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...
Juan Verde
Juan Verde is a business and social entrepreneur as well as a renowned international advisor to governments and companies. In 2009, Verde was appointed by Barack Obama as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia at the US Department of Commerce where he served until 2012. In this capacity,...
Mick Cornett
Mick Cornett was the mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, having served in that position since 2004. He was the first mayor in Oklahoma City history to be elected to four terms and was the longest-serving mayor among the 50 largest cities in America. One of Cornett’s most...
David de Rothschild
David is an environmentalist, explorer, eternal optimist and the founder of the Sculpt The Future Foundation a group that uses exploration, adventure and storytelling as a way to give nature a voice. David is leading a new generation of action-oriented change makers and reigniting a collective spirit of hope...
Nontombi Tutu
The challenges of growing up as black and female in apartheid South Africa has led Naomi Tutu to her present as an activist for human rights. Those experiences taught her how much we all lose when any of us is judged purely on physical attributes. In her speeches she...
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber is a journalist of contemporary human, economic and social issues in both the print and broadcast media. He is presently the editor and publisher of the French bi-monthly magazine CLES. Previously, he was publisher and editor-in-chief of Psychologies magazine which appeared in ten countries. Before that he...
Tetsunari Iida 飯田哲也
飯田徹成博士は、東京に本部を置く非営利の独立系研究所である持続可能エネルギー政策研究所 (ISEP) の事務局長です。日本政府の原子力事故防止委員会および全エネルギー研究委員会のメンバーで、持続可能なエネルギー政策に焦点を当てています。 日本では｢ミスターエネルギーシフト｣として知られています。過去5年間、日本のトップオピニオンリーダーの一人であり、特に再生可能エネルギーに焦点を当てた｢新世代のエネルギー政策｣を推進してきました。非営利で独立した立場としての仕事以外に、経済産業大臣および国家環境評議会メンバーとして、環境省の｢エネルギー政策｣および｢再生可能エネルギー政策｣の政府委員にも任命されています。 2011年9月、飯田氏は、再生可能エネルギーの導入に対する障害を分析し、新しい日本政府に政策推奨を提供するために、世界中から約100人の専門家を集める日本再生可能エネルギー財団を立ち上げました。 彼の経歴には、日本の原子力産業における研究者・エンジニアとしての仕事、そして電力供給部門と原子力官界両方における政策コーディネーターとしての仕事が含まれます。 彼の最近の著書には、『北欧のエネルギーデモクラシー』、『｢原子力ムラ｣を超えて―ポスト福島のエネルギー政策』が含まれています。
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...
