Global Leadership in the 21st Century Team Members

Project Leaders:

Garry Jacobs – WAAS President & Chief Executive Officer
Email: gjacobs@worldacademy.org

Donato Kiniger-Passigli – WAAS Vice President & GL-21 Project Director
Email: kiniger@worldacademy.org

Mila Popovich –  WAAS Chair, Nominations Committee & GL-21 Head of Research and Development
Email: mila.popovich@worldacademy.org

Advisory Council Members:

Hazel Henderson – Futurist and an Economic Iconoclast; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science
Federico Mayor – Former director-general of UNESCO; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

Academia:

Jüri Engelbrecht – Member of Board of the Trustees, Estonian Academy of Sciences and WAAS; Trustee, World Academy of Art & Science
Momir Djurovic – Academician, Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Montenegro; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees

Art and Humanities:

Mila Popovich – WAAS Chair, Nominations Committee & GL-21 Head of Research and Development
Julene Siddique – Founder and CEO, Nada Brahma Ltd; Head of Programs and Partnerships, The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research

Business and Finance:

Stefan Brunnhuber – Full International Member, The Club of Rome; Endowed professor Psychology & Sustainability, HSMW; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees
Ketan Patel –  CEO & Founder, Greater Pacific Capital; Former Managing Director, Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs
Frank Dixon – Sustainability and System Change Consultant, USA; Author, Global System Change series of books; Associate Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

Civil Society:

Thomas Reuter – Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees
Obiora Francis Ike – Professor of Ethics and Peace Studies, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Nigeria; Member, Club of Rome

Cultural Diplomacy:

Ismail Serageldin – Emeritus Librarian, Member of the Board of Trustees, Library of Alexandria; co-Chair, Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC); WAAS Fellow
Emil Constantinescu – Former President, Romania; President, The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees

Economy:

Garry Jacobs – President and CEO, World Academy of Art & Science; Chairman of the Board and CEO, World University Consortium
Dragan Djurcin – Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Editor in Chief, Scientific Journal Ekonomika preduzeca; President, Serbian Association of Corporate Directors

Education:

Witold Kinsner – Vice President Educational Activities, IEEE; Professor, University of Manitoba
Pavel Luksha – Founder and Director, Global Education Futures initiative; Visiting Faculty Member, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires; Partner, Education Vertical, Global Venture Alliance

Energy, Ecology and Climate:

Ernst von Weizsäcker – Honorary President & Member of the Executive Committee, The Club of Rome; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science
Neven Duić – Founder, International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment System (SDEWES), Croatia; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

Governance, Human Rights, Peace & Security:

Donato Kiniger-Passigli – Vice President, WAAS; Adviser, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Jonathan Granoff – President, Global Security Institute; Advisor, The Permanent Secretariat of World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

Information & Media:

Donato Kiniger-Passigli – Vice President, WAAS; Adviser, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Jerome Glenn – Co-founder & CEO, The Millennium Project on Global Futures Research, USA; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

Science, Engineering and Technology:

Rodolfo Fiorini – Professor, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees
Carlos Alvarez-Pereira – Founder and President, Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

Social Transformation Movements:

Garry Jacobs – President and CEO, World Academy of Art & Science; Chairman of the Board and CEO, World University Consortium
Petra Kuenkel – Executive Committee Member, The Club of Rome

Welfare and Wellbeing:

Alberto Zucconi – President, Person-Centered Approach Institute (IACP), Italy; Secretary General, World University Consortium; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees
Stefan Brunnhuber – Full International Member at The Club of Rome; Endowed professor Psychology & Sustainability, HSMW; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees
Lennart Levi – Emeritus Professor of Psychosocial Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

Youth:

Thomas Reuter – Professor, University of Melbourne; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees
Marco Vitiello – Department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University, Italy; Junior Fellow, WAAS

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