LEADERSHIP

The Garibay Institute's Global Board of Directors, Officers, and Trustees

"Diplomacy is human systems. It is industry and algorithm agnostic, yet not confined to treaties, speeches, or state-to-state signaling. It is the careful management of interconnected relationships that operate as a system, shaped by feedback loops, incentives, norms, emotions, and credibility. In these settings, trust functions as infrastructure. When trust rises, coordination becomes more feasible and less costly. When trust erodes, everything becomes harder, slower, and more fragile.”

- Fernando Garibay, Chairman and Founder

Executive Leadership

Prof. Fernando Garibay, M.A.,

3x Doctoral/Ph.D Candidate

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer

The Garibay Institute

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer for the Garibay Institute, Prof. at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Prof. at Herberger ASU, Visiting lecturer at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, GRAMMY® & BMI Award Winning Producer.

Prof. Ronald C. Gunnell

President

The Garibay Institute

President of the Garibay Institute, Global Envoy for the Tabernacle Choir Presidency (2000-Current), Founder of Health Benefits America (HBA)(1986-1998), Ambassador, World Trade Center Utah.

Board of Directors

Dadan Pahlawan Irawan

Director

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Strategic Adviser to the Highest Offices of State including the United States, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, China, Singapore, Republic of Indonesia, among others, Prominent Indonesian Entrepreneur and the Chairman of the 4848 Group.

Stephen Ibaraki

Director

The Garibay Institute

Founder for AI For Good, Investor, Futurist.

Valarie Sheppard

Strategic Advisor

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Senior VP, Comptroller and Treasure of Procter & Gamble (1986-2021), Director of the Main Office of The Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank (2014-2020).

Stephen Hecht

Director

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Serves in senior leadership within Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Co-Founder and Chief Executive Peacemaker of Million Peacemakers, a nonprofit advancing the Nonflict® way to conflict transformation worldwide.

Shay Sasson

Research Director of Global Security and Intelligence

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AI Cyber Attack-Defense Founder, AGI Robotics Technologist, Augmented Reality Pioneer, builder of one of the early AI systems, three-time Military Excellence Award recipient, Fortune 500 AI Whisperer, founder of an AI Psychiatric Research Lab.

Board of Trustees

Dr. Penny Low

Trustee

The Garibay Institute

Former Member of Parliament of Singapore (2001-2015), Founder of The World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders, Founder of Social Innovation Park Ltd, Yale World Fellows Advisory Board, Asia Society Global Council Board, Imperial College of London Leonardo Centre Advisory Board.

Dr. Simran Chana

Director, Frontier Technologies Laboratory,

University of Cambridge

The Garibay Institute

Surgeon, Scientist, Artist, and Strategic Technologist, Directs The Frontier Technologies Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Founding Member of Cambridge’s Standard Blockchain Internetworking Protocol (SBIP), Executive Committee Member of NANDA (Internet of Agents) at the MIT Media Lab, Advisor to the Nobel Sustainability Trust.

Prof. Fabian Koss

Trustee

The Garibay Institute

Executive at Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (1994-2018), X-Prize Foundation (Current).

Soichiro "Swimmy" Minami

Trustee

The Garibay Institute

Founder & CEO, Visional (including Biz Reach, the LinkedIn of Japan), Co-Owner of The New York Yankees (2023-Current).

Paul Gordon Emerson

Research Institute Relations

The Garibay Institute

Executive & Co-Artistic Director of Company | E and a Leading Choreographer, Cultural Diplomacy Practitioner, and Lecturer who works with U.S. Embassies using performance and media to connect people.