Fred Swaniker has lived and worked in 10 different African countries. He passionately believes that good leadership is the most critical need for the continent. He has founded two organizations that aim to catalyze a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders: African Leadership Academy and the African Leadership Network, both fulcrums of leadership training for the continent.

Taleni Shimhopileni is a 23 year old Namibian who is passionate about Africa's rising glory, formal education in the 21st Century and Leadership for and within the African continent.

DAUD MALIK WATTS is the founding faculty advisor of Temple University SEAL, the Society of Emerging African Leaders, and has been an adjunct professor in the university's African American Studies department since 2002, specializing in Africana History.

Alcinda Honwana is currently a visiting professor in anthropology and international development at the Open University (OU) in the UK.

Jason Njoku is a Nigerian internet entrepreneur, and is CEO and founder of Iroko partners, the largest distributor of Nigerian music and movies online.

Joseph is an author and entrepreneur who was born and raised in the Brabants village of Raamsdonksveer. At age 16 he started his HBO Information Technology study and four years later became one of the youngest IT engineers from the Netherlands. After establishing his own IT company, during a trip abroad, his life would change forever during a bizarre chain of events.

Highly developed countries tend to be more migratory than the poorest countries of the world explains Hein De Haas.

The idea that future changes in climate or environmental degradation will lead to massive outflows of migrants to the Western world are highly exaggerated says Dr Hein De Haas.

Why do some people migrate while others do not, when exposed to similar structural factors, such as employment opportunities, conflict, environmental and political factors? Dr Mathias Czaika explains the drivers of international migration.

In this interview, Professor Ian Goldin discusses the themes arising in his book Exceptional People with IMI's Hein de Haas. Ian's book looks at the profound advantages that such dynamics will have for countries and migrants the world over. He challenges the received wisdom that a dramatic growth in migration is undesirable, and proposes that new approaches for governance should embrace this international mobility.