Ali Moeen Nawazish is a Pakistani and is notable for being the only person in the world to take 23 A Levels. He is now studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. Ali's A Level result was taken by the international media very quickly. He was interviewed by/quoted in almost all of leading newspapers and tv channels including Times Online, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Khaleej Times, The Independent, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and many others. The media's response was highly positive, to say the least He was given a number of awards, including the Pride of Performance award which is one of the highest honors in Pakistan. Ali was congratulated personally by the Pakistani prime minister,and the chief-minister of Punjab, the province he belongs to. Both of these people invited him a guest to rendezvous with him. In addition, many tv channels including BBC in Britain and Geo and PTV amongst many others in Pakistan invited him as a guest to various shows, making him earn a tremendous deal of fame. Ali Moeen claims that he was an ordinary student whose academic performance oscillated as a child and some times barely passed. During his O Levels, he was motivated by philosophies of men like Plato, the desire to achieve greatness and elevate his homeland. He received 9 A's in his O Level, along with a "Top in World" award in computer studies. Then he achieved exponential success in his A Level. Ali has many interests apart from academic ones. He is said to have founded a magazine and edited the school magazine. He also plays the guitar and piano and played for a musical band.

Dr. Amjad Saqib is founder of Akhuwat, first ever interest free microfinance programme. This programme operates from mosques and churches and has opened new vistas in the domain of social mobilization and poverty alleviation. This is the largest individual based lending programme in the country and is referred to in many international universities as a unique and innovative model in microfinance. He is Akhuwat’s Executive Director and main driving force since its inception in year 2001. Keeping in view his management experience and volunteer services for poverty alleviation, he has been requested by the Government of the Punjab to lead two of its flagship programmes i.e. Punjab Educational Endowment Fund and Punjab Welfare Trust for the Disabled. President of Pakistan, on account of his contributions for poverty alleviation, has awarded him "Sitara-a-Pakistan" in 2010.

Ahmad Atif Mumtaz has many years of experience as a technology specialist and as a social entrepreneur. He is currently active in the social sector and is deploying an ambitious tele-healthcare solution for rural Pakistan in collaboration with partners, whereby rural clinicians can share and seek advice from specialists in the cities using ICT. The solution, dubbed as "Jaroka Tele-Healthcare", is an innovative healthcare project that uses the power of mobile phones, and implemented with the support of Lady Health Workers (LHW) is now moving from pilot phase into full deployment. In the first phase, the project has treated over 20,000 patients in rural Mardan since August 2008. The project won the mBillionth award for being the best mHealth project from all around the region of Asia.

Beena Sarwar, born and brought up in Karachi, is an artist, journalist and filmmaker active in women's rights, human rights and peace movements. With an undergraduate degree in art and literature from Brown University (1986), she has been assistant editor at the Star Weekend, Karachi; features editor of The Frontier Post, Lahore; founding editor of The News on Sunday and op-ed editor The News. Her column 'Personal Political' is published in The News, Pakistan, as well as Hard News, India. She has been principle correspondent for the Rome-based IPS (InterPress Service). Her work is published in various papers and websites around the world, including the US-based website www.chowk.com, New York Times, Boston Globe, Volkskrant (Netherlands), Il Manifesto (Italy) and others. In addition to her work in print, Beena has a master's degree in TV Documentary from Goldsmiths College, London (2001), and was a member of Geo Television’s launch team as a producer in the News Department. She has made several documentaries and news features on issues related to gender, peace and human rights, including ‘Mukhtiar Mai: The Struggle for Justice’ (2006), ‘Milne Do: Let Kashmiris Meet’ (2009) and ‘Aur NikleiN Ge Usshaq ke Qafley’ (2010, on the 1950s student movement in Pakistan). A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2005) and a Fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights at the Kennedy School (2006), she is now the editor in Pakistan for Aman ki Asha ("hope for peace") a joint campaign for peace by the Jang Group and The Times of India Group, launched in January 2010.

Nofal Khan, based in Karachi, is an under-grad from Institute of Business Management. An aspiring entrepreneur with the conviction to give back something to the society has, with his team, founded a social enterprise aimed towards educating the under-privileged and bringing harmony to the ever-growing restless society of ours. Being a patriotic person, he thinks this is the time the society should start helping itself to prosper. The social enterprise Moajza has a flagship venture titled Pappu. Pappu is a mascot character who symbolizes the life of many kids belonging to the lower working class families. It is a representation of every child who isn't getting proper education. The team produces merchandise depicting Pappu’s life and the profits all go to educate numerous Pappu out there. So that instead of being a liability, they should be a gain to the society. At present the directionless path that they are on, would hinder them in realizing their potential to the maximum, let alone making them responsible citizens. The profits are also put to use to support schools. Most recently, Pappu has teamed up with students from Oxford and LSE to develop a program to encourage cognitive thinking among the secondary school students in slum schools.

Master Ayub Khan For the last 25 years, this selfless school teacher has been teaching underprivileged in a park in Islamabad. Every evening more than 150 children gather to get education at this make-shift school. After their morning duties, these children gather in this park every evening to learn, to get education. Master Ayub is doing this just for sheer happiness and for the peace of his mind that he’s at least giving something back to his community unless like some of us who just like to watch it happening. Master Ayub has his own levels for grades. Syllabus of this school may not equalize the outer world’s standards, but graduates of his school can easily read, write, do complex calculations, even they can speak foreign languages (such as English). Students are taught special courses, for instance Mathematics, Social Sciences to meet professional requirements and real life implications of studies.

