Yana Buhrer Tavanier Human Rights Activist TED Senior Fellow & Social Entrepreneur
Co-founder and executive director of Fine Acts, a worldwide marketplace for socially conscious creative solutions, is Yana Buhrer Tavanier. She investigates human rights innovation at the nexus of act... Read More
Yancey Strickler Co-Founder and Former CEO of Kickstarter
Yancey Strickler is an author and businessman. He is the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World and the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter. Yancey has been nam... Read More
Yangsze Choo Yangsze Choo's debut novel THE GHOST BRIDE a ghost story set in 1890s colonial Malaya will be published August 2013 by William Morrow/HarperCollins in the US and Hot Key in the UK
Fourth-generation Malaysian of Chinese ancestry, Yangsze Choo. She can listen in on conversations in a variety of languages due to her international upbringing. She held a briefcase after graduating f... Read More
Yann Martel Novelist Author of Life of Pi
With the release of Life of Pi, Yann Martel gained recognition on a global scale and received the 2002 Man Booker Prize. With over 7 million copies sold, it became a global bestseller after being rele... Read More
Yishay Carmiel Founder of IntelligentWire
Yishay Carmiel is the founder of IntelligentWire, a business that creates and applies cutting-edge deep learning and AI technologies for automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing... Read More
Yiying Lu Award Winning Artist & Creative Director of Yiying Lu
Yiying Lu is a recognized artist, businesswoman, and speaker who is multilingual (English & Chinese) and has more than ten years of expertise in branding, design, and creativity. She was recognized as... Read More
Yonathan Dominitz Founder Mindscapes
Yonathan Dominitz is a trainer and the project manager for initiatives aimed at fostering creativity and innovation in businesses and ad agencies. Works created by Mindscapes-trained companies employi... Read More
Young-Ha Kim Korean Novelist & TED Talker
1968 birth year I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Kim Young-debut ha's book, launched his writing career and earned him the prized Munhak-dongne prize in 1996. He published five novels and four coll... Read More
Yousef Al Otaiba United Arab Emirates’ ambassador
The UAE's ambassador to Mexico and the United States is Yousef Al Otaiba. Al Otaiba formerly worked for the Court of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi for seven years as director of foreign relations. He... Read More
Yuri Milner Founder of DST Global
Russian businessman, venture capitalist, and philanthropist Yuri Milner changed venture capital investing practices in the 2010s with his inventive investment methods and foresight into the economic p... Read More