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Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist who made a name for himself as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent covering the 1989 revolutions and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has a Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting and is also a winner of BT’s Information Security Journalist of The Year. His book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime and DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia were shortlisted for several prizes, and McMafia has been adapted in a joint production between AMC (in the...
Marc Stickdorn is one of the world's leading service design thinkers and is the co-author of the award-winning book This is Service Design Thinking. Stickdorn helps both private and public organisations to build knowledge in the field of service design. He supports them to apply service design within their organisational structures and processes; aiming to break down silos, reduce development costs of new products and services, and to improve customer experience. Stickdorn is an associate of DesignThinkers Academy in Amsterdam and WorkPlayExperience...
FC is a renowned ethical hacker and social engineer, as well as global keynote speaker and author. He has been working in the cyber security field for over 25 years and has helped thousands of banks, governments and other organisations advance their security. FC is Co-Founder of the cyber security company Cygenta, where he tests weaknesses in physical, personnel and digital controls to help organisations be more secure. FC is the author of the bestselling book "How I rob banks", and...
In March 2016, Zukie Siyotula joined the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders under the age of 40. As former CEO of Thebe Capital responsible looking after a portfolio of strategic investments across various sectors, she holds a CA (SA); ACMA; MBA and Executive Programmes from Harvard, Insead and Oxford. Her diverse professional experience ranges from general management, finance, corporate governance, strategy, restructuring, business development, through to sales and distribution. Zukie has served on a number of non profit, public and listed...
As the first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau spent his early years aboard his famous grandfather’s ships, Calypso and Alcyone; and learnt how to scuba dive on his fourth birthday. Cousteau is well known for his study of sharks and was an Explorer-at-Large for National Geographic changing public conceptions with a programme called Attack of the Mystery Shark. He later produced the documentary, Mind of a Demon for CBS in which he created a 14-foot, 1,200-pound, lifelike shark submarine that...
Dr. Peter A. Diamond, one of the world’s leading economists, is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. Professor Diamond is best known for his pioneering work in optimal taxation. Optimal taxation has been widely applied to the pricing of public utilities. His macroeconomic model with overlapping generations has been very widely used. In June, 1997, Professor Diamond was...
An outstanding face and innovative identity in the media industry, Roshan Abbas is an Ex-RJ, TV Host, Theater star, Movie Director and Media Entrepreneur. Roshan Abbas has won 5 exceptionally lofty honors in radio and 2 in TV. He was additionally announced the best TV host for his show Family Fortunes on Star Plus. Amid his spell as a TV host and RJ, he has worked with radio channels such as Times FM, Win 94.6. All India Radio, Radiocity. An experienced TV...
There are many things to tell you about John Amaechi. There’s all the usual bio stuff: Professor John Amaechi OBE is a respected organizational psychologist, and the Leadership Transformation Expert at APS Intelligence LTD, the consultancy he founded in 2006. At APS Intelligence, John and his team of specialists' partner with businesses to build bespoke programmes focused on executive coaching and behavioural change that help create effective leaders and authentic and ethical cultures. This is what John believes leads to...
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a primatologist at Oxford University. The aim of her work is to discover how can our evolutionary past help us understand human social behaviour - and how can we apply this knowledge to improve human well being. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms which provide the foundation for the ability to adapt to an ever-changing world, and in particular the role of relationships in this process. Her most recent project involved studying the social behaviour...
Baroness (Ros) Altmann is an award-winning expert on later life issues – particularly pensions and retirement policy, investment, savings, annuities and social care funding. Altmann is an economist by training and worked in fund management in the City for many years. She has advised governments, regulators, industry bodies, corporates, finance firms, trustees and consumer groups and was Minister of State for Pensions from 2015-16. She was the UK Government’s Business Champion for Older Workers from 2014-15. She was elevated to the...
Peter Gabriel is a singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a solo career, with Solsbury Hill, his first single. The album's most successful single, Sledgehammer, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and remains the most played music video in the history of MTV. Peter Gabriel has been a champion of world music...
Geoffrey Lean is Britain's longest-serving environmental correspondent, having pioneered reporting on the subject some 45 years ago. Lean is currently Contributing Editor at the Daily Telegraph where he has written a half page column for six years. He has specialised in the field for over 45 years, writing for the Yorkshire Post, Observer, Independent on Sunday and the Telegraph, and contributing freelance pieces for publications ranging from the New Statesman to the Daily Mail. Lean has won a number of awards including...
Tony Sales is the Co-Founder of We Fight Fraud and Underworld TV. As a child Tony, was drawn into a world of crime, that would lead into adulthood, with devastating consequences, not only for Tony but for financial institutions around the world. In 2010, after spending half a decade as a fugitive, Tony was released from prison. During the sentence, and a visit from his wife and children he had an epiphany. He wanted to work in Fraud Prevention. Everyone...
Sir John Sawers has spent his career dealing with foreign policy and international security. After several years in the intelligence service, MI6, Sir John worked as a diplomat in the Middle East, Africa and the United States. He was foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and went on to be Ambassador to Egypt, Political Director in the Foreign Office and UK Ambassador to the United Nations in New York. In 2009, he was called back to London to become Chief...
Jenny Boyd Ph.D is the author of It’s Not Only Rock’n’Roll, a book in which 75 of the world’s most iconic musicians reveal their thoughts on creating music. She has probed the minds of legends such as Eric Clapton, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar and many more; delving into the drive to create; the importance of nurturing creativity; the role of unconscious influences and the effects of chemicals and drugs on the creative process. As a result of...
Martyn Newman is a clinical psychologist specialising in Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Mindfulness. He is author of the best selling book Emotional Capitalists and coauthor of the Emotional Capital Report™ – the global benchmark for measuring EQ and leadership performance – and the Emotional Intelligence Sports Inventory – the world’s first psychological inventory to measure how EQ supports elite sports performance. Martyn Newman received his PhD from the University of Sydney and holds an MA from GTU at the University of...