Robert Phillips
Robert Phillips is the co-founder of Jericho Chambers, a progressive strategy consultancy and think tank. He was formerly President and CEO, EMEA, of Edelman, the world’s largest Public Relations firm. He was also Global Chair of its Public Engagement and Future Strategies Group. He is recognised as an authority...
Tenzin P. Rinpoche
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Rinpoche is a world revered Buddhist monk, renowned for his humanitarian aid and conflict resolution work, his expertise in the fields of leadership, ethics, philosophy and cultural understanding. Priyadarshi is the Founder and Director of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at...
Elizabeth Dearborn Davis
Elizabeth is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Akilah Institute. The Akilah Institute for Women is a college for young women in Kigali, Rwanda. Akilah empowers young women in East Africa to transform their lives by equipping them with the skills, knowledge and confidence to become leaders and entrepreneurs....
Jeremy Leggett
Jeremy Leggett is founder and chairman of Solarcentury, currently one of Europe’s fastest growing renewable energy companies. He is also founder of SolarAid, one of Africa’s fastest-growing poverty-alleviation charities, set up with Solarcentury profits. He is a founding director of the world’s first private equity investment fund for renewables,...
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov was the youngest ever World Chess Champion. In 2005, he announced his retirement from competitive chess after twenty years as the No 1 ranked player in the World. In the 1984 World Championship in Moscow, Anatoly Karpov met the young man who would offer him the greatest...
Nora Berra
Nora Berra served as the Minister of Seniors and then as the Minister of Health in France from 2009-12. She was appointed by President Sarkozy to the head of one of the most successful healthcare systems in the world. She started her professional career as a medical doctor in...
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is renowned as the inventor of blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he was one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright...
Ger Graus
Ger Graus is a renowned figure in the field of education where he is currently Director of Education for KidZania. Previously, he was the Founder of the Children’s University Trust. KidZania, where children aged 4-14 can experience the world of work through role-play, is designed to inspire and empower:...
Alexei Kudrin
Alexei Kudrin was the Minister of Finance in Russia from 2000-2011, the longest-serving Finance Minister in post-Soviet Russia. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2000–04 and again beginning in 2007. As Finance Minister, Kudrin was widely credited with prudent fiscal management, commitment to tax and budget reform...
Beau Lotto
Beau Lotto is a globally renowned neuro-scientist who specialises in perception research, and has for years wowed the world of science with work that blurs the boundaries between neuro¬science and the arts. As well as bending the science of perception, he is also trying to transform the way people...
