Mr David Ong (ao) - Co-Founder and President ChildCare-Rai Foundation, Chairman of the International Advisory Board Club of Budapest, Advisory board Jane Goodall Institute, The Communication Foundation India, Rai Foundation India, Executive Managing Director World Innovation Foundation, Co-Chair - The BTM Institute - the Michael Nobel Harriet Fulbright Institute of Business Technology Management.

Dr. Vinay Rai (ao) - Co-Founder CCRF and Founder Chairman of Rai Foundation and Rai University. www.ccrf.in, www.raifoundation.org, www.vinayrai.in

in memoriam Sir Joseph Rotblat (ao)  - Nobel Peace Laureate 1995, Founder of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs

Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, Prof. James J. Heckman - Professor of Economics, Director of the Economic Research Center and of the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the University of Chicago. www.uchicago.edu  and nobelprize.org/economics/ laureates/2000/ heckman -autobio.html

Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Prof. Sir Clive W.J. Granger -  Professor Emeritus University California San Diego. nobelprize.org/economics/ laureates/2003/ granger -autobio.html and www.ucsd.edu

Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez - (ao) 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate and President of Costa Rica 1986-1990 and 2006

Prof. Jadish Bhagwati - University Professor, Economics and Law, at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, served as Economic Policy Advisor to Director-General, GATT (1991-1993), as Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization (2001) and as an External Adviser to the WTO. Currently, he is a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Advisory Group on the NEPAD process in Africa. www.columbia.edu and www.columbia.edu/~jb38/biography.html

Federico Mayor (ao) - Former Minister of Education and Science and Deputy in the European Parliament, Former Director General of UNESCO, Founder and President of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace, Chair (Presidency) of the European Research Council Expert Group (ERCEG). www.fund-culturadepaz.org

Sir Peter Sutherland (ao) - Chairman BP plc, Chairman Goldman Sachs International, founding Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, former Member of the European Commission, Board member of: Investor AB, L.M. Ericsson, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc

The Honourable Thomas S. Foley (ao) - North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and a Partner in the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C., Former Chairman of the President's Clinton Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. www.akingump.com

Dr Jane Goodall, DBE (ao) - Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace

Mr. Rafiq Habib (ao) - Chairman Habib Rafiq Group, Chairman of the Habib Group of companies and House of Habib, Bank Al Habib Limited and Metropolitan Bank, family phylantrophist. www.hoh.net

Mrs. Pera Wells - Acting Secretary-General World Federation of United Nations Associations. www.wfuna.org

HH Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi (ao) - Highly respected Spiritual teacher and Founder of Humanityinunity

Foundation. www.humanityinunity.org

Prof. Avram ..Noam Chomsky - World's leading and the most powerful intellectual critics of U.S. foreign policy. Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. www. chomsky .info

Marjorie Agosin (ao) - Wellesley College Professor, Leadership Award for her contributions to International understanding and human rights, poet and Human Rights activist. www.wellesley.edu

Mr Jan Michiel Hessels (ao) - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Euronext and member of the Supervisory Boards of The Netherlands Schiphol Group, Royal Philips Electronics, Heineken, Morgan Stanley, and Fortis, Former Chief Executive Officer of Royal Vendex KBB

Mr. Dudley Eustace (ao)  - Chairman Smith & Nephew, non-executive Chairman of Sendo Holdings, Chairman supervisory board Aegon, Member supervisory board Hagemeyer, KPN, and Sonaecom, former Interim Chief Financial Officer of Royal Ahold NV

Prof. Paul van der Heijden (ao)   -Rector of the University of Amsterdam and professor of labour law & industrial relations, President of the ILO Governing Body Committee on Freedom of Association (United Nations), member of the Supervisory Board of NUON, ING Group, and Buhrmann Nederland, Crown-appointed member of the Dutch Social and Economic Council

Mr Bart Jan Krouwel (ao)   Executive Managing Director Sustainability & Social Innovation and Deputy General Manager Rabobank Group, Chairman Rabobank Foundation, Member World Business Council on Sustainable Development, President European Partners for the Environment, Founder Triodos Bank

Konsul Peter Hesse (ao) - Founder of the "Committee for Management-Education in Europe", Co-founder of the "German Management Association". Chairman the "Peter-Hesse-Foundation Solidarity in Partnership for One World in Diversity". He is the honorary consul of Iceland. www.solidarity.org

Dr. Charles Mercieca (ao) - President of the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) NGO, United Nations (ECOSOC), UNDPI, UNICEF, UNCED & UNESCO, Professor Emeritus, AAMU-USA www.iaewp.org

Sesto Giovanni Castagnoli - President and Member of the Board World Spirit Forumwww.worldspiritforum.org

