Siena-Antonia von Tscharner Fleming

Ms Fleming is currently involved in a progressive education project in Adama, Ethiopia. The organization she works for, Seeds of Africa, has created a method of education that aims to cultivate curiosity and creativity. Their curriculum, which is designed together with the local teaching team, fosters leadership, problem solving and innovation in our students. Goals are to have their school become a learning center for, not only their students, but their families and the community at large. As their program uses music as a way of teaching communication tactics, Ms Fleming is very excited to experience Futurum.

Ms Fiona TAN

Fiona is a a mixed media artist and painter born in Sau Paulo, Brazil in 1984. She is from German, Dutch, Brazilian and Chinese origins and lives in Monaco. Between Paris and New York, she studied her passion for art and photography at “Parsons the New School for Design”. She left with an honors degree in 2006.

After having travelled the world and enriched her artistic vision, Fiona created her own artistic movement: “Flow & Light”, the dualistic concept of life: water and fire, the synergy for creation between emotion and action, intention and behavior. This bringing to light the links between the microcosm and the macrocosm.

This movement is influenced by some artistic movements such as pointillism, impressionism, expressionism, cubism, surrealism and symbolism. Philosophy and psychology are also important parts of it, especially spirituality and psychic research.

Ai Bubble is the name of her visual world. Ai means love in Japanese. It is the motor of life, it’s fire. Bubble on the other hand is water filled with air, like a thought, which reflects the prism of light.

            www.fionalife.com

Mr. Ray STATA

Chairman, Analog Devices Inc.

Ray Stata was a cofounder of Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) in 1965 and served as CEO and Chairman until 1996. He now serves as Chairman of the Board.
With sales of $2.5B, ADI is recognized for leadership in the design and manufacture of analog and digital signal processing semiconductors. ADI’s initial focus was on high performance operational amplifiers and other linear IC’s, but this was soon followed by data converters and later by digital signal processors (DSP).

Since stepping down as CEO of Analog Devices, through Stata Venture Partners, Mr. Stata has been active as an investor in and board member of early stage technology based new ventures. So far Stata Venture Partners or Mr. Stata personally has invested in more than 40 startup companies including five spinouts from MIT.

A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mr. Stata holds a BSEE and MSEE. Until 2010 he was for many years the Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He served as well on MIT’s Corporation and as a member of its Executive Committee.

He is also actively engaged in MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service which at any one time is advising students and faculty of more than 100 want-to-be entrepreneurs through voluntary services of MIT graduates who have been successful entrepreneurs.

Mr. Stata is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and is a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Stata was the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Founders Medal and co-authored two books: Global Stakes, in 1982 and The Innovators, in 1984.

Ms. Sasha SIEM

Sasha Siem is a composer. She has completed commissions for the London Symphony Orchestra, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, The London Sinfonietta, Opera North, The Royal Opera House and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Sasha also performs her songs with her own ensemble.

Born in London in 1984, she was educated at Cambridge University where she graduated with a double starred first and completed an MPhil in Composition for which she was awarded the Arthur Bliss Prize. She is currently completing a PhD in Composition at Harvard and has been an exchange scholar at Columbia University.

She is a winner of the RPS composition prize.

Prof. Ernest MONIZ

Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1997 until January 2001 and, from 1995 to 1997, as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics and in energy technology and policy studies. He serves on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) and was named to the Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future as of January 2010.

Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg, and Michigan State University. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Saclay, France and at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Moniz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation and, in 2008, the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III for contributions to development of research, technology, and education in Cyprus and the wider region.

Dominique Misson de Saint-Gilles

Dominique Misson de Saint-Gilles, born on October 28, 1955 in Beirut (Lebanon), is maried to Mr. Jacques Berrebi.
She is the daughter of Belgian Diplomats.
President of Berpress.
Editor of L’Eventail, Pharmassistante and 50+.
Chief Editor of L’Eventail.

http://www.eventail.be

Mr. Marcos MARIN

Marcos Marin, a Brazilian artist, painter, sculptor and pianist, is highly respected in the international art scene, with his  innovative approach to the concept of op Art.
Pierre Cardin, who has been his patron for the last four years, has enabled him to develop his series of optical portraits.
Marin has also worked to develop a strong artistic relationship with the Principality of Monaco for the last five years . Marin was commissioned by the Palace to create the official monument for Prince Rainier III, which was unveiled on 18th January 2006 by SAS Prince Albert and SAS Princess Stephanie.

In 2005 his portrait of Princess Grace became part of the permanent collection of Nouveau Musee de Monaco.

Marin, who currently lives in Monaco is a member of AIAP UNESCO and Academia Nacional de Belas Artes de Portugal.

Marin has been honored to receive :
Hirohito Great Medal, in Tokyo Japan, for the centenary of Japanese/Brazilian friendship.

