the Centre Pompidou Accélérations and Vice-President of the Manège de Chaillot, two active endowments funds promoting artistic productions for the Centre Pompidou and Chaillot Théâtre national de la danse. 

He is board member of ACTED, Groupe SOS and Amref Flying doctors.

For his great contribution in his field of work and his steady social investment, Matthias Leridon has been made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and an Officer des Arts et des Lettres.

President of the Automobile Association Of Cambodia (AAC) since 2013, Mr Moeu has occupied high-level positions during his career. He has notably served as the CEO & Managing Director of Antitermite Co. Ltd, Cambodia (since 2002), CEO & Managing Director of SG50 Enterprise Solution Co. Ltd, Cambodia (since 2016) and President of AAC (since 2013).

 

Mr Moeu holds an MBA Diploma in Business Administration, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (2008).

Mike Noon joined the New Zealand Automobile Association (NZAA) in 2005 and now leads its advocacy work as General Manager of Motoring Affairs. This focuses on improving road safety, road infrastructure, and being the motorist’s champion for the NZAA’s 1.6 million members.

 

Prior to joining the NZAA, Mr Noon worked as a consultant specialising in tourism, issue management and communications, and was a Director in the establishment of the New Zealand Ministry of Tourism. In 2017, Mr Noon was appointed FIA Region II President. He has been a Member of the FIA World Council of Automobile Mobility and Tourism since 2011.

 

Francisco Peroni, born in 1965, is Paraguayan and has a Business Administration and Law Degree. He started motor sport in 1993 as a co-driver until 2005. He has been member of the Drivers Association Board from 2006 and President of the Drivers Association 2014 -15, acting in many events as Race Director and Steward. After that, he joined the ASN Sporting Committee.

He currently is a Member of the ASN Board of Directors, Member of the FIA Closed Road Commission and he has been appointed as a FIA International Steward this year. Currently he is involved as Coordinator of the recently created Paraguayan Digital Motorsport Commission.

Linda is currently Assistant Director External Affairs for IATA based in Geneva, Switzerland. In her current position she is the global policy lead of all matters related to accessibility, included negotiation towards possible or proposed new regulation and policies that will affect IATA’s member airlines.

 

Previous to this position she was manager cargo border management with a major in security. In her position she led development of the IATA e-consignment security declaration, an electronic standard that is today used broadly in the aviation industry.

 

Linda holds an Executive Master Diploma in International Negotiation and Policy Making with the Graduate Institute of Geneva.

 

Jean Rodriguez is the Communication Director and spokesperson of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). In this capacity, he has been working on articulating UNECE’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals. Given UNECE’s role as the UN center for Inland Transport, he has worked extensively on transport and mobility issues; with a particular focus on road safety.

Jean started his career in financial journalism, before moving to the corporate sector, where he worked on the liberalization of financial markets in Europe and the preparations of the market infrastructure for the introduction of the euro. In 2000, he joined the European Central Bank in Frankfurt to integrate the team in charge of the EUR 80 million public information campaign on the introduction of the euro cash. The launch of the euro banknotes and coins in 12 countries with a population of 308 million in 2002, was the world’s largest ever monetary changeover, and the biggest logistical operation in peace time in Europe.

Jean is a graduate from Sciences-Po Paris and holds a Masters’ degree in Banking and Finance from Dauphine University in Paris. He is married and has two children.

Under the aegis of Christian Seifert, who was appointed CEO in 2005, the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga has been transformed into a global enterprise that, together with subsidiaries in the fields of TV production, global sales and digital and sports technology, is the only top European league to cover the entire value chain of a media company. The Bundesliga is now the sixth biggest sports league in the world. Since 2005, the DFL Group has generated more than €10 billion in media revenue, which corresponds to an increase of 287 per cent.

 

Before joining the DFL, Christian Seifert was CEO of KarstadtQuelle New Media AG, where he acquired what was then known as DSF (now SPORT1) and the merchandising rights to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and pushed the company’s engagement in the e-commerce and TV commerce sectors. Prior to that, from 1998 to 2000, the Baden native was Director of Marketing in Central Europe for MTV Networks, responsible for end customer and event marketing and new media, having previously risen to the post of Head of Product Management at MGM Media Gruppe München from 1995 to 1998.

 

 

 

Lucy Shea is the CEO of Futerra – the change agency. Futerra puts together the logic of sustainability with the magic of creativity to help big brands and major foundations create major change. She joined the company in 2003 and has grown the business from a start-up of five to a global agency with teams in London, New York and Stockholm. Futerra is majority female owned and run, and a proud B-Corp.

 

A firm believer in the power of business to create change, she advises Fortune 500 companies on how to unlock the value of sustainability for their business and brand. Shea’s particular expertise is where the business of fashion and sustainability intersect. Futerra’s clients include C&A Foundation, Bulgari, Econyl, Formula 1, Grupo Bimbo, KAO Corporation, PVH and Tommy Hilfiger.

 

Stoffel Vandoorne is a Belgian racing driver. His junior career broke records and saw the young Belgian sky rocket into the top levels of motorsport.

