The LTN Ljubljana Conference Keynote speaker Hans Rosling one of Top 100 Global Thinkers

The American magazine Foreign Policy has listed the Top 100 Global Thinkers with the big ideas that shaped our world in 2009. The Swedish professor Hans Rosling who spoke at the Learning Teacher Network's International Conference in Ljubljana in October 2009 is on the list "for boggling our minds with paradigm-shattering data".

Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and runs Gapminder which is "Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view". The motivation for being one of Top 100: "Rosling, a doctor and global-health professor, who has become famous for his energetic lectures, in which he narrates mind-blowing statistics on development and public health -- as they literally move across a screen. Imagine x-y axes filled with data points, each representing a country. As time passes, the dots move, realigning to show changes in child mortality, percentage of paved roads, unemployment rates, or pretty much any other metric you can imagine. Rosling's quest to use numbers to shatter stereotypes of rich and poor countries has brought him global prominence." (Source: Foreign Policy)

More facts
Foreign Policy is published by Washington Post. The top three list of 100 Global Thinkers are : 1. Chairman, federal reserve Ben Bernanke, USA "for staving off a new Great Depression" 2. President Barack Obama, USA "for reimagining America's role in the world" and 3. Political scientist and Reformer Zahra Rahnavard, Iran "for being the brains behind Iran's Green Revolution and the campaign of her husband, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi". Professor Hans Rosling is listed as number 96.

Foreign Policy Article
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers...
Gapminder Website
www.gapminder.org