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Fields of interest: Brussels, Germany, Europe, Society of Jesus Alain Deneef (born in 1960) is a Belgian entrepreneur, urban expert and coalition builder. He is currently intendant of Brussels Metropolitan, a Belgian employers’ coalition at federal (Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FEB-VBO)) and regional (Brussels Entreprises Commerce and Industry (BECI), VOKA and Union wallonne des entreprises (UWE)) levels. As an expert in urban issues and civil society, he is the founder and president of Aula Magna, a Brussels based think-tank created in 2005. He helped to launch and coordinate in 2008 the Citizen’s Forum of Brussels, a unique effort in mobilizing civil society around the future of Brussels. This endeavor won the Flemish Prijs voor de Democratie in July 2010. As businessman, he has held top management positions in Canal+ Belgium (deputy general manager), Belgacom (Executive Vice-President) and the SNCB - the Belgian railway company (Chairman of the Board), among others, and several positions as director in BT Belgium, CIT Blaton and Carmeuse. Currently a strategic consultant, he helps medium and large organizations foresee the impact of technological, financial, social, demographic, environmental, urban and political change on their future. He has served as president of a number of clubs and associations amongst which the Alumni association of the Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel (Bruxelles). Since August 2013, he is the president of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA). He was also president of the Brussels chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and is currently a member of the World Presidents’ Organization (WPO). He is also the Executive Officer of the European Quarter Fund, a corporate fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, which acts as a bridge between public and private actors in the European Quarter in Brussels. Closely linked to the latter, he is also involved as president in the European Quarter Area Management Association (EQuAMA), which endeavors to animate public spaces and to create events in this area of Brussels. In the sport field, he is the Secretary General of the European Sports Academy (ESA), which aims at creating a center of excellence for the Belgian and European sporting elite. He is further a director of the Brussels Studies Institute. He was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) and Law and Philosophy (1984). He is currently finalizing a Master in History at the same university. He is fluent in French, Dutch, English and German. He lives in Ixelles (Brussels Region).
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Alanda co-founded and manage Sinergi Muda, a youth-run social enterprise that connects likeminded youth from all across Indonesia to collaborate on creating social change through programmes like the Indonesian Youth Conference, which has become Indonesia's biggest independently-organised youth event in 5 years. She is a British Council's Global Changemaker and One Young World Ambassador. Alanda has published best-selling books on youth empowerment issues and spoken in high-level engagements, including the London G-20 Summit 2009, 100th International Labour Conference and Pontifical Council for Culture’s Plenary Assembly 2013, among others. Alanda has worked for Indonesia's Presidential Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight, Microsoft, and Unilever prior to joining a social innovation fellowship at The DO School, which she is currently completing.
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Alvin campaigns for policy changes to address poverty. In 2015 he ran the First Job Opportunities programme. First Job Opportunities are jobs-with-training for people in poverty who have never had a job. The first major success was the use of a procurement model which states that for every £1m spent on public procurement, one first job opportunity is created. Now, contracts in total worth over £760m are implementing the model. As a community organiser, Alvin led the Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots. This was the community-led response to the events that shocked England in the summer of 2011. This grassroots effort engaged 10,000 local people and led to jobs for young people and the suspension of section 60 stop and searches in the area. Alvin advises governments and global corporations on leadership and social impact. He is an advisor to a €5 million research project that is examining the obstacles and opportunities affecting youth employment in Europe. He is currently advising the government of Trinidad and Tobago to support the establishment of its statutory National Youth Commission. In 2014 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to research how community leaders are addressing social exclusion across the US. Alvin has lectured at the University of Connecticut, has delivered keynote speeches in the House of Lords, and has debated in Cambridge Union. He has also appeared on CNN, BBC, Televisión Española, AFP, and Channel 4 to discuss politics and economics. He was selected to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 in Davos. Before completing his master’s degree in social policy at the LSE, Alvin ran soup kitchens and did research for the think-tank Demos. He has also worked for the social business Catch22 focused on crime, youth justice, and gangs. Outside of work he has been boxing since he was 16 and is a former British Grand Champion of the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do and won bronze in the world competition.
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Insightful and inspiring teacher with a deep understanding of team/group dynamics.
