Jian Gao
Dr. Jian Gao was Vice Governor at Vice Ministerial level at the China Development Bank (CDB). In 2008 he was appointed Board Member of CDB Corporation and Chairman of CDB Securities. Gao moved to CDB in 1998, where he served as Chief Economist, Director General of the Treasury Department,...
Helen Clark
Helen Clark was the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from April 2009 until April 2017 and was the first woman to lead the organization. She was also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and...
Roger Bootle
Roger Bootle is one of Europe’s best-known economists and runs Capital Economics, one of the world’s largest independent economics consultancies. Bootle was formerly Group Chief Economist at HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers, the so-called “Wise...
George Akerlof
George Akerlof is University Professor at Georgetown. His research is based in economics, but it often draws from other disciplines, including psychology, anthropology, and sociology. He played an important role in the development of behavioral economics. In 2001 he was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, along...
Todd Buchholz
Todd Buchholz is a former White House senior economic advisor, Tiger hedge fund managing director and best-selling author. As a frequent commentator on the state of the markets, Buchholz brings his experience as a former White House director of economic policy, a managing director of the $15 billion Tiger...
Nisha Pillai
Nisha Pillai is an accomplished news presenter who worked with the BBC World News for 25 years. Her areas of expertise span a wide range of subjects including economics, finance, IT and the energy sectors. She is also adept at covering health and social issues and has worked closely...
Oliver Griffith
In January 2016 Oliver Griffith retired as Head of Communications in Europe for the International Finance Corporation (IFC – World Bank Group). Over six years he substantially raised IFC’s profile with European media, private sector associations, governments, donors, and civil society. Before joining IFC in 2010, he was Managing...
Clem Sunter
Clem Sunter is an internationally acclaimed authority on management strategy, scenario planning, and corporate social responsibility. He is the former CEO and Chairman of the Gold and Uranium division of the South African mining giant, Anglo American. Until recently he was the Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund,...
Clemens Fuest
Clemens Fuest is President of the Munich-based ifo Institute for Economic Research. From March 2013 Fuest was President of the Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, and prior to that he was Professor of Business Taxation at Saïd Business School, at the University of Oxford, and Research Director...
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...
