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...
George S. Yip
George Yip is Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Centre on China Innovation at China Europe International Business School, which is the top business school in mainland China. He is based in London, Shanghai, and Maine, U.S.A. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and...
Linda Yueh
Dr Linda Yueh CBE is an economist, writer and broadcaster. Dr Linda Yueh CBE FREcon FRSA is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is an Associate Fellow (U.S. and North America Programme) at Chatham House. She...
Jason Ma
As a leading mentor, rainmaker, and speaker, Jason Ma helps shape both next-generation leaders and the G20 private sector. Based in innovative Silicon Valley, Ma is Founder, CEO, and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ, a premier global business, career, education, and personal success advisory firm that helps client companies, institutions,...
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...
John Kay
John Kay is one of Britain’s leading management thinkers and economists. Kay is a distinguished academic, a successful businessman, an adviser to companies and governments around the world, and an acclaimed columnist. His work has been mostly concerned with the application of economics to the analysis of changes in...
Caroline Daniel
Caroline Daniel is a British journalist, political commentator and former Editor of FT Weekend. She now works for global PR company Brunswick, as a partner, covering tech and other areas. Caroline was one of the few female editors in Britain, responsible for running the best-read print edition of the...
Amlan Roy
Amlan Roy is the Global Chief Retirement Strategist and Senior Managing Director at State Street. Roy is an experienced Global Macro Researcher specialising in demographics and pensions related to economics, investments and public policy. He highlights structural issues related to gender disparity, youth unemployment, system risks due to policy...
Thomas Mayer
Thomas Mayer is founding director of the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute and is a Senior Fellow at CFS. As Senior Fellow he is involved in research on European financial integration and current financial market issues. He also organizes the CFS Lecture Series “On the Order of Money”. Between...
Axel Weber
Axel Weber was Bundesbank President (the German Central Bank) from 2004 to 2011. He was recently appointed Chairman at UBS, a position which he will take up in 2012. In 2002 Axel became a member of the Advisory Council to the German Federal Government (Council of Economic Experts), to...