by Sara Ersson | Nov 18, 2020 | Tallberg / Eliasson Global Leader
Sylvia Earle, a finalist for the 2020 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, behaves like a woman running out of time, which she is. The world’s foremost oceanographer — the Jacques Cousteau of our era, dubbed “Her Deepness” — she is on the road most of the year,...
by Sara Ersson | Nov 11, 2020 | Leadership, Tallberg / Eliasson Global Leader
Sara Hossain can sound ambivalent about her role as honorary executive director of BLAST, the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust. “I don’t like running a large organization and I really don’t want to keep on doing that,” she says, “because there are many...
by Sara Ersson | Nov 4, 2020 | Leadership, Tallberg / Eliasson Global Leader
Nithya Ramanathan won’t deny that she loves engineering puzzles. “I just find them really fun to solve,” she says. “But ultimately I get pretty bored unless I’m solving that bigger, human-centered problem.” The computer scientist and C.E.O. of the non-profit Nexleaf...
by Sara Ersson | Oct 28, 2020 | Leadership, Tallberg / Eliasson Global Leader
As founder of the Open Source Pharma Foundation, which is creating a crowd-sourced alternative to the pharmaceutical industry, Jaykumar Menon feels he may have met his moment. Just a couple of years ago, “We were considered crazy people,” he says. “And now I think we...
by Sara Ersson | Oct 20, 2020 | Leadership, Tallberg / Eliasson Global Leader
Jared Genser’s client list reads like a Who’s Who of democratic aspiration: Václav Havel, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Liu Xiaobo, and Anwar Ibrahim to name a few. But the international human rights lawyer will never forget his first, James Mawdsley, who was imprisoned...
by Sara Ersson | Oct 13, 2020 | Tallberg / Eliasson Global Leader
More than two decades ago, in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka made a connection that most of the world is only now beginning to get: The well-being of humans and animals are inextricably linked. About half of the world’s endangered...
