It’s That Time of Year Again…SPEAKER SERIES REQUESTS!
It’s Christmas in May! As usual, the Terry team is asking for your input before our Speaker Series wish list meeting next week.
Economists? Scientists? Global activists? Celebrity? Let’s hear ’em!
7 Responses to “It’s That Time of Year Again…SPEAKER SERIES REQUESTS!”
Raj Patel – author of “Stuffed and Starved” and “The Value of Nothing”!
Elizabeth Pisani – author of “The Wisdom of Whores” (watch her awesome TED video!)
PEREZ HILTON
I second Raj Patel.
William Easterly, Joseph Stiglitz, Dani Rodrik. More of a dream wish-list than anything, but if you could find people with similar perspectives, that would be sweet.
Maude Barlow (http://www.wateronthetable.com/characters/maude-barlow/)
My top picks are
1) Mo Ibrahim
2) Richard Branson
3) P Diddy
4) Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
5) Muhammad Yunus
The P, the I, the D, the D, the Y, it’s DIDDDDYYYYYY
In no particular order:
Maria de Silva, founder of the Jacaranda Foundation
Craig Kielburger, founder of Save the Children
Dexter Filkins, author of the Forever War
A seconder for Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Iris Chang, author of the Rape of Nanking
Lawrence Wright, author of the Looming Towers
Jenny Bowen, founder of Half the Sky
Nicholas Kristoff, NYTimes columnist