Thought Economics

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

A Conversation With Ai WeiWei – Artist & Activist

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Ai Weiwei is an artist, renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today’s geopolitical world. I spoke to him to learn more about his art.

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A Conversation with Kanya King, Founder of the MOBO Organisation

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

One of the characteristics linking our greatest entrepreneurs is their ability to create platforms. These are the mechanisms that bring others on the entrepreneur’s journey, creating wealth, success and impact along the way. Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce have created hundreds of multi-million dollar businesses through their sales-channels. Apple and Google…

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Countering Extremism in our Society

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

War is a deeply physical act, but ideologies are the muscle behind them. In this interview, I spoke to Haras Rafiq, CEO of Quilliam International – and one of the world’s foremost experts in counter-extremism.

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Mental Health

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

The World’s Most Profound Health Challenge. In these exclusive interviews we speak to: Dr. Thomas Insel (Former Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health, NIMH – Co-Founder, Mindstrong Health), Dr. Shekhar Saxena (Director: Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organisation, WHO), Paul Farmer CBE (Chief…

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A Conversation with John Sculley

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

My interview with John Sculley, CEO of Apple Inc from 1983-1993 who grew the company from $800 million to over $8 billion in revenues

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A Conversation with Garry Kasparov

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

In this exclusive interview, I spoke to Garry about democracy, dictators, the instability in our world, his hopes for the future and how artificial intelligence will allow us to embrace our humanity.

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A Conversation with Guy Hands, Founder & Chairman of Terra Firma Capital Partners.

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

My conversation with Guy Hands, Founder & Chairman of Terra Firma who (since 1994) have invested over €16 billion in 34 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of over €48 billion.

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The Greatest Threat Our Species Has Ever Faced

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

How Climate Change and Environmental Damage Threaten Humanity, and What We Can Do to Protect Our Future. In this exclusive interview series, we speak to H.E. Mohamed Nasheed (Former President of the Maldives), H.E. Anote Tong (Former President of Kiribati), Achim Steiner (Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme UNEP), Professor…

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Billions to Bust – and Back

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

I meet Thor Björgólfsson, an Icelandic entrepreneur who made one of the greatest comebacks in modern entrepreneurial history- losing close to 100% of a $4 billion fortune, dusting himself off, starting again, and eventually re-joining the billionaire-class with a current fortune estimated (conservatively) at $2 billion.

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A Conversation with Gary Vaynerchuk

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

To learn more about how to build the brand of an entrepreneur, I caught up with Gary Vaynerchuk- one of the world’s most recognised entrepreneurs, with (at the time of writing) over 1.32 million twitter followers, over 1.22 million facebook fans and many videos on youtube with more than 500,000…

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A Conversation with Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of Foursquare

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Dennis Crowley is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Foursquare, Chairman of Kingston Stockade Football Club and a serial entrepreneur and investor across tech. I caught up with Dennis to learn more about his career in entrepreneurship.

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How We Can Change the World

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

L.A. Kauffman has spent more than thirty years immersed in radical movements, as a journalist, historian, organizer, and strategist. I caught up with L.A. to learn more about how organised movements can create lasting change.

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A Conversation with the Inventor of the Microprocessor, Federico Faggin, on Quantum Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness.

Federico Faggin invented the technology which made the microprocessor possible His semiconductor memory technology was adopted by Intel, and the microprocessor revolution began. Federico went on to found a number of businesses- and was additionally responsible for the technology that makes the touchpads and touchscreens on our modern day devices…

Is Happiness Cost Effective? A Conversation with Michael Plant, Founder of the Happier Lives Institute.

Michael Plant is a philosopher and global happiness researcher. He is the Founder and Research Director of the Happier Lives Institute (HLI) and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.

A Conversation with Simon Woodroffe OBE, Founder of Yo! Sushi, YOTEL & the YO! Company.

Simon Woodroffe OBE, is one of Britain’s most successful Entrepreneurs and widely regarded as one of the world's foremost business gurus. He is the founder of YO! Sushi, YOTEL and the YO! Company. Amongst many TV and press appearances, Simon was an original dragon in Series One of the popular…

A Conversation with Simon Squibb; from Homeless to Self-Made Multimillionaire – On a Mission to Empower 10 Million Entrepreneurs.

In this interview I speak to Simon Squibb, a remarkable entrepreneur whose journey embodies resilience and purpose. He was made homeless at fifteen years old after the untimely death of his father, and set up his first business when unable to get a job at such a young age. Three…

Business & Economics (351)

Is Happiness Cost Effective? A Conversation with Michael Plant, Founder of the Happier Lives Institute.

A Conversation with Simon Woodroffe OBE, Founder of Yo! Sushi, YOTEL & the YO! Company.

A Conversation with Simon Squibb; from Homeless to Self-Made Multimillionaire – On a Mission to Empower 10 Million Entrepreneurs.

A Conversation with Self-Made Billionaire Investor, Philanthropist & Entrepreneur, Robert Rosenkranz, “The Stoic Capitalist.”

In this interview I speak to the ‘Stoic Capitalist,’ Robert Rosenkranz, Chairman of Delphi Capital Management (an investment concern with more than $40 billion in assets under management) and the founder of a group of investment and private equity partnerships. Rising from working class origins to self-made billionaire and pioneer…

Culture, Society, Sports & Arts (240)

A Conversation with James Barclay, Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal & Managing Director of JLR Motorsport.

In this interview I speak to James Barclay, Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal & Managing Director of JLR Motorsport. We talk about the power of the Jaguar brand, how Jaguar decided to enter Formula E, and what it takes to build a championship winning motor racing team from scratch.

