Dan Buettner, Quest Leader

National Magazine Award finalist for "The Secrets of Living Longer" in National Geographic Magazine 2006 Outward Bound Compass Award for community service Three Guinness World Records for cycling six continents Emmy Award-winning documentary producer Scientific American's Young Reader Book Award NACA "Hall of Fame" Lecturer

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Dr. Luis Rosero-Bixby , Costa Rican Demographer

PhD from University of Michigan Professor and Director of the Central American Population Center (CCP) of the University of Costa Rica Found Blue Zone in Costa Rica

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Gianni Pes, MD, Longevity Researcher

Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari in Sardinia Investigator of the Sardinian Longevity Study PPARC Research Collaborator on NIA Grants Interviewed and examined more than 200 Sardinian centenarians Participated in Roving Report by AP Television News on Sardinian longevity

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Michel Poulain, Quest Demographer

PhD in demography Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Initiator of GéDAP, Research Centre for Applied Demography Has worked to validate ages of the oldest people around the world Working on many research projects aiming to discover all potential longevity determinants

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Eliza Thomas, Writer

Senior Editor for health and wellness magazine, Whole Life Times LA city-blogger for futurist webzine Worldchanging.org Contributing writer to travel, health, culture and lifestyle publications such as Utne, Women’s Adventure and Experience Life Visiting artist, BMOCA (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art) and visiting artist/instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder for performance art/installation Aspiring rock star (guitar, vocals, and a mean tambourine) Student of Spanish, improv/sketch comedy and Yoga Booty Ballet

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Sabriya Rice, Video Producer

B.A. University of Notre Dame M.A. University of Miami Currently an Associate Producer with CNN Medical News Traveled with Anthropologist Ruth Swann to Cuba for work on a book looking at African influences in the Caribbean Has been a vegetarian for 10 years

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Damian Petrou, Video Producer

Director of Cypriot Indie Film "Sketches of Ambiguity" Worked on GreeceQuest Speaks Greek Partner at Brave New Media

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Joseph Van Harken, Video Producer

Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism John M. Patterson Documentary Television Award Awarded the Harry B. & Helen F. Weber Fellowship to report for the Mackinac Island Town Crier Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism Society of Professional Journalist's Student of the Year Awarded CNN Masters Fellowship Avid breakdancer

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Tom Adair, Videographer

Won several awards for his work with Twin Cities Public Television in the 1980s and 1990s. Voted one of the top 50 television producers by Millimeter magazine in 1985. Shot documentaries for the Discovery Channel, the Knowledge Channel, PBS, ABC and National Geographic.

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Gianluca Colla, Photographer

Digital master with National Geographic, World Gold Council, Blockbuster, UBS, Wind. His pictures have been published in, among others, National Geographic and Newsweek Teaches for Canon Academy and Toscana Photographic Workshop Can play solo guitar behind his head

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Michael Mintz, Producer

Traveled in six of the seven continents Was once in the room with four living Presidents Won High School Championship in Volleyball Lived and worked in Costa Rica Worked on Kerry/Edwards 2004 Campaign Slept in over 135 beds from May 2004- May 2005 Founded the philosophy/travel Web site ienjoysneezing.blogspot.com

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Nick Buettner, Executive Producer

Co-creater of the Quests Produced 15 Quests around the world Led educational expeditions for two Minnesota governors Developed videoconference series for the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts Center President, Flying Pencil Productions Distinguished Alumni from Mounds View High School Dolly Buettner's (Dan's Mother) favorite son. At least I think so.

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