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Wade Davis - anthropologist, scientist, scholar, poet - YouTube








Anthropologist,  Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society

Presentation:
‘The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World’ (November 30, 3.30pm)
Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” In recent years his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia and the high Arctic of Nunuvut and Greenland.
An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986), an international best seller later released by Universal as a motion picture.

Speakers · Creative Innovation 2012

Speakers · Creative Innovation 2012


International Leaders

Baroness Susan Greenfield
Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan (UK)

Chief Executive of NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
Iain McGilchrist

Dr Iain McGilchrist (UK)

Author: The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Nadia Rosenthal

Professor Nadia Rosenthal (UK)

Leader in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine
Adam Kahane

Adam Kahane (Canada)

Partner in Reos Partners, Innovation in Complex Social Systems.
Michael T. Jones

Michael T. Jones (USA)

Chief Technology Advocate, Google
Wade Davis

Wade Davis (USA)

Anthropologist, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society
Dr Thomas Frey

Dr Thomas Frey (USA)

Executive Director and Senior Futurist at DaVinci Institute

Corporate Leaders and Organisational Experts

Michael Rennie
Steve Vamos

Steve Vamos

President, Society for Knowledge Economics; Non Executive Director, Telstra, Medibank and David Jones
Dr Megan Clark

Dr Megan Clark

Chief Executive, CSIRO
Professor Richard Rumelt

Professor Richard Rumelt (USA)

UCLA Chair in Business and Society, global leader on strategy
Bernard Salt

Bernard Salt

National Partner for KPMG Demo Group; Writer and Columnist

Incredible Innovators and Technologists

Scott Anthony
Ruslan Kogan

Ruslan Kogan

Serial Entrepreneur, Pioneer online retail, Founder and CEO of Kogan.com
Silviu Itescu

Professor Silviu Itescu

Managing Director and CEO, Mesoblast, the regenerative medicine company
Professor Robin J Batterham AO

Professor Robin J Batterham AO

President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Jason Drew

Jason Drew (South Africa)

International business leader; Serial entrepreneur
Michael Harte

Michael Harte

Group Executive, Enterprise Services & Chief Information Officer

Philosophers and Humanitarians

Li Cunxin
Eric Knight

Eric Knight

Economics consultant; Author Reframe: How to solve the world’s trickiest problems

Outstanding Creativity Connectors

Pot-Pourri
War Horse

War Horse

Performer
Stefan Cassomenos

Stefan Cassomenos

Composer in Residence
Gavin Blake

Gavin Blake

Graphic Recordist in Residence
Jessamy Gee

Jessamy Gee

Graphic Recordist and Artist in Residence
Tania de Jong AM

Tania de Jong AM

Diva in Residence & Executive Producer
Johanna Featherstone

Johanna Featherstone

Poet in Residence
Michael Pope

Michael Pope

MC

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Hugh Morgan AC
Sir Gustav Nossal

Sir Gustav Nossal AC

Expert in fundamental immunology
Professor Allan Fels AO

Allan Fels AO

Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
Elizabeth Finkel

Dr Elizabeth Finkel

Leading science journalist
Tim Dalmau

Tim Dalmau

Leading management consultant
Doron Ben-Meir

Doron Ben-Meir

CEO of Commercialisation Australia
Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson

CEO, Kokoda Capital Group
Beverley O'Connor

Beverley O’Connor

Journalist and Broadcaster; Presenter at ABC; Columnist for Herald Sun
Robyn Williams

Robyn Williams

Science Journalist; Author and Presenter at ABC

World Class Creativity and Innovation Experts

Professor Richard Rumelt
Scott Anthony

Scott Anthony (Singapore)

Managing Director of Innosight Asia-Pacific, expert on disruptive innovation
Dr Amantha Imber

Dr Amantha Imber

Creativity and innovation psychologist
Charles Kovess

Charles Kovess

Australia’s Passion Provocateur
Gabrielle Dolan and Yamini Naidu

Gabrielle Dolan & Yamini Naidu

Global thought leaders on business storytelling
Tim Dalmau and Jill Tideman

Tim Dalmau & Jill Tideman

Leading management consultants
Andrew Grant and Gaia-Grant

Andrew & Gaia Grant

Co-authors: Who Killed Creativity…and how to get it back!
Tim Reid

Tim Reid

aka “The Ideas Guy”, leading ideas and marketing expert
Leigh Gassner and Steve Atkinson

Leigh Gassner & Steve Atkinson

Partners in Reos Partners, Melbourne

Agent Provocateurs

Tim Wilson
Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen

CEO and Founder of Lateral Economics
Jodi Cant

Jodi Cant

General Manager Business Development, Landgate
Brenton Caffin

Brenton Caffin

Founding CEO of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation
John Matthews

John Matthews

Coach in Residence