Inspirations

Ideas rule. Ideas inspire art, business and social change. Here are some of the people across the globe whose ideas inspire me …

• Cat Power – Musician. Don’t Ask.
• Catherine Opie – American photographer.
• Esther Duflo – MIT Professor of Applied Economics.
• Jaro Silomaki – Finnish artist.
• Jeffrey Sachs – Director of the Earth Institute.
• Naseem Taleb – Author of “Black Swans”
• Nicholas Albery – Another late Brit.
• Sarah Kane – The late British dramatist.
• Tracey Turner – Founder of MicroPlace
• Vandana Shiva – Development diva.

And … Aknorm – a single mum micro-entrepreneur I met in Siem Reap who works as a cleaner at the Foreign Correspondents Club, runs a shop from home, makes sure her kids go to school, and spent years as a child working rice paddies in Pol Pot’s Cambodia.