Agenda

Michael W. Hodin, Ph.D. is CEO of the Global Coalition on Aging, Managing Partner at High Lantern Group, and a Fellow at Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College. He has spoken internationally on the topic of aging, including at G20, APEC, Davos, and the World Knowledge Forum (WKF). He is also a blogger on Medium.

From 1976-80, Mike was Legislative Assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. During this period he was also a Visiting Scholar at Brookings Institution, on U.S. Foreign Economic Policy. He was a senior executive at Pfizer, Inc. for 30 years, where he created and then led its International Public Affairs and Public Policy operations and served on Management Boards for a number of its businesses.

Mike is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 2010-2013, was Adjunct Senior Fellow with a focus on population aging. Mike was also the recipient of the 2012 Fred D. Thompson Award from the American Federation for Aging Research. He sits on the Boards of the Foreign Policy Association, Business Council for International Understanding, American Skin Association, American Federation for Aging Research and Emigrant Savings Bank. Mike was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Ageing. And he sits on the Advisory Board for the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging.

Mike holds a BA, cum laude, Cornell University, MSc. in International Relations from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and M.Phil and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Raymond Saner is Titular Professor at Basle University, Department of Economics and Management, Switzerland since 2002 and teaches at Lüneburg University in Germany, Centre for Sustainability (CSM) and is jury member of Doctoral Ph.D. Committees.

His research focuses on sustainable development (UNDESA), trade and development (UNCTAD/WTO), employment and poverty reduction (ILO, UNRISD), education (OECD, WTO/GATS), investment and climate change (UNCTAD, UNFCCC), and PPPs in the health and social sector (UNECE/WHO). He was member of expert groups drafting the Global Sustainable Development Report.

Raymond Saner co-founded CSEND (1993), an ECOSOC accredited research organisation. He co-chairs the academic network of the OECD Guidelines on Business and Human Rights, is member of the UN Task Force on Solidarity and Social Enterprises and expert in CSR quality standards.

He (co)-authored 21 books and 25 referred journal articles. He served on the executive board of Academy of Management’s Organisation Development & Change division and chaired its Advisory Council for the Board of Governors

Initially trained as a counselling psychologist she later on worked in the fields of institutional learning and organisational transformation. After relocating to New York and a postdoctoral stay at Columbia University, she moved on to Geneva in the 1980’s. Lichia worked with different UN organisations in designing and developing institution development platforms to support public sector reforms in Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, and English-speaking African countries for the UNDP, World Bank, WHO, ILO, EBRD and bilateral development aid agencies (SDC, GTZ, DANIDA, SIDA, NORAID, CIDA). She also conducted management training and OD projects for multinational companies in North America, Europe and Asia on cross-cultural leadership, talent system development, and international negotiations.  Her more recent endeavour has concentrated on the promotion of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Age related issue concerning dignity, social and economic rights of the older persons and digital inclusion. 

She was part of the ISO group that promotes ISO 10015 Quality Standards on Training and conducts audit in different parts of the world.  Her recent engagement with the quality standards include ISO TC 314/Working Group on Ageing Workforce and a private standard on Service Quality Assessment Framework (SQAF, 2020)

She has published books and more than 80 articles in journals such as American Academy of Management Executive, Advances in International Comparative Management, Human Resource Quarterly, Performance Improvement Quarterly, Public Sector Management, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. Her current research interests are alternative modes of organising work, sustainable employability, human capital formation and business diplomacy for sustainable partnership.

Her newest book co-authored with Raymond Saner, Roland Bardy and Arthur Ruben, is titled “Public Goods, Sustainable development and the Contributions of Business” (2021)

While a practicing Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Dr. Pavan Duggal has made an immense impact with an international reputation as an Expert and Authority on Cyber Law, Cyber Security Law, Artificial Intelligence Law&E-commerce law. 

Dr. Duggal has been acknowledged as one of the top 4 Cyber Lawyers around the world. 

WDD [World Domain Day] recognizes him as one of the top 10 Cyber Lawyers around the world. 

Dr. Pavan Duggal, is the Founder & Chairman of International Commission on Cyber Security Law. He is also the President of Cyberlaws.Net and has been working in the pioneering area of Cyber Law, Cyber Security Law& Mobile Law. 

Pavan is also heading the Artificial Intelligence Law Hub and Blockchain Law Epicentre. He is the Founder-cum-Honorary Chancellor of Cyberlaw University. 

His empanelment as a consultant to UNCTAD and UNESCAP on Cyber Law and Cyber Crime respectively, membership of the AFACT Legal Working Group of the UN / CEFAT, consulting as an expert with the Council Of Europe on Cyber Crime, inclusion in the Board of Experts of European Commission’s Dr. E-commerce and his work as an expert authority on a Cyber Law primer for E-ASEAN Task Force and as a reviewer for Asian Development Bank speaks volumes of his worldwide acceptance as an authority. Pavan is the President of Cyberlaw Asia, Asia’s pioneering organization committed to the passing of dynamic cyber laws in the Asian continent. Dr. Duggal is also a member of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Panel of Neutrals. 

