Ana C. Rold is an award-winning media executive with a portfolio of print and digital assets reaching five continents and 182 countries. She started her entrepreneurial career as the founder of Diplomatic Courier, the flagship media network and magazine for top diplomats and policy leaders around the world. She co-founded and is a Board Member of Learning Economy Foundation, a non-profit organization with a global mission to translate leading edge technologies into transformative learning and economic systems that promote equity, mobility, privacy, and individual agency. Her futuristic think tank, the World in 2050 has convened over 25,000 multi-stakeholders in the United States and Europe since 2012. From 2006 to 2022 Ana taught Comparative Politics at Northeastern University, where she led two University delegations to Cyprus and Egypt through the Dialogue of Civilizations program. Previously, she served as senior advisor for governance and sustainability to the Hellenic Group, a senior advisor to Gallup News, and as a publisher to Sodexo Global’s Quality of Life Report. She speaks at national and international forums such as the World Innovation Summit on Education, Davos, IMF/World Bank, UNGA, Viva Tech, and more. She writes regularly for national and international publications and sits on international steering committees, brain trusts and boards, including the World Web Forum, the Smithsonian Science Education Center, and XPRIZE Foundation.