Agora Mentors — 爱格计划

Agora Mentors and Speakers

““One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.””

— Carl Jung

Team Agora consists of a passionate group of Agora Mentors, including global leaders in politics, business, culture and academia, a carefully selected group of students and their parents through comprehensive assessments and a rigorous interview process, who are in agreement with Agora’s philosophy. With the company and support of Agora Mentors, Fellows strive to discover and cultivate themselves.

H.E. George Papandreou

Co-Founder of Project Agora
182nd Prime Minister of Greece
President Emeritus of Socialist International
Vice President of International Olympic Truce Centre

H.E. Kevin M Rudd AC

26th Prime Minister of Australia
8th President and CEO of Asia Society
Senior Fellow at Harvard University

H.E. Jose Maria Figueres Olsen

42nd President of Costa Rica
Former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum
Harvard University Alumnus

H.E. Joe Clark

16th Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Canada
Professor of International Relations at McGill University
Vice Chair, Global Leadership Foundation

H.E. Tarja Halonen

11th President of Finland
Former Finnish Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs

H.E. Irina Bokova

10th Director General of UNESCO
Former Foreign Minister of Bulgeria

Andrés Velasco

Former Finance Minister of Chile
Dean of School of Public Policy at London School of Economics and Political Science

Michael Møller

Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
12th director-general of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis

Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel Laureate
Professor at Columbia University

Anthony Saich

Renowned sinologigest
Former Director of Ash Center at Harvard University

Jing Tsu

John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature Chair, Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University

Graham Allison

Founding Dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University

Richard Parker

Lecturer, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

Nikos Papandreou

Member of the European Parliament

Michail Bletsas

Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab

Edith Hall

Fellow of the British Academy

Bob Li

Physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Chief Scientific Officer, MSK Direct

Haojiang Tian

Opera Singer, Metropolitan Opera

Bernard Harris

NASA Astranout, first African American to copmlete EVA

Duncan Clark

Entrepreneur, Investor
Author of "Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built"

Anthony Mackay

President and CEO, National Center on Education and the Economy

Fred Dust

Ex Partner, IDEO

Menas Kafatos

Physicist, author and expert in cosmology and spirituality

Gerd Leipold

Former Executive Director of Greenpeace International

Misha Glenny

Journalist and broadcaster
Writer and producer of the BBC Radio 4 series, How to Invent a Country

Rheal LeBlanc

Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service

Jing Qian

Co-founder, Project Agora
Senior advisor to H.E. Kevin Rudd
Co-founder and managing director, Center for China Analysis at the Asia Society Policy Institute
Advisory Board Member of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum and founding member of the Bloomberg New Economy International Cancer Coalition