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Hares Youssef (Arab: حَارِث يُوسف  Harith Youssef, born November 8, 1964, Syria)( Read article in Russian: Харес Юссеф) is an influential international businessman, philosopher, and philanthropist.

Mr. Hares Youssef is the President/Founder The 40 Foundation. He is well known personality at UNESCO-Building peace in the minds of people

Also Mr. Hares Youssef is the initiator of Global Round Table 13.7.2012 - Split - Nicola Tesla Prize Foundation: Global Round Table 13.7.2012 - Split - Nicola Tesla Prize Foundation

== Biography ==

Hares Youssef was born on November 16, 1964, in the village of Jeiboul overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Syria. He belongs to the hereditary family of the Caliph of Al Moez of ancient Syria. After acquiring his primary education at 18 years old, he was sent to Ukraine as a military cadet through an intergovernmental agreement between Syria and the USSR. Youssef soon realized that a career of a military officer did not interest him, so he returned to Syria and left the army without completing his secondary education.

In 1989 he returned to Kyiv, enrolled in the Kyiv State University of Economics, and simultaneously went into business. At first, he was engaged in the import of different goods that were not available in the Ukrainian market. Gradually, his business expanded and new possibilities for its development appeared. In 1992 he got involved in steel trading. Soon thereafter contracts with leading Ukrainian metallurgical centers and foreign steel traders were made. And in 1995 he established in Austria AWBC – a company that was involved not only in metal trade but in metal manufacturing as well.

In 1994 Youssef received his degree in economics and in 1999 defended a Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of World Economy and Foreign Affairs of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine on the topic "Syrian and Ukrainian Relations at the Modern Stage: Features and Prospects of Development."

In 2005 most of his companies involved in various industries consolidated into one establishment – HARES Group Holding.

In 2008 Hares Youssef permanently moves to France, where he sets up the 40 Foundation charity and Hares Group France SAS – a Paris branch of Hares Group Holding.

Currently he lives in Paris with his wife Olga and 7 children. Most of his time is now devoted to philosophical and economical research and work on his book.

== Personal image ==

His interests include philosophy (mostly metaphysics, ethics, and political), drawing (his intuitive graphics can be put within the scope of surrealism), sculpture, Arabic poetry, imaginative projects (three-dimensional Sudoku, stereo-orchestra, etc.), supporting inventors and innovative ideas. Youssef is also known as a collector of antiquities.

== Philosophical views ==

Hares considers himself an "earthiest". Hares Youssef ’s philosophy can be described as a synthesis of Platonic idealism, sufi and utopian humanism. He describes the Universe from the dimension of the Time point of view.
 * The large transparent shape is the Future: the whole range of event probabilities.
 * The solid ever-growing “horns” are the Past: events that have actually happened.
 * The whole system’s dynamics is driven by multiple interconnected feedbacks.
 * Thus the Future determines the Present – a constantly building wider end of the “horns” – and eventually the past – by giving it a variety of probabilities to choose from. The Past in its turn while growing makes the Future grow and develop itself, changing the quantity and distribution of event variants.


 * In nature survival is ensured through “Quantity over Quality” – however, for the secured survival of the species, it is our responsibility to extract quality ideas to deliver future solutions from the quantity of kinds.

The system is maintained in perfect balance by symmetry of all its parts. Yet we cannot feel this balance while living on one side only.

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His political philosophy is developed within the visionary Human and Resource Economic System. Youssef considers freedom of a human being for self-actualization the main efficiency criteria of any socioeconomic system.

The main problem of today’s society, according to him, is the deviation of its development from a certain natural evolutionary path. Only when people are set free for research and creation can they feel the nature’s dynamics and shift to the right path. He is an adherent of basic income provision – the “Life Unit.”

Youssef’s solution of the basic production and services problem is generally cornucopian: further technical progress will allow machines to replace all the primitive and unhealthy jobs.

At the same time he condemns industrial economy’s distortions towards ubiquitous use of machinery, which “enslaves” the human.

Youssef criticizes the capitalist economic paradigm from a psychological perspective. He asserts that current dog-eat-dog capitalism originates from the subliminal fear of the future, manifesting itself in the form of “RIPS” – reserve, insurance, privacy, and security.

He proposes kWt*h as the optimal monetary unit, “lowest common denominator of natural and social processes,” and advocates corresponding monetary reform with gradual introduction of energy currency as supplementary and eventual replacement of fiat money with energy. Youssef is also a supporter of the input-output accounting model, aiming to calculate the true energy cost of every good and service. Yet he admits the market model being the only efficient solution for the optimal allocation of resources in the economy. He is also an adherent of the total abolition of cash and mandatory disclosure of all the information on production processes.

Youssef advocates a meritocratic model of governance, akin to Plato’s “power of philosophers,” which has repercussions in his science-supporting charitable activities.

