TED is proud to introduce the 2010 TED Senior Fellows! Selected from among the 65 Fellows that attended TED2009 and TEDGlobal 2009, the 20 individuals listed below comprise the inaugural class of TED Senior Fellows. Benefits of the program include attending five additional TED conferences (TED and TEDGlobal), participating in five Senior Fellows pre-conferences, the potential to deliver a full-length talk on the TED University or main TED stage, and the possibility to have that talk posted on TED.com.
Adrian Hong (US/North Korea/South Korea) – Director, The Pegasus Project; former director, Liberty in North Korea
Juliette LaMontagne (US) – Education consultant; innovation facilitator
Alexander MacDonald (US) – Economist, NASA Ames Research Center
Juliana Machado-Ferreira (Brazil) – Biologist, SOS FAUNA; PhD candidate, Sao Paulo University
VK Madhavan (India) – Executive Director, Central Himalayan Rural Action Group (Chirag)
Naomi Natale (Italy/US) – Founder, One Million Bones, a large-scale social activism art installation
Alexander Petroff (US/Democratic Republic of the Congo) – Founder, Working Villages International
Juliana Rotich (Kenya/US) – Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, Afromusing and Global Voices
Mohammad Tauheed (Bangladesh) – Architect; founder, ArchSociety
Taghi Amirani (Iran/UK) – Documentary filmmaker, Amirani Films
Rachel Armstrong (UK) – Teaching fellow, The Bartlett School of Architecture; physician; science-fiction author
Frederick Balagadde (Uganda/US) – Research scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; co-inventor of the microchemostat, a medical diagnostic chip
Faisal Chohan (Pakistan) – CEO, Cogilent Solutions; founder, Brightspyre, Pakistan’s largest online job portal
Colleen Flanigan (US) – Fine artist; stop-motion armaturist, coral reef restoration expert
Gabriella Gómez-Mont (Mexico) – Founder, Tóxico Cultura, a Mexico City-based artistic think tank
Jonathan Gosier (US/Uganda) – Founder, Appfrica, a business incubator in Kampala
Peter Haas (US/Haiti/Guatemala) – Founder, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
Erik Hersman (Kenya) – Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, AfriGadget and White African