{
  "name": "Davos 2027 speakers",
  "description": "People on the published programme, with their role, organisation and topics.",
  "url": "https://davosevents.co/datasets/speakers",
  "license": "https://davosevents.co/terms",
  "temporalCoverage": "2027-01-18/2027-01-22",
  "lastModified": "2026-09-23T01:58:39.707Z",
  "recordCount": 14,
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "slug",
      "label": "Slug",
      "description": "Stable identifier; joins to person_slug in the relationships dataset."
    },
    {
      "name": "name",
      "label": "Name",
      "description": "Full name."
    },
    {
      "name": "role",
      "label": "Role",
      "description": "Job title."
    },
    {
      "name": "org",
      "label": "Organisation",
      "description": "Organisation represented."
    },
    {
      "name": "organiser_slug",
      "label": "Organiser slug",
      "description": "Joins to the organisers dataset, where the organisation is one."
    },
    {
      "name": "area",
      "label": "Area",
      "description": "Where they are based during the week, where stated."
    },
    {
      "name": "topics",
      "label": "Topics",
      "description": "Pipe-separated topic names."
    },
    {
      "name": "event_count",
      "label": "Event count",
      "description": "Number of events they appear on."
    },
    {
      "name": "bio",
      "label": "Bio",
      "description": "Short biography."
    },
    {
      "name": "page_url",
      "label": "Page URL",
      "description": "Canonical URL of this record's page on the site."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "slug": "amara-okonkwo",
      "name": "Amara Okonkwo",
      "role": "Chair",
      "org": "Net Zero Coalition",
      "organiser_slug": "net-zero-coalition",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Climate",
        "Energy"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Amara chairs the Net Zero Coalition, aligning asset owners behind transition finance. She spent two decades in infrastructure investment before turning full-time to mobilising private capital for decarbonisation at scale.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/amara-okonkwo"
    },
    {
      "slug": "claire-dubois",
      "name": "Ambassador Claire Dubois",
      "role": "Senior Fellow",
      "org": "Strategic Risk Institute",
      "organiser_slug": "strategic-risk-institute",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Policy"
      ],
      "event_count": 1,
      "bio": "A former diplomat, Claire now leads the institute's geopolitical practice. Her morning briefing is one of the few on-the-record sessions of the week, prized for being sourced, unsentimental and quotable.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/claire-dubois"
    },
    {
      "slug": "lena-hoffmann",
      "name": "Dr. Lena Hoffmann",
      "role": "Managing Partner",
      "org": "Frontier Capital",
      "organiser_slug": "frontier-capital",
      "area": "Davos Dorf",
      "topics": [
        "Technology",
        "Policy"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Lena leads Frontier Capital's growth practice, where she has backed a generation of applied-AI companies. A former research scientist, she is known for cutting through hype to the question of whether a technology actually changes a unit economic.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/lena-hoffmann"
    },
    {
      "slug": "marcus-reinhart",
      "name": "Marcus Reinhart",
      "role": "General Partner",
      "org": "Alpine Ventures",
      "organiser_slug": "alpine-ventures",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Startups",
        "Finance"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Marcus co-founded Alpine Ventures to back European founders at the earliest stage. He runs the firm's Davos bookends — the founders breakfast and the closing brunch — and is relentless about turning introductions into follow-ups.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/marcus-reinhart"
    },
    {
      "slug": "david-osei",
      "name": "David Osei",
      "role": "Head of Grid",
      "org": "Power & Grid Forum",
      "organiser_slug": "power-and-grid-forum",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Energy",
        "Climate"
      ],
      "event_count": 1,
      "bio": "David leads the forum's grid programme, working the unglamorous but decisive problems of transmission, interconnection and storage economics. His roundtable puts operators and regulators around one table.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/david-osei"
    },
    {
      "slug": "hans-brenner",
      "name": "Dr. Hans Brenner",
      "role": "Chief Economist",
      "org": "Helvetia Macro",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Policy",
