Global Gurus

Natalia is founder and director of SupportUkraineNOW is a crowdsourced information platform with live, hourly updates about the courageous efforts, funding and resouces. Born out of the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers Community is a network of inspiring young people under the age of 30 working together to address local, regional, and global challenges.

Linh is passionate about climate justice and social inequality. She is currently the Director, Wattle Fellowship and Director, Partnerships at Climate Catalyst. Linh is a board member at Climate Action Network Australia, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and a research committee member of the Centre for Policy Development. In the lead up to the Paris Climate negotiations, she served as the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Verb. Linh was most recently Australia and Pacific lead for The Climate Reality Project, Al Gore’s climate change leadership program, and worked with a wide array of individuals from high school students to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Reuters Foundation. She is a co-founder of the technology start-up OurSay, formerly led the community organising program at the Australian Conservation Foundation and has worked with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on communicating policy.

Nupur is an award winning physician and Harvard Business School Exec MBA PLD Leadership and Strategy candidate. She received Most Inspiring Woman of the Netherlands award twice for leading gender equality and women empowerment. Dutch Financial Times placed her in the list of top 50 young leaders of the Netherlands. Today she is supervisory board member for UNICEF Netherlands and member of International Advisory Board of Amsterdam Economic Board. Winner of the TEDx speaker award in Delft, Netherlands she has given 6 TEDx Talks in Europe and Asia. She served on the board of National Association of Salaried Doctors Netherlands, and is an appointed member of the European Health Parliament (EHP). The EHP is a partner in the Value in Healthcare project of the World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare System Initiative. She is also core team member of ‘Shared Learnings Platform – The transformative role of women and girls in health’. She co-founded the Global Shapers Restart Health project, co-set up the Amsterdam Hub project Humans of COVID and is Health Lead of the Global Shapers incubated AI Future Lab. She is author of the book “Chill! How to survive stress and improve personal and professional productivity. Symptoms and solutions to chronic pressure” with a foreword from two former Prime Ministers from Europe and Asia.

Zakia is a Master Trainer for the International Labour Organization dedicated to empowering women and men with training and development in one of the world’s poorest nations. She is a leader in in the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community supporting the nation’s transition to independence, giving a voice to the underserved and the working people of Afghanistan.

Facundo currently runs Proponas, an online petition platform with almost 50k registered users. He also serves as a political advisor for Maricel Etchecoin, a congresswoman who is the former president of the Argentinian political party called Coalición Cívica-ARI. Facundo serves as an advisor at the Budget and Taxation Commission and the Public Works Commission but often finds himself fighting to push forward new bills related to transparency, corruption, and gender equality. Before joining the political spectrum, he ran several tech start-ups, including a successful online polling system that he founded to provide an objective alternative to his country’s major political polling companies. Both his bachelor’s and master’s theses revolve around cryptocurrencies regulation.