Ashish Thakkar
Ashish J. Thakkar is the Founder and Managing Director of Mara Group. He is a serial entrepreneur who started his first company at the age of 15. Ashish considers himself a native son of Africa with strong Indian roots, of British nationality and a resident of the UAE. Born...
Will Hutton
Will Hutton is currently Principal of Hertford College,Oxford, a post he took on in 2011. Previously to that he was executive vice chair of The Work Foundation, the most influential voice on work, employment and organisation issues in the UK. Regularly called on to advise senior political and business...
Roger Bootle
Roger Bootle is one of Europe’s best-known economists and runs Capital Economics, one of the world’s largest independent economics consultancies. Bootle was formerly Group Chief Economist at HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers, the so-called “Wise...
Jian Gao
Dr. Jian Gao was Vice Governor at Vice Ministerial level at the China Development Bank (CDB). In 2008 he was appointed Board Member of CDB Corporation and Chairman of CDB Securities. Gao moved to CDB in 1998, where he served as Chief Economist, Director General of the Treasury Department,...
George Akerlof
George Akerlof is University Professor at Georgetown. His research is based in economics, but it often draws from other disciplines, including psychology, anthropology, and sociology. He played an important role in the development of behavioral economics. In 2001 he was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, along...
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and he was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for “Danny the Red”, because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is co-president of the group European Greens–European...
Ros Altmann
Baroness Ros Altmann is an expert on later life issues including pensions and retirement policy, investment, savings, annuities and social care funding. She is highly regarded as a consumer champion and is the UK Government’s Business Champion for Older Workers. Ros is an economist by training and worked in...
Nasser Saidi
Dr. Nasser Saidi is the former Chief Economist and Head of External Relations of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Executive Director of the Hawkamah-Institute for Corporate Governance and The Mudara Institute of Directors at the DIFC between 2006 and 2012. In these capacities he conceived and developed the...
Douglas Rediker
Douglas Rediker represented the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2010-12. Rediker is now Chairman of a boutique advisory firm that provides clients with market-relevant insights and actionable advice on the political economy of global financial markets. Rediker is also a Visiting...
Oliver Griffith
In January 2016 Oliver Griffith retired as Head of Communications in Europe for the International Finance Corporation (IFC – World Bank Group). Over six years he substantially raised IFC’s profile with European media, private sector associations, governments, donors, and civil society. Before joining IFC in 2010, he was Managing...
