Hares Youssef is a future thinker, innovator of projects in the field of the digital economy, philanthropist, writer and artist.
Born in Syria to a family of a dissident intellectuals, he dreamed of becoming an artist and architect but due to the expectations of his family he became a cadet in a military school in Kiev (former USSR). Rejecting his military career, this young man started a family and his first business (on the wave of the transition to a “market economy” in the late 1980s in the USSR).
Hares Youssef became one of the leading entrepreneurs of Ukraine. From scratch, he built a business in the field of metallurgy. He also participated on the political stage and was associate of President Yushchenko, with a view to breath a renewed confidence in the state and to eliminate corruption. When President Yushchenko were derailed, Hares Youssef left Ukraine.
Living the life of a "citizen of the world", his education in economics, extensive experience in business and politics motivated Hares Youssef to raise questions about the real reasons for the imbalance and disharmony in the world.
Since his time in Ukraine, Hares devoted himself to scientific, literary and charitable activities order to the design progressive models of the digital economy. His goals are aimed to development and promotion of fundamentally new concepts in sustainable development for mankind. Furthermore he envisions the creation of an independent association of intellectuals and thinkers from over the world for mapping out alternative societal structure with improved norms and values.
In order to promote these ideas and create technological foundations for the economy of the future, Hares had started a global NGO named the “GAIIA Foundation”.
His philosophical and futuristic novel “GAIIA” is a story about alternative models for the development of our planet. The key to this future is fundamentally a new philosophy surrounding economic activities and resulting in a change in societal settings