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Dr. Anneloes
Smitsman
Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (Ph.D., LLM), is a futurist, sustainability scientist, entrepreneur, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and award-winning pioneer in human development and systems change. She is the Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Ventures and EARTHwise Centre, architect of the EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization, lead author of the Participatory Framework for a Global AGI Constitution, and creator of the Elowyn: Quest of Time game. Her leadership is sought after around the world for deep and rapid transformation.
She was awarded the 2022 Visioneers Lifetime Achievement Award, and was crowned overall African winner in the category "Human Development" of the 2022 Africa’s Most Respected CEOs Awards by The Business Executive in collaboration with the Economic Development Board Mauritius. The award acknowledges CEOs' contributions to the attainment of SDGs by African States. Anneloes and her company EARTHwise Centre are also a winner of the BIZZ 2022 Awards, which is a business excellence award by WORLDCOB, and was awarded the Africa’s Women Leaders Citation in 2018 by CMO Asia and World Women Leadership Congress.
Anneloes holds a Master’s degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and received a degree of Doctor from the Maastricht Sustainability Institute at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. dissertation "Into the Heart of Systems Change," is being implemented worldwide for developing economic, educational, and governance capacities for regeneration and thrivability.
Anneloes is the co-author of the #1 Amazon Bestsellers "The Quest of Rose," winner of the prestigious 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award, and "Return of the Avatars," winner of the 2023 Gold Nautilus Book Award, which are the first two books of the "Future Humans Trilogy" with Dr. Jean Houston. She is the co-author and co-editor with Dr. Alexander Laszlo of "The New Paradigm in Politics," and the author of "Love Letters from Mother Earth: The Promise of a New Beginning," as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal publications, articles, book chapters, and other publications, including lead author of the r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint.
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