Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist laureate. Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize 2010. Many consider Mario Vargas Llosa to have had a larger international impact and…
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Michel Camdessus
Former Managing Director IMF
For 13 years, from 1987 to 2000, Michel Camdessus has presided over the IMF, boosting the organization's authority. Previously he was Governor of the Banque de France. Michel Camdessus was educated at the…
Mohan Munasinghe
LEADING WORLD AUTHORITY ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMICS, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT.
BLUE PLANET PRIZE, 2021. VICE CHAIR OF THE UN INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (2000-08) - 2007 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE.
Mohan Munasinghe was Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace. The Presidents of five countries, including Bangladesh, Brazil, Dominican Republic, France, and Sri…
Moisés Naím
Internationally-Syndicated Columnist and Bestselling Author
Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Group of 50 (G50). Senior Associate in the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Former Editor-in-Chief of the Award-Winning Foreign Policy Magazine
Moisés Naím is an internationally-syndicated columnist and best-selling author of influential books including the recently-published The End of Power, a startling examination of how power is changing across all sectors of society, and Illicit, a detailed expose on…
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Prize. Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Movement, is responsible for many innovative programs benefiting the rural poor. He attended Vanderbilt University on a Fulbright Scholarship and received his Ph.D. in Economics in…
Nicholas Stern
Globally Recognised Economist and Leading Authority on Climate Change.
Author of the Stern Review Report.
Nicholas Stern ( born Lord Stern of Brentford) is a globally recognized economist, and one the world’s leading authorities on climate change, international development and global economic Chair of the Grantham Research Institute…
Paul Romer
NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2018.
Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank (2016-2018).
Paul Romer is an American economist, a pioneer of endogenous growth theory, and a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of…
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Nobel Peace Prize 1992
Human Rights Activist
Rigoberta Menchú Tum was born in 1959, in the village of Chimel, Guatemala, a community continuing the millennium-old Maya-Quiché culture. In her youth she worked in the fields and later in the city…
Saskia Sassen
EXPERT ON GLOBALIZATION, CITIES DEVELOPMENT & INTERNATIONAL HUMAN MIGRATION.
CREATOR CONCEPT, “GLOBAL CITY”. ROBERT S. LYND PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired from 2009 till 2015. She is a student…
Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize 2003
Human Rigths activist
An Iranian lawyer and human rights activist, Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially the rights of women…