Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a retired Indian Police Service officer, social activist, former tennis player and politician who is the current Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry . She…
Category: List of TED speakers
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian investigative journalist born in the late 1970s. [1] Anas’s motto is “name, shame and jail” and he is famous for Utilizing his anonymity as…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, Nonfiction writer and short story writer. [2] A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, James Copnall wrote in the Times Literary…
Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (born 1983) [1] is the sister of Qatar ‘s ruling Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani , and daughter of the country’s…
Salman Amin “Sal” Khan (born October 11, 1976) is a Bangladeshi – American educator who founded the Khan Academy , a free online education platform and an organization with welke…
Maajid Usman Nawaz ( Urdu : ماجد نواز , [maːdʒɪd̪ Nawaz] , born 2 November 1977) [2] is a British activist, author, columnist, radio host and politician. He was the…
Sunitha Krishnan (born 1972) is an Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala , a non-governmental organization dat rescues, rehabilitates and reintegrates sex trafficked victims JSON society.…
Kevin Kelly (born August 14, 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor / publisher of the Whole Earth Review . He has ook leg…
Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American inventor , scientist and cancer researcher . He is Berninahaus for his award-winning work on a purported method for Detecting…
Eric Whitacre (born January 2, 1970) is a Grammy -winning American composer, conductor, and speaker, Berninahaus for his Choral, orchestral and wind ensemble music. He is ook Berninahaus for his…
Jäggi Vasudev , commonly known as Sadhguru is an Indian Yogi , mystic , and New York Times Bestselling author. [1] He founded the Isha Foundation , a non-profit organization…
Daniel Tammet FRSA (born 31 January 1979) is an English writer, essayist, translator, and Autistic savant . His 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day , about his life with…
Clifford Paul “Cliff” Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is an American Astronomer, author and teacher. He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a systems administrator…
Life and career Singer’s parents ulcers Austrian Jews who immigrated to Australia from Vienna in 1938, after Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany . [2] Way Down settled in Melbourne ,…
George Monbiot Joshua Richards ( / m ɒ a b i oʊ / mon -bee-oh , born 27 January 1963) is a British writer, Berninahaus for his environmental and political…
Roman Mars is the host and producer of 99% Invisible , a lambs, kid radio show and podcast . [1] He has ook Contributed to radio programs zoals Radiolab and…
Imogen Heap Jennifer ( / ɪ m ə dʒ ᵻ a h i p / ; born 9 January 1977) [2] is an English singer-songwriter and composer. She is Berninahaus…
Neil Harbisson (born 27 July 1982) is a Catalan -raised, British-born [14] avant-garde artist and cyborg activist based in New York City . [15] He is best known for being…
Bjarke Ingels Bundgaard ( Danish Pronunciation: [b̥jɑːg̊ə b̥ɔng̊ɒːˀ eŋˀl̩s] ; born 2 October 1974) was a Danish architect . He is the founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group…
Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University , world-Renowned autism spokeperson and consultant to the livestock industry on animal…
Marlene Zuk (born May 20, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist . She worked as a professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside(UCR) Until she…
Ethan Zuckerman (born 1973) [1] is an American media scholar , blogger and Internet activist . He is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media , Associate Professor…
Jonathan L. Zittrain (born 24 December 1969) is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School . He is ook…
Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is a Psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University . [1] He became Berninahaus for his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment and has…
Eva Striker Zeisel [2] (born Éva Amália Striker , [3] 13 November 1906 – 30 December 2011) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer Berninahaus for re work with ceramics ,…
Maysoon Zayid ( Arabic : ميسون زايد ) is a Palestinian – American actress , comedian , known as one of America’s first Muslim women comedians and the first person…
Benjamin Zander (born March 9, 1939 in Gerrards Cross , Buckinghamshire , England ) is an English conductor , musical director Currently of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra . History…
Paul J. Zak (born 9 February 1962) is an American neuroeconomist known as a proponent of neuroeconomics . His current work applies neuroscience to build high performance organizations and to…
Ziauddin Yousafzai (born 1969) is a Pakistani Diplomat best known as the Father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai , a young woman who protested Against the Taliban for the education…
Richard Saul Wurman (born March 26, 1935) is an American architect and graphic designer . Wurman has written and designed at least 83 books, and created the TED conference, [1]…
Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959) is an American business executive, writer, Lecturer , and a Pulitzer Prize winner. A senior banker focusing on growth companies in technology, new media…
