lászló szombatfalvy
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intro’d to László here:
We urgently need fresh new thinking in order to address the scale and gravity of today’s global challenges, which have outgrown the present system’s ability to handle them.
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find/follow László:
https://globalchallenges.org/en/about/board/laszlo-szombatfalvy
László Szombatfalvy (born 1927 in Budapest, Hungary) is a businessman and author living in Stockholm, Sweden. Szombatfalvy fled to Sweden in 1956 following the Hungarian uprising of that year. He arrived with two empty hands and worked initially in a variety of jobs including as a magician in the refugee camps, before gradually becoming interested in the stock market. His interest in stock led to his development of a method of risk calculation for investments for which he became well known on the Swedish stock market. In the late 1980s his interests turned toward entirely different matters and he withdrew from the market. Over the past couple of years his attention has focused on the application of his risk assessment method to new fields.
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In November 2009 Szombatfalvy made his debut as an author. In the book The Greatest Challenges of Our Time he briefly analyzes the severe threats facing humanity issuing from four mega-problems: environmental damage, climate change, weapons of mass destruction and extreme poverty. He emphasizes the necessity for politicians to perform risk calculations in order to make the right decisions. The book was translated and released in English in September 2010. At the same time a second (revised) version was released in Swedish.
The following year, he released his second book, Känslor och förnuft (Emotions and Mind: A book about moral decisions), which discusses the concept of morality and how we should relate to our moral decisions in everyday life, work and in relationships with other people
In March 2013, Szombatfalvy started the Global Challenges Foundation whose aim is to increase awareness of global catastrophic risks and improve the world’s capacity to solve future crises. Szombatfalvy is currently the Chairman of the Global Challenges Foundation Board, which also includes the former Fourth National Pension Fund’s CEO and sustainable investment advocate, Mats Andersson, and Climate Professor Johan Rockström.
The foundation’s assets predominantly consist of a donation from Szombatfalvy, which will include roughly half of his fortune – around 500 million Swedish kronor.
In 2017, the foundation offered at least $1 million (USD) to the winner of a contest asking for proposed solutions to global problems
messaged them – offering you way to change world.. begs we go deeper than 5 mn competition
ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…].. a nother way
be you. 