Our Faculty
Meet the humans at the center of our Universe.
Our interdisciplinary community consists of business leaders, futurists, innovators and creatives.
Leader in Sustainable Innovation & Execution Faculty
Youssef Nassef
Climate Adaptation Director, UNFCCC – The United Nations Climate
Dianne Dain
Chief Innovation & Initiatives Officer, World Humanitarian Forum
Dr. Mariana Bozesan
Full Member of the Club of Rome; Author, Co-Founder, AQAL Capital
Harald Neidhardt
Curator & CEO, Futur/io Institute
Dr. Prof. Gesa Ziemer
Senior Advisor, UNITAC; Professor at HafenCity University, Hamburg
Pablo Rodriguez
Director, Office of the CTO, Google
Marc Buckley
United Nations Advisor, SDG Advocate
Dr. Michal Nachmany
CEO & Founder,Climate Policy Radar; Visiting Fellow, LSE, Grantham Research Institute
Bernhard Kowatsch
Head of World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator
Riel Miller
Head of Futures Literacy, UNESCO, Paris
Dr. iur. Abir Haddad
Legal Futurist & Legal Transformation Advisor, United Nations
Tia Kansara Ph.D.
CEO, Replenish Earth; UN Climate Change Special Advisor
Martin Wezowski
Chief Futurist & Head of The Future Hub, SAP
Sandra Pina
Managing Director at QUIERO & SB Madrid Director
Raphael Gielgen
Trendscout Future of Work Life & Learn, Vitra
Dr. Tatiana Kazakova
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder, Leaders on Purpose
Alan Moore
Founder, Beautiful Business
Cecilia MoSze Tham
Head of Principal + Future Synthesist
Vaitea Cowan
Enapter co-founder; Forbes 30 Under 30
Christoph Beuttler
Head of Climate Policy at Climeworks
Frank Salzgeber
Head of Innovation and Ventures Office, ESA – European Space Agency
Nadine Michalske
Founder & Chief Solutions Officer, Klima Metrix
John Elkington
Founder & Chief Pollinator, Volans Venture
Ferry Heilemann
Co-Founder, Pirate Impact
Bessie Schwarz
Co-Founder & CEO, Cloud to Street
Jeff Ivan
CEO, Soilgenic Nutrients Inc.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO, Provenance
Robert Opp
Chief Digital Officer, UNDP
Marika Azoff
Corporate Engagement Specialist, The Good Food Institute
Roxy Guellmeister
Associate at Foster + Partners
Tomas Diez
Executive Director at Fab City Foundation
Maks Giordano
Futurist, Futur/io
Ieva Sibilia Strupule
CEO & Co-founder, Material Mapper
Michael Fritz
Co-founder, Viva Con Agua
Ellen Patzschke
Chief Product Officer, Global Changer
Sumit Jumar
Co-Founder & CEO, Global Gene Corp
Júlia López Ventura
European Regional Director, C40 Cities
Ocian Hamel-Smith
Innovation Architect & Sustainability Driver, Futur/io Institute
Sophia Swire
Founder, Gender Equity Diversity Investments (GEDI)
Robert Heinecke
Founder & CEO, Breeze Technologies
Alexandra Mosch
Managing Partner, Naturcosmo GmbH
Dijana Galijasevic
Founder at GROW MY TREE & PhD Candidate
Marcello Palazzi
Co-Founder, B for Good Leaders
Saskia Bruysten
Co-Founder & CEO, Yunus Social Business
Fridtjof Detzner
Co-Founder, Planet A Ventures
Alexandra Mousavizadeh
Partner, Tortoise Media
Tharald Nustad
Co-Founder, Katapult Ocean
Colman Chamberlain
Former Founding Partner & Global Managing Director, Unreasonable Group
Julie Aurélie Evans
Sustainable Fashion Technology Innovator, CEO & Founder of Sustalytics, Ex- Inditex Executive
Executive education faculty
Alexander Mankowsky
Futurist, Mercedes-Benz AG
Dijana Galijasevic
Founder at GROW MY TREE & PhD Candidate
Prof.Dr.Gerhard Blechinger
Rektor, Fachhochschule Salzburg GmbH
Julia von Winterfeldt
Founder and Human Leadership Activist at SOULWORX
Jeremy Abbett
Entrepreneur & Creative Evangelist
Pascal Morgan
Founder & CEO, think.speak.transform.
