TED has announced their inaugural class of TED Senior Fellows. Twenty select people from all of the TED fellows around the world were selected for this special program.
A special congratulations to my friend, Adrian Hong, who is the founder of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK).
Here are the twenty:
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
April Karen Baptiste (Trinidad) – Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Colgate University
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/US) – Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, AfriGadget and White African
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
Bola Olabisi (Nigeria/UK) – Founder, Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (GWIIN)
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
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