Global Enlightenment Leaders
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak, original name Ehud Brog, (born February 12, 1942, Mishmar HaSharon kibbutz, Palestine [now in northern Israel]), Israeli general and politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001.

Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and winner of the 2011 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence.”

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

The Toshiba Professor at MIT, Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics lab, Co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age

Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google....

Nazli Choucri

Nazli Choucri

Member of BGF’s Board of Thinkers; Professor of Political Science at MIT; Co-founder, member of GC Development Council & Global Citizenship Educators at Global Citizenship Education Network

Joseph Nye

Joseph Nye

Joseph S. Nye Jr., is an American political scientist  and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Univesity.He currently holds the position of  University Distinguished Service Professor. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude...

Thomas E. Patterson

Thomas E. Patterson

Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University, Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum