Meet Dr Noubar Afeyan. Billionaire linked to a vaccine, Dr Noubar Afeyan is the chairman and co-founder of Moderna.
Category: Courageous
Amir Sufi – Equitable Growth
Amir Sufi is a member of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Research Advisory Board. He is also the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He serves as an associate editor for the American…
Meet Sabiha: making career choices focused, simple and successful
Imagine facing one of life’s biggest challenges with certainty of what you want out of your future career and having the support and guidance from industry specialists to make this a reality. How amazing would that be? If you are struggling with career choices, join this event and seek the answers you need. About Future Made Simple…
Humaira Bachal : Education Crusader and Asia 21 Young Leader
Humaira Bachal, has been fighting for girls’ right to education in her home town in Moach Goth.
She has been risking her life daily to teach young girls with what she learns in school…
Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs
Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from …) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs?…
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
As a society progresses, it eventually becomes a capitalist, multi-party democracy. Right? Eric X. Li, a Chinese investor and political scientist, begs to differ. In this provocative, boundary-pushing talk, he asks his audience to consider that there’s more than one way to run a successful modern nation…
Voices of Asia 21: Rucha Writes about the Role of Women-Farmers
Rucha is the South Asia Program Director of Women’s Earth Alliance, a nonprofit that mobilizes resources to grassroots women’s groups that are on the frontlines taking environmental action and are creating just alternatives …
Amanda Palmer: The art of asking
Don’t make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan…
A Helpful Guide to Becoming Unbusy
It was in this video from Jeff Shinabarger that I first heard the phrase, “‘Busy’ has become the new ‘Fine’.” As in, when you ask somebody how they were doing, they used to answer, “Fine.” But …
Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit”…
Shao Lan: Learn to read Chinese … with ease!
ShaoLan Hsueh has been a tech writer, an investor and entrepreneur, who now focuses on teaching Chinese through an engaging new method…
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