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Project Contributors

World Economic Forum Project Team

  • Claudio Cocorocchia, Project Lead, Content lead for the Media, Entertainment & Information Industries, Switzerland
  • Diana El-Azar, Project Sponsor, Member of the Executive Committee,Switzerland
  • Anne-Marie Jentsch, Project Manager, Media, Entertainment & Information Industries (on secondment from Willis Towers Watson), Switzerland
  • Mengyu Annie Luo, Project Sponsor, Head of Media, Entertainment & Information Industries, USA
  • Anna Sophia O’Neil, Project Coordinator, Media, Entertainment & Information Industries, USA
  • Lena Woodward, Project Associate, Media, Entertainment & Information Industries, Switzerland

Project Advisers

  • Tom Davenport, Senior Consultant, Research and Innovation Center, Willis Towers Watson, USA
  • Anne Huisman, Senior Consultant, Executive Compensation, Willis Towers Watson, Netherlands
  • Ravin Jesuthasan, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Willis Towers Watson, USA
  • Amy Johnson, Research Analyst, Research and Innovation Center, Willis Towers Watson, USA
  • Anne Randhava, Analyst, Communication and Change Management, Willis Towers Watson, USA

Steering Committee Members

  • Olivier Oullier, Professor of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Aix Marseille University, France (2011 – 2015)
  • Irene Braam, Vice-President, Government Relations, and Head, Brussels Liaison Office, Bertelsmann, Belgium
  • Anne Hunter, Senior Vice-President, Global Marketing Strategy, comScore, USA
  • Sanjay Nazerali, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Dentsu Aegis Network, United Kingdom
  • Ozge Bulut Marasli, Executive Vice-President, Strategy, Dogan TV Holding, Turkey
  • Kevin King, Global Practice Chair, Edelman Digital, Edelman, USA
  • Sarah Wynn-Williams, Director, Global Public Policy, Facebook, USA
  • Rob Norman, Chief Digital Officer, Global, GroupM, USA
  • Idalia Cruz, Director, Strategy, Media, Grupo Salinas, Mexico
  • Yuhyun Park, Founder, iZ HERO Lab, Singapore 
  • Christophe Nicolas, Group Chief Information Officer, Kudelski Group, and Senior Vice-President and Head, Kudelski Security, Switzerland
  • Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
  • Karen Willenberg, Director, Regulatory and Legal Affairs, Electronic Media Network (M-Net), South Africa (2004-2015)
  • Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Strategist, Publicis Group, USA
  • Steven Schwartz, Global Managing Director, Reuters News Agency, Thomson Reuters, USA (2011-2015)
  • Ravin Jesuthasan, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Willis Towers Watson, USA
  • Sam Gregory, Programme Director, WITNESS, USA

Session Contributors

Jakarta, Indonesia 19 April 2015
World Economic Forum on East Asia
“Analogue Hearts and Digital Minds: The Impact of Digital Media on Human Behaviour”

  • Rohana Rozhan, Chief Executive Officer, Astro Malaysia Holdings, Malaysia
  • Yobie Benjamin, Co-Founder, Avegant Corporation, USA
  • Dick van Motman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dentsu Aegis Network South East Asia, Singapore
  • Raymond Siva, Managing Director, Edelman, Malaysia
  • Gloria Ai, Founder and Anchor, iAsk Media, People’s Republic of China
  • Seungjoon Chang, Vice-President, Maekyung Media Group, Republic of Korea 
  • Hu Yong, Professor of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, People’s Republic of China
  • Rajnesh Singh, Regional Director, Asia-Pacific, The Internet Society (ISOC), Singapore
  • Ranjana Singh, Chairwoman, Indonesia and Vietnam, WPP, Indonesia

New York, USA 13 May 2015
MEI Industry Spring Strategy Meeting
“Exploring the Drivers behind Changing Media Consumption Habits”

  • Sanjay Nazerali, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Dentsu Aegis Network, United Kingdom
  • Bernadette Aulestia, Executive Vice President, Domestic Network Distribution, HBO, USA
  • Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
  • Chris Altcheck, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Mic, USA
  • Robert Osher, President, Sony Pictures Digital Production Division (2008-2015), Sony Pictures Entertainment, USA

Geneva, Switzerland 12 August 2015
Young Global Leaders (YGL) and Alumni Annual Summit
“Digital Changes in Society”

  • Brian A. Wong, Vice-President; Special Assistant to the Chairman, Alibaba Group, People’s Republic of China
  • Sara Sutton Fell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FlexJobs, USA
  • Yuhyun Park, Founder, iZ HERO Lab, Singapore
  • Brian Forde, Director, Digital Currency, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory, USA
  • Sam Gregory, Programme Director, WITNESS, USA

Dalian, People’s Republic of China 10 September 2015
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2015
“China’s Media Society: Impacts of Changing Media Consumption Patterns in China”

  • Li Ruigang, Founding Chairman, China Media Capital (CMC), People’s Republic of China
  • Robert Grove, Chief Executive Officer, North Asia, Edelman, Hong Kong SAR
  • Yan Xuan, President, Greater China, Nielsen, People’s Republic of China
  • Yuen-Ying Chan, Director and Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong King, Hong Kong SAR
  • Ravin Jesuthasan, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Willis Towers Watson, USA

Interviewees

  • Olivier Oullier, Professor of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Aix Marseille University, France (2011-2015)
  • Shahrzad Rafati, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BroadbandTV Corp, Canada
  • danah boyd, Founder, Data & Society Research Institute and Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, USA
  • Sanjay Nazerali, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Dentsu Aegis Network, United Kingdom
  • Robert Grove, Chief Executive Officer, North Asia, Edelman, Hong Kong SAR
  • Sara Sutton Fell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FlexJobs, USA
  • Ronaldo Lemos, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Institute for Technology & Science, Brazil
  • Yuhyun Park, Founder, iZ HERO Lab, Singapore
  • Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
  • Jonas Prising, Chief Executive Officer, ManpowerGroup, USA
  • Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
  • Yan Xuan, President, Greater China, Nielsen, People’s Republic of China
  • Jeremy Heimans, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Purpose, USA
  • Mark Thompson, President and Chief Executive, The New York Times, USA
  • Dave Duarte, Chief Executive Officer, Treeshake, South Africa
  • Farida Vis, Director, Visual Social Media Lab and Faculty Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • Stephane Kasriel, Chief Executive Officer, Upwork, USA
  • Ravin Jesuthasan, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Willis Towers Watson, USA
  • Sam Gregory, Programme Director, WITNESS, USA

Blog Contributors

  • Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead, Drupal, USA; Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Acquia, USA) 
  • Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Strategist, Publicis Group, USA
  • Tom Davenport, Senior Consultant, Research and Innovation Center, Willis Towers Watson, USA
  • Ravin Jesuthasan, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Willis Towers Watson, USA
  • George Zarkadakis, Digital Lead, Communications and Change Management Practice, Willis Towers Watson, United Kingdom
  • Sam Gregory, Programme Director, WITNESS, USA

BPS Research Digest Series

  • Christian Jarrett, Editor, Research Digest, The British Psychological Society, United Kingdom

Parenting for a Digital Future Series

  • Zorana Milicevic, Researcher, Writer and Project Manager, Kulturis, Serbia
  • Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
  • Emrys Shoemaker, PhD Candidate, Department of International Development, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
  • Michael Dezuanni, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Children and Youth Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Anna Whateley, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Andreas Hepp, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Bremen, Germany
  • Anthea Edalere-Henderson, Faculty Member, Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), University of the West Indies, Jamaica

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