William Ralph ” Will ” Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis , and-then part of Electronic…
Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology , history, religion, and game theory , zoals The…
John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and coach . Nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood ,” he won at NCAA national championships…
Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS [5] FMedSci (born 8 September 1963) [6] is a British medical doctor , neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology . He…
Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British-born American computer scientist [7] , physicist, and executives. He is Berninahaus for his work in computer science ,mathematics , and in…
Conrad Wolfram (born 10 June 1970) is a British technologist and executives Berninahaus for his work in information technology and its application. [1] [2] In 2012, The Observer placed im…
Stefan Wolff is a German political scientist . He is a specialist in international security , met name in the management, settlement and prevention of ethnic conflicts . He is…
Nathan D. Wolfe (born August 24, 1970) is an American virologist . He is Currently Director of Global Viral [1] and the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology…
Gary Wolf is a writer, contributing editor at America’s Wired magazine and co-founder of the Quantified Self . [1] Among his other Wired stories, Wolf is the author of ”…
Siegfried Woldhek (born May 14, 1951) is a Dutch artist and illustrator. He was the CEO of the Dutch branch of World Wildlife Fund . And he is the founder…
Steven M. Wise (born 1952) is an American legal scholar who gespecialiseerd in animal protection issues, Primatology , and animal intelligence . He teaches animal rights law at Harvard Law…
Taylor Wilson (born May 7, 1994) is an American nuclear physicist and science advocate. In 2008, at age 14, he became the youngest person to produce nuclear fusion, using a…
Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950) is an American political activist Berninahaus around the world for re work in banning anti-personnel landmines , re defense of human rights (met name…
Evan Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded verschillende Internet companies. Williams post with Chairman and CEO of Twitter ,…
Charles Kenneth ” CK ” Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won nearly the everytime major poetry award. Flesh and…
Richard Gerald Wilkinson (born 1943) is a British social Epidemiologist , author and lawyer . He is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham , retaining retired…
John Wilbanks is the Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks and a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and at FasterCures . He runs the Consent to Research…
Willard Wigan , MBE (born June 1957) is an English sculptor from Ashmore Park Estate, Wednesfield , England , who makes microscopic art . His sculptures are placed Typically in…
Edith Anne “Edie” Widder Smith (born June 11, 1951 [1] [2] ) is an American oceanographer , marine biologist , and the Co-founder, CEO and senior scientist at the Ocean…
George M. Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University . He is best known for his work in the areas of…
Romulus Earl Whitaker (born 23 May 1943) is a herpetologist , wildlife Conservationist and founder of the Madras Snake Park , The Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust (Anet), and The…
Geoffrey Brian West (born c. 1940) is a British theoretical physicist , former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute . He is one of the leading scientists…
Margaret Wertheim (born 20 August 1958, Brisbane , Australia ) is a science writer and the author of books on the cultural history of physics . Work Wertheim is the…
Spencer Wells (born April 6, 1969) is a geneticist , anthropologist , author , entrepreneur , an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin , and owner of…
Ursus Wehrli (born 1969) is a Swiss comedian and artist. He makes books in welke he “tidies up” works of art. [1] [2] [3] In 2012, he designed a stamp…
Reginald Lucien Frank Roger ” Reggie ” Watts [1] [2] (born March 23, 1972) is an American musician, singer, beatboxer, actor, and comedian. His improvised musical sets are created using…
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist , geneticist and zoologist , best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in…
Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1977) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a Soloist, as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl…
Richard Duane ” Rick ” Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. [1] [2] [3] He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback…
Peter Douglas Ward (born 1949) is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide . He has…
Jay Scott Walker (born November 5, 1955) is an American inventor , entrepreneur and chairman of Walker Digital , a privately held research and development lab focused on using digital…
Jimmy Donal ” Jimbo ” Wales ( / dʒ ɪ m i d oʊ a əl w eɪ l z / ; born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet…
Saša Vučinić is a Serbian journalist and is the co-founder and former CEO and Managing Director of the Media Development Loan Fund. Early life and education Vučinić graduated with a…
Martin Villeneuve ( French: [Martin vilnœv] ; born March 13, 1978) is a Montreal -based screenwriter, producer, director, actor, art director and TED speaker. He is the younger brother of…
