Shekhar Mehta is a member of the Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar, West Bengal, India, and the President of Rotary International 2021/22. 

Mehta, an accountant by profession, is chair of the Skyline Group, a real estate development company he founded. He is also a director of Operation Eyesight Universal (India), a Canada-based organization.

Mehta has been actively involved in disaster response and is a trustee of ShelterBox, UK. After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, he helped build nearly 500 homes for families affected by the disaster.

Mehta pioneered a program that has performed more than 1,500 life-changing heart surgeries in South Asia. He is also the architect of the TEACH Program, which promotes literacy throughout India and has reached thousands of schools.

A Rotary member since 1984, Mehta has served Rotary as director, member or chair of several committees, zone coordinator, training leader, member of The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisers, and district governor. He is also the chair of Rotary Foundation (India).

Mehta has received Rotary’s Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Awards.

He and his wife, Rashi, are Major Donors and members of the Bequest Society.

Dr Roberta Metsola, was elected President of the European Parliament in January 2022, having been First Vice-President since November 2020. 

President Metsola is a lawyer by profession, specialising in European law and politics and has representsed Malta as a Member of the European Parliament since 2013, forming a part of the EPP Grouping.

Prior to that, between 2004 and 2012, Dr Metsola worked in the Permanent Representation of Malta to the EU. She subsequently joined the team of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, as a legal advisor.

Within the European Parliament, Dr Metsola was the EPP’s Group Coordinator in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and heads her national party’s delegation within the EPP group. She was also the Co-Chair of the EP Anti-Corruption Intergroup.

Dr Metsola is married and is the mother of four boys. She graduated from the University of Malta and the College of Europe in Bruges.

Roger Lhors is a member of the Rotary Club of Port-Audemer Eure, France and a Board Director (2020-22) of Rotary International. Lhors is the co-Convener of the Rotary Presidential Conference Venice.

Lhors retired in 2011 as director of manufacturing at a wellhead parts supplier to the offshore oil industry. Lhors graduated with an engineering degree from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Lille, and volunteered for two years as a mathematics teacher in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, before embarking on a 38-year career in industrial plant management.

He has served Rotary as a Rotary coordinator and as secretary of the Membership Task Force. Lhors is also active in several local organizations, including a program that helps local youth find employment and Saint-Germain-Village, a home for children whose parents have lost their right to raise them.

Lhors says his proudest achievement in Rotary was making his club stronger during his second term as president. He advocates for the creation of new clubs, noting that support from district governors and outreach to young leaders and potential members are critical. “The future of Rotary will be excellent, and to achieve it we must adapt so that clubs are more receptive to younger generations. Rotary must meet their expectations without denying the fundamental principles that are shared by all.”

Lhors is a Paul Harris Fellow and Benefactor of The Rotary Foundation

John de Giorgio is a Past Governor of District 2110, Sicily and Malta (2017/18) and a member of Rotary Club Malta since 2000.

In 1983 he founded Shireburn Software, a company that specialises in the development and support of its own software products and was its CEO until August 2021 when he moved into the Chairman’s role. The business currently has 65 employees and works internationally.

 In October 2019, John was the Chair of the Rotary Institute in Catania, at which RI President Mark Maloney and various other RI Leaders participated.  In June 2020, John was nominated as the RI President’s Representative at the District Congress of District 2032.

John is currently a Training Leader for Governors Elect having held this role at the International Assembly 2021 and again in 2022 as well as leading the training at GETS for Zone 14, Italy.

John is also a member of Rotary International’s Leadership Development & Training Committee and the Co-Chair of the European Rotary Presidential Conference “Economy and Environment in Harmony”.

In 2016 John was awarded the International Service Award for a Polio-Free World by the Rotary Foundation. He is a Paul Harris Fellow (3 rubies), and a Major Donor of the Rotary Foundation.

Massimo Ballotta is a member of the Rotary Club of Feltre and Past Governor of District 2060 (North East Italy).

Ballotta graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialises in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. He is director of the Rehabilitation Department of the Ulss 2 Dolomiti Hospital in Feltre and he has developed his professional career in the field of rehabilitation.

Massimo deals with disability and the options for reducing and compensate for them. He has always focused on patients with disabilities and their families to help them achieve greater autonomy within the constraints of the damage suffered.

A Rotarian since 2009, Massimo served as district governor in 2019/2020 and has held various Rotary positions at both the club and district levels. Massimo takes on the role of Rotary Coordinator for Zone 14 (Italy, Malta, and San Marino) for 2022-2023. Massimo is a Paul Harris Fellow (3 rubies) and, together with his wife Rossella, are Major Donors and Benefactors of The Rotary Foundation.

Nicki Scott is a Director of Rotary International for the years 2021-23 and a Partner at The Trusted Executive Foundation.

