High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy 2025

Reimagining Life, Work & Community

Manchester, the United Nations & Virtual

2025 Silver Economy Forum Speakers

Speaker List In Formation

SEF 2025 will feature high-level business, government and MLO’s as well as academicians and KOL’s in our successful format of keynote speeches, intimate one-to-one conversations, and panel discussions.  

MANCHESTER

List of Speakers

H.E. Abdulaziz Al-Wasil

Permanent Representative to the United Nations of Saudi Arabia

Dr. Jane Barratt

Global Advisor, former Secretary General, International Federation on Ageing (IFA)

John Beard

Irene Diamond Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management, and Director, International Longevity Center-USA, Columbia University

Mayor Andy Burnham

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Catherine Collinson

CEO and President, Transamerica Institute

Councilor Bev Craig

Leader, Manchester City Council

Dame Sally Davies

UK Special Envoy on AMR

Mike Devoy

EVP, Medical Affairs and Pharmacovigilance and Chief Medical Officer, Bayer AG

Frances Fitzgerald

Former Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Justice and Equality

Navid Hanif

Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)

Karen Hertz

President, Fragility Fracture Network (FFN)

Sydney Hughes

CEO, SeniorProof

Martin Jones

Chief Executive Officer (UK & International), Home Instead

Terris King

Pastor, Liberty Grace, and former Senior Executive Director of Minority Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Stephen Kinnock

MP, Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care

Surya Kolluri

Head, TIAA Institute

Heidi Larson

Founding Director, the Vaccine Confidence Project, former head of Global Immunisation Communication at UNICEF

Abby Levy

Managing Director, Primetime

Peter Mangan

Freebird Club Founder and CEO

Paul McGarry

Head of the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub, Assistant Director of the Public Service Reform Directorate, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Melissa Gong Mitchell

Executive Director, GCOA

Joseph Musgraves

Chief Executive Officer, Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI)

Mohsen Naghavi

MD, MPH, PhD, Professor of Health Metric Science, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington

Cordi O’Hara

President, UK Electricity Distribution, National Grid

Kieran O’Donnell

TD, Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for Older People and at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with special responsibility for Housing

Michiel Peters

Head of Advocacy Initiatives, Global Coalition on Aging

Bill Pullman

Actor, Filmmaker, AMR Ambassador (Global Sepsis Alliance), Spokesperson for ARMADA

Amal Abou Rafeh

Head of Aging, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Martin Rutter

MD, FRCP, Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine, The University of Manchester

Stefano Scarpetta

Director of the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) Directorate, OECD

Lyndsey Simpson

CEO & Founder, 55 Redefined

David Sinclair

Chief Executive, ILC-UK

Pol Vandenbrouke

Chairman, Global Longevity Council, World Demographic and Aging Forum, Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Shionogi

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