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2005 Al Gore Former Vice President of the United States
2007 Eric Schmidt Chairman & CEO, Google
2007 Anne Sweeney Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television Group
2008 Bill Gates Chairman, Microsoft
2010 James Cameron Director, Avatar / Chairman & CEO, Lightstorm Entertainment
2011 Larry King Former Host, Larry King Live
2011 Gloria Steinem Feminist Writer and Organizer
2012 Werner Vogels Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Amazon.com
2013 Alain de Botton Philosopher & Writer, / Founder, The School of Life & Living Architecture
2013 Tim Berners-Lee Inventor, World Wide Web / Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2014 Kil-Nam Chon Professor Emeritus, KAIST / Professor, Keio University / Pioneer of the Asian Internet
2015 JB Straubel Co-founder & CTO, Tesla
2015 Kip Thorne Theoretical physicist / Executive Producer, Interstellar
2016 Steven Pinker Professor of Psychology, Harvard University / Author, The Better Angels of Our Nature & The Blank Slate
2018 Rose McGowan Actress, director, activist, TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
2018 Cathy O’Neil Data scientist, mathematician, The author of Weapons of Math Destruction
2019 Ju-Ho Kim Professor in the KAIST School of Computing
2019 Zeynep TUFEKCI Techno-sociologist / Professor at the University of North Carolina
2020 Yuval Noah Harari Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020 YOU Myoungsoon Professor, Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health, President of the Korea Health Communication Association
2021 HWANG Dong-hyeuk Director & Screenwriter, Silenced, The Fortress, the Netflix series Squid Game
2021 Peter SINGER Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University / Author of Ethics in the Real World, The Most Good You Can Do, Animal Liberation, and Why Vegan?
2021 LEE Jae-myung Presidential Candidate, The Democratic Party
2021 YOON Seok-youl Presidential Candidate, People Power Party
2021 SIM Sang-jung Presidential Candidate, The Justice Party
2021 AHN Cheol-soo Presidential Candidate, People’s Party
2022 Adam PRZEWORSKI Emeritus Professor of Politics, New York University
2022 RYU Honglim Professor of Political Science, Seoul National University
2022 Jan-Werner MULLER Professor of Politics, Princeton University
2023 Anima ANANDKUMAR Bren Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology. Senior Director of AI Research, NVIDIA
2023 KANG Moonsoo Samsung Electronics Corporate EVP/Head of Advanced Package Business, Head of Business Development at Samsung Foundry
2023 KIM Sung The World's Best Private LLM, Created with the Right Data
2024 David COLEMAN Emeritus Professor of Demography, University of Oxford
2024 Hiroya MASUDA Vice Chair, Population Strategy Council of Japan / Author, "Rural Depopulation" (The Masuda Report)
2024 CHO Youngtae Director, Seoul National University Population Policy Research Center / Vice Chair, Population Association of Korea
2024 KIM Hyungsuk Composer / Producer / Research Associate, University of Oxford
2025 Daron ACEMOGLU 2024 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences│Institute Professor, Department of Economics, MIT
2025 Fei Fei Li Co-Founder, World Labs | Professor, Stanford University
2025 LEE Sedol Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

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