Professor appointed by the UN University for Peace for the Executive Doctorate in Commercial Diplomacy joint degree GIOYA HEI – UN University for Peace. Former President of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and President of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission. Leading authority in Private International Law, International Economic Law and International Commercial Arbitration. Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, and of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s Court of China.

Vice President of the Executive Doctorate Commercial Diplomacy – joint degree GIOYA HEI – UN University for Peace; Full Professor, Director of the Global European Diplomatic Academy, University of Europe for Applied Sciences, in Berlin and Dubai campuses. He was Director of the Diplomatic Academies at the Universities of Westminster, East Anglia and Loughborough.

Ambassador and Former Deputy Foreign Minister and Director of the Egyptian Diploma- tic Academy, Cairo, Egypt and former Ambassador & Permanent Representative of League of Arab States to the United Nations in Geneva.

Former President of the Board of UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research), Former Foreign Relations Minister of Ecuador (2020-2021), and Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in New York and Geneva at various times, among other diplomatic roles.

Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat, and former Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the United Nations in New York. He co-Chaired the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform, served as Vice President of the UNICEF Executive Board, and chaired the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching.

Ambassador, Strategic Advisor to the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Addis Ababa (since March 2022). Former Ambassador of Egypt to Serbia. Academic experience as visiting faculty member in multilateral diplomacy program at United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); adjunct faculty member in multilateral diplomacy at the DIPLO Foundation (2007 till present).

Full Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School, President of the International Academy of Arbitration Law (Parsi), Director of the LLM in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement, well known international arbitrators.

Director of Operations and co-founder of the Global Institute for Diplomacy in Toronto, Canada, and Lecturer and Program Developer at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences Global European Diplomatic Academy in Berlin, Germany, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Reader in Cyber Security at the School of Architecture Computing and Engineering, University of East London (UEL); Director of Cyber Security and AI Cen- tre UEL; Director of the Professional Doctorate in Information Security & the MSc Information Security and Computer Forensics programs at UEL.

Professor of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management at Glasgow Caledonian University London. He was formerly the Deputy Provost, College of Engineering at Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Nigeria. He is a Decision Scientist, COREN Registered Engineer, and Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK. His teaching, research and consultancy services include sustainability, energy diplomacy, aerospace, information, communication technology and systems.

Vice-Rector at United Nations University for Peace is also holding positions at Universidad Central de Venezuela. He served as a Fulbright Visiting Pro- fessor at the Washington College of Law, American University, and held professorial roles at Universidad Alfonso X and Universidad Nebrija in Madrid. His experience in- cludes work as a Jurist for the International Committee of the Red Cross and service in the Venezuelan Foreign Service.

Professor in Marketing and Business Management at the University of Turin. He holds a PhD in Business and Management. He is a Professor of “Business Management and Organizational Behavior” at GIOYA Higher Education Institution. His research activity mainly focuses on consumer behavior, and he has authored/co-authored several papers in international journals. He is the Managing Editor of the British Food Journal. He is a Fellow of the EuroMed Research Business Institute and the Q-Institute Research Center. Additionally, he is a Council Member of the Italian Society of Management.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, where he graduated with a degree in Computer Science and obtained an MSc in Science and Information Technologies. He has held positions with the Computer Science Department at the University of Pisa, the ISTI institute of the Italian CNR, and the University of Stirling. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Cagliari, Politecnico di Milano, and the University of Venice. He has taught graduate, post-graduate, and PhD courses, as well as professional continuous education courses holding a professor position at Stirling University.

Joint Ph.D. in Business and Management cum laude at the Management Department, Unito, and in Industrial Engineering at Laboratoire de Génie Industriel, Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec. National Scientific Habilitation – ASN, concurrent area 13/B2 – Economics and Business Management. She is professor in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development, GIOYA Higher Education Institution, Malta, International Business Strategies, ESOMAS Department, Unito, Economics and Management of Enterprises, Management Department, Unito.

After graduating in management engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin, he founded and managed several internet companies in Italy, the United States, England, and Switzerland, and was involved in strategic consultancy and education in the digital field. He currently performs activities as a business angel in startups and as a limited partner and advisor in Italian and foreign venture capital companies. He is one of the founders of the Digital Building Blocks movement for the digital transformation of Italian managers. Additionally, he is a European Innovation Council Accelerator jury member and Director of the European Crowdfunding Center. He is also one of the founders of the Exponential Renaissance movement, which finds expression in Guilds42.

Alessandro is a Managing Partner at an investment holding company, bringing a wealth of experience and insight to the field. As an angel investor and advisory board member in various companies and startups, he leverages his expertise to drive innovation in financial processes and funding strategies. With an MBA specializing in financial services, he is a recognized authority in alternative finance.

PhD in Social Sciences: Theories, Applications, Interventions from Università G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara. She is a researcher and freelance professional specializing in social policy planning and evaluation methods, as well as a specialist social worker (Register A). Her research interests include the planning and evaluation of social policies and interventions, qualitative research methods, and the sociology of sport. She is the author of several essays on these research topics.

Italian diplomat with several international experiences (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Permanent Mission to the EU). Previously associate lawyer in top level law firms in Italy. Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart on International trade law and International Law and business ethics. He regularly lectures in several Universities and master courses in International law and European Union law with a focus on International trade and economic law, WTO law, investment law and arbitration, private international law, intellectual property, business ethics and interactions with public policy concerns. Currently seconded as senior legal officer at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)

Co-Founder of a trading company specializing in algorithmic trading, Battery Storage optimization, and energy market participation. Previously Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Deputy Head Market Risk at EWE Trading, Senior Manager at PwC Germany, where he contributed building the BESS and algorithmic trading practice across the European network.
His research focuses on value chain extension in complex systems, with industrial and academic publications. Cultore della Materia in Data Science at the University of Florence. Regular speaker at international sector conferences. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Quantitative Finance from Università di Bologna, Università di Firenze and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Otaviano Canuto is a former Vice-President and Executive Director of World Bank, and has held senior leadership roles for 15 years at the IMF, IDB, and as Brazil’s Vice Minister of Finance. With 24 years as a professor of economics, he combines academic rigor with high-level policy insight. Recognized for leading teams on complex economic issues, he excels at translating research into actionable strategies. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Policy Center for the New South, and a professor at George Washington University.

PhD mathematician and data-science leadership who launched LLM-powered search in BlackRock’s Aladdin and now manages AI risk – covering trading, credit and payments – for a global all-in-one finance app, all-around turning advanced models into impactful products.

Earlier, I built real-time energy forecasting at OVO, a post-surgery risk platform adopted by thousands at Zimmer Biomet, and £1 million-plus executive analytics programmes at Imperial College Business School, consistently converting complex data into enterprise-scale value.

Dr. Ayaz serves as Director of Research at the Global Institute for Diplomacy, where he leads the institution’s research strategy, develops international academic partnerships, and designs and delivers executive education programs for diplomats and senior professionals worldwide. Dr. Ayaz further serves as a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Leader of the MBA Diplomacy Pathway at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, where he develops curriculum and teaches across postgraduate modules in diplomacy, international security, cross-cultural engagement, and leadership.