Invited Speakers & Panelists

  • Elizabeth Addington

    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    USA

  • Alejandro Adler

    Upper Canada College

    Canada

  • Lara Aknin

    Simon Fraser University

    Canada

  • Noof Aljneibi

    The Ministry of Community Development

    United Arab Emirates

  • Richard Appiah

    University of Ghana

    Ghana

  • Mohammad Asfour

    WADI NGO

    Jordan

  • Meike Bartels

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    the Netherlands

  • Rosalinda Ballesteros

    Institute for Wellbeing and Happiness, Universidad Tecmilenio

    Mexico

  • Roy Baumeister

    University of Queensland, Florida State University, Jacobs University Bremen

    Australia, USA, Germany

  • Mary Ann Baynton

    Mary Ann Baynton & Associates Corp

    Canada

  • Tal Ben-Shahar

    Happiness Studies Academy

    USA

  • Catherine Berman

    University of North Carolina

    USA

  • Ganga Bey

    University of North Carolina

    USA

  • Kelley Bird-Naytowhow

    Canada

  • Robert Biswas-Diener

    Positive Acorn

    USA

  • Ilona Boniwell

    University of East London

    UK

  • Jennifer Boylan

    University of Colorado Denver

    USA

  • Louise Chawla

    University of Colorado Boulder

    USA

  • Susan Clayton

    College of Wooster

    USA

  • Adolfo Cuevas

    New York University

    USA

  • Kellie Cummings

    VIA Institute

    USA

  • William Damon

    Stanford University

    USA

  • Antonella Delle Fave

    University of Milano

    Italy

  • Thomas Doherty

    Sustainable Self

    USA

  • Stewart Donaldson

    Claremont Graduate University

    USA

  • Elizabeth Dunn

    University of British Columbia

    Canada

  • Barbara Fredrickson

    UNC Chapel Hill

    USA

  • Elliot Friedman

    Purdue University

    USA

  • Anneliese Gill

    University of Melbourne

    Australia

  • Suzy Green

    The Positivity Institute

    Australia

  • Karen Guggenheim

    World Happiness Summit®, WOHASU®

    USA

  • Rick Hanson

    UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center

    USA

  • John Helliwell

    University of British Columbia

    Canada

  • Carol Hopkins

    Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

    Canada

  • Liz Hovarth

    Mental Health Commission of Canada

    Canada

  • Cedomir Ignjatovic

    Flow 2.0 Project

    Australia

  • Amy Isham

    Swansea University

    United Kingdom

  • Aaron Jarden

    University of Melbourne

    Australia

  • Peggy Kern

    University of Melbourne

    Australia

  • Eric Kim

    University of British Columbia

    Canada

  • Pamela King

    Thrive Center

    USA

  • James Kirby

    University of Queensland

    Australia

  • Alla Klymenko

    Upgrade Educational Project

    Ukraine

  • Clive Leach

    Clive Leach Consultancy

    UK

  • Steve Leventhal

    CorStone

    USA

  • Jeffrey Levy

    VIA Institute

    USA

  • Timothy Lomas

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    USA

  • Sonja Lyubomirsky

    University of California

    USA

  • Sapna Mahajan

    Genome Canada

    Canada

  • Peter Malinowski

    Liverpool John Moores University

    UK

  • Jason Marsh

    UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center

    USA

  • Lucas Monzani

    Western University

    Canada

  • Judy Moskowitz

    Northwestern University

    USA

  • Ruba Nawaz


    Netherlands

  • Ragnhild Bang Nes

    Norwegian Institute of Public Health

    Norway

  • David Newman

    University of California

    USA

  • Ryan Niemiec

    VIA Institute on Character

    USA

  • Christian van Nieuwerburgh

    RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

    Ireland

  • Shigehiro Oishi

    University of Chicago

    USA

  • Masaya Okamoto

    Tecmilenio University

    Mexico

  • Amit Oren

    Yale School of Medicine

    USA

  • Rhea Owens

    University of Minnesota Duluth

    USA

  • Dandan Pang

    Bern University of Applied Sciences

    Switzerland

  • Holli-Anne Passmore

    Concordia University of Edmonton

    Canada

  • Kent Patrick

    University of Melbourne

    Australia

  • James Pawelski

    University of Pennsylvania

    USA

  • Mamphela Ramphele

    ReimagineSA, Tutu IP Trust, Club of Rome

    South Africa

  • Tayyab Rashid

    University of Melbourne

    Australia

  • Pninit Russo-Netzer

    Achva Academic College/Tel-Aviv University

    Israel

  • Carol Ryff

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    USA

  • Sari Sairanen

    Unifor

    Canada

  • Stacey Schaefer

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    USA

  • Heidi Schreiber-Pan

    Chesapeake Mental Health / Center for Nature Informed Therapy

    USA

  • Andy Schwartz

    Stony Brook University

    USA

  • Martin Seligman

    University of Pennsylvania

    USA

  • Kennon Sheldon

    University of Missouri

    USA

  • Tania Singer

    Max Planck Society

    Germany

  • Maria Sirois

    Wholebeing Institute

    USA

  • Marie Sizemore

    Robert Wood Medical School, Rutgers Institute for Health

    USA

  • Wendy-Ann Smith

    Buckinghamshire New University

    UK

  • Jill Sonke

    University of Florida, One Nation/One Project, EpiArts Lab

    USA

  • Michael F. Steger

    Colorado State University

    USA

  • Margarita Tarragona

    ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), Penn LPS Online

    Mexico

  • Birte Thissen

    Walter Benjamin Program

    Germany

  • Dwight Tse

    University of Strathclyde

    Scotland

  • Jennifer Uchendu

    SustyVibes

    Nigeria

  • Robert Vallerand

    Université du Québec à Montréal

    Canada

  • Tyler VanderWeele

    Harvard University, The Human Flourishing Program

    USA

  • Dianne Vella-Brodrick

    University of Melbourne

    Australia

  • Shun Wang

    Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

    China

  • Lea Waters

    University of Melbourne

    Australia

  • Taylor West

    University of North Carolina

    USA

  • Mathew White

    University of Adelaide

    Australia

  • Kenneth Wilcox

    Cornell University

    USA

  • Chiu Chi Yue

    Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong

  • Claudia Zavala

    Columbia University

    USA

  • John M. Zelenski

    Carleton University

    Canada

  • Maggie Zhao

    University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong

  • Jieni Zhou

    University of North Carolina

    USA