Naif Al-Mutawa
Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is the Founder and CEO of Teshkeel Media Group, for whom he created THE 99, the first group of comic superheroes born of an Islamic archetype. Teshkeel Media Group won the Media category of the 2014 Islamic Economy Award. Al-Mutawa received the award from His Highness...
Lucian Tarnowski
Lucian Tarnowski is Founder and CEO of BraveNew.com, the intelligent knowledge sharing platform that enables collaborative learning by creating engaging online spaces for professional communities, with the view that communities help break down the knowledge silos across organisations. Tarnowski has been honoured as a Young Global Leader by the...
Nick Wheeler
Nick Wheeler is Founder and Managing Director of Charles Tyrwhitt, the leading British Brand, and multi-award winning British multi-channel retailer, selling shirts and other clothing. In 2012 he won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year UK award. Wheeler found the inspiration for Charles Tyrwhitt in 1986, while...
Vijay Govindarajan
Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation...
Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks is an expert on the science of innovation. He writes a weekly column for the New Statesman and is a consultant editor at New Scientist magazine. He is the author of At The Edge of Uncertainty, The Secret Anarchy of Scienceand the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things...
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson is lead singer of Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden is an institution embodying fearless creative independence with a following that spans every culture and generation. Their latest album “The Book Of Souls” (2015) went straight to No 1 across the world in 24 countries, becoming their fastest ever...
Varun Agarwal
Varun Agarwal is an Indian first-generation entrepreneur, film maker and author. Born on December 6, 1987, in Bangalore, India, he did his schooling from Bishop Cotton Boys’ School and started engineering in CMR Institute of Technology Bangalore, Karnataka. He decided to drop out of college because he lacked interest...
Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander was the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra for over seventeen years, and of Boston’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra for nearly a quarter of a century. He is known throughout the United States as one of the most inspiring teachers and trainers of young musicians, as well as...
Sayeeda Warsi
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is a lawyer, author, business woman and member of the House of Lords. She was Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet Minister; Chairman of the Conservative party 2010-12 and a Minister at the Foreign Office 2010-14. Daughter of an immigrant mill worker, Warsi rose to become an Advisor...
Janjaap Ruijssenaars
Janjaap Ruijssenaars is an award winning architect who is currently teaching at the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects, the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam and the Academy of Architecture Rotterdam. He founded ‘Universe Architecture’ in 2000 which works in the fields of urbanism, architecture, design and research. His company became...
