Meet the Ambassadors
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, born in 1928, is a groundbreaking linguist and philosopher, known as the "father of modern linguistics" for his theory of transformational grammar. A longtime MIT professor, he later joined the University of Arizona. Chomsky is also a prominent political activist and critic of media and U.S. foreign policy.
Carice van Houten
Carice van Houten is a Dutch actress, widely recognized for her role as Melisandre in Game of Thrones. Beyond acting, Carice is an environmental and social activist.
Isaias Hernandez
Isaias is an environmental educator and activist. Born in California, Isaias grew up in a community that faced environmental injustices and witnessed pollution affect his body. These injustices Hernandez faced empowered him to become an environmental educator and earned a BS in Environmental Studies.
Melanie Rieback
Dr. Melanie Rieback is the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world's first non-profit computer security consultancy company.
Dadara
Dadara's main focus are extravagant interactive performance-installations in public space. Many of these were built at the legendary Burning Man festival. His work is a kind of tweaked mirror which reflects our society, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
Alicia Fall
Alicia Fall, Founder and Visionholder of Her Many Voices Foundation, has been a lifelong doer and creator. Fall is a TEDx Talk presenter, a recipient of the New York State Assembly Citation Award, board member for the Coalition Against Global Genocide and for Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, both as a representative for Indigenous Peoples.
John Dennis Liu
John Dennis Liu is a Chinese American film-maker and ecologist. He is also a researcher at several institutions. In January 2015 John was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jennifer Hinton
Jennifer is a sustainability researcher, educator and activist. She co-authored a book How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit world by 2050, exploring the unviable dynamics of For-Profit models and the key role of Not-for-Profit businesses in the transition to a sustainable, more resilient economy.
Tom Wheeler
Tom Wheeler is an entrepreneur who, among other things, launched Sinchi Tribe - foundation focusing on the preservation of indigenous culture and knowledge. His experiences of trekking solo through Greenland, spending time in aboriginal communities in Australia and working with plant medicines in the Amazon shaped his life and work.
Marjan Minnesma
Marjan is the founder of the Urgenda foundation that fights for a greener, more liveable Earth. They have won the legal battle against Dutch Government, in which the court decided the Netherlands will be legally obligated to stop climate change. Marjan follows her own words: "We know what needs to be done. Let's work together and drag others into our unstoppable enthusiasm”.
Kees Klomp
Kess Klomp is an expert in socially meaningful entrepreneurship and a champion of Meaning Economy. He uses Buddhist philosophy as a way of doing business, hence his company called Karmanomic.
Jasmijn Schrofer
Jasmijn is a documentary filmmaker and a dancer. Her films can be best described with the words "desire” or "visual poetry”. With her art, she tackles complex issues such as immigration or euthanasia.
Graham Boyd
Thinking big, Graham's book Rebuild shows how we can build a better system, based on interlinked businesses and all capitals being represented. Now consulting and helping entrepreneurs optimise their structure, Graham will not stop until society can guarantee prosperous life for all, on a healthy and preserved planet.
Tom van de Beek
Tom is a sustainable entrepreneur finding fulfillment through creating social change. He founded The Tipping Point Foundation, an eco-agency that aims to help with the transition towards a sustainable society, as well as The Pollinators, a movement of citizens, local initiatives, and companies, who want to help pollinating insects, enhance biodiversity, and restore the earth.
Jesse Job Jorg
Jesse wants to change the way people view and use public space with his company We The City. They show the public space as a canvas that can be colored by us all, together.
Attila Suba
Founder of Green Revolution also singing the blues & gospel all around and having a lot of fun. Let's talk climate action, economics, philosophy, music