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

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…

 

In this interview, I speak to Bob Bordone, an internationally recognized expert, author, speaker, and teacher in negotiation, conflict resolution, mediation, and facilitation. Recently named one of the Top 30 Negotiation Professionals, Bob is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he served as a full-time faculty member for…

 

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…

 

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…

 

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…

 

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…

 

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…

 

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…

 

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The people who will be disproportionately harmed by climate change are those who are (in general) less advantaged economically and socially. Justice means equality of opportunity for all human beings, and that equality of opportunity is quickly reduced if you're in Bangladesh and your home is flooded or if you're in Nigeria and your crops fail because the rains have changed.

— James Thornton
Environmental lawyer and founder of ClientEarth

My fear has never been the machines waking up and deciding to do away with us, but rather that we- in our own bone headed way- deploy systems inappropriately, or without thinking through the unintended consequences that may occur.

We have made money, capital, materialism and consumption into our God, it's a disease – you could call it affluenza. It is perhaps because of this context that humanity has lost its way, and the consideration of human rights has been subordinated to the interests of a handful of powerful people who sit at the top of the pyramid.

— Kumi Naidoo
Environmental activist & former Executive Director of Greenpeace International

Children are bought and sold like animals, sometimes at a lower price than animals. 168 million children work as child labourers, more than 200 million children who should be in education are not at school. We see two different constituencies of children. One group who enjoys their childhood, and others who are deprived of their fundamental right to be children.

— Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Child Rights Activist Against Child Labor

The rate of change has become exponential and us as human beings physiologically have not been able to adapt. We just cannot physiologically adapt that quickly – what does it mean for us? This is in some ways Darwinian because he said it wasn't about the strongest that survives, it's those that are most able to adapt.

— Jenn Lim
Chief Happiness Officer & Author of "Delivering Happiness

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