Professor Prabhu Guptara - Executive Director, Organisational Development, Wolfsberg, A Platform for Executive and Business Development (a subsidiary of UBS - one of the largest banks in the world). www.prabhu.guptara.net andwww.wolfsberg.com

Ashok Gangadean (ao) - Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, He is Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute, Co-Convener of the recently formed World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. www.haverford.edu, www. global - dialogue .com

Mr G.J. (Hans) Wijers (ao) - Chairman of the Managing Board and CEO Akzo Nobel N.V., former Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Chairman Ubbo Emmius Fund Foundation of the University of Groningen, Chairman of the "Oranje Fonds", Former Senior Vice President with the Boston Consulting Group . www.akzonobel.com

Ms. Audrey Kitagawa (ao) - Advisor to the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

Anthony Burgmans - Member of the Supervisory Board ABN AMRO, Non-executive Chairman of Unilever N.V., Member of the International Advisory Board of Allianz AG Non-executive Director BP PLC www.unilever.com

Mr.Gianni G Zandano (ao) - Former President Sanpaolo-IMI Group, Chairman of the Board of directors and CEO of Zandano & Partners, Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of S.E.I. (Società Editrice Internazionale p.a.), the Board of Invest Bank Rome, Esponente Bank, and Ercole Marelli Power S.p.A.

Sir Martin Sorrell (ao) - founder & CEO of WPP Group PLC, one of the world's leading communications services companies, fmr Ambassador for British Business (UK Government), boardmember of the Committee for the Special Olympics

Mr Anthony Ruys (ao) - Former Chairman and CEO Heineken NV, Member of the Supervisory Board ABN AMRO Bank, Gtech Holdings Corporation, US,Sara Lee / DE International B.V, Co-Chairman of ECR Europe, National Fund for the Preservation of Art Treasures, Foundation The Rijksmuseum, European Advisory Board of Harvard Business School www.heineken.com

Mr. P.C. KLaver (ao) - Chairman of the Managing Board of SHV Holdings NV www.shv.nl

Mr Malvinder Mohan Singh (ao) - President Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals and Executive Director at Ranbaxy holding group  www.ranbaxy.com

Mr Wim Kok (ao) - Former chairman of the Federation of Netherlands Trade Unions, former Minister of Finance and Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Member of the Supervisory Board ING Group, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, TNT NV, KLM NV, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, AGO Foundation, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital.

Dr Nina Meyerhof (ao) - President of Children of the Earth, and founder of the Vermont Peace Academy, winner of the Mother Theresa Children Right's Award (1995) and the International Association of Educators for World Peace Award (1999) www.children-of-the-earth.org

Jannie Tay (ao) - Chairman of The Hour Glass Ltd. and one of the most well-known and successful women entrepreneurs in Singapore www.thehourglass.com

Mr. Alessandro Profumo (ao) - Chief Executive Officer Unicredit Group, Supervisory Board Deutsche Börse – Frankfurt, Board of Directors of Mediobanca, ABI, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of UniCredit Xelion Banca S.p.A, Chairman of the Board of Directors of UniCredit Banca Mobiliare S.p.A, Member of the Board of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Airc, and Olimpia S.p.A. . www.unicredit.it

Ms Orit Gadiesh (ao) - Chairman Bain & Company Inc., Board: Federal Reserve Bank of New England, Harvard Medical School Advisory Board, HBS Visiting Committee, Kellogg School, Board of Trustees for Eisenhower Fellowships, Council of Foreign Relations, Board of Directors of WPP

H.R.H. Princess Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld (ao) - Founder President of the Foundation Lippe-Biesterfeld Nature College, for many years active in the field of personal empowerment, as a social educationalist, in Europe, South Africa and the US

 

Countess Daphne du Barry (ao) - Lady of the Order of Saint Sylvester, Commandor Cross with crown "Pro Merito Melitensi" of the Maltese Order, one of the world best leading female sculptors of the classic figurative style.  www. daphne - dubarry .com

Mr. Jean-Francois Rischard - Former First Vice President World Bank Europe, member of the World Bank’s senior management team, author of "High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them"

Bill Gladstone (ao) - Chairman and Founder of Waterside Productions, the world number one in best sellers and books sold. www.waterside.com

H.E. Prof. Rita Süssmuth (ao) -former President of the German Federal Parliament, former Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Women, Youth and Health, Member of the advisory council of the Bertelsmann Foundation, Chair, Independent Council of Experts on Immigration and Integration, Appointed by the German Government

Mr. Vijay Amritraj (ao) - Chairman First Serve Entertainment, Inc and United Nations Messenger of Peace. http://www.un.org/News/ossg/factmess.htm

