Sir Christopher Pissarides
Sir Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, a Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus and Chairman of the Council of National Economy of the Republic of Cyprus, and the Helmut & Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large of the Hong...
Christoph Heusgen
Christoph Heusgen is a diplomat and the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. For more than a decade, he was the foreign and security policy advisor to Angela Merkel, whom he accompanied on all trips abroad. His close ties with America and his comprehensive concept of security have shaped...
Alex Younger
Sir Alex Younger is the Former Chief (“C”) of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. He served in this role for six years, from 2014-2020 and in 2019 became the longest-serving MI6 Chief in 50 years. Sir Alex Younger joined MI6 in 1991. He was posted to...
Pav Gill
Pav Gill is a trained lawyer with extensive experience in financial services laws, focusing on payments and digital assets. He is best known for being the whistleblower who exposed Wirecard, one of Europe’s greatest financial scandals. He was most recently the Chief Legal Officer of Zipmex, a global digital...
Rüdiger von Fritsch
Rüdiger von Fritsch was Germany’s ambassador in Moscow. For five years he was the highest representative of Germany and also represented German interests towards Russia’s President Putin. The exceptional diplomat retired in the summer of 2019. After studying History and German philology in Erlangen and Bonn, Rüdiger von Fritsch...
Nick Clegg
Sir Nick Clegg served as Deputy Prime Minister in the UK’s Coalition Government from 2010-15. He was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007-15 and was Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam for 12 years before the 2017 General Election. Clegg now holds the position of the Vice President...
Ivan Rogers
Sir Ivan Rogers KCMG is a former senior British civil servant, who was the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 2013-17. Ivan Rogers served in the Treasury, including as Private Secretary, to Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer. He then was seconded to the...
Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker was one of the founding fathers of the euro, a pioneer of European unification, and Prime Minister of Luxembourg. After 18 years in office, he stepped down in December 2013, as the longest-serving head of government of any European Union state and one of the longest-serving democratically...
Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond has been a UK Cabinet Minister and key member of the British Government for almost a decade. Leading four departments over nine years and rising to the second most powerful job in government, he is one of only three people to serve continuously in the UK cabinet...
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Helle Thorning-Schmidt has an extensive background spanning politics, international relations and business. In 2017, she was named as one of the world’s greatest leaders by Fortune magazine. As Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011-2015, Helle steered Denmark through a difficult financial crisis while reducing child poverty and increasing spending on education....
