Perhaps what is so unique about Edward de Bono is that his work spans from teaching 7 years old in primary schools to working with senior executives in the world's largest corporations. His work also spans many cultures: Europe, North and Sourth America, Russia, The Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zeland, etc.

In September 1996 there was launched in Melbourne a 'de Bono Institute' as a world centre for neo thinking. The Andrews Foundation has donated $8.5 million to make this possible.

In 1997 Dr. de Bono has been invited to be one of the major speakers at the first ecology conference to be held in Beijing, China. His role is to provide the 'new thinking' element.

Some of Edward de Bono's recent activities:

Edward de Bono is the consummate peripatetic educator! Nearly every week he is in a different part of the world talking to government leaders, educators and heads of industry and business. Some of his key engagements listed below demonstrate the broad appeal of Dr. de Bono's message thinking can and should be taught if weare to meet the needs of today's fast-paced an changing world.

• Invited to Moscow by the Academy of Sciences to train teachers in School Project One - ten Moscow schools used as laboratories for innovative teaching techniques. Also, working with a translator, Dr. de Bono taught CoRT Thinking lessons to children ranging in age from 7 years old at School 57, the top school in Moscow.
• Met with the Minister of Education in Kuwait at a special meeting of 500 educator. The Education Research Institute there is interested in initiating a pilot programme using the Thinking Programme.
• Spoke a PACRIM, an econonmics meeting of senior business and government personnel from the Pacific rim nations.
• Travelled to Minneapolis to talk to the Education Commission of the States about the direct teaching of thinking in schools, and conducted several workshops for Minnesota teachers.
• Spoke to the Research Board, a group of Information Managers from top Fortune 500 companies, at their meeting in Newport Beach, California.
• Visited the Annadale Campus of the Northern Virginia Community College where Liz Grizzard, Dean of Student Development, has organised an introductory thinking skills course.
• Invited to address INSEAD on its 25th anniversary - one of Europe's leading business schools.
• Arranged a meeting with the corporate leaders from the United States of America, Japan, New Zeland and the United Kingdom to pursue the formation of a task force on thinking. Senior representatives from Xerox, Digital, McDonnell Douglas and Hewlett Packard joined Dr. de Bono to explore new strategies that will alow us to consciously plan our future.
• Delivered a keynote address to the Eighth World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children in Sydney, Australia.
• Delivered the keynote address to an OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develpment) entitled The Curriculum Redefined: Learning to Think - Thinking to Learn, New Strategies for Effective Communication. Attendees explored the theoretical background of the teaching of thinking, as well as techniques with which thinking skills are now being taught, and the ways those techniques relate to current cognitive development research.