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Grethe F. Rostbøll, MA, has been a staple of the Danish political, art, and literature scenes spanning the last thirty years. Her books about politics, social sciences and language have been published in multiple languages, with much praise being heaped on her writings covering the Danish writer, Karen Blixen. Grethe was most recently the Chair of the Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD) between 2002-2011. Before her time as...

Dave is formerly a Warrant officer with the Royal Logistics Corps and has spent numerous years operating in some of the world’s harshest environments from the Arctic Regions to the jungles of Central America. His vast experience with leading operations and logistical support solutions in remote and hostile countries, like Iraq and Afghanistan provides Extreme World Races with a very experienced Executive Operations Director. Dave has previously worked as a...

Read a reflection on María’s visit by THINK Global School student Yada P. Maria Virginia Farinango was born in a small Quichua community near the town of Otavalo in the Ecuadorian Andes. The Queen of Water, a novel she co-wrote with Laura Resau, is closely based on the true story of her girlhood– a moving tale of struggling to find her place between two cultures. Maria Virginia is now working...

Natalia Greene, born in Ecuador, coordinates the program on “Political Plurinationality and the Rights of Nature” at the Fundación Pachamama in Ecuador and is the President of CEDENMA, Ecuador’s national coordinating entity for environmental NGOs. A graduate in political science from Hampshire College, she holds a master’s degree from FLACSO Ecuador and a special degree from Andina University on climate change. She was a key figure in the effort to...

Watch the talk: Download the “Where I Grew Up” iBook STEVE KLUGER shook hands with Lucille Ball when he was 12.  He’s since lived a few more decades, but nothing much registered after that. Kluger is a novelist and playwright who grew up during the Sixties with only two heroes: Tom Seaver and Ethel Merman.  Few were able to grasp the concept.  A veteran of Casablanca and a graduate of...

Merlin Kauffman is the founder of prominent domain name investment firm True Magic, LLC that holds properties such as Exclusive.com, Lookup.com, Conferences.com, Projects.com, FileSharing.com, Volunteers.com, Tabloids.com, iLoan.com and thousands more. His career started when American Online (AOL) hired him at the age of 11. At the age of 18, as a senior in high school, he went on to co-found his first company, eWireless, LLC. Within a year, he sold...

Watch the talk:  Read more about our encounter with Brandon Litman Brandon is the co-founder of One Day on Earth and the producer of the first three One Day on Earth films. Under Brandon’s leadership, One Day on Earth forged over 100 production partnerships, including a partnership with United Nations, allowing for unprecedented global reach. Brandon is also the founder of Alien Kung Fu, a New York-based production studio...

CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS is the author of the novels Perla and The Invisible Mountain, which was an international bestseller translated into fifteen languages, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and an O, The Oprah Magazine 2009 Terrific Read. She is the recipient of Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize and a 2012 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the translator of various works of...

Watch the talk: -im9tezk Read “Bo Jacobs discusses nuclear consequences” Robert Jacobs is an American historian at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University working on social and cultural aspects of nuclear technologies. He is the author of “The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age” (2010), the editor of “Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb” (2010), and the co-editor...

Nicole Watanabe brings more than 14 years of cross-cultural business experience to her work as a facilitator and organizational development consultant. She conducts training seminars for Japanese and non-Japanese professionals on multicultural teambuilding, cross-cultural effectiveness and various leadership development topics. In addition, Nicole coaches business executives from the U.S., Europe and Asia through the challenges of cross-cultural adaptation in Japan including labor-management relations, HR strategy, Japanese business etiquette, building strong business...