Paul Keating
Paul Keating was Prime Minister of Australia from 1991-1996. Keating became Finance Minister in 1983, a position he held until 1991. This role saw Mr Keating implement economic reforms that assisted the expansion of the Australian economy which included the progressive deregulation of the financial sector, the float of the...
Jay Tuck
Jay Tuck is a journalist, television producer and the founder of Airtime Dubai Ltd, an international media company serving the Arab world. He is Executive Producer of Understanding Tomorrow, a weekly TV magazine airing on the Al-Jazeera Network. For over thirty years Tuck has held positions of major editorial...
George Magnus
George Magnus is the former Senior Economic Adviser at UBS Investment Bank, one of the world’s leading financial services institutions, having previously been the Chief Economist for 10 years. In almost 30 years of working experience in the City, he has held senior positions at SG Warburg, Chase Manhattan...
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...
John Sfakianakis
John Sfakianakis advises global corporations on the future of oil and oil policy, the regional economy, privatisation, fiscal management, macro fiscal planning and debt management. Sfakianakis is Director of Economics Research at the Gulf Research Center in Riyadh. Previously he was Middle East Director of the Ashmore Group in...
Ilber Ortayli
Ilber Ortayli is a leading Turkish historian, professor of history at the University of Galatasaray in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. Since 2005 he has been the head of the Topkapi; Museum in Istanbul for nearly 7 years. Ilber graduated from Ankara University and completed his postgraduate...
Mike Moore
Mike Moore, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in politics and acted as the driving force behind important changes within the WTO. A dedicated voice in shaping New Zealand’s political future, Moore will...
Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci was the Founder of SkyBridge Capital. In June 2017, he was named the Chief Strategy Officer of the EXIM Bank. In 2016, Scaramucci was named to President-Elect Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, and served as the White House Communications Director over a short period in...
William Hague
William Hague, now Lord Hague of Richmond, is a senior British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorks) from 1989 to 2015. He also served as Leader of the House of commons from 2014 to 2015, as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs...
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...
