Steve Killelea is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics & Peace, a global think tank dedicated to building a greater understanding of the factors that create and sustain peaceful societies. He is an acclaimed high-tech entrepreneur, having established two global publicly listed IT companies, an author, film producer and philanthropist. His family foundation focuses on sustainable development and works with the poorest of the poor and has over three and a half direct beneficiaries. The Institute for Economics and Peace publishes the Global Peace Index, the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. Its work is used governments, corporations, universities and multilateral organisations worldwide and is at the forefront of defining what creates thriving and peaceful societies and the systemic analysis of societal systems.