== Political carrier ==

In 2007 Hares Youssef was appointed the Middle East Policy Counselor to the president of Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian weekly magazine Focus, Hares Youssef was included in the list of the top 200 most influential Ukrainians in 2007.

== Business ==

In 2005 a number of his companies working in different fields of economy and business were merged into a single structure – HARES Group Holding. Hares Youssef is the President and Chairman of the Board of HARES Group Holding.

The Holding’s flagship Hares Engineering company has been created to continue cooperation in the manufacturing organization of Voest Alpine – Germany and Kobe steel of Japan.

The main areas of Hares Engineering activities are engineering and construction of industrial facilities, implementation of new types of facilities, equipment, technological processes, and techniques, rendering services in industrial design, and engineering, marketing, and consulting. The company's field of competence is metallurgy, machine building, and mechanical and mining industry.

In 2005 Hares Engineering acquired from Kobe Steel, Ltd, Japan, a license for advanced iron reduction technology called ITmk3® (Iron-Making Technology Mark “3”), which allows it to produce high-purity iron nuggets by the reduction and melting of iron ore using coal as a reductant.

According to this license, Hares Engineering has the exclusive right to use patents and information on ITmk3® for the sale, design, engineering, supply, assembly, commissioning, and start-up of plants, which are based on ITmk3® Process on the territory of ITmk3® of Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and some other CIS countries.

The main goal of Hares Engineering during the short term is the construction of plants and manufacturing units to produce nuggets using Itmk3® technology.

Recently, the main directions of Youssef’s investment are innovations, especially in the IT sector.He is currently developing several startups, originated from his own ideas, notably, Hubbub: the voice social network

The Foundation - Hares Engineering - not only just purchased ready-made foreign technology, but of the most important strategic directions of its activity is reflected in the search for creative ideas of local people. And Mr. Harith al-Youssef is convinced that in Ukraine they are potentially qualified.

== Charitable activities ==

Hares Youssef has been the main sponsor and co-organizer of many cultural, sport, and activist projects.
 * Molodist – annual international cinema festival in Kyiv;
 * Vadym Hetman cup yachting regatta;
 * Zolota Liliya – international gymnastics tournament by Liliya Podkopayeva;
 * Salt Symphony by Donetsk symphonic orchestra;
 * “Don Quixote 1938” – a theatrical play by (Mikhail Reznikovitch);
 * Hadi Abram – Iranian painter;
 * “L’Affaire Seznec” – theatrical play by Robert Hossein;
 * Another – literary magazine, edited by Adunis;
 * Columbus Quest – by Equite;
 * Pole to Pole – by Equites.

He is one of the patrons of Nove Pokolinnya (New Generation) international charity, which helps Ukrainian orphans, and one of main supporters of Ukraine 3000 – Ukraine’s largest charitable foundation, chaired by Kateryna Yushchenko.

For the active support of the international program Education for Children in Need, Hares Youssef was awarded an honorable title of Grand Patron of UNESCO in December 2005, and in May 2007 he received the special reward of UNESCO Piramidi di Mani.

In 2008 Pope Benedict XVI gave Hares Youssef the Apostolic Blessing for his humanitarian and philanthropic work for children.

Hares Youssef called the engineer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, to the Ukrainian capital to give a lecture at the Shevchenko National University before the students and professors in the subject of the role of civil society in the democratization of the state universal.

In 2008, to coordinate his charitable activities, Hares established the 40 Foundation – an international charity based in Paris and Geneva that supports the independence of science and advocates the multidisciplinary approach to today's key issues.

The 40 Foundation’s Secretary is Yurij Riphyak.

The 40 Foundation’s principal projects:

Human and Resource Economic System - a synthetic normative socioeconomic model and international R&D network setting-up. The visionary model implies a more egalitarian and just society, stable resource use, and improvement of the environment – instead of its degradation. It is based on principles of absolutely stable currency, backed by energy, balanced transactions between economic agents and the environment, open-governance, and cooperative ethics.

The organizers of the prize hope that it will become the the most prestigious ethical and moral award.
 * International Social Transformation Conference- in memory of Nikola Tesla. Organized jointly with NEF and Global Round Table. To take place in Split (Croatia) July 10-12, 2012. The conference is dedicated to proposals of fundamental reform of the currency system, with particular focus on energy currency. The objective is to place the study of alternative monetary systems within mainstream economic thinking and put global monetary reform onto the political agenda.
 * Nikola Tesla memorial prize in arts and sciences- Youssef and the 40 Foundation are launching a new initiative with a help of the Global Round Table to find and honor a hitherto “unrecognized Genius” who like Nikola Tesla helped improve the well being of humanity.

Other initiatives, supported by the 40 Foundation in 2010-2011:
 * The Green Money Working Group
 * Eradicating Ecocide Campaign
 * The Green Economics Institute Conference Methodology Symposium
 * IOD Global Convention 2011