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Melinda Gates | TED Speaker

Melinda French Gates is cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she puts into practice the idea that every life has equal value.
Philanthropist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/melinda_french_gates

Dilip Ratha | TED Speaker

Economist Dilip Ratha was the first to analyze the global significance of remittances -- money sent from foreign workers to their families back home.
Remittances expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dilip_ratha

Andreas Schleicher | TED Speaker

What makes a great school system? To find out, Andreas Schleicher administers a test to compare student performance around the world.
Education surveyor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/andreas_schleicker

Cat Laine | TED Speaker

Cat Laine has made it her mission to find solutions to the problems that face the world’s poor, by merging innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit.
Social entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/cat_laine

Ludwick Marishane | TED Speaker

Student Ludwick Marishane invented a water-less bathing lotion and was named the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award -- all because he didn't feel like taking baths.
Entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ludwick_marishane

Enrique Peñalosa | TED Speaker

Enrique Peñalosa is the mayor of Bogotá, Colombia. He advocates for sustainability and mobility in the cities of the future.
Colombian politician, urban activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/enrique_penalosa

Sheryl WuDunn | TED Speaker

As a journalist reporting on China, Sheryl WuDunn saw the everyday oppression of women around the world. She and Nick Kristof wrote "Half the Sky," chronicling women's stories of horror and, especially, hope.
Author, journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sheryl_wudunn

Marc Koska | TED Speaker

Marc Koska wants to improve health care in the developing world by re-designing dangerous medical tools -- and offering education to practitioners in under-funded clinics.
Inventor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/marc_koska

Jim Yong Kim | TED Speaker

Jim Yong Kim is leading a global effort to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.
Economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jim_yong_kim

Andrew Mwenda | TED Speaker

Journalist Andrew Mwenda has spent his career fighting for free speech and economic empowerment throughout Africa. He argues that aid makes objects of the poor -- they become passive recipients of charity rather than active participants in their own economic betterment.
Journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/andrew_mwenda

Shukla Bose | TED Speaker

Shukla Bose is the founder and head of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation, a nonprofit that runs four extraordinary schools for poor children.
Education activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shukla_bose

Jody Williams | TED Speaker

Jody Williams won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to eradicate landmines. Now she’s teaming up with five other female peace laureates to empower women to fight violence, injustice and inequality.
Nobel peace laureate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jody_williams

Tim Jackson | TED Speaker

Tim Jackson is a British ecological economist and professor for sustainable development at the University of Surrey. He is the author of "Prosperity without Growth" and director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity.
Economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tim_jackson

Ernest Madu | TED Speaker

Ernest Madu founded the Heart Institute of the Caribbean, a revolutionary clinic for cardiovascular diseases in Kingston, Jamaica -- revolutionary for offering first-class health care in a developing nation. His next stop: Nigeria.
Cardiologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ernest_madu

Jim Fallon | TED Speaker

Sloan Scholar, Fulbright Fellow, Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience, Jim Fallon looks at the way nature and nurture intermingle to wire up the human brain.
Neurobiologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jim_fallon

Parag Khanna | TED Speaker

Geopolitical futurist Parag Khanna foresees a world in which megacities, supply chains and connective technologies redraw the map away from states and borders.
Global strategist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/parag_khanna

Amos Winter | TED Speaker

Amos Winter and his team at MIT built the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a cheap lever-powered wheelchair whose design and develop put the user first.
Mechanical engineer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/amos_winter

George Whitesides | TED Speaker

In his legendary career in chemistry, George Whitesides has been a pioneer in microfabrication and nanoscale self-assembly. Now, he's fabbing a diagnostic lab on a chip.
Chemist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/george_whitesides

Edwidge Danticat | TED Speaker

Edwidge Danticat’s novels and short stories are fast becoming iconic representations of the immigrant experience -- and what it means to be Haitian-American.
Author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/edwidge_danticat

Bunker Roy | TED Speaker

Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is the founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes self-sufficient.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bunker_roy

Sanjay Pradhan | TED Speaker

Sanjay Pradhan is vice president of the World Bank Institute, helping leaders in developing countries learn skills for reform, development and good governance.
Development Leader
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sanjay_pradhan

Sonaar Luthra | TED Speaker

TED Senior Fellow Sonaar Luthra is measuring climate-related water risk and implementing solutions for organizations and communities facing 21st-century water security challenges.
Water risk forecaster
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sonaar_luthra

Paul Romer | TED Speaker

Paul Romer's research on catch-up growth in low- and middle-income countries has emphasized the importance of government policies that encourage orderly urban expansion.
Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank
https://www.ted.com/speakers/paul_romer

Nandan Nilekani | TED Speaker

Nandan Nilekani is the author of "Imagining India," a radical re-thinking of one of the world’s great economies. The co-founder of Infosys, he helped move India into the age of IT.
Technologist and visionary
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nandan_nilekani

Danny Dorling | TED Speaker

Danny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world.
Social geographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/danny_dorling

Joshua Silver | TED Speaker

Atomic physicist Joshua Silver invented liquid-filled optical lenses to produce low-cost, adjustable glasses, giving sight to millions without access to an optometrist.
Optical innovator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/joshua_silver

David Damberger | TED Speaker

David Damberger’s work with Engineers Without Borders has taken him from communities in India to Southern Africa to help build infrastructure -- and learn.
Engineer, Social Entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_damberger

Seema Bansal | TED Speaker

BCG's Seema Bansal asks: Can governments actually make a meaningful difference in education? And rapidly? Yes, it turns out.
Education innovator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/seema_bansal

Ian Goldin | TED Speaker

Ian Goldin brings fresh thinking to bear on the big, looming issues of the future.
Economist, development visionary
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ian_goldin

Kang Lee | TED Speaker

Kang Lee has devoted his career to understanding the development of social cognition and behavior.
Developmental researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kang_lee
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