Meet the Team
Summit Overalls
The Overalls take overall command of the Summit with influence over every aspect of its planning and implementation. The three are the main outlet for innovation each year and as the representatives of the Summit they meet with key partners to discuss the aims and logistics of the weekend. On the weekend itself, the Overalls will be responsible for the general image of the Summit and the organisation of the summit's extensive team. They will also be on hand to answer any questions from delegates, speakers and sponsors.
Daniel Rêgo
Daniel joined WES in 2023 as one of the Press and Communications coordinators. He is a final year BSc Economics student from Brasilia, Brazil. Having attended WES as a delegate in his first year at Warwick, Daniel was marvelled by the scale of the event and by the calibre of the speakers at the summit, which motivated him to apply to be part of the executive team for the following year. Whenever not looking for the next best niche study spot on campus, Daniel can be found scrolling through the WES website or wandering around the woodlands of Canley looking for cool wildlife to photograph. His favourite memories from WES are organising a live interview between the Governor of the Bank of Portugal and a news crew as well as hosting delegations of student journalists for the first time at the conference. Now as one of the “CEOs” of WES, he hopes to pull off a great summit in 2025 alongside Susan, Lee Jun and the rest of the team.
Susan Huang
Meet Susan, one of the Overalls of WES2025 and a final year Economics student. Having had a great experience in the Marketing team for the past two years, she's excited for another year with WES! Alongside Daniel and Lee Jun, Susan hopes to increase WES’ presence on campus, expand the reach of external delegates and help organise a fantastic tour. Her favourite moment from last year, aside from the thrill of seeing the summit come together, was the mystery tour where she formed close bonds with fellow WES members.
Aside from WES, Susan is a big foodie who consumes an abnormally large amount of cheesecake and loves exploring new cafes and restaurants, so do give her any recommendations if you have any! She has played the piano for many years and has fostered a love for classical music but is also a basic pop lover at heart (Taylor Swift <3). She also dabbles in crafts here and there, with her current obsession being origami. This year, you’ll probably spot her in FAB deep in discussion with Daniel and Lee Jun but she’s always up for a chat, so feel free to say hi!
Lee Jun Foo
Lee Jun is a final year Economics student from Malaysia. He joined WES in his second year as an Operations Coordinator, embarrassingly having never attended a WES event, but gave his best shot at delivering a smoothly run summit. His favourite memories of WES, aside from the fabulous summit are groggy memories of the ball where he broke a wine glass and gave the “best” Friday night debrief. Despite his occasional clumsiness, he attempts to deliver stronger operational efficiency than ever before, revamping the sponsor lineup, and an unforgettable ball. In his free time, can be found walking around campus sporting his headphones that never leave his side (separation anxiety) probably listening to Cautious Clay, using Susan and Daniel as guinea pigs for testing his new recipes, or wondering when the Red Sox can win the World Series.
Talks Team
The Talks Team is an integral part of WES. It is responsible for assembling the speaker lineup as well as guiding the Summit’s key themes and discussions. From Nobel laureates to sitting heads of state, the team has a strong record in welcoming some of the world's most distinguished public figures. In addition, Talks handles speaker logistics and panel formats, working closely with the other teams to ensure each edition of the Summit is a success. Prior to the Summit, the team delivers a range of additional events such as one-to-one interviews, and standalone keynote speeches in its WES Presents series. Nonetheless, its unwavering focus is to ensure WES 2025 boasts the Summit’s most diverse, engaging and world-renowned lineup to date.
Elissa Saygin
Elissa is a second-year Economics student from South East London (as she so likes to mention every 5 minutes). She joined WES last year as a talks team member, having survived frantically writing emails to speakers weekly, she has returned for her second year in WES. When she is not stressing about her degree, WES or really any minor inconvenience that comes her way, Elissa can be found in FAB fuelling her slight coffee addiction (you know it's bad when the baristas have memorised her order) or procrastinating any sort of task she has to do (which may involve getting a coffee or growing her 8+ hours of screen time). This year, alongside Lydia and Aryan, she aims to continue frantically writing emails to speakers (likely including more sleepless nights) attempting to grow the diverse lineup that WES has to offer!