        "Finance"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Hans is a widely-followed macro economist whose framing of rates, currencies and geopolitics anchors the week's finance conversations. He moves easily between the on-the-record briefing and the private luncheon.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/hans-brenner"
    },
    {
      "slug": "rajesh-menon",
      "name": "Dr. Rajesh Menon",
      "role": "Founder & Chief Executive",
      "org": "LifeScience Partners",
      "organiser_slug": "lifescience-partners",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Health"
      ],
      "event_count": 1,
      "bio": "A physician-turned-entrepreneur, Rajesh built LifeScience Partners into a network spanning diagnostics and care delivery. He curates the Davos showcase to put operators changing medicine within reach of the capital that can scale them.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/rajesh-menon"
    },
    {
      "slug": "elena-volkova",
      "name": "Elena Volkova",
      "role": "Editor-in-Chief",
      "org": "Newsroom Futures",
      "organiser_slug": "newsroom-futures",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Media",
        "Technology"
      ],
      "event_count": 1,
      "bio": "Elena leads a newsroom navigating the platform era and hosts the media leaders reception. She is a clear-eyed voice on how trusted information funds itself and reaches an audience in the next decade.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/elena-volkova"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ingrid-larsson",
      "name": "Ingrid Larsson",
      "role": "Convener",
      "org": "Parity Network",
      "organiser_slug": "parity-network",
      "area": "Hillside",
      "topics": [
        "Leadership",
        "Kickoff"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Ingrid convenes the Parity Network's senior community of women running companies, funds and institutions. She hosts the hillside dinner that is, by design, the most candid room of the week.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/ingrid-larsson"
    },
    {
      "slug": "nadia-rahman",
      "name": "Nadia Rahman",
      "role": "Founder & Chief Executive",
      "org": "Aster Diagnostics",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Health",
        "Startups"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Nadia founded Aster Diagnostics to bring lab-grade testing to the point of care. She demos at the health showcase and works the founders breakfast, straddling the health and startup worlds.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/nadia-rahman"
    },
    {
      "slug": "priya-sharma",
      "name": "Priya Sharma",
      "role": "Partner",
      "org": "Meridian Climate",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Climate",
        "Finance"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Priya invests in the transition at Meridian Climate, from first-of-a-kind projects to scale-up capital. She is a regular at the principals-only climate roundtable and a connector between founders and allocators.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/priya-sharma"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sofia-marchetti",
      "name": "Sofia Marchetti",
      "role": "Chief Investment Officer",
      "org": "Global Allocators Forum",
      "organiser_slug": "global-allocators-forum",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Finance",
        "Policy"
      ],
      "event_count": 1,
      "bio": "Sofia oversees strategy for one of the forum's largest member funds and convenes its Davos luncheon. Her read on allocation and the macro backdrop is a fixture of the week for the institutions that move the most capital.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/sofia-marchetti"
    },
    {
      "slug": "thomas-vance",
      "name": "Thomas Vance",
      "role": "Managing Director",
      "org": "Frontier Capital",
      "organiser_slug": "frontier-capital",
      "area": "Davos Dorf",
      "topics": [
        "Technology",
        "Finance"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Thomas runs Frontier Capital's institutional relationships, sitting where technology theses meet the largest pools of capital. He is a bridge between the operator dinners and the allocator table.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/thomas-vance"
    },
    {
      "slug": "yuki-tanaka",
      "name": "Yuki Tanaka",
      "role": "Founder & Chief Executive",
      "org": "Kaishin AI",
      "area": "Davos Platz",
      "topics": [
        "Technology",
        "Startups"
      ],
      "event_count": 2,
      "bio": "Yuki founded Kaishin AI to put applied models into industrial workflows. A repeat founder, she is a fixture of the founder circuit and a sharp voice on where AI actually earns its keep on a factory floor.",
      "page_url": "https://davosevents.co/speakers/yuki-tanaka"
    }
  ]
}