Soumitra Dutta is Co-Founder and President of Portulans Institute.
William Dutton is the Director of the Portulans Institute, and a Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, where he supports Oxford’s Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity (GCSCC).
Rafael Escalona Reynoso serves as the CEO of Portulans Institute, leading numerous high-profile projects such as the production of the Network Readiness Index (NRI) and regional projects focused on technology, innovation.
Gianna Sagazio is the former Director of Innovation of the National Confederation of Industry – Brazil (CNI), responsible for the executive coordination of the Entrepreneurial Mobilization for Innovation (MEI).
Bruno Lanvin is the founder and CEO of DL Partners SA, a Geneva-based consultancy, and the President of the Smart City Observatory.
Carolina Rossini is a Co-Founder of Portulans Institute and served as founding Secretary for the Board and CEO from 2019 to 2021 before taking the role of Senior Advisor.
James Poisant is a Senior Advisor and former Secretary-General of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA).
Mariam Chaduneli is a Policy Research and Management Associate who has worked extensively on research in the area of technology policy, emerging threats and digital rights. She is the lead project manager for the Network Readiness Index (NRI).
Sylvie Antal is a Policy Research and Communications Associate. At PI she assists with short and long-term research, develops outreach strategy and collaborations, and coordinates the Fellowship programs.
Shailja Bang Shah is the Head of Research responsible for project management, policy analysis, and communications support pertaining to regional projects.
Adrienne Church serves as a Project Coordinator at the Portulans Institute, where she supports the development and delivery of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index, co-published with INSEAD.
Lisa Chernenko is a DPhil candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, Associate Researcher and a Project Lead in the Portulans Institute, where she works as part of the Ukraine Case Studies team.
Mona is PwC Middle East Chief People Officer and a member of the leadership team, responsible for formulating and delivering the firm’s people strategy.
Dr. Hessa was the former and the first-ever Minister of Information and Communication Technology in Qatar.
Dr. Jacques Bughin is the CEO of Machaon Advisory, and was a former Director in McKinsey’s Brussels office.
Karim is the Managing Director of Space42, the new AI-powered space technology champion with global reach.
Diego Molano Vega is the former Minister of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of Colombia from 2010 to 2015.
Lynn St.Amour is President and CEO of Internet Matters, an Internet consulting company, and is active in matters of Internet development and governance.
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås is a Senior Associate with the Council on Economic Policies.
Chris Ferguson is the Managing Director of Scott Logic and a former senior management member of the UK’s Government Digital Service in the UK’s Cabinet Office.
John Garrity is Chief of Party for USAID Better Access and Connectivity (BEACON) a USD 33m program to improve digital connectivity infrastructure, the ICT enabling environment, and cybersecurity capacity in the Philippines.
Michaela Saisana is the head of the Monitoring, Indicators and Impact Evaluation Unit at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy.
Professor G. ‘Anand’ Anandalingam is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Alicia García Herrero is Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science.
Raymond Onuoha is currently an AfOx Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), South Africa where he is assessing high-integrity and trust identification schemes across Africa.
Courtney Bower is a Ph.D. Candidate in Regional Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the economic impacts of transitions to circular and hydrogen economies from a regional innovation systems perspective.
Utkarsh Amitabh is the CEO of Network Capital and the Chief Marketing Officer of 5ire.org.
Renard Siew is a sustainability and climate change specialist. He serves as the Climate Advisor for CENT-GPS where he is responsible for advancing his organisation’s work in the field of climate change and sustainability.
Latisha Harry is an independent consultant who works with a range of organizations on projects at the intersection of technology and society.
Marine Ragnet is a senior international affairs expert specializing in the intersection of emerging technologies, international affairs, and governance.
Margaret van Wassenaer is a global expert in international food security, agricultural markets, and sustainability.
Jens Meijen is a doctoral researcher at the University of Leuven and a consultant in AI governance, risk, and compliance.
Cassie Jiun Seo is a public-interest technology specialist with a background spanning multilateral organizations, humanitarian/development, and the tech industry.
Jonathan Puerta is a consultant and researcher in economics of innovation, artificial intelligence policy, competitiveness, and industrialisation.
Moritz von Knebel works on the intersection of emerging technologies and foreign policy. Currently, he is a Mercator Fellow on International Affairs, a Research Fellow at the Forethought Foundation and a consultant to the OECD.
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