People
Every member of our global team contributes to the foundation’s mission of creating a world where generous listening is not just a skill but a way of life.
Board Members
Our team
Advisory Circle
Aaron Lobel
Founder & President of America Abroad Media & Chairman and CEO of Black Birch Entertainment
Agah Uğur
Former CEO of Borusan Holding, Investor
Anna Maria Corozza Bildt
Former Member of The European Parliament & Former European Parliament Coordinator on Children's Rights
Beatrice de Clermont Tonnerre
Board Member of The French American Foundation & The Bosphorus Institutes
Begüm Doğan Faralyalı
Chairwoman of Doğan Holding & Founder of "Common Values Movement"
Esra Özsüer
President and Founder of Maya Vakfı
Farah Ramzan Golantcbe
Chief Executive of kyu EMEA
Hanzade Doğan
Founder of Doğan Online Group & Founding Member of Global Relations Forum
Hashim Sarkis
Dean of SA+P, MIT & Principal of Hashim Sarkis Studios
Irina Bokova
Director-General of UNESCO
Jochen Zeitz
Founder of Zeitz Foundation
Kai Deikmann
Founder & Shareholder of the Deutscher Zukunftsfonds and Storymachine
Lady Trish Malloch-Brown
Independent Consultant
Manish Chopra
CIO of Tiger Veda
Peggy Dulany
Founder & Chair of Synergos & Co-Founder of Global Philanthropists Circle
Peter Levine
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life
Scott Mead
Founder and Chairman of Mead Family Foundation
Virna Apalacı Gülzari
VP of the Turkish Infant Mental Health Organization
Zainab Salbi
EP and Host of Through Her Eyes at Yahoo News & Author of Freedom is an Inside Job