Neo Muyanga
Neo Muyanga is a South African composer-musician and installation artist. His practice straddles the spheres of opera, theatre-making, installation art and scholarship. A common thread in all his work is a keen interest in storytelling that is premised on archival research, repurposes mythology and which especially involves an ongoing investigation into how voice, as a social vector, continually shapes and […]
Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar is a development economist who left a career in banking to become a social entrepreneur. He is the founding CEO of the Naandi Foundation, a large multisector non-profit in India focused on poverty reduction, with an emphasis on empowering girls, women and farmers. Over the last 25 years, the Foundation has impacted more than 10 million lives. Manoj’s […]
Francis Daniels
Francis Daniels is the CEO of Anibok Investment Research Chambers (Pty) Ltd in South Africa and a Director of Africa Opportunity Partners, LLC, the investment manager of the Africa Opportunity Fund, listed on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange. Before focusing on African-listed equity and debt securities, he worked for several years as a corporate lawyer in […]
Michael Jordaan
From leading one of South Africa’s most successful banks to investing in 25 promising startups, Michael Jordaan is a business leader who embraces innovation and entrepreneurship. He served as the CEO of First National Bank (FNB) for nine years, where he spearheaded the bank’s growth and transformation through technology and customer focus . He left FNB in 2013 to start […]
Laurie Garrett
Photo Source: http://lauriegarrett.com/about/ Author, speaker and Foreign Policy columnist Laurie Garrett was senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York from 2004-2017. Ms. Garrett is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big “Ps” of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. Her expertise includes epidemics, pandemics, […]
John Carlin
Has written extensively about revolutions, wholesale social transformations, football and food, is the author of Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, which became the acclaimed movie, Invictus. He is co-producer of the documentary series, This Is Football, on Amazon Prime.
Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai
Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai cannot be missed in a crowd. You can hardly meet a more self-assured man, a person who values the life of the mind, invests in its cultivation and repeatedly stands out for his application of intellect and logic.
Arturo Condo
Dr. Arturo Condo is the President of EARTH University, an innovative global institution based in Costa Rica that prepares young leaders from across the world as change agents for advancing sustainable development and nature-positive food systems. During his tenure at EARTH, Dr. Condo led the creation of EARTH Futures, a global center which aims to transform rural areas and food […]
Muhammadu Sanusi II
Emir Of Kano Nigeria’s former Central Banker, the Emir is one of the continent’s leading thinkers on economic and social transformation, and a radical voice for Africa’s renaissance.
Ami Dror
Ami Dror is the founder and CEO of BriBooks, the world’s leading writing platform, enabling children of all ages to write, publish and sell their books. As a father of three, and as a serial entrepreneur, Ami is passionate about cultivating kids’ ability to be innovative. Ami is the Chairman of the ICODE Foundation, the world’s largest coding championship, and […]