Toomas Ilves
Toomas Hendrik Ilves served as president of Estonia from 2006-16. Ilves is notable for making Estonia one of the most digitally advanced nations through progressive policies that invested heavily in the future. Estonia is an enviable model of digital governance, offering government e-services in voting, banking, healthcare, transportation, and...
Jose Luis Zapatero
The twice-elected President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has been a major force in the deep social changes in Spain and in the first line of the anti-crisis measures both in Europe and in Spain. Known also for his international work in favour of world peace...
Sir Peter Westmacott
Sir Peter Westmacott was British Ambassador to the United States from 2012-16. Prior to his position in the United States, Sir Peter served as Ambassador to France from 2007-12, and Ambassador to Turkey from 2002-06 where, in 2003, he dealt with a suicide bomb attack directed at the British...
Juan Verde
Juan Verde is a business and social entrepreneur as well as a renowned international advisor to governments and companies. In 2009, Verde was appointed by Barack Obama as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia at the US Department of Commerce where he served until 2012. In this capacity,...
Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar, one of the most recognised TV foreign correspondents in the country, is International Affairs Editor of ITV News in the UK, which has a regular daily audience of 8 million people. He has one of the biggest international profiles of British TV journalists, having been a prominent...
Gesine Schwan
Gesine Schwan, born in Berlin in 1943, comes from a socially active parent’s house belonging to protestant and socialistic opposition groups during the Nazism and standing up for the friendship with France and Poland after the war. After her A-Levels in 1962, she studies Roman Languages, History, Philosophy and...
Jean-Claude Trichet
Jean-Claude Trichet is one of the world’s most respected Central Bankers. He was President of the European Central Bank (2003-11) and President of the Bank of France (1993-2003). He is currently Honorary Governor of the Bank of France, holds the position of Chairman of the Group of Thirty, Chairman...
Peer Steinbrueck
Peer Steinbrück was Finance Minister of Germany from 2005 to 2009, in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Peer took responsibility for a number of difficult and unpopular decisions during the economic crisis, which were intended to help the economy in the long term. After his graduation in economics...
Howard Dean
Governor Howard Dean, former DNC Chairman, presidential candidate, six term Governor and physician, currently works as a part time independent consultant focusing on the areas of health care, early childhood development, alternative energy and the expansion of grassroots politics around the world. Dean is a contributor to the news...
Alexei Kudrin
Alexei Kudrin was the Minister of Finance in Russia from 2000-2011, the longest-serving Finance Minister in post-Soviet Russia. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2000–04 and again beginning in 2007. As Finance Minister, Kudrin was widely credited with prudent fiscal management, commitment to tax and budget reform...
