Otmar Issing
Otmar Issing is a world-renowned German economist. He is President of the Center for Financial Studies since 2006, and one of Europe’s most influential central bankers of the last 20 years. He was one of the principal architects of the common European currency, and as the former Chief Economist...
Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy is a United Nations official and former French centre-right politician. He has been Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the United Nations since 2008 and chairman of UNITAID since 2007. UNITAID is an international organization which aims to help developing countries with access to...
Heizo Takenaka
Professor Heizo Takenaka joined Prime Minister Koizumi’s Government in 2001. During this time, he became Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy, and then the Minister for Financial Services. He also became the Minister for Privatisation of the Postal Services and the Minister for both Internal Affairs and Communication. He...
Peer Steinbrueck
Peer Steinbrück was Finance Minister of Germany from 2005 to 2009, in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Peer took responsibility for a number of difficult and unpopular decisions during the economic crisis, which were intended to help the economy in the long term. After his graduation in economics...
Jose Luis Zapatero
The twice-elected President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has been a major force in the deep social changes in Spain and in the first line of the anti-crisis measures both in Europe and in Spain. Known also for his international work in favour of world peace...
Kemal Dervis
A well respected economist and politician, Kemal draws on his many years’ international experience at the World Bank, the United Nations and in Turkish Government and politics to speak on issues connected with globalisation, economics and current affairs. In the course of his 22-year career at the World Bank,...
Alexei Kudrin
Alexei Kudrin was the Minister of Finance in Russia from 2000-2011, the longest-serving Finance Minister in post-Soviet Russia. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2000–04 and again beginning in 2007. As Finance Minister, Kudrin was widely credited with prudent fiscal management, commitment to tax and budget reform...
Sony Kapoor
Sony Kapoor is Managing Director of Re-Define and is also Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. He was elected Chairman of the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority in mid-2011. During 2011 Sony was a Visiting Fellow at the European Commission dealing with economic governance,...
Howard Dean
Governor Howard Dean, former DNC Chairman, presidential candidate, six term Governor and physician, currently works as a part time independent consultant focusing on the areas of health care, early childhood development, alternative energy and the expansion of grassroots politics around the world. Dean is a contributor to the news...
Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang is an associate professor in the area of international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He joined MIT in 2003. His previous appointments include assistant professor at the University of Michigan, associate professor at Harvard University, and consultant to the World Bank. Professor Huang’s research...
