Marvin Zonis
He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business. He also consults to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the changing global...
Enrique Penalosa
Enrique Penalosa is an internationally respected urban thinker, who, as Mayor of Bogota in two non-consecutive terms, profoundly transformed his city. As adviser and lecturer, he has influenced policies in many cities throughout the world. As Mayor of Bogota Penalosa he changed the 8 million inhabitants capital of Colombia...
Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis served as Minister of Finance of Greece in 2015. Varoufakis taught economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia. In 1988, he spent a year as a Fellow at the University of Cambridge. From 1989-2000 he taught as senior lecturer...
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...
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...
Nora Berra
Nora Berra served as the Minister of Seniors and then as the Minister of Health in France from 2009-12. She was appointed by President Sarkozy to the head of one of the most successful healthcare systems in the world. She started her professional career as a medical doctor in...
Heizo Takenaka
Professor Heizo Takenaka joined Prime Minister Koizumi’s Government in 2001. During this time, he became Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy, and then the Minister for Financial Services. He also became the Minister for Privatisation of the Postal Services and the Minister for both Internal Affairs and Communication. He...
