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She is dedicated to advocating for unity and equality as she believes there is still a lot of work left to be done. For the past 20 years, Ruby has travelled across the US to speak to thousands of children and teachers. «Racism is an advanced disease; stop using children to spread it», she says. She has also developed a project under her name to unite students, parents and teachers from diverse ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds.

Emeritus and Visiting Professor at the University of Louvain, where he held the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016. Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. Visiting Professor at Harvard (2004-2010); Oxford (2011-2015) and Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence) (2016). Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium and the British Academy, he is one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network, chairing its International Board.

He is one of the world's most prominent economic historians. His journey has taken him to Scotland to the California sunshine, stopping off at King's College, Cambridge and Harvard, as well as Stanford and Michigan. He is Professor of Economics at UC-Davis, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the All-UC Economic History Group and Associate of the Centre for Poverty Research at UC-Davis.

As well as being a technology visionary and a pioneer of «wikis» (a set of web pages designed to allow anyone to contribute and change content), he is best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, an international, free-content Internet encyclopaedia, and of the Wikimedia Foundation. He is also the founder of WikiTribune, a revolutionary ad-free news platform that produces fact-based journalism, and co-founder of Wikia, a free private web hosting service that he created in 2004. His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopaedia, led to him being named by Time magazine as one of the «100 Most Influential People» in 2006, in the «Scientists and Thinkers» category.

He teaches economics and strategy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and researches areas including the impact of technology and management practices on aggregate economic variables such as wage distribution, productivity or economic growth. He also researches ways to prevent a new economic crisis in the eurozone. In this context, and with the «Euronomics» group of economists, he has been proposing solutions, such as European Safe Bonds – ESBies, which are being officially considered by the European Central Bank and the European Commission.