Prof. Tomoyuki Fukumoto
Tomoyuki Fukumoto has been professor at the Osaka University of Economics since April 2021. Prior to his current position, he worked at the Bank of Japan (BOJ) for 32 years, including as director general of the International Department. In particular, he has extensive experience researching China’s economy and the...
Bob Geldof
Sir Bob Geldof is incredibly well informed, not just about African famines and aid organizations, but also about London and Washington politics, global communications and business. His presentations are highly provocative and he uplifts and inspires audiences as he motivates through his own personal experiences and the lessons learned...
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is Turkey’s most-read and popular woman writer and an award-winning novelist. She writes in both English and Turkish, and has published 13 books, nine of which are novels, including: The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Honour and her non-fiction memoir Black Milk. Her books...
Robert Phillips
Robert Phillips is the co-founder of Jericho Chambers, a progressive strategy consultancy and think tank. He was formerly President and CEO, EMEA, of Edelman, the world’s largest Public Relations firm. He was also Global Chair of its Public Engagement and Future Strategies Group. He is recognised as an authority...
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,...
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov was the youngest ever World Chess Champion. In 2005, he announced his retirement from competitive chess after twenty years as the No 1 ranked player in the World. In the 1984 World Championship in Moscow, Anatoly Karpov met the young man who would offer him the greatest...
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is renowned as the inventor of blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he was one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright...
Beau Lotto
Beau Lotto is a globally renowned neuro-scientist who specialises in perception research, and has for years wowed the world of science with work that blurs the boundaries between neuro¬science and the arts. As well as bending the science of perception, he is also trying to transform the way people...
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...
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...
