Atiur Rahman
Dr. Atiur Rahman is a Professor of Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka. Dr. Rahman served as the Governor of Central Bank of Bangladesh during the period of May 2009-March 2016. Dr. Rahman popularly known as the ‘Poor Peoples’ Economist’ and a Green Governor is a many times...
John Coates
John Coates is author of the financial bestseller The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feeling and the Biology of Boom and Bust. He is a former Research Fellow in Neuroscience and Finance at the University of Cambridge, and previously traded derivatives for Goldman Sachs and ran a...
Chris Weafer
Chris Weafer is recognised as an international authority on the Russian and CIS economies. He is senior partner with Macro Advisory, a Moscow based consultancy providing bespoke research services to macro hedge funds, venture capital investors and foreign companies looking at investment opportunities in Russia and Central Asia. Weafer...
David Blanchflower
David is editor of the “New Statesman” and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College in the USA. From 2006-8 he was a Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). His time at the Bank of England brought him into the public eye, coinciding with the impending...
Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is best known for her leadership of Jubilee 2000 – a worldwide campaign to cancel approximately $100 billion of debts owed by 42 of the poorest countries. She was also one of the first to predict the credit crunch in her 2003 book, The Real World Economic...
Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is an expert in corporate governance, purposeful business, practical investment strategies, behavioural finance, and time management. Alex has a unique combination of deep academic rigour and practical business experience. He is particularly noted for his ability to present...
Adam Fergusson
Adam is a journalist and former MEP but is now best known as the author of the remarkable bestseller “When Money Dies”, about the crisis of hyper-inflation in Germany in the 1920s, where Germany’s currency became effectively worthless. Adam wrote the book in the early 1970s when the global...
Alastair Lukies
Alastair Lukies founded Monitise in 2003 and three years later it was recognised as a ‘Technology Pioneer’ by the World Economic Forum. Lukies remained Chief Executive of Monitise for 12 years until 2014. In 2014, Lukies was appointed as a Business Ambassador for the financial services industry by the...
Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Toledo was President of Peru from 2001-06. During this time the Peruvian economy grew at an average rate of 6%, making it one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America. During his five-year term, the central aim of Toledo’s presidency was the fight against poverty through investment...
Alex Perry
Alex Perry is a veteran foreign correspondent who has worked in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and the Middle East for 15 years, covering business, economics and politics, as well as the occasional war. His third book, The Rift: the Future of Africa, will be published globally in...
