Nicholas Christakis
Nicholas Christakis is a sociologist and physician who conducts research in the area of biosocial science, investigating the biological predicates and consequences of social phenomena. Christakis directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, where he is appointed as the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science,...
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...
Paul Collier
Paul Collier is one of the world’s leading experts on developing markets and financial opportunities within the poorest countries, and an innovative thinker about Europe’s migrant crisis. Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Oxford University. He is currently advisor to the Strategy and Policy Department of...
Lars Thomsen
Lars Thomsen is an influential futurist and trends researcher. He is the founder and CEO of Swiss based think tank, Future Matters. Thomsen has worked on future issues for the past 25 years, consulting with corporations, institutions and government bodies on the development of future strategies and business models. ...
Mohamed El Baradei
Mohamed El Baradei was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organisation under the auspices of the United Nations, from 1997 to 2009. In 2005, Mr El Baradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to prevent nuclear...
Michael Bergdahl
Michael Bergdahl is an international business speaker and coach, bestselling author, and business turnaround specialist. He is a global authority on the best practices of Walmart, the biggest private employer and largest retailer in the world. Bergdahl draws on a lifetime of hands-on experience in the business world, and...
Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli is an entrepreneur, author, and founder of the Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI) at the UN University in Tokyo and The Global ZERI Network foundation. Its aims are to design and implement practical, affordable and sustainable solutions, for a new economic model of societies and industries...
John-Dylan Haynes
John-Dylan Haynes is a leading neuroscientist. He has been Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain signals at the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin since 2006, and Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig since 2005. His research focuses on...
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...
Vincent Laudet
Born in 1963, Vincent Laudet is currently director of the Marine Station of Banyuls-sur-Mer and professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI). After obtaining his PhD in biology at the Pasteur Institute in Lille in 1992 he founded a research team working on the role of...