Mr. Manmohan Malhoutra (ao) - Secretary-General, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, former Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and advisor to the Prime Minister of India Mrs Indira Gandhi, Former Treasurer of International IDEA. www.rgfindia.com

Mr. Patrick Head (ao) - co founder -owner Williams Grand Prix Engineering -Williams F1,one of the leading formula 1 teams, Chief Director Engineer BMW Williams F1 team

Mr. George J. Matthews (ao) - Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America, Member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Madrid, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Collegiate Enterprise Solutions, LLC (CES), Managing Director of Hickory Hill. www.ces-online.org

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar spiritual leader, (ao) - Founder Art of Living Foundation, founder International Association for Human Values. www.artofliving.org  and www.iahv.org

Ambassador Henric Salander - Secretary-General of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (chaired by former lead UN arms inspector Hans Blix), fmr permanent representative of Sweden to the Conference on Disarmament. www.wmdcommission.org

Dr Josef Joffe (ao) - Publisher-editor of the Die Zeit, Board of Trustees Goldman Sachs Foundation, European Advisory Board, Hypovereinsbank München. www.zeit.de and www.gs.com/ foundation

H.E. Mr. Uri Savir (ao) - Chief Israeli Negotiator of the Oslo Peace Accord, Director-General Peres Center for Peace, Founder & Chairman Leo Savir Foundation for a Mediterranean Vision 2020

Dr. Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner (ao) - Honorary President of the Club of Rome, Senior Advisor to the UN University for Peace, Board Member of International IDEA.  www. club of rome .org and www. idea .int

Dr. Kurt Hoffman (ao) - Executive Director of the Shell Foundation. www. shellfoundation .org

Herman Wijffels - President of the Dutch Social-Economic Council. www. ser .nl

Joahnnes Witteveen -Former Dutch Minister of Finance and former managing director of the International Monetary Fund

Mr. Roelof Nelissen (ao) - Former Minister of Finance and Minister of Economic Affairs, president ABN AMRO Bank, Supervisory Board member of several multinationals 

Dr. Erling Olsen (ao) - Former Minister of Housing and of Justice, Professor of Economics University of Copenhagen, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Roskilde, member of the Danish Parliament, representative of the Danish prime minister in the Convention for the EU Charter on fundamental rights

Dr. Harold E. Robles - President and Chairman Medical Knowledge Institute, Founder and President Emeritus Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities, member of the executive committee of the Club of Rome. www.infomki.org

Frank de Grave (ao) - Chairman of the Dutch National Health Tariffs Authority, former Minister of Defence, fmr State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment, fmr acting Mayor of Amsterdam. www.ctg-zaio.nl

Lady Fiona Montague of Beaulieu (ao) - First Ambassador of the Club of Budapest International, creator of Retreats for Visionary Leaders, host of events concerned with Cultural Heritage and Environmental Issues, Director of the World Centers of Compassion for Children International. www.beaulieu.co.uk

Prof. Dr Hans van Ginkel (ao) - Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, Rector of the United Nations University. www.unu.edu

Dr Don Edward Beck (ao) - A global authority on value systems, societal change, and stratified democracy, (ao) Co-founder National Values Center, President & CEO Spiral Dynamics Group.

Dr Harriet Mayor Fulbright  - Chairman of the Fulbright International Center, board member International Child Arts Foundation, chairman International Institute of Leadership and Public Affairs (Istanbul), former Executive Director of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

James Garrison (ao) - President State of the World Forum, President, Wisdom University www.worldforum.org

Dr Ervin Laszlo (ao) - Founder and President of the Club of Budapest, Founder of the General Evolution Research Group, advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council. www. club of budapest .org

Paulo Coelho - Author, foudner of the Paulo Coelho Institute.

Mr. Brian Bacon (ao)  - Founder/President Oxford Leadership Academy, strategist/advisor to heads-of-state of three nations, former special advisor to Mexican President Vicente Fox, advisor in innovation & organizational reform to the Governments of Australia, Chile, Mexico and Sweden as well as to the ILO and the UN in Geneva www.oxfordleadership.com

Prof. M.S. Swaminathan (ao)  -Chairman, Indian National Commission on Farmers, President M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology, Chair Emeritus Hunger Project, First Recipient of the World Food Prize "Father of the Green Revolution" (Time Magazine). www.mssrf.res.in

Andrew Cohen (ao) - Author of twelve books on the spiritual life, founder of the award-winning magazine "What is Enlightenment?", inspirator of the International Fellowship for the Realization of Impersonal Enlightenment www.wie.org and www. andrewcohen .org

Arie de Geus (ao) - Former director at Shell, advisor to the World Bank and the Dutch Ministry of Transport, visiting fellow at London Business School, author of the award-winning bestseller "The Living Company" www.solonline.org

Bibi Russell (ao) - Chairwoman Fashion for development, recipient of the UNESCO Peace Prize 

Dr Arun Gandhi (ao) - Founder/President of  The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

Mr. Gunter Pauli (ao) - Founder/president ZERI Foundation, president and CEO of Ecover, founder and former president of Worldwatch Institute Europe.

