Present: Journalists of Print Media

Magdi Allam, born in Egypt and raised in Italy, is one of the leading journalists in Italy. He also serves as a member of the European Parliament for Italy.

Present: Journalists of Print Media

Monica Gonzalez, a Chilean journalist and author, has established a reputation as Chile's premier investigative reporter and one of the top investigative reporters in Latin America.

Past: Preserving Cultural Heritage

Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned cellist whose inspirations go well beyond the concert hall.

Future: Materials Science

C.N.R. Rao has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry and is considered one of the world's foremost solid state and materials chemists. He has made prolific and sustained contributions to the development of the field over five decades.

Future: Materials Science

George Whitesides was the first to explore the intersection of molecular-scale synthesis and surface science, which led to his work on self-assembly monolayers (SAMs). The development of SAMs has led to the transformation of surface science into a much broader discipline of microfabrication and biological interactions.

Past: Archaeology

Professor Graeme Barker, FBA, has been an enormously important figure in both European and world archaeology since the 1970s.

Past: Archaeology

Israel Finkelstein is a Professor Emeritus of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University and the Director of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa.

Present: The Performing Arts - Film, Theater, Dance, Music

Peter Brook, described as "our greatest living theater director," has reinvented the way actors and directors think about theater.

Future: Materials Science

Robert Langer pioneered the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering. He contributed to the development of biocompatible polymers for drug delivery and synthetic polymers to form specific tissue structures creating the field of tissue engineering.

Future: Brain Sciences

Dr. Amiram Grinvald of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department was considered the world leader in functional optical imaging.

Past: Cities - Historical Legacy

Istanbul has made important contributions to humanity as it embodies the history of West and East in miniature, proudly caring for and displaying the monuments and treasures of its grand empires.

Past: Cities - Historical Legacy

Jerusalem has made an important contribution to humanity by being the holy place where monotheism was shaped to become the core of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.