Keller Rinaudo
Keller Rinaudo is a robotics and healthcare innovator who is showing the world how drone technology can be used to save lives. Rinaudo is the CEO and co-founder of Zipline, which manages a system of custom robotic aircraft specifically designed to carry life-saving medical supplies to areas in need....
Joel Kotkin
Described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally recognised authority on global, economic, political and social trends. His newest book, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us, was published in 2016. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman...
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was named by The Economist as running one of the two most important think tanks in the world; TIME magazine chose him as one of the five leading Latin American innovators of the century and Forbes Magazine named Hernando as one of 15 innovators “who will...
Michal Kosinski
Michal is a psychologist and data scientist. His research focuses on studying humans through the lenses of digital footprints left behind while using digital platforms and devices. He is an Assistant Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Michal holds a PhD in Psychology from University of Cambridge, an...
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry is the most renowned French astronaut, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the French Air Force. In 1985 he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chretien, when he flew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G Discovery. Baudry became a CNES astronaut in 1980. For...
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,...
Graham Weale
Graham Weale is an expert on Energy Transitions both in Europe and the USA. He has a deep understanding of their political, economic and technological dimensions explaining how end-goals can be achieved at the lowest cost to society. Weale has the ability to highlight the difficult issues that politicians...
Han Seung-Soo
Dr Han Seung-Soo was Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 2008-09. He was recently appointed the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water. Prime Minister Han had a distinguished political, diplomatic and administrative career serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance...
Bernard Harrison
With a zoological career spanning 38 years, Bernard Harrison has practically become synonymous with the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) Group, one of the finest and most profitable zoological institutions in the world. The WRS boasted a net profit of US$10 million in2009, and operates the Singapore Zoological Gardens, Night...
Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby is Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mallaby wrote his acclaimed book on Alan Greenspan, following five years of research and unlimited access to the former Federal Reserve chairman. His previous book, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and...
