Shashi Tharoor
Dr Tharoor is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. He previously served as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information and as the Minister of State for the Ministry of External Affairs. He is also a prolific...
Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is a renowned American political scientist specialising in international relations, states in transition, and global political risk. He is the President of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research and consulting firm. Eurasia Group has a network of experts and resources in 90 countries and provides analysis...
Vladimir Pozner
Vladimir Pozner is Russia’s most celebrated media figure who hosts his own TV interview show and has interviewed a host of famous individuals including Hillary Clinton, Alain Delon, President Dimitri Medvedev and Sting. Pozner has appeared on a wide range of networks including NBC, CBS, CNN and the BBC....
Michel Camdessus
Michel Camdessus is Honorary Governor of Banque de France and is the former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In January 2010, Mr. Camdessus was appointed by President Sarkozy as the Chair of the high level working group on the reform of French public finances equilibrium rules....
Peter Goodman
Peter S. Goodman is the international economic correspondent for the New York Times. An awardwinning journalist, he has reported from more than three dozen countries in the course of his career, contributing an assortment of investigative projects, reported features and analytical columns on a broad array of subjects ...
James Harkin
James Harkin is an analyst and forecaster of new ideas and new social, political and technological trends and what they mean for companies, governments and institutions. He is the Director of Flockwatching, a company which uses the information on blogs, social networks and the internet to create understanding of...
Rami Khouri
Rami Khouri was the founding director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2006-2014, where he is now a senior public policy fellow, and professor of journalism and journalist in residence at AUB. He is also a...
Tim Congdon
Tim Congdon is an economist and businessman, who has for over 30 years been a strong advocate of sound money and free markets in the UK’s public policy debates. He is a controversial figure in British economic policy-making, because of his consistent advocacy of the importance of money and...
Oliver August
Oliver August is the new Europe Editor at The Economist, covering a wide range of events from Gibraltar to Vladivostok. He writes extensively about the EU, the euro crisis and Russia. August was The Economist’s Africa Editor. For five years, he covered the continent’s emergence as an economic success...
Iain Duncan Smith
The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP was first elected as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green in London on 1st April 1992. In his first Parliament, June 1992-97, he opposed the Maastricht Treaty believing that if it passed, it would over a...
