Jared Cohen
Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a nonfiction author. Previously, he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Cohen...
Bernard Kouchner
Bernard Kouchner, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs until November 2010, has played an important role in European politics for many decades. Having been a Minister in different French governments for a total of eighteen years, he is an outspoken advocate for humanitarian causes. His experience as Foreign...
Nell Watson
Nell Watson is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker who grew up in Northern Ireland. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of technology, and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends. Nell has had an unusual career, including teaching post-grad Computer Science at the age...
Magnus Lindkvist
Magnus Lindkvist is a renowned futurist and an expert on present and future trends. Magnus has made a career out of fusing the measurability and tangibility of the business world with the imaginative storytelling of Hollywood. He founded his company in 2005 to help companies make sense (and money)...
Hermawan Kartajaya
Hermawan Kartajaya, the current President of World Marketing Association, is one of the “50 Gurus Who Have Shaped The Future of Marketing” appointed by The Chartered Institute of Marketing-United Kingdom (CIM-UK). He is a unique combination of a thinker of strategic business concepts (particularly in marketing) and a practitioner....
Raffaela Rein
Raffaela Rein is the CEO and Co-Founder of CareerFoundry/ The UX School, Europe’s leading online school for tech careers, specifically for User Experience (UX) Design. Raffaela graduated from the University of Durham in Finance before starting her career as an Investment Strategist for BlackRock in London. She went on...
Rumman Chowdhury
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury is the Chief Scientist of Parity Consulting, Founder and General Partner of Parity Responsible Innovation Fund, and a Responsible AI Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Previously, Dr. Chowdhury was the Director of META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability)...
Jason Drew
Jason is a serial entrepreneur, passionate environmentalist and visionary who argues that industrial revolution is over and the sustainability revolution has begun. Based on this he has developed a clear vision and blueprint for business in the 21st century. He is an inspirational business leader of this nascent revolution....
Lars Thomsen
Lars Thomsen is an influential futurist and trends researcher. He is the founder and CEO of Swiss based think tank, Future Matters. Thomsen has worked on future issues for the past 25 years, consulting with corporations, institutions and government bodies on the development of future strategies and business models. ...
John Gapper
John Gapper writes an award-winning column on business, with a focus on finance, media and technology, and also contributes editorials and features, including regular Lunch with the FT interviews. He is one of the FT’s most senior and influential writers, having covered the financial and media industries, as well...