Maks Giordano
Futurist, Futur/io
Roxy Guellmeister
Associate at Foster + Partners
Maurice Conti
CEO, Applied Intelligence
Melisa Arnautovic
Founder LIV.In, Training & Coaching
Claas Nieraad
Managing Director, New Commercial Room GmbH
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Co-founder & CEO, TwentyThree
Ricardo Mesquita
Advisor & Former Head of Innovation, NOVA Business School
Sten Saluveer
Strategic Advisor & Head of Cannes Next; Managing Partner, The Exit Academy
Stefan Schoepfel
Vice President SAP Customer Success Organisation | Co-Head Intelligent Enterprise Institute
Sophia Swire
Founder, Gender Equity Diversity Investments (GEDI)
Maurizio Rossi
Co-CEO, H-Farm, Venice Executive Member, Vatican Art & Technology Council
Marc Goldberg
CEO Co-Founder at Resilience Lab
Elena Malakhatka
PhD Candidate at KTH Live-in-Lab KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Tim Leberecht
Co-founder & Co-CEO, The Business Romantic Society, House of Beautiful Business
Gerd Bührig
Former Head of Bertelsmann University. Founder, Learning Expedition
Torsten Wingenter
Managing Director, Digital & Aviation Catalysts
Matthias Röder
CEO, Herbert von Karajan Institute Salzburg
Markus Durstewitz
Head of Innovation Methods & Tools, Airbus Operations GmbH
Cristian Citu
Digital Transformation Advisor, CHIEF.DIGITAL
Diana Kinnert
CEO, Globalo Publishing News GmbH
Haisong Tang
Co-founder, Technology Beyond & Spring Hill Partners
Benjamin J. Butler
Futurist, Horasis
Bastian Schaefer
Innovation Manager, Airbus Operations GmbH
Lecturers
Torsten Kriening
Publisher, SpaceWatch.Global
Pernilla Lavesson
Community & Business Developer, Media Evolution
Ida Faldbakken
Co-founder, Katapult Future Fest
Magnus Nilsson
CEO, Media Evolution & Media Evolution City
Florian Resatsch
Managing Director, Finleap
Dirk Schart
CEO, XO Digital Labs, Hyperloop Transportation Technologie
Malte Kosub
Co-Founder & CEO at Parloa
Marc Stickler
Wildlife Biologist, UN Changemaker
Rahmyn Kress
Founder & CEO, WeVee; Founding Partner, HumanCapitalNetwork
Nicolai Andersen
Managing Partner Consulting, Deloitte
Pascal Finette
Co-founder & Chief Heretic, be radical
Manuel Tschurtschenthaler
Co-Founder, Movementera
Holger Weiss
Founder and CEO at German Autolabs
Jennifer Schenker
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Innovator
Kathrin Haug
Managing Director, TeamX.digital
Magnus R. Björsne, PhD
CEO AstraZeneca BioVentureHub
Frank Lamparter
Manager CRM, Mercedes-Benz AG
Daniel Vonier
Former Global Vice President People & Organisational Growth, SAP
Scott David
Founder • Innovation & Strategy at Shapeable
Jean F. Groff
Co-founder, Studio KOH
Claribelle Poujol
Head of Resource Mobilisation & Partnerships, UN FCCC
Bjoern Ognibeni
Co-founder, ChinaBriefs.io
Hans-Christian Boos
Founder, Arago AG
Camila Thomas
Vice President Innovation Technology, Puig
Jeff Risom
Partner & Chief Innovation Officer, Gehl
Jesper Schleimann
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer EMEA North, SAP
Julie Reindl
AssociateFutures Designer, Bespoke Copenhagen
Mads Bondergaard
Head of Operations Asia Pacific, Airbus
Marie Wall
Deputy Director Startups Ministry of Enterprise, Startupansvarig Näringsdepartementet
Yasemin Modeer
CEO & Founder, Altitude Meetings. Chairwomen, Barnfonden
Andreas Spechtler
CEO & Founder, Silicon Castles
Pernilla Isberg
Associate Director BioventureHub, AstraZeneca
Andre Loesekrug Pietri
Chairman, JEDI
Philippe Dewost
CEO, Phileos
Chris Shern
Managing Director, Henley Business School - Denmark
Claudio Roscini
Co-founder & CTO, Futurechromes S.L.
Seda Röder
Founder, Sonophilia
Alan Greenberg
Venture Partner, EDT Partners. Director, Smarter.ai
Miikka Leinonen
Strategic Innovation Advisor, Ghost
Faculty Extracurricular Activities
Ask Me Anything (AMA) Lounges
Monthly sessions where faculty members offer insights on Moonshot Thinking & Purpose-Driven Leadership. Lounges open to Masterclass alumni.
Desirable Fridays
A relaxed, friday-evening virtual get-together on the last Friday of every month.
