Ervin Laszlo is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He is an advocate of the theory of quantum consciousness and Founder and President of the Club of Budapest.

Honorary Member des Club of Budapest International, Keynote Speaker, TV Journalist, Bestsellerautor von ca. 40 Titeln, darunter “Frieden ist mehr” mit ca. 1 Mio. Auflage d. deutschen Ausgabe sowie zu Themen der Ökologie und Ethik, Herausgeber sonnenseite.com

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Kofi Annan is one of the 15 previous awardees of the Planetary Consciousness Award by the Club of Budapest, announced in 2004. He was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. In 2001, he received the Nobel Peace Prize together with the United Nations for his „commitment to a better organized and more peaceful world“.

American author & scientist, who is widely known for his appearances different tv shows and other publications about linking science & spirituality. He has published many books. In 2009, his book Fractal Time has on the bestseller list of The New York Times.

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Deepak Chopra is an Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the spirituality movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known figures in holistic medicine..

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He is a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He was the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.

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She is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

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Riane Eisler is a cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, attorney, speaker, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired scholars and social activists. Her research has had an effect in many fields, including history, literature, philosophy, art, economics, psychology, sociology, education, human rights, organizational development, political science, and healthcare.

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Vigdis Finnbogadóttir served as the fourth President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996. She was the world’s first democratically directly elected female president. Currently she is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.

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He is an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched a successful solo career. He is an activist for international benefit concerts and world music

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Rivka Golani is recognised as one of the outstanding violists of modern times. Her contributions to the advancement of viola technique have already given her a place in the history of the instrument and have been a source of inspiration not only to other players but also to the many composers who have been inspired by her mastery to write for the viola. More than 350 works have so far been composed for Rivka, including over 80 concertos: a record matched by no other violist in history.

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Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on Chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960.

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He was Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union 1990-91. With „perestroika“ (transformation) and „glasnost“ (transparency) in his own country, he dared to undertake the largest and most far-reaching historical transformation process in a country toward democracy and an eco-social market economy to date. And he initiated the historically boldest changes in international relations to date, for example, for the first substantial disarmament treaties, for the overcoming of bloc formation, for a „pan-European house“ and much more. Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1990.

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Hazel Henderson is founder of Ethical Markets Media. She is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, an author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She created the Ethical Markets TV series, the EthicMark Awards, the Green Transition Scoreboard and co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance.

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Jean Houston, Ph.D., scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. She is noted for her ability to combine a deep knowledge of history, culture, new science, spirituality and human development into her teaching. She is known for her inter-disciplinary perspective delivered in inspirational and humorous keynote addresses.

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She is a Nicaraguan social and human rights advocate and a former actress. Jagger currently serves as a Council of Europe goodwill ambassador, founder and chair of the Biance Jagger Human Rights Foundation, member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council of Amnesty International USA, and a trustee of the Amazon Charitable Trust. She was married to Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, from 1971 until 1978.

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Preisträger des Planetary Consciousness Award 2001, Honorary Member des Club of Budapest International, Gründer des Projekts Weltethos sowie der Weltethos Stiftung, Autor zahlreicher theologischer Standardwerke sowie von Werken über die Weltreligionen

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet.

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Nelson Mandela is one of the 15 previous awardees of the Planetary Consciousness Award by the Club of Budapest, announced in 2002. He was an South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. In 1993, he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

He is an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music. H was the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and is Conductor Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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Fiona Lady Montagu of Beaulieu, born in Zimbabwe, was Director of Beaulieu Enterprises Ltd and Trustee of The Countryside Education Trust for over 40 years. In China in 2013, she extolled the virtues an importance of education on an English Country Estate. She was appointed as first Global Ambassador of The Club of Budapest.

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Peter Russel is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and of The World Business Academy. His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. His work seems to distill the essence of the world’s spiritual traditions and present it in ways relevant to the current times.

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Masami Saionji is the Chairperson of three international peace organizations: Byakko Shinko Kai, The World Peace Prayer Society and The Goi Peace Foundation. As a spiritual leader and lecturer, she has touched thousands of people’s lives through her guidance.

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He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the Central American crisis. He was also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.

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He is an Indian politician, philanthropist and poet. He belongs to Jamwal Dogra Dynasty, is the son of Maharaja Hari Singh, and was born in Cannes, France. From 1947 he worked closely, as a teenager, with Jawaharlal Nehru during the founding of the Republic of India, and in 1967 became the youngest ever union cabinet minister in the government of Indira Gandhi.

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She is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She is the recipient of a Primetime Emma Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as having received nominations for an Academy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Honorary Member des Club of Budapest International, vorm. Präsidentin des Deutschen Bundestags 1988-1998, Kuratoriumsmitglied bei Bertelsmann Stiftung und Yehudi Menuhin Stiftung sowie Präsidentin von Education Y

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Tobias is an ecologist, author, filmmaker, historian, explorer, anthropologist, educator and non-violence activist. His work encompasses ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography, animal rights and animal liberation.

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He is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was the Bishop of Johannesburg and then the Archbishop of Cape Town from 1985 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology.

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Liv Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and director known for her intelligent and complex performance. Her name is closely linked to that of Swedish director Ingmar Berman, with whom she worked in several films. Throughout her career, Ullman worked onstage as well as onscreen. She demonstrated great versatility in works by William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht.

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Sir Peter Ustinov was a British actor, writer and director. A two-time Oscar winner, he became internationally known for his film roles in Quo vadis? (1951), Spartacus (1960) and Death on the Nile (1978). As a director, he staged operas such as The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni. A self-confessed cosmopolitan, he was a UNICEF Special Ambassador from 1968 and in 1999 founded the Peter Ustinov Foundation to improve the living conditions of children and young people. In 1990, he was elevated to the British peerage by Elizabeth II.

Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before experiencing his now famous conversation with God. Neale has written 29 books on spirituality and ist practical application in everyday life.

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Kenneth Earl Wilber is an American writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a systematic philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.

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Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit (small loans to poor people possessing no collateral) to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Prize for Peace and started the new global initiative for Social Business.

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Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish politician, scholar and social change activist who served as the Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. Under his leadership, UNESCO developed a Culture of Peace Program that outlined a plan of action addressing education for peace, human rights, and democracy, cultural diversity, ending poverty.

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