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Professor Muhammad Yunus
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2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Professor Muhammad Yunus is also known as banker to the poor. He is the founder and Managing Director of the Grameen Bank - a bank that offers small loans for self-employment for the rural poor, especially poor women.....
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nobel Laureate, Rita Levi-Montalcini was born April 22, 1909 in Turin, Italy. She received her medical degree from the University of Turin in 1936.
Levi-Montalcini completed residency in neurology and psychiatry, and was on staff in Turin before and after World War II...
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Professor Johannes Georg Bednorz
Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Muller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable...
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Plácido Domingo
Born in Spain, he moved to Mexico at the age of eight where he studied piano and conducting at Mexico City 's Conservatory of Music. He was soon sidetracked into vocal training after his voice was discovered. He is now a world-renowned award-winning singer and conductor. He has sung 123 roles, more than any other tenor, and earned nine Grammy's and two Grammy's in the newly... |
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Nicholas Negroponte
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Nicholas Negroponte is the innovator behind the non-profit project 'One Laptop Per Child', where researchers are designing $100 purpose-built laptops for children in developing nations. Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria and Thailand have made tentative commitments to put the computers into the hands of millions of students... |
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Dr Shashi Tharoor
Dr Shashi Tharoor was the official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came a close second out of seven contenders in the race. He currently serves as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. His career began in... |
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Michael Milken
Mike Milken's career has mirrored his three main professional passions: medical research, education and finance. In each, he has been uniquely successful in creating value whether measured in saved lives (Fortune magazine called him "The Man Who Changed Medicine"), inspired students... |
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Chris Cramer
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Chris Cramer is Managing Director of CNN International, responsible for the CNN International directorate. He is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta and is a member of the CNN Executive Committee. He also sits on the board of directors for the Spanish network CNN +, a CNN joint venture... |
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Heinrich V. Pierer
During Heinrich V. Pierer's era as CEO, Siemens was transformed from a company largely oriented to public-sector customers in regulated markets into an enterprise fit to prevail in global competition and increasingly able to satisfy shareholder expectations. Under his leadership, the company developed and instituted sweeping programs to achieve this fundamental makeover...
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Terence H. Matthews
Terry Matthews is Chairman of Mitel Networks and Chairman and CEO of March Networks Corporation, a leading developer of interactive broadband IP applications and delivery platforms. Before joining March Networks, he served as CEO and Chairman of Newbridge Networks Corporation, a company he founded in 1986. Providing leadership and vision for 14 years, he guided Newbridge into becoming a leader in the worldwide data networking industry... |
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Michael L. Chasen
As Chief Executive Officer for Blackboard Inc., Michael Chasen has provided the leadership to take Blackboard from a start-up company with just one product to a publicly held company offering five software applications bundled in two suites. His expertise managing fast growth Internet software companies coupled with a passion to enhance education... |
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Ramalinga Raju
Ramalinga Raju is the Founder and Chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, a leading global consulting and IT services company. Satyam's Development Centers in India, US, UK, UAE, Canada, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan and Australia serve 523 global companies in 53 countries. He has been described by various media and other eminent people as a... |
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Dr. Richard Straub
Richard Straub has an expert and a thought-leadership background in the field of eLearning, the knowledge economy and innovation. This includes executive leadership positions with IBM and advising governments on subjects such as lifelong learning, innovation and university reform... |
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William J. Amelio
William J. Amelio is President and Chief Executive Officer of Lenovo Group Limited. Mr. Amelio joined Lenovo in December 2005. Prior to joining Lenovo, Mr. Amelio served as Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific and Japan, for Dell Inc., with responsibility for strategy and operations across the region...
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Professor Jeanette Hacket
Prior to her appointment as Vice-Chancellor at Curtin University of Technology, Professor Hacket served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor (PVC) International at Curtin. She holds a PhD in strategic management, has extensive experience in educational strategic management and has had responsibility for development of internationalisation of University.... |
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Professor Edward Chen
Professor Chen, educated at Hong Kong University (B.A., M.Soc.Sc.) and Oxford University (D.Phil.), is currently President of Lingnan University in Hong Kong . From 1979 to August 1995, he was Director of the Centre of Asian Studies and in 1986 appointed Chair Professor at The University of Hong Kong. He is at present an Honorary Professor and Distinguished Fellow.... |
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Antonio Battro
Dr Antonio Battro is the Chief Education Officer for the non-profit association One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). He is both a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Psychology, and specializes in the development of basic cognitive and perceptual processes in children and adolescents.... |
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Gavin Esler
Gavin Esler is an author, newspaper columnist and award-winning broadcaster with the BBC. He is a presenter on the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight. He also hosts Dateline and numerous other programmes on BBC World and BBC News 24. He is a regular presenter on BBC Radio Four with programme credits including Four Corners and Six Places that Changed the World....