A Conversation with Sahil Bloom on “The 5 Types of Wealth”

In this interview I speak to Sahil Bloom, author of “The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life" which Apple CEO Tim Cook calls, “a powerful call to action to think deeply about what lights you up—and a guide for how to build a life…

A Conversation with Nissan Formula E Team Principal, Tommaso Volpe

In this interview I speak to Nissan Formula E Team Principal, Tommaso Volpe. Formula E is the world’s sole all-electric single-seater FIA World Championship and provides an elite motorsports platform for automotive manufacturers to accelerate EV innovation while delivering races in the heart of some of the world’s most iconic…

A Conversation with Donn Davis, Founder & Chairman of the Professional Fighters League (PFL)

In this interview, I speak to Donn Davis, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Professional Fighters League and Founding Partner of Revolution. Donn is a proven investor, entrepreneur, and company-builder in media, digital, gaming, and sports. Together with Steve Case, he co-founded Revolution in 2005, a Washington DC based venture capital…

Health & Medicine (68)

Reimaging the Mind-Body Connection – A Conversation with Ellen J. Langer, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

In this interview I speak to Ellen J. Langer, Harvard’s first tenured female psychology professor and a trailblazer in social psychology, who has spent over 45 years upending assumptions about the human mind. Known for her groundbreaking “counterclockwise” study—where elderly men reversed signs of aging by living as their younger…

A Conversation with Dr. Laurie Santos, One of the World’s Foremost Experts on Happiness & Human Cognition.

In this interview I speak to Dr. Laurie Santos, one of the world’s foremost experts on happiness and human cognition. Laurie is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab, one of the most popular podcasts…

A Conversation with Dr. Martha Beck on Anxiety, Creativity & Finding Life’s Purpose.

In this interview, I speak to Dr. Martha Beck, PhD, bestselling author, coach, and speaker. She has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives. Martha holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one…

Understanding our Emotions: A Conversation with Prof. Marc Brackett, Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

In this interview I speak to Professor Marc Brackett, one of the world’s foremost experts in the science and psychology of emotion. Marc is the founding director of the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence, and author of the international best-selling book, Permission to Feel. In this powerful discussion, Marc helps…

Nobel Laureates (20)

A Conversation with Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador & Founder of Nadia’s Initiative.

Human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, is a harrowing account of the…

Noise and the Flaws in Human Judgement – A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman & Cass R Sunstein.

In Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement, Nobel Prize Winner, Daniel Kahneman together with co-authors Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise helps produce errors in many fields, including medicine, law, public health, economic forecasting, food safety, forensic science, bail verdicts, child protection, strategy, performance reviews and personnel…

On Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies: A Nobel Prize Winning Economist and a World Expert on Blockchain.

In 2008, during the turbulence of a global financial crisis, a person (or group) called Satoshi Nakamoto released a white-paper called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The principle was simple but revolutionary- a technique to record digital transactions in a way that was public, permanent and verifiable without requiring…

From Homeless to Nobel Prize Winner: A Conversation with Dr. Mario Capecchi.

Dr. Mario Capecchi has had a remarkable life. At four-and-a-half years old, during World War II, his mother was sent to Dachau concentration camp leading-eventually- to Mario living as a street child for nearly four years, coming in and out of orphanages and almost dying of malnutrition. From this hugely…

Politics & Policy (162)

A Conversation with Sir Laurie Bristow, Former UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Russia and Afghanistan.

In this interview I speak to Sir Laurie Bristow, former UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Russia and Afghanistan. We discuss the role of diplomacy in our world, the role of diplomats in global peace and security, and what we can learn from when diplomacy goes right, and when it goes wrong.

What We Can Learn About the World Through the Eyes of a War Reporter – My Interview with Trey Yingst.

In this interview I speak to Trey Yingst, one of the world’s most accomplished foreign correspondents & war reporters who has covered the Israel-Hamas War, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and secured interviews with everyone from the leaders of Hamas, the Haqqani Terror Network and Islamic Jihad to the Presidents, Prime…

How to Fix the Economy – A Conversation with Baron Jon Moynihan

In this interview, I speak to Baron Jon Moynihan on his new book, Return to Growth Volume One: How to Fix the Economy. We discuss the UK’s decades-long stagnant economy and looks at what can be done to resuscitate it. In our conversation, we explore the key dynamics affecting economic…

The Age of Outrage & How to Lead in a Polarised World – A Conversation with Professor Karthik Ramanna

In this interview, I speak to Professor Karthik Ramanna, one of the world’s foremost experts on governance and leadership in crisis. We discuss the reasons why our world feels so outraged- and how leaders can build resilient organisations which can make sense of outrage, turn down the temperature, progress through…

Science & Technology (123)

A Conversation with the Inventor of the Microprocessor, Federico Faggin, on Quantum Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness.

A Conversation with Professor Brian Cox on Finding Meaning in the Universe.

Professor Brian Cox is widely recognized as the foremost communicator for science, cosmology and astronomy in the world, and is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society. In this interview, we discuss…

A Conversation with One of the World’s Foremost Experts in Quantum Computing, Scott Aaronson.

In this interview, I speak to one of the world’s foremost experts in Quantum Computing, Scott Aaronson. Scott is Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. His research interests centre around the capabilities and limits of quantum…

A Conversation with J. Doyne Farmer – Pioneer in AI, Chaos Theory & Complex Systems

In this interview I speak to J. Doyne Farmer, who is an American complex systems scientist and entrepreneur who was a pioneer in many of the fields that define the scientific agenda of our times: dynamical systems, chaos, complex systems, artificial life, wearable computing, time series analysis, theoretical biology, and…