Founder, WordPress, USA

At the age of 19, started WordPress to help with own blog. A year later, dropped out of college to move to San Francisco. A year after that, ...

Member of the Management Board, METRO GROUP, Germany

1988-97, mgr & exec., KLM Cargo; 1997-2002, Operations Director & MD, Makro Cash & Carry Nederland; 2002-04, Member, Exec. Board of Directors & ...

Senior Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering and Master's, Info. Theory and Computer Science, Georgia Tech. Has spent much of career building start-ups in ...

Artist, Vik Muniz Studio, USA

Self-taught visual artist; UNESCO-Good Will Ambassador. Waste Land, a documentary about his work, nominated by the Academy Award as best feature ...

President, Pew Research Center, USA

Bachelor's in English Literature, Univ. of North Carolina; Master's in Economics, LSE; 2005, Exec. Program, Stanford Univ. 1977, Business and ...

Minister of International Trade and Industry of Malaysia

1950, degree in Economics, Melbourne University; Master's degree, Boston University. 1974, Administrative and Diplomatic Officer, Ministry of ...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Thailand

1980, BSc in Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; 1986, MBA in Finance and International Business, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business ...

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition, United Nations, Geneva

Trained as a doctor. Worked for six years in child health and nutrition programmes in South Asia, East Africa and Iraq; taught for six years at ...

Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia (2011-2012)

Master's and PhD in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles. Formerly: Professor of Economics, Faculté de Droit et des Sciences ...

Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Netherlands

1999, DPhil in Politics, University of Oxford. Rhodes Scholar. Former Secretary General, CIVICUS. President, Global Campaign for Climate Action ...