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2026 Leaders on Purpose Events
By securing your place now, you’ll not only ensure your participation in transformative discussions but also position your organization as a leader in the purpose-driven economy
9th Annual CEO Summit at NYC & 80th UN General Assembly
New York City, USA
23rd September 2026
Past participants of our CEO Summits and the CEO Study
 HRH Queen Maxima of The Netherlands |  Paul Polman, Influencer, business leader, campaigner, Co-Author of “Net Positive" |  Tony Robbins, coach and professional speaker |
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 Dan Schulman, President, PayPal |  Jim Kim, Former President of the World Bank Group |  Patricia Obo-Nai, Chief Executive of Vodafone Ghana |
 Mark Read, Chief Executive Officer at WPP |  Anousheh Ansari Founder & CEO, XPRIZE |  Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever |
 HM, King Dein Kiagborekuzi of the Agbor Kingdom located in the Delta State, Nigeria, Chancellor of the West African Union University ( Order of the Crown of Belgium) |  Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE |  Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF |
 Dr. James Mwangi, Managing Director, CEO CEO Equity Group Holdings |  Feike Sijbesma, Honorary Chairman Royal DSM |  Barbara Humpton, President and CEO of Siemens Corporation |
 Dr. Arlo Brady, CEO of freuds |  Epsy Campbell Barr, Primera Vicepresidenta de la República de Costa Rica |  Steve MacMillan, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hologic |
 Brian Rice, Senior Vice President, Chief Brand and Design Officer 3M |  Robert-Jan van Ogtrop - Founder, Circle Economy |  Gillian Tett, Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, Financial Times US |
 Jonathan T.M. Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International |  Dr. Marcius Extavour, Vice President of Climate & Energy at XPRIZE |  Tom Monahan, CEO & President, DeVry University |
 Nigel Elderton, MD & Chairman, PRS |  Taejun Shin, Co-founder and CEO, Gojo & Company |  Jan Erik Saugestad CEO, Storebrand |
 Stephan Nicoleau, Partner at FullCycle |  Tony Cho, Founder & CEO, Future of Cities |  Jeff Huber Founding CEO, GRAIL |
 Jay Jakub, Chief Advocacy Officer of the Economics of Mutuality (EoM) movement for the EoM Foundation |  Vanessa Fajans-Turner, Executive Director at BankFWD and Principal at Investable Oceans | Tom Monahan, President & CEO at DeVry University |
 Veronica Bonifaz CEO, CONFIEP |  Christopher Burnham, former Under Secretary General of the United Nations & Senior Independent Director at En+ Group and Director at United Company Rusal |  Domina Stamas, NASA & The SETI Institute Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, Space4Girls Global Education Director |
 Gemma Corrigan, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Federated Hermes |  Andy Bird, CEO at Pearson |  Philipp Mueller, CEO of BlueOrchard |
 Nicole Stott, Astronaut, Artist, Founding Director of the Space for Art Foundation |  Saker Nusseibeh, CBE – CEO, International at Federated Hermes |  Karn Manhas, Terramera Founder and CEO |
 Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health |  Peter ter Kulve, President, Home Care, Health & Wellbeing at Unilever |  Hiro Mizuno, Special Envoy of U.N Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments |
 Richard Walker, Managing Director at Iceland Foods |  Scott Russell, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE |  Carmen Mora, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at The Embassy of Panama in The United States |
 Danielle Suber, Director of International Government Affairs at Emerson |  Kristina Kloberdanz, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard |  Renu Karnad, Managing Director at HDFC LIMITED |
 Travis Bradford, Professor of Energy Innovation and Sustainability |  Karin Krchnak, Global Lead at World Bank Group |  Michel Doukeris, CEO at AB InBev |
 Camille Wardrop Alleyne, Founder & Rocket Scientist |  Rachel Minard, Founder & CEO of Minard Capital LLC |  Vipula Gandhi, Managing Partner and Head of U.S. Enterprise at Gallup |
 Julia Torreblanca, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs at Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A. |  Lord Gregory Barker, Executive Chairman at En+ Group |  Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Founder Astronaut at Virgin Galactic, Co-Creator of Yuri's Night the World Space Party, and author of The New Right Stuff: Using Space to Bring out the Best in You |
 Laura Lane, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at UPS |  Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, director general and dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU |  Ralph Simon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Mobilium |
