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Already 4 international conferences organised each year for 3 days to encourage discussions between business leaders, experts, NGOS and students.
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Shirin EBADI - Iran
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Lawyer and first female
judge in Iran, Human
rights activist.
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“ Profit is not intrinsically evil, we need to think of how to control and share it. How can we live in a tensionfree world when more than 80 % of the riches in the world lie in the hands of 1 % of the population? ”
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Wangari MAATHAI - Kenya
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against deforestation. She founded
the Green Belt Movement and
already planted over 30 million trees.
“ On this planet, and we haven’t found yet another one to escape, there are resources that we can’t do without. Unless, as a human family, we learn how
to manage these resources in a responsible and equitable way, sooner or later we are likely to fight over the few resources that will be remaining. ”
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Youssou N’DOUR - Senegal
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Artist and entrepreneur committed
to great humanitarian causes,
an icon of Africa, he founded in 2008
a microcredit organization.
“ A business leader is someone who
makes a commitment to the population.
Therefore he has to push himself at the limits
in order to do its best. ”
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Ellen MACARTHUR - UK
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Famous English sailor, she put an end to
her sporting career to devote herself
entirely to her foundation which
aims to inspire young people to
re-think and re-design their future.
“ Currently, the way most of our industrial processes exist, it’s “take, make and dispose”. We spend a lot of money taking something out of the ground, we make something out of it, it could be my computer, a phone, a car. And at the end of that life, in many cases, we throw it away. This will never ever be sustainable. ”