Aryan Ahmed
Aryan is a second-year Economics, Psychology, and Philosophy student from Mumbai who joined WES last year as a Talks Team Member. When he's not playing football or hitting the gym, you can usually find him at Fusion pretending to be a formula one driver on the F1 simulator. Aryan loves trying new foods and is always up for a culinary adventure. In his free time he enjoys reading books, watching terrible Bollywood movies or simply having a good chat. Passionate about delivering impactful talks, he is excited to collaborate with his talks teammates and friends Elissa and Lydia, to ensure WES25 features a stellar lineup. Always approachable and enthusiastic, Aryan is open to chat anytime, so feel free to reach out!
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Lydia Ha
Lydia is a second-year Economics student from China who has lived almost half of her life in Japan (but don't ask her if she can speak Japanese), and now calls Leeds her home in the UK. In her free time, she loves to listen to music, play volleyball, and can always be found eating and trying out new food! The only time you won't see her smiling or laughing is when she's completely locked in and grinding on sending out invites for WES2025. Like her fellow Talks Coordinators, Aryan and Elissa, she joined WES last year as a Talks Team Member, and is thrilled to be able to work with them again for the 24th edition of the Summit to deliver a spectacular speaker lineup!
Operations Team
The Operations Team is responsible for handling the logistics and operations throughout the year and for the Summit weekend itself. It is the team at the Warwick Economics Summit that manages and organises the Summit activity. The team is responsible for taking care of all of the background activities that keep the Summit running efficiently behind the scenes and ensuring that the delegates of the Summit ultimately receive the highest quality of experience at the University of Warwick. They also oversee the purchase of merchandise in a cost-efficient way and ensure that the weekend operations run smoothly. The Operations team works closely with other teams to bring our marketing strategy to life and maintain a physical presence on campus and beyond.
Iman El Kohen
Iman is a second-year Economics, Politics, & International Studies student from Morocco who first joined WES as an Operations team member. She is very passionate about her degree subjects, and WES was the perfect society for her to put her passions into perspective as she's always open to #JoinTheDebate. She also co-hosted WES2024 as master of ceremonies, where she had the opportunity to interact with speakers and students from all around the world. In fact, she loved her WES experience so much that she decided to continue as an Operations Coordinator for WES2025. She is looking forward to coordinating the logistics behind the most prominent student-led summit in Europe with her teammates.
Besides WES, Iman likes playing tennis, travelling and cooking for her friends.
Beware, you’ll never catch her on campus (or anywhere else really) without an iced latte; if not, she’ll likely offer you to get one with her, and with reason, as she’ll need much caffeine to help run the summit this year!
Adam Tan Hsien Jien
Adam is a second-year Philosophy, Politics & Economics student from Malaysia who previously joined WES2024 as an Operations team member. He was first drawn to WES by his profound curiosity towards the topics being discussed at hand, but found himself inclined to stay because of the people he got to work together with.
This upcoming year, Adam hopes to put his new skills to the test in organising WES2025 as one of the Operations team’s coordinators, and working with the brightest new minds in curating an unforgettable experience for everybody involved.
Outside of WES, if he isn’t shopping for new WES merch like it’s retail therapy, or “networking” with the food truck vendors out on the piazza, you’d chance to find Adam holed up in his kitchen, R&D-ing all sorts of new recipes, or convincing his friends to fly out to France with him every other weekend.
All in all, Adam’s had a great experience with WES this past year, and is hoping to bring the same great vibes (and hopefully even more) for WES2025!
Daphne Poirier
Born in Paris and raised in Texas, Daphne is a second-year bachelor student majoring in Accounting and Finance. She has attended prestigious conferences worldwide, including those hosted by the DFW World Affairs Council in the US, the European Forum Alpbach in Austria, and the POWR Earth Summit in France, where she met President Obama. Drawing from her extensive experience at these summits, she aims to implement the best aspects at WES 2025 to offer an unprecedented experience. For Daphne, nothing is out of reach. As a child, she collected snowglobes from every city she visited, marveling at how those delicate crystal spheres represented a world within her grasp. This sense of limitless possibility is what she loves about WES: bringing the world together for a weekend. A summit, like a snowglobe, is delicate. To run smoothly, it demands meticulous attention to detail while maintaining a global overview of operations, pushing its organizers beyond their limits when fatigue sets in. The fulfillment it brings is unparalleled. As the operations coordinator, Daphne is proud to orchestrate this annual rendezvous.
