Peter Sands
Peter Sands served as the Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC from 2006-15. Sands joined Standard Chartered from McKinsey where he served as a Partner from 1996. He originally joined McKinsey in 1988, where he worked extensively in the banking and technology sectors in a wide range of...
Andy Xie
Andy Xie is a renowned independent economist based in Shanghai, specialising in China and Asia. He is the former Morgan Stanley Star Chief Asia-Pacific economist, and currently Director of Rosetta Stone Advisors, and Director of China Boqi Environmental Science and Technology. In 2013 he was named ‘one of the...
Sir Howard Davies
Sir Howard Davies is the Chairman of NatWest Group and the former Director of the London School of Economics. He was also the first Chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Until July 2015, he was Chairman of the Phoenix Group and chaired the UK Airports Commission. In February 2015,...
Sayeeda Warsi
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is a lawyer, author, business woman and member of the House of Lords. She was Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet Minister; Chairman of the Conservative party 2010-12 and a Minister at the Foreign Office 2010-14. Daughter of an immigrant mill worker, Warsi rose to become an Advisor...
Florence Eid-Oakden
Dr. Eid-Oakden is Chief Economist and Founder of Arabia Monitor, an independent research firm specialised in economic and market studies on the Middle East & North Africa. Dr. Eid-oaken was a professor of economics and finance at the American University of Beirut and a visiting professor at INSEAD and...
Dave Birch
David G.W. Birch is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the IT management consultancy that specialises in electronic transactions. Here he provides specialist consultancy support to clients around the world, including all of the leading payment brands, major telecommunications providers, governments bodies and international organisations including the OECD. Before...
Peer Steinbrueck
Peer Steinbrück was Finance Minister of Germany from 2005 to 2009, in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Peer took responsibility for a number of difficult and unpopular decisions during the economic crisis, which were intended to help the economy in the long term. After his graduation in economics...
Jean-Claude Trichet
Jean-Claude Trichet is one of the world’s most respected Central Bankers. He was President of the European Central Bank (2003-11) and President of the Bank of France (1993-2003). He is currently Honorary Governor of the Bank of France, holds the position of Chairman of the Group of Thirty, Chairman...
Gideon Rachman
Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times. At the FT, Rachman writes a weekly column on international politics as well as feature articles and has reported for the FT from all over the world. Before joining the FT in 2006, he worked for The Economist...
Heizo Takenaka
Professor Heizo Takenaka joined Prime Minister Koizumi’s Government in 2001. During this time, he became Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy, and then the Minister for Financial Services. He also became the Minister for Privatisation of the Postal Services and the Minister for both Internal Affairs and Communication. He...