Born in Gosport, England, Nicki Scott began her career with KPMG before becoming an entrepreneur and owning a business focused on brand promotion for companies including Nestle, Procter & Gamble, and Rolls-Royce. Combining that with her experience in corporate finance, strategic planning, and change management, Scott went on to mentor and coach CEOs and business owners for Vistage Worldwide. She returned to England in 2018, and in March 2021 joined The Trusted Executive Foundation as a partner.

Scott, who lived abroad from 1993 to 2018, joined Rotary in 2000 while in Illinois. After serving as governor of District 6450, she took on roles as Rotary coordinator, zone institute chair, and training leader. She also served as a trainer for two International Assemblies and was a member of the RI Strategic Planning Committee. Upon her return to England, she joined the Leadership, Development, and Training Committee for Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland and is serving as RIBI’s leader in 2021-23 while also serving as an RI director.

Scott’s passions are strategy, leadership coaching, and motivational speaking, which she hopes to use in Rotary to nurture the next generation of leaders. She also enjoys musical theater, walking, and painting.

Scott considers herself a global citizen whose purpose is to use her full potential to make a difference and inspire others to do so. She sees significant worth in serving with Rotary members driven by the same values and vision in a multicultural environment. By “working together and uniting in action above perceived personal differences,” Scott says, “there is no doubt we can achieve greater impact and create real sustainable change to benefit all concerned.”

Scott has received the RI Service Above Self Award and supports The Rotary Foundation as a Major Donor and a member of her district Paul Harris Society and the Bequest Society.

Scott is a member of the Rotary Club of the North Cotswolds Gloucester, England

Tom Thorfinnson is the General Manager and Chief Strategy Officer at Rotary International, based Iin Evanston, Illinois, USA. Tom and his team work with Rotary staff and members to develop and implement organization-wide strategy and set and measure goals. The team provides research, evaluation, business information, and project management, and encourages creative thinking and innovation.

Thorfinnson graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a degree in mathematics and economics. He also has a law degree from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A Rotarian since 1980, Thorfinnson has served Rotary as a director and a Foundation trustee and vice chair. He is a Level 2 Major Donor of The Rotary Foundation.

Ingrid Zeegers started her career within Procter & Gamble, consultancy and Philips Electronics, when she decided to switch to sustainable business development. Within Philips, early in 2004, she had the opportunity to start-up and pioneer sustainable innovation based on circular economy design principles. 

Since 2010 she has progressed and deployed these circular principles at an international fashion retailer; co-initiated and lead one of the first circular regional associations (over 100 members); has been an expert for the EU Committee of the Regions on the Green Deal Circular Action Plan (2020), and has recently started at PRICE, an innovation hub with the ambition to accelerate the circular economy on an (inter)national scale.

Her personal motivation is to drive positive impact and change our way of doing business within ‘One Planet boundaries’.

Andrea graduated in Engineering and followed on with an MBA at Bocconi.

He has been working within the Barilla Group for twenty years, assuming over time new and different roles, both nationally and internationally. In particular in the areas of Operations, Quality and Food Safety and now in the Communication and External Relations Group where he is also involved in company issues related to the corporate archives  and relationship with local communities.

Andrea is also a member of Rotary Club Parma Est.

PDG Joe Otin is a digital advertising specialist and media research analyst with three decades of experience. He is the CEO of The Collective, a digital ad agency, and the chairman of the Advertising Standards Board of Kenya. He was granted the Marketing Warrior Award by the Marketing Society of Kenya (MSK) in 2010.

He is a past president of Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) and has served as chief judge for the annual awards for both the Public Relation Society of Kenya (PRSK) and the MSK. He is a columnist in Business Daily Africa and regularly contributes articles on marketing communications.

Joe is the chairman of the Resource Mobilisation Committee of WWF-Kenya. He has been a Rotarian for 20 years and currently serves as the Rotary International (RI) Representative to United National Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Co-Chairman of the Rotary/UNEP Partnership on the Adopt-a-River Initiative for Sustainable Development. He is the promotions chairman for the 2023 Rotary International Convention in Melbourne, the Co-Chairman of the 2022 Rotary 4th All Africa Zone Institute in Addis Ababa, and a member of The Rotary Foundation’s Peace Centers Committee.

He has served as the vice chairman of the RI Communications Committee, a member of the RI Membership Committee, Africa’s Area Coordinator, Rotary Public Image Coordinator, Rotary Coordinators Institute Facilitator, District Governor, and the Co-Chairman of the Rotary UN Day, Nairobi.

Dott.ssa Barbara Terenghi is the Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of the CEO's Office at Edison S.p.A. 

