The 2008 Selection Committee
Patrick Heiniger
Selection Committee Chairman and former CEO, Rolex SA
Vikram Akula
India and the United States
Microfinance expert and founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance
Denise Bradley
Australia
President of the Australian College of Educators and campaigner for better educational standards
Farkhonda Hassan
Egypt
Geologist, professor of geology, member of second house of the Egyptian Parliament and secretary-general of the National Council for Women
Rodrigo Jordán
Chile
Educator and mountaineer, president of Vertical, chairman of the Chilean National Foundation for the Alleviation of Poverty
Geh Min
Singapore
Ophthalmologist, environmentalist and president of the Nature Society of Singapore
Ivo Pitanguy
Brazil
Plastic surgeon, director of the Ivo Pitanguy Clinic and Institute and professor at the Carlos Chagas Medical School
Anatoly M. Sagalevitch
Russia
Oceanologist, head of the Laboratory of Manned Submersibles, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Kathryn D. Sullivan
United States
Director of the Battelle Center for Math and Science Education Policy at Ohio State University, vice-chairman of the U.S. National Science Board