- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …
- Mukesh Ambani
Shri Mukesh D. Ambani is a Chemical Engineer from the University of Bombay and pursued MBA from Stanford University, USA. He is the son of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani , Founder Chairman of the Company. Shri Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production.
- Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri (born 18 September 1937) is a South African politician and has been the country's Minister of Communications since 1999. Matsepe-Casaburri was born in Kroonstad in the then Orange Free State province and completed her school career in the then Natal province. She then went on to obtain her Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Hare University before accepting a teaching position Natal.
- Elaine Brown
Elaine Brown (born March 2, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African American prison activist, writer, and singer; she is a former chairperson of the Black Panther Party. Brown has declared her candidacy for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2008. She currently lives in Atlanta and is a founder of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice.
- Fazle Hasan Abed
Fazle Hasan Abed is a Bangladeshi social worker, and the founder and chairman of BRAC (formerly, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). For his outstanding contributions to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq Award. Abed is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law.
- Mac Maharaj
Sathyandranath Ragunanan "Mac" Maharaj (born April 22, 1935 in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) is a South African politician affiliated to the African National Congress, academic and businessman of Indian origin. Maharaj was a political activist who worked closely on anti-apartheid activities with Nelson Mandela, with whom he was incarcerated following the Little Rivonia Trial on Robben Island.
- Ruth Johnson
Ruth Johnson is a Michigan politician. She is the County Clerk / Register of Deeds for Oakland County, and was the 2006 Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor as the running mate of Dick DeVos. Since the election she has tried to distance herself from DeVos on several levels, because of this some experts think she will run for statewide office in 2010, either as governor or Secratery of State. Johnson was an Oakland County Commissioner from 1988 to 1998, …
- Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (IPA: [xoliaa mandela]; born 18 July 1918) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994-1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
- Jacques Bensimon
Jacques Bensimon , IPM's Chief Technology Officer, has been in the IT consulting business for over 25 years. As CTO, Jacques directs all of IPM's technology-based activities, including: reviewing and recommending new technologies, products and services, overseeing the selection of research projects, and deploying major technology initiatives.
- Eric Byrne
Eric Byrne is an Irish Labour Party politician and former Teachta Dála (TD). He was formerly a member of Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party, the Workers' Party and Democratic Left. A carpenter before entering politics, Byrne stood unsuccessfully for election to Dáil Éireann as a Workers' Party candidate for Dublin Rathmines West in the 1977 general election and Dublin South Central in the 1981, February 1982, November 1982 and 1987 general elections.
- Charles Dalfen
Charles Marvin Dalfen (born 1943) was the chairperson of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) serving from January 1, 2002 to the end of his term on December 31, 2006. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964 from McGill University, a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1964, and a law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1969. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1970.
- Judy Sgro
Judy Sgro, PC, MP (born December 16, 1944, Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian politician, a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Sgro, the Member of Parliament for the riding of York West, was first elected in a 1999 by-election and was re-elected in the general elections of 2000 and 2004. She was made Minister of Citizenship and Immigration on December 12, 2003.
- Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938), is a contemporary writer, playwright, actor and movie director in Kannada language. He is the latest one among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred in India. For four decades, Karnad has been composing plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. He is also active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, …
- Maurice Newman
Maurice Newman is the current Chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as chair of the board of the Australian Stock Exchange. He is currently Chancellor of Macquarie University. He is a close personal friend of Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
- Ciarán Lynch
Ciarán Lynch (born June 13, 1964 in Cork) is an Irish Labour Party TD representing the Cork South Central constituency having been elected in the 2007 general election. He was educated in UCC where he studied Social Studies and in WIT where he studied Humanities. He works as an Adult Literacy Organiser in Cork. Lynch is also the chairperson of the Labour Party in Cork South Central and has been a member of the constituency executive since 1999.
- Jim Sensenbrenner
Frank James (Jim) Sensenbrenner, Jr. (born June 14, 1943) is an American politician who has been a member of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives since 1979, representing (map). The district, the state's richest, includes most of Milwaukee's suburbs, including Waukesha, West Bend, Brookfield, Delafield, Mequon and Wauwatosa. It was numbered as the 9th District until 2003.
- David Mellor
David John Mellor QC (born 12 March 1949) is a British Conservative politician and barrister, broadcaster and journalist.
- Mary Dawson
Dr. Mary Dawson is the curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pennsylvania and the chairperson of the Division of Earth Sciences. She has held the curator position since 1972. Dr. Dawson was raised in Michigan and received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
- Peter Angelos
Peter G. Angelos (born July 4, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American trial lawyer and the current owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a baseball team in the American League East Division. His official titles with the club are Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. He led a group of investors that purchased the team in 1993 for $173 million from Eli Jacobs.
- Sima Samar Sima Samar
Dr. Sima Samar is the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Darfur, Sudan. Dr. Samar obtained her degree in medicine from Kabul University in 1982 and fled Afghanistan two years later for Pakistan, where she spent more than a decade as refugee. In Pakistan, Dr. Samar established the Shuhada Organization and Shuhada Clinic in Quetta for Afghan women and girls refugees.
- Maurice Fitzgibbons
Maurice Fitzgibbons represents District 5 on the Hudson County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders, one of nine members who serve in a legislative role administering all county business. District 5 includes the City of Hoboken and portions of the City of Jersey City. Fitzgibbons' three-year term of office expires on December 31, 2008. Now in the first year of his fourth term as freeholder, Fitzgibbons has served in various leadership capacities on the Board, …
- Henry C.K. Liu
Henry C.K. Liu is an independent commentator on culture, economics and politics. He was born in Hong Kong and educated at Harvard University in architecture and urban design. Liu developed an interest in economics and international relations while working as a professor at UCLA, Harvard and Columbia University on interdisciplinary work on urban and regional development.
