Florence Eid-Oakden
Dr. Eid-Oakden is Chief Economist and Founder of Arabia Monitor, an independent research firm specialised in economic and market studies on the Middle East & North Africa. Dr. Eid-oaken was a professor of economics and finance at the American University of Beirut and a visiting professor at INSEAD and...
Santosh Desai
Santosh Desai is the Managing Director and CEO of Future Brands Ltd, a branding services company that creates and manages a portfolio of brands, and offers consulting services in the brand and consumer space. He is a culture, advertising and brand expert, a social media commentator, and a best-selling...
Han Seung-Soo
Dr Han Seung-Soo was Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 2008-09. He was recently appointed the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water. Prime Minister Han had a distinguished political, diplomatic and administrative career serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance...
Wang YiZhou
Dr. Wang Yizhou is now the Deputy Director and senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Known mainly as an expert and professor of international relations, Dr. Wang is also the editor in chief, World Economics and...
Sayeeda Warsi
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is a lawyer, author, business woman and member of the House of Lords. She was Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet Minister; Chairman of the Conservative party 2010-12 and a Minister at the Foreign Office 2010-14. Daughter of an immigrant mill worker, Warsi rose to become an Advisor...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
