Hak-Su Kim
Kim Hak-Su is the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He is also Chairman of the Asia Economic Conference Forum held annually in Seoul, Korea. Global leaders attend this forum to express their views and ideas. He has vast experience in 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,...
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...
Viviane Reding
Viviane Reding is one of the most prominent personalities of Europe. She completed 3 terms as member of the European Government and became first Vice President and EU Commissioner responsible for Justice, Fundamental rights and Citizenship in 2010. Following her victory in the European elections in May 2014 she...
Elizabeth Linder
Elizabeth Linder specialises in the intersection of societal change and 21st-century leadership from inside the social media revolution, advising global influencers on changing patterns of communications and digital connectivity across more than 40 countries. Throughout her entire career at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Chatham House, Elizabeth has never held...
Julian Caldecott
Dr Julian Caldecott is a world renowned ecologist and conservationist. He has spent more than 20 years promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability around the world. He has contributed to major conservation programmes in Indonesia (protected areas in Siberut, Flores and Central Sulawesi), Malaysia (the Maliau Basin Conservation Area...
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...
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,...
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...