- C. K. Janu
C. K. Janu is the Chairperson of Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha and President Adivasi Rashtriya Maha Sabha.She is illiterate. She does not have the backing of any political party. She does not belong to a powerful vote-bank. She has no leader. Not even an ideology for guidance. Yet she has become a notable figure in Kerala's trouble-ridden socio-political scenario.
- Cindy Hensley McCain
Cindy McCain (Born in 1954) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the second wife of United States Senator John McCain. She serves as Chairperson of her family's business, Hensley & Company, and previously founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1988, leading many medical missions to developing and war-torn countries during the Team's seven-year existence.
- Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization.
- Nadhmi Auchi
Nadhmi Auchi, born in 1937, is a British-resident, Iraqi-born billionaire businessman. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 18th with an estimated fortune of £1,995 million. Nadhmi Auchi graduated in Economics and Political Science from the Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad in 1967. He also worked with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, becoming Director of Planning and Development.
- Jan Fletcher
Jan Fletcher OBE is a British businesswoman. Fletcher originally trained as an accountant, but in 1974 took over a family owned garage franchise, which she expanded from one garage to a chain. She also expaned into other businesses, adding the Headingley fish and chip shop Bryan's in 1983, and health company Bee Health in 1995. Her business involvements include the MSF Motor Group, of which she is currently chairperson and a major shareholder, …
- Dessie Larkin
Dessie Larkin has been a member of Letterkenny Town Council and Donegal County Council since first entering politics in 1999. He took a career break from his job at Unifi to concentrate fully on his role as a public representative. Larkin serves on the following committees: *Donegal County Council *Letterkenny Town Council *Donegal VEC *Chair of Donegal Sports Partnership *Board of Management of LYIT *Director of An Grianan Theatre Cllr.
- Talat A. Wizarat
Prof. Dr. Talat Ayesha Wizarat is a noted scholar of International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies from Pakistan. She remained the Chairperson of the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, Pakistan and now teaches at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. Dr. Wizarat holds M.A. (Karachi University), M.A. (University of South Carolina, U.S.) & Ph.D. (2001)from the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi.
- Ray Irani
Ray R. Irani (January 13, 1935) is the current Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Petroleum. According to Forbes.com, his five-year total compensation between 2001-2005 was $127,447,000. In 2006, thanks to a rise in oil prices and Occidental's payment scheme, Irani took home a total of $460 million. He has been a part of Occidental Petroleum for over 20 years, serving as a director since 1984, Chief Operating Officer (president) from 1984 to 1990, …
- Liz Walters
Liz Walters is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. She is standing for Cynon Valley constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007
- Michael L. Eskew
Michael L. Eskew is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service. He is currently on the Board of 3M and IBM.
- Anil Moonesinghe
Anil Moonesinghe was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician. He became a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and a Diplomat. He authored several books and edited newspapers and magazines. He was Chairperson and General Manager of a State corporation. He briefly held the honorary rank of Colonel.
- Leonid Savin
Leonid Savin is a Ukrainian journalist and political activist. He edits the book series "New Policy" (so far three books: one dedicated to globalization process, a toolkit for activists, ana third dedicated to problems of nationalism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination). He is also chairperson of Duginist organisation "Eurasia", Sumy, Ukraine. :* At one time he ran the infopoint in Ukraine for Peoples Global Action.
- Christina Gray
Christina Gray is a post-secondary instructor and political activist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Christina is the Alberta New Democrats' (NDP) nominated candidate for the riding of Edmonton Mill Woods in Alberta's next provincial election. Christina was born and raised in Edmonton. Christina and her husband live in the Woodvale community of Mill Woods. She earned a Bachelor's Degree of Psychology, with honours standing, from Concordia University College of Alberta, …
- Azra Meadows
Dr Azra Meadows is an Honorary Lecturer in the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at The University of Glasgow and is married to Professor Peter S. Meadows, along with whom she has carried out extensive work of an environmental, cultural and educational nature in both Scotland and Pakistan. Professor Peter S. Meadows and Dr Azra Meadows are the editors of The Glasgow Naturalist, the annual publication of The Glasgow Natural History Society.
- Masuma Hasan
Dr. Masuma Hasan is a scholar who remained "first women Ph.D." and "first women Federal Secretary" of Pakistan. She was the Chairperson of Group of 77 at the UN in Vienna, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Office in Vienna & International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and other international organizations, …
- Lee Chul Woo
Lee Chul Woo (b. February 20 1939)is a member of Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Council, the chief legislative body of Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. He is the current chairperson of the council (until June 2006). He represents Cheongdo County, and is a graduate of Dongseong High School in Busan. Lee has served in the Provincial Council since its re-establishment in 1991. In addition to his current term as chairperson, he served as vice-chair in the previous Council.
- Harriet Spicer
Harriet Greville Spicer is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. She was born on 24th April 1950 to James Spicer, the then owner of Spicer's Paper and Patricia Palmer. She lived in Chelsea before attending Lillsden School for Girls and then Benenden School. She went on to graduate from St. Annes College, Oxford University. Spicer was Chair of the National Lottery Commission and has been Chair of the Friendly Almshouses, Brixton.
- Sandra Lee-Vercoe
Sandra Rose Te Hakamatua Lee-Vercoe (née Lee) QSO (8 August 1952 -) is a former New Zealand politician and diplomat. She served as deputy leader (and briefly leader) of the Alliance party, and was later High Commissioner to Niue.