Soichi Noguchi

Japanese aeronautical engineer and jaxa astronaut

Chris Hadfield

Astronaut, former commander of the international space station, the first canadian to walk in space

Deepak Chopra

Title herefounder, the chopra foundation, co founder of jiyo.com and the chopra center for wellbeing. bestselling author, renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation

Barbra Streisand

Award-winning actress and singer, director, writer and activist

Shinya Yamanaka

Nobel laureate in stem cell research, director of the center for ips cell research and application (cira) at kyoto university

Shimon Peres (1923-2016)

Former president and prime minister of israel, nobel peace laureate

Frank Gehry

Award-winning and internationally-renowned architect

Zubin Mehta

Multiple-award-winning classical music conductor, hollywood walk of fame inductee

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)

Associate justice of the supreme court of the united states

Rick Hansen

Paralympic athlete, activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities

Steven Chu

Nobel laureate in physics, former u.s. secretary of energy under the obama administration (2009 – 2013)

Johann Olav Koss

Four-time olympic gold medalist in speed skating, internationally renowned social entrepreneur, right to play international founder

Julia Kristeva

Philosopher, psychoanalyst, award-winning writer

John Craig Venter

Award winning scientist, founder of j. craig venter institute

Jean-Marie Lehn

Nobel laureate in chemistry, professor at universite de strasbourg

David Suzuki

Scientist, renowned environmentalist, broadcaster, author, co-founder of the david suzuki foundation, companion to the order of canada

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer

Francine Prose

Award-winning writer, literary critic

Harold Kroto (1939-2016)

Nobel laureate in chemistry, educator

Hélène Cixous

Philosopher, writer, rhetorician, theorist of feminism, professor of writing and philosophy at the european graduate school

Guy Laliberté

Celebrated entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of cirque du soleil and one drop foundation, and companion of the order of canada

Robert John Aumann

Nobel laureate in economics, mathematician

Paulo Coelho

Internationally-renowned novelist & lyricist and recipient of numerous literary awards

Craig And Marc Kielburger

Social entrepreneurs, renowned children's rights activists and co-founders of the "we" movement

Wynton Marsalis

Internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator

Ken Robinson (1950-2020)

Internationally acclaimed author, speaker and education expert and one of the world's elite thinkers on creativity and innovation

Chris Bertish

Big wave surfing champion, trans-atlantic stand up paddle boarding world record holder, speaker, author, ocean pioneer. shifting perceptions of what is possible & inspiring our limitless potential

Garry Kasparov

Former world chess champion, chairman of the new york-based human rights foundation and a senior visiting fellow at the oxford martin school

Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna

Noble laureates in chemistry for the gene-editing technology crispr–cas9

Konstantin Batygin

American astronomer and professor of planetary sciences at caltech. named one of the "brilliant 10" people of 2016 by popular science magazine

Paul Watson

Co-founder of greenpeace, founded the sea shepherd conservation society in 1977 protecting and defending the world’s oceans

Sylvia Earle

American marine biologist, explorer, author, lecturer and national geographic explorer-in-residence. named first ‘hero for the planet’ by time magazine in 1998

Anant Agarwal

Ceo of edx, computer architecture pioneer, and award winning mit professor named forbes ‘top 15 education innovators’ in 2012

Thich Nhat Hanh

Zen master, global spiritual leader, poet, best-selling author and peace activist. a pioneer bringing engaged buddhism and mindfulness to the west

Raj Panjabi

Ceo of last mile health and associate physician in the division of global health equity at brigham and women’s hospital and harvard medical school

Nadia Murad

Yazidi human rights activist, nobel peace prize recipient and the first goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking of the united nations

Paul Allen (1953-2018)

Co-founder of microsoft, investor and philanthropist. recipient of the andrew carnegie medal of philanthropy and inside philanthropy's "philanthropist of the year"

Kai-Fu Lee

Pioneered work in the areas of speech recognition and artificial intelligence. founder and chief executive officer of innovation works

Jose Miguel Sokoloff

Chief creative officer, mullenlowe group uk and president, mullenlowe group creative council, award-winning advertising executive and internationally renowned peace advocate

Kathy Giusti

Founder, multiple myeloma research foundation, co-chair, hbs kraft precision medicine accelerator

Linda Buck

American biologist and nobel prize recipient in physiology or medicine

Maggie MacDonnell

School teacher in a fly-in inuit village called salluit, nestled in the canadian arctic. this is home to the second northernmost inuit community in quebec, with a population of just over 1,300. 2017 recipient of the global teacher prize

Christiana Figueres

Former costa rican diplomat and executive secretary of the un framework convention on climate change (unfccc). she is an internationally recognized leader on global climate change

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider And Jack Szostak

The nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2009 was awarded jointly "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."