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I've been user interface designer, sitebuilder, e-learning specialist and now my focus is on growing a happy, effective and value-oriented team. Building an agile company for me is a cultural factor, and is not a matter of methodology. I am surrounded by a couple of excellent problem solvers. I am not good in this. The connection means more to me than the answer. I prefer the piano to chess. Jiu jitsu to swimming. I am engaged in building trust among team members. I am motivated to form a working environment where everyone can find his/her voice and expectations. Where growth and flow determine each day. Where common practice dictates the schedule. I am moving on borderlines. When I get into something, I always start seeking other areas where I can adopt the new knowledge. I appreciate when something is easily defined, and I can join the process from the very beginning. In my free time I am looking for new topics, when I get obsessed by something, it happens that I get addicted for years. Newly I got caught by Brasilian jiu jitsu and bowing folk music for Transylvanian folk dance of Szék.
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Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith, a global interfaith development organization, and Mean Communications, a digital agency. After graduating from NYU, Frank worked in the music industry, managing artists such as Lady Gaga. In 2006, he founded World Faith, a youth-led interfaith organization active in 15 countries. As an active blogger, Frank has contributed to the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Sojourners. Frank has been interviewed on Good Morning America, NPR, and New York Magazine. He is an alumnus of the IFYC Fellowship, Soliya Fellowship, AMENDS at Stanford, YouthActionNet Fellowship, and the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship. Frank resides in New York with his wife, fervently reading, cooking, learning a language at any given time, and performing as a musician and songwriter. Frank is a Global Shapers Community Scholarship recipient at Oxford's Said Business School.
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Gulika Reddy is a human rights lawyer and the Founder of Schools of Equality. She is currently a Human Rights LL.M. Fellow at Columbia University. In the past, she has worked with lawyers, non-profits and academic institutions on the rights of: women and children, indigenous communities, climate refugees, and slum-dwellers.
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Tomislav Perko (32), a travel writer from Croatia. After a career of a stockbroker, broke because of the financial crisis, he hits the road and turns it into his home. He uses alternative ways of traveling – hitchhiking, couchsurfing, working/volunteering, and manages to wander around the world with just a little bit of money in his pocket, meeting the most amazing people on the way. Five years later, he published books 1000 Days of Spring and 1000 Days of Summer, gives a TEDx talk (which has nearly 4,000,000 views) and goes around giving lectures about what it means to live on the road. He recently toured Europe, selling out 80 percent of the venues in 40 cities, bringing over 12,000 people in 6 countries to his talks.
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I'm the only Chartered Psychologist in the world also qualified as a financial adviser. Organisations such as Chambers of Commerce,PR companies and professional bodies hire me to deliver talks include, "it's obvioius you know what you're talking about", "you're really entertaining" and "we always get a lot out of it that we sort of know, but don't really appreciate until you express it". My main areas are 1. Personal and business finance and risk. I'm on the Chartered Insurance Institute and Personal Finance Society "Subject matter expert" lists for risk and psychology of finance. I'm a qualified member of both organisations. I've given talks to businesses such as IFA firms, banks and insurance companies and to regional and national conferences for professional organisations such as the Chartered Institute of Internal Audit, Institute of Chartered Accountants, CII and PFS and the British Psychological Society. Subects have included understanding financial risk, why we make mistakes with money and one of the most popular "why smart people make bad decisions". 2. Financial education. I've delivered talks for various organisations helping their staff to understand the company benefits, to avoid stress (and consequent financial loss) and to manage their personal finance better. I'm in consultation with, among others, the Money Advice Service, Citizen's Advice and Young Enterprise to try to improve financial capacity (of adults and children) and regualrly deliver talks in branches and to schools and potential sponsors around the habits of good money management and practical ways to develop those habits.. 3. Public awareness of financial issues. I regularly appear in the media (written, radio and TV) as well as delivering talks and lectures. I'm the Money Matters editor for Vialucci magazine, creator of the website Tamingthepound.com and author of the books "Taming the pound" and "Finance Is Personal: Making Your Money Work for You in College and Beyond". I've talked publicly (such as on Ann Diamond's radio show) and in presentations about my experiences with finance and how people can make better use of money. 4. Executive selection and development. I've talked to regional and national conferences for groups such as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the BPS and Division of Occupational Psychology on areas such as effective methods of selection, how to improve decision making and the options with development and training. I've also worked with many organisations on coaching and making the most of their talent.
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I have a passion for helping people realise their potential. As a visual practitioner and facilitator, it is my goal to broaden the visual field of my clients so that the whole spectrum of possibilities become visible. Seeing the big picture helps! My ambition is to get visual thinking into the hands of everyone: a vital skill for prototyping new ideas, break down complexity, effective communication, and for promoting collaboration. Before life as a visual practitioner I worked for 15+ years in TV, producing countless TV commercials and creative content, working closely with ad agencies and production studios. I thrived in organised chaos and learned how to tell a good story. I love meeting new people so if you believe that I can be of help or if you’d like to learn more about how seeing the big picture can help your business please get in touch.
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