Zurich.Minds is a community of creative and innovative people in and around Switzerland, personalities from science, technology, enterprise, art and design. It meets once a year for a closed-door conference. The Switzerland edition of The Wall Street Journal , the Swiss national television and other media have widely reported on Zurich.Minds. Members include empirical philosopher and NYT bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Nobel prize winner Kurt Wuthrich

Kurt Wüthrich

Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel Chemistry laureate.-Biography:Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich was educated in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Berne before pursuing his Ph.D. under the direction of Silvio Fallab at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964...

, complexity economist Didier Sornette

Didier Sornette

Didier Sornette is Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich . He is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, a professor associated with both the department of Physics and the department ofEarth Sciences at ETH Zurich, an Adjunct...

, neuroeconomist Ernst Fehr

Ernst Fehr

Ernst Fehr is an economist from Austria. He is Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research and chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland...

, one of the most cited researchers, experimental psychologist Roy Baumeister

Roy Baumeister

Roy F. Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, and...

, mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a French American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child...

, philosopher Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett

Daniel Clement Dennett is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the Co-director of...

, neurosurgeon Helmut Bertalanffy, founder of the paleo movement Arthur De Vany

Arthur De Vany

Arthur De Vany is an American economist and author of a book on the economics of motion pictures titled: Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry. Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, he is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's...

, evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides

Leda Cosmides

Leda Cosmides, is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology....

 and John Tooby

John Tooby

John Tooby is an American anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology....

, illustrator David Bolinsky

David Bolinsky

David Bolinsky is a former lead medical illustrator at Yale. He is a co-founder of , which produced the movie The Inner Life of the Cell....

 and astrophysicist Ben Moore.

Zurich.Minds is organized and financed by the Zurich.Minds Foundation, a non-profit foundation approved by the Federal administration of Switzerland

Federal administration of Switzerland

The federal administration of Switzerland is the ensemble of agencies that constitute, together with the Swiss Federal Council, the executive branch of the Swiss federal authorities...

 that was set up in 2008 by Rolf Dobelli

Rolf Dobelli

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss novelist, entrepreneur and chairman of getAbstract.He was born in 1966 in Lucerne, Switzerland. In 1986, he enrolled at the University of St. Gallen, where he studied business, earning his in 1991 and PhD in 1995. He was hired by Swissair in 1992 and held several...

. The goal of the Zurich.Minds Foundation is to create a bridge between the science, business and cultural communities.