Armen Papazian
Dr. Armen Papazian is the 1st winner of the Alpha Centauri Prize, and the founding chairman and CEO of Keipr, a boutique financial modelling and consulting firm, and the founding CEO of the International Space Development HUB. After earning his PhD in financial economics at the University of Cambridge,...
Megat Zaharuddin
Mr. Megat Zaharuddin served as the Regional Chief Executive Officer/Regional Business Managing Director of Shell Exploration & Production International (Netherlands) covering countries of North Africa, Middle East, South/Central Asia and Russia from 1999 to 2003. He built an outstanding career in the oil and gas industry for 31 years...
Rene Jaeggi
Rene Jaeggi is a renowned international CEO, having turned around a failing Adidas and saved the German football team FC Kaiserslautern from bankruptcy. Rene began his career in FMCG marketing working for R.J Reynolds and Duracell. In 1986 he became Vice-President of Marketing for Adidas. In 1987 he became...
Bikram Singh
General Singh was Chief of the Indian Army until 2014. During his eventful and distinguished military career of over 42 years, he held a number of key positions in India and overseas. Before taking over as Chief of Army Staff, General Singh was Chief of Eastern Command and before...
Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina is the real life hero of the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda and the President and Founder of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation. As portrayed by actor Don Cheadle in the film, Rusesabagina saved the lives of more than 1,200 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Rusesabagina served...
Haiyan Wang
Haiyan Wang is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She is concurrently also the Managing Partner of China India Institute, a Washington, DC based research and consulting organisation with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. She is a...
Yves Rossy
Yves Rossy, also known as ‘Jetman’, is a Swiss pilot, adventurer and inventor. He is the first and only man in the history of aviation to fly with a jet-propelled wing. Using his incredible invention, he has made dramatic flights over the English Channel, the Grand Canyon, Rio de...
Karan Bilimoria
Karan Bilimoria (Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea) is the founder of Cobra Beer. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Karan Bilimoria developed a less gassy, premium lager brewed to perfectly appeal to both ale drinkers and lager drinkers alike and to complement food. Little more than fifteen years later, Cobra...
Hermawan Kartajaya
Hermawan Kartajaya, the current President of World Marketing Association, is one of the “50 Gurus Who Have Shaped The Future of Marketing” appointed by The Chartered Institute of Marketing-United Kingdom (CIM-UK). He is a unique combination of a thinker of strategic business concepts (particularly in marketing) and a practitioner....
Fredrik Haren
Fredrik Härén is an author and expert on creativity, change and global business. Härén’s speciality is to be the “Global Conference Speaker”. He has delivered 2,000 presentations in over 60 countries on 6 continents. Härén knows how to craft a speech so that, let’s say, an American, a Brazilian,...
