Francois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar is a former South African rugby player, playing for the Springboks in South Africa, followed by a career with the Saracens in England. Whilst playing for South Africa, he captained the side in his first match and in every one of his 29 appearances, culminating in the...
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields
Joanna Shields (Baroness Shields) is a technology industry veteran who currently serves as Group CEO for BenevolentAI. BenevolentAI is the market leader in harnessing the power of AI to enhance and accelerate global scientific discovery. She previously served as UK Minister for Internet Safety and Security from 2015-17. An...
Julie Meyer
A respected expert in investment in digital, high-growth and early stage businesses, Meyer has driven many important initiatives for creating wealth and growth in the European economy, and backed some of the most explosive growth companies of this era. A business adviser, networking expert, broadcaster and business commentator, she...
Hugh Herr
Hugh directs the Biomechatronics group at The MIT Media Lab. His research program seeks to advance technologies that promise to accelerate the merging of body and machine, including device architectures that resemble the body’s musculoskeletal design, actuator technologies that behave like muscle, and control methodologies that exploit principles of...
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...
Stuart Rose
Lord Rose is the former Chief Executive and Chairman of the leading British retailer Marks & Spencer. Lord Rose is recognised as one of the leading lights in British retail. He is now Chairman of the internet grocery retailer Ocado along with a number of other non-executive roles. Beginning...
Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson was President and CEO of the SAS Group, the holding company of Scandinavian Airlines System which is the major airline group in the Nordic region, in the period from January 2007 (informally from October 2006) until September 2010 and he rose extremely successfully to the challenge. He...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger was California’s 38th Governor from 2003-11. Aside from politics, he has had a highly successful and varied career as a businessman, actor, professional body builder, model, producer, director, investor, philanthropist and writer. One of the major accomplishments Schwarzenegger achieved as Governor was the establishment of the Global...
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...
Haiyan Wang
Haiyan Wang is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She is concurrently also the Managing Partner of China India Institute, a Washington, DC based research and consulting organisation with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. She is a...