Stanley Ho Monetary authority of Macao Medal

Ulisses Guimaraes medal from Sao Paulo, Brazil

Professor Tod MACHOVER

Tod Machover is head of the Media Lab’s Hyperinstruments/Opera of the Future group. An influential composer, he has been praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries; his music has been performed and commissioned by some of the world’s most important performers and ensembles. In 1995, he received a « Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, » one of France’s highest cultural honors, and in 1998 he was awarded the first DigiGlobe Prize from the German government. He has composed five operas and is the inventor of Hyperinstruments, a technology that uses smart computers to augment virtuosity. Hyperinstruments have been used by performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, Prince, and Peter Gabriel.

Machover is also the creator of the Toy Symphony, an international music performance and education project. His research group is currently examining ways to use music in therapy for emotionally and physically challenged individuals. His newest opera, Death and the Powers, to premiere in Monte-Carlo 2010, is being developed by an extraordinary creative team of international artists, designers, writers, and theatrical luminaries, as well as by an interdisciplinary team of Media Lab graduate and undergraduate students. Scored for a small ensemble of specially designed Hyperinstruments, Powers will feature a robotic, animatronic stage—the first of its kind—that will gradually « come alive » as the opera’s main character. Machover, who was formerly director of musical research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM institute in Paris, received both his BA and MA from the Juilliard School in New York.

Mrs. Susan HOCKFIELD

Susan Hockfield is MIT’s 16th president. Before joining the Institute in 2005, she was Yale University’s provost, appointed to that post after serving as dean of Yale’s graduate school. She is a neuroscientist and specializes in the developing brain.

The first life scientist to head MIT, Hockfield is a leading advocate for science and technology as well as for U.S. research universities. She is also a committed educator. She worked hard to improve the learning environment for Yale’s graduate students, and is outspoken on key issues related to both undergraduate and K-12 schooling.

Hockfield’s MIT priorities include enabling its Schools, departments, and research labs and centers to keep the Institute at the leading edge of innovation. She believes strongly in a major role for international students and scholars in American higher education, and in the need for U.S. universities to collaborate with leading academic centers worldwide.

Hockfield is a University of Rochester graduate with a Ph.D. from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. She did her doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health. She was an NIH Fellow at the University of California at San Francisco in 1979 and 1980, subsequently joining the staff at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

MIT’s president was named to Yale’s faculty in 1985. In the course of studying the developing brain, she has also explored glioma, an often fatal brain cancer, making discoveries that may lead to new treatments for the ailment.
In addition, she has identified a natural agent that plays a key role in shaping the developing brain’s internal structure.
As head of Yale’s graduate school, Hockfield dealt with important issues regarding academic and financial support for graduate students. As provost, she helped shape Yale’s major thrusts in science, medicine, and engineering, including spearheading a $500 million facilities initiative. She also fostered new interactions among the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Prof. Roberto CINGOLANI

Since 2005, Roberto Cingolani is Scientific Director of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (www.iit.it).
Born in Milan in 1961, he graduated in Physics in 1985 at the University of Bari where he later obtained his PhD in Physics.
In 1989 he got a post-graduate degree in Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Staff member at the Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart (Germany) from 1989 to 1991, he became associated Professor of Physics at the University of Salento in 1992, where in year 2000 he was nominated Professor of General Physics at the Engineering Faculty. During 1997 he was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Industrial Sciences at Tokyo University (Japan) and the year after at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA).
In 2001 he was the Founder and Director of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of INFM at University of Salento. From 2000 to 2003 he was executive Vice-president of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM).
Roberto Cingolani’s scientific activity focuses on Materials Science, Nanotechnologies and Nanomedicine. He is author and co-author of about 700 papers on international journals, holds about 30 patents and started 3 spin-off businesses.

Mr. Rodrigo BASILICATI

Dès ma naissance, je n’éprouvais que peu d’intérêt pour les objets finis, si ce n’est pour y broder des songes et jouir de leurs formes… J’ai toujours préféré créer du nouveau, d’abord des jouets puis des objets. Mes cours scientifique suivi d’études universitaires d’ingénierie architecturale se sont toujours poursuivis en parallèle à mon étude de la musique : entre 1991 et 1997 j’ai préparé et obtenu mon diplôme de piano à Venise et fréquenté pour un perfectionnement l’Académie Liszt de Budapest.
Entre 1998 et 2001, une dizaine de concours de piano en Italie, en Espagne et en France, m’ont valu de hautes récompenses.
De 2004 à 2006 j’ai participé comme concertiste et créateur à des émissions en France sur les chaînes M6, France 2, Mezzo, TV5Europe, FranceInter et en Italie sur Canale5, CanaleItalia et Rai1, ainsi qu’à des festivals de première grandeur en France, en Italie et en Chine.

