Geoff Mulgan CBE is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the UK's innovation foundation.  

Between 1997 and 2004, Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office.   He has been a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University and senior visiting scholar at Harvard University, a regular lecturer at the China Executive Leadership Academy and president of the Innovation Design department of the Italian University of Design.   He became a World Economic Forum Schwab Fellow in September 2019.  He advises many governments around the world on issues of strategy, innovation and policy.  He is the co-founder of many organisations, including Demos, Action for Happiness, the Social Innovation Exchange and Uprising. 

His most recent book is ‘Big Mind: how collective intelligence can change our world’ (Princeton); other books include ‘The Art of Public Strategy’ (Oxford University Press) and ‘Good and Bad Power’ (Penguin).  His next book is ‘Social Innovation: how societies find the power to change’, published by Policy Press and to be launched in November 2019. His books have been translated into many languages.  Geoff’s twitter handle is @geoffmulgan

Warren Fernandez is Editor-in-Chief of English/Malay/Tamil Media in Singapore Press Holdings. He is also Editor of The Straits Times, Singapore’s biggest selling English daily newspaper. He joined the paper in 1990 as a political reporter and rose to become News Editor. He later also served as Foreign Editor and Deputy Editor. He left to join Royal Dutch Shell in 2008 as a Global Manager for its Future Energy project, before returning to the paper in February 2012 as its editor. 

He graduated with First Class Honours from Oxford University, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and also has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Both degrees were obtained on Singapore Press Holdings scholarships.

He is a board member of the National Parks Board (NParks), SPH (Overseas) Ltd, Straits Times Press Pte Ltd, The Straits Times Press (1975) Limited, Asia News Network (ANN), Singapore Symphony Group (SSO), National Arts Council and Chairman of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund.
He has recently been elected President of the World Editors Forum (WEF) which is the leading network for print and digital editors of newspapers and news organisations around the world. WEF is part of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

Paul Tan is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the Nanyang Technological University and sits on the boards of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Group and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre.

Paul joined the National Arts Council in 2011 as the Festival Director of the Singapore Writers Festival and Director, Literary Arts, and helmed four editions of the popular literary festival before serving as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Planning and Corporate Development Group until August 2021.

Paul has also published five volumes of poetry and writes the occasional opinion piece for The Straits Times.

Dr Noah Raford is the Chief Operating Officer, “Futurist-in-Chief” at the Dubai Future Foundation and a former advisor on futures, foresight, and innovation in the UAE Prime Minister’s Office. 

Noah helped establish the country’s first national foresight unit, helped to establish the Dubai Future Foundation and the Museum of the Future, and is part of a team that identifies emerging opportunities, develops strategic partnerships, and prototypes future initiatives for the Government of Dubai. 


Some of the projects he has recently been involved with include: 
- The Museum of the Future 
- The Dubai Global Blockchain Council 
- The UAE Drones for Good Award 
- The UAE Robotics for Good Award 
- The Dubai 3D Printing Strategy 
- The Dubai Self-Driving Vehicle Strategy 
- The International Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (iCAIR) 
- The “Office of the Future”; the world’s first fully functional 3D printed building. 

Prior to his work in the UAE, Noah was a senior manager at the strategy consultancy, Monitor / GBN, CEO of the technology foresight company Futurescaper LLC, the North American Director of Space Syntax Limited, and the Senior Research Advisor to the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. 

Noah completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his master’s degree at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and his undergraduate studies at Brown University. He is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, a fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture and a member of the International Futures Forum. 

Chng Hak-Peng is a Fellow of the Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth’s Culture Academy, which champions the development of the next generation of Singapore’s cultural leaders in the public and private sectors.  In professional practice, he is a strategy and leadership advisor to companies going through acquisitions, mergers, and transformation. He has more than 20 years of hands-on leadership and management experience across Asia and the United States of America.

From 2015 to 2022, Hak-Peng served for eight years as Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Symphony Group, the country’s flagship classical music organization that manages the full-time professional national orchestra, several amateur orchestral and choral ensembles, as well as the Singapore market for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. During his time, he focused on the development of the international brand of the orchestra, as well as nationwide community, youth, and education programmes.

