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He has served as Chairman of the European Committee of Central Balance Sheet Data Offices (2014 - 2016) and as Chairman of the European Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (2011 - 2012). He joined Banco de Portugal in 1985 and worked in several departments, becoming the first coordinator of the Balance of Payments Area in the Statistics and Economic Research Department (1993-1998). He was appointed Deputy Head of the Statistics Department in 1998 and Head of this Department in 2004.
At an academic level, he has held teaching positions at ISCTE (1988 - 1999), where he coordinated the subjects of Currency and Banking and Monetary Economics, and at Instituto Superior de Economia of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Lisbon Technical University) (1982 - 1986), after completing a degree in Economics there in 1982.

Ms. Aisha Humera Chaudhary is a career Civil Servant from the Secretariat Group. During her 28 years of service, Ms. Aisha Humera Chaudhary has worked on various key positions in Federal Government including Joint Secretary (WTO), Ministry of Commerce, dealing with trade matters with United States, European Union, Central Asia Regions, Africa and Middle East. Economic Counsellor, Pakistan Mission to the WTO, Geneva. She played an instrumental role in the implementation of E-Commerce Policy of Pakistan and successfully negotiated Pakistani sellers access to Amazon market place.  She joined the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication on 18th April 2022 as Additional Secretary. 

Ms. Aisha Humera Chaudhary holds degrees of Executive Masters International Negotiation & Policy Making from Graduate Institute Geneva Executive Education, Mastering Trade Policy from Harvard University, USA and M.Sc – Development Management from London School of Economics, UK.  

HENRI ELI MONCEAU is the Director of the Economic and Digital Francophonie (DFEN) of International Organisation of Francophonie (OIF) since December 2019. He is specialist in issues of creativity, innovation and digital governance.

Within La Francophonie, he worked as Programmatic and Scientific Coordinator of the second World Forum of the French Language (Liège, 2015) as well as a member of the steering committee of the Francophone Innovation Network (FINNOV). He was also the sherpa for the Francophonie of the Minister of Higher Education of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Meetings of French-speaking Ministers of Higher Education in Paris (2015) and Bamako (2016) – IDNeuf). From May 2017, until January 31, 2020, he has assumed the position of Ambassador and Permanent Representative of OIF to the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna.

Moira is a Vice President of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), and Chair of IFIP IP3. She was awarded the IFIP Silver Core in 2016 for service. She believes that ethical behaviour and leadership are keystones of any profession and works to develop understanding of ethics and the value of the IFIP Code of Ethics.

Moira is an accomplished speaker and has presented at conferences around the world. Notably, she has attended and presented at the WSIS Forum since 2012.

Moira is an independent consultant. Her current work is focused on instructional design and online course development, and she has worked with Subject Matter Experts on diverse topics, including corporate governance. She is also involved with an organisation which focuses on ESG matters, developing resources to help anyone understand ESG and report successfully on their organisation’s achievements n addressing ESG.

Moira is a Professional Member and Fellow of IITPSA (Institute of IT Professionals South Africa), She received the IITPSA Distinguished Service in ICT Award in 2009. She is also a member of ACM and IODSA.

Moira serves on the Council for the National Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Luis Neves is CEO of the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) since 2017. Prior to that, from 2008-2017, Luis held the position of GeSI Chairman. Under Luis' leadership, GeSI has become a globally recognized “thought industry leader” organisation in the field of ICT- sustainability with strong focus on the enabling role and positive contribution of digital technologies to climate protection.

Prior to GeSI, Luis worked at Deutsche Telekom for over 15 years holding positions such as Head of Sustainable Development and Environment, VP of Corporate Responsibility and Chief Sustainability and Climate Protection Officer. Luis has also held positions and played relevant roles at European and international levels in organisations, such as the UN Global Compact Lead Group, Econsense -the German Sustainability Association, World Resources Forum Association and UNFCCC Momentum for Change Initiative.

Luis was born in Portugal and obtained a degree in History from the University of Lisbon.

Alfredo M. Ronchi - professor at Politecnico di Milano (Engineering Faculty), Expert/advisor in e-Services, Head of the JRC S2D2 (Safety, Security, Defence, Disaster Recovery and Management), General Secretary of the EC-MEDICI Framework of Cooperation, delegate at UNESCO IFAP and active member of the WSIS since the establishment (2003-/). 
Mr Ronchi is member of the following Boards of Directors: Global Forum, World Summit Award, European Education New Society Association (ENSA), Fondazione Italiana Nuove Comunicazioni. Member of the Keio University NoE. Member of the Advisory Board of the School of Law under the aegis of GD Goenka University (New Delhi, India).
He cooperated as organizer or programme chair in W3C, ACM, IEEE, ITU-WSIS conferences; since more than thirty-five years he organizes and manages international conferences and workshops.
Author/contributor of more than 400 papers and various books on: e-Culture, e-Government, e-Safety & Security, and e-Services.

Karamjit S Gill is Professor Emeritus, University of Brighton (UK), Founding Editor of AI&Society Journal (Springer), Visiting Professor at the universities of Wales (UK), Urbino (Italy), Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland), Beijing Academy of Soft Technology (China), and Symbiotic Network-IIT Mumbai, Delhi University, Arizona State University and UCLA (USA), Universities at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Cybernetics Network, Santiago (Chile) and ATA Lima (Peru). Karamjit is the Founding Chair of the International INSYTE-CRL laboratory at Waterford Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland, and is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Artificial Intelligence for Societal Good Challenge of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Over the years he has directed cross-cultural research networks, including EU-India cross-cultural innovation network (EU); Europe-Japan network on human-centred systems; European postgraduate and doctoral research network in human centred systems (EU), Knowledge, culture and artificial intelligence network (EU); New Technology and Adult Literacy (EU); Computer Aided Animated Arts Theatre (CAAAT) Project and the Europe-Japan human centred systems (NTT Data, Japan-1990s); Culture, Language and Artificial Intelligence (COST-EC/Sweden).

He has been the founding Series Editor of the Human Centred Systems Society Book Series (Springer) He is also actively involved in the Community-University Partnership in social mentoring encompassing art, music and craft therapeutic environment and co-production. At Cambridge, he is involved with the Interdisciplinary Performance Research Network, AI Community, and Cambridge Community