Richard Ji
Dr. Richard Ji is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of All-Stars Investment. He was a Managing Director and the Asia- Pacific Head of Internet/media investment research at Morgan Stanley until 2013. Ji is currently establishing his own fund with the goal of investing in internet technology leaders and...
Simon Dixon
Simon Dixon is the CEO & co-founder of online investment platform BnkToTheFuture.com who have invested over US$170m in FinTech companies. An ex-investment banker turned Bitcoinder & author of the book ‘Bank to the Future’. An active FinTech & Bitcoin angel investor with investments in Bitfinex, BitPay, Unocoin, Kraken, BitPesa,...
Anne Krueger
Anne Krueger is the Senior Research Professor of International Economics at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Senior Fellow of Center for International Development (of which she was the founding Director) and the Herald L. and Caroline Ritch Emeritus Professor of Sciences...
Goolam Ballim
Goolam is the chief economist and head of research for the Standard Bank Group, having served in this role since May 2004. The bank’s commercial emphasis is on Africa and the research function supports this endeavor. Standard Bank Research comprises 53 analysts and 10 support staff, variously located in...
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economist, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national...
Xavier Sala i Martin
Professor Sala-i-Martin is recognized as one of the greatest economists in the world. He teaches at Columbia University and is the Chief Economic Advisor of the Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum. He is the author and creator of the prestigious intellectual Global Competitiveness Index (GCI). He is...
Eisuke Sakakibara
Dr. Sakakibara is a Professor of Aoyama-Gakuin University in Tokyo from 2010. Professor Sakakibara worked for the Ministry of Finance for more than 20 years, most notably as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs. He has broad and valuable experience in Government, especially in the area of international...
Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Govinda Rajan was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, having taken charge of India’s central banking institution on 4 September 2013, and succeeding Duvvuri Subbarao. He is currently the Vice Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements. Raghuram is currently taking a leave of absense...
Horst Koehler
Horst Köhler is an accomplished economist and international statesman. He was President of Germany from 2004-10 and Managing Director of the IMF between 2000 – 2004. Köhler was the eight Managing Director of the IMF. Shortly after taking office in 2000 he established the Financial Sector Review Group to...
Tim Beardson
Timothy Beardson founded, majority-owned and ran Crosby, which became the largest independent investment bank in Asia. At its height, Crosby employed 650 staff in 24 offices in 17 cities in 13 countries from New York to Beijing. It had an annual transaction volume of $US 20 billion. It was...
