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...
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...
Gerard Lyons
Dr Gerard Lyons is one of the UK’s leading economists. He played a leading role in the UK Referendum Campaign, being co-founder of ‘Economists for Brexit’. As a leading City economist and a former board member of The CityUK he was strongly of the view that Brexit would be...
Lord Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern (Lord Stern) is a globally recognised economist, and one the world’s leading authorities on climate change, international development and global economic growth. Lord Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at London School of Economics, and Head of the India Observatory and Chairman of the...
Christopher Meyer
Sir Christopher Meyer spent 37 years in the British Diplomatic Service. His career culminated as Ambassador to the United States during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies between 1997 and 2003. His five and a half years in Washington, which made him the longest-serving British Ambassador to...
Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon is one of the world’s leading economists specialising in development economics. He lectures in the Economics of Development at Cambridge University and is a regular contributor to The Guardian since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. He is author of several widely discussed books including “23...
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...
Martin Jacques
Martin Jacques is a British journalist and the author of “When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order”. Martin is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics, IDEAS, a centre for the study of international...
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...
