Advisory Board

We are honored to count the following individuals as members of our MUN Impact Advisory Board.

Hashem Bajwa

Hashem is a creative leader that uses imagination, intuition and inclusivity to solve problems and create experiences that bring people together. He is currently head of global strategy at Apple, focused on the network of 500+ Apple Stores around the world and how they have a meaningful role in their local communities. At Apple Hashem led the transformation of the Apple retail experience with the creation of Today at Apple, which brings free hands-on programming to inspire and educate people to be more creative with technology and liberal arts everyday. Prior to Apple Hashem held leadership roles in creative agencies working with global brands to help them connect with audiences in new ways. Hashem has always believed that global problems require global solutions. He studied international relations at New School University in the heart of New York City and began his career working at the United Nations in communications and media. Model UN set his trajectory early by building skills in storytelling and debate, exposing him to how our world is interconnected and inspiring him about bringing people together behind a common cause.
 

 

Peter Cameron-Burnett

Peter is a business and technology consultant and systems designer with 25 years experience. He has worked with Virgin, Hitachi, Euromoney Investor as well as many SME’s and start-ups – in some cases helping them grow into 8 figure businesses. He has run multi-million-pound developments and transformational projects, as well as running international delegate business & entrepreneurship conferences working with people such as Sir Richard Branson, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. He has created and taught business, marketing and entrepreneurship courses in UK, Africa & Asia. He has also set up and run many charitable missions delivering educational materials and computers to orphaned and disadvantaged children in areas such as Western Sahara, Eastern Europe and Asia. 

Betsy Dennig

Betsy Dennig has over 20 years of experience working in healthcare marketing communications. She has extensive experience in corporate and product branding and tactical execution and has a background in medical education, publication planning and KOL/advocacy development. Betsy develops strategically driven communication plans and builds lasting relationships with her clients and colleagues. Her strong leadership, decision-making and organizational skills along with her dedication, positive nature and can-do attitude, has enabled her to build a successful marketing company over the last 14 years. She’s an expert at listening to clients’ interests and voices and translating them into one-of-a-kind solutions that generate outstanding results. She received her bachelor’s degree in business communications and art from Bucknell University.

Paul Johnson

Over the last 20+ years, Paul has been a pioneer, creator and growth maker of digital products & services in many industries including tv, entertainment, sports, gaming, publishing, commerce and telecoms.  As a world traveller he has experience in different countries, multi-national, sme and start-up businesses around the world including UK, Europe, Eurasia, APAC and the USA.  On a mission to help make the online world stay a useful, fun, engaging, safe, educational and rewarding place for future generations.  Looking forward to advising MUN Impact as part of their digital and online community initiatives.

Angela Pan

Angela is an independent consultant specializing in strategy, product management and product planning. Prior to her current role, she worked at Microsoft and Amazon, launching products and setting product strategy. Angela began her career with McKinsey as a consultant in their New York office. 

 

Angela spends her free time engaged in executive coaching assignments around Asia. She is also an active member of the community, having served on school boards, PTA committees as well as Scouting organizations.

Russ Pillar

With a passion for opportunity democratization, youth advocacy, and environmental defense and superpowers that include building direct-to-consumer mission-driven businesses, managing geographically distributed teams, and grappling with the challenges of rapid growth, Russ Pillar has spent most of the last three decades running some of the world’s best loved and well-known consumer brands including the Virgin Entertainment Group, the CBS Internet Group, the Viacom Digital Media Group, Prodigy Internet, and the Los Angeles Marathon, among others. He’s served on the Board of Directors of more than three dozen for-profit public and private consumer-facing direct-to-consumer retail, media, sports, and entertainment companies; his non-profit Board service has included Heal the Bay, The Nature Conservancy (Idaho), the Brown University Sports Foundation, the Ocean Institute, the Ronald McDonald House Children’s Charities (Florida), and more. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Janice Richardson

Janice Richardson, an Australian-French citizen, is an international expert and university lecturer on digital literacy, children’s rights and online wellbeing.  She advises governments (Morocco, Seychelles, Chad, Gabon, Luxembourg …), institutions (Council of Europe, UNESCO, UNICEF, ITU…) and industry (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Huawei…) on digital education. She is author/co-author of 14 books, and has coordinated several international networks including the European Commission’s Safer Internet network (Insafe – 31countries) and ENABLE, a network to tackle bullying through social-emotional competency development. She is a founder of Safer Internet Day (celebrated since 2004, now in more than 150 countries), and winner of a Facebook Digital Citizenship Grant (2012), a European Diversity Award (2013) for Outstanding use of digital technology in education, and a Telefono Azzurro Award for child protection (2017). Since 2016, Janice has worked on the Council of Europe’s Digital Citizenship Education programme and its child protection programme in Morocco (also co-author of a half dozen CoE publications), sits on Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Board, Twitter’s Trust and Security Council, and the Power of Zero steering committee on early childhood education. With her team, she creates and monitors the pedagogical content for the Huawei Tech4All SmartBus (face-to-face and remote learning programmes). Since 2017 she has been working with youth and teacher-mentors from 10 EU countries (the European Council for Digital Good) on issues such as the GDPR, digital citizenship and children’s school manuals, working to support teachers and parents during the coronavirus lockdown.