Andy Jassy, Jane Fraser, Rishi Sunak, and Gina Raimondo Among 40+ Global Leaders Joining Semafor’s Inaugural Silicon Valley & The World Advisory Board
Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Ruth Porat, and More Serve as Co-Chairs
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 22, 2026 — Semafor today announced a major expansion of its Global Advisory Board for the inaugural Silicon Valley & The World, adding more than 40 of the world’s foremost leaders across technology, government, finance, and industry to bridge the gaps between these key cohorts to drive deeper understanding and collaboration. With 350 founders, CEOs, investors, and policymakers convening in Silicon Valley this November, the expanded Global Advisory Board cements Silicon Valley & The World’s place as the most consequential convening on the future of artificial intelligence, economic competitiveness, and global leadership in recent years.
A year-round, multi-year, global initiative, Silicon Valley & The World connects the innovators building transformative technologies with the leaders implementing them across nations, business, and societies to share what works, and jointly seize the opportunities and confront the challenges that lie ahead.
The Global Advisory Board is central to this mission of fostering dialogue and generating new ideas, drawing on the expertise of leaders who reflect the core stakeholder segments that will determine the success of the global AI economy across technology, business, finance, and public policy. The board is organized into four councils: Frontier Council, CEOs of the world’s major companies building advanced technologies; Capital Council, the leading investors and financial institutions funding the AI buildout; Builder Council, CEOs of companies deploying AI across industries; Founders Council, top entrepreneurs producing the next decacorns and unicorns. Their collective experience and perspective will help define the forum’s vision, priorities, and roadmap, ensuring it reflects the most pressing challenges and opportunities.
The View From Divesh Makan
“We are standing at a historical juncture with the rapid global development and adoption of new artificial intelligence technologies. The time is now for the leaders of these innovations to engage deeply with the US and global stakeholders implementing them. Bringing these key actors together in the heart of Silicon Valley, where this technology revolution was born, lays the foundation for deeper understanding and action at a momentous time.”
— Divesh Makan, Co-Chair “Silicon Valley and the World” & Founding Partner, ICONIQ
The View From Justin B. Smith
As we embrace the transformative powers of AI to improve the world, the critical decisions around how we develop, deploy, and govern these technologies require global leaders from different industries, economies and cultures to understand each other and work closely together. Silicon Valley & The World is designed to bring these individuals and their perspectives into one room, not only to discuss and debate what’s next, but to solve problems, build partnerships, and help shape a future that benefits everyone.
— Justin Smith, CEO & Co-Founder, Semafor
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Through Semafor’s signature live journalism, bilateral meetings, and Chatham House Rule discussions, Silicon Valley & The World will convene world leaders to identify the most successful and practical approaches to implementing AI strategies across areas including workforce, economic competitiveness, national security, energy, and global growth. The platform is designed to move these conversations beyond debate and toward decisions and action from the leaders with the ability to fund, scale, and implement new ideas.
The newly expanded Global Advisory Board includes Andy Jassy, President & CEO of Amazon; Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe; Jay Y. Lee, Executive Chairman of Samsung Electronics; Hiroki Totoki, President & CEO of Sony Group; Jane Fraser, Chair & CEO of Citigroup; Scott Strazik, CEO & President of GE Vernova; Henry R. Kravis, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman of KKR; Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, CEO of Temasek Holdings; Mohammed Saif Al-Sowaidi, CEO of Qatar Investment Authority; Aravind Srinivas, CEO & Co-Founder of Perplexity; Daniel Ek, Founder of Spotify, Prima Materia and Neko Health, and Alejandro Reynal, President & CEO of Four Seasons.
Silicon Valley & The World is co-chaired by Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA; Divesh Makan, Founding Partner of ICONIQ; Satya Nadella, Chairman & CEO of Microsoft; Ruth Porat, President & Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet & Google; and Lisa Su, Chair & CEO of AMD.