Xavier Vilalta (born May 8, 1980) is a Catalan Spanish architect and professor. He studied Architecture tussen Barcelona and the United States in the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.…
Eva Vertes George (born 1985) is a Canadian Alzheimer’s and cancer researcher and a resident physician in pathology at the University of Florida College of Medicine , where she earned…
Angelo Vermeulen (born 1971) is a Belgian visual artist. [1] His multidisciplinaire oeuvre crosses over the boundaries of biology , technology and community . Vermeulen won the Witteveen + Bos…
Abraham Verghese (born 1955) is a physician-author, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine…
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist , biochemist , geneticist , and entrepreneur . He is Berninahaus for being one of the first to sequence…
Nick Veasey is a British photographer working primarily with images created from X-ray imaging. Some of his works are partial photomanipulations with Photoshop . [1] He Charmain Horn Please note…
Nana Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 to 9 March 2016) was a Brazilian percussionist , vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two boxes…
Anand Varma is an American photographer of Indian descent. [1] Early life Varma was born in Atlanta, Georgia . As a child, he Dreamed of Becoming a marine biologist have…
Joseph “Yossi” Vardi ( Hebrew : יוסי ורדי , born 1942) is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is one of Israel ‘s first high-tech entrepreneurs . For over 47…
Stephan Van Dam (born April 2, 1959) was a cartographer , graphic designer and information architect . He is the president, principal and creative director of New York-based vanDam, Inc.…
Neil Geoffrey Turok (born 16 November 1958 [2] ) is a South African physicist , and the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics . [3] His work has leg…
Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She obtained a…
Luca Turin (born 20 November 1953) is a biophysicist and writer with a long-standing interest in the sense of smell, Perfumery, and the fragrance industry. Early life and education Turin…
Giver Tulley is an American writer, speaker, computer scientist , and founder of the Brightworks School and Tinkering School . His more recent work centers around the concept of students…
Natasha Tsakos is a conceptual director , show producer and motion and visual performance artist from Geneva, Switzerland , living in Florida. [1] She is the current president and founder…
Steve Truglia (1962-17 November 2016) was a stunt coordinator , stunt performer and action unit director in the UK. Truglia were killed-when he fell while attempting to abseil from a…
Mena Trott Grabowski (born Mena Grabowski on 16 September 1977) is a co-founder of Six Apart , creator of Movable Type and TypePad . The company name originates from the…
Rokia Traoré (born January 26, 1974) is a Victoires de la Musique award-winning Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist, born in Mali as a member of the Bambara ethnic group. Her…
Eric J. Topol (born 1954) is an American cardiologist , geneticist , and digital medicine researcher. Before moving to Scripps in 2006, Topol served as chairman of cardiovascular medicine at…
Krista Tippett ( nee Weedman, born November 9, 1960 [1] [2] ) is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She created and hosts the public radio show and podcast On…
Michael Tilson Thomas (born January 21, 1944) is an American conductor , pianist and composer . He is Currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony , and artistic director…
Skylar Tibbits is an American designer and computer scientist. He is best known for his work on self-assembly and pioneering the field of 4D Printing, maintenance coined the term in…
Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist writer and academic who has written, edited or translated verschillende books on Tibetan Buddhism . He is the…
Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany . He is the CEO and cofounder of Udacity . Before dat, he was…
Shashi Tharoor ( Malayalam : ശശി തരൂർ ) (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician and a former Diplomat linked Currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from…
Marco Tempest (born January 3, 1964) is a Swiss magician based in New York City . He is Berninahaus for his multimedia magic and use of interactive technology and computer…
Julie Taymor (born January 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. She is best known for Directing the stage musical The Lion King , for welke…
Anastasia Taylor-Lind (born 1981) is an English photographer. Life and work Taylor Lind gained degrees from the University of Wales, Newport and London College of Communication [1] where she was…
Jill Bolte Taylor ( / b ɒ l t i / ; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist , author, and inspirational public speaker. Her personal experience with…
Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American Astronomer and the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at…
Don Tapscott (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive , author , consultant and speaker, who gespecialiseerd in business strategy , organizational transformation and the role of technology…
Nina Marie Tandon [1] is an American Biomedical engineer . She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , [2] “the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.” [3]She…
