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Cameron Taylor founded Inspire Dialogue Foundation with an aim to increase the level of trust and inclusion in society. Among milestones, he organized the Dialogue with the Dalai Lama and Inspiring Dialogues with Children and Young People hosted by Rowan Williams in September 2015, as well the Dalai Lama’s four day visit to Cambridge in 2013. A Gates Cambridge Scholar, Dr. Taylor was elected to the Gates Scholars Council for two years as editor-in-chief of the Gates Scholar Magazine, which published articles by University of Cambridge scholars and alum. He earned his Ph.D. from St. John’s College, University of Cambridge.

As Chair of Trustees of Inspire Dialogue Foundation, Lord Williams has been integral to the foundation’s vision from the beginning. He is a noted theologian and poet. Lord Williams was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, confirmed in 2002 and serving for a decade before becoming Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Ho Sung Cho is Vice President, Biotherapeutics at Celgene. He is a Protein Medicinal Chemist with more than 24 years of experience in recombinant protein expression, purification, modification and analysis. Prior to joining industry, Dr. Cho worked on the structural genomics project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. He received his Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Gutierrez is the founder of CG Creative Studios, one of the top creative communications agencies for event, digital and video production. He has won numerous awards for his vision uniting world-class creative design and groundbreaking digital technology. CG Creative clients have included some of the world’s biggest enterprises, among them Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, Disney and Sony, but the company also supports the growth of start-ups in emerging fields and not-for-profit organizations.

Petronella Panérus is CEO of Åkestam Holst, one of Sweden’s top advertising agencies. Awarded ‘agency of the year’ seven times, Åkestam Holst’s portfolio includes clients and brands such as IKEA, SAS, TV4, ATG, Haglöfs, Apotek Hjärtat among others.

Philip Wigge is research group leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. His team studies how crops and wild plants respond to climate change. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His interest in plants dates to research at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Ca., and later at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.

Ms. Willis practiced death penalty mitigation for a number of not-for-profit organizations, which contracted with federal courts and local public defenders offices across the country to represent capital case defendants during the penalty phase. She also worked to support homeless and tenants rights in San Francisco. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a law degree from the University of San Francisco.