Nasser Saidi
Dr. Nasser Saidi is the former Chief Economist and Head of External Relations of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Executive Director of the Hawkamah-Institute for Corporate Governance and The Mudara Institute of Directors at the DIFC between 2006 and 2012. In these capacities he conceived and developed the...
Martin Feldstein
Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as President and CEO of the NBER from 1977-82 and 1984-2008. He continues as a Research Associate of the NBER. The NBER is a...
Mark Mobius
Mark Mobius is managing director of Templeton Asset Management LLC. He joined Templeton in 1987 as president and portfolio manager of the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. Currently, he directs the Templeton research team based in 11 global emerging markets offices and manages emerging markets portfolios. After more than...
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and he was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for “Danny the Red”, because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is co-president of the group European Greens–European...
Douglas Rediker
Douglas Rediker represented the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2010-12. Rediker is now Chairman of a boutique advisory firm that provides clients with market-relevant insights and actionable advice on the political economy of global financial markets. Rediker is also a Visiting...
Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt won the 1999 Belgian elections becoming their first liberal Prime Minister in more than 60 years, forming the first Belgian government without Christian-Democrats in 40 years. He presided over two Governments with the Belgian socialist parties, partly including the Green parties, and an interim third government in...
Jason Ma
As a leading mentor, rainmaker, and speaker, Jason Ma helps shape both next-generation leaders and the G20 private sector. Based in innovative Silicon Valley, Ma is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ, a premier global business, career, education, and personal success advisory firm that helps client companies, institutions,...
JOHN SAWERS
Sir John Sawers is Executive Chairman of Newbridge Advisory, a firm he founded in 2019 to advise corporate leaders on geopolitics and political risk. He is also a Non-Executive Director of BP. Sir John has 36 years of experience in diplomacy and intelligence, culminating in five years as Chief...
Marc Faber
Most famous for advising his readers to sell stocks before the 1987 Black Monday market crash, Marc is well known for his “contrarian” approach to investment and his reports on unusual investment opportunities are widely followed in his monthly newsletter “The Gloom Boom & Doom” report. Marc is a...
Jose Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso was President of the European Commission from 2004-14. He was previously Prime Minister of Portugal from 2002-04. After university, Barroso embarked on an academic career, working successively as a teaching assistant on the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon, in the Department of Political...