Dr. Ashok Khosla (ao) -Chairman Development Alternatives Group, Vice President Club of Rome, former director United Nations Environment Programme, Senior Advisor World Bank, WWF, UNEP, UNDP, MacArthur Foundation, awarded 2002 Sasakawa Environment Prize, UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour. www.devalt.org

Dr Noel Brown Environmental Diplomat, (ao)  - Former Director United Nations Environment Programme, founding member Aspen Global Change Institute, President Friends of the United Nations, Chair Rene Dubos Center for Human Environments

Mr. Silvio Scaglia (ao) -  Chairman and Founder of FASTWEB broadband telecommunications, fmr CEO Omnitel (Vodafone Italy), Vice President Overseas Markets Piaggio

Dr. David Hill (ao) -  Chief Executive of the World Innovation Foundation

Mr. Jonathan Granoff, esq (ao) - President of the Global Security Institute

Ms. Elly Pradervand (ao)  -Founder and Executive Director of the Women's World Summit Foundation

Rev. Marta Benavides (ao)  - Vice-President of the Women’s International League of Peace Foundation

Mr. David Vriesendorp (ao)   - Former Managing Director of Amnesty International, the Netherlands

Mr Andy Sundberg (ao)   - Consultant to a large number of international corporations and NGO's

Mr. Robert Polet (ao)   -President Gucci Group

Mr. Gert van Maanen (ao)  - Former managing director Oikocredit, board member ING Bank, vice-president ICCO

Mr. Sjoerd van Keulen (ao)   - Chairman Executive Board SNS Reaal Group, Board Member PharmAccess International

Mr. Edy Korthals Altes (ao)  - Hon. President World Conference on Religions for Peace 

Mr. Diederik Laman Trip (ao)  - Former Chief Executive Officer ING Netherlands

Hon. Senator Douglas Roche,OC (ao) - Chairman Middle Powers Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament, (ao) former Canadian Senator and internationally acclaimed diplomat, Delegate to the UN General Assembly, Chairman first committee 43rd UN General Assembly dealing with peace and security

Dr. Helga Breuninger (ao) - Chairman Breuninger Stiftung GmbH

Prof. Dr ZHouying Jin (ao) - Chairman of the Future 500 China, president, Beijing Academy of Soft Technology and supervisory board member for several multinationals ,advisor/board member of multiple corporations, social and cultural institutions and universities

Ms. Marilou van Golstein Brouwers  (ao) - Managing Director Triodos International Fund Management, boardmember Akiba Commercial Bank (Tanzania),K-REP Bank (Kenya) and KMB (Russia) Executive Committee of CGAP, Board of Trustees WWB

Ms. Christine Loh  (ao) - Chairman and Chief Executive officer of Civic Exchange (HongKong) Boardmember of the Advisory Committee, Securities and Futures Commission HongKong

Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr.   (ao) - Director, Bipartisan Security Group, Director of the State Department UN Reform Team. Senior Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations and Counselor for Political Affairs of the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York

Mr. Peter Blom  (ao) - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Board Triodos Bank,co-founder and Chairman of the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy (INAISE)

Ms. Christina Sidoti (ao)  - Chairman Eleventh Hour Productions ltd, Board Member Aspen Youth Experience

Mr. Marcello Palazzi (ao)  - Founder and President of Progressio Foundation, Board Member Spirit in Business, former Co-Chairman State of the World Forum Europe

Dr. Luciano Donatelli (ao)   - Managing Director and President of Ermenegildo Zegna, Advisory Board member Club of Budapest International Foundation, President of the Fondazione Museo Del Territorio Biellese and President Fondazione Biella The Art of Excellence

Mr. Bo Ekman (ao)    - President Nextwork AB Stockholm, President Tällberg Foundation and Tällberg Forum, advisor to the Aspen Institute

Dr William F. Vendley (ao)  -Secretary-General of the World Conference of Religions for Peace / International Religions for Peace

Dr. Wilhelm Krull (ao)  -Chief Executive Officer and Secretary-General of the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany's largest private funder of higher education and research

Prof. Dr Joep Lange (ao)  - Former pres. International Aids Society, chairman & founder PharmAccess Foundation, World Health Organization WHO strategic and technical advisory committee for HIV/AIDS, professor of internal medicine, University of Amsterdam

