Simon Anholt
Simon Anholt is the founder of the Good Country movement and the Good Country Index: the first ever study of what each country on earth contributes to the common good of humanity, and what it takes away, relative to its size (www.good.country). As one of the world’s leading thinkers...
Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin is a globally respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics. He is Vice Chairman of IHS and Founder of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Yergin is the author of the bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World....
Frank-Jurgen Richter
As one of the world’s significant voices upon corporate globalization and Asian business, Dr. Frank-Jürgen Richter influences major business and governmental decisions with his public comments. With his management consulting company Horasis, he assists multinational corporations to craft strategies to develop into real global champions. In his book Tigers...
Virginie Raisson
Virginie Raisson is a French analyst and researcher on international relations. Together with Jean-Christophe Victor, she runs LEPAC, a laboratory for geopolitics and foresight that they founded in 1992. As a university graduate in history, international relations and geopolitics, and a former expert to the European Union, Virginie Raisson...
Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser recently completed five years as Permanent Secretary at the UK Foreign Office (FCO) and Head of the UK Diplomatic Service. This crowned a public service career in which he also served as Permanent Secretary at the UK Business Department and in Brussels as Chief of Staff to...
Igor Ivanov
Igor S. Ivanov is a professor at Moscow State Institute for International Relations. Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 1998 to 2004, and secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2007. Ivanov holds the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He...
Greg Lindsay
Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a contributing writer for Fast Company, author of the forthcoming book Engineering Serendipity, and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. He is also a senior fellow of the New Cities Foundation — where he leads the...
Klaus Wowereit
Klaus Wowereit was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2001-14. He was the face of the German capital for more than 13 years and is credited with giving it a “poor, but sexy” brand internationally. Wowereit was born in Berlin in 1953 and studied law at the Free University...
Farah Pandith
Farah Pandith is a foreign policy strategist, author, and diplomacy entrepreneur. She has served three American Presidents. Farah’s career in government earned her various awards including the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Honor Award. She has served at the National Security Council, the US Department of State and the US...
Martin Roll
Martin Roll is a world-renowned thought-leader, global business strategist and senior advisor to Fortune 100 and prominent business families on the most important issues in managing successful global businesses and exercising great leadership. In a hyper connected and fast-paced, digitalized world, he counsels an impressive global client base on...
