ITZHAK (ZAHI) BEN-DAVID is the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance & Real Estate at the Fisher School of Business, The Ohio State University.

MARC BLINDER is chief product officer of blockchain-based start-up AIKON. After earning a political science degree from Princeton and working in Bay Area politics, he developed a social network called MobilePlay (sold to Good Technology) and held leadership roles at Context Optional and Efficient Frontier (sold to Adobe). Follow him on Twitter @mblinder.

JOEL BOTHELLO is an assistant professor in management at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. He works at the intersection of organization theory and resilience. Follow him on Twitter @j_bothello and visit his website at joelbothello.com.

ADAM CONNAKER is senior associate responsible for Innovative Finance at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City, New York.

DANTE DISPARTE is the vice chairman of the Libra Association and the founder and chairman of Risk Cooperative. He is coauthor of the book Global Risk Agility and Decision Making and serves on the National Advisory Council of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA.

STEFANIE KLEIMEIER is professor of entrepreneurial finance and banking at the Open University in the Netherlands. She also holds the positions of associate professor of finance at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands and professor extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa.

JOHN D. MACOMBER is a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches in HBS’s Business and Environment and Social Enterprise Initiatives.

SAADIA MADSBJERG is managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City, New York, and coauthor of the Foreign Affairs article “The Innovative Finance Revolution.”

ANDREW McAFEE is the codirector of the Initiative on the Digital Economy in the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of Enterprise 2.0 and the coauthor, with Erik Brynjolfsson, of The Second Machine Age. His latest book is More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—And What Happens Next.

YVETTE MUCHARRAZ Y CANO is a professor at Ipade Business School.

CURT NICKISCH is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review where he makes podcasts and cohosts the podcast HBR IdeaCast. He earned an MBA from Boston University and previously reported for NPR, Marketplace, WBUR, and Fast Company. He speaks ausgezeichnet German and binges history podcasts. Find him on Twitter @CurtNickisch.

THOMAS ROULET is a senior lecturer in organization theory at the Judge Business School and a fellow of Girton College, both at the University of Cambridge. He has provided sociological analyses on different aspects of Brexit in various media outlets (the Telegraph, l’Humanité, Die Zeit). Follow him on Twitter @thomroulet.

NIGEL TOPPING serves as CEO of We Mean Business coalition, which harnesses business leadership to drive the innovations and policies that accelerate action on climate change. Previously, Nigel was executive director of CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), and he has 18 years of experience in the manufacturing sector.

MICHAEL VIEHS is associate director at Hermes Investment Management in London. In this position, he is responsible for the integration ESG and engagement information in the investment strategies of all public market equity and credit funds. Michael is also an honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

ANDREW WINSTON is the author, most recently, of The Big Pivot. He is also coauthor of the best-seller Green to Gold and the author of Green Recovery. He advises some of the world’s leading companies on how they can navigate and profit from environmental and social challenges. Follow him on Twitter @AndrewWinston.