Alexei Kudrin
Alexei Kudrin was the Minister of Finance in Russia from 2000-2011, the longest-serving Finance Minister in post-Soviet Russia. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2000–04 and again beginning in 2007. As Finance Minister, Kudrin was widely credited with prudent fiscal management, commitment to tax and budget reform...
Dave Ulrich
Dave Ulrich is a Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group a consulting firm focused on helping organisations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organisations build capabilities of leadership, speed, learning, accountability, and talent through leveraging human resources....
Bill Jamieson
Bill was the Executive Editor of The Scotsman for 11 years where he wrote regularly on finance and economics as well as politics and current affairs. He has also been a regular contributor to Scotland on Sunday, Spectator Business and to BBC Scotland, both radio and television. Since stepping...
Tatiana Tarasova
Tatiana Tarasova is a world-leading figure skating coach, who holds the record for coaching the most World and Olympic figure skating champions in ice skating history. Her students have won a combined 42 gold, 17 silver and 6 bronze medals at the European and World championships, including 7 Olympic...
Jagdish Bhagwati
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been Economic Policy Adviser to Arthur Dunkel, Director General of GATT (1991-93), Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization, and External Adviser to the WTO. He...
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox is a Mexican businessman who was President of Mexico from 2000-06 under the National Action Party (PAN). He is also the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organisation of Christian democratic political parties. When elected to the presidency of Mexico in 2000, Vicente Fox broke...
Michael Gove
Michael Gove served as Secretary of State for Education from 2010-14 and Secretary of State for Justice from 2015-16. Anthony Seldon, David Cameron’s biographer, regarded Gove as the Cameron government’s most ‘effective minister.’ As Secretary of State for Education, Gove introduced the most sweeping reforms of the UK education...
Bronislaw Komorowski
Bronisław Maria Komorowski has led a remarkable life which eventually led to him being elected President of Poland in 2010. Earlier in his career, Komorowksi was an underground publisher during the democratic movement. In 1980 he was arrested for participating in a demonstration with the Movement for Defence of...
Dominique de Villepin
Dominique De Villepin is a French diplomat and politician, who served as French Foreign Minister (2002-04), Interior Minister (2004-05) and Prime Minister (2005-07). He is one of the foremost advocates of a new global governance based on multi-lateralism. A champion of peace and justice, De Villepin was the voice...
Shashi Tharoor
Dr Tharoor is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. He previously served as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information and as the Minister of State for the Ministry of External Affairs. He is also a prolific...
