May East
is a Brazilian social activist who has worked with music, indigenous people, women, antinuclear and environmental movements in her home country for over 25 years. Since 1992 she lives in the Findhorn Ecovillage where currently she is the Ecovillage Education Coordinator, the Director for International Relations between the Findhorn Foundation, the Global Ecovillage Network  and the United Nations and a trustee.  May is a teacher of the InternationalHolisticUniversity and works with intergovernmental and UN agencies in educating and developing policy guidance for sustainable development and for delivery of village-scale sustainability programmes.

www.findhorn.org

Jane Goodall
In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famed anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey, who later played a pivotal role in her life. With the idea of gaining insight into humans' evolutionary past, Dr. Leakey proposed a pioneering long-term field study on wild chimpanzees. Even though Jane had no formal training, her patience and persistent desire to understand animals led him to choose her for the study.

http://www.janegoodall.org

Peter Hesse
was born in New York in 1937. He attended schools in Germany and the US and obtained a degree in economics at the University of Munich. He is founder of the "Commitee for Management-Education in Europe" and co-founder of the "German Management Association". He also is a partner in the family-run company "H Schmincke & Co, manufacturers of artists' colours", where he served as its president from 1971 to 1998. Since 1981 he is involved in relief work for children - mainly in Haiti. In 1983 he established the "Peter-Hesse-Foundation SOLIDARITY IN PARTNERSHIP for ONE world in diversity". He is the honorary consul of Iceland and author of the book:  "From vision to reality" (in German) and other publications in the field of management and marketing

www.solidarity.org

Van Jones
is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Headquartered in Oakland, CA, EBC is a national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system. Born in rural west Tennessee in 1968, Van is a 1990 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Martin and a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School.

Van is a steadfast opponent of policies that result in the over-imprisonment and unlawful abuse of marginalized peoples in the United States. He is helping to lead a national fight for alternatives to the U.S. incarceration industry.

Van has been a pioneer in challenging police abuse, as well as the over-incarceration of young people. He helped to found the Ella Baker Center to anchor multiple efforts to challenge the criminalization, incarceration and abuse of low-income people and people of color.

Van brings an innovative spirit and entrepreneurial drive to his social change work. He has also recognized that breaking the incarceration industry's stranglehold on public debate and policy requires greater partnership between human rights activists and the progressive business community.
His efforts have won him widespread local, national and international recognition. His awards and honors include:

Global Leader for Tomorrow, 2002
Ashoka Fellowship, 2000-03
Reebok International Human Rights Award, 1998
Rockefeller Foundation ‘Next Generation Leadership’ Fellowship, 1997-99
Do Something BRICK Award for Community Leadership, 1996

Michael Laitman

Dr. Laitman received his Ph.D. in philosophy and Kabbalah from the Moscow Academy of Sciences, and his MSc from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University in the faculty of Biological Medical Cybernetics. Dr. Laitman has earned himself the reputation of an authority in Kabbalah through the twenty-two books on Kabbalah that he has published over his twenty-five years of Kabbalah teaching in the method that was handed down to him from Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, author of the authoritative Sulam Commentary on the Zohar.

In addition, Dr. Laitman founded Bnei Baruch, a worldwide organization for researching and teaching this age-old lore, providing daily Kabbalah lessons broadcasted live on www.kab.tv, and an abundance of authentic kabbalistic texts in twenty-two languages. All broadcasts and texts are provided gratis.

Ekaterina Moshaewa aka. Antoschka

Antoschka was born in a small siberian town. Here birth name was Ekaterina Moshaewa an she grew up as a normal child.She early discovered a passion for the ballet and her greatest dream was, to dance once as a prime ballerina in the famous Bolschoi-Theater of Moscow.An illness made this dream to nothing.In this time, a friend of the little Ekaterina went to become a Circus artist and she asked Ekaterina to accompany her.In this colorful world, Ekaterina learned soon that it meant hard work, to be very good and Ekaterina want’s to be the best one.The idea to become a clown was born and she work hard to learn the varios facets of artistry and dressage with animals. Addititionallyshe studied stage direction. The figure Antoschka occurred Ekaterina one day in winter after a walk through Moscow , when she saw her mirror image with scrubby hairs and red nose. The name Antoschka arise very spontaneously, what means "little Anton".

www.antoschka.de

 Christoph Quarch

philosopher and theologian, since 2000 tutor of the German Protestant churches day, before for five years editor of the monthly periodical „Protestant commentaries“.Side-line activity as a journalist and course leader in the areas philosophy and Spiritualität).Dr. Christoph Quarch lives with his family in Fulda, Germany.

Scientific working fields:
Philosophy of religion and interreligious dialogue, antique philosophy, aesthetics and art philosophy, political philosophy. Further Ambassador of the World Wisdom Council. Initiator of the "Spirituelle Sommerakademie Hombroich/Neuss".

www.lumen-naturale.de

Elizabeth Sahtouris
is an American/Greek evolution biologist, futurist, business consultant, event organizer and UN consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a popular lecturer, television and radio personality, author of EarthDance, Biology Revisioned co-authored with Willis Harman and A Walk Through Time: From Stardust To Us (with prologue by Brian Swimme and epilog by Sidney Liebes).

Dr. Sahtouris has taught at the Univ. of Massachusetts, M.I.T. and was a science writer for the NOVA/ HORIZON TV series. She has lived extensively in Greece and the Peruvian Andes. Her vision is the sustainable health and well-being of humanity within the larger living systems of Earth and Cosmos.

www.ratical.org

Hiroo Saionji

is the president of the Goi Peace Foundation and the World Peace Prayer Society. Together with Masami Saionji he also traveled around the world leading World Peace Prayer Ceremonies in many countries and at the United Nations and other international organizations.

Mr. Masahisa Goi, who initiated this movement, believed that progressively making human thoughts more cheerful and peaceful is the key to building world peace, and that if the number of peace-loving cheerful people who pray for peace increases throughout the world, it will pave the way to world peace. The prayer May Peace Prevail on Earth expresses the greatest wish of humanity, and it fosters harmony between humanity and everything around it. This prayer is therefore the brightest and most positive thought and energy that a human being can radiate. What is more, this prayer can be practiced at any time, anywhere, and by anyone, irrespective of religion or ideology.

www.goipeace.or.jp

Masami Saionji
is the Chairperson of the Goi Peace Foundation and the World Peace Prayer Society.  Descended from the Royal Ryukyu Family of Okinawa, she succeeds the work of her adoptive father, Masahisa Goi, who advocated the universal prayer “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in Japan after the Second World War. 

She is a respected lecturer at international conferences, and has also traveled around the world leading World Peace Prayer Ceremonies in many countries and at the Untied Nations and other international organizations.  She is the author of many books including “The Golden Key to Happiness,” “Infinite Happiness,” and “You Are the Universe” which have been published in several languages.