Theme: Trust

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MarieMarie

MarieMarie is in fact Maria-Helene Elisabeth Anna Elke Simone – and one could only speculate that the variety of names also shows in her personality. So it is no surprise that she is not only singer and harpist but producer, lyricist, composer and arranger. MarieMarie is currently working on her new Album O which is going to be released on Universal Music in 2017.

Anne Böckler-Raettig

Anne Böckler-Raettig is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology at Würzburg University. She studied in Berlin and Glasgow and completed her PhD at Radboud University in Nijmegen. After a research stay in Princeton, Anne worked as a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Anne employs methods from psychology, neuroscience and behavioral economics to investigate the processes that underlie social understanding and social interaction. Specifically, she is interested in gaze behavior, empathy, perspective-taking and social decision-making. More recently, Anne began to address the malleability of socio-affective and socio-cognitive capacities and interpersonal behavior by means of meditation based trainings.

Benita Matofska

The indomitable Benita’s passion for the Sharing Economy and how it can change the world led her to set up global movement and social enterprise The People Who Share and Global Sharing Week, which now reaches 100 million people worldwide. Her blog ‘What is the Sharing Economy?’ defined what is now known to be one of the greatest trends of all time. Driven by the belief that sharing is a solution to our complex global problems, Benita has been named Ogunte Best Social Business Leader, World, Venus Inspirational Woman of the Year and winner of the Cabinet Office / Nesta Innovation in Giving Award.

Daniel Koehler

Daniel Koehler studied religion, politics and economics at Princeton University and Free University Berlin. He specialized on terrorism, radicalization, and deradicalization and worked as a deradicalization and family counselor in multiple programs and developed several methodological approaches to countering violent extremism, especially family counselling programs around the world and gave expert interviews for leading international news outlets such as Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, Rolling Stone Magazine, the Associated Press, or the London Sunday Times.

Frank Kühne

A couple of years ago, Frank Kühne started an expedition into the peculiar world of German butchers. Together with a trio of young ladies, he was trying to figure out if there was a future for the craftsmanship. The issue is far from trivial. Only in the past decade, more than 4.000 butcher shops closed down in Germany. As supermarkets and convenience food flourished, meat shops faded away. During their journey, Frank and his team found out that butchers themselves are part of the problem: caught in a David x Goliath price-battle, many have forgotten what their role is all about. Butchers are a crucial player in a sustainable food chain. Operating in a small-scale, they are the direct link between consumers and farmers. Butchers have also been, for centuries, one of the most influential makers at the German food culture.

Greg Gage

Greg Gage is the co-founder and CEO of Backyard Brains, a company started with labmate Tim Marzullo while a graduate students in the Neural Engineering Lab at the University of Michigan. Greg is a published neuroscientist and engineer and has help developed tools, curriculum and experiments that allow the general public participate, hands-on, in neural discovery. He is senior fellow at TED and has given many TED talks, a director's innovation award winning investigator at the National Institute of Health, and was recognized in a White House ceremony for being a Champion of Change for his commitment to citizen science. In his free time, he enjoys changing diapers of his 2 young daughters.

Nolen Gertz

Nolen Gertz studied Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, working on the relationship between how wars are justified and the trauma experienced by combatants. This led to the publication of his book, The Philosophy of War and Exile (Palgrave 2014), which provides a new philosophy of PTSD, viewing the trauma of war as the result of our fundamental trust in the world rather than only what happens on the battlefield. Twitter: @ethicistforhire

Simon Anholt

“The only remaining superpower is international public opinion,” says Simon Anholt, an independent policy advisor who has helped more than 50 countries engage more productively with the rest of the world. He believes that public opinion cannot be shifted on the surface, but only moves when a government makes real changes in its values and behavior by rolling out enlightened policies, developing dynamic exchanges with other nations and committing to global betterment. Twitter: @SimonAnholt

Stephan Rathgeber

Stephan is Director Marketing at ManpowerGroup Germany. He is responsible for brand positioning, communications and digital marketing. Together with his team of spectacular marketers he leaves no stone unturned to make digital transformation happen.

Wijnand Nuijts

Wijnand is heading the "Governance, Culture & Organizational behavior" department of the Dutch Central Bank. Since its inception in 2010, he has been responsible for developing a new type of supervision focusing on leadership styles, group dynamics and the quality of corporate decision making. Together with a multidisciplinary team of organizational psychologists and governance experts, he is responsible for conducting numerous examinations into the effects of behavioural patterns for the performance of Dutch financial institutions. Personally, he takes great interest in analyzing human behavior within the context of board decision-making processes and he is convinced that a closer focus on human behavior with organizations and their boards, will contribute to their sustainable (financial) performance. Prior to heading DNB’s culture & behavior department, Wijnand had several management positions within the Dutch Central Bank.