ES Fellowship Programme

Victoria Thompson is a FinTech lawyer and Founder CEO of Orora, a company dedicated to sustainable finance and impact banking technology. Previously, she was Head of Digital Legal for HSBC UK and EU, Global Group Head of Innovation Advisory at Barclays Bank, and Group Head of Technology at DBS. Victoria also served as a strategic advisory counsel at Ashurst, working with clients like Goldman Sachs on their Digital Assets Management Platform. Her experience includes roles at Hogan Lovells and DLA Piper, advising clients such as Standard Chartered Bank and Mercedes' F1 team. Additionally, she has been a legal adviser to the UK government, Chair of the FinTech Whitechapel Think Tank, and a mentor to TechStars and Outlier Ventures startups. A guest lecturer at UCL, Victoria is recognized as a leading woman in blockchain and FinTech.

Jéfferson Colombo is a lecturer in Finance at the São Paulo School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil, where he teaches Corporate Finance and Cryptofinance. Currently, he's FGV’s focal point at the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), leading educational, research, and innovation activities on DLTs and their applications. He also holds a PQ researcher fellowship (Bolsa de Produtividade em Pesquisa) granted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). His current research focuses on understanding the heterogeneous behaviour among crypto investors, the socio-demographic and economic determinants of crypto adoption, and the causes and consequences of cryptocurrency-related corporate announcements.

Te Bao is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He obtained his PhD from CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam. His main research interests are computational economics, behavioural finance, economics of blockchain, social media and experimental economics. He is currently an Associate Editor of Singapore Economic Review, and served as a Member of Advisory Council of the Society for Computational Economics from 2018 to 2021.

Amit Kapoor, Ph.D., Honorary Chairman at the Institute for Competitiveness, India, and Lecturer at Stanford University, chairs the Social Progress Imperative & Shared Value Initiative in India. He's an affiliate faculty at Harvard Business School, teaching courses on Microeconomics of Competitiveness & Value-Based Health Care Delivery. Inducted into the Competitiveness Hall of Fame, Kapoor is also a Ruth Greene Memorial Award recipient. He authored bestsellers “Riding the Tiger” and “The Age of Awakening,” plus “Competitiveness Roadmap for India at 100” with Michael Porter and Christian Ketels. His upcoming book on India's Competitiveness is co-authored with Amitabh Kant.

Imran Bashir holds an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London and brings a diverse technical background, including software development, solution architecture, and IT service management. He focuses on cutting-edge technologies such as Blockchain, IoT, and quantum computing. His book "Mastering Blockchain" is a recognised standard text on the subject, and his second book Blockchain Consensus" introduces classical, Blockchain, and Quantum Consensus Protocols. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has served in senior technical roles for various organisations worldwide.

Terence Tse is a professor of finance at Hult International Business School and an affiliate professor at ESCP Business School, a co-founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech.He is a co-author of two international best sellers on Amazon. He has run seminars and workshops as well as given speeches on technology and digital transformation, megatrends, and topics in finance and economics.He obtained his doctoral degree from the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Esposito is Co-Founder at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture. He is a Senior Advisor to the Ideation Center of Strategy& at PwC in Dubai and to the UC Berkeley SkyDeck incubator and previously inducted in Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world. He holds prestigious fellowships at UCL as a Policy Fellow, at University of Cambridge as a Senior Associate, and as Senior Fellow for the Digital Impact Alliance from the United Nations Foundation. Harvard Affiliate that is also a member of the World Economic Forum and Professor in several institutions.