Florence Eid-Oakden
Dr. Eid-Oakden is Chief Economist and Founder of Arabia Monitor, an independent research firm specialised in economic and market studies on the Middle East & North Africa. Dr. Eid-oaken was a professor of economics and finance at the American University of Beirut and a visiting professor at INSEAD and...
Yashwant Sinha
Yashwant Sinha is India’s former Finance Minister 1990-91 and 1998-2002, and former Minister of External Affairs 2002-04. He is credited by many with transforming the Indian economy. Sinha is well respected nationally and internationally for his insights into India’s economy, and India’s foreign affairs. He is the buoyant voice...
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov was the youngest ever World Chess Champion. In 2005, he announced his retirement from competitive chess after twenty years as the No 1 ranked player in the World. In the 1984 World Championship in Moscow, Anatoly Karpov met the young man who would offer him the greatest...
Santosh Desai
Santosh Desai is the Managing Director and CEO of Future Brands Ltd, a branding services company that creates and manages a portfolio of brands, and offers consulting services in the brand and consumer space. He is a culture, advertising and brand expert, a social media commentator, and a best-selling...
Toomas Ilves
Toomas Hendrik Ilves served as president of Estonia from 2006-16. Ilves is notable for making Estonia one of the most digitally advanced nations through progressive policies that invested heavily in the future. Estonia is an enviable model of digital governance, offering government e-services in voting, banking, healthcare, transportation, and...
Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar, one of the most recognised TV foreign correspondents in the country, is International Affairs Editor of ITV News in the UK, which has a regular daily audience of 8 million people. He has one of the biggest international profiles of British TV journalists, having been a prominent...
Jose Luis Zapatero
The twice-elected President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has been a major force in the deep social changes in Spain and in the first line of the anti-crisis measures both in Europe and in Spain. Known also for his international work in favour of world peace...
Peer Steinbrueck
Peer Steinbrück was Finance Minister of Germany from 2005 to 2009, in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Peer took responsibility for a number of difficult and unpopular decisions during the economic crisis, which were intended to help the economy in the long term. After his graduation in economics...
Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy is a United Nations official and former French centre-right politician. He has been Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the United Nations since 2008 and chairman of UNITAID since 2007. UNITAID is an international organization which aims to help developing countries with access to...
Jean-Claude Trichet
Jean-Claude Trichet is one of the world’s most respected Central Bankers. He was President of the European Central Bank (2003-11) and President of the Bank of France (1993-2003). He is currently Honorary Governor of the Bank of France, holds the position of Chairman of the Group of Thirty, Chairman...
