Pascal Boniface
Dr. Pascal Boniface is the founding Director of IRIS (“Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques” – Institute for International and Strategic Relations). He is also a consultant on strategic issues for the French Ministry of defence and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is professor of international relations in...
Notker Wolf
Dr. Notker Wolf is the director of the Benedictine Order, a global organisation with over 1,000 monasteries and 25,000 employees worldwide. For the “CEO” of the Benedictines, the maxim “ora et labora” is St. Benedict’s top priority – that is why he calls for more personal responsibility from each...
Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage is co-founder and long serving leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). He was the face of the successful campaign to take the UK out of the European Union in the 2016 Brexit referendum, positioning the referendum as the start of a global populist wave against the...
Eisuke Sakakibara
Dr. Sakakibara is a Professor of Aoyama-Gakuin University in Tokyo from 2010. Professor Sakakibara worked for the Ministry of Finance for more than 20 years, most notably as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs. He has broad and valuable experience in Government, especially in the area of international...
Peter Truscott
Lord Truscott was the UK’s Energy Minister from 2006-7. Since then he has been involved with a number of publicly listed and private companies in the energy and mining sectors. Truscott represented Hertfordshire in the European Parliament between 1994-99, and was the Government’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Spokesman and...
Debashis Chatterjee
Professor Debashis Chatterjee has a rich blend of international professional and academic experience in India, the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, South East Asia and South Africa. Dr. Chatterjee was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University and MIT. He was recently a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School...
Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer is the former Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany (1998-2005). He delivered the Green Party to the centre of German politics, leading its first participation in government, both at state level (Hesse) and at federal level. Fischer’s tenure as Foreign Minister was a significant period in...
Tim Beardson
Timothy Beardson founded, majority-owned and ran Crosby, which became the largest independent investment bank in Asia. At its height, Crosby employed 650 staff in 24 offices in 17 cities in 13 countries from New York to Beijing. It had an annual transaction volume of $US 20 billion. It was...
Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy was born in Egypt and has lived in the U.K, Saudi Arabia and Israel and is currently based in New York. She is a board member of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America. She gained American citizenship in 2011. She is an award-winning New York-based journalist...
Supachai Panitchpakdi
Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi began his four-year term as Secretary-General of UNCTAD on 1 September 2005, following his appointment by the UN General Assembly. He was appointed for a second term in September 2009, and stepped down from his post in August of 2013. Dr. Supachai previously served as Director-General...
