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John Perkins

As a major international consulting firm Chief Economist John was advisor to the World Bank, UN, Fortune 500 corporations, US and other governments. His nine books, including Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, are published in 33 languages, and sold more than 2 million copies. He has lectured at more than 50 universities and been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, Time, The New York Times, Elle, Der Spiegel, and others. John learned about the power of using perceived reality to change objective reality from Amazonian shamans in 1968-71 and later from other teachers around the world; he has used this knowledge to help individuals, corporations, universities and governments. He is a founder of the nonprofits Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance. He has received many awards, including the John Lennon/Yoko Ono Peace Prize.