Diego García-Sayán served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2016 – 2022). He was a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for two terms, during which he served as President of the Court (2009-2013). A relentless human rights advocate, he has broad

Adeeba Kamarulzaman is a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Pro Vice Chancellor and President of Monash University, Malaysia. Prior to this appointment, she served as Dean of Medicine at the University of Malaya.  She is also the Immediate Past President of the International AIDS Society, and currently Co-Chair

Kofi A. Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving two terms from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006 and was the first to emerge from the ranks of United Nations staff. In 2001 Kofi Annan and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for

A Canadian national, Louise Arbour served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2004 to 2008, and as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration from 2016 to 2018. She also served on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1999 to 2004 and was President and CEO of the

Pavel Bém (Prague, 18 July 1963) is a Czech politician, former Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and former Mayor of the City of Prague. He is also a Member of The National Drug Commission – Office of the Government of the Czech

Richard Branson was born in 1950, and educated at Stowe School, where he established a national magazine called Student at the age of sixteen. He started a Student Advisory Centre aged 17 to help young people. In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer and shortly thereafter

Former President of Brazil (1995-2002) and former Chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (2011- May 2016), Fernando Henrique Cardoso is currently president of the Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso (São Paulo, Brazil) and honorary president of the Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB). Co-president of the Latin American

Maria Livanos Cattaui was Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2005. Mrs Cattaui worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 1977 to 1996, where she became Managing Director, responsible for the Annual Meeting in Davos, building the public awareness it enjoys today. She

Helen Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program in April 2009 and the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues. She was the first women to assume these positions, which

Nick Clegg is the former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is currently Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications for Facebook. Nick spent a decade working in the EU – first as a senior adviser in the European Commission dealing, amongst other things, with the accession of