- Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. She rose to fame with her role in 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in "Ghost World", "Lost in Translation" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring", the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003. - Howie Mandel
Howie Michael Mandel II (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian and actor, primarily for his roles on sitcoms and television. He is best known as Ed Flanders's young intern, Dr. Wayne Fiscus on "St. Elsewhere", and is currently the host of the US game show "Deal or No Deal", airing on NBC, and the Canadian version, "Deal or No Deal Canada", airing on Global. - Joi Ito
Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd. - Steve Smith
Steve Smith, CM (born December 24, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and actor. Before turning to comedy, Smith studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write, and star in "Smith & Smith", a sketch comedy series with a cast of two: Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH and syndicated to other television stations in Canada. - Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to "National Review". Ledeen was a founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he served on the JINSA Board of Advisors. In 2003, the "Washington Post" alleged that he was consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush's closest advisor, as his main international affairs adviser. - Martin Sorrell
Sir Martin Sorrell (born 14 February, 1945 in London) is an English businessman, currently the chief executive officer of WPP Group and has served in that role since he started the company in 1986. - Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland. - John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. - Doug Bandow
Douglas (Doug) Bandow is a former columnist with Copley News Service and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He resigned in 2005 due a scandal involving payments for columns from lobbyist Jack Abramoff and wrote about it in the Los Angeles Times. He served as a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a Senior Policy Analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign. He is also a columnist for Antiwar.com. - Richard Sambrook
Richard Sambrook Richard Sambrook is the Director of the BBC’s Global News Division, responsible for leading the BBC’s overall international news strategy across radio, TV and new media. From 2001-2004, he was Director of BBC News, the worlds biggest broadcast news operation. During his time with the BBC, he has covered a wide range of news events from the collapse of the Berlin Wall to the Bosnian war to the UK general elections. - Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" (1992-1993) and actual Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. - Jayantha Dhanapala
Jayantha Dhanapala is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Dr. Dhanapala was Sri Lanka's official candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations, before withdrawing from the race on 29 September 2006. - Annalee Saxenian
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College. - M. J. Akbar
Mubashar Jawed Akbar (b. 11 January 1951) is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief and managing director of "The Asian Age", a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective. He has written several books, including "Byline" (New Delhi: Chronicle Books, 2003), a biography of Jawaharlal Nehru titled 'Nehru: The Making of India', a book on Kashmir titled 'Kashmir: Behind the Vale', … - Dan Kelly
Daniel Patrick Kelly (born March 17, 1936 in Ottawa, Ontario; died February 10, 1989 in Chesterfield, Missouri) was a Canadian-born sportscaster best known for his radio play-by-play coverage of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, from early in their existence until his death more than two decades later. In addition to the Blues, Kelly broadcast NHL games on national television in the United States and Canada for a number of years. - Sandra Postel
Sandra Postel directs the independent Global Water Policy Project, as well as the Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. From 1988 until 1994, she was vice president for research at the Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit research organization. In 2002, Postel was named one of the "Scientific American 50," by Scientific American magazine, an award recognizing contributions to science and technology. - Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Thirteenth District, comprising the communities of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, Glassell Park, Temple-Beverly, Thai Town, Little Armenia, and Filipino Town. - Serge Tchuruk
Serge Tchuruk is a French businessman of Armenian descent. He was the Chief Executive Officer and chairman of Alcatel (a global telecommunications company) till the end of November 2006 and is now the chairman of Alcatel-Lucent. - Ingvar Carlsson
Ingvar Carlsson (born 9 November 1934 in Borås, Västra Götaland County (then Älvsborg County), Sweden), is a Swedish politician, former Prime Minister of Sweden (March 1986-October 1991; October 1994-March 1996) and leader of the Social Democratic Party (March 1986-March 1996). In 1965, after completing his studies at Northwestern University in the United States, he was elected member of the Swedish Parliament. - John Kirton
John Kirton is the Director of the G8 research group at the University of Toronto, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. John Kirton received his B.A. in Political Science in 1971 from the University of Toronto, his M.A. in International Affairs in 1973 from Carleton University, and his Ph.D. in International Studies in 1977 from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. - David Perry
David Perry is the Global Director of Education for Trend Micro, a computer antivirus software company. He represents Trend Micro at industry, government, customer and reseller events worldwide. He is a leading authority on computer - Duane Elgin
Duane Elgin is an American author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has researched and written about the personal and collective dimensions of the human journey. His name is especially linked to the topic of voluntary simplicity, on which he wrote several publications. Further he has worked as a senior social scientist with the think-tank, … - Mike Bullard
Mike Bullard (born June 12, 1957 in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada) is the former host of the late-night talk shows "Open Mike with Mike Bullard" on CTV and "The Mike Bullard Show" on Global. Bullard, a native of Mississauga, Ontario, was employed with Bell Canada and worked part-time as a stand-up comic before becoming the host of "Open Mike". In 2003, Bullard's contract with CTV expired and he signed a multi-year deal with Global, … - Bernd Schmitt
Bernd SCHMITT Robert D Calkins Professor of International Business Columbia Business School - James der Derian
James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program. Der Derian also directs the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project in the Watson Institute’s Global Security Program. Der Derian was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a M.Phil. and D.Phil. in international relations. - Harris Black
Harris Black is a convicted fraudster from Canada. - Akira Iriye
Akira Iriye is a prominent historian of diplomatic and global history. He is the only Japanese citizen ever to serve as President of the American Historical Association. In 2005, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star, one of Japan's highest civilian honors. Akira Iriye was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1934. He received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1957, and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard in 1961. - Beverly Thomson
Beverly Thomson is a Canadian journalist and co-host of "Canada AM", CTV's national morning show. In 2006, she received the Gemini Humanitarian Award. Thomson worked for six years at CFTO Toronto as an anchor on the weekend news program. She then moved to Global affiliate CIII as the anchor of both the 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. weeknight news broadcasts. She has been in broadcasting for more than 15 years. Thomson joined the "Canada AM" team in November 2003. - Marcos Espinal
Marcos Espinal , Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat Marcos Espinal is the Executive Secretary of the Global Partnership to Stop TB. He joined WHO in 1997 to lead the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance and the building of a strategy to manage MDR-TB in resource-limited countries. From 2000 he managed the DOTS-Plus initiative for the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including the Green Light Committee. - Nadia McCaffrey
Nadia McCaffrey is the founder of Angelstaff.org, a group of volunteers who bring a caring presence to terminally ill patients and their families. When her son, Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey , died on June 22, 2004 in Iraq, Nadia began to focus much of her work on promoting peace and justice and reaching out to parents that have lost loved ones in the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. - 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. - Erica Ehm
Erica Ehm (Erica Miechowsky, born September 30, 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is best known as a pioneering video jockey at the Canadian cable television station MuchMusic. After many appearances she eventually became one of Canada's most recognizable personalities, a fantasy figure to many teenage boys and a fashion influence on many teenage girls. Her popularity begat extensive media coverage and a fanzine, "Ehmphasis", devoted to her. - Mari Fitzduff
Mari Fitzduff is a professor and director of the international master's program in coexistence and conflict at Brandeis University in Boston. Prof. Fitzduff previously held a Chair of Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster, where she directed a United Nations University centre in Northern Ireland addressing the management of ethnic, political, and religious conflict through an integrated approach using research, training, policy, program, and practice development. - Randall Forsberg
Dr. Randall Caroline Forsberg has led a lifetime of research and advocacy on ways to reduce the risk of war, minimize the burden of military spending, and promote democratic institutions. Her career started at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in 1968. - Faile
Faile (Pronounced like "fail") is an international artist collective formed in 1999 and based in Brooklyn, New York. They are recognised as some of the pioneers of global contemporary street art. The three founding members are Patrick McNeil (Canada), Patrick Miller (USA) and Aiko Nakagawa (Japan). From initially wheatpasting screen printed posters on the streets of New York and major world cities, they progressed to the more permanent medium of stencil graffiti. - Doug Naylor
Doug Naylor is a British comedy writer, science fiction writer and television producer. Naylor was born in Manchester, England and studied at the University of Liverpool. In the mid-1980s, Naylor wrote two regular science-fiction comedy sketch shows for BBC Radio 4 entitled "Son of Cliché" and "Dave Hollins: Space Cadet". These sketch shows were scripted by Naylor along with another writer, Rob Grant. - Ken Kostick
Ken Kostick is a Canadian chef and television personality, best known for hosting the television series "What's for Dinner?" and "Ken Kostick and Company" on Food Network Canada. In 2005 he co-starred and co-produced "Countertop to Table Cusine", which was aired on Global, CH and Prime, and featured recipes that were made exclusively using Oster small appliances. It was based on a cookbook. - Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-) - Ephraim Ellis
Ephraim Todd Ellis (born February 23, 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Rick Murray in the television show "Degrassi: The Next Generation". - Arun Katiyar
Arun Katiyar is essentially a media expert with over two decades of professional experience. He has worked as Journalist and editor with the India Today Group. A savvy media person, Arun was the founder and Chief Operating Officer of the India Today Group’s online venture and was instrumental in setting up their online global syndication business. He has also produced a rock album for CBS and has authored a book for Harper Collins Publishers.
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