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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tao Zhang
Tao Zhang is Founding Managing Director of Dao Ventures, a China-focused impact investment group with co-headquartered offices in both China and the US that primarily consist of ACBridge Global Advisors, China Impact Fund, and New Ventures Global. The various entities of Dao Ventures have so far made and/or facilitated...
