John Kufuor
John Kufuor was President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. President Kufuor was a prime mover in bringing democracy back to Ghana after the country had been subjected to a long line of coups and military dictators. In 2001 he was democratically elected as President, defeating Jerry Rawlings, who...
John Sitilides
John Sitilides, a Washington D.C. government affairs specialist and consultant to the Department of State, shares his insights into U.S. and global risk trends, developments and strategies before high-stakes decision makers and opinion leaders at investor, business and government conferences, forums and events. He explores the complex geopolitical decisions...
Thomas Mayer
Thomas Mayer is founding director of the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute and is a Senior Fellow at CFS. As Senior Fellow he is involved in research on European financial integration and current financial market issues. He also organizes the CFS Lecture Series “On the Order of Money”. Between...
Chris Parry
Chris Parry has an international reputation for his penetrating analysis and stimulating articulation of a wide range of geopolitical, strategic and security themes. He is one of the UK’s top strategic thinkers and forecasters, whose assessments about the future have consistently proved extremely accurate and are considered amongst the...
Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone began his political career serving on Lambeth and Camden Councils, where he grew up, before becoming leader of the GLC in 1981 until Margaret Thatcher abolished it in 1986. He then served as Labour MP for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. Livingstone was elected as the...
Axel Weber
Axel Weber was Bundesbank President (the German Central Bank) from 2004 to 2011. He was recently appointed Chairman at UBS, a position which he will take up in 2012. In 2002 Axel became a member of the Advisory Council to the German Federal Government (Council of Economic Experts), to...
Helmut Kohl
Helmut Kohl, the leader of the Christian Democrat Party, became chancellor of Germany in 1982. In 1998 Germans chose Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder as chancellor, ending a 16-year-long rule by Helmut Kohl that oversaw the reunification of Germany and symbolized the end of the cold war in Europe. He...
Dominique Moisi
Dominique Moïsi is one of Europe’s leading geo-strategic thinkers. A renowned political scientist, author, and co-founder of the prestigious French Institute for International Affairs (IFRI). He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Advisory Council of the Moscow School of Political Studies, as...
Noreena Hertz
Noreena Hertz has been Economics Editor for ITV News since May 2016. An influential economist on the international stage whose career has spanned Europe, the United States, Russia, Middle East and Africa, she has advised some of the largest organisations and most senior figures in the world on strategy,...
Pierre Sabatier
Pierre Sabatier is a French young economist, member of the Cercle Turgot and the Econoclastes, two famous economic think tanks, and editorialist in several french newspapers and TV channels. He is Chairman and Director of Studies of the independent economic and financial research firm PrimeView, which he founded in...