 Frank Samolis, Partner and Co-chair of the International Trade Practice at Squire Patton Boggs |  Harald Tepper, MT member Group Sustainability and Program Lead Circular Economy program at Philips |  Ronali Amatya, UNICEF Young Leader |
 Ambassador Stuart Holliday, CEO of Meridian International Center, |  Gary Shaughnessy, Chair of the Z Zurich Foundation |  Dr. Tatiana Kazakova, Co-Founder and CSO at Leaders on Purpose |
 John Banovetz, CTO at 3M |  Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer Standard Chartered |  Dianne Dane, Chief Innovation Officer at Quiet Mark |
 Karim Lesina, EVP Chief External Affairs Officer at Millicom |  Georgie Benardete, Co-Founder and CEO of Align17 |  Daniel Fox, Founder of Space 100.10 & Feel the Wild VR, SONY Photographer |
 Olga Algayerova, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |  Kent Walker, Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer |  Kimberly Washington, Leaders on Purpose, Founder/CEO Beviam & Board Chair Space4Girls |
 Natalia Vega-Berry, Director/Executive Producer at Net Zero World |  David Gross, Former Meridian Trustee & Partner at Wiley Rein |  Ann Rosenberg, SVP for Sustainability Solutions at Wood plc and Co-Founder of SDG Ambition |
 Jeffrey Twentyman, Partner and Head of Sustainability, Slaughter and May |  Rosemary Banks, Ambassador of New Zealand |  Michael Train, Chief Sustainability Officer at Emerson |
 Karan Bhatia, Vice President – Global Public Policy and Government Relations at Google |  Jonathan Miller, CEO at Integrated Media Company |  Mia Mends, Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, and CEO, Impact Ventures, for Sodexo |
 Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute |  Heidi Gardner, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, Co-Founder at Gardner & Collaborators |  Christa Gyori, CEO, Leaders on Purpose |
 Lucian Tarnowski, Founding Curator of the United Planet Game |  Ellen, CEO, WaterBear Network |  Martin Whittaker, Founding CEO, JUST Capital |
 Ted Janulis, Founder & Principal at Investable Oceans |  Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO, Arçelik |  Manuel Magalhaes, Co-Founder, Materra Group |
 Rebeca Hwang, Professor of Practice and Senior Director for the Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Thunderbird |  Helle Bank Jørgensen, CEO, Competent Boards |  Dr Aboubacar Kampo, Director Program Health, UNICEF |
 J. Carl Ganter, CEO, Vector Center |  Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships, UNICEF |  Simon Anholt, Founder, Good Country Index |
 Harald Neidhardt, CEO & Curator of the Futur/io Institute. |  Sonia Johnson, Board Member at The Quantic Group |
Past participants of our CEO Summits and the CEO Study
HRH Queen Maxima of The Netherlands | Paul Polman, Influencer, business leader, campaigner, Co-Author of “Net Positive" | Tony Robbins, coach and professional speaker |
|---|---|---|
Dan Schulman, President, PayPal | Jim Kim, Former President of the World Bank Group | Patricia Obo-Nai, Chief Executive of Vodafone Ghana |
Mark Read, Chief Executive Officer at WPP | Anousheh Ansari Founder & CEO, XPRIZE | Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever |
HM, King Dein Kiagborekuzi of the Agbor Kingdom located in the Delta State, Nigeria, Chancellor of the West African Union University ( Order of the Crown of Belgium) | Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE | Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF |
Dr. James Mwangi, Managing Director, CEO CEO Equity Group Holdings | Feike Sijbesma, Honorary Chairman Royal DSM | Barbara Humpton, President and CEO of Siemens Corporation |
Dr. Arlo Brady, CEO of freuds | Epsy Campbell Barr, Primera Vicepresidenta de la República de Costa Rica | Steve MacMillan, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hologic |
Brian Rice, Senior Vice President, Chief Brand and Design Officer 3M | Robert-Jan van Ogtrop - Founder, Circle Economy | Gillian Tett, Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, Financial Times US |
Jonathan T.M. Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International | Dr. Marcius Extavour, Vice President of Climate & Energy at XPRIZE | Tom Monahan, CEO & President, DeVry University |
Nigel Elderton, MD & Chairman, PRS | Taejun Shin, Co-founder and CEO, Gojo & Company | Jan Erik Saugestad CEO, Storebrand |
Stephan Nicoleau, Partner at FullCycle | Tony Cho, Founder & CEO, Future of Cities | Jeff Huber Founding CEO, GRAIL |
Jay Jakub, Chief Advocacy Officer of the Economics of Mutuality (EoM) movement for the EoM Foundation | Vanessa Fajans-Turner, Executive Director at BankFWD and Principal at Investable Oceans | Tom Monahan, President & CEO at DeVry University |
