2010 Think-tank Members


Mr Amithaba SADANGI is CEO of International Development Enterprises in India. He offers low-cost irrigation solutions that allow small farmers to improve their crop yields and lift themselves out of poverty. Over the last 25 years, he has worked with several organizations before joining IDE International. In April 2001 he led IDE India’s transition to an autonomous Indian organization and became the founding member of IDEI as well as its board member. He has won several accolades, including the Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award from the Schwab Foundation, the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy, the Social Entrepreneurship Award by the Skoll Foundation and the Templeton Freedom Prize.


Mrs Sibongile SAMBO is the founder and Managing Director of SRS Aviation - the first 100% black female owned aviation company. She has been recognized by the Minister of Transport on her pioneering entry of black women into the South African Aviation Sector. She was a Finalist and Winner of the Regional Business Women of the year 2006 Start-up category (Business Woman Association - Johannesburg) and the winner at the BIBA (Black Woman in Business Awards) 2006 in London.


Victor San Juan is the Director of Competetive Improvement of the Bio-Bio Educating and Innovating Program. He is also the founder and current CEO of Aeurus Ltda.a web consulting and web solutions. He has been named and awarded by the Chilean Daily Newspaper "Diario el Sur" as one of the 50 young business leaders of South of Chile.


Alberto Schuster is the Senior partner of KPMG Argentina. KPMG International is a network of independent audit and consulting service providers located in 144 countries. With more than 137,000 professionals worldwide, KPMG is capable of supporting its customers no matter where they do business.


Mr Vojtech SEDLACEK is is a Czech entrepreneur, who established Obsluzna spol(1995) and Agentura ProVas (1996), both companies having a mission of creating employment and business opportunities for people with disabilities. After several years working as technician and software programmer, he became in 1990 the mayor of city of Roztoky and was elected by the assembly as a representative of the Civic Forum. In 1998 he worked as the deputy minister of internal security. In 2006, he won the national the competition for the social entrepreneur of the year. He is the coauthor of the Kepler museum in Prague, which was created by Agentura ProVas in 2009.


Jack Sim created the World Toilet Organization in 2001 as he realized that the lack of adequate sanitation facilities accounted for much of the world’s social and health problems. WTO’s vision is to attain clean, safe, affordable, ecologically sound, and sustainable sanitation for everyone. With members from 44 countries, it serves as a platform for knowledge sharing, public education, pooling of resources, and development of sanitation initiatives


Mr Inderjit SINGH is both an entrepreneur and a member of Singapore Parliament. He is currently Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infiniti Solutions, a global semiconductor manufacturing services company. He is also involved in many major initiatives to promote business start-ups. He is currently Deputy Chairman of the Action Crucible of Entrepreneurship (ACE), a national entrepreneurship movement , and President of the Singapore Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE, which is the world's largest movement of entrepreneurs). Actively involved in politics, he is now Deputy Government Whip in Parliament and Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for the Ministries of Finance and Trade and Industry.


Dr. BRA Soedibyo Mooryati is the Vice Chairman of the Second People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia, the President Director of Mustika Ratu (a multinational producing cosmetics based in Jakarta), and one of the originator of the idea contest Miss Indonesia which is held each year. She also was in the list of the most influential women of Indonesia in 2007 (magazine Globe Asia ).


Mr Steve STRAUSS is one of the world’s leading experts on entrepreneurship. A lawyer, public speaker, and author of The Big Idea, The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business, and the Ask a Lawyer series. Steve’s “Ask an Expert” column is the most highly syndicated business column on the Internet, being seen weekly at USAToday.com, AT&T Small Business.com, workz.com, among others. Steve has spoken around the world about entrepreneurship, including at the United Nations, and he has been on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, The O’Reilly Factor, and many other television and radio shows.