Tom Fletcher
Principal of Hertford College, Oxford University, Tom Fletcher was previously the foreign policy adviser to three UK Prime Ministers (2007-11) and the UK’s Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-15). More recently he was a Visiting Professor at New York University (2015-20), advised the Global Business Coalition for Education, and chaired the...
Francois Hollande
François Hollande was the recent President of France. During his mandate, he carried out important reforms which began to restore the competitiveness and growth of the French economy. Hollande’s presidency was marked by the action he took against international terrorism and climate change. By deploying French troops to Mali...
Stephen D. King
Stephen King is a successful economist and author. Stephen’s latest book, Grave New World (Yale) – described by Lawrence Summers, former US Treasury Secretary, as ‘a very important book at a crucial time’ – was published in May 2017 to considerable critical claim: long-listed for the FT-McKinsey Business Book...
Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage is co-founder and long serving leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). He was the face of the successful campaign to take the UK out of the European Union in the 2016 Brexit referendum, positioning the referendum as the start of a global populist wave against the...
Gerard Lyons
Dr Gerard Lyons is one of the UK’s leading economists. He played a leading role in the UK Referendum Campaign, being co-founder of ‘Economists for Brexit’. As a leading City economist and a former board member of The CityUK he was strongly of the view that Brexit would be...
Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is best known for her leadership of Jubilee 2000 – a worldwide campaign to cancel approximately $100 billion of debts owed by 42 of the poorest countries. She was also one of the first to predict the credit crunch in her 2003 book, The Real World Economic...
