Sophie De Menthon
Sophie de Menthon has been President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council in Paris since 2010. She is a business leader who has always been involved in community life to promote private enterprise. At 21 she created a telemarketing company called “Multiline Council”. In 1992, she participated in...
Pippa Malmgren
Dr. Pippa Malmgren is an economist who tries to make sense of the world economy by writing books, by founding tech businesses, by advising policymakers around the world and by public speaking. She is the co-founder of Datifly, a firm that advises on the use of drones by industry...
Augusto Lopez Claros
Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist with over 30 years of experience in international organizations, including most recently at the World Bank. For the 2018/2019 academic years Augusto Lopez-Claros was on leave from the World Bank as a Senior Fellow at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at...
Tenzin P. Rinpoche
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Rinpoche is a world revered Buddhist monk, renowned for his humanitarian aid and conflict resolution work, his expertise in the fields of leadership, ethics, philosophy and cultural understanding. Priyadarshi is the Founder and Director of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at...
Lara Setrakian
Lara Setrakian is the Co-Founder and Executive Editor of News Deeply. She has spent more than five years as a foreign correspondent, covering the Middle East for television, radio, and digital platforms, reporting for ABC News, Bloomberg Television, the International Herald Tribune, the Business Insider, and Monocle Magazine. Lara’s...
Mohammed Johmani
Mohammed Johmani is the founder of the award winning O2 Network. Mohammed is multi-talented, ambitious and passionate about business. He has managed four different agencies in the O2 Network that has billed over US$40 million in less than 6 years, while planning for regional expansion and global reach initiatives....
Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson was EU Commissioner for Trade and was the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister under Gordon Brown. He was appointed to the UK Government as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in 1998, where he was responsible for the introduction of the National Minimum Wage and overseeing new...
Henning Christophersen
Henning Christophersen is a renowned Global Economist. Formerly the vice-president of the European Commission 1985-1995, Christophersen had responsibility for the economic and financial affairs of the Union. He is one of Denmark’s best known and most respected politicians, having held the posts of Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Deputy...
Enrique Penalosa
Enrique Penalosa is an internationally respected urban thinker, who, as Mayor of Bogota in two non-consecutive terms, profoundly transformed his city. As adviser and lecturer, he has influenced policies in many cities throughout the world. As Mayor of Bogota Penalosa he changed the 8 million inhabitants capital of Colombia...
Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis served as Minister of Finance of Greece in 2015. Varoufakis taught economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia. In 1988, he spent a year as a Fellow at the University of Cambridge. From 1989-2000 he taught as senior lecturer...