Gene Tan is the Executive Director of the Singapore Bicentennial Office and helms the planning of the commemoration including its flagship event, From Singapore to Singaporean: The Bicentennial Experience.  

He was formerly a director at the National Library of Singapore and Director of the Singapore Memory Project, and President of the Library Association of Singapore.  Gene was also the Creative Director of The Future of Us Exhibition which was the capstone event for Singapore’s SG50 celebrations in 2015. The exhibition pieced together the hopes and dreams of Singaporeans for their future.

Honor Harger is the Executive Director for ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands. A curator from New Zealand, she has a strong interest in artistic uses of technologies and in science as part of culture. Honor brings with her over 15 years of experience of working at the intersection between art, science and technology. She is responsible for charting the overall direction and strategy for ArtScience Museum. 
Prior to joining Marina Bay Sands, she was the artistic director of Lighthouse in Brighton, United Kingdom, from 2010 to 2014. In that role, Honor curated projects which showed the cultural impact of scientific ideas, such as Laboratory Life, Invisible Fields and Solar System. She also organised exhibitions by artists such as Trevor Paglen, Timo Arnall and David Blandy, commissioned new work by Semiconductor, Hide&Seek, The Otolith Group and James Bridle, and co-founded Brighton Digital Festival. 

Honor has held several key appointments in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, and has curated many international exhibitions and events around the world. From 2009-2010 she was guest curator of Transmediale, an international festival of art and digital culture in Berlin. From 2004–2008, she was the director of the AV Festival, the UK’s largest biennial of media art, film and music. She was the first webcasting curator for Tate Modern in London from 2000-2003, where she also curated events and concerts on art and technology. Honor has also worked for Radio One and Artspace in New Zealand, and the Australian Network for Art and Technology in Australia. 

Honor's artistic practice is produced under the name r a d i o q u a l i a, which is a collaboration with Adam Hyde. One of their main projects was Radio Astronomy, a radio station broadcasting sounds from space. 

Honor has lectured widely including at the conferences TED, and LIFT, as well as at the European Space Agency, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, California Institute of the Arts and the American Film Institute.

Gene Tan is the Executive Director of the Singapore Bicentennial Office and helms the planning of the commemoration including its flagship event, From Singapore to Singaporean: The Bicentennial Experience.  

He was formerly a director at the National Library of Singapore and Director of the Singapore Memory Project, and President of the Library Association of Singapore.  Gene was also the Creative Director of The Future of Us Exhibition which was the capstone event for Singapore’s SG50 celebrations in 2015. The exhibition pieced together the hopes and dreams of Singaporeans for their future.

Kenneth Kwok is the Assistant Chief Executive Officer (Planning & Development) at the National Arts Council of Singapore, overseeing the Strategic Planning, International Relations and Research departments as well as arts education and capability development policies and programmes. A former secondary school teacher and vice principal with the Ministry of Education, he holds an Ed.M in Arts in Education and has served as adjunct lecturer in Educational Drama with the National Institute of Education. He has also been involved in community arts projects over the years with various local arts groups, and has sat on the boards of Arts House Limited, *SCAPE youth centre, and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Kenneth is currently pursuing an MA in Creative Writing with LASALLE College of the Arts and will be moving to the Ministry of National Development as Director, Partnerships and Coordination from 1 Jan 2020.

Kenson Kwok is trained as an architect and earned a PhD in environmental psychology from University College London.

He established three new museums in Singapore - two iterations of the Asian Civilisations Museum, and the Peranakan Museum - in the process, overseeing the conversion of two historic buildings, expanding the museums' collections and support base, and setting new standards for curating, display and design. During his time at ACM, over 60 special exhibitions were mounted, many attracting record-breaking numbers.

He was co-curator of the exhibition, A Passage to Asia, at Bozar in Brussels in 2010, and commissioner for the exhibition Baba Bling at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris in the same year. The latter was the first Singapore-originated exhibition that had prime billing in a major western museum.

In retirement, he remains active in the museum sector as a member of committees at the National Gallery Singapore, National Museum of Singapore, NUS Museums, Indian Heritage Centre, and ICOM (International Council of Museums).