PETER GABRIEL

Peter Gabriel is a musician with a passion for human rights. He is a founder of Womad.org, bringing music and art from around the world to festivals in over 40 countries; WITNESS.org (integrating Human Rights with technology); and The Elders (theelders.org) with Richard Branson, bringing together a group of highly respected leaders, launched by Nelson Mandela. Having improvised with bonobo apes, Peter was blown away by their musicality and intelligence, and got the Interspecies Internet project going to explore the possibilities of non-human intelligence, and bringing many other species online. In 2006, in recognition of his human rights work, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.