Helen Goulden
Apr 23, 2018
Helen Goulden is CEO of the Young Foundation, a charity and accredited research institute working directly with communities and national partners to take action on key social challenges.
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Stephen Baker
Apr 03, 2018
Stephen is a former senior writer on technology at BusinessWeek and the author of influential books in the field, including The Numerati, the acclaimed study on the rise of the applied math gurus who use the explosion of digital data to model and predict human behavior. He also tracked the development of IBM’s Jeopardy computer,…
Valerie Møller
Mar 19, 2018
Valerie Møller is Professor Emeritus at Rhodes University. She has has tracked happiness and satisfaction among South Africans from all walks of life over four decades from the apartheid period to the transition of democracy.
Sisse Marie Welling
Mar 19, 2018
Prior to being elected as Mayor, Sisse Marie Welling has for the past seven years been a member of the Copenhagen City Council. She is the political leader of the Socialist People’s Party in Copenhagen and former spokeswoman on employment, integration, housing and health. She has a Master’s degree in History from the University of…
Charlotte Ersbøll
Mar 19, 2018
Charlotte Ersbøll is Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact, leading its Health is Everyone’s Business initiative, as well as Partner in Hansen & Ersbøll Agenda, a Danish-based consultancy leading transformational change initiatives. Charlotte was head of corporate stakeholder engagement with Danish based pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk where she developed and oversaw its groundbreaking Cities…
Michel Mossessian
Mar 19, 2018
Since founding Mossessian Architecture in 2005 to pursue and develop his highly individual approach to design, Michel Mossessian has successfully designed and delivered architecturally innovative schemes in the UK and internationally including UK, China, Qatar, Morocco, and France.
Maria Neira
Mar 19, 2018
Dr Maria P. Neira has been directing the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland since September 2005. Throughout her tenure and up until now she has led and advised on policy and management in key areas of environmental health. Prior to that she served as Under-Secretary of…
Mette Aamodt
Mar 19, 2018
Mette Aamodt is the Co-Founder of Aamodt / Plumb Architects and the Slow Space Movement together with her husband Andrew Plumb. She is an Architect, Writer, Design Activist and Mom living with multiple sclerosis.
Dr. Ali al-Azzawi
Mar 19, 2018
Drawing on his multidisciplinary experience spanning business, government, technology and applied psychology, Dr. Ali al-Azzawi is responsible for the Happiness Agenda at Smart Dubai Office. His academic and professional interests focus on the theory and impactful applications of smart technologies towards happiness on a city scale.
Anthony Gooch
Mar 19, 2018
Anthony Gooch is Director of Public Affairs & Communications at the OECD. Since joining in 2008, he has played a key role in managing the OECD’s major international public campaigns in response to the ongoing global economic crisis (fight against tax havens, BEPS, Fighting International bribery, PISA). To help OECD recast the concept of well-being,…
Cécile Helle
Mar 07, 2018
Former Member of Parliament, Cécile Helle was Vice-President of the Regional Council in charge of territory development, urban issues and culture. In her various roles, she sought to combine a strategic and operational vision for the sustainable development of territories. Within the French Socialist Party, Mayor Helle was National Secretary for Human Rights and Citizenship.
Vera Baboun
Mar 05, 2018
Vera Baboun is a member of the Palestinian National Council. Baboun was elected as the 1st Woman Mayor of the City of Bethlehem in (November 14, 2012 – May 27, 2017) to be the first woman mayor of the city since its inception in 1857. Within her municipal duties, she was president or vice president…