Get Ready for the Grand Jury in Rio de Janeiro

January 26 - 29

The WSA Grand Jury is where the shortlist becomes the final list of winners who will be pitching their projects, connecting with key partners, and plugging into new ecosystems at the Global Congress in Vienna. We wanted you to know who the jurors would be, partly in the interest of transparency, but also because they're just such cool people! Just imagine how awesome you have to be to stand out as having an especially rich knowledge of impact entrepreneurship - in a community of impact entrepreneurs.

This year the Grand Jury will be in Rio - WSA was past due for a visit to beautiful Brazil. Brazil has, after all, had an exceptionally active WSA community, with 26 winners and countless submissions. And ridiculously gorgeous sunsets. The Grand Jury will be part of Impact Days Brazil, and will be hosted by Dataprev and its President - Rodrigo Assumpção.

Meet our jurors

Lilit Shakhulyan

Chief Operations Officer

Safe YOU

Armenia

Sachi Wickramage

Co-Founder and CEO

i4T Global

Australia

Olivia Knehs-Vranitzky

Stadt Vien

Austria

Jason Slater

Chief of Digital Transformation and AI

UNIDO

Austria

Tanja Wehsely

CEO

Volkshilfe Wien

Austria

Rodrigo Assumpção

Social Protection Management Information Systems Expert

International Labour Organization

Brazil

Celina Pereira

People Business Partner & Development

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

Brazil

Jason Muloongo

Founder

HeyTaylor

Canada

Carolina Rossi

ESNA Head of Network & Strategic Initiatives I SXSW Advisory Board Member | WSA Advisory Board Member I IE Business School Professor I SOSV Fellow

Europe Startup Nations Alliance

Chile

Witman Hung

Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong

Shenzhen Qianhai Authority

China

Biruk Yosef

Country Director

AGGP Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Madelynn Martiniere

Managing Partner

Armillaria

France

Dorothy Gordon

Consultant

ICT4Development

Ghana

Osama Manzar

Founder & Director

Digital Empowerment Foundation

India

Ali Hilli

Zain Iraq

Iraq

Savo Rasoul

Managing Director of Iraq | Ecosystem Growth

Five One Labs

Iraq

Michael Madara Ogot

Nairobi Innovation Week

Kenya

Hussein Ayoub

Director, Middle East & Africa

EDT & Partners

Lebanon

Malak Yacout

Founder and Executive Director

The Volunteer Circle

Lebanon

Ieva Žilionienė

Consulting Business Lead

NRD Companies

Lithuania

Renuka Sena

Impact and Sustainability Advocate, Impact Investor, Scaleup Venture Capital, Ecosystem Builder, Accelerator Design, Angel Funds, Startup Coach, Speaker

PROFICEO

Malaysia

Rudy Laddaga Lopez

Gnius Club

Mexico

Mahsa McCauley

Director

Auckland University of Technology & She Sharp

New Zealand

Agha Hamza

Country Head and Ambassador

Hello Tomorrow Pakistan Hub

Pakistan

Tanzila Khan

Founder

Girlythings.pk

Pakistan

Sandra Fazenda Almeida

Executive Director

APDC – Digital Business Community

Portugal

Chitranganie Mubarak

ICT Agency of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Donald Waruhanga

Chief Executive Officer

Doppler Technologies

Uganda

Badr Ward

CEO

LAMSA

United Arab Emirates

Carlos Abler

Consultant

United States of America

Michaela Ternasky-Holland

XR Creative Strategist, Director, and Impact Producer

Self

United States of America

Hosted by

Co-Funded by the European Union