Ideas inspire art, business and social change. Here are some of the people across the globe whose ideas inspire me …
Aknorm (see right) – a single mum micro-entrepreneur I met in Siem Reap, Cambodia 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 the Pol Pot years. Meet my other, better known, inspirations …
- 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.
