Lee Howell

Lee is the Executive Director of the Villars Institute, a Swiss nonprofit foundation dedicated to accelerating the transition to a net zero and nature positive economy by promoting systems leadership and intergenerational collaboration and a Titular Professor at the University of Geneva’s School of Economics and Management (GSEM), teaching about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Disruptive Technologies.  Lee serves as the Vice Chair on the Board of Governors of the International Baccalaureate (IB) and is on the Board of Trustees of the EAT Foundation. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Frontiers Planet Prize and the Global Learning Council. Lee was previously the Managing Director at the World Economic Forum (WEF) responsible for Global Programming and their Annual Meeting in Davos from 2009 until 2021.