Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Acumen Fund invests patient capital to identify, strengthen, and scale business models that effectively serve the poor and champions this approach as an...
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo
Isabel Behncke is a primatologist at Oxford University. The aim of her work is to discover how can our evolutionary past help us understand human social behaviour – and how can we apply this knowledge to improve human well being. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms which provide...
Gerd Leipold
Gerd Leipold was International Executive Director of Greenpeace until 2009, a position he has held since 2001. In this role he lead the global organisation, overseeing all its activities. He has had a long association with Greenpeace, having worked for the organisation in various capacities for over 20 years....
Liz Earle
Liz Earle is known for her passion for beauty, natural health and wellbeing, as well as for campaigning on sustainable health and social issues. The bestselling author of over 30 books covering a wide variety of health, beauty and lifestyle issues, Liz has hosted numerous television programmes and is...
Thomas Kolditz
Tom Kolditz is Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. Previous to July 2015 he was Professor in the Practice of Leadership and Management and Director of the Leadership Development Program at the Yale School of Management. His experience as a leader development expert spans...
Adah Parris
Adah Parris is a personal branding expert and an enthusiastic observer of people, patterns and stories. A change consultant, producer and network builder, she is particularly interested in human-centred design and storytelling as an approach to problem solving. Since 2014 she has been a speaker and workshop facilitator on...
Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield is a world-renowned urbanist, leading “smart cities” sceptic, and passionate advocate for the human-centered design of technological systems. He is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on urban environments. Greenfield is founder and manager of Urbanscale, a New York City-based practice dedicated to “design for networked cities...
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham has been Professor of Psychology at University College London since 1992. He has lectured widely abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships at, amongst others, the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong and the University of KwaZulu-Natal....
