2019 Skoll World Forum Closing Plenary.

Speakers

• Christiane Amanpour

  Speaker

  Chief International Anchor, CNN

  Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international anchor and host of the network's award-winning, flagship global affairs program "Amanpour," which also airs on PBS in the United States. She is based in the network's London bureau. Her illustrious career in journalism spans more than three decades joining CNN in 1983. Amanpour rose through the organization becoming the network's leading international correspondent reporting on international crisis in the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Palestinian territories, Iran, Sudan, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Egypt, Libya. She has interviewed most of the top world leaders over the past two decades and Amanpour has received every major broadcast award, including an inaugural Television Academy Award, eleven News and Documentary Emmys, four George Foster Peabody Awards, and nine honorary degrees. In 2014, she was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame and in 2018 was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Amanpour is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.

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• Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Speaker

  Actor, Director, and Writer, Individual

  Academy, Golden Globe, SAG and Emmy award nominee and BAFTA and Olivier winner Chiwetel Ejiofor has worked with some of the industry’s most prolific directors and talent. His extensive film credits include: Maleficent 2, The Lion King, Sherlock Gnomes, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, Come Sunday, Mary Magdalene, Doctor Strange, The Martian, Secret In Their Eyes, Triple 9, Z For Zachariah, 12 Years A Slave, Half of a Yellow Sun, Savannah, 2012, Salt, Endgame, Redbelt, American Gangster, Talk To Me, Inside Man, Children Of Men, Kinky Boots, Four Brothers, Slow Burn, Melinda & Melinda, Serenity, Red Dust, She Hate Me, Love Actually, Three Blind Mice, Dirty Pretty Things, It Was An Accident, My Friend Soweto, G: M T Greenwich Mean Time, Amistad and Tonight at Noon. Ejiofor’s theatre credits include: Everyman, A Season In The Congo, Othello, The Seagull, The Vortex, Romeo and Juliet, Blue/Orange, Triumph Of Love, Sparkle Shark, Splash Hatch On The Going Down, Macbeth, Othello, Oh! What A Lovely War and Julius Caesar. Chiwetel’s television credits include: Dancing on the Edge, The Shadowline, Tsunami: The Aftermath, Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Trust, Murder In Mind, Mind Games and Screen Two.

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• Kumi Naidoo

  Speaker

  Global Ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace & Dignity; Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Africans Rising

  Kumi Naidoo is a South African born human rights and climate activist. He has served as International Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 to 2016) and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 to 2020). Kumi has lectured at Fossil Free University and was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy until early 2022. Kumi is currently a Senior Advisor for the Community Arts Network (CAN) and a Special Advisor to the Green Economy Coalition. He is Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and continues to serve as a Global ambassador, Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. Kumi is a Visiting Fellow, Oxford University and Honorary Fellow, Magdalen College and has started the Ricky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Arts in honour of his son.

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• Pat Mitchell

  Moderator

  Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders, Pat Mitchell Media

  Throughout her career as an award-winning journalist, producer and media executive, Pat Mitchell broke new ground for women as the first woman President of PBS and of CNN Productions. Today, Pat is a co-founder, host and curator for TEDWomen and co-founder and managing partner of ConnectedWomenLeaders, a cohort of global women leaders, across generations and geography, who are launching a global, women-led campaign for climate justice titled Project Dandelion. She is Chair Emeritus of the Sundance Institute and just received the Vanguard Award for philanthropy. She also serves on the board of The Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, The Woodruff Arts Center, and the VDAY movement to end violence; she’s also a member of CARE’s Global Advisory Council and Chair Emeritus of the Women’s Media Center which established an annual award in her name. In her memoir, “Becoming a Dangerous Woman,” Mitchell shares her journey as a frontline advocate for a just, equitable and sustainable world.

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• Jess Search

  Moderator

  Chief Executive, Doc Society

  Jess is a founder of Doc Society, which has funded and championed the work of independent documentary filmmakers around the world since 2005. Writing with Fire, I Am Softie, The Edge of Democracy, CITIZENFOUR, The Territory, The Square, Virunga etc Currently obsessed with Climate and Democracy narratives and protecting the space for independent storytelling. Jess is also a trustee of MSI Reproductive Choices, the world's most effective family planning and abortion provider in 37 countries. Jess is also chair of UK think tank IPPR and a board member of crowdfunding innovator Kickstarter. Jess is a big fan of the Skoll World Forum.

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