Piero Ferrucci
Piero Ferrucci is a psychotherapist and philosopher. He has been a
student and collaborator of Roberto Assagioli, the founder of
psychosynthesis. He is the author of What We May Be, Inevitable Grace, What Our Children Teach Us, The Power of Kindness, Beauty and the Soul; the co-author, with Laura Huxley, of The Child of Your Dreams and the editor of The Human Situation, a book of Aldous…
Qasim Sabti
Born in Baghdad in 1953, Qasim Sabti became crippled as a
seven-month-old baby. Since he grew up in a neighborhood with many
athletes who were local heroes, he won attention by distinguishing
himself with his artistic abilities. As a teenager, students would pay
him a falafel sandwich for a drawing, or for one of his poems or love
letters in beautiful Arabic calligraphy.
Upon graduating from the…
Rajni Bakshi
Rajni Bakshi is a journalist and writer based in Mumbai, India. For the
last twenty years she has written about the struggles of the peoples of
India and an alternative more humane model of development. She is author
of Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi (Penguin, India, 1998).
Rama J. Vernon
Rama J. Vernon, Founder of the Center for International Dialogue has
traveled to the former Soviet Union 47 times organizing counterpart
meetings, exchange programs, events and conferences. She initiated the
First and Second Soviet-American Citizens Summits as well as the first
Conflict Resolution and Dialogue Round tables between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Ukraine.
During the Gulf…
Remi Benali
Remi Benali began his photography career in 1989 after receiving his
law degree. He worked with the photo agency Gamma for twelve years,
including three years as a Press Correspondent in New York City. He has
been working independently since 2002 and lives in Provence.
His
journeys have led him to over 80 countries -- from the North Pole to the
Sahara Desert and the remote jungles of Sumatra to…
Reza Deghati
World famous for his intrepid explorer's style of photographing the
most exotic places, Reza has covered most of the globe for National
Geographic and other major international publications.
In the course of his photo reportages across the world's trouble
spots, this modern-day Ibn Battuta has met a cast of extraordinary
characters, befriending personalities as diverse as…
Richard David Hames
Recently described as one of this century’s most insightful philosopher-activists and by Forbes Asia as one of the smartest people on the planet Richard is an influential public intellectual and strategic knowledge designer. He has qualifications in music, medicine and computer science and lives in Bangkok.
Chairman of Wayfinder, Managing Partner in The Hames Group, Founding Director of the…
Richard Falk
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Fellow of the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014) proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. In 2001 he served on a three-person Human Rights Inquiry…
Richard Wilkinson
Richard Wilkinson, MMedSci is an Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School and an Honorary Professor at University College London. He has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in 10 languages. His 1976 New Society article prompted the commission of the UK’s Black Report on health inequality in 1980.…
Rinaldo Brutoco
A leading international executive, writer and keynote speaker,
Rinaldo Brutoco is widely recognized as a practical visionary, change
agent and futurist. He is Co-founder and President of the World Business
Academy, a collaborative network, publishing pre-eminent new paradigm
business literature.
He has served on numerous non-profit boards including The Gorbachev
Foundation, Institute of…