CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
JOHANNES LINN
- Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program, Brookings Institution
- Former Vice President of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia
DAVID GROSS
- 2004 Nobel Prize winner in Physics
- Professor, Department of Physics, Univesity of California Santa Barbara
JEAN-MARIE LEHN
- 1987 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
- Professor, University of Strasbourg Intitute for Advanced Studies
KEVIN WARWICK
- World-renowned cybor-engineer, also known as "Captain Cyborg"
- Emeritus Professor at Coventry and Reading Universities
TAWAKKOL KARMAN
- Yemeni women's rights activist,
- 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner
RAE KWON CHUNG
- 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner as a member of IPCC
- The Global Energy Prize International Award Committee Chairman
- Advisor to the Chair of High-Level Expert and Leaders Panel (HELP) on Water and Disasters under the UN Secretary-General
DON CLEVELAND
- Chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University California, San Diego,
- 2018 Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize winner
CAUCHER BIRKAR
- Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge,
- 2018 Fields medal recipient
MARC UZAN
- General Director, Reinventing Bretton-Woods Committee
JUAN MALDACENA
- World-renowned cybor-engineer, also known as "Captain Cyborg"
- Emeritus Professor at Coventry and Reading Universities
MICHAEL SHEETZ
- 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner
SILVIO MICALI
- Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Founder of Algorand
- 2012 Turing award winner
LYMAN PAGE JR
- Distinguished University Professor in Physics, Princeton University,
- 2018 Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize winner
SERGEY GURIEV
- Professor of Economics, Paris Institute of Political Studies,
- Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2015-2019)
- Rector, Russian School of Economics (2004-2013)
VIVEK WADHVA
- Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program,
- One of Top 100 Global Thinkers according to Foreign Policy.
XAVIER SALA-I-MARTIN
- Professor of economics at Columbia University
- author of the Global Competitiveness Index by the World Economic Forum
GEORGE CHURCH
- American geneticist, One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People,
- Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
TSUI LAP CHEE
- Prominent geneticist, President, Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
MICHAEL ELOWITZ
- Professor of Biology, Bioengineering, and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
MICHAEL JORDAN
- The Science magazine named him "the most influential computer scientists" in 2016, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
- Sciences, Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley
SAYASAT NURBEK
- CEO, BTS EducatiAon, Project Lead “Atlas of New Professions in Kazakhstan”
SUBIR SACHDEV
- 2015 Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical
- Physics recipient, Professor of Physics, Harvard University
SANZHAR TAIZHAN
- CEO and Chief Engineer, SpaceX Warwick Hyperloop,
- Litium bataries engineer, Jaguar Land Rover
AIDA KHAIDAR
- Contributor at Atameken Business Channel
SHIGEO KATSU
- President, Nazarbayev University
SERIK IRSALIYEV
- President of the Astana International University
JAMILYA BOPIYEVA
- Former President of the Economic Research Institute
ARYN ORSARIYEV
- Chairman of the Board, JSC "Science Fund"
MICHAEL GOOD
- Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Nazarbayev Universit
ASKHAT AIMAGAMBETOV
- Minister of education and science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
BILJANA RADONJIC
KER-LINDSAY
- Associate Director for Gender & Economic Inclusion, EBRD
BAKYTZHAN SARKEYEV
- Deputy chairman of the Board, JSC «Science Fund»
BOLAT SULTANGAZIN
- Director of Business Accelerator, Astana Business Campus Innovation Cluster, Nazarbayev University
GEORGI KVIRIKASHVILI
- Former Prime Minister of Georgia (2015-2018)
DAVID TUGANOV
- Director, Neirostorm, Program coordinator, TransforNATION
GIOVANNI CAPANNELLI
- Country Director for Kazakhstan, Asian Development Bank
JAN STEPAN
- Director, PwC Kazakhstan Academy
HANS HOLZHACKER
- Chief economist, CAREC Institute
KASSYMKHAN KAPPAROV
- Founder of Ekonomist.kz, Managing partner, EMCG
LYAZIZA SABYROVA
- Principal Regional Economist, Central and West Asia Regional Department, Asian Development Bank
LILIA BURUNCIUC
- Regional Director for the Central Asia Region, World Bank
PRASHANT KUMAR
- Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University
ALEXANDER VAN DE PUTTE
- Chief Strategy Officer, Astana International Financial Centre
TSEDISO MAKOELLE
- Vice Dean for Research, Associate Professor, Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education
LYAZZAT SHATAYEVA
- Head of content acquisition and production, Kazakh TV
MAXAT KURBENOV
- Managing Director, Inclusive development foundation (IDF)
KIRA RADINSKY
- Director of Data Science, IL Chief Scientist, eBay
ANGELA GARIPOVA
- Journalist, Program editor
YEDIGE TLEGENOV
- Principal Research Manager, Applying AI in Manufacturing, Autodesk Research, included in Forbes Kazakhstan «30 under 30»
MATTIA ROMANI
- Managing Director for Economics, Policy and Governance, EBRD
KHALIDA AZHIGULOVA
- Leader of the Science Team, Kazakhstani Governmental Programme «The Change Management Training Program for Industry Managers for Institutional Reforms»
DARIYA KOZHAMZHAROVA
- Rector of M.Auezov South Kazakhstan University
ELMIRA OBRY
- Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Bureau for Continuing Professional Development, Astana International Financial Centre
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