Jack Sim
Jack Sim is the founder of World Toilet Organisation and the Base of Pyramid (BoP) Hub. He is a leading global advocate for sanitation. The World Toilet Organization promotes sound sanitation and public health policies. The organization envisions itself as a de facto global body that champions better toilet...
Tetsunari Iida
Dr. Tetsunari Iida is the Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP), a non-profit and independent research institute based in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on sustainable energy policies. He is a member of Nuclear Accident Protection Committee and Total Energy Research Committee of Japanese government. Known in...
Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus. In 1998 he published four lengthy articles about the state of our environment in the leading Danish newspaper, which resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major...
Gerhard Roth
Having lectured at the University of Bremen in Behavioral Psychology, Gerhard Roth was appointed Director of the newly-created Institute for Brain Research. In 1997 Gerhard was the founding Rector of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst. Since 2008 he is CEO of Roth GmbH – Applied Neuroscience in...
James Harkin
James Harkin is an analyst and forecaster of new ideas and new social, political and technological trends and what they mean for companies, governments and institutions. He is the Director of Flockwatching, a company which uses the information on blogs, social networks and the internet to create understanding of...
Eka J. Wahjoepramono
Professor Dr Eka J Wahjoepramono is the first neurosurgeon in South East Asia to successfully operate on the brainstem. Since successfully performing brain stem surgery to save the life of a labourer, Dr. Eka and his team have performed more than 50 brainstem operations with no incidence of death and...
Xavier Darcos
From 1993 to 1995 he was the chief of staff (directeur de cabinet) to Education Minister François Bayrou, from 1995 to 1997 advisor to Prime Minister Alain Juppé for education and culture matters, and from 1995 to 1998, along with François Bayroux and Claude Allègre, he was the president...
Hugo Chittenden
In March 2008 at the age of 31 Hugo’s life was turned upside down by a life threatening illness which in turn led to him losing his job, filing for bankruptcy and losing his fiancée. This turning point in Hugo’s life ignited a passion in him to lead expeditions...
John D. Liu
John Dennis Liu, as an award winning documentary film maker, addresses his audience in truly compelling and captivating ways. Through his multi-media presentations and his films, John has managed to influence policy on national and regional levels, most recently in Rwanda. He manages to reach audiences from distinctly different...
