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HE Dr Rawya Saud Al Busaidi

Appointed in 2004, HE Dr Rawya Saud Al Busaidi, Minister of Higher Education, Sultanate of Oman, is the first woman minister with a Cabinet portfolio in the Gulf. She has initiated major projects for the reform and quality improvement of Education in Oman, including, recently, a Strategic Plan for all of Education in the Sultanate. She is also active in the GCC region where she is leading a project to develop common standards for the professions, as well as a regional Quality Assurance network. (more)

Muhammad Yunus

“Banker to the poor,” Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983. Determined to help the poor escape poverty and fueled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right, he provides tiny cash loans on terms suitable to borrowers. By sharing sound basic financial principles, Yunus teaches people to help themselves. His simple idea of micro-credit has grown into an international movement for which Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Adam Kahane

Founding partner of Generon Consulting, Adam Kahane is a leading designer and facilitator of processes through which leaders in business, government, and civil society can solve their toughest, most complex problems. Kahane has worked in more than fifty countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians, generals and guerillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists. (more)

Mary Catherine Bateson

Anthropologist, educator, and social commentator, Mary Catherine Bateson has long been fascinated by how humans create, understand, and adapt to the world in which they live. She has pursued a “lifelong search for pattern and its recurrence in different contexts,” asserting our need to tolerate, learn from, and empathize with divergent views and perspectives—especially in moments of trauma, when learning is most threatened. (more)

Nicanor Perlas

A creative thinker, activist, and author, Nicanor Perlas won the 2003 Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize). His book Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power, and Threefolding is based on almost forty years of active engagement in various efforts to create a better world. (more)

Peter Senge

Founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning, Senge is widely known as one of the most innovative thinkers about management and leadership in the world. He translates the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools that help us better understand economic and organizational change. (more)