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Sara not only knows Sweden, she knows what it’s like to grow up and live in cultures other than her own, which helps her identify with the students at THINK Global School. Sara is currently the Vision Holder and manager of Mjuka Flytten, a Swedish-based consultancy working with and for so–called Third Culture Kids—those who’ve lived in one or more cultures other than their own and integrate facets of those...

Listen to the talk: Nils Olsen is trained as a Social Psychologist and Statistician (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and approaches his research and teaching from a behavioral economics perspective. In terms of professional experience, Professor Olsen has worked with the Global Executive MBA Program at Duke University, Duke Corporate Education, Inc., the American Bar Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), and Deutsche Asset...

Watch the talk: Read more about Matthew’s visit with our students Matthew Albert is the co-founder of the Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL) Program, a volunteer, non-profit, secular organisation that provides free English support and community services to the Sudanese refugee community in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, Australia. 2011 marks a decade of community service by the SAIL Program, which now has over 1000 people attending each week. Matthew...

Kim McKay’s international career in media, social and sustainability marketing, and communications spans more than 25 years and every continent. Currently, as a director of Momentum2, a Sydney-based social and sustainability marketing consultantcy, Kim has worked on local and global projects for the National Geographic Society, Qantas and Harpo Productions (Oprah’s Ultimate Australian Adventure). Kim has worked consistently in support of the environment starting when she co-founded Clean Up Australia...

Sacha has a dream to live in a world of equality where every person has the resources and opportunities to follow their passions and dreams. In 2008, at the age of 18, Sacha founded Sachas. Realizing that businesses exist as a result of their communities, environment and people, Sacha created a 50/50 Business Model where 50% of profits go back into the Sachas brand, while the other 50% go into...

Lijia Zhang is a factory-worker turned writer, journalist and talk-show host. Her articles have appeared in many international publications, including South China Morning Post, Japan Times, The Observer, Newsweek, Asian Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is the co-author of China Remembers. Her memoir “Socialism Is Great!” about her decade-long experience working at a rocket factory in Nanjing in the ’80s, was first published in the US...

Read more about Argentina’s disappeared children. Formed in 2011, the NGO Los Argentinos por la Concordia Nacional (Argentines for National Harmony) have begun providing an important forum for those whose lives were thrown into catastrophic disarray during Argentina’s Dirty War of the 1970s. A period marked by strong civil violence, the Dirty War was characterized by mass “disappearances” of those considered to be political dissidents by the ruling military junta....

Jay Heinrichs is one of the world's  leading experts on the art of persuasion. Bloomberg Businessweek magazine says of him that he "brings the art of persuasion to the world's leading masters of manipulation." His clients have included Southwest Airlines, the banking industry, Walmart, Mindshare, Beachbody (the P90X and Insanity people!), Ivy League universities, NASA, and the Pentagon. Jay is the bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and...

Jeremy Goldkorn founded the popular China media website Danwei.org, and acts as editor and publisher. The site has tracked the changes in China’s media and Internet on a daily basis since 2003. Danwei also produces custom research reports about media, Internet and communications in China for corporate clients, and are research affiliates of the Centre on China in the World at Australia Nation University. According to The London Review of...

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash University, and has held several other visiting appointments. Since 1999 he has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. From 2005 on, he has also held...