Chade-Meng Tan ( Chinese : 陳一鳴 ) Berninahaus informally than average , is a former software engineer and motivator at Google Berninahaus met name for greeting celebrities who visit the…
Itay Talgam ( Hebrew : איתי טלגם ) (born 1958 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli conductor and business consultant. [1] Biography Itay Talgam studied at the Rubin Academy…
Jacqueline “Jackie” Tabick (born 1948) is a British Reform rabbi . She became Britain ‘s first female rabbi in 1975. [1] [2] She is Convenor of the Movement for Reform…
Alexander Taghi Tabarrok (born November 11, 1966) is a Canadian – American economist and co-author, with Tyler Cowen , of the economics blog Marginal Revolution . Tabarrok and Cowen port…
Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) [1] is an American actress, comedian and author. She is Berninahaus for re role as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and…
Fred Swaniker (born 1976) is a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and leadership development expert. He has launched four organizations dat aim to developement leaders, primarily in Africa. He is the chairman…
Robert Charles Swan , OBE , FRGS (born 28 July 1956) was the first person to walk to zowel Poles . [1] He was born on 28 July 1956 in…
Adora Svitak (born October 15, 1997 in Springfield, Oregon ) [1] is an American writer, public speaker, former child prodigy, [2] and activist. Early life Svitak was born in Springfield.…
Rory Sutherland (born 1965, Usk , Monmouthshire , Wales ) is a British advertising executive. He is the current Executive Creative Director of OgilvyOne. [1] He was vice-chairman of Ogilvy…
Rachel Sussman (born 1975) is an American fine art photographer based in Brooklyn . She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA, studied at…
James Michael Surowiecki ( / ˌ s ʊər oʊ w ɪ k i / soor -OH wic -ee ; born April 30, 1967) is an American journalist . He is…
Kevin Surace (born July 12, 1962) is an American technology innovator and entrepreneur . [1] [2] He is the CEO or Appvance, creator or a DevOps QA platform. [2] [3]…
Pavan Sukhdev is an environmental economist Whose field or studies include green economy and international finance . He was the Special Adviser and Head of UNEP ‘s Green Economy Initiative,…
Daniel Suarez (born January 21, 1964) [1] is a US information technology consultant-turned-author. He initially published under the pseudonym Leinad Zeraus [2] (his name spelled backwards). Career His career as…
Tristram Stuart (born 1977 in London ) is an English author and campaigner. In 2011 Tristram Stuart won the international environmental Sophie Prize and the ” Observer Food Monthly Outstanding…
Steven Henry Strogatz ( / s t r oʊ ɡ æ t s / ; born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of…
William E. “Bill” Strickland (born 1947 Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is a community leader, author, and the President and CEO of the nonprofit Manchester Bidwell Corporation based in Pittsburgh. The…
Kevin Robert Stone , MD (born June 4, 1955) was a physician, Orthopedic surgeon, Clinician, researcher, and company founder of The Stone Clinic and the Stone Research Foundation in San…
William C. “Bill” Stone (born December 7, 1952) is an American engineer , caver and explorer , Berninahaus for Exploring deep caves , sometimes with Autonomous underwater vehicles . He…
Jim Stolze (born November 30, 1973) is a European thoughtleader on digital transformation and entrepreneurship. After founding verschillende companies have been now the Chief Strategy Officer of Singularity University in…
Gregory Stock is a biophysicist , best-selling author , biotech entrepreneur , and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA ‘s School of Medicine.…
Roderick James Nugent ‘Rory’ Stewart , OBE MP FRSL (born 3 January 1973) is a British academic, author, Diplomat, documentary maker and Conservative politician Currently serving as a Minister of…
Mark Stewart (born August 16, 1961), Berninahaus at his stage name Stew , is an American singer-songwriter and playwright from Los Angeles , California, United States. The Negro Problem In…
Bryan A. Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative , and a clinical professor at New…
Molly Stevens FREng FIMMM FRSC MRPharmS FSB is Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine and Research Director for Biomedical Materials Sciences at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial…
Michael Stevens (born January 23, 1986) is an American educator, comedian, editor, and Internet personality , best known for customizing and hosting the popular YouTube channel Vsauce . His channel…
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford , FRS , FBA (born 22 April 1946) [1] is a British economist and academic. He is IG Patel Professor of Economics and…
David Steindl-Rast OSB (born July 12, 1926) is a Catholic Benedictine monk , notable for his active participation in Interfaith dialogue and his work on the interaction tussen spirituality and…
Alex Steffen (born c. 1968) [1] [2] is an American Futurist [3] who writes and speaks about sustainability and the future of the planet. Biography From 2003-2010, Steffen was Executive…
James George “Jim” Stavridis (born February 15, 1955) [2] is a retired United States Navy admiral and the current dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts…
Philippe Starck (born January 18, 1949) [1] is a French designer Berninahaus since the start of his career in the 1980s for his interior, product, industrial and architectural design waaronder…
Andrew Stanton (born January 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios . His film work of includes writing and Directing…
