The physician and epidemiologist Peter Alonso is Professor and Head of the Hospital Clinic of the University of Barcelona, and Chairman of the Board of Manhiça Fundaçao pf Mozambique.
Author, politician and activist from Mali, she has been Minister of Culture between 1997 and 2000 and was also coordinator of the UNDP. She was elected to the Board of the International Press Service in July 2005.
The Australian physician Helen Caldicott is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation. He has devoted many years to an international campaign to raise awareness of the health risks of nuclear energy.
The economist Joseph Stiglitz, World Bank Senior Vice President and Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001, is also a member of the Scientific Committee of IDEAS, whose headquarters he visited last July and discussed the global crisis.
He is a journalist, he worked for the Associated Press for 20 years, was a war correspondent and has produced several documentaries on terrorism in Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.
Loretta Napoleoni speaks about terrorist financing
As an economist, Loretta Napoleoni has worked for several banks and international organizations. As a journalist, her name is linked to various newspapers and magazines. She is bet-selling author of "Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars behind the Terror Networks."
Jeremy Rifkin proposes a Third Industrial Revolution
President of the Foundation on Economics Trends, author of numerous books on the impact of Science and Technology in the economy, society and environment, Rifkin, a member of the Scientific Committee of IDEAS, explaining his theory to transit to a new economic model.
As a neurobiologist he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1981, but his activities and capabilities have led him also to cooperate with the Human Rights Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and become part of the leadership of Frontier Science Program.