Ravi Ramu
Ravi Ramu has the unique experience of working for more than three decades across a gamut of industries and varied geographies – banking, consulting, audit, internet and e-commerce, real estate, technology, business process outsourcing, and iron and steel in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, the US and India. Giving up a...
Jose Luis Cordeiro
José Luis Cordeiro is a world citizen in our small planet in a big unknown universe. He was born in Latin America, from European parents, was educated in Europe and North America, and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. He has studied, visited and worked...
Gurcharan Das
Gurcharan Das is a CEO, author, journalist and public intellectual. Das is the author of the international bestseller, India Unbound, which has been published in 17 languages and filmed by the BBC. He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India and periodic guest columns for...
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson served as the first female President of Ireland from 1990-97, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. Throughout her career as a lawyer, politician and diplomat, she has been a human rights advocate. Robinson is renowned for bringing the human rights agenda into the core...
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
Beatrice is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mainz and until recently was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, the group of five experts which advises the German government on economic policy and development. As a result of her work at some of the...
Lionel Barber
Lionel Barber is the editor of the Financial Times. Since his appointment in 2005, Barber has helped solidify the FT’s position as one of the first publishers to successfully transform itself into a multi-channel news organisation. During Barber’s tenure, the FT has won numerous global prizes for its journalism,...
Jon Matonis
Jon Matonis was Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation until December 2014 and served as a board director for the group from its 2012 inception to the time he assumed the executive director position in 2013. He is considered the foremost authority on virtual currencies, private currencies, and burgeoning...
Fredrik Reinfeldt
Fredrik Reinfeldt has been active in Swedish and international politics for over 25 years. Reinfeldt reinvented the Moderate Party (centre-right) creating the New Moderates and entered into an alliance with three other centre and centre-right parties. The four-party alliance won two successive elections and Reinfeldt, as Prime Minister, presided...
Will Hutton
Will Hutton is currently Principal of Hertford College,Oxford, a post he took on in 2011. Previously to that he was executive vice chair of The Work Foundation, the most influential voice on work, employment and organisation issues in the UK. Regularly called on to advise senior political and business...
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and the Mosbacher Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also a professor (by courtesy) of Political Science. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on...