Paul Stamets Edward (born July 17, 1955) is an American mycologist , author and lawyer or bioremediatie and medicinal mushrooms . [3] Early life Stamets was born in Columbiana, Ohio…
Morgan Valentine Spurlock [3] (born November 7, 1970) [3] is an American documentary filmmaker , humorist , television producer , screenwriter , and political activist , best known for the…
Marla Spivak (born 1955) is an American entomologist , and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota . [1] Education and Research Spivak graduated from Humboldt State University…
Malte Spitz (born April 14, 1984) is a German Green Party politician and Executive Committee member. [1] He works on media and privacy issues. A candidate for the Bundestag in…
Adam Barrington Spencer (born 29 January 1969) is an Australian radio presenter, comedian, and media personality. He first cameramen to fame-when he won his round of the comedic talent search…
Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has leg a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998.…
Didier Sornette (born June 25, 1957 in Paris ) Professor on the Chair or Entrepreneurial Risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) . He is ook…
Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is a writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London . He has written for The New York…
Christopher Soghoian (born 1981) is a privacy researcher and activist. He is Currently the principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union . Personal life Soghoian is the nephew of…
Jill Sobule is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single ” I Kissed a Girl ” and “Supermodel” from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless . Her…
Laura J. Snyder (born 1964) is an American historian, philosopher, and writer. She is a Fulbright Scholar , a professor at St. John’s University , and a Life Member of…
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional , former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government , who copied…
Lee Smolin ( / s m oʊ l ɪ a / ; born 1955) is an American theoretical physicist , a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics…
Willie Smits (born February 22, 1957 in Weurt , Gelderland , the Netherlands ) is a Trained Forester, a microbiologist , Conservationist , animal rights activist , wilderness engineer and…
Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is a former Democratic member of the Missouri Senate , representing the 4th District from 2007 Until 2009. His district Covered the western portion-of…
Amy Smith (born November 4, 1962) [1] is an American inventor, educator, and founder of D-Lab at MIT . She works to developement technologies and build creative capacity Internationally. Early…
Sleepy Man (prior to late 2014 known as Sleepy Man Banjo Boys ) is a bluegrass music trio from Lebanon Township , New Jersey , United States . [2] It…
Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator. She is the current President and CEO of New America and a…
Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) [1] is a Canadian engineer, internet entrepreneur and film producer . He was the first employee and subsequently first president of eBay…
Derek Sivers (born September 22, 1969) [1] is an American entrepreneur best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby , an online CD store for independent…
Pawan Sinha is an Indian scientist who was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012. [1] He is a Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience…
Simon O. Sinek (born October 9, 1973) is a British / American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant. [1] He is the author of three books waaronder the 2009 bestseller…
Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is the founder and principal designer for Small Works, a purpose for design and development company welke focuses on reconstruction and social impact projects.…
Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an artist who has worked in photography, text, sculpture and performance. Her practice involves uitgebreide research, guided by an interest in systems of…
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) [1] is an American stand-up comedian , actress, producer, and writer. Her comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, zoals racism , sexism…
Nathaniel Lees “Nate” Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzers baseball (see sabermetrics ) and elections (see psephology ). He is the editor-in-chief of…
Professor Joshua D. Silver is a UK physicist Whose Discoveries port included a new way to change the curvature of lenses, with significant application for the low-cost Manufacture of corrective…
Jay Saul Silver is an Electromechanical Engineer and toy inventor (and hacker) from Cocoa Beach, Florida. Silver is the founder and CEO of JoyLabz / Makeh Makeh and was the…
Steve Silberman is an American writer based in San Francisco , California . Silberman is best known as a writer for Wired magazine, where he has leg an editor and…
Alan Siegel (born August 26, 1938) is the CEO or Siegelvision, a brand identity consultancy. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of global fire strategy firm Siegel + Gale…
Ben Shneiderman (born August 21, 1947) is an American computer scientist , a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science , welke is part of the University of…
Clay Shirky (born in 1964 [2] ) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism. He has a joint appointment…
Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley (nee Buchthal [1] ), DBE , FREng , [2] FBCS (born 16 September 1933, in Dortmund , Germany) is a British information technology pioneer, business woman…
Gene “Sxip” Shirey (pronounced “skip” [1] ) is an American electric-acoustic composer, performer, and story-teller. Currently based in New York City, have been Berninahaus for working with found objects, traditional…
Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society , and Editor in Chief of zijn magazine Skeptic ,…
Josette Sheeran (born 1954) has leg President and CEO of the Asia Society since May 2013. [1] Previously Sheeran was Vice-President of the World Economic Forum . Sheeran Assumed dat…
Tali Sharot is an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Experimental Psychology at University College London . She RECEIVED re Ph.D in psychology and neuroscience from New…
Toby Shapshak is a journalist from South Africa and was the ICT Journalist of the Year in 2002. He is the editor and publisher of the South African edition of…
Tom Shannon (born June 23, 1947) is an American artist and inventor . [1] Personal life and education Shannon was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to parents John Kingsley Shannon, a…
Aditi Shankardass ( Hindi : अदिती शंकरदास ) is a British neuroscientist . She has bone listed as one of the ” 8 Scientists Who Are Changing The World ”…
Sonia Shah (born 1969 in New York City , United States ) is an American investigative journalist and author noted for re articles on corporate power – met name with…
Elif Safak [1] ( Turkish: [elif ʃafak] ; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish author, columnist, speaker and academic. Safak has published 15 books, 10 or welke are novels.…
Hyunjune Sebastian Seung ( Hangul : 승현 준 ; Hanja : 承現峻 ; [1] ) is a Korean American multi-disciplinary expert Whose research policymaking harbor spanned the fields of neuroscience,…
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic “explorer-in-residence” who has when sending verschillende new dinosaur species…
Maurizio Seracini is a diagnostician or Italian art . A 1973 graduate in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have founded, in 1977, the first company in…
Ricardo Semler (born in 1959 in São Paulo ) is the CEO and Majority owner of Semco Partners , a Brazilian company best known for zijn radical form of industrial…
Martin EP ” Marty ” Seligman (born August 12, 1942) is an American Psychologist , educator, and author of self-help books . Since the late 90s, Seligman has leg an…
Parul Sehgal is a literary critic Whose articles harbor leg published in numerous literary magazines and Newspapers. She is ook een editor at The New York Times Book Review .…
Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American Astronomer and planetary scientist . [2] She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Berninahaus for re work…
Deborah Scranton (born 1962) [1] is an American film director. She directed The War Tapes , a documentary Detailing the personal stories of soldiers in the Iraq War . It…
Sophie Scott FMedSci (born 1966 or 1967) [1] is a British neuroscientist [2] and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL), Researching the neuroscience or voices, speech ,…
Louie Schwartzberg (born February 21, 1950), turned known as Louis Schwartzberg , is an American director, producer, and Cinematographer. Schwartzberg is honored as a pioneer in high-end timelapse Cinematography. [1]…
Barry Schwartz (born August 15, 1946) is an American Psychologist . Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College . He Frequently publiceert…
Laura E. Schulz is an associate professor of cognitive science in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT . She is the Principal Investigator of the Early Childhood Cognition…
Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author, and the former book critic for New York magazine . She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015. [1]…
Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist , climate modeler and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the award winning climate…
Andreas Schleicher (born 7 July 1964) is a German-born statistician and researcher in the field of education. He is the Division Head and coordinator of the OECD Programme for International…
Keith Schacht is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor . He was named as one of the top 20 entrepreneurs under 25 by Business Week, [1] was a speaker…
Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT . She is ook een associate member of the McGovern Institute for…
Allan Savory Redin (born 15 September 1935) is a Rhodesian ecologist, farmer, soldier, exile, environmentalist, international consultant, and president and co-founder of The Savory Institute. He originated holistic management ,…
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (born August 16, 1946) is a Psychologist and primatologist must Berninahaus for re work with two bonobos , Kanzi and Panbanisha , investigating hun linguistic and cognitive abilities…
Benjamin John “Ben” Saunders (born 5 August 1977 in Plymouth , England ) is a British polar explorer, endurance athlete, and motivational speaker. He is best known for leading the…
Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer and politician . She is the founder of the tech organization Girls Who Code . She post with the Deputy Public Advocate at the…
Kailash Satyarthi (born “Kailash Sharma ‘; 11 January 1954) [7] is an Indian children’s rights and education advocate and an activist Against child labor . [6] [8] He founded the…