Zhao Xian De
Professor Dr. Zhao Xiande is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at China-Europe International Business School. He is also special appointed as “One Thousand Talent Professor” under China’s Global Search of One Thousand Talent Theme and Director of Institute for Supply Chain Integration and Service Innovation of South...
Noritaka Tatehana 舘鼻 則孝
舘鼻則孝は、そのコレクション作品がファッション業界やアート界で賞賛されている靴デザイナーです。彼の作品は Lady Gaga や Daphne Guinness にこよなく愛されることで広く知られています。 ノリタカは、東京の中心部に位置する娯楽地区歌舞伎町でで銭湯｢歌舞伎湯｣を営む家系に生まれました。鎌倉で育ち、15歳の時に自分でドレスや靴を作り始めました。彼は東京藝術大学で美術と彫刻を学び、その後染色と製織を専攻しました。彼はまた、江戸時代 (1600年 – 1800年半ば) の遊女に関する文化ともに、高位の礼服を研究していました。 彼の現在のコレクションは、この時代に流行した高いプラットフォーム下駄の影響を示しています。また、その間、伝統的な日本の染色方法である友禅を使って着物や下駄を制作していました。 2010年、彼は自分のメゾン、NORITAKA TATEHANA を設立。彼の靴の製造工程のすべてのステップはデザイナー自身によっての手作りで、各ペアの完成までに数ヶ月かかります。
Jung Chang
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) she worked as a peasant, a “barefoot” doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978...
Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon is one of the world’s leading economists specialising in development economics. He lectures in the Economics of Development at Cambridge University and is a regular contributor to The Guardian since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. He is author of several widely discussed books including “23...
Sugata Mitra
TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra is at the forefront of a new approach to education which challenges how we teach today’s children in a technological age. He is Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, UK and previously a Visiting Professor at MIT in the US. Sugata is currently working...
Ann Osman
Ann Osman, also known by her fight name Athena is Malaysia’s 1st Female Mixed Martial Artist to be signed and to fight for one of the world’s biggest Martial Art promotion, ONE Championship. She has also garnered attention as the 1st Muslim female MMA athlete to be competing in a Mixed martial...
Nazir Razak
Nazir Razak graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economics and Politics, University of Bristol and obtained a Master of Philosophy in Development Economics from the University of Cambridge. He was a Chevening Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in 2010 and a Transformational Leadership Fellow...
David Back
David Back is the co-founder of Zoomcar, the first car rental company in India to focus on “western-style” rentals with no chauffeur. Zoomcar launched in February 2013 with 7 cars in Bangalore. By the time Back left at the end of May 2015, it had grown to over 1,500...
Narayana Murthy
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He is the Founder of Infosys Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981, served as the CEO during 1981-2002, and as the Chairman...
