Douglas Rediker
Douglas Rediker represented the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2010-12. Rediker is now Chairman of a boutique advisory firm that provides clients with market-relevant insights and actionable advice on the political economy of global financial markets. Rediker is also a Visiting...
Jose Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso was President of the European Commission from 2004-14. He was previously Prime Minister of Portugal from 2002-04. After university, Barroso embarked on an academic career, working successively as a teaching assistant on the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon, in the Department of Political...
Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt won the 1999 Belgian elections becoming their first liberal Prime Minister in more than 60 years, forming the first Belgian government without Christian-Democrats in 40 years. He presided over two Governments with the Belgian socialist parties, partly including the Green parties, and an interim third government in...
Javier Solana
Javier Solana is a leading diplomat, who served as Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union, Secretary-General of the Western European Union and European High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU (1999-2009), as well as Secretary-General of NATO (1995-9) and Spanish Minister of...
Dominique Moisi
Dominique Moïsi is one of Europe’s leading geo-strategic thinkers. A renowned political scientist, author, and co-founder of the prestigious French Institute for International Affairs (IFRI). He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Advisory Council of the Moscow School of Political Studies, as...
Bernard Kouchner
Bernard Kouchner, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs until November 2010, has played an important role in European politics for many decades. Having been a Minister in different French governments for a total of eighteen years, he is an outspoken advocate for humanitarian causes. His experience as Foreign...
Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage is co-founder and long serving leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). He was the face of the successful campaign to take the UK out of the European Union in the 2016 Brexit referendum, positioning the referendum as the start of a global populist wave against the...
Gerard Lyons
Dr Gerard Lyons is one of the UK’s leading economists. He played a leading role in the UK Referendum Campaign, being co-founder of ‘Economists for Brexit’. As a leading City economist and a former board member of The CityUK he was strongly of the view that Brexit would be...
John Bruton
John Bruton was the EU Ambassador to the United States from 2004 to 2009, and previously the Irish Prime Minister. As a former Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), John Bruton helped transform the Irish economy into the “Celtic Tiger”, one of the fastest growing economies in the world. During his...
Dick Spring
Dick Spring’s acheivements in politics and business are recognised throughout the world. Dick’s political life began in 1979 and he quickly went on to become leader of ther Labour Party in 1982 a position he held until 1997. He served as Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) in three coalition governments...