Between 2016 and 2020, she led the company's Transformation Team, a change management project focused on initiatives to evolve corporate culture and sustainable business models and processes as well as being the Secretary of the Edison S.p.A. Executive Committee.

Since April 2021 Barbara has been responsible for the Sustainability Department at Edison with the aim of addressing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues at a company level and supporting the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, of which she is the Secretary, in this area of decision-making and governance processes. She has also been appointed member of the Board of the Edison Orizzonti Sociali Foundation (EOS).

Barbara is a member of Edison’s Advisory People Development Committee and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Edison Digital Academy, the lifelong learning program on digital innovation.

Barabara is a graduate in Business Management from Bocconi University in Milan.

Edison is the major Italian electric utility company headquartered in Milan. The company was established in 1884 and acquired by Electricité de France in 2012.  Edison employs more than 5,000 people in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Since 2009, Sérgio has been dedicated to the theme of behavior, leadership and strategy in the organizational context through programs that align the creation of wealth in institutions with the well-being of their employees. He created the method that allows the development and reskilling needed to face the digital and the 4.0 industry era, balancing high tech with high touch.

With a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Feup, he then studied neuroscience and behavior at the German Academy Afnb. Sérgio believes that in a world of so many “things”, will be the causes that can help each one of us to be happier in their personal and professional life.

Sérgio is married, a father, entrepreneur, researcher, university professor, speaker, executive coach and consultant. He founded the Seal Group, Global Healthcare Forum, he is President of the Brain Research Institute and author of the book “Lemon – A journey to happiness”.

In Rotary Sérgio is Public Image Coordinator for Zone C (Portugal and Spain 2021/24), District Governor in Portugal D1970 (2020/21), Training Leader and Speaker at the General Session in Orlando International Assembly (2022).

Jean-Jacques is a professional Coach and Consultant specialising in human resource development. With 20 years background in companies of all sizes and in various activities he became CEO of the Institute of Social Management, a large group of human resource training professions. In 2004 he was the co-founder of Jean-Jacques TITON Consulting an HR strategy consulting firm.

Jean-Jacques has a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, an MBA in Human Resources Strategy as well as a PhD in French Literature.

Jean-Jacques is a member of Rotary Club of Grasse and in 2019/20 was District Governor of District 1730. He is serving at present as the Rotary Public Image Coordinator for zone 13.

Tim Hunter is the Director of the Private Partnerships & Fundraising Division of the World Food Programme (WFP). He leads WFP’s strategy to develop the agency’s engagement with individual supporters around the globe and grow global partnerships with companies such as Mastercard, Sodexo and Facebook.

Prior to WFP, he was Director of Fundraising at Oxfam GB leading a team of over 150 people mobilizing £100 million a year to support the charity’s programmatic and campaigning activity. Before Oxfam, he was International Fundraising Director for UNICEF, based in Geneva, for 5 years. During this period, UNICEF’s private sector income grew strongly to $1.5 billion. He led a global fundraising team operating in more than 50 countries and working with flagship corporate partnerships. Earlier in his career he worked for high profile UK non-profits including Shelter – the National Campaign for Homeless People – and the NSPCC, where he played a central role in the highly successful FULL STOP Campaign.

A regular speaker in the non-profit sector, he has also been Chair of the International Fundraising Congress, which held annually is the largest global event for fundraising and development. Tim is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

Andrea Favaretto Rubelli is a Director of Rubelli spa, the Venetian textile family business founded in 1835. Having graduated in 1995 from the University of Padua in Electronic Engineering he joined the French branch of the family business following which, in 1996, he moved to the Venice head office, initially devoting himself to the company's IT sector. 

Further responsibility was entrusted to Andre, including the management of the company's production site in 2004 In spring 2009 Andrea was appointed CEO of Rubelli spa together with his brother Nicolò.

From 2010 to 2018 he oversaw the Group's American company, Donghia Inc. in New York, temporarily shifting his focus overseas to closely coordinate the delicate phase of transformation of the American market, severely affected by the 2008 crisis.

In 2019, following a managerial reorganization of the company, Andrea focused his efforts on Business Development for the Group.

Since 2018 Andrea has been a director of Sistema Moda Italia, a national industrial association for the Textile/Fashion sector and since 2020 he has held the position of President of the Textile/Fashion section of Confindustria Venezia. In conjunction with the Tourism and Footwear sections, they conceived and promote the launch of the Venice Sustainable Fashion Forum, an annual conference on the theme of environmental sustainability of fashion, whose implementation as of 2022 has been entrusted to Ambrosetti/The European House.

In autumn 2020, alongside the family business, Andrea founded a startup in the design lighting sector: Texlum srls in Venice.

Dr. Jonas Kütt is the Director of Marketing of Kantar, the international specialist data analytics and brand consulting group having headed the firm’s transformation marketing department until May 2021. Jonas has a keen interest in changing consumer behaviour.

