AN INTERNATIONAL GATHERING
OF OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS
The NOW international expert council has selected for participation in the Assembly one hundred individuals, who have made their main occupation the study of the Universe and the nature of man, care for humanity and the planet as a whole.
Among them are the greatest thinkers and cultural figures, authors of breakthrough scientific discoveries, innovative ideas and practices, carriers of a holistic world view.
The composition of the participants is unprecedented.
Each has an ingredient of the elixir that they have extracted, and now comes the anticipation of the mystery – gathering them all together and making the drink of life for the first time...
This is a new concept of leadership. Until now, the common soup has been brewed by politicians and functionaries who specialise in controlling the masses; let it finally be prepared by pioneers who do not depend on artificial agreements or former structures and institutions – those who look attentively at man and the world...
Alexander
Asmolov
Head of the Department of the Psychology of Personality at Moscow State University, full member of the Russian Academy of Education
Ervin
Laszlo
Systems theorist, founder of the Club of Budapest and the Institute of New Paradigm Research
Ashok
Khosla
Environmentalist, President of Development Alternatives Group, ex-President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Pier Luigi
Luisi
Biochemist specialising in the phenomena of self-organisation of chemical systems and their emergent properties in the origin of life
Lawrence
Bloom
Environmentalist, businessman, Secretary General of the Be Earth Foundation
Barry
Kerzin
Buddhist monk and personal physician to the 14th Dalai Lama, founder of the Altruism in Medicine Institute and the Human Values Institute
Danis
Tanovic
Film director and screenwriter, best known for No Man’s Land, winner of the 2001 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
Tatiana
Chernigovskaya
Philologist, biologist specialising in psycholinguistics and theory of mind, Professor of the St. Petersburg State University
Tomas
Bjorkman
Former banker, now social entrepreneur and author, founder of the Ekskäret Foundation and the Perspectiva Institute
Amir
Kfir
Psychologist, organisational consultant and management change leader, specialising in conflict resolution
Fred
Matser
Leading humanitarian and businessman, founder and co- founder of a wide range of charitable foundations
Julia
Kim
Researcher into global health and sustainable development, Senior Programme Director at the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre in Bhutan
Jean
Becchio
General physician and clinical psychologist, founder of the French Association for Medical Hypnosis and the International College of Therapies for Activation of Consciousness
Julia
Marton-Lefèvre
Environmentalist, former Director General of IUCN, Chair of the Bioversity International Board of Trustees and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, former Rector of the University for Peace
Stephon
Alexander
Professor of Physics at Brown University, jazz musician and author
Sergey
Solonin
Entrepreneur and financier whose investment activity centres on blockchain technology, education, artificial intelligence and neural networks
Herbert
Girardet
Ecologist, author, filmmaker and international consultant specialising in ‘regenerative development’, co-founder of the World Future Council
Maneka
Gandhi
Minister for Women and Child Development, Government of India; animal rights and nature protection activist.
Giacomo
Rizzolatti
Neurophysiologist, Director of the University of Parma's Department of Neuroscience, ex-President of the European Brain and Behaviour Society, discoverer of the mirror neurons
Jeremy
Lent
Author investigating the patterns of thought that have led civilisation to its current crisis of sustainability, founder of the Liology Institute
Jason
Badridze
Biologist, ethnologist, who has studied wolf behaviour for 20 years and spent 2 years with a pack of wolves
Kalevi
Kull
Professor in Biosemiotics, evolution scientist specialising in mechanisms of species coexistence in species-rich communities
Daniel
Wahl
International consultant and educator specialising in biologically- inspired whole systems design and transformative innovation
Raul
Montenegro
Biologist and environmentalist, founder of FUNAM (The Foundation for the Defence of the Environment)
Gerrard
Albert
Lead negotiator for the Whanganui Iwi tribe, Chair of Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui, the post-settlement governance body for Whanganui Iwi for the purpose of the Whanganui River Settlement
George
Ovashvili
Cinematographer, the 2015 Oscars Best Foreign Language Film shortlist nominee
Rama
Mani
Founder of Theatre of Transformation Academy and Convenor of the Enacting Global Transformation Programme at the University of Oxford's Centre for International Studies.