Joseph Jaworski, (ao)  - Author, "Synchronicity" e.a., chairman Generon Consulting, Governor MIT Center for Organizational Learning, co-founder Society for Organizational Learning, co-founder Global Leadership Initiative-a program of the non-profit Synergos Institute run by Ms. Peggy Dulany Rockefeller

Dr David Krieger (ao)  - Founder & President Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Adv.Board Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide(Israel), Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence (Virginia), Promoting Enduring Peace Foundation, presentor of the prestigious Gandhi Peace Award (New York)

Ambassador Ulric Haynes Jr (ao)  - Former American Ambassador to Algeria, Boardmember Council of American Ambassadors and Atlantic Council of the US, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy, Board of Directors Pall Corporation and ING Reliastar Insurance Company New York

Mrs Heidi Kühn (ao)  - Founder & Chairman Roots of Peace Foundation, Chairwoman United Nation's World Environment Day 2005, UC Berkeley Alumni of the Year Award, Marin County Women's Hall of Fame Award

Dr Robert K. Goodwin (ao)   - President & CEO Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network

Ms Bianca Jagger human rights activist and (ao)   -Recipient Right Livelihood Award and United Nations Earth Day International Award, member Executive Director’s Leadership Council Amnesty International USA, member Advisory Committee Human Rights Watch America

Mr Alyn Warre (ao)    - Vice-president of the International Peace Bureau, Boardmember Every Child Counts and Make Poverty History (involved in the worldwide Live8 concert) ,former UN Co-ordinator for the World Court Project, awarded the UN International Year of Peace prize

Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries (ao)   - One of the world's leading management authorities (ao) Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Clinical Professor in Leadership Development, Director INSEAD Global Leadership Center, author/co-author/editor of more than twenty books

Dr Michael Maccoby (ao)   - Internationally acclaimed psycho-analyst and anthropologist, President of the Maccoby Group

Mr Faisal Hoque (ao)  - Founder & Chairman Enamics Inc, Founder & Chairman BTM Institute

Ms Julia Marton-Lefèvre (ao) - United Nations Rector of the University for Peace (San Jose, Costa Rica), Executive Director LEAD International 

Prof. Dr Elisabet Sahtouris (ao) - Chairwoman Living Systems Design, evolution biologist, futurist

Dr Hazel Henderson (ao)  - Chairwoman Calvert-Henderson, founder Ethical Markets Media and Creator & Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide columnist, consultant on sustainable development, author of Beyond Globalization and seven other books

Ms Marilyn Tam (ao)   - Executive director and co-founder of Us Foundation, board member of Global Future (Future 500)former president of Reebok Apparel & Retail Group, fmr CEO of Aveda Corp, fmr Vice-President of Nike Inc.

Dr Louise Diamond (ao)   -CEO The Peace Company, Co-founder & president-emeritus Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, author of three books on peace

Dien de Boer Kruyt (ao) - Supervisory board member for several multinationals.

Mr. Peter Jeva Au - Chairman China Enterprise Corporation.

Hans Reitz (ao) - Founder and Chairman CIRC www.circ.de

Prof Professor Albert Tevoedjre (ao) - Special Envoy for the United Nations Secretary-General in charge of Ivory Coast, Former Chair of the Commission on the "Millennium for Africa" project, member of the High Council of the Republic, Deputy at the National Assembly, President of the Commission for External Relations, Cooperation, Defense and Security. Minister for Planning, Economic Rehabilitation and Employment Promotion.

Ms. Sonja Vissinga (ao) - Founder and Executive Director Vissinga Consultancy, Member of the International Advisory Board of the Club of Budapest. Executive coach and consultant for over 20 years for both profit and non profit organizations

His Excellency Prof. Dr Sa'ad Hijazi (ao) - President of Jordan University of Science and Technology , Member of the Committee Jordan First .

Prof. Noreena Hertz (ao) - An internationally respected leading Political Economist and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Business & Management at Cambridge (CIBAM) awarded the prestigious Bellagio Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation a passionate and influential advocate of ethical globalization. "Management Today" lists her amongst the top 35 women in world business. "Vogue" hails her as 'one of the world's most inspiring women.' and she is one of the World Economic Forum's 'Global Leaders of Tomorrow'

Prof. Edward O. Wilson (ao) - Professor and Honorary Curator of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and the recipient of the National Medal of Science, top honors from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, the National Audubon Society, and Japan's International Prize for Biology. He is on the Board of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International and the American Museum of Natural History.