Mr. Tony BALDRY

Tony Baldry has been a Member of Parliament for 27 years (elected in 1983).
He has been the Second Church Estates Commissioner since June 2010.
He is a Church Commissioner and ex officio a member of the Church of England’s General Synod.
Tony Baldry was a Minister for some eight years, appointed to Government by Margaret Thatcher, and then served in the Conservative Government throughout the whole of John Major’s premiership. During the 2001-2005 Parliament, he chaired the Commons Select Committee on International Development and continues to take a close interest in International Development and Foreign Affairs.
Tony Baldry is a practising Barrister, Head of a commercial Set of Chambers in the Temple. He is also a director of a number of companies.
Tony Baldry is Chairman of the Conservative Party’s Human Rights Commission.
Tony Baldry is an active Member of the House of Commons and is an officer of a number of All Party Groups.

Vice Chair of the All Party Group on China.
Chair of the British-Italian Parliamentary Group.
Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Carers.
Chair of the All Party Group on Excellence in the Built Environment.
Vice Chair of the All Party Police Group.
Vice Chair of the All Party Group on Overseas Development.

He held various ministerial posts from January 1990 until the 1997 General Election:
-1990: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Energy – when together with John Wakeham he privatised the electricity industry.
-1994: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of the Environment – responsible for all aspects of the Department’s work including environmental protection, construction, housing and planning.
-1994-1995: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office – wide range of responsibilities including South Asia, Africa, North America and the West Indies.
-1995-1997: Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Whilst a Minister, Tony Baldry led numerous overseas business export missions which won millions of pounds of orders for UK plc.
He was Personal Aide to Margaret Thatcher in the October 1974 General Election and subsequently remained in her private office when she became Leader of the Opposition.
Awarded the Robert Schumann Silver Medal for contribution to European politics in 1975. E-Politix International Charity Champion 2003.
Chairman of the Conservative Party ‘s Commission on Human Rights.
A Governor of the Commonwealth Institute 1997-2005.
A Member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute.
A Member of the Council of Chatham House.
Patron of Friends of Africa.
Patron of the Loomba Trust.
Member of the Afghan Action Board and Trustee of the Afghan Training Foundation.
Founder member of Link Tank, a think tank for helping promote job creation and the better effectiveness of the labour market (www.link-tank.org)
Tony Baldry is a practising Barrister. He is Head of a set of commercial Chambers, 1 Essex Court, in the Temple where he specialises primarily in Commercial and International Law. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Mediator. He is a member of the International Bar Association.
In addition, Tony Baldry is a Director of the following companies:
-Woburn Energy plc (Deputy Chairman). AIM-listed company. Oil and gas exploration.
-Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of Curve Capital Ltd.,
-Mastermailer plc.
-Taha Partners Ltd. promoting trade and investment opportunities in Iraq.
-HCFI Ltd., an Egyptian public company, with a broad portfolio of interests from aviation to medical technology.

Tony Baldry is also an executive partner in Diamond Film Partnership, a UK Partnership promoting UK film and television production rights.
Tony Baldry has a Master of Arts Degree in International Development and a Bachelor of Law Degree, both from the University of Sussex. He was a visiting Parliamentary Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford 1998-1999 and continues to be a guest member of the College.
Tony Baldry is also a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Development; a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Tony Baldry served for twenty-two years in the TAVR, his final appointment was as an Honorary Colonel RLC (V). He is a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies.

Mrs. Karole ARMITAGE

Artistic Director of Armitage Gone! Dance is known for pushing boundaries. Dubbed the « punk ballerina » in the 1980s and recently Tony-nominated for her choreography of the Broadway musical Hair, Armitage distinguishes her company from its contemporaries through her extreme versatility and originality. Building on classical and modern idioms from the Balanchine to the Cunningham tradition, Armitage infuses experimental thinking into the geometric balance, speed, rhythm and beauty of dance steps. She derives inspiration from sources such as physics, Japanese aesthetics, fashion, pop culture and new media, and from her dancers, currently 11 in total, of diverse cultural and dance backgrounds. Armitage Gone! Dance, based in New York City, is well-known for its collaborations with innovators in music, science and the visual arts, including composer Rhys Chatham, painterDavid Salle, artist Jeff Koons and string-theory physicist, Brian Greene.

Armitage was the director of the Florence Ballet (96′-00′), the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Dance (01′), and was resident choreographer for the Ballet de Lorraine, France (00′-05′). Armitage has choreographed for major dance companies throughout Europe and the U.S. and has directed operas for leading European houses.  Her Broadway debut occurred as the choreographer for the musical Passing Strange (’08). She is known for her collaborations beyond the stage as well, including those with filmmaker James Ivory, and pop icons Madonna and Michael Jackson. Armitage received France’s highest honor, Commandeur dans L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres.  She danced with Balanchine’s Geneva Ballet (73′-75′) and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (76′-81′).