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Amy C. Edmondson, PhD, is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and one of the world’s most

 influential management thinkers. Ranked #1 in the Thinkers50 global ranking in 2021 and 2023, and #2 in 2025, Professor Edmondson is internationally renowned for her pioneering research on psychological safety, leadership, organizational learning, and teamwork in complex environments.

Her groundbreaking work has transformed contemporary understanding of how organizations foster learning, innovation, collaboration, and resilience. She is the author of several influential books, including The Fearless Organization and Right Kind of Wrong, winner of the Financial Times and Schroders 2023 Best Business Book of the Year Award.

 

 

 

Cristina Grasseni, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University and an internationally recognized scholar in economic and multimodal anthropology. Her research explores sustainability, citizenship, food heritage, responsible innovation, and alternative economies, with a particular focus on how communities create new forms of social belonging and collective action.

Professor Grasseni is widely known for her influential work on visual and digital ethnography, as well as for leading the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator project Food Citizens? (2017–2024), which examined collective food procurement and solidarity networks across European cities. She is also co-editor of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology (2025) and a leading voice in contemporary debates on sustainability, food citizenship, and collaborative economies.

 

 

 

Eszter Hargittai, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Internet Use and Society at University of Zurich and one of the world’s leading scholars on digital inequality, internet use, and digital literacy. Her research examines how differences in online skills and access to digital technologies shape participation, opportunities, and life chances in contemporary societies. 

Professor Hargittai’s influential work on the social implications of digital media has received major international recognition, including awards from the American Sociological Association and the International Communication Association, which elected her as an ICA Fellow in 2019. She is editor of the Handbook of Digital Inequality and co-author of Wired Wisdom (University of Chicago Press, 2025).

 

 

 

 

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Recognized in 2022 as the world’s leading social work scholar, Professor Ungar is internationally renowned for his pioneering research on resilience as a multisystemic, socially and culturally embedded process. His work has significantly shaped contemporary understanding of how children, families, communities, and organizations adapt to adversity, with major contributions spanning social work, mental health, education, family therapy, and organizational resilience.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications and 17 books, he has also advised international NGOs, governments, and major global organizations on resilience, wellbeing, and adaptive capacity in contexts of crisis and change.