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

December 21st, 2018 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
It took the unconscionable horrors of two World Wars to bring the international communities together to meaningfully define the rights of all individuals that existed from birth, irrespective of any factor such as race, sex, language, religion or nationality. We may feel intuitively that these are rights that should be shared…

 

December 18th, 2018 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this exclusive series of interviews from 2015-today, I spoke with the world’s foremost experts on inequality: Kate Gilmore (United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights), The Rt. Hon. The Lord Bird MBE (Founder & Editor in Chief, The Big Issue), Harry Leslie Smith (1923-2018 Activist, Survivor of the…

 

November 26th, 2018 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Referred to as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong,” Colonel Hadfield was selected as a NASA Mission Specialist, and three years later he was aboard the Shuttle Atlantis, where he helped build the Mir space station. In 2001, on Shuttle Endeavour, Colonel Hadfield performed two spacewalks and in 2013,…

 

November 25th, 2018 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this exclusive interview series, we speak to Nobel Prize Winning Economist, Edmund Phelps (Director of the Columbia University Center on Capitalism & Society and the McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University), Professor Lawrence ‘Larry’ H. Summers (Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University.…

 

November 24th, 2018 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
David Goggins is a retired Navy SEAL and the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces ever to complete SEAL training, U.S. Army Ranger School, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training. Goggins has competed in more than sixty ultra-marathons, triathlons, and ultra-triathlons, setting new course records and regularly placing…

 

November 20th, 2018 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In these exclusive interviews we speak to Jüri Ratas (Prime Minister of Estonia), Guy Verhofstadt (Former Prime Minister, Belgium & EU Chief Brexit Negotiator), Vicente Fox Quesada (Former President of Mexico), Noam Chomsky (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who - with over 150 books…

 

August 2nd, 2018 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Sitting at the helm of the Royal Society is Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who is responsible for giving us some of the most fundamental…

 

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They received this 'animal' with no social upbringing and turned me into a human being.

— Mario Capecchi
Nobel Prize Winner for Gene Targeting in Mice
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art has always played a role in revolution, evolution and change. Art has always been a great changing force, the great common denominator, and a force to help people understand the world we live in, and the people within that world.

— Tariq Trotter
Member of hip-hop group The Roots; drummer and co-founder
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Sometimes it doesn't matter if the other side doesn't care about fairness; provided you do, you explain what's going on. Now it's arbitrary versus arbitrary versus principle versus arbitrary.

— Barry Nalebuff
Co-Author of "Co-opetition" & Yale School of Management Professor
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You achieve your best performance by doing the best you can without having your mind clouded by drifting thoughts of what could happen when something goes wrong. That's what you train for, and your training gives you the ability to build the mental tools and programmes of action to make good decisions.

— Buzz Aldrin
Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11; Second Person to Walk on Moon
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What investors want the most is a team committed to a cause for the right reasons (passion about solving a problem, not passion about financial game), who can go and get people to buy into the vision, and who can build and manage teams.

— Dennis Crowley
Co-Founder of Foursquare, Location-Based Social Networking Pioneer

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