Born in Serbia on May 22, 1987, professional tennis player Novak Djokovic has captured a total of five Grand Slam titles to date - the 2008, 2011 and 2012 Australian Open, 2011 Wimbledon and the 2011 U.S. Open. He has won the Men's Singles title at the recently held China Open in Beijing, on October 7, 2012. Djokovic serves as a UNICEF National Ambassador in Serbia and he established the Novak Djokovic Foundation in 2007. Through his foundation, he supports projects that help improve the lives and educations of young people in Serbia.

Mr. Ando founded the company Tadao Ando Architect and Associates in 1969. He has received numerous awards, including the Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Prize for his Azuka House in 1979, the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1993, the Pritzker Prize in 1995, and the UIA Gold Medal in 2005. He has had solo exhibitions at the MoMA in New York in 1991 and the Pompidou Center in Paris in 1993. He has also taught at Yale, Columbia and Harvard. He established the Setouchi Olive Foundation in 2000. He has also been serving as the Vice-Chairman of The Reconstruction Design Council in the Great East Japan Earthquake since 2011, and he is the Chairman of the Momo-Kaki Orphans Fund.

A Bangladeshi banker and economist, Mr. Yunus pioneered the concept of microcredit, the practice of extending small, collateral-free loans to the poor. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for contributions to spurring economic and social development among the poor through microcredit. In 2010, he established Grameen UNIQLO LTD., which is a joint venture between the Grameen group, and UNIQLO, in order to conduct social business in Bangladesh.

Birthplace: Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. Graduated from the department and completed the graduate course at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Currently, Professor at Osaka University of the Arts (the department of music).

Ikuko Kawai is a violinist and composer, who combines theatrical art techniques with distinguished creativity. Her stage is an unprecedented and dramatic mixture of violin and other genres of stage performance. In addition to Kawai's excellent works in the classic field, her talent allows her to establish the original sense of music by incorporating various types of music.

Kawai has not only performed with famous orchestras in Japan but made an internationally splendid performance with Warasaw Philharmonic Orchestra and a world-renowned conductor Chung Myung-Whim. Besides, she has performed with artists of different genres such as Sheila E., Gypsy Kings and other pop artists, and also with Shizuka Arakawa, Gold-Medal figure skater at Torino Olympics. Yet, it was when a figure skater Michelle Kwan skated to Kawai's piece of music “Red Violin” and became the worldwide champion that Kawai's name became well-known.

With [her] top CD sales in the domestic market and [her] regular appearances in TV programs, Kawai has become a truly incomparable artist in Japan. She has done the first concert in Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall on October 4, 2008.

Ms.Ikuko Kawai and UNHCR

Born in Yamaguchi on February 7, 1949, Tadashi Yanai is currently the Chairman, President and CEO of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. Yanai graduated from Waseda University and worked in retailing for a major company, before taking over his father's company, Ogori Shoji Co. Ltd. (now renamed Fast Retailing). He developed and led UNIQLO to success as Japan's largest casual wear chain. He became a member of the Board of Directors of SOFTBANK CORP., in 2001 and a director of Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd., Japan in 2009.