Our charter limits the number of business members to 500 globally. It also stipulates that at least 51% of our community members have to be scientists, so we never devolve into a business club.
The not-for-profit WORLD.MINDS FOUNDATION is based in Switzerland and regulated by Swiss law. Funding is provided by our international business community and generous individuals. WORLD.MINDS Management Ltd. is the event management company that organizes our events on an international level. The event management company is jointly owned by the WORLD.MINDS-team and Axel Springer.
WORLD.MINDS is run by an outstanding board of trustees, with strategic input from our first-class executive advisory board.
EXECUTIVE ADVISORY BOARD
EXECUTIVE
ADVISORY BOARD
ADVISORY BOARD
Jorge Paulo Lemann
Investor and Entrepreneur, Founder of 3G Capital
General David Petraeus
Former Director of the CIA, Chairman of the KKR Global Institute
Dmytro Kuleba
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
Niall Ferguson
Historian and Author at Stanford, Harvard and Tsinghua
Neri Oxman
Legendary architect, designer and inventor, CEO of OXMAN Inc.
Fred Kempe
President and CEO of The Atlantic Council
Anne Neuberger
Lecturer at Stanford University; Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, The White House; Strategic Advisor at a16z
Matt Kaminski
Editor-at-Large of POLITICO
Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson
Former CEO of POLITICO Europe and Executive Director of the McCourt Institute
Christian H. Kälin
Chairman of Henley & Partners, Co-Founder of Arnova Capital
Daniela Schwarzer
Board Member, Bertelsmann Foundation
Matt Ridley
Former Member of the House of Lords, Best-selling author and former Editor of “The Economist”
Peter Singer
Moral philosopher and best-selling author, Princeton and University of Melbourne
Martina Hirayama
State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation of Switzerland
Stefan Hell
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Director of the Max Planck Institute
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nobel Prize in Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank
Kishore Mahbubani
Former President of the UN Security Council
Alon Chen
President of the Weizmann Institute
Tenley E. Albright
Director of the MIT Collaborative Initiative, Board member of the Bloomberg Foundation, Olympic Gold Medalist
Uli Sigg
Former Ambassador to China, Largest private collector of contemporary Chinese Art
Kurt Wüthrich
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marc Walder
CEO of Ringier and Founder of digitalswitzerland
Jöel Mesot
President of ETH Zurich
Uwe Krüger
Senior Managing Partner at TEMASEK (Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund)
Thomas Schmidheiny
Founder and Chairman of Spectrum Value Management
Wojciech Szczepaniak
Chairman and Partner of Sparrowland Capital
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
President of EPFL
Kiana Aran
Founder of Cardea Bio, Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego Medical School
Markus Pertl
Chairman of the Stern Stewart Institute
FOUNDATION BOARD
Ralph Büchi
Chairman of the Advisory Board, Axel Springer
Michael Hengartner
President, ETH Board (ETH Zurich and EPFL)
Thomas Ladner
Lawyer and Philanthropist
Schoscho Rufener
Entrepreneur Philanthropist
Alex Wassmer
Chairman, KIBAG Holdings
OUR SQUADRON
Artem Babichenko
Digital Solutions Architect
Kipper Blakeley
Producer and Chief of Staff
Ralph Büchi
Executive Chairman
Rolf Dobelli
Founder
Mor Eini
Vice President, Partnerships
Corinna Hoyer
CEO
Safiye Kucukkaraka
Director, Middle East
Émilie Lüthringer
Operations and Production
Simon Mitterreiter
Director, Operations
Aleksandra Reinert
Head of CEO Office