Rosana Agudo
Rosana Agudo, born in Bilbao, Spain, is an investigator and expert in cultural disciplines and traditions related to the inner development of the human being. As a Vision Coach, she has been accompanying people in the constant development of their vision-based action for the past 19 years.
Rosana Agudo is also
Rosana Agudo is also
- Founder of Lur Gozoa – Platform for a Conscious Citizenry and of Mirra – Association for Woman’s Leadership
- Founder and Director of the Consultancy TTi – Technology for Inner Transformation created in 2005 to assist people who form organizations in the development of their Vision and in the realization of the Change in Mindset needed for the Knowledge Society;
- Founder and Director of the recently established VisionToAction International School For Changemakers dedicated to the training and accompaniment of Changemakers and for the creation of and participation in emerging networks worldwide
Victoria Hale
Dr. Hale is a pharmaceutical scientist and global health social entrepreneur. Her Dream in Action is the development of new medicines for all humanity, with the specific goal of reducing health inequities.
In the year 2000, she founded the Institute for OneWorldHealth, the first not-for-profit- pharmaceutical company in the United States and for which she serves as Chair Emeritus.
In 2008 she founded Medicines360, a new kind of pharmaceutical company, also not-for-profit, that is self sustaining thanks to the sale of its pharma products in developed countries, the profits of which permit their sale, under cost, in economically disadvantaged countries. For Dr. Hale, economic benefit is a means of carrying out her mission, not the principal objective.
The Economist named Dr. Hale recipient of its Social and Economic Innovation Award in 2005 and Glamour Magazine named her Woman of the Year in 2007.
Anandi Bretón
In 1995, Anandi Bretón moved form Pamplona, Spain, and established herself permanently in Auroville*. During her 16 years in Auroville, she has been responsible for the following areas and projects:
- Secretariat of the Department of Planning and Development for six years – Auroville is planned to become a city of 50,000 people following the guiding principles of ecology, sustainability and multiculturalism.
- Management of cooperation projects financed by the Asia-Urbs Program of the European Union, in partnership with the Municipalities of Paris, Venice and Cologne.
- Management of the project “Pour Tous”, a distribution center based on an alternative economic system, the objective of which is to provide for the basic alimentary and household necessities of all the residents of Auroville. The project was conceived as a center of investigation for the practice of applied research towards a more conscious and a more participatory form of consumption entailing a different form of interaction between the providers and the consumers.
*Auroville, located in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, was established as an international community in 1968 and is now home to 2000 people of 35 different nationalities. Auroville is a foundation and is endorsed and supported by UNESCO and the Government of India.
Irena Ateljevic Jureta
Dr. Ateljevic is an aclaimed academic and researcher in the field of sustainable development through community empowerment. She has led the Academy of Hope, an initiative of academics throughout the world who are striving to integrate principles of life long learning into higher education.
As a professor at University of Wageningen (Holland), Irena has been recognized by her students in her recent professional activity in the group of Environmental Sciences and has been selected as “Best Professor of the Year” for two consecutive years. In spite these acknowledgments, Dr. Ateljevic has recently left her professional post at the University, with the aim of realizing her lifetime dream in her country of origin (Croatia), the project Phoenix Arbor , an inspirational, action-driven meeting ground for progressive minds and spirits, leaders and emerging changemakers.
Halla Tómasdóttir
Halla Tómasdóttir is convinced that a more balanced set of values will produce a more sustainable economy and a healthier world. That is why she became co-founder and Chairwoman of Audur Capital, an investment company created in 2007 that is focused on integrating feminine values into finance; the guiding values of Audur Capital are: independence, risk awareness, straight talking, transparency, emotional capital and profit with principles.
Halla Tómasdóttir is also Chair of Veritas Capital, Iceland’s main pharmaceutical and healthcare company, and of TAL, a communications company; she sits on the executive board of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce and has recently joined the board of Olgerdin, Iceland’s Pepsi bottler and largest consumer products company. She has been a non-executive board director of a number of organizations including the Icelandic Stock Exchange, and Sjova, Iceland’s largest insurance company.
Ms. Tómasdóttir has been the recipient of many awards, among them the 2008 Women in Business Excellence Award. In 2011, Newsweek’s Daily Beast named her to their list of “150 Women who Shake the World”.