Dr. Pavan Duggal, in association with International Telecommunications Union, conducted two Training cum Sensitization Programmes for the elected Judges and Officers of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Netherlands on 23rd May, 2019. 

As an internationally renowned Cyber law and Cyber security subject expert, at the world stage during the High-Level Policy Statement delivered by him at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), UNESCO, UNCTAD & UNDP in Geneva, Switzerland from 25th May – 29th May, 2015. Pavan Duggal has recommended the need for coming up with an International Convention on Cyberlaw &Cyber Security. 

As a thought leader, Dr. Duggal has suggested that India requires a new legislation that is wholly dedicated to cyber security. 

Pavan, as an international expert and authority, conducts 44 different online courses at Cyberlaw University, which have been subscribed by more than 26,400 students from 172 countries, speaking 52 national languages with excellent ratings. Pavan is a member of the Board of Globethics.net, global network of persons and institutions interested in various fields of applied ethics. 

Dr Duggal has been the Member of the Public Interest Registry’s.Org Advisory Council. He is a member of ICT policy and governance working group of the UNICT taskforce. He is the legal and policy Consultant to Internet Mark 2 Project, which is examining the next level of internet. 

He has been invited to be an Associated Fellow of the Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL) at Singapore. He is a Member of Panel of Arbitrators of the Regional Centre for Arbitration, Kuala Lumpur and Asian Domain Names Dispute Resolution Centre at Hong Kong. He is a Panel Member Of Permanent Monitoring Panel For Information Security-World Federation Of Scientists. He has been associated with the Ministry Of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India on Cyber Law and Electronic Governance legal issues and is a member of Advisory Committee on e-governance in Karnataka constituted by the Government of Karnataka. As also a member of Information Forensic Working Group on E-Information Systems, Security and Audit Association. 

Dr. Duggal is a member of Multi – Stakeholder Steering Group of the Asia Pacific Region Internet Governance Forum (APRIGF). 

He heads his niche law firm Pavan Duggal Associates, which has practice areas, amongst others, in Cyber Law, Business Process Outsourcing Law, Intellectual Property Rights and Information Technology Law, Information Security Law, Defence, Biotech and Corporate Law. 

While he has been a member of the Nominating Committee, Membership Advisory Committee and Membership Implementation Task Force of ICANN, Pavan is the founder of the Cyber Law Association and is also the Founder-President, Cyberlaw India. 

Some outstanding pioneering work in the field of BPO legal issues has resulted in his being a member of the BPO Steering Committee of ASSOCHAM. Today, he advises a number of BPO concerns on different legal issues relating to outsourcing. Pavan is the Co-Chairman of the Cyber Security Committee of ASSOCHAM, was the Chairman of the Cyber Law Committee of ASSOCHAM and works closely with CII and FICCI. 

Dr. Duggal is a regular on the lecture circuit. He has spoken at over 2000 Conferences, Seminars and Workshops in the last two decades, and has lectured extensively in select Law Colleges. As a Writer, he has made his mark with 157 Books on various aspects of the law in the last 20 years. He had contributed a continuing weekly column on diverse aspects of the law, titled ‘Brief Cases’ to the Economic Times, for almost a decade. 

More about Dr. Pavan Duggal is available at https://www.pavanduggal.com/ and http://www.linkedin.com/in/pavanduggal

Professor Ian Philp is the founder of Age Care Technologies (ACT) www.agecaretechnologies.org. ACT is the winner of the 2021 United Nations WSIS prize for innovation in healthy ageing for our potential to add 100 million quality life years for older people and reduce global costs of long-term care by $45 trillion.

Profession Philp is an advisor to the World Health Organisation in person-centred care for older people. He holds a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh and was a practicing physician for 35 years in the UK National Health Service, spending eight years an Executive Medical Director.

As Professor of Health Care for Older People at the University of Sheffield, he led teams which won the UK hospital team of the year in the care of older people and the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for research into improving the quality of life of older people.

From 2000-8, he was the National Clinical Director for Older People in England, leading the development and implementation of the National Service Framework for Older People, campaigning to ensure respect for dignity in care and eliminate age discrimination, leading national strategies for intermediate care, stroke, dementia and the prevention of falls and fractures.

Professor Philp was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2009 in recognition of his work to improve the lives of older people.

My name is Tafadzwa Muusha. I am a skilled in programmer and innovator, and I enjoy utilizing my skills to contribute to the technological advancements in the world. I am a University of Zimbabwe graduate, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies and Computer Science. I am currently employed at the University of Zimbabwe Innovation Hub, as a graduate innovator, working on a smart blind-walking stick project in preparation for commercializing it. While at the Innovation Hub, I won the WSIS Forum 2021 Ageing Better With ICTs challenge area 3 - Transportation and Mobility, and also the University of Zimbabwe Innovator of the month of June 2021 Award.

Gitanjali Sah is Strategy and Policy Coordinator at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is responsible for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process. She has more than 15 years of work experience in ICT policy issues at the national, regional and international level. She is an experienced International Civil Servant having worked at several UN Agencies. She holds M.Phil. Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK and a Masters in Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.