Mike Moore
Mike Moore, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in politics and acted as the driving force behind important changes within the WTO. A dedicated voice in shaping New Zealand’s political future, Moore will...
John Sfakianakis
John Sfakianakis advises global corporations on the future of oil and oil policy, the regional economy, privatisation, fiscal management, macro fiscal planning and debt management. Sfakianakis is Director of Economics Research at the Gulf Research Center in Riyadh. Previously he was Middle East Director of the Ashmore Group in...
David Li Dao Kui
David Li Daokui is one of China’s most influential economists and most eminent professors. He is a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. He is the Director of the Centre for China in the World Economy (CCWE), Mansfield Freeman Professor of the...
Joseph Yam
Mr Joseph Yam was the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, an organization that he created and headed for sixteen and a half years. After retiring from that post in September 2009, Mr Yam has taken up a number of appointments. Mr Yam, for example, is...
Jonty Hurwitz
Jonty Hurwitz is a leading financial and technological innovator, and a highly successful entrepreneur. He co-founded Wonga.com in 2007; the multi-award winning online micro-loan company, that grew to a staggering scale in just five years. Wonga was voted Europe’s fastest-growing on-line company, and won the Sunday Times TechTrack 100...
Tomas Sedlacek
Tomas Sedlacek gained international fame for his award-winning, bestselling book Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (2011) which was translated into 17 languages and received the prestigious German “Wirtschaftsbuchpreis” at Frankfurt Book Fair for its original philosophical contribution to economics....
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was named by The Economist as running one of the two most important think tanks in the world; TIME magazine chose him as one of the five leading Latin American innovators of the century and Forbes Magazine named Hernando as one of 15 innovators “who will...
Philippe Legrain
Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed thinker with high-level international policy experience. A senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, he is also the founder of Open Political Economy Network (OPEN), a think-tank that focuses on international political economy, and a columnist for Project Syndicate...
Justin Lin
Justin Yifu Lin is a leading Chinese economist, and former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Development Economics at the World Bank (2008-12). He is Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development, Peking University, and the founding director of the China Center for Economic Research....
Henning Christophersen
Henning Christophersen is a renowned Global Economist. Formerly the vice-president of the European Commission 1985-1995, Christophersen had responsibility for the economic and financial affairs of the Union. He is one of Denmark’s best known and most respected politicians, having held the posts of Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Deputy...
