Contributors

World Economic Forum

Kimmy Bettinger
Lead, Expert and Knowledge Communities Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Sebastian Buckup
Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate

Jeremy Jurgens
Managing Director, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Meredith McCleary
Specialist, Strategic Impact, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Strategic Intelligence Platform

Bryonie Guthrie
Lead, Foresight and Organizational Transformation

Stephan Mergenthaler
Chief Technology Officer

Minji Sung
Specialist, Content and Partnerships

Astrid Wang
Specialist, Foresight and Organizational Transformation

Frontiers

Susan Debad
Consultant

Toby Dore
Manager, Advanced Analytics

Frederick Fenter
Chief Executive Editor

Anna Ondicova
Specialist, Public Affairs

George Thomas
Lead, Strategic Partnerships

Participating journals:

Frontiers in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

Frontiers in Chemistry

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Frontiers in Energy Research

Frontiers in Future Transportation

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

Frontiers in Sensors

Frontiers in Signal Processing

Dubai Future Foundation

Fatma Abulhoul
Head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution United Arab Emirates

Khalfan Belhoul
Chief Executive Officer

Heba Chehade
Head, Foresight Research

Saeed Al Falasi
Director, Dubai Centre of Artificial Intelligence

Abdulaziz Al Jaziri
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operations Officer

Aruba Khalid
Associate Project Manager, Research

Dhari Al Mawad
Director, Strategy

Yahya Mohammed
Robotics Research Engineer, Dubai Future Labs

Patrick Noack
Executive Director, Dubai Future Institute

Mohamed Qasem
Dean, Dubai Future Academy

Tarek Taha
Director, Robotics Labs, Dubai Future Labs

Biying Zhang
Senior Strategy and Policy Manager, Sandbox Dubai

Production

Rose Chilvers
Designer, Studio Miko

Laurence
Denmark Creative Director, Studio Miko

Martha Howlett
Lead Editor, Studio Miko

Oliver Turner
Designer, Studio Miko

Acknowledgements

Steering Committee

Co-Chairs

Mariette DiChristina
Dean and Professor, Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication

Barnard S. Meyerson
Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM

Members

Doug Arent
Executive Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Foundation

Katherine Daniell
Director and Professor, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University

Daniel Dossenbach
Scientific Advisor in Innovation, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) of Switzerland

Frederick Fenter
Chief Executive Editor, Frontiers

Olga Fink
Professor, Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems, EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Javier Garcia-Martinez
Professor, Director of the Molecular Nanotechnology Lab, University of Alicante

Karen Hallberg
Principal Researcher, Bariloche Atomic Center (CONICET)

Thomas Hartung
Professor, Doerenkamp Zbinden Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Krishna Kumar
Chief Executive Officer, Cropin Sage

Sang-Yup Lee
Senior Vice-President, Research; Distinguished Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Alison Lewis
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town

Andrew Maynard
Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

David Parekh
Chief Executive Officer, SRI International

Nayat Sanchez-Pi
Chief Executive Officer, Inria Chile

Wilfried Weber Scientific Director and Professor for New Materials, Leibniz Institute for New Materials

World Economic Forum

Maria Alonso
Lead, Autonomous Systems, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Rachel Dooley
Lead, Strategic Communications, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Manju George
Head, Strategic Impact and Integration, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Alfredo Giron
Head, Ocean and Nature Positive, Centre for Nature and Climate

Sarah Kanwar
Project Fellow (Accenture), Centre for Energy and Materials

Jitka Kolarova
Lead, Health and Healthcare Innovation, Centre for Health and Healthcare

Benjamin Larsen
Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Centre for AI Excellence

Michelle Mormont
Lead, Innovator Communities, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Kristen Panerali
Head, Clean Power and Electrification, Centre for Energy and Materials

Arunima Sarkar
Head, Frontier Technologies, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Brynne Stanton Lead, Bioeconomy, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Other acknowledgements

Leif Erik Asp
Professor, Chalmers University of Technology

Odne Burheim
Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Alfredo Caro
Research Professor, George Washington University

Shirley Dent
Head, Public Relations, Frontiers

Dermont Diamond
Professor Emeritus, Dublin City University

Mehrdad Dianati
Professor, University of Warwick

Sergei Dudarev
Senior Fellow, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Jean Marie François
Professor, Institut Biotechnologique de Toulouse (INSA)

Jeff M.P. Holley
Professor, University of Bristol

Sri Krishnan
Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University

Stephan Kuster
Director, External Affairs, Frontiers

Björn Johansson
Professor, Chalmers University of Technology

Hailong Li
Professor, Central South University

Kaitlyn Schmidt
Senior Public Relations Specialist, Frontiers

Sanjay Singh
Scientist, National Institute of Animal Biotechnology

Wenxi Tian
Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University

Johanna Xu
Assistant Professor, Chalmers University of Technology

Zequn Yang
Associate Professor, Central South University