Juliet Michaelson is a researcher at nef‘s centre for well-being.
TED, the organisers of high profile conferences devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ have just announced the line up for next month’s TEDGlobal 2010, which includes not one, but two nef Fellows. Nic Marks, Founder of nef‘s centre for well-being and creator of the Happy Planet Index will be taking the stage in Oxford in the opening session of the conference, on 13 July, followed two day’s later by nef fellow Tim Jackson, author of the ground-breaking Prosperity Without Growth. Other speakers include David McCandless, author of the Information Is Beautiful blog, architect David Adjaye, and singer Annie Lennox, talking about her work on HIV/AIDS.
If you’ve never visited the TED site, its back catalogue of talks by a dazzling array of speakers from previous conferences is highly recommended viewing. A few gems from the all-time favourites category include Ken Robinson on why schools kill creativity, Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice, Dan Gilbert on what makes us happy, and Hans Rosling in the most spectacular talk on statistics in the whole world, ever.
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14 June, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Sarah Fraser
Wow – great that you’re being represented at TED. I just visited one of the locally organised events in Rotterdam and it was super inspiring. I’m very interested in the Happy Planet Index. I’ll be sure to look out for the recordings of TED Global online after the event. Good luck with the presentations! Sarah.
15 June, 2010 at 10:01 am
Juliet Michaelson
Thanks very much Sarah – and yes keep checking – we’ll be sure to keep you posted on nef talks here!