Yossi Ghinsberg

Adventurer I Author I Entrepreneur I Humanitarian I Motivational Speaker

Who am I

Yossi is a multi-faceted person with accomplishments in diverse spheres. An international businessmen, a best selling author, a daring adventurer. Yossi is the founder and architect of a number of innovative creative projects. He has also developed a social mobile application Blinq, between Tel Aviv, Ramallah and Silicon Valley.

Yossi is active as a spokesmen for Indigenous people and the defence of the Amazon jungle. He is an ambassador for Shalva.org for children with special needs and as a speaker he always volunteers for the community.

Yossi’s as an critically acclaimed author, wrote the famous book named ‘Jungle,’ which is published in over 20 languages and distributed worldwide with millions of copies sold. Published by Random House, Pan Macmillan, National Geographic, Penguin, Summersdale and Skyhorse amongst others and critically reviewed and acclaimed by the LA Times, The Washington Post, CNN and may others. The book’s adaptation was one of the core episodes for a Discovery Channel acclaimed series “I shouldn’t Be Alive”. His book has also been adapted into a  motion picture with the same name starring Daniel Radclifee as Yossi which was premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and immensely liked by the audience. 


Yossi has passion for meeting cultures living off the grid, drove him to the Beduins deserts of Sinai where he lived for three years. He visited the Sahara seven times and counting. He was the first visitor to arrive in the remote Carteret Group Island of the shores of Papua New Guinea and was adopted by the community, these islands, tragically have succumbed now to rising sea level and disappeared and the entire population have moved to the big island Buka.


In 2016 Yossi initiated a new tradition, once a year Yossi takes on a group of travelers on a real life changing adventure. The first expedition in Bolivia started at the high Andes descending to the Amazon on a rarely traveled dirt road. Followed by days in Canoes and rafts through the Amazon up the Madidi valley where Chalalan the resort Yossi has built with the Uchupiamonas in 1995.


As a sought-after speaker, Yossi’s clients include some of the world’s leading companies and organizations, such as Citibank and Singularity University. He shared the stage with world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Nassim Taleb, Wayne Dyer and many other luminaries. Yossi delivered hundreds of Keynotes around the world to leading companies cross industry, and he’s managed professionally in four continents. And, trusted and endorsed by the world’s leading corporations.

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