Ambassadors

The Ambassadors of the Year are prominent personalities who are committed to, and share, the aims of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. The Ambassadors lend their support to making the Year a success and are taking part in various events organised throughout the Year.

The Ambassadors for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 are:


Ferran Adrià Acosta (ES)

Creative chef more >

Esko Tapani Aho (FI)

Executive Vice-President, Nokiamore >

Karlheinz Brandenburg (DE)

Professor, researcher in information and communication technologymore >

Jean-Philippe Courtois (FR)

President, Microsoft Internationalmore >

Edward de Bono (MT)

Author and international speaker on creativity and lateral thinkingmore >

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (BE)

Dance choreographermore >

Ján Ďurovčík (SK)

Dance choreographermore >

Richard Florida (US, CA)

Author, professor, economistmore >

Jack Martin Händler (SK)

Conductormore >

Antonín Holý (CZ)

Professor, chemistmore >

Remment Lucas Koolhaas (NL)

Professor, architect, urban plannermore >

Damini Kumar (IE)

Designer and inventor more >

Dominique Langevin (FR)

Professor, physicistmore >

Rita Levi-Montalcini (IT)

Nobel laureate professor, neurologistmore >

Áron Losonczi (HU)

Architect and inventormore >

Bengt-Åke Lundvall (DK)

Professor, researcher on innovationmore >

Javier Mariscal (ES)

Designer more >

Radu Mihăileanu (FR, RO)

Film directormore >

Leonel Moura (PT)

Conceptual artistmore >

Blanka Říhová (CZ)

Professor, microbiologistmore >

Ken Robinson (UK)

Professor, author on creativity and innovationmore >

Ernő Rubik (HU)

Professor, architect, designermore >

Jordi Savall i Bernadet (ES)

Musician, professormore >

Erik Spiekermann (DE)

Professor, typography designermore >

Philippe Starck (FR)

Creator, artistic director, designermore >

Christine van Broeckhoven (BE)

Professor, molecular neuroscientistmore >

Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson (SE)

Professor, president, Karolinska Institutetmore >
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