Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL Interviews the world's leading thinkers, and the people shaping the century.

Ben Francis, Gymshark Founder: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

May 13th, 2021 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Ben Francis is the Founder and ambitious entrepreneur behind leading global fitness brand, Gymshark. Ben founded Gymshark when he was 19 years old, while still a student at Aston University. In addition to his full-time commitment to his studies, Ben juggled working as a pizza delivery man to fund his…

 

Daniel Goleman on Emotional Intelligence & Leadership

May 6th, 2021 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Dr. Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science…

 

Bertrand Piccard: Solar Innovation & Climate Leadership

May 3rd, 2021 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
It is in Bertrand Piccard’s DNA to go beyond the obvious and achieve the impossible. From a legendary lineage of explorers who conquered the stratosphere and the abysses, he made history by accomplishing two aeronautical firsts, around the world non-stop in a balloon, and more recently in a solar plane without…

 

Philippe Starck on Design, Technology & Human Civilization

April 30th, 2021 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Philippe Starck, world famous creator with multifaceted inventiveness, is always focused on the essential, his vision: that creation, whatever form it takes, must improve the lives of as many people as possible. This philosophy has made him one of the pioneers and central figures of the concept of “democratic design”.…

 

Ingrid Betancourt: Six Years Hostage in Colombian Jungle

April 14th, 2021 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Ingrid Betancourt's story, her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience, has captured the world's imagination. She is a politician (former Colombian presidential candidate) who is celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear which was endemic in her nation. In 2002 she was taken hostage by FARC,…

 

Dr. Mark Sagar: Creating Digital People with AI

April 7th, 2021 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Double Academy Award winner Dr. Mark Sagar is the CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines – the world leader in humanizing AI to create astonishing Digital People. Driven by deep research into neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science- they create autonomous, hyper realistic, digital characters with whom we can interact like…

 

Noreena Hertz on Loneliness and Human Connection

March 26th, 2021 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In her new book THE LONELY CENTURY: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart, renowned thinker and economist Noreena Hertz investigates how radical changes to the workplace, mass migration to cities, technology’s ever greater dominance of our lives, and decades of neoliberal policies that placed self-interest…

 

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Innovative companies are not afraid of failure – they're willing to take risks, fail forward, learn from missteps, pivot, and keep going.

— Reggie Fils-Aimé
Former President of Nintendo of America, led iconic console era
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British identity is profoundly tied-up with Europe and vice-versa.

— Brendan Simms
Historian specializing in German history and British foreign policy
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I have a deep fascination with the natural world, the problems that living creatures need to solve and how natural selection evolution by natural selection has solved those problems. When it comes to flight... It's all about physics... how you solve the problems raised by physics.

— Richard Dawkins
Evolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
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Chinese global trade went down 20% and Chinese exports collapsed by 25%. This had an immediate effect whereby factories along the coast, in the last quarter of 2008 alone, fired between 20-30 million migrant workers.

— Louis-Vincent Gave
Founder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist
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As a captain however, you don't have any power, but you still need to be able to influence people, do the right thing, and move people in the same direction.

— Vincent Kompany
Manchester City Captain & Belgian Football Legend

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