Daniel Saul Goldin

Longest-tenured administrator of nasa; chairman, ceo & founder of knuedge

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Three-term prime minister of norway and former director-general of the world health organization

Hitoshi Murayama

Professor at uc berkeley, director of the kavli institute for the physics and mathematics of the universe at the university of tokyo

Ridley Scott

Award-winning prolific film and television producer and director

Yuan Yafei

Award-winning businessman and philanthropist, and chairman of sanpower group corporation

Strive Masiyiwa

Internationally acclaimed businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. voted one of the “world's greatest leaders” (fortune) and one of the 10 most powerful men in africa (forbes)

Jody Williams

Nobel peace laureate, activist for sustainable peace and human rights, writer and inspiring public speaker, jody williams is founding chair of the nobel women's initiative

Indra Nooyi

Chairman and ceo, pepsico

Nancy Lublin

Founder & ceo of crisis text line, which provides free, 24/7 crisis support through text. former ceo of dosomething.org, founder of dress for success

Swati Piramal

Vice chairperson, piramal enterprises ltd. dr. swati piramal is one of india’s leading scientists and industrialists and is involved in healthcare. her contributions in innovations in new medicines and public health services have touched thousands of lives

Tehemton Erach Udwadia

Emeritus professor of surgery, grant medical college & j.j. hospital. first surgeon to perform laparoscopic surgery in the developing world. recipient of the order of the british empire and padma bhusan award

Fazle Hasan Abed

Bangladeshi social worker, founder, and chairman of brac, the world's largest non-governmental organization with over 120,000 employees, operating across eleven countries in africa and asia. its primary objectives are to alleviate poverty and empower the poor

Bruno Goussault

Award-winning food scientist, consultant to world's top chefs, inventor of sous-vide cooking technique at precise temperatures, chief scientist of crea and cuisine solutions

Julie Toskan-Casale

Award-winning founder of the youth and philanthropy initiative, an internationally acclaimed leader in inclusive, innovative grant-making

Uri Levine, Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar

Co-founders of waze, the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app that was acquired by google in 2013

Sanduk Ruit & Geoff Tabin

They are the founders of the himalayan cataract project. their mission is to eradicate preventable and curable blindness in the developing world

Marc Benioff

Chairman and ceo of salesforce. among his many accolades, he has been named one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders by fortune and 50 most influential people by bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Founder, ceo, and owner of bloomberg l.p., a global financial services, mass media, and software company and philanthropist who served three terms as mayor of the city of new york

Ratan Tata

An industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former chairman of tata sons who continues to head its charitable trusts. he is the recipient of two of the highest civilian awards of india–padma vibhushan and padma bhushan

Obiageli Ezekwesili

Among her many accolades, she is recognized by time magazine as one of the time-100 most influential people and by new york times as one of the 25 women of impact for 2015. she is the co-founder of transparency international and bring back our girls

Geoffrey Canada

A prominent educator, social activist, and author, mr. canada is the president of the nonprofit harlem children’s zone, which offers a comprehensive pipeline of services to 12,500 children, from birth through college

Boyan Slat

A dutch inventor and entrepreneur. founder & ceo of the ocean cleanup which develops advanced systems to rid oceans of plastic. youngest recipient of the un’s highest environmental accolade; champion of the earth

Phil Gold

Co-discovered the carcinoembryonic antigen. companion of the order of canada. awarded the gairdner foundation international award and inducted into the canadian medical hall of fame

Bryan A. Stevenson

Founder and executive director of the equal justice initiative. developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice

Bryan Johnson

Founder and ceo of kernel, a company developing a neuroprosthetic device to improve brain function. founder, and former chairman and ceo of braintree

Jan Creamer

President and co-founder of animal defenders international. campaigns for animal rights, welfare and conservation issues; securing laws to protect animals; assisting with animal protection law enforcement; taking the high profile, successful adi stop circus suffering campaign worldwide

John Deng

Co-founder, chairman, and ceo of vimicro corporation. elected member of the 10th and 11th national people's congress of china. he became the youngest member of the chinese academy of engineering

Aaron Ciechanover

Won the nobel prize for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. honored with his role in the history of the technion – israel institute of technology