Dr. T. Ramasami (ao) - Chairman of CLRI, The World's largest Leather Research Institute, recipient of Coleman Research Prize 1976, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Chemistry in 1993, Special Award of Honor from Indian Leather Technologists Association, Coveted National Civilian Award "Padmashri" by the President of India on the 26th January, 2001

Prof Fan Gang (ao) - Dr., Director of the National Institute of Economic Research Chairman - China Reform Foundation (NERI-China), Professor of Economics at Peking University, Shanghai Communication (Jiao-Tong) University and the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Member of Advisory Committee of Foreign Exchange Administration of China; Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China; Hong Kong Center for Monetary Policy; Center for International Development at Harvard University, consultant to The World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP, and OECD. He is the Fellow of Chinese Economists Society (USA) since 1993, Fellow and Global Leader for Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum since 1995.

Dr Louis Schweitzer (ao) - Chairman of the Man. Board Renault S.A., Board, Chairman- Renault Nissan BV and AstraZeneca plc. Board Chairman: Renault Nissan BV and AstraZeneca plc. Board member: RCI Banque, Philips, Electricité de France, BNP-Paribas, and VEOLIA, Volvo. Board member: RCI Banque, Philips, Electricité de France, BNP-Paribas, and VEOLIA, Member of Volvo Board since 2001. Official at French Budget Department; Chief of Staff of Mr Lawrence Fabius (Minister of Budget, then Minister for Industry and Research, and Prime Minister), Professor Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; numerous positions with Renault SA (Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Finance and Planning, President and Chief Operating Officer)

Geoff Mulgan (ao) - Chairman of the Young Foundation, Visiting Professor in the Government Department at LSE, UCL Senior Fellow at the Australia New Zealand School of Government Former Head of Policy in the Prime Minister's office, UK, Director of Policy at 10 Downing Street, Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (formerly known as the Performance and Innovation Unit) Director of the Institute of Community Studies, Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Social Policy issues, Founder Director of Demos, described by the Economist as the UK's most influential think-tank; Chief Adviser to Gordon Brown MP, Author of Connexity and Life After Politics, World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow, and was ranked in 2004 as one of the UK's 100 leading public intellectuals. He has lectured in over 30 countries.

Ann Mettler (ao) - Executive Director and Founder - The Lisbon Council, Former Director of the World Economic Forum where she was responsible for the World Economic Forum's activities in Europe, the United States and Canada.

Dr. Afaf Mahfouz (Egypt) - Former President of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO), Member of the Exec Board Women's Learning Partnership founded by Former Minister of State for Women's Affairs in Iran living in Exile, Mahnaz Afkhami,Chair of the IPA

Dr. Attiya Inayatullah (ao) - holds a Ph.D. in Demographics Chairperson of the Family Planning Association of Pakistan. She has an international standing in the field of population planning, and has remained a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, as well as a leading member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Member of the National Security Council, Special Education. She is currently a member of the National Assembly.

Dr.Klaus Plate (ao) CEO - Heidelberg Technology Park - Technologiepark Heidelberg GmbH, President IASP

John Elkington (ao) - Co-founder and Chairman of Sustainability, a world authority on business strategies related to corporate responsibility and sustainable development, Authored or co-authored sixteen books, including the million-selling Green Consumer Guide and Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (1997), a finalist in the Global Business Book of the Year Award.

Dr Herb Allison (ao) - CEO TIAA-CREF, Fmr head of human resources, COO, chief financial officer and President Merrill Lynch International, board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange. He also sits on the advisory board of the Yale School of Management and is a past chairman of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, member of the Business Roundtable.

Habil Khorakiwala (ao) - Chairman of Wockhardt Group, Nominated by the Government of India to the National Managing Committee, Indian Red Cross Society and is also on the Advisory Board of CSIR, New Delhi, as nominated by the Prime Minister of India. Besides the many awards conferred, he has bagged the Award for 'Excellence as Top CEO' for the year 2002 from IMM, New Delhi.

Hernando de Soto - Chairman of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy ( ILD )

Yolanda King - First-born daughter of Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King, Founder and CEO of Higher Ground Productions, Jr member of the Board of Directors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc. (the official national memorial to Dr King), founding Director of the King Center's Cultural Affairs Program, member of the Partnership Council of Habitat for Humanity, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a sponsor of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and holds a lifetime membership in the N.A.A.C.P. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marywood University and is honored with numerous presentations, awards and citations by organizations around the country and was named one of the Outstanding Young Women of America.

