David Eldon
David Eldon is Chairman of HSBC Bank Middle East and HSBC Bank Oman. He was also Chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority. He has nearly 50 years of banking experience mostly within the HSBC Group, starting his career in HSBC Bank Middle East in 1968, and serving...
Michael Jordaan
Michael Jordaan, venture capitalist and wine enthusiast, stepped down as CEO of First National Bank (FNB) one of SA’s largest banks with a customer base of nearly nine million, in 2013 to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship. The former banker now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital...
David Li Dao Kui
David Li Daokui is one of China’s most influential economists and most eminent professors. He is a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. He is the Director of the Centre for China in the World Economy (CCWE), Mansfield Freeman Professor of the...
Philippe Legrain
Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed thinker with high-level international policy experience. A senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, he is also the founder of Open Political Economy Network (OPEN), a think-tank that focuses on international political economy, and a columnist for Project Syndicate...
Joseph Yam
Mr Joseph Yam was the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, an organization that he created and headed for sixteen and a half years. After retiring from that post in September 2009, Mr Yam has taken up a number of appointments. Mr Yam, for example, is...
Jonty Hurwitz
Jonty Hurwitz is a leading financial and technological innovator, and a highly successful entrepreneur. He co-founded Wonga.com in 2007; the multi-award winning online micro-loan company, that grew to a staggering scale in just five years. Wonga was voted Europe’s fastest-growing on-line company, and won the Sunday Times TechTrack 100...
Tomas Sedlacek
Tomas Sedlacek gained international fame for his award-winning, bestselling book Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (2011) which was translated into 17 languages and received the prestigious German “Wirtschaftsbuchpreis” at Frankfurt Book Fair for its original philosophical contribution to economics....
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was named by The Economist as running one of the two most important think tanks in the world; TIME magazine chose him as one of the five leading Latin American innovators of the century and Forbes Magazine named Hernando as one of 15 innovators “who will...
Pippa Malmgren
Dr. Pippa Malmgren is an economist who tries to make sense of the world economy by writing books, by founding tech businesses, by advising policymakers around the world and by public speaking. She is the co-founder of Datifly, a firm that advises on the use of drones by industry...
Justin Lin
Justin Yifu Lin is a leading Chinese economist, and former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Development Economics at the World Bank (2008-12). He is Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development, Peking University, and the founding director of the China Center for Economic Research....
