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Joel Kotkin

Described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally recognised authority on global, economic, political and social trends. His newest book, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us, was published in 2016. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman...

Keller Rinaudo

Keller Rinaudo is a robotics and healthcare innovator who is showing the world how drone technology can be used to save lives. Rinaudo is the CEO and co-founder of Zipline, which manages a system of custom robotic aircraft specifically designed to carry life-saving medical supplies to areas in need....

Muir Gray

Sir Muir Gray is currently the Director of Better Value Healthcare and also works as an advisor to Public Health England and the NHS England Right Care programme. His work focuses on increasing value for populations and patients by systems design and culture change. Sir Muir has worked in...

Tenzin P. Rinpoche

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Rinpoche is a world revered Buddhist monk, renowned for his humanitarian aid and conflict resolution work, his expertise in the fields of leadership, ethics, philosophy and cultural understanding. Priyadarshi is the Founder and Director of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at...

Jamil Qureshi

Jamil has worked with some of the most talented business and sports people around the world. In 2006, he was appointed the first-ever official golf psychologist to the European Ryder Cup team. The team made history in winning by a record-equalling margin. Since then he has had a significant...

Giuliana Rancic

The winner of the Fan Favorite award at the 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards, Giuliana Rancic is an entertainment journalist, fashion and beauty expert, and trusted television personality with 3 million devoted followers on Twitter. She is the anchor of E! News, co-star of E!’s hugely popular Fashion Police team,...

Michal Kosinski

Michal is a psychologist and data scientist. His research focuses on studying humans through the lenses of digital footprints left behind while using digital platforms and devices. He is an Assistant Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Michal holds a PhD in Psychology from University of Cambridge, an...

Enrique Penalosa

Enrique Penalosa is an internationally respected urban thinker, who, as Mayor of Bogota in two non-consecutive terms, profoundly transformed his city. As adviser and lecturer, he has influenced policies in many cities throughout the world. As Mayor of Bogota Penalosa he changed the 8 million inhabitants capital of Colombia...

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...

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