In 2021, Jonas was awarded a doctorate in Business Informatics and Marketing from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg.  He is a lecturer in Digital Marketing at both the University of Applied Sciences of Mittweida and University of Applied Sciences of Nürnberg. Since 2019 he has been a Board Member focusing on the science area of the Nürnberg branch of the German Marketing Association.

In his Rotary life, Jonas is currently President Elect of Rotary Club Nürnberg-Connect having been President of Rotaract Club Nürnberg in 2010/11, a member of the Rotaract Germany committee 2012/15, and then District Rotaract Representative for District 1880 in 2013/14.

Jonas is maried to Jasmin and lives in Nürnberg.

Francesco Valentino is Assistant Professor in Industrial Chemical Processes at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, at "Cà Foscari" University of Venice. Having graduated with honours in Industrial Chemistry in 2008 from "La Sapienza" University of Rome (2008) he then obtained a PhD in Industrial Chemical Processes in 2012.

In 2012, he was research assistant at the Swedish company Anoxkaldnes AB-Veolia Water Technologies in Lund. And a post-doctoral fellow (2013-2016) and researcher at the Department of Chemistry of "La Sapienza" University of Rome.

Francesco has wide experience of running European and national research projects. He is the author of more than 40 international peer-review journal publications, 3 book chapters, the holder of 5 patents and has presented at over 30 international conferences.

Francesco is a ember of the editorial board of the MDPI Sustainability journal (section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology") and the MDPI Biomass journal. As relevant extra academic activities, he is a member of the Environmental Biotechnology section of the European Federation of Biotechnology and a member of the Advisory Board of the EU Scalibur Project.

Gunilla Östberg, one of the authors of  the book Sustainable business (Hållbara affärer), is a consultant within sustainable business development. With 30 years of experience in leading business positions in various industries, and with a M.Sc. and a Licentiate of Engineering degree,

Gunilla combines her deep technology and industry knowledge to help companies create competitiveness, growth and profitability based on long-term sustainability.

Gunilla is a member of Rotary Club Stockholm Djurgården, a member of the ESRAG International Board, ESRAG Europe leadership team and team leader for Solar Safe Water.

Ludwig is a rheumatologist by profession. He is a member of the international board of the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG) and is membership chair and forms a part of the ESRAG leadership team.  Ludwi is also chair of ESRAG Germany and Switzerland.  He is also chair of the environmental section of the Rotary Institute Basel being held in November 2022.

In May 2021 Ludwig was a judge at the Cambridge business school executive education programme covering the subject of the circular economy and sustainability strategies.

Ludwig was a founder of the 1st EcoClub in Europe Rotary Club Planet in District 1900 and is currently the President of Rotary Club passport Eco Planet.  in 1983-84 Ludwig was a beneficiary of a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship in Rochester Minnisota, United States of America.
 

Carlo Bagnoli is the founder and scientific director of VeniSIA – Venice Sustainability Innovation Accelerator and Professor of Strategy Innovation at the Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Before joining academia, he was the founder and CEO of Logisma Consulting Srl. He was also a visiting research fellow at the University of Florida. He is the proponent and scientific coordinator of the Strategy Innovation Hub: an innovation centre located within the Economics Campus of Ca’ Foscari University. He is also the founder and scientific director of Strategy Innovation Srl: a Ca’ Foscari University spin-off focused on action research.

Carlo is the coordinator of Fondazione Univeneto and a member of the board of directors of SMACT Competence Center. His research interests include digital and sustainable business model innovation and entrepreneurship and start-up acceleration.

He has published more than 100 scientific contributions and is a member of the editorial board of various international. His research has been applied in multiple research contexts and has been a member of the scientific committee of several national and international conferences.

Rotarian Dr. Suzanne Thoma has been CEO of the BKW Group since 2013. The internationally active BKW Group, headquartered in Switzerland, offers forward-looking solutions in the areas of energy, infrastructure and buildings. With 130 companies and approx. 11,000 employees, it meets the needs of customers and markets for integrated and sustainable offers. It makes an important contribution to the solution of urgent social challenges.

Suzanne Thoma studied chemical engineering at ETH Zurich and holds a doctorate in this field. She has worked for Ciba Spezialchemie AG (now BASF AG) for about 10 years in senior positions both at home and abroad. As CEO of Rolic Technologies AG, she led a start-up company specializing in high-tech materials and technology licenses. Prior to joining BKW, she headed the international automotive supply business of the WICOR Group in Rapperswil.

Suzanne became a member of the newly founded Rotary Basel 3-Country Corner and joined Rotary Christoffel in Bern, Switzerland, 8 years ago.