Richard Wilkinson, MMedSci is an Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School and an Honorary Professor at University College London. He has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in 10 languages.

A leading international executive, writer and keynote speaker, Rinaldo Brutoco is widely recognized as a practical visionary, change agent and futurist. He is Co-founder and President of the World Business Academy, a collaborative network, publishing pre-eminent new paradigm business literature.

Rob Riemen is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Nexus Institute, a leading international center for intellectual reflection to inspire the Western cultural and philosophical debate. Mr. Riemen is also the editor of the essay journal "Nexus." In 2004, the Nexus Institute initiated the cultural philosophical debate on European identity during the Dutch presidency of the European Union.

Robert Sardello, PhD is co-founder of The School of Spiritual Psychology. He is author of Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul (re-issued as Love and the World), Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues, and the recently published Silence.

Roberta Baskin is a recovering investigative journalist who recently set out on a radical new career path. She joined the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University to find and showcase “good companies” across the globe. She’s wildly…

Rolland Smith has over 40 years of broadcast and television production experience. He is former news anchor at WWOR-TV in New York and at WCBS-TV also in New York.

Sander Tideman, LL.M.,University of Utrecht, University of London and Chinese Language and Culture, Taiwan National Normal University served as Chief Representative of ABN AMRO Bank in Beijing, China (1990-1995) and as Vice President of Structured Export Finance for ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam (1995-1998).

Sheila Watt-Cloutier was born in Kuujjuaq, Northern Quebec, Canada on 2 December 1953. Her mother, Daisy Watt (1921-2002) was one of Kuujjuaq's best-known elders and was recognized throughout Nunavik for her skills as a healer, interpreter and musician.

Silke Helfrich is a writer and commons advocate who has been involved in the field of development politics since the mid-1990s. She was the Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation from 1996 to 1998. As Director of the foundation’s regional office in Mexico City from 1999 to 2007, she focused on globalization, gender and human rights.

Stephanie Shorter PhD was trained as a sensory neuroscientist and cortical electrophysiologist, and has long been interested in perception, cognition and consciousness. She is a seeker who embraces yoga as her tool of individual transformation on her path towards being an agent of social transformation.