As the Director of Innovation, Mark Nelson focuses on generating, designing, and incentivizing resources for collective human behavior change, at scale. He advises businesses, universities, governments, and NGOs in these areas and aims to work with institutions interested in designing and implementing innovation platforms, AR games, and other applications to influence human behavior for good. He is also the founder of Epic Global Challenge and works closely with organizations in disaster relief operations and helps promote education in remote areas.

Career clients include the White House, Department of Labor, State Department, European Commission, Stanford University, BestBuy and Unilever.

After 15+ years in tech innovation and marketing strategy, Frederic pivoted to academia in 2021 and is now a lecturer at the University of Sherbrooke, the Peace Innovation Institute in The Hague and the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford. Frederic’s work is at the intersection of technology (AI), water geopolitics and the UN SDGs.

He co-organized the virtual (online) Green Action Zone during COP15, which took place in Montreal in December 2022.

Frederic is a journalist by training and has lived and worked in the US, France, Switzerland, Japan and Canada.

As a peace innovator and international attorney, June founded Peace IQ to upskill leaders and their teams to peacefully resolve conflict and build sustainable cooperation in a socially conscious workforce. Her experience as a former refugee from the Liberian Civil War and Baha'i refugee from Iran, inspired June to pursue a J.D and M.A. in Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University where she received the Dean's award for Professional Responsibility. She now combines her experience and network to innovate technology that helps clients turn the small daily decisions that add up to conflict to add up to peace. June will partner with the Peace Innovation Institute to foster relationships with thought leaders, industry experts, start-ups, and peace technologists to identify exciting new business opportunities in peace innovation.

Chris Bennett is the Game Designer in Residence at the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford, and has over 20 years experience designing and developing games at Electronic Arts, Disney and other companies. He has lectured and created designs at Stanford, Bradley University, AARP, SocialxDesign, Design School X and other organizations.

Michael Lopez is the Business Director of the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford, where he has worked with Coca-Cola, SALDEF and the White House Roundtable on Excellence in Education. Michael currently serves on the Stanford Business School Alumni Association Board of Directors and as President of Hispanic Net, a professional organization for Latino executives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders.

Uma Kalkar (she/her) is a civic technologist focused on the nexus of AI and data governance, peace behavior, and youth rights. Uma is a 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival Fellow and an invited speaker on youth leadership in the civic engagement and climate action space. Her work has been featured in CIRCLE, Forbes, and ‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah’.

At PII, she helps run the Peace Innovation Fellowship, W.A.T.E.R. Network, and explores innovative ways of making peace profitable. Uma is also the Strategy & Innovation Director of 18by Vote, a youth-serving civic engagement organization, where she leverages data and data science to identify ‘civic deserts’ to reach the most underserved voters.

Uma holds a dual Master of Public Policy in Digital and New Technology from The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and Master of Global Affairs in Innovation Policy from the University of Toronto.