Veronica Bonifaz CEO, CONFIEP | Christopher Burnham, former Under Secretary General of the United Nations & Senior Independent Director at En+ Group and Director at United Company Rusal | Domina Stamas, NASA & The SETI Institute Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, Space4Girls Global Education Director |
Gemma Corrigan, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Federated Hermes | Andy Bird, CEO at Pearson | Philipp Mueller, CEO of BlueOrchard |
Nicole Stott, Astronaut, Artist, Founding Director of the Space for Art Foundation | Saker Nusseibeh, CBE – CEO, International at Federated Hermes | Karn Manhas, Terramera Founder and CEO |
Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health | Peter ter Kulve, President, Home Care, Health & Wellbeing at Unilever | Hiro Mizuno, Special Envoy of U.N Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments |
Richard Walker, Managing Director at Iceland Foods | Scott Russell, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE | Carmen Mora, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at The Embassy of Panama in The United States |
Danielle Suber, Director of International Government Affairs at Emerson | Kristina Kloberdanz, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard | Renu Karnad, Managing Director at HDFC LIMITED |
Travis Bradford, Professor of Energy Innovation and Sustainability | Karin Krchnak, Global Lead at World Bank Group | Michel Doukeris, CEO at AB InBev |
Camille Wardrop Alleyne, Founder & Rocket Scientist | Rachel Minard, Founder & CEO of Minard Capital LLC | Vipula Gandhi, Managing Partner and Head of U.S. Enterprise at Gallup |
Julia Torreblanca, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs at Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A. | Lord Gregory Barker, Executive Chairman at En+ Group | Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Founder Astronaut at Virgin Galactic, Co-Creator of Yuri's Night the World Space Party, and author of The New Right Stuff: Using Space to Bring out the Best in You |
Laura Lane, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at UPS | Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, director general and dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU | Ralph Simon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Mobilium |
Frank Samolis, Partner and Co-chair of the International Trade Practice at Squire Patton Boggs | Harald Tepper, MT member Group Sustainability and Program Lead Circular Economy program at Philips | Ronali Amatya, UNICEF Young Leader |
Ambassador Stuart Holliday, CEO of Meridian International Center, | Gary Shaughnessy, Chair of the Z Zurich Foundation | Dr. Tatiana Kazakova, Co-Founder and CSO at Leaders on Purpose |
John Banovetz, CTO at 3M | Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer Standard Chartered | Dianne Dane, Chief Innovation Officer at Quiet Mark |
Karim Lesina, EVP Chief External Affairs Officer at Millicom | Georgie Benardete, Co-Founder and CEO of Align17 | Daniel Fox, Founder of Space 100.10 & Feel the Wild VR, SONY Photographer |
Olga Algayerova, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | Kent Walker, Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer | Kimberly Washington, Leaders on Purpose, Founder/CEO Beviam & Board Chair Space4Girls |
Natalia Vega-Berry, Director/Executive Producer at Net Zero World | David Gross, Former Meridian Trustee & Partner at Wiley Rein | Ann Rosenberg, SVP for Sustainability Solutions at Wood plc and Co-Founder of SDG Ambition |
Jeffrey Twentyman, Partner and Head of Sustainability, Slaughter and May | Rosemary Banks, Ambassador of New Zealand | Michael Train, Chief Sustainability Officer at Emerson |
Karan Bhatia, Vice President – Global Public Policy and Government Relations at Google | Jonathan Miller, CEO at Integrated Media Company | Mia Mends, Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, and CEO, Impact Ventures, for Sodexo |
Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute | Heidi Gardner, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, Co-Founder at Gardner & Collaborators | Christa Gyori, CEO, Leaders on Purpose |
Lucian Tarnowski, Founding Curator of the United Planet Game | Ellen, CEO, WaterBear Network | Martin Whittaker, Founding CEO, JUST Capital |
Ted Janulis, Founder & Principal at Investable Oceans | Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO, Arçelik | Manuel Magalhaes, Co-Founder, Materra Group |
Rebeca Hwang, Professor of Practice and Senior Director for the Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Thunderbird | Helle Bank Jørgensen, CEO, Competent Boards | Dr Aboubacar Kampo, Director Program Health, UNICEF |
J. Carl Ganter, CEO, Vector Center | Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships, UNICEF | Simon Anholt, Founder, Good Country Index |
Harald Neidhardt, CEO & Curator of the Futur/io Institute. | Sonia Johnson, Board Member at The Quantic Group |
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