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Marcelo Ebrard
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS of Mexico
About Marcelo Ebrard
Currently working as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mexico, Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón is best known for his environmental and civil-rights initiatives within Mexico City. After 6 years as mayor, he made the city cleaner, safer, and more environmentally friendly.
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Richard van der Laken
Founder What Design Can Do
ABOUT RICHARD VAN DER LAKEN
With his drive and energy, Richard van der Laken brought life to What Design Can Do as a co-founder back in 2010. As general director and tireless ambassador for WDCD, Van der Laken travels all over the world to spread the word.
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Alice Rawsthorn
Design Critic
About Alice Rawsthorn
Alice Rawsthorn is an internationally acclaimed design critic. She writes for the International New York Times, Frieze and her book Hello World: Where Design Meets Life explores design’s influence on our lives.
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Elena Reygadas
Chef at ROSETTA
About Elena ReYgadAs
Mexican chef Elena Reygadas was awarded the Veuve Clicquot Prize for Latin America’s Best Woman Chef. She uses what is locally available according to the seasons and likes to experiment with unexpected combinations.
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Carla Fernandez
Fashion Designer
About Carla Fernandez
Mexican fashion designer Carla Fernandez is the founder of Taller Flora, a fashion label that works with indigenous communities throughout Mexico. The aim of the label is to keep Mexican textile traditions from extinction and provide local artisans with an income.
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Mr. Brainwash
Street artist & Filmmaker
About Mr. Brainwash
For more than a decade Thierry Guetta, under his moniker, Mr. Brainwash, has been pushing the envelope of contemporary art. The orchestrated collision of street art and pop art has been his balancing act. The tipping point for Mr. Brainwash was his ground-breaking footage from the widely acclaimed documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop.
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Ecolana
Clean Energy Winner
About Ecolana
Ecolana ( a winner of the Clean Energy Challenge) aims to be the ultimate guide for recycling in México City. The platform provides access to information and builds connections between two main types of communities: recycling heroes (citizens) and recycling centers (collectors). Next to these key players, they also encourage consumer brands to connect and add value to the city’s recycling chain.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova
PUSSY RIOT
About Nadya TolokoNnikova
Redesigning activism, Nadya Tolokonnikova expresses her views through political activism, feminist punk and controversial street art. She became well known throughout the world when she was arrested and sentenced in Russia in 2012 as part of the punk feminist group Pussy Riot.
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Steye Hallema
Smartphone Orchestra
About Steye Hallema
Steye Hallema is director, composer and inventor. With a background in computer animation, music, theatre and tech, he has the ability to combine the many different disciplines that are necessary in Virtual Reality.
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Cameron Sinclair
Child Safety Pledge
About Cameron Sinclair
Cameron is managing a dedicated team focused on ending child sexual abuse in the United States and helping to strengthen public programs. Partnering with NGOs, foundations and media companies to build a grassroots movements parents to help address this silent issue.
For the past three years Cameron led social innovation at Airbnb, conceptualizing and developing a range of projects from livelihoods for resettled refugees, rural revitalization, house concerts, addressing systems for nomadic populations and developing marketplaces for traditional craftspeople in Japan.