Andan Nilekani - Chief Executive Officer of Infosys. He is one of the founders of Infosys In January 2006, became one of the youngest entrepreneurs to join 20 global leaders on the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF) Foundation Board. Co-founded India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) as well as the Bangalore Chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE). Vice Chairman of The Conference Board, Inc., an international research and business membership organization, Co-chairman of the Advisory Board of the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund. Also serves on the London Business School's Asia Pacific Regional Advisory Board. He was the Chairman of the Government of India's IT Task Force for the power sector and the Chairman of the Bangalore Agenda Task Force set up by the Karnataka state government. Also served as a member of the subcommittee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India that dealt with issues related to Insider Trading, Member of the Reserve Bank of India's Advisory Group on corporate governance. A recipient of several awards including the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay's 'Distinguished Alumnus' award in 1999. In addition, Mr. Nilekani, along with Infosys Chairman Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, received the Fortune magazine's 'Asia's Businessmen of the Year 2003' award. He was named among the 'World's most respected business leaders' in 2002 and 2003, according to a global survey by Financial Times and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Nilekani was also awarded the Corporate Citizen of the Year Award, at the Asia Business Leader Awards (2004) organized by CNBC. In 2005, Mr. Nilekani was awarded the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in field of economy, economic sciences and politics. In 2006, Mr. Nilekani was conferred the Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian honors awarded by the Government of India.

Peter Peterson - Senior Chairman and Co-Founder of The Blackstone Group

Frank Carlucci Chairman Carlyle Group

Jeff Skoll - Founder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation, Founding President eBay

Agdish Chandra Kapur (ao) Co-Chair: World Public Forum: Dialogue of Civilizations, Entrepeneur, Solar Scientist; Founder and Chair: Kapur Surya Foundation and Kapur Solar Farms; Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: World Affairs Journal; Author: India in the Year 2000, Future of Man: Eastern and the Western View, Our Future: Consumerism or Humanism

Dr. Jerr Boschee - Founder and Former President, CEO The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs, Executive Director of The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, Chairman and CEO of Peace Corps Encore, Former advisor to England's Department of Trade and Industry Social Enterprise Unit. Co-founder of The Forum for Nonprofit Leadership (1987); The Affirmative Business Alliance of North America (1989); The National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs (1997), now known as The Social Enterprise Alliance. A guest lecturer at academic institutions such as the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Duke University, The Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), the Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota). Currently a member of the advisory committee for the Economic Opportunity Institute of the National Urban League; the national advisory councils for the Social Enterprise Alliance and the National Peace Corps Association; the adjunct faculty at The School for Social Entrepreneurs (London, England); and the Practice Advisory Council for the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise; and an assessor for the World Bank 2006 Development Marketplace competition.

Philip Pettit (ao) - Professor in Political Theory and Philosophy at Princeton University and Professor of Politics and Human Values, Laurance S.Rockefeller University

O.P. Jain - Founder President Sanskrity Foundation, Convener of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Conferred the Padma Shree, one of India's highest civilian awards

Sanjit Bunker Roy - Founder and Director, Barefoot College

Dr. Hans-Joachim Körber - CEO and Chairman, Metro Group.

Paul R. Ehrlich - Bing Professor of Population Studies Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University, California, AAAS/Scientific American Gerard Piel Award for Service to Science in the Cause of Humankind, 1989, United Nations' Global 500 Roll of Honour, 1989, Honorary Life Member, American Humanist Association, 1989, Elective Member, American Ornithologists' Union, 1989, Honorary Membership, British Ecological Society, 1989, Member, American Philosophical Society, 1990, Major Achievement Award, New York City Audubon Society, 1991, Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1992, Volvo Environment Prize, 1993, International Center for Tropical Ecology, World Ecology Medal, 1993, United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Environment Prize, 1994, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Distinguished Peace Leader, 1996, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1998, Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences, 1998, Natl. Audubon Society, One Hundred Champions of Conservation, 1998, Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation, Japan, 1999, Distinguished Scientist Award, AIBS, 2001, Eminent Ecologist Award, Ecological Society of America, 2001

James O'Dea (ao) - President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Former Director of the Washington DC office of Amnesty International, where he testified before Congress, met with two U.S. presidents and numerous foreign heads of state and government leaders, and represented Amnesty International to the State Department, the White House, and the World Conference on Human Rights

Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus - The Grameen Banker of Bangladesh has showed the world how to fight poverty. He is the money mascot for the poorest in Bangladesh, and hope for the all the poor around the world. Microcredit pioneer Yunus has many other innovative initiatives, such as the Grameen Fund, Grameen Communications, Grameen Shakti/Energy, Grameen Cybernet Ltd., Grameen Telecom, Grameen Shikkha/Education, Grameen Food and Grameen Software to his credit.

Dr. David Hamburg (ao) - President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, He serves on the boards of a number of distinguished academic, government, medical, and financial institutions.

