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Mubarak Abdullahi (Nigeria/UK) – Aircraft engineer who, at 24, built a homemade helicopter out of outdated automobile and bike parts
Milena Boniolo (Brazil) – Chemist and PhD student at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, who is developing strategies to detect emerging contaminants in the setting
Premesh Chandran (Malaysia) – Co-founder and CEO of Malaysiakini.com, an independent Malaysian news site
Perry Chen (US) – Co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter, a net platform offering people a new way to fund their inventive concepts and endeavors
Anita Doron (Ukraine/Canada) – Surrealist filmmaker and documentarian
Ndubuisi Ekekwe (Nigeria/US) – Engineer, inventor, writer and founder of the African Institution of Technological innovation, an organization seeking to produce microelectronics in Africa
Saeed Taji Farouky (Palestine/UK) – Documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer focusing on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Jessica Green (US) – Professor at the University of Oregon’s Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology whose research focuses on microbial diversity
Benjamin Gulak (Canada/US) – Inventor of the Uno, the “green” electrical street bike, and founder of BPG Motors
Robert Gupta (US) – Violinist, youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Cesar Harada (Japan/France/UK) – Coordinator of the Open_Sailing project, functioning to produce open-source technologies to intelligently inhabit the oceans
Susie Ibarra (US/Philippines) – Composer, percussionist and co-founder of Song of the Bird King, a production firm utilizing music and film to preserve indigenous culture and ecology
Jennifer Indovina (US) – Founder of Tenrehte Technologies, a semiconductor business developing wireless sensible-grid applications
Mitchell Joachim (US) – Architect and co-founder of Terreform A single + Terrefuge, non-profit style groups that advertise ecological style in cities
Raffael Lomas (Israel) – Sculptor and teacher of imaginative workshops for the blind
Kate Nichols (US) – Artist-in-residence at the Alivisatos Lab who synthesizes nanoparticles that exhibit structural colour and incorporates them into macroscale art pieces
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Pakistan/Canada) – Documentary filmmaker and founder of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, an educational institution and heritage center established to protect Pakistan’s historical past
Sarah Jane Pell (Australia) – Artist-researcher, diver and founder of Aquabatics Investigation Group initiative (ARTi)
Manu Prakash (India/US) – Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows, physicist and inventor pursuing research in the area of physical biology
Kellee Santiago (US) – President and co-founder of thatgamecompany, a video game organization operating to produce video video games that communicate diverse emotional experiences
Durreen Shahnaz (Bangladesh/Singapore/US) – Founder and Chairperson of Effect Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), a social stock exchange for Social Enterprises to raise development capital
Gavin Sheppard (Canada) – Founder of I.C. Visions and co-founder of The Remix Project, a youth program acting as an arts and cultural incubator in Toronto, Cananda
Hugo Van Vuuren (South Africa/US) – Fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and at The Laboratory at Harvard, co-founder of Lebone – a social enterprise working on off-grid technologies in Africa
Angelo Vermeulen (Belgium) – Biologist, filmmaker, and visual artist creating big-scale collaborative art installations
Daniel Zoughbie (US/UK) – Founder and CEO of the International Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), an organization working to avert and handle illnesses in the developing globe utilizing reduced-expense behavioral interventions
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