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Amanda Butcher
Amanda Butcher has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Jubilee Sailing Trust since November 2003. The Jubilee Sailing Trust is a British registered charity (not-for-profit organisation) whose aim is to promote the integration of disabled and able-bodied people through sharing the challenge of sailing on one of their two specially built Class A square...
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Osman Sultan
Osman Sultan, the CEO of Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, du, has a wealth of experience having worked in telecommunications and Information Technology in several countries in Europe...
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Dr Fatma Al Sayegh
Dr Fatma Al Sayegh earned her Masters Degree in Islamic History from the University of Wisconsin in the USA and her PhD in Gulf History from the University of Essex in the UK....
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Professor Roger Owen
Professor Roger Owen is currently the A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and a former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the same university. He previously taught Middle East political and economic history at Oxford University where he was the Director of the St Antony's College Middle East Centre several times...
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Edward Guiliano
Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., has led the transformation of New York Institute of Technology into a distinguished global institution of higher learning. Since he was appointed president in 2000, NYIT has established its national, global, and digital brand across several fields, including architecture, medicine....
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Shiraz Gidwani
Shiraz Gidwani holds the office of Director-General of the UNSM Youth Development Programme World Summit. In this position he is coordinating the 2008 United Nations Simulation International Conference in Abu Dhabi and Dubai (UNSICAD). He is a regular sight at youth development and youth parliament meetings and is a frequent visitor to the Middle....
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Dr John Hegarty
Dr John Hegarty is the 43rd Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest and most prestigious university. Dr Hegarty was born in Co Mayo in 1948. He completed his PhD in Physics at University College Galway. Following a postdoctoral stay at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was a Research Scientist at Bell Labs, New Jersey, for six years... |
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Professor Neil Gorman
Professor Neil Gorman, Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University in the UK, brings to the role a lifetime's experience in industry, academia and science. Professor Gorman is an international authority in the fields of veterinary medicine, immunology, and oncology....
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Satoru Hayashi
Satoru Hayashi was appointed to the Board and Executive Council of Fujitsu Siemens Computers on April 1, 2004. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a joint venture between Fujitsu and Siemens. Satoru Hayashi became Executive Vice Chairman on April 26, 2004. On April 01, 2006 he took over the position as Executive Chairman of the Board... |
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Richard M. Brandt
Richard "Dick" M. Brandt is an international consultant, advisor and accomplished public speaker. He has had over 15 years of experience in managing international business operations, while serving in various Vice President positions during a 25-year career at AT&T and Lucent Technologies.... |
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Louise Blouin MacBain
Louise T Blouin MacBain is CEO and President of LTB Group of Companies - a global media business with a commitment to the arts and culture. Group publications include Art + Auction, Modern Painters and Culture and Travel and the Group produces around 50 magazines and 130 titles in total each year... |
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Amy Smith
Amy Smith, inventor and innovator for international development, found her true calling after four years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana . Struck by the fact that "the most needy are often the least empowered to invent solutions to their problems," she decided to apply her engineering and.... |
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Professor George Teodorescu
Professor Teodorescu is an internationally recognized authority in conceptual problem solving and generating new approaches to educating inventors in an interdisciplinary masters program for engineers, architects, scientists and designers.....
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Anand Sudarshan
Anand Sudarshan heads education business initiatives of Manipal Education & Medical Group, a leading player in education and healthcare in India.... |
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Professor Peter F. Houston
Peter has been involved in the broadcasting industry in various forms for over fifty years and this past year was honored by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters with a fifty year pin. He started his career at the tender age of fifteen... |
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Peter Metelerkamp
Peter Metelerkamp is a photographer, teacher of film, and leader of the internationally renowned MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol. The Programme is located in the Department of Drama... |
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Cedza Dlamini
Cedza Dlamini is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ubuntu Institute for Young Social Entrepreneurs. Based in South Africa, the Ubuntu Institute is an educational organization that empowers youth leaders with skills and resources to become social entrepreneurs and powerful change agents to achieve...
