Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO, 20-First

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO, writer, speaker, coach, consultant and global expert on 21st century leadership, gender and generational balance, longevity and the future of work and careers. She helps both individuals and organisations manage the opportunities that demographic and social changes have brought in the last few decades. Her books range from Why Women Mean Business, to Thriving to 100 – Through Life’s 4 Quarters. A Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative and recently inducted to the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, she contributes regularly to Harvard Business Review and Forbes and hosts a longevity-focused podcast called 4-Quarter Lives.

Avivah is an Ambassador for the Global Peter Drucker Forum and the Stanford Center on Longevity, Adjunct Professor at DePaul University in Chicago, Co-director of the Longevity Leadership Programme at Catolica Lisbon Business School and sits on the Chartered Management Institute’s ‘Everyone Economy’ Board. She has a Lifetime Achievement Award for Gender-Balance Leadership from PWN Global.

Born in Canada of European parents, she is a bilingual tri-national (French, Swiss and Canadian), now based in London with her British husband after several decades in Paris, and has two very charming, gender-balanced children (a son and daughter) living and working in Dakar and New York city.

Mary O’Connor, Non-Executive Director, Carne Group

Mary is a proven CEO and C-suite executive, with 30 years of experience in leading and advising financial services companies. She has held senior roles in law, government, public corporations and a Big 4 accounting firm. Mary’s expertise uniquely leverages excellence in risk management to grow companies in a sustainable and profitable way. Mary believes that the best companies do well by doing good, and that a strong, open and dynamic culture – supported by robust governance and controls – creates the formula for success.