The Leading Speakers Bureau

1992 Nobel Prize Winner and Human Rights Activist

Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a 1992 Nobel Prize Winner and Human Rights Activist. She is a renowned leading advocate of Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation, not only in Guatemala, but in the Western Hemisphere generally, and her work has earned her several international awards.

“Rigoberta represents the dynamic development of international legal norms”
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Swiss Adventurer & Global Warming Speaker, Humanitarian & Inventor & Creator of the Solartaxi

Louis Palmer, a Swiss school teacher, made world history as the first man who has ever circumnavigated the world with a car powered by renewable energy. His message has reached more than 700 million people all over the world. The tour’s mission was to spread knowledge about the dangers of global warming and to demonstrate to the world that solutions are available to combat global warming. He is definitely a man with a mission.

Around the world using solar power: 53451 km through 38 countries (2007 – 2008)
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Ecologist, Conservationist, Environment and Climate Change Expert, and Writer

Julian Caldecott has spent more than 20 years promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability around the world. Major themes in his work include integrating development and conservation, promoting sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity and ecosystems, and exploring ways to finance conservation sustainably. In recent months, he has assessed a five-year EC project on coastal ecosystem conservation in Thailand, and has been writing and editing books for UNEP.

“An ecologist on a mission”
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One of the Nobel Prize-winning Canadians on the IPCC, Expert on Pandemic Influenza

Dr. Kirsty Duncan is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the area of pandemic influenza, environmental change, and the impact on human health. In 2008, Dr. Duncan was formally recognized as one of the Nobel Prize winning Canadians on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She is a professor of Health Studies at the University of Toronto and is the current MP for the Liberal Party of Canada in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North.

“A leading expert on health issues”

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Author & Expert on Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability

Dr. McIntosh is Professor of Human Security and Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security (ARCHS) at the University of Coventry. He is founder of the international, transdisciplinary, multistakeholder Roundtables on Sustainable Enterprise and ARCHS’ new MAs in Sustainable Enterprise and Human Security run in partnership with The Eden Project, England; the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and the UN University, Japan.

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Educator, Physicist, Philosopher and Management Strategist

Danah Zohar is best known for her ground-breaking work on the existence of spiritual intelligence, SQ.

She examines how SQ creates integrity, morality and individuality and the difference between competitors and winners.

Working in management education and consultancy, she was instrumental in Shell’s highly successful transformation in the United States.

Is spiritual intelligence the difference between winners and losers?
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Author and Leading Expert on Global Sustainability

Bjørn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together some of the world’s top economists, including 5 Nobel laureates, to set priorities for the world. Time magazine named Lomborg one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2004. In 2008 he was named “one of the 50 people who could save the planet” by the UK Guardian; “one of the top 100 public intellectuals” by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine; and “one of the world’s 75 most influential people of the 21st century” by Esquire.

As the only Dane in 2008, Bjørn now features on three international lists of the most influential people in the world
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Former President of Costa Rica & Former CEO of the WEF

José María Figueres Figueres served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. As such, he was the youngest President of a Central American country in modern times. Today his work revolves around the issues of climate change having; conceptualised The Global Observatory Project, as well as being the Executive Chairman of The Carbon War Room alongside Richard Branson and being named an advisor to the United Nations Secretary General’s Task Force on Climate and Energy.

“The world of tomorrow, which we are constructing today, will be different”

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Prior to serving as President, José Maria was Minister of Foreign Trade and Minister of Agriculture. He has pioneered the linkage between sustainable development and technology, in the realms of business, public service, and non-profit organisations. He helped create and lead the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force and is the founder of the Fundación Costa Rica para el Desarrollo Sostenible in Costa Rica. In 2000, he joined the WEF and became its first CEO in 2003.
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Leading Authority on Corporate Strategy

C.K. Prahalad is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most significant forces in corporate thinking. He has been voted the world’s most influential living management thinker and is the first Indian-origin thinker to claim the title. His research specialises in corporate strategy and the role and value added of top management in large, diversified, multinational corporations. He has helped companies such as AT&T, Ahlstrom, Honeywell, Rockwell, and Steelcase look at their core capabilities and market opportunities in a transformational way.

“The most influential thinker on business strategy today” Business Week

Prof. C K Prahalad has been ranked among the top 50 most influential business thinkers. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers.

Prof. C K Prahalad has been also nominated The Most Inluential Management Guru for 2009

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Professor Prahalad is a graduate from the University of Madras, the Indian Institute of Management and Harvard University. He has written extensively on core competency and strategy, and has published several best selling business books and award-winning articles. His book, co-authored Competing for the Future with Gary Hamel, was rated a best-seller, and has been printed in fourteen languages.
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Chairman of the Board of Roma Metropolitane

Chicco Testa is Chairman of the Board of Roma Metropolitane, the company in charge of the construction of the new underground lines in Rome. He is also a Senior Partner at Rothschild Italia, a member of the Board of Directors of Lloyd Adriatico and RAS, Chairman of the Board of Telit Communications PLC and Chairman of the Board of E.V.A., a company developing hydropower generation plants. He is currently a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the European Carbon Fund and also Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 20th World Energy Congress (Rome 2007).

“One of Rome’s most influential business leaders”

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From 1994 to 1996 Mr Testa was Chairman of the Board of ACEA (Rome’s Electricity and Water Co.) From 1996 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Board of Enel Spa, the most important Electrical Company in Italy. From 2002 to 2004 he was Member of the Board of Directors of Gruppo Riello, Italy’s leading company in innovative integrated heating systems and appliances. From 2002 to 2005 he was Member of the Advisory Board of the Carlyle Europe, Chairman of the Board of Directors of STA Spa and Chairman of the Kyoto Club
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