Peter Dalglish - Founder, Street Kids International, co-founder Trails Youth Initiative providing leadership training for inner-city Toronto children, board of the Gallmann Memorial Foundation USA and the Sierra Club Foundation, Adv. Board Ashoka Foundation, recipient Vanier Award and the prestigious and the Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-Profit Innovation, received honorary doctorate degrees from two Canadian universities. The first Director of Youth Service Canada, the Government of Canada's civilian youth corps. Chief Technical Adviser for the UN's child labor program in Nepal . In October 2005 Peter Dalglish was appointed as the Senior Adviser for the Swiss NGO Terre des hommes on Children at Risk., Founder the Sudan's first technical training school for street children, supported by Bob Geldof of Band Aid.

Honourable Maurice F Strong (ao) - Personal Envoy of the Secretary General for the Korean situation and President of the U.N.'s University of Peace in Costa Rica. In addition to his private interests, Mr. Strong is also the current Chairman of the Earth Council, director of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, director of the National Council for Science and the Environment, member of the International Advisory Board of Toyota, CH2M Hill Group, the Centre for International Development at Harvard University and the Liu Centre for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, and a Fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Fmr Secretary General of the historic U.N. Rio Earth Summit. Under-Secretary General and Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General, Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank, Chairman and CEO of Ontario Hydro, President of the Power Corporation of Canada, President, Chairman and CEO of Petro-Canada and founding President and Chairman of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Mr. John EVANS (ao) - Secretary General of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).

Dr. Karan Singh (ao) - An Indian Political Scientist, Environmentalist, a former Cabinet Minister, State President, Member of Parliament and Ambassador. Appointed Regent/Prince for Jammu & Kashmir by Maharaja Hari Singh (1949), Elected Sadar-I-Riyasat by Jammu & Kashmir Constituent Assembly (1952), Becomes Governor of Kashmir (1964), Appointed Central Minister for Tourism & Civil Aviation (1967), Elected to Lok Sabha (1971), Appointed Minister for Health and Family Planning (1973), Appointed Minister for Education & Culture (1979) Appointed Ambassador to the USA (1989), Chancellor of Jammu and Kashmir University, Chancellor of Benaras Hindu University, Chairman of the Central Sanskrit Board, President of the Authors Guild of India, President of the Commonwealth Society of India, Member of the UNESCO International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century, Co-Chairman of the World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality, Trustee of the Green Cross International, Chairman of the Indian Board of Wildlife, Becomes President of the Auroville Foundation (1991), Becomes Co-Chairman of the Indo-French Forum.

Karan F. Bilimoria (ao) - Founder and Chief Executive, Karan F. Bilimoria CBE, DL, has been honored with the RSA Albert Medal, and as Business Person of the Year by the London Chamber of Commerce; Best Business Leader by the Sage Business Awards 2004 in partnership with The Daily Telegraph; Entrepreneur of the Year 2004 by the National Business Awards, London and South East England; Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 by the London Chamber of Commerce; 2003 London Entrepreneur of the Year (Consumer Products) 2003; Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 by the Asian Achievers Awards; Asian of the Year 2002; and Co-Chairman of the Indo-British Partnership and Visiting Entrepreneur at the Center for Entrepreneurial Learning at Cambridge University. Cobra was recently recognized as Business of the Year by the Asian Business Awards. Headquartered in London, UK, Cobra Beer has offices throughout the world, including India, South Africa, and the USA www.cobrabeer.com.

Judge Hisashi Owada (ao) - President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, senior advisor to the President of the World Bank and professor of law and organization at Waseda University Graduate School in Japan, membre of the Institut de Droit International, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Permanent Representative of Japan to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris and as Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations in New York. Board of Directors NTI.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann - Professor of International Political Economy at IMD & Founding Director of The Evian Group

Prof. Dr ZHouying Jin (ao) - Chairman of the Future 500 China (ao) Chairman of the Future 500 China

Peter Elverding Chairman of the Managing Board of DSM
Peter Elverding (Dutch) studied Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in labor law and organizational theory. He began his career in 1973 in health care. Between 1975 and 1979, he worked for Akzo Chemicals Netherlands, as head of personnel department in Deventer. From 1979 to 1985, he filled a number of positions at KBB, including board membership at the Dutch department store De Bijenkorf. He has been at DSM since 1985, where he has filled a variety of management positions including with the DSM Resins division and DSM Research. Before joining the Managing Board of Directors in 1995, he was Corporate Vice President Human Resources. Supervisory directorships and other positions held:

president of CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) member of the Executive Board of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) member of the Supervisory Board and chairman of the Committee of Delegate members of the Supervisory Board of N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie vice chairnan of the Supervisory Board of De Nederlandsche Bank N.V. member of the Supervisory Board of VNU N.V. member of the General Council of the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW) chairman of the Board of Stichting Management Studies.