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Ervin Laszlo, Docteur d’Etat (Sorbonne) is Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, Founder and President of The Club of Budapest. Author or co-author of fifty-four books translated into twenty-four languages and about four hundred research papers and articles, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.
Nick Duffell has practiced psychotherapy for 30 years and is the author of a number of books. He now calls himself a psycho-historian and is committed to bridging the gap between psychological and political thinking. He is particularly interested in promoting a Depth-Psychology perspective of issues which affect our public life very deeply such as identity and emotions, fear and vulnerability, but about which political commentators currently lack the means to properly to address.
Lawrence Bloom is currently Secretary General of the Be Earth Foundation, a UN Inter Governmental Organisation which advises, assists and enables in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals on behalf those Countries with which it has Treaties. His passion is to support what is breaking through that which is breaking down, in the current system.
Founder of Beyond Human Stories, an organization that connects individuals and organizations to their bigger purpose and story in the world in order to create a new and more sustainable human mythology. Genevieve currently travels the world as a speaker, facilitator and coach working with a wide and diverse range of people helping them master the art and science of story-making.
Professor of Physics since 1967; member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1977; foreign secretary from 1991-96 during which time Croatian Academy became a co-founder of the Inter-Academy Panel and ALLEA, and member of ICSU and many international associations. Co-editor of an international conference on knowledge-based society and of NATO advanced workshop on security. Publications in physics cited over 2500 times.
He is a global political activist and businessman with a new and compelling vision for citizenship. In 2000 he founded the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) and launched the Simultaneous Policy (Simpol) campaign. In 2001, he set out the campaign in his first book of the same name. The Simpol campaign has since steadily been gathering increasing attention, recognition and support amongst citizens, activists, non-governmental organisations, politicians, business people & others
Dr. Roy Whitten is the co-founder of international sales consultancy Whitten & Roy Partnership. His extensive experience in both the for-profit sector and the non-profit world includes direct sales, sales management, strategic planning, marketing, executive leadership, board directorship and the design and delivery of performance training. In over 40 years as a trainer, consultant and coach, he has personally coached and trained over 100,000 people internationally.
Prof Thomas Reuter is a past President of past Chair the World Council of Anthropological Associations (2008-2012) and currently serves as Senior Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, a member of the executive of the International Social Science Council, a member of the board of Future Earth (Asia) and an expert advisor to the IPBES and IPCC. He has published ten books and more than 100 articles.
Dr. Darja Piciga is a senior expert at the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia, responsible for various horizontal, strategic and educational tasks, including Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, Slovenia’s Development Strategy, Climate Change and Low-Carbon Economy, and Education for Sustainable Development. She is a co-founder and the coordinator of the Citizens’ Initiative for an Integral Green Slovenia, the key promotor of Integral Worlds Approach
Jacobs currently co-chairs an international working group on New Economic Theory under the World Academy, which includes 20 partnering institutions and more than 50 scholars. He also co-chairs the World Academy’s program on New Paradigm, which focuses on evolving solutions to major global challenges related to peace, governance, economy, and ecology. He is director for the joint WAAS-WUC program to on the future of higher education in the 21st century.
After a successful career as a Senior Executive with ‘Nationwide Building Society’ Joe moved into ‘International Management Consultancy’ and has worked all over the world in the boardrooms of some of the world’s leading Companies solving corporate problems including Vodafone, M&S, DHL, Morgan Stanley etc. Joe is an established professional Writer and conference Speaker with over 3000 articles publish published to date in leading magazines as well as a number of books. Life Coach, Hypnotherapist
Nóra Csiszár has a Masters degree in Psychology with research on positive psychology, the science of happiness and human well-being. She is a martial-artist and a filmmaker. She is the IT & PR Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research.