Richard Needham
Sir Richard Needham has spent over 45 years in business and politics. He has unrivalled access at the highest levels into both public and private sectors in Asia, Europe and the US. Sir Richard originally served as a Conservative MP and Trade Minister. From 1985-1992 Richard was the Minister...
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...
George Mitchell
George John Mitchell is an American lawyer, businessman and politician, best known internationally for several high profile roles he has undertaken on behalf of the US government. Mitchell served as US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009 to 2011. The appointment enabled the incoming Obama Administration to...
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...
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa went from electrician to union leader to in 1990 becoming the first democratically elected President of Poland. The first mention of Mr Walesa’s dissident activities goes back to 1968, when he encouraged his fellow workers at the Gdansk shipyard to boycott the official rallies condemning students’ strikes....
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...
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...
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...
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...