Technology Team
The Tech Team is responsible for the maintenance of the Warwick Economics Summit website and all the technical aspects that the Summit requires throughout the year. Due to its hybrid nature, WES 2025 promises to be a very exciting and equally challenging summit for the team. For the in-person summit, the team is focusing on delivering an app and installing event equipment to make the event as smooth as possible. The team is also working on creating a virtual platform for the event to be streamed on so virtual attendees do not miss out.
Greta Topalova
Greta is a second year Economics, Politics and International Studies (EPAIS) student. She was born in Bulgaria but grew up in Spain and will remind you constantly that everything in Spain is better. She first joined WES as a Tech Team member where she was in charge of developing the application and was on mic duty at the Summit. This year she is thrilled to continue improving the tech they use to ensure the Summit runs smoothly and be part of the team again but this time as a coordinator. She is most fond of the week of the Summit where she worked with everyone in the team and celebrated how well everything turned out at the ball with her friends. Catch Greta with a coffee in hand because Tech is going to need all the energy to ensure only the best is delivered.
Tauseef Parkar
Tauseef is a third year Philosophy, Politics, and Economics student from Mumbai, India. When not declaring Chelsea as the biggest club in London, he's either at the arts centre, updating his Letterboxd with questionable movie ratings (hailing "The Departed" as cinematic perfection), or in the library allegedly 'studying'. His playlist jumps from heavy metal to Bollywood hits without warning, mirroring his bookshelf's chaotic blend of Dostoevsky, Stephen King, and comic books. In his free time, Tauseef enjoys playing table tennis and attempts football with more enthusiasm than skill. After enjoying his stint on last year's tech team, Tauseef is back as a coordinator, aiming to make WES2025 unforgettable for both in-person and virtual attendees.
Sahar Sohail
Sahar is a third year computer science student who very quickly went from hardly knowing what WES is beyond its name to becoming a member of the team. If she is not sorting out tech matters, you will be sure to find her working on her mountains of coursework or spending time in nature. By joining the WES team, she will be able to contribute to an impactful student summit, gain more tech experience and add another half zip fleece to her ever-growing collection (that is probably already big enough)!
Sponsorships & Partnerships Team
The Sponsorships and Partnerships team (S&P team) is tasked with delivering the budget required to finance the summit and further events. The team works closely with university departments, corporate sponsors and IGO’s such as the European Parliament to form relationships that benefit WES attendees. Throughout the academic year, the S&P team organises career events with their sponsors and partners and promotes graduate and undergraduate opportunities. During the summit, it hosts panel discussions featuring representatives from corporations and moderated by S&P team members. Internally, the team is responsible for managing the budget, controlling budget spending, and making the most out of one of the largest budgets on campus.
Parth Malik
Parth is a second year Economics student from Gurgaon in India who joined WES as an S&P team member last year. He is one of the only people who enjoys British weather (bring on the cold and rain). A fun fact about him is that he has never seen snowfall and slept through it last year when it happened at Warwick. He enjoys reading all kinds of books, watching movies and is also a stand-up comedy fan. You can find him at Curiositea drinking a brightly coloured drink or next to the Indian Food Stall with a Chicken 65 wrap.
He aims to diversify the nature of Sponsors at WES while increasing their involvement by hosting more events around the year!
Celestine Hung
Meet Celestine, a second-year Economics student from Hong Kong, who joined WES last year as an S&P team member. With an enriching experience last year managing some of the key corporate relationships that are critical to the summit’s success, she is very keen to bring in new sponsors to WES, and is excited to welcome new team members this year! When she’s not camping out at Pret studying or scouting for sponsors on LinkedIn, you can probably expect her to be roaming around in London or at airport security waiting to board a flight to a random European city! Celestine also loves hip-hop dance, her overpriced morning coffee, fashion, and cooking her favourite home-cooked meals. She is looking forward to making WES2025 the best edition yet!
