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Peter Goodman

Peter S. Goodman is the international economic correspondent for the New York Times. An award­winning journalist, he has reported from more than three dozen countries in the course of his career, contributing an assortment of investigative projects, reported features and analytical columns on a broad array of subjects ­­...

Vladimir Pozner

Vladimir Pozner is Russia’s most celebrated media figure who hosts his own TV interview show and has interviewed a host of famous individuals including Hillary Clinton, Alain Delon, President Dimitri Medvedev and Sting. Pozner has appeared on a wide range of networks including NBC, CBS, CNN and the BBC....

Oliver August

Oliver August is the new Europe Editor at The Economist, covering a wide range of events from Gibraltar to Vladivostok. He writes extensively about the EU, the euro crisis and Russia. August was The Economist’s Africa Editor. For five years, he covered the continent’s emergence as an economic success...

Tim Congdon

Tim Congdon is an economist and businessman, who has for over 30 years been a strong advocate of sound money and free markets in the UK’s public policy debates. He is a controversial figure in British economic policy-making, because of his consistent advocacy of the importance of money and...

Rami Khouri

Rami Khouri was the founding director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2006-2014, where he is now a senior public policy fellow, and professor of journalism and journalist in residence at AUB. He is also a...

Ravi Venkatesan

Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of Bank of Baroda and co-Chairman of Infosys. As Chairman of Microsoft India between 2004-11, Venkatesan helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world. He was instrumental in creating Microsoft India’s Project Shiksha, a computer literacy programme which has so far trained...

Xavier Darcos

From 1993 to 1995 he was the chief of staff (directeur de cabinet) to Education Minister François Bayrou, from 1995 to 1997 advisor to Prime Minister Alain Juppé for education and culture matters, and from 1995 to 1998, along with François Bayroux and Claude Allègre, he was the president...

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is a renowned Indian youth icon, author, screenwriter, and columnist. Time magazine named him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World 2010”, Fast company as one of the “100 most Creative People in Business 2011”, Forbes India as one of the “Top 100...

Max Abrahms

Dr Max Abrahms is a leading expert on U.S. national security, foreign policy and the terrorism threat. He is a professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University, a member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and...

Roger Ballentine

Roger Ballentine was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. Prior to being named Deputy Assistant to the President, Mr. Ballentine was Special Assistant to...

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