Global Visionaries

Entrepreneurs and thought leaders working to achieve the 17 UN sustainable development goals. UBS supports them to scale their positive impact.

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Building outbreak resilience

Dr. Kamran Khan, Blue Dot Founder & CEO

Financing female founders

Vicki Saunders, SheEO Founder

Inspiring green behavior

Suzy Amis Cameron, OMD Founder

Lessons in happiness

Dr. Daniel Cordaro, The Contentment Foundation CEO

Health via smart tech

Matteo Berlucchi, Your.MD CE

Non-plastic packaging

Rodrigo Garcia & Pierre Paslier, Notpla CEOs

Future fabrics

Dan Widmaier, Bolt Threads CEO and founder

An app to fight food waste

Mette Lykke, Too Good To Go CEO

Harvesting rain

Enrique Lomnitz, Isla Urbana General Director

Brazilian biodiversity

Dr Suzana Padua, IPE President

Safe homes for the elderly

Liu Ying, Langli Elderly Care co-founder

Carbon-neutral delivery

James Chin Moody, Sendle CEO / co-founder

Empowering Kenya's slums

Kennedy Odede, Founder, Shining Hope for Communities

Scaling surgery with AI

Jean Nehme, Co-founder & CEO, Digital Surgery

Animal-free burgers

Prof Mark Post, CSO Mosa Meat

Tech to cut food waste

Marc Zornes, Winnow Founder & CEO

Fashion not waste

Christina Dean, CEO and Founder of The R Collective and Redress

Business in harmony with the sea

Cyrill Gutsch, CEO and founder of Parley for the Oceans

A solar power revolution

Dr Sebastian Groh, SOLshare MD

Schools to change lives

Paul Skidmore, chief executive of Rising Academies

Sustainable water solutions

Stanley Samuel, ECOSOFTT founder and CEO

Preventing pandemics

Dr Suzan Murray, Smithsonian's Global Health Program

Fashion for education

Cameron Saul, BOTTLETOP and #TOGETHERBAND co-founder

Drones for social good

Patrick Meier, WeRobotics co-founder and executive director

Promoting peace in Africa

Victor Ochen, African Youth Initiative Network founder

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