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Joe Foweraker is an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony鈥檚 College, University of Oxford, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. He was Oxford鈥檚 first Professor of Latin and American Politics.

In a past life he spent many years of fieldwork in Brazil, Spain and Mexico. More recent years have been dedicated mainly to comparative research on democracy. Joe Foweraker seeks to 鈥渁ssess the impact of grassroots pressure on policy formation and institutional reform that can improve the quality of life for the poor and socially deprived peoples of Latin America.鈥�

Entrepreneur Gene Sherman is Founder and CEO of Vocademy.

In 2012, he decided to set up Vocademy - a project which came to fruition when the first Vocademy opened in 2013. Vocademy is part of a wider Makers鈥� movement which is gaining popularity in the USA.

Gene has more than 30 years鈥� experience in machining, manufacturing and 3D design. Gene says聽 鈥淎fter 25 years in industry, helping/training hundreds of manufacturing companies and聽 designing/machining/fabricating dozens of products, I have decided to share my knowledge and experience鈥�, and ultimately describes himself as 鈥淢aker of Things鈥�.

S鈥檅u Zikode was born in the village of Loskop in 1975 and grew up in the town of Estcourt in the midlands of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. He was raised by a single mother working as a domestic worker.聽

He is a founding member of the of Abahlali baseMjondolo movement 鈥� an organisation defending the rights and interests of South Africa鈥檚 poor and marginalised shack-dwelling population. S鈥檅u aims to make the South African government understand what S鈥檅u sees as the real issues for shack-dwellers and South Africa鈥檚 urban poor.

In our Sixty Second Idea to improve the world, the academic and Latin America expert Joe Foweraker says forget about grand design ideas to change the world- stick to the small stuff.