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...
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...
Javier Solana
Javier Solana is a leading diplomat, who served as Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union, Secretary-General of the Western European Union and European High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU (1999-2009), as well as Secretary-General of NATO (1995-9) and Spanish Minister of...
Deborah Kan
Deborah Kan is a new media entrepreneur, media speaker and award-winning news anchor and journalist. Previously Executive Producer at the Wall Street Journal, Kan launched the Journal’s video operation in Asia and grew it into a substantial operation, spanning a geographical reach from Japan to Australia. During this time,...
James Rubin
James Rubin is an internationally renowned foreign affairs journalist, academic, and world-leading authority on U.S. diplomatic, national security and foreign policy. In September 2014, he joined The Sunday Times as a columnist. Rubin served under President Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for...
Pelle Tornberg
Pelle Tornberg is an innovative and dynamic CEO, who has founded two profitable international media businesses with a current combined market capitalisation of US$ 4.6 billion. These include; Metro International,the world’s largest international newspaper; Modern Times Group, Northern Europe’s (including Russia) largest broadcaster; SDI, which he founded and grew...
John Kufuor
John Kufuor was President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. President Kufuor was a prime mover in bringing democracy back to Ghana after the country had been subjected to a long line of coups and military dictators. In 2001 he was democratically elected as President, defeating Jerry Rawlings, who...
Antonia Rados
Antonia Rados is one of the most popular foreign correspondents on German television, and a multi-award winning journalist. Since 2009 she has been the chief reporter on issues abroad for the Media Group RTL. Her reports on the Iraq war in 2003 and the Arab Spring, often broadcasted live...
Shantanu Bhagwat
Shantanu Bhagwat graduated in Computer Engineering. He also holds an MBA from London Business School where he was a Chevening Scholar. He is a former diplomat-turned-venture investor. Shantanu divides his time between UK and India, working with early stage start-ups and on ideas to improve political systems and governance...
Amlan Roy
Amlan Roy is the Global Chief Retirement Strategist and Senior Managing Director at State Street. Roy is an experienced Global Macro Researcher specialising in demographics and pensions related to economics, investments and public policy. He highlights structural issues related to gender disparity, youth unemployment, system risks due to policy...
