Human Rights & Philanthropy Speakers

Our philanthropy speakers, humanitarians and champions of human rights are incredible individuals who are deeply committed to changing the world through the power of the spoken word and actions.

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Icons of conviction, hard work and energy, they all strive to improve the lives of the underprivileged, bring food to the malnourished, education to those who are denied such and health care to those without access or resources.

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Dr Makaziwe Mandela - Keynote Speaker
A   A: £25k and over   Dr Makaziwe Mandela has worked for a number of academic institutions in South Africa and abroad. She is on the boards on a number of companies and is the Chairperson of the House of Mandela as well as the director of the House of Mandela Foundation.
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Martina Navratilova
A   A: £25k and over   Martina Navratilova, tennis player extraordinaire, who took women's tennis to a new level with her speed, determination and agility. She won the Wimbledon women's singles title a record 9 times and was famously described by Billie Jean King as "the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived."
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Mary Robinson
A   A: £25k and over   Former President of Ireland and previously United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson is an outstanding international keynote speaker.
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Michael Sheldrick
B   B: £15k- £25k   Michael Sheldrick currently works as Co-Founder and Chief Policy, Impact and Government Affairs Officer for Global Citizen. Michael has worked on campaigns globally with artists such as Beyoncé, Coldplay, Idris and Sabrina Elba, along with countless world leaders.
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D   D: £5k-£10k   Midge Ure wrote and produced Do They Know It's Christmas? with Bob Geldof, and his services to both music and charity were recognised in 2005, with an OBE.
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E   E: £2k-£5k   Mohsin Zaidi is a criminal barrister, an advocate for LGBT rights, BAME representation and social mobility and is on the board of Stonewall. His memoir, 'A Dutiful Boy', has been named a Guardian, GQ and New Statesman Book of the Year.
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A   A: £25k and over   What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that.
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C   C: £10k-£15k   Ola Rosling is CEO and Co-Founder of Gapminder Foundation, founded alongside his father Hans Rosling. He was formerly Product Manger for Google.
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E   E: £2k-£5k   After being orphaned in 2004, when they tragically lost their mother and father in the Boxing Day tsunami, brothers Rob & Paul created the footwear brand Gandys and the Orphans for Orphans movement in their parents’ name.
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D   D: £5k-£10k   Trained in International Law & International Relations, French-Canadian Roxanne Joyal is an inspirational keynote speaker & an advocate for empowering women and social responsibility.
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E   E: £2k-£5k   Safia Minney, MBE, is an award-winning social entrepreneur and internationally recognised for the company she founded, People Tree, the pioneer of sustainable fashion.
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E   E: £2k-£5k   Sally Becker is known as the ‘Angel of Mostar’ and is the founder of Road to Peace and Save a Child who has spent most of her life helping sick and injured children in areas of conflict.
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E   E: £2k-£5k   Simon Cohen made history when he gave away his £1m company, Global Tolerance. As an international keynote speaker, he continues to strive to make the world a more fulfilled place.
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A   A: £25k and over   Rock star, political activist, philanthropist and icon, Sir Bob Geldof is a symbol of creativity, energy and a conviction to improve our world.
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POA   POA: Contact Us   A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products, the Apple I and II, and influenced the popular Macintosh.
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POA   POA: Contact Us   ‘Global Education Superstar’ (The Times), Dr. Sugata Mitra has been a successful researcher in cognitive science, educational technology and physics for more than 30 years.
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A   A: £25k and over   Tan Le is an innovator, inventor & entrepreneur, and is the Founder and CEO of EMOTIV, a neuroengineering company specialising in breakthrough brain interface technology.
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E   E: £2k-£5k   Former Director of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper is an environmentalist campaigner, writer and commentator
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D   D: £5k-£10k   An accomplished and engaging speaker, Trewin has vast experience speaking on environmental topics to a wide range of private and public sector audiences.
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E   E: £2k-£5k   Will is the founder of Mission in Action, a strategy consultancy that helps its clients engage and mobilize employees and customers through the power of shared mission/purpose. His breadth of experience, from digital start-ups to major multinationals, allows him to educate audiences on how to grow their organisations by doing good.
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D   D: £5k-£10k   Storyteller, philosopher and explorer, Yossi Ghinsberg was stranded for three weeks in the Amazon
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C   C: £10k-£15k   Zarifa Ghafari is a courageous civil rights activist who is devoted to defending women’s rights who uses her incredible story to transform the lives of audiences worldwide.
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