 

His journey in motorsport began when he was six years old at an indoor karting track his father, an architect, was designing a restaurant for. On his first try, Vandoorne won the Belgian karting championship at sixteen. The following year, in his first international season, he finished second in the World Karting Championship.

 

After an impressive debut in single seaters, Vandoorne was crowned F4 Eurocup 1.6 champion and progressed into Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup. In his two years competing in F2 he broke the records for the most number of victories, pole positions and fastest laps. He finished a close runner up his first season and then won his second attempt at the championship four races before the end of the season.

 

His successful F1 debut in 2016 earned him an official seat at McLaren next to Fernando Alonso in the following 2017 season. In his first full Formula 1 season, Stoffel scored 13 points and scored his top finishes in Singapore and Malaysia in 7th place. Stoffel continued with McLaren in 2018 and joined new entrant and Mercedes-Benz affiliate HWA Racelab in Formula E ahead of Season 5. Despite an array of technical failures on his car, Stoffel achieved a podium and five top ten finishes in his debut season.

 

It was announced on September 2019 that Stoffel will join Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E team for season 6 of the FIA Formula E Championship.

 

Caroline is responsible for driving and delivering C40’s global transport and urban planning strategy. She works with leading cities to transition to zero emission transportation. Caroline leads on C40’s Green and Healthy Streets Declaration where 35 cities have committed to procure only zero emission buses and introduce zero emission areas in their cities. Caroline also oversees the transport networks at C40 Cities, facilitating best practice sharing and research to advance the shift to sustainable transport.

 

Previously, Caroline worked at environmental behaviour change charity Global Action Plan where, as a Senior Partner, she led their Air Quality Portfolio. Working with local authorities, cities, and the NHS, Caroline designed and delivered programmes to protect health and reduce dangerous air pollution. Prior to this, Caroline was Strategy Manager at the Energy Saving Trust managing electric vehicle research and delivery programmes.

 

Caroline has also worked as Policy Advisor in the UK's Environment Agency and as a Researcher to a Member of the UK Parliament.

 

ROKiT Venturi Racing Team Principal and shareholder, Susie Wolff, began her competitive motorsport career over twenty years ago, starting out as so many of her racing contemporaries did, on the karting track. After cutting her teeth in karting, Formula Renault and DTM for Mercedes-Benz, Susie made history at the 2014 British Grand Prix by becoming the first woman to take part in a Formula 1 race weekend in 22 years.

 

Following her retirement from driving in 2015 and as part of her commitment to fostering positive change within the sport, in 2016 Susie launched Dare To Be Different, a call to action aimed squarely at driving female talent by inspiring the next generation and increasing female participation in all levels and aspects of motorsport.

 

In 2017 Susie’s hard work was formally acknowledged when she was awarded an MBE for her contribution to women in sport.

 

On June 26 2018, Susie made her first formal move into team management and ownership with Venturi. Late 2018 ‘Dare to be Different’ united with the FIA’s initiative, ‘Girls on Track’, creating one global outreach undertaking important grassroots work ensuring that females of all ages are aware of the opportunities available to them.

 

Ambassador - career diplomat with over thirty years of experience - Mariangela Zappia has been Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York since August 2018, after having served as Diplomatic Advisor and G7-G20 Sherpa to the Prime Minister of Italy (2016-2018). She has been the first woman in her country to hold this position, as well as the first woman Ambassador of Italy to the UN and to NATO (2014-2016). She served as Head of the European Union Delegation to the UN and other International Organization in Geneva (2011-2014). She had previously held different positions at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva, the Italian Embassy in Brussels, the Consulate General in New York, the Italian Embassy in Dakar and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Rome.

 

Ambassador Zappia holds a Master degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Florence and a Post-graduate degree in Diplomatic and International Relations from the same University. She has published on the Reform of the Security Council and on the Contribution of Italy to UN peace-keeping operations and she is a regular speaker at international conferences on Italian Foreign policy, multilateral and global issues. She is an active member of the International Gender Champions Network aimed at promoting gender parity and women’s participation in decision-making in all sectors. In 2018, she was awarded the decoration of “Commendatore” (Commander) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

 

Charlotte holds a Master’s degree in Organisational Psychology and a MBA in International Management. She started her career as marketer at Campina, a Dutch dairy manufacturer. After 4 years, she started a 12 year tenure at PepsiCo where she held various marketing positions being responsible for brands like Lay’s and Doritos and also cross-brand positions for media, digital marketing & CRM.

 

During the last 2 years at PepsiCo Charlotte was responsible for designing and implementing the digital transformation of PepsiCo Benelux, in close cooperation with the European & Global digital teams. Via the pillars commerce, cultural change and technology, the digital transformation team has realized a leap in the digital maturity of PepsiCo Benelux.

 

Charlotte is part of the Dutch Effie Jury. Effie is a global initiative that rewards advertising on the basis of effectiveness. She lives in The Hague, with her husband and 2 daughters. In her free time she enjoys running, reading and skiing.