Duncan Wardle
Duncan Wardle is the former Vice President of Innovation & Creativity at The Walt Disney Company and has developed some of Disney’s most innovative ideas and strategies. Duncan founded the Creative Catalyst team, with whom he trained employees across Disney’s businesses to develop their own “thinking toolkit” to enable them to innovate within their teams. […]
Mohammed Ashour
Mohammed Ashour is co-founder and CEO of Aspire Food Group, an agriculture and food company focused on global food sustainability and developing the world’s most advanced insect farming technology.In 2013, Ashour and four fellow McGill University students were awarded the prestigious one million dollar Hult Prize for their business model. In future, they want to […]
Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky is a celebrated cognitive scientist and professor of language and cognition. She is known for her research in the field of cognitive science and investigates, among other things, how language influences our thinking. One of her main areas of research is how people with different linguistic backgrounds behave or exhibit different behaviors when […]
John Kay
John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists. His work focuses on the relationships between business, finance and the economy. In 2015, he put forward the thesis that the financial industry has been preoccupied with itself for 40 years, mostly trading with itself and contributing nothing to the functioning of the real economy.Kay was the […]
Dr. Aubrey de Grey
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is an aging researcher and the world’s leading proponent of the provocative view that medical technology will one day enable people to control the aging process. He questions the fundamental assumption that ageing is invincible. Dr. de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, developed the SENS platform and founded the SENS Research […]
Anders Indset
Anders Indset is regarded as the “rock star among economic philosophers”. He is the founder of the Sa. | shapingwork academy, the first corporate and executive education academy based on practical philosophy. Anders Indset is a guest lecturer at leading international business schools and a board member of the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center as well […]
Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman is a historian and journalist and one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers. He became known worldwide in 2019 with his angry speech against the business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Handelsblatt calls him an anti-establishment star. After studying history at the University of Utrecht and the University […]
Gabriel Felbermayr
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr is one of the leading trade and foreign trade experts and one of the most sought-after economists when it comes to explaining global economic and trade policy interrelationships. The renowned economist has been President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since March 2019. He has been Head of the […]
Marc Elsberg
Marc Elsberg is an Austrian bestselling author and internationally successful thriller expert. With the success of “BLACKOUT” and “ZERO”, he has established himself in politics and business as a sought-after expert and driving force on the topics of energy, IT security and modern society. Before becoming a master of scientific thrillers, Marc Elsberg was a […]
Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman is one of the most outstanding neuroscientists in the world. He deals with complex questions such as the role of the subconscious, the origin of our thoughts and decision-making. The multi-award-winning scientist provides astonishing answers with his research. Mariano Sigman was born in Argentina and grew up in Barcelona, Spain. He earned a […]
