Media Summit 2022

Maria Ramos is a journalist and international news presenter for the 24-hour news channel TRT World. She presents live from Istanbul daily throughout the week, she also hosts the flagship hour-long news programme ‘News Hour with Maria Ramos’.

Maria is an extremely versatile presenter, equally comfortable fronting live news bulletins and current affairs programmes and field reporting. She has spent most of her career working as a reporter and anchor in the Middle East and Europe. She is also a highly-acclaimed host for United Nations and international conferences.

She speaks five languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic and is learning Turkish. Maria has lived in, and reported from countries all around the globe with long stints in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. 

Alejandro Lago is Professor and head of the Production, Technology and Operations Management Department, and Co-Director of The Africa Initiative at IESE Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was distinguished as a Gordon F. Newell Fellow. He also holds a degree in civil engineering from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and has completed a Program for Management Development at IESE Business School.

Dr. Lago’s interests focus on the management of complex operations systems, both for manufacturing and services environment. Early in his career, his research focused on the optimization of large transport and distribution systems, and the design and operations of logistics partnerships. Currently his research interest has gradually shifted to the design of service systems, with a focus on studying the involvement of both suppliers and customers in the operations through the use of new technologies.

Since 2007, Dr. Lago has been a visiting professor at Strathmore Business School (Nairobi, Kenya) and has been involved in several consulting projects in East Africa. He is the Co-Director of the IESE Africa Initiative and the Academic Director of the IESE MBA Module in Kenya on Doing Business in Africa.

Dr. Lago sits on the advisory board of Strathmore Business School as well as Lagos Business School.

Olivier Van Duüren is an international public speaker, trend sensemaker, executive whisperer, startup builder, transformer, innovator, active investor and author. He is the founder of The Dualarity, a business and a book and supports startups and corporations to find balance between performing and transforming as a person and as a business.

Before starting The Dualarity he worked +20 years in the senior international executive ranks of Microsoft. He is a founding investor of 9.5 Ventures building tailor-made startups for Corporates and is a professor at the Barcelona Zigurat Business School for Technology and Innovation.

As part of the Visual Senseformers he helps organisations and teams to envision and visualise a future proof strategy and culture, ready for the transformational age.

‘The world is my play garden, Europe my future, Belgium my country and Flanders my home’, is his life motto.

Teodora Ivanova-Limon is Head of Google TV Content Partnerships, which focuses on enabling Media and Entertainment partners to build innovative content experiences on Google TV. Teodora has been at Google for 11 years, and has led Media partnerships for a number of Google teams over the last 7 years.

Previously at Google Stadia, Google's Video Game streaming platform, and Google Search, where she led Sports and Media Partnerships, she has vast experience across different product areas in Google and their interaction with the Media & Entertainment industry in Europe.

Teodora lives in London with her two daughters. She shares a passion for increased representation of women's sports and has been a dedicated yogi over the last 15 years.