Building on Semafor World Economy, which has become North America’s leading CEO convening, Silicon Valley & The World is poised to become the premier annual forum exploring Silicon Valley’s increasingly central role in how technology is reshaping geopolitics, economic growth, workforce, national security, energy, capital markets, and the future of artificial intelligence.
Silicon Valley & The World Advisory Board
Co-Chairs
- Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
- Divesh Makan, Founding Partner, ICONIQ
- Satya Nadella, Chairman & CEO, Microsoft
- Ruth Porat, President & Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet & Google
- Lisa Su, Chair & CEO, Advanced Micro Devices
Advisory Board
- Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Managing Director & Group CEO, Mubadala Investment Company
- Mohammed Saif Al-Sowaidi, CEO, Qatar Investment Authority
- Daniela Amodei, President, Anthropic
- Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks
- Edwin Chen, Founder & CEO, Surge AI
- Euisun Chung, Executive Chairman, Hyundai Motor Group
- Patrick Collison, CEO, Stripe
- Ray Dalio, Founder & Mentor, Bridgewater Associates; Dalio Family Office
- Iván Duque, Former President of Colombia; Co-Founder, I+D Foundation
- Daniel Ek, Founder, Spotify, Prima Materia, and Neko Health
- Christophe Fouquet, CEO, ASML
- Jane Fraser, Chair & CEO, Citigroup
- Sarah Friar, CFO, OpenAI
- Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO, Ariel Investments
- Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder, LinkedIn and Manas AI
- Michael Intrator, Co-Founder & CEO, CoreWeave
- Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO, Glean
- Andy Jassy, President & CEO, Amazon
- Hironori Kamezawa, Chairman, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
- Alex Kendall, Co-Founder & CEO, Wayve
- Henry R. Kravis, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, KKR
- Karan Kunjur, Co-Founder & CEO, K2 Space Corporation
- Ben Lamm, Co-Founder & CEO, Colossal Biosciences
- Jay Y. Lee, Executive Chairman, Samsung Electronics
- Rodrigo Liang, Co-Founder & CEO, SambaNova Systems
- Lim Chow Kiat, CEO, GIC
- Ben Liu, CEO & Co-Founder, Formation Bio
- Daniel Nadler, Founder & CEO, OpenEvidence
- Neha Narkhede, Co-Founder, Confluent; Co-Founder & CEO, Oscilar
- Dina Powell McCormick, President & Vice Chair, Meta
- Gina Raimondo, 40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Alejandro Reynal, President & CEO, Four Seasons
- David Ricks, Chair & CEO, Lilly
- Chuck Robbins, Chair & CEO, Cisco
- David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group
- Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, CEO, Temasek Holdings
- Dan Schulman, CEO, Verizon Communications
- Aravind Srinivas, CEO & Co-Founder, Perplexity
- Scott Strazik, CEO & President, GE Vernova
- Rishi Sunak, Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom
- Hiroki Totoki, President & CEO, Sony Group
- Sim Tshabalala, Group Chief Executive, Standard Bank
About Semafor
Semafor is the world’s fastest-growing independent news media company, delivering intelligence through its reporting and live convenings. Founded in 2022 by veteran media executives Justin B. Smith and Ben Smith, Semafor provides intelligent, transparent journalism that cuts through the noise and distills complexity to help leaders navigate the new world economy. With a global sensibility, reach, and reporting hubs now spanning Washington, DC; Silicon Valley; Wall Street; sub-Saharan Africa; and the Gulf, Semafor’s journalists around the world power its suite of daily first-read email briefings and signature live journalism convenings. The flagship Semafor World Economy, anchored in Washington, DC, is the largest annual gathering of top global CEOs in North America; Semafor’s convening on emerging economies, The Next Three Billion, is held annually at UNGA and expanded this year to South Africa, East Africa, and the UAE. In 2024, Semafor was named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for “rewriting the story” on international reporting.
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