Paulus
Terwitte
Capuchin monk, Catholic priest and moderator of TV programs about spirituality
David
Rothenberg
Professor of Philosophy and Music, ECM musician with a special interest in animal sounds as music, founder of Terra Nova Music
Slava
Polunin
Performance artist and clown, creator of the Snow Show, founder of the Academy of Fools
Janusz Leon
Wiśniewski
Writer best known for his novel Loneliness on the Net, chemist and computer scientist
Bernard
Abeille
Jazz musician, founder of La Lyronne association
Alan
Lim Cai Fu
Advisor to business
structures of Singapore on living space design, Feng Shui Grand Master
Masami
Saionji
Spiritual leader, peace activist, author; Chairperson of the Goi Peace Foundation, May Peace Prevail On Earth International, Byakko Shinko Kai; co-initiator of the Fuji Declaration
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux
Filmmaker, writer and photographer specialising in reportage ethnographic, best known for Raoni, nominated for the Oscars Best Documentary Feature
Robert
Smith
Investor, philanthropist, humanitarian. Founder & CEO of Conscious Capital®, Chairperson of The Harmon Foundation, Senior Advisor to the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Advisor to the UNCDF.
Nina
Meyerhof
Innovative educator, founder and President of the Children of the Earth
Pablo
Veron
Dancer and choreographer, creator of the new style in Argentine tango
Panos
Kaltsis
President of the Ecumenical Delphi Union, Founding Member of the Symposium of Seven Wise Men, Founding member of the movement "World Citizens for Culture & Humanity", Mayor of Delphi 2002 – 2011
Arkadiy
Shilkloper
Jazz musician, multi -instrumentalist, composer, ECM recording artist
David
Monacchi
Interdisciplinary artist, inventor and eco-acoustics researcher, specializing in primary forest soundscapes, founder of Fragments of Extinction
Toni
Frohoff
Behavioral and wildlife biologist, specialising in cetaceans and elephants,
founder of TerraMar Research.
Ammar
Charani
Social entrepreneur, co-founder of in/PACT Inc., founder of Change Makers Club, YPO Monaco and French Riviera Gold,
Caspar
Henderson
Writer, journalist. Author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and A New Map of Wonders
Anneloes
Smitsman
Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre with research focus on Systemic Transformational Change and Transitioning to a Thrivability Civilisation, author.
Kurt
Barnes
Founder & Chair of EARTHwise Centre, Founder & CEO 3CS, senior executive coach, psycho-social expert, social scientist, eco-historian, naturopathic physician
Bas
de Leeuw
Economist, writer, facilitator, communicator. Managing Director of the World Resources Forum (WRF). Former UN Environment official.
Alexandra
Mitsotaki
Social activist, founder of the ActionAid Hellas and World Human Forum, co-founder of Action Finance Initiative.
Kenny
Young
Producer, songwriter, musician, environmental activist, founder of Artists Project Earth (APE)
Robert
Costanza
Ecological economist, Professor of Public Policy at The Australian National University, co-founder of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the Solutions Journal, editor in chief of the
Anthropocene Review.
Diane
Williams
President and Founder, The Source of Synergy Foundation, Co-Founder, The Evolutionary Leaders Circle.
Mark
Moffett
Research biologist, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Visiting Scholar, Department of Human Evolution, Harvard University
Contract writer and photographer, the National Geographic magazine
Ave
Oit
Chairperson and co-founder of Lilleoru education hub, co-founder of organic trade company Biomarket, ambassador of Global Ecovillage Network.
Paco
Calvo
Professor of Philosophy of Science, Minimal Intelligence Lab, University of Murcia, specialising in philosophy of cognitive science; plant neurobiology and ecological psychology
Anneli
Ohvril
Expert in social change management, speaker, trainer, initiator of numerous social movement, founder and CEO of Let’s Do It World, organiser of the World Cleanup Day.
Martin Lee
Mueller
Philosopher & Artist
Author of the award-winning book Being Salmon, Being Human. Discovering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
Vera
Brandes
Music producer, Director of the Research Program for Music-Medicine at Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, President of IAMM (International Association for Music and Medicine)
Dieter
Broers
Biophysicist, Philosopher, bestseller author,
Biophysics Director at the International Council for Scientific Development (ICSD), Co-founder of ÉlpisÉremo,
Kaie
Kotov
Social innovation facilitator, trainer and researcher, studying and fostering community-led social change, semiotic expert and consultant, founder and CEO in semiotic insight company Padmare
Christer
Söderberg
Social entrepreneur, climate change activist, sustainable business consultant, co-founder of Circle Carbon SL, initiator of the Asociación
EnConCiencia
Astrid
Colomar
Art Historian, Educator, Independent Visual Artist, Creativity Coach and Consultant
Alkiviadis-
Constantinos
Cefalas
Director of Research in the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry, Athens
Ida
Kubiszewski
Associate Professor at Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University,
founding managing editor and co-editor-in-chief of magazine/journal
Solutions
Alexander
and Nicole Gratovsky
Cultural anthropologists, founders of the Dolphin
Embassy and the Ultimate
Experience Club;
originators of the NOW Assembly, originators of the "30th Parallel - Archaeology of Possibilities" round-the-world research project.
* Changes are possible due to circumstances not dependent on the organisers.
