Foresight Scenarios for the Future of Finance

Leyla Salvadé is a leading heart intelligence expert and heartfulness therapist at the world’s most exclusive clinic for UHNI based in Zurich, Switzerland. Leyla is the founder and CEO of Standing Light™, a positive impact company shifting our world from a mind-based mentality to a heart-empowered reality through educational products and services, and events. She’s the creator of The Standing Light Method™, the world’s first official heart workout, which consciously re-connects an individual with the electromagnetic field of their heart for optimal well-being and self-regulation.

Passionate about social & environmental impact entrepreneurship & investments, Enrique is Managing Partner at Chi Impact Capital; previously, he was at Bamboo Capital Partners as Networks Development Partner, with a primary focus on supporting the Tech4Impact fund’s long-term strategy in Emerging Markets. Enrique also worked as Strategy and Business Development Manager at Impact Hub Geneva and Lausanne. His primary focus was the financial development of Accelerate2030 – a multi-stakeholder program co-initiated by Impact Hub Geneva and UNDP in 2016, aiming to identify ventures with tested and scale-ready solutions in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His strong interest in entrepreneurship also led him to work at SeedStars – a Swiss-based group with the mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.

Ms. Bürer has worked for 25 years in the field of energy, climate change and sustainable development. She holds a doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Mary Jean taught Design Thinking to more than 35 master's students at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and worked as a project manager for 5 years in the energy sector. Four years previously, she was a scientific collaborator at EPFL, where she worked on business model innovation in the green economy. Before working on the energy transition, she worked for three United Nations agencies on climate policy (UNEP and UNCTAD) and climate science (IPCC).

Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, LL.M. is the founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital. Christin is passionate about pro-actively making the shift towards a regenerative and deep impact economy a reality. Christin has a long-standing experience and track record in the financial services sector & private equity, impact investing and sustainable investing; She completed her Doctoral Thesis at Harvard Law School (summa cum laude), her Master Studies at Duke Law School and studied Law and Business Administration before in Austria; Christin is a regular author, key-note speaker, juror and long-time university lecturer in impact investing.

Katherine Foster is the Executive Director of the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA) and serves on several international boards and committees including the EU EIT-Food, the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub, and the European Securities Market Authority. A former Canadian diplomat specializing in climate and human security, Katherine has been spearheading impact innovation for 30 years in leadership roles with the EU Climate-KIC and GDFA including as Sherpa to the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing, as an advisor to the World Bank and to several award-winning technology for impact start-ups.