Director, Wellcome Trust, UK

Director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation (both politically and financially independent) which exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. Wellcome supports scientists and researchers, takes on big problems, fuels imaginations and sparks debate.

Jeremy is a clinician scientist who before joining Wellcome was, for eighteen years, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Viet Nam, where his research interests were in infectious diseases and global health with a focus on emerging infections. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, mentored many dozens of students and fellows and served as chair on several advisory boards for governments and global organisations including the World Health Organization. He was named 12th in the Fortune list of 50 World’s Greatest Leaders in 2015.

Jeremy was appointed OBE in 2005 for services to Tropical Medicine, awarded the Memorial Medal and Ho Chi Minh City Medal from the Government of Viet Nam and honoured by the Royal College Physicians UK and the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of The Royal Society.

CEO of Equarius Risk Analytics LLC, the co-founder and CEO of the KeyStone Compact Group Ltd., the Director and Head Judge of the Global CleanTech Cluster Association (GCCA), USA

Academic Experience
Research. My expertise is in environmental technology development and field implementation, and environmental finance, funded by $25M. in grants and industry support. Since 2005, my work has focused on an emerging area in sustainability: How can the capital markets and financial technology be harnessed to stimulate industrial renewal and green growth? Areas of study: (1) Development of financial technology (waterVaR) for risk pricing of financial assets in the capital markets exposed to water constraints; (2) Financial network analysis and data-driven risk analytics for the design of multi-asset renewal funds (MARF) in support of emerging sustainable industries; (3) New business models to scale or diffuse technologies and companies engaged in the energy-food-water nexus space, smart mobility, smart grid, and green chemistry.
Teaching and Service. I teach Business Model Design, Entrepreneurial Business Fundamentals (for Scientists and Engineers), CleanTech Venture Assessment, and Environmental Finance. My service activities include: US National Science Foundation - Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems; International advisor to Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency of Innovation; Strategic consultant to the Asia Development Bank and the World Bank on cleantech project investments in Southeast Asia.

Business Background
CEO, Equarius Risk Analytics LLC (www.equariusrisk.com), a financial technology firm addressing equity, portfolio, and infrastructure valuation impacts from water quality and quantity risk exposures.

CEO, Corymbus Asset Management (www.corymbus.co), a financial technology firm focused on end-to-end macro- and microeconomic services for industry ecosystem analysis, algorithmic assessment of investment grade, asset allocation strategies, and blended finance fund designs.

Co-Founder, Global CleanTech Cluster Association (www.globalcleantech.org), a Swiss-based foundation catalyzing global value systems for green economic transitioning. Active in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

Chairman, Global Solutions Summit; Senior Advisor, Global Technology Deployment Initiative; Senior Director, P80 Group Foundation

Alfred Watkins is currently Chairman of the Global Solutions Summit, Senior Advisor to the Global Technology Deployment Initiative and Senior Director of the P80 Group Foundation.

Prior to assuming these positions, he worked for more than 23 years in various positions at the World Bank and served for more than six years as the World Bank’s Science and Technology Program Coordinator and head of the World Bank’s Science, Technology and Innovation Global Expert Team. In those capacities he was responsible for designing, developing and helping to implement the World Bank’s global STI capacity building programs and for helping to maintain the World Bank’s STI capacity building dialogue with G-8 governments, bilateral donors, foundations, NGOs, and various multilateral and UN agencies. He has extensive field experience in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Mr. Watkins helped to design and organize World Bank STI capacity building programs in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Mr. Watkins also led the World Bank team that designed and implemented an innovative World Bank non-commercial risk guarantee package for the Sea Launch Commercial Space Launch project in Russia and Ukraine.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Watkins was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and served as an economic advisor to several Members of Congress.

Founder of CreditEase Holding, Chairman of the Beijing P2P Association, China

Mr. Tang Ning is the founder of CreditEase Holding, Chairman of the Beijing P2P Association. In 2006, Mr. Tang Ning founded CreditEase, China’s first marketplace lending company. Over the past decade, CreditEase has evolved to become one of China’s leading FinTech companies, specializing in small business and consumer lending as well as wealth management for China’s rapidly growing number of high net worth and mass affluent investors.

Under Mr. Tang’s leadership, CreditEase has established a strong nationwide network covering 255 cities (including Hong Kong), and rural areas in 20 provinces across China. The successful listing of CreditEase’s online consumer finance subsidiary, Yirendai (NYSE: YRD), marked a milestone in the development of China’s FinTech industry.

During his early career, Mr. Tang joined Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he worked on IPOs, bond issuance and M&A in the areas of finance, telecommunications, media and high-technology. Upon returning to China in 2000, he served as a Director at US-listed AsiaInfo, and established China Growth Capital, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage consumer and enterprise technology startups.

Mr. Tang is a member of the advisory committee of Tsinghua University’s China Entrepreneur Training Program, and serves as an advisor to Peking University’s Social Entrepreneurship Training Program. He studied mathematics at Peking University, and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at University of the South in US.

Senior Social Franchise Consultant, MSA Worldwide, USA

Julie McBride is a Senior Consultant for Michael H. Seid & Associates, LLC (MSA), a domestic and international franchise advisory firm. She brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare marketing and health services franchising, and is a thought leader in the rapidly growing and evolving field of social franchising. Prior to joining the MSA team she served as Senior Social Franchising Advisor for a large global non-profit, PSI, where she oversaw 31 healthcare franchises in 30 countries and built the capacity of PSI country offices to operate effective social franchises.

Ms. McBride’s considerable experience in social sector franchising includes her involvement in the early development of the Greenstar franchise in Pakistan, and the provision of technical assistance to several other countries in the design and launch of their social franchises, including PSI Myanmar’s Sun Quality Health Franchise and PSI Zimbabwe’s New Start VCT franchise. As an independent consultant Julie has also helped other organizations design and evaluate franchises, including a reproductive health franchise for UNFPA in Indonesia and an infant and child nutrition franchise for FHI360 in Vietnam.

Ms. McBride is committed to advancing the field of global social franchising and, to that end, is actively engaged with the global community of practice. Her involvement includes participation in working groups including the IFA’s Social Sector Task Force, UCSF’s Social Franchising for Health Metrics Working Group, Harvard’s Transformative Impact Collaborative, and FSG’s Shared Value Initiative. She has also presented her work and ideas at several conferences including UCSF’s global social franchise conferences, IFA’s annual franchise conferences, International Family Planning Conference, and SOCAP. She has authored and contributed to several publications related to social franchising including a case study for Stanford Business School.

Ms. McBride’s professional background includes private sector experience in pharmaceutical sales and marketing. She earned her Masters in Public Health from New York University and her Bachelor of Science from the University of Washington.