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Simon J. Gibson
Simon J. Gibson, OBE, is Chief Executive of Wesley Clover Corporation. Wesley Clover is a Private Holding Company with Assets in Technology, the Leisure sector and Commercial Real Estate...
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Professor Monte Cassim
Professor Monte Cassim assumed the post of president of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (RAPU) in Japan in 2004. Originally from Sri Lanka, Professor Cassim studied in Japan as an international student in 1972, and later went on to work there. "In comparison to when I studied in Japan more than 30 years ago, the environment surrounding international students has improved...
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Andrew Benson Greene
Andrew Benson Greene is a Sierra Leonean and the founder and Director of the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) of Sierra Leone. He teaches former child fighters and war-affected youth to use...
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Frederic Vigneau
Frederic Vigneau is the Executive Director for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) regional office based in the United Arab Emirates. He has more than 20 years experience in the humanitarian...
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Alain Robert
To Alain Robert, "a city is like a range of mountains, with one little difference: there will always be new skyscrapers under construction."
Alain, who has been dubbed 'Spiderman' by the press, has a different sense of fun than most people. He has achieved worldwide celebrity status, some call it notoriety, by climbing the world's.... |
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Michelle Grant
Michelle Grant holds a first class honours degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She has worked as an Environmental Engineer in various engineering consultancies including GHD in Australia and the Danish Hydraulic... |
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Professor Gerhard Lindner
Professor Gerhard Lindner is the former President of the Coburg University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule Coburg) in Bavaria. He has now returned to his first passion as a Professor of Applied Physics and supervisor of the Sensor Application Team (SAT), an initiative of engineering students and graduates engaged in applied research in cooperation with... |
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Matthew Gast
Matthew Gast is the Principal Engineer for Strategic Technology at Trapeze Networks, where he works on the development of standards for emerging network technologies and the practical problems of using them in real-world environments. He is a voting member of the IEEE 802.11
working group, and serves as the secretary of 802.11 Task... |
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Dr. Peter B. Corr
Dr. Peter B. Corr retired from Pfizer in January, 2007 where he was Senior Vice President for Science and Technology, Pfizer Inc, with responsibility for advancing the company's human health business through licensing and business development, science, and medical advocacy, global medical professional relations and science policy. In 2002... |
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Marc Cathelineau
Marc Cathelineau is Senior Vice President for International Development and Financing at Thales, a world leader in Professional Electronics. As Development Director he was involved in the establishment of Thales University 20 years ago. For 25 years, he has been a Visiting Professor at HEC Paris, the number... |
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Fernando de Sousa
Fernando de Sousa has 25 years experience as a computer science professional and currently works at Microsoft in the position of Regional General Manager, Emerging Segments Market Development, in the Middle East and Africa Region. He is based in Istanbul, Turkey....
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Balram Shotam
Balram Shotam, is President and CEO of Intraclient Corp and was associated with Wicat Systems, USA as President for Asia Pacific and Managing Director for Virtual Systems. Wicat purchased Science Research Council and he participated in the development of English and math learning systems for... |
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Kevin Sullivan
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Kevin Sullivan has reported from more than 50 countries on six continents, including places as diverse as Burma and Haiti, Cuba and Bhutan, Iraq and Congo, Afghanistan and Taiwan, Romania and Saudi Arabia, Mauritania and Latvia, Colombia and China, Kuwait and Tasmania...
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Tathagata Satpathy
Tathagata Satpathy is a Member of Parliament for the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Dhenkanal constituency of Orisa and is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) political party. This is his second term on the 14th Lok Sabha and he is a Member of the Committee on Information Technology....
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James Jones and Jeremy Johnstone
James Jones (top) and Jeremy Johnstone are combining their extensive backgrounds in information technology with their desire to improve natural disaster response. They currently both work for Yahoo!, the world's most visited internet site and were members of the Yahoo! Hurricane Katrina response team. They have both had multiple prior first-hand experiences in working in disaster areas...
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Meredith Bates
Meredith Bates has been passionate about social justice issues throughout her life. At Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, Meredith ran the university's Habitat for Humanity chapter, worked on the campaign for a living wage for Vanderbilt employees, participated in Alternative Spring Break, taught primary school and started an after school program in Kwa Zakhele township in... |
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