Lauren advises on the development and financing of projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors, acting for clients on complex projects in emerging markets and across the globe. In particular Laurenhas extensive experience in project finance, advising project companies, sponsors, host governments and lenders in connection with the development and financing of projects in the oil and gas,petrochemical, mining and metals, LNG, port and infrastructure sectors.

Erin Dwyer is the Chief Executive Officer of Women Corporate Directors (WCD), the largest and most influential global community of women serving on corporate boards. In this capacity, she leads global initiatives and programming aimed at empowering WCD’s 2,600 members to deliver visionary board leadership.

Ms. Dwyer’s distinguished career blends corporate governance, policy, finance, and strategic stakeholder engagement expertise. She previously held senior roles at Tapestry Networks, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), and the Center for Audit Quality, where she convened and facilitated discussions about critical issues in governance, risk, strategy, and leadership with key capital markets’ participants. Ms. Dwyer also spent eight years as a sell-side analyst on Prudential Financial’s equity research team and served as a senior vice president of client development at Cooley LLP, an Am Law 100 law firm.

Ms. Dwyer earned her B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She resides in St. Augustine, Florida.

Isabelle Mateos y Lago is Group Chief Economist at BNP Paribas. She has over 25 years’ experience in international economics, finance and public policy. Isabelle began her career in France at the Inspection Générale des Finances before joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she held key positions in the Asia, Europe and Strategy departments, as well as at the Executive Board and as advisor to IMF Management. In 2015, she joined BlackRock where she stayed until 2024 serving in different roles notably Chief Macro Investment Strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute, Global Head of the Official Institutions Group, and Chief Markets Strategist in the Financial and Strategic Investors Group, alongside serving as a member of the firm’s Geopolitical Risk Steering Committee.

Isabelle is a member of the Board of the Euro 50 think tank, and associate fellow of the Center For Economic Policy Research (CEPR), both leading European economic think tanks. She earned degrees
from Sciences Po Paris and Cambridge University (Economics) and is an alumna of École Nationale d’Administration (ENA).

Thiébaut Meyer serves as Director, Office of the CISO at Google Cloud. Before joining Google, Thiébaut worked for several public institutions in France, including the national cybersecurity agency (ANSSI), the French National Assembly, and the French Presidency, where he served as the CISO and DPO. He has been a visiting lecturer at several institutions and has contributed as an expert to European Commission programs. Thiébaut holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering.

Dr. Joanna Świątkowska is the Secretary General of the European Cybersecurity Organisation (ECSO). She also serves on the Research Council at NASK, the Polish National Research Institute, and served on ENISA’s Advisory Group (2025–2026). She additionally holds an honorary role as the godmother of the regimental colours of the Regional Computing Centre Kraków, a unit of the Polish Cyberspace Defence Forces.
Joanna’s career spans leadership, strategic, and academic roles across cybersecurity and public policy. Most recently, she served as a Director in the Supply Chain Cyber and Information Security team at UBS (2020–2022). She is the originator, co-founder, and former Programme Director of the European Cybersecurity Forum – CYBERSEC (2014–2019). For a decade, she was a Senior Cybersecurity Expert at the Kościuszko Institute (2009–2019).

Her academic background includes a position as Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology (2018–2020).
A recognised cybersecurity expert and international speaker, Joanna has led numerous national and international initiatives at the intersection of technology, security, and public policy. Notably, she was a member of the Advisory Group for Cybersecurity of the Republic of Poland at the National Security Bureau of the President of Poland (2016–2017).

Her achievements have earned her multiple distinctions, including a nomination by Forbes Women Polska for Woman of the Year 2025, recognition among 100 Eastern Europe’s Emerging Technology Stars by the Financial Times and New Europe 100 (2017), and inclusion in the Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity by the Women in Tech Summit (2019). In 2016, she participated in the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) on Cybersecurity and Government Interoperability.

Ersilia Vaudo is an astrophysicist with a three-decade career at the European Space Agency (ESA), where she is Special Advisor on Future Talents. A physics graduate of Sapienza University of Rome, she began in cosmology with research on CMB anisotropy experiments and was awarded the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship. She later earned an Executive Certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School (2020).

From 2002–2006 she served as Deputy Head of ESA’s Washington, DC office, liaising with NASA, and sat on the Women in Aerospace US Board. In 2020 she joined Italy’s national “Women for a New Renaissance” task force, contributing proposals on Research, STEM and skills, and was appointed by the Minister for Equal Opportunities as an expert member of the technical-scientific committee of the national Observatory on gender-equality policies. At European level, President Emmanuel Macron named her co-chair for Talent & Diversity within Scale-Up Europe, helping deliver the June 2021 recommendations to strengthen Europe’s tech and talent ecosystem—from deep-tech scale-ups to inclusive skills pipelines.

Her public work bridges science, culture, and design. She curated the XXIII Triennale di Milano (2022–23), Unknown Unknowns; co-curated “A Satellite Symphonie” for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025; and co-designed “Lune d’acqua” (Artemide, 2025), winner of the Rethinking the Future award. She is the author of The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions (Einaudi, 2023; translated into English, Spanish, French, and Arabic) and Perché studiare fisica (non) è complesso (Mondadori Scuola, 2024).

Honors include Commendatore of the Order of the Star of Italy (2022), Tecnovisionarie – Special Europe Award (2020), EWMD “She Made a Difference” (2023), and the Carla Fendi STEM Award (2024). She has been listed among InspiringFifty Italy 2021, Fortune Italy 50 Most Powerful Women 2022, Forbes 100 Italy 2024, Unstoppable Women Italy(since 2022), and StartHer’s “20 Femmes à suivre” in French Tech.

Vaudo is President and co-founder of Il Cielo Itinerante, which brings telescopes and STEM camps to underserved communities—winner of the Financial Times WE Award 2023. A frequent TEDx speaker and essayist, she champions science as a driver of inclusion, opportunity, and future-ready talent.