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Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in September 1998. Since then, the company has grown to more than 70,000 employees worldwide, with a wide range of popular products and platforms like Search, Maps, Ads, Gmail, Android, Chrome and YouTube. In October 2015, Alphabet became the parent holding company of Google.
Harry Kretchmer is a Senior Writer at Formative Content. Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024
Alex Karp shares with Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein how he leads software company Palantir Technologies. This thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation covers serious topics such as the economy, the invasion of Ukraine and its work with governments powering counter intel efforts. It also includes its share of light and even funny moments, including Karp's non-traditional background, his ...
Laurie Goering edits AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change.
As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world. Bill co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen ...
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or national interests.
Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, India; Master’s in Media Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Doctoral studies, Global Sustainability Institute, UK. President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), one of Asia’s most influential think tanks; provides strategic direction and leadership to ORF’s multiple ...
Architect and engineer by training. Teaches at MIT; directs the Senseable City Laboratory. Founding Partner, international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. Leading voice in the debate on new technologies' impact on urban life. Work exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York's MoMA, London's Science Museum and Barcelona's Design Museum. Two ...
Bincheng Mao is the President of the Board of Directors at the East Coast Coalition for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination (ECC), a charity that promotes inclusion and care for vulnerable minorities. For his charitable work, Bincheng has been awarded by former US President Bill Clinton and his humanitarian foundation. In 2022, Forbes magazine named one of the 100 outstanding Chinese in the world ...
Alvaro Lario is President of the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD). A seasoned international development finance leader, he has more than 20 years of experience across academia, private sector asset management, World Bank Group and the United Nations, including as Associate Vice-President of Financial Operations at IFAD. Under his stewardship, IFAD became the first United ...