Iram Tammam
Iram is a second-year economics student from Bahrain who joined S&P last year as a team member. When he isn't busy pledging his allegiance to WES through relentless emails and vital sponsorship calls, you'll find him questioning his unbridled loyalty to Manchester United (Ten-Hag in btw). Iram's a huge movie fan whose favourite show is The Sopranos, and he *will* watch pretty much anything you recommend him (even a 7-hour, 30-minute Hungarian movie). Iram is looking forward to taking on the S&P mantle as a coordinator heading into WES 2025, in hopes of securing as many top firms as possible. Even if it means tolerating Parth's painfully unfunny jokes for another whole year!
Marketing Team
The Marketing Team shapes the face of WES. Through social media, piazza stalls and podcast, Marketing aims to reach those interested in joining the debate. It is a close collaborator with all teams to show what WES' talks, events, sponsors, blogs and more, is really about. More importantly, Marketing is keen to find new ways to grow WES' audience, as it reaches its 21st year. On a practical level, the Marketing team is sustained by a mix of Canva, Photoshop, After Effects and Final Cut Pro, and the organised chaos of post schedules.
Sahra Osman
Sahra is a final year Economics student from West London. She didn’t know what WES was in first year (Blasphemy!!). But after seeing her flatmate’s wonderful experience in WES she joined as a Marketing Team member last year. Sahra is a passionate film enthusiast and lover of anything related to urban planning. With the help of Michelle and Marcus she’s looking forward to making sure no one is a clueless as her and everyone on campus knows WES!!
Marcus Choi
Marcus is a second-year Economics student from Hong Kong. You will always see him around WES holding his camera and staring at you through his lenses. When he is not making posts on Canva or editing photos, you can probably spot him in the basketball court outside of New Sherbourne yelling Luka Magic (he is a huge Maverick fan), or checking if Manchester United has conceded another goal (he is also a Man United fan). Marcus is confident that WES2025 will be a success, but he is more excited about the WES tour (of which he missed last year) and the resurgence of WES United this year!
Michelle Shin
Michelle is a second-year economics student from London, looking to expand WES’s presence both on campus and globally. Her favourite part of the summit is bringing students from all around the world together. She is a big fan of art, and is always looking out for a good exhibition for her next gallery trip! She loves that she can tap into her creative side with economics through marketing. In her spare time, she enjoys inviting her friends round for dinner, going on walks, or playing tennis with her family! A fun fact about Michelle is that she’s seen Stormzy walk his dog…
External Relations & Hospitality Team
The External Relations and Hospitality Team (ERH) is responsible for working with students across the globe to promote the WES brand and create the most diverse WES to date. The summit attracts students from top universities from all regions around the world, last year hosting over 1300 delegates from 250+ institutions. Prior to the summit, the team recruits for and manages our Ambassadors and Representative Schemes, which allow students to lead delegations from their respective universities. Through events and collaboration with other teams, ERH also works on ways to boost WES engagement, foster networking opportunities between delegates, boost student engagement with WES and make the summit accessible to high schools. During the summit, the team handles the logistics and accommodation for the delegations, ensuring they have a smooth and memorable WES experience.
Ng Jing Wen
Jing Wen is a second year student studying Accounting and Finance from Singapore. Her favourite music is from Kpop artist Twice and she is one of the top 0.5% of Twice listeners according to Spotify. She loves to play board games and she is currently hooked on Cluedo! Her best memory of WES would definitely be during tour when they went on a nature walk and saw cows!
Mathew Johnson
Mathew is a second-year Economics student from Manchester, or India (the identity crisis is a touchy subject). When he’s not arriving fashionably late to team meetings or watching The Devil Wears Prada for the 17th time (2 hours of Meryl Streep, what’s not to love), you’ll find him breaking strings on the badminton court, bopping to Spanish music and shadow-batting in public thinking he’s Virat Kohli - if you’re ever down to watch an India game, hit him up! Above all, he is looking forward to meeting delegates from all over the world, and is hard at work to ensure that WES2025 is our most international edition yet.