Amal Elsana Alh’jooj

Nominated as a nobel peace prize laureate within the framework of the “one thousand women submissions project”. founder of ajeec and one of israel's most highly regarded civic activists

Salman Rushdie

Author, fellow of the british royal society of literature. the whitbread prize for best novel (twice), the european union’s aristeion prize, author of the year prizes (britain & germany), the french prix du meilleur livre Étranger

Samantha Nutt

Award-winning humanitarian, bestselling author and founder of war child canada and war child usa. staff physician at women’s college hospital and assistant professor of medicine at the university of toronto. nutt’s international work has benefited millions of war-affected children globally

Takeshi Uchiyamada

Chairman of the board toyota motor corporation

Richard Saul Wurman

Information architect, creator ted conference, architect, cartographer and author. recipient of the lifetime achievement in design award from the smithsonian cooper-hewitt museum

Tiffany Shlain

Emmy-nominated filmmaker, author, speaker, founder of the webby awards, co-founder 50/50 day, character day, and the international academy of digital arts & sciences

Janice Longboat

Recognized internationally as a herbalist, elder, traditional healer, and teacher. her vision is to promote and support healthy and safe first nations families through the teachings and practice of their culture

Sima Samar

A highly regarded woman’s and human rights advocate, activist and a social worker within national and international forums. chairperson of the afghan independent human rights commission. un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in sudan

Jonathan Safran Foer

An american novelist best known for his novels everything is illuminated, extremely loud & incredibly close, and for his non-fiction work eating animals and here i am. he teaches creative writing at new york university

Jahangir Mohammed

Founded jasper. served as ceo of kineto wireless where he pioneered technologies to converge gsm and wi-fi that became a gsma standard. holds a master's degree in electrical & computer engineering and an honorary doctorate from concordia university, montreal

Kwame Anthony Appiah

British-born ghanaian-american philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and african intellectual history

Maria Margaret Klawe

Computer scientist and the 5th president of harvey mudd college. she is heavily involved with increasing the representation of women in stem fields

Raphael Mechoulam

A pioneer in the field of cannabis research and a discoverer of the endocannabinoid system. he was among the first to complete the total synthesis of the major plant cannabinoids Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol, cannabigerol, and others

Rosalie Silberman Abella

Canadian jurist appointed in 2004 to the supreme court of canada, and recently named global jurist of the year (2017)

Roy Patrick Kerr

New zealand mathematician who discovered the kerr geometry, an exact solution to the einstein field equation of general relativity

Yoshua Bengio

Full professor of the department of computer science and operations research,head of the montreal institute for learning algorithms. his main research ambition is to understand principles of learning that yield intelligence

Don Tapscott

Ceo of the tapscott group, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. he has authored over 15 books including wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything which has been translated into over 25 languages

Shuki Levy

An award winning producer, composer, recording and performing artist. he co-created the hit tv series mighty morphin power rangers, and he was the driving creative force behind saban entertainment, a children’s programming giant

Gabriele Veneziano

Acclaimed theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory.recipient of the albert einstein medal, albert einstein institute, bern, switzerland (2006)

Bruce Allen

For more than thirty-seven years, bruce allen has been a cornerstone in the canadian entertainment industry, guiding the careers of musicians, producers, and sports figures. due to bruce's shrewd judgment of talent, has become one of the most powerful management agencies in north america

Jane Yolen

Author or editor of more than 365 books, of which possibly the best known is the devil's arithmetic, a holocaust novel for young readers

Roger David Kornberg

Nobel laureate in chemistry dr. kornberg is an american chemist who won the nobel prize in chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. he is a biochemist and currently teaches at stanford university. notably, his father also received the nobel prize for medicine in 1959

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

A grad student

Daniel Libeskind

World renowned architect and artist. founder and principal architect, studio libeskind

Ronnen Harary

Co-founder and co-ceo of spin master corporation. founder of the toy movement which aims to inspire children all over the world through play

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Award-winning film and theater costume designer. professor; founding director and chair of the david c. copley center for costume design at ucla

John Landis

Award-winning film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer

George Logothetis

Ceo of the libra group, a diversified international privately owned conglomerate company

Eduardo Marturet

Music director and conductor of the miami symphony orchestra (miso)

Ron Arad

London-based israeli industrial designer, artist and architectural designer whose major projects span many countries

Amir Amedi

Israeli brain scientist in the field of brain plasticity and multisensory integration, with a particular interest in visual rehabilitation.