Mamoon Tariq Khan is a Consequentialist, a Utilitarian, an Ontologist, and an Epistemologist. He is the first person in history to break a threshold of our human brain’s once seemingly unachievable efficiency—the memorization of abstractions at a speed of less than a second per item. He is thusly credited by The Guinness Book of World Records* for successfully memorizing 52 abstractions in 44.62 seconds, hence recognizing him as “The Man with the Finest Retentive Brain in the World.” In contexts pertinent, akin to the triumph of becoming the first person ever to set foot on the Moon, in contrast to those that follow—the crossing of this momentous human threshold for the first time ever, was and is, a feat that can never again be claimed. And, since memory has long been established as the mother of all knowledge, his world record constitutes the most critical of all time-based brain-efficacy attainments—it was thus, arguably the most substantial individual human achievement record. He has Associate’s, Bachelor’s, and Master’s Degrees in the Sciences and Management from The Florida Institute of Technology. Where at the age of 19, he became one of the youngest persons in the world to attain a four-year Bachelor’s of Science degree. Shortly after, and graduating with High Honors, he attained a two-year Master’s degree in Business Administration in a world record 11 months.

Todd Shea is a vocalist, songwriter and guitarist whose lyrics often reflect his fascination with humanitys potential for creativity or destruction on many levels. Having worked as a relief worker during 9/11, The Tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina, Todd was adamant upon going to Pakistan after the earthquake in 2005 to help in relief and rehabilitation. After seeing the magnitude of the need in Kashmir, Todd started his own NGO by the name of CDRS and currently works and resides in Chikar, Kashmir providing free medical facilities to 150,000 people who would otherwise be without any health care in that remote region.

Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan is a Member of the National Assembly belonging to Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz); and carries with him an air of intellect which makes him shine out – loud and clear. He was educated at St. Joseph’s School and Cadet College Hassan Abdal. And trained as an electrical engineer at the California Institute of Technology and holds a degree in Economics from Bowdoin College, both in the United States. He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan on February 18, 2008. He was elected Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce on October 23, 2008. In Parliament, he has led legislative efforts on restructuring Pakistan’s anti-dumping and insurance statutes, regulation of foreign security agencies, empowering the Standing Committees with budgetary approval of ministries and, most recently, reform of high treason law. As Chairman, Khurram has revitalized the parliamentary Standing Committee that oversees Pakistan’s Commerce Ministry; Under his chairmanship, the Committee has performed vigorous oversight of the executive branch on trade policy, WTO regulations, Afghan Transit Trade, regulation of insurance industry, and integrity of government procurement. Khurram Dastgir Khan is affiliated politically with the principal opposition party, Pakistan Muslim League-N, where he was the Central Joint Secretary during 2006-2009. He has also served previously as Special Assistant to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999. During 1999-2008, he led resistance in Gujranwala against the dictatorial rule of Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

Sarah Adeel is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate from Rhode Island School of Design, where she was the recipient of the Award of Excellence in 2008. She is also a part of the Social Innovation Initiative program and Persuasive speech at Brown University. Sarah's research project explores the family and community structures in relation to the design of orphanages, examining how a prosperous social structure takes physical form through design. She aims to convert the current orphanage system into “Self- Sufficient Organisms” – that not only cater to the physical needs but also help the under privileged children to attain self actualization. Since her return to Pakistan, Sarah has been working at USEFP as a consultant. Currently, she is a part of the curriculum development team for the department of Art, Design and Architecture at National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad. She intends to develop a body of work focusing on orphanages in South Asia.

Waqar Qureshi is a Computer Science student from UCP, Pakistan. He has proved that there is no dearth of talent in Pakistan but lack of government support and non-availability of a proper platform are few factors which bar talented people from displaying their skills. The 21 year old guy with a distinctive mind has already got three inventions in the field of Information Technology under his belt. A Non-touch interface System. A Head Tracking System with Video Goggles to make it a Virtual Reality System and a software which can switch on or off all electrical appliances through a computer without any physical movement. Conversion of one’s thought into occurrence has always been a dream and these days Waqar is working to convert this dream into a reality. The system on which he’s working on is known as Brain Interface System.

*Salman Ahmad is a medical doctor who turned musician and former actor, formerly part of the band called Junoon, South Asia's biggest and longest-lasting rock band. He has sold over 25 million albums and is one of the most popular and exciting musicians in the world. Salman is also a humanitarian, bridge-builder, and social activist. Co-chairman of SSGWI (Salman and Samima Global Wellness Initiative). His real "junoon" (passion) is using his music to bring people together and raise awareness of some of the most important social and political issues of our time: bridging the divide between Islam and the West, promoting peace between Pakistan and India, HIV/AIDS, and global health and poverty. He continues to be actively involved in bridging cultures - through his participation in forums, such as the Brookings Institution and the Search for Common Ground; through his writing, for Newsweek's "On Faith" column and op-eds in the Washington Post and other publications; through his speaking, at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006, at university campuses around the country, and at Queens College where he currently teaches; through his documentaries, including the 2003 PBS documentary, "The Rock Star and the Mullahs" and the 2005 BBC film about Muslims in America called "It's My Country Too"; and of course, through his music. He just released a song with Melissa Etheridge called "Ring the Bells", a call for peace, performed at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in 2007 and at the UN General Assembly in 2001, the first band ever invited to perform there.