Vivian Wong
Vivian is a second-year Economics student from Singapore. She enjoys learning new sports and has recently taken up cheerleading as a flyer (making falling on her head a weekly occurrence). When she is not re-watching How I Met Your Mother or Modern Family for the millionth time, you’ll find her in the Sports Hub dancing, stunting, or playing badminton, going on the longest walks known to man, and reminiscing about her Overwatch and Call of Duty days. She often misses food from home and is always down to explore good food places! Most importantly, she desires for WES2025 to be the most diverse and international edition to date, and is committed towards making it a reality.
Press & Communications Team
Communication is an essential part of WES. The Press and Communications team ensures that important conversations and events - both behind the scenes and during the Summit - are portrayed effectively and widely across a breadth of media channels. By working with journalists and initiating partnerships - with both student-run and industry-leading media organisations, on a local, national and international level - they cultivate the face of the conference. Their work ranges from summarising talks, to interviewing prominent guests, to producing articles that promote debate and broaden horizons. While their schedule is predictably hectic during the Summit weekend, we are busy all year looking for exciting opportunities to cooperate and spread the word about WES! Don’t hesitate to get in touch with the #pressteambestteam at presscoordinator@warwickeconomicssummit.com
Veeraja Kamthe
Veeraja is a second-year devout Economics student from India who is looking forward to continuing her WES experience in P&C. When she's not trudging through her degree, she's probably cooking sub-par meals for herself, at the student cinema watching whatever's on tonight, or reading another patronising book that she's going to rate one star. She's excited to outdo every past P&C coord and elevate the team's crucial role in the summit. She also looks forward to forming a joyous team and making fond memories as a unit.
Mariano de las Casas
Mariano is a second year EPAIS student from Lima, Peru. He joined WES in his first year as part of the P&C team where he enjoyed building relationships with journalists to improve the Summit's coverage. When he's not in the library you can find Mariano playing pool at the SU with friends, or talking with his friends about the latest developments on the world stage. As a faithful Peruvian, Mariano lives to eat, so you can also find him trying new recipes from around the world in the kitchen, slowly adding them to his repertoire of dishes. This year, Mariano hopes to significantly grow the WES Journal and help lead other P&C initiatives that will increase summit engagement year-round.
Sophia Skenderis
Sophia is a final years Economics student who has spent the last two years as a part of WES in both the Socials and Press and Communciations teams. In her free time, you will find her reporting on women’s news on Warwick student radio and campaigning for students to start their own show! Sophia hopes to convince students of all degrees who are passionate about changing the world, global inequality or international politics that WES 2025 is the place to be. She’s excited for the year to come and is enthusiastic about getting many student journalists from across the country and beyond involved!
Socials Event Team
The main goal of the Socials & Alumni Engagement Team is to help create a strong bond between team members, which is more crucial than ever after the virtual nature of the conference last year. We aim to create socials and challenges to engage all members during the year, encouraging bonding across all teams. Highlights include the WES Tour, where we aim to improve the team dynamic and build connections between members. Another is the WES Ball, where we strive to make the event an unforgettable one. We are also responsible for managing the diverse network of WES alumni, keeping them up-to-date on current WES events.
Maria Grigorova
Maria is a second year Economics student and comes from BULGARIA! Despite not being part of WES 2024, she is very glad and excited to work with everyone this year and mainly create unforgettable memories! She is a keen restaurant lover, so there is a high chance of seeing her having lunch in Leam :)) She is currently learning to play the guitar, but bear with her if it doesn’t sound in tune, at least she can sing. If you do talk to her, she would always invite you to visit her home country. Although, she always complains of the UK weather, she actually enjoys the winter, but only because of skiing.
Aran Sanghani
Aran Sanghani is a second year Economics student. He was born on diwali which basically means he is the special one. He plays lots of tennis and other racquet sports. His favourite memory of WES is the domestic tour, where last year the society went to Bristol and took part in team building activities in the surrounding countryside. He hopes to make sure tour will be just as fun this year!