Monday 26 June 2023
12:30
Garry Kasparov
Tech, democracy and much more...
Innovation, technology, strategy, education, human rights, democracy – a tour de force from a grandmaster.
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1963, Garry became the youngest ever world chess champion in 1985. In 2005, still ranked #1, he retired from professional chess to form the Russian pro-democracy opposition against the rising dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. In 2012, Kasparov was named chairman of the New York based Human Rights Foundation. Facing arrest during Putin’s crackdown, Kasparov moved from Moscow to New York in 2013. In 2017, he founded the Renew Democracy Initiative and in 2022, in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, he co-founded the Russian Action Committee with former political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other oppositionists at the Free Russia Forum.
Former World Chess Champion, Chair of the Human Rights Foundation
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1963, Garry became the youngest ever world chess champion in 1985. In 2005, still ranked #1, he retired from professional chess to form the Russian pro-democracy opposition against the rising dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. In 2012, Kasparov was named chairman of the New York based Human Rights Foundation. Facing arrest during Putin’s crackdown, Kasparov moved from Moscow to New York in 2013. In 2017, he founded the Renew Democracy Initiative and in 2022, in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, he co-founded the Russian Action Committee with former political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other oppositionists at the Free Russia Forum.
