David Cruickshank is the current Chair of the Board for the Social Progress Imperative. David is the former Chairman of Deloitte’s global organization, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, and was elected into this role in June 2015 having served on its Global Board for eight years from 2007. Prior to this, he was Chairman of the Deloitte UK member firm from 2007 – 2015. Prior to becoming the Deloitte UK member firm Chairman in 2007, David led Deloitte’s tax practice in the UK for eight years, during which time he was a member of the UK firm’s Executive Group and a member of the global organization’s tax management group. He is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate in business and economics from the University of Edinburgh. Outside the firm, David is a member of the World Economic Forum Chairman’s group, a council member of the International Integrated Reporting Council, a Board Member of the Social Progress Imperative and, in the UK, he chairs the board or Trustees of the Education and Employers Taskforce and is one of the founder chairman of the 30% Club.

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui is co-founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA Partners, LLC, an impact investing fund for Latin America focused on commercial enterprises that serve the base of the pyramid. He is also the Chair of Compartamos Banco, the largest microfinance institution in Latin America. Previously, Álvaro served as Chief Executive Officer of Farmacias Benavides, the largest drugstore chain in Latin America and Chief Financial Officer of Vitro and Grupo Salinas’s retail arm, Elektra. Álvaro was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2005 and was included on the Forbes list of the world’s top 30 social entrepreneurs in 2011.

Brace Young is a partner at Arabesque Asset Management—a global group of financial technology companies offering sustainable investment, advisory, and data services through advanced ESG and AI capabilities—and has extensive experience in both social impact and finance. Prior to joining Arabesque Partners in 2017, Brace served as the Chief Executive Officer at Eclat Impact and before that as a partner and Chief Executive Officer at Mariner Investment group. He has also served as a partner at Goldman Sachs and worked in New York, Tokyo, and London.  In addition to his financial career, Brace is also an experienced board leader, and currently chairs the boards of GWAVE, a wave-based renewable energy company, and Social Finance, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing investment capital to drive social change.

Francis Ebong has spent his career focused on business operations and product development, scaling user experiences, marketplaces, and supply chain networks across consumer and enterprise tech. He most recently served as Managing Director at Google X, where he focused on scaling early-stage projects to solve some of the world’s hardest problems. Previously, Francis was Director of Global Operations & Partnerships at Facebook, where he oversaw consumer operations for Emerging Services, a global team responsible for the localization, operation, and engagement of products and businesses. Before joining Facebook, Francis held leadership roles in operations and business development at Apple, focused on semiconductor procurement, and subsequently led operations, partnerships, and go-to-market teams at on-demand logistics marketplace, Postmates. Prior to Apple, Francis worked as a management consultant for both public and private sector clients at Deloitte, where he focused on go-to-market strategy & operations. Francis started his career serving as a Naval Supply Officer, leading teams in global operations, contract negotiations, and supply chain management with local businesses and governments in Japan, East Africa, and Washington, D.C.

José Viñals is the Group Chairman of Standard Chartered. José began his career as an economist and as a member of the faculty at Stanford University, before spending 25 years at the Central Bank of Spain, where he rose to be the Deputy Governor. He has held many other board and advisory positions including Chair of Spain’s Deposit Guarantee Fund, Chair of the International Relations Committee at the European Central Bank, member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the European Union, and Chair of the Working Group on Institutional Investors at the Bank for International Settlements. José joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2009 and stepped down in September 2016 to join Standard Chartered PLC. He was the Financial Counsellor and the Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department and was responsible for the oversight and direction of the IMF’s monetary and financial sector work. He was the IMF’s chief spokesman on financial matters, including global financial stability. During his tenure at the IMF, José was a member of the Plenary and Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board, playing a key role in the reform of international financial regulation.

Marcia K. Thompson is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Aurora University in Illinois, USA. Prior to this she was a global human resources executive at Amazon and served as the director of community innovation. An attorney by training, she has more than 20 years of experience of working in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the corporate, academic and public sector.  Marcia began her career working for the US Department of Justice (DoJ), where she realized her passion for DEI. During her tenure she worked in policy review, consensus building, mediation, and civil rights protections in the workplace and became a volunteer EEO counselor. She created a diversity recruitment initiative at the DoJ within her  agency to assist with creating access to and diversifying one of the core positions; the award winning program changed the way recruitment was conducted.  During the course of her career as a leader in DEI, Marcia has advised organizations, leaders, corporations, state and federal government agencies. She has held roles that include chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer and general counsel. She has developed customized training and curriculum on DEI topics, taught for years as a social justice professor and often served as a curriculum reviewer for other entities to minimize unintended bias, or  civil rights concerns on how those materials were presented. Marcia works nationally on social justice, equity, reform, and community  engagement in some of the nation’s largest cities seeking assistance with police reviews,  assessments, reform and community trust building. She began her career in law enforcement, as an intelligence analyst for the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy, economic development, the environment, and health care. His extensive research is widely recognized in governments, corporations, NGOs, and academic circles around the globe. His research has received numerous awards, and he is the most cited scholar today in economics and business. While Michael Porter is, at the core, a scholar, his work has also achieved remarkable acceptance by practitioners across multiple fields.