Lord Ara Darzi
Lord Ara Darzi of Denham is Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery. Named in TIME100 Health 2025, he is an internationally recognised academic, surgeon, and leader…
Joe Studwell
Joe Studwell worked as a journalist and author in east Asia for 25 years. He was the founding editor of the China Economic Quarterly and co-founder of the Asian research firm Dragonomics, now GaveKal Dragonomics. Joe is the author of…
Wawira Njiru
Wawira Njiru is a social innovator and enterprise leader who has spent more than a decade structuring, financing, and operating large-scale public food systems. As the founder and CEO of Food4Education, she is redefining how governments, investors, and philanthropists invest…
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu is the 15th Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria. He began his career in the private sector, spending more than a decade in banking before moving into public service. His public-service record includes helping establish the Lagos State…
Jad Abumrad
Jad Abumrad is a composer, artist, and journalist. He is the creator of Radiolab, Dolly Parton’s America, Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, and many other podcasts, which collectively have been downloaded over a billion times. He has been called a…
Jamal Eltaeb
Dr. Jamal Eltaeb is an orthopaedic surgeon, head of traumatology, and General Director of Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, Sudan. Amid Sudan’s devastating civil war and the near-total collapse of the country’s health system, Dr. Eltaeb has kept Al Nao…
Bobi Wine
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – known by his stage name as Bobi Wine – was born and raised in Kamwokya, one of Kampala’s most vibrant and challenging urban neighbourhoods. He rose to fame in Uganda as a musician, with music that…
Janet Echelman
Janet Echelman sculpts at the scale of buildings and city blocks. Her work defies categorisation, as it intersects disciplinary boundaries, from sculpture, architecture, and urban design, to material science, structural and aeronautical engineering, computer science, and performance. Using unlikely materials,…
Dixon Chibanda
Dixon Chibanda is a Zimbabwean psychiatrist and the founder of Friendship Bench, a community mental health programme that has reshaped how the world thinks about closing the treatment gap in low-resource settings. He is a practising medical doctor and professor…