Gabriela Arias is a qualified lawyer in El Salvador and is a former Insolvency, Recovery and Restructuring In-House Counsel at the second largest Mexican retail bank. She also holds an MSc in Law and Finance from Oriel College, Oxford, an LLB from Universidad Dr Jose Matias Delgado as well as postgraduate degrees from Yale and Leiden. She is also a former international fencer for El Salvador and the Oxford Blues team. She has an interest in Private Equity and researches sovereign debt.

Dr. Daniel A. Kaute’s lifelong passion is innovation, especially high tech commercialization strategy and implementation. Daniel currently works with a consultancy, Orange Hills, which pulls together key learnings from leading authorities in entrepreneurship, and teaches them in a hands on, interactive fashion. Mostly through Oxford University Innovation he is also involved in a number of projects in the storage and renewable energy area (disruptive lithium ion battery technology and wind energy), and he is Chairman of Silicon Fuel, a solid state hydrogen start up that could enable the hydrogen economy. He is also Managing Director Europe for MedX Health Corp, a unique and innovative skin cancer screening technology.

Kimron Flicker graduated with a BA in Middle Eastern Studies and Psychology from Tel Aviv University and an MPhil in Development Studies from Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. She worked for three years as a private tutor in Tel Aviv, Israel and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her main research interests are Middle Eastern politics and social history.

Dr. Gerald Mako studied History at Cambridge where now he is working on his PhD in Development Studies; trained as a specialist in Central Asian history his research focuses on conversion to Islam/Christianity/Judaism and Soviet/Russian policymaking. Aside from publishing two dozen articles and presenting more than 25 papers across the globe he has also been teaching extensively at the University and is now in the process of setting up his own firm in the education&tech industry.