Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox is a Mexican businessman who was President of Mexico from 2000-06 under the National Action Party (PAN). He is also the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organisation of Christian democratic political parties. When elected to the presidency of Mexico in 2000, Vicente Fox broke...
Sir Kim Darroch
Lord Kim Darroch is a retired UK civil servant and life peer in the House of Lords. His diplomatic career spanned over 40 years, primarily focusing on national security issues and European policy. Most recently, Lord Darroch served as the British Ambassador to the United States (2016-2019). Prior to...
Grant Shapps
Grant Shapps is a seasoned British politician who held multiple key roles in the UK government from 2010 to 2024. As Secretary of State for Defence (August 2023 – July 2024), Shapps was pivotal in shaping the UK’s global security response. President Zelenskyy highlighted his strategic role in addressing...
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is an American economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration from 1993-1997...
Dominic Raab
Dominic Raab is the first and only politician to serve as Deputy Prime Minister to two Prime Ministers. He has also held six Cabinet posts including Foreign Secretary, Brexit Secretary and Justice Secretary. During his role as Deputy Prime Minister between 2021 and 2022, Dominic chaired Cabinet sub-committees, responded...
Ong Kian-Ming
Professor Dr. Ong Kian-Ming was the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Malaysia from July 2018 to February 2020. He was a two-term Member of Parliament from 2013 to 2022, serving the largest parliamentary constituency in the country. He was a former Fulbright Scholar and holds a...
María Fernanda Espinosa
María Fernanda Espinosa was the President of the United Nations General Assembly 2018-2019, becoming the fourth woman and the first from Latin America and the Caribbean to hold the position. Maria Fernanda, a distinguished academic, diplomat, politician, poet, and linguist, has also served in high-level government positions, including as...
Carmen Reinhart
Carmen M. Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. From 2020-2022 she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at The World Bank Group and was Chief Economist the investment bank Bear Stearns in the 1980s. She was Policy...
Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier became known internationally as France’s man for Europe. The former French foreign minister and high-profile specialist on Europe lead the Brexit negotiations as the European Union’s chief negotiator. Michel Barnier (*1951) graduated from the ESCP Europ business school. After becoming involved in the youth organisation of the...
James A. Fok
James Fok is a financial and strategic advisor to corporations and governments. He served as a senior executive at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) from 2012 until 2021, during a period of rapid internationalisation in China’s capital markets. While there, he played a major role in a number...