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Dambisa Moyo

Dambiso Moyo has travelled to more than 50 countires over the last decade, during which time she has developed a unique knowledge base on the political, economic, and financial workings of emerging economies, in particular the BRICS and the frontier economies in Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle...

Chris Weafer

Chris Weafer is recognised as an international authority on the Russian and CIS economies. He is senior partner with Macro Advisory, a Moscow based consultancy providing bespoke research services to macro hedge funds, venture capital investors and foreign companies looking at investment opportunities in Russia and Central Asia. Weafer...

John Coates

John Coates is author of the financial bestseller The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feeling and the Biology of Boom and Bust. He is a former Research Fellow in Neuroscience and Finance at the University of Cambridge, and previously traded derivatives for Goldman Sachs and ran a...

Leszek Balcerowicz

Professor Leszek Balcerowicz is a highly renowned economist, legendary politician who is regarded as the architect of Poland’s market reforms initiated in 1989, after the collapse of communism. With truly remarkable achievements, he has been a dominant figure in the country’s developments and economic strategy between 1989-2007. Professor Balcerowicz...

Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor is best known for her leadership of Jubilee 2000 – a worldwide campaign to cancel approximately $100 billion of debts owed by 42 of the poorest countries. She was also one of the first to predict the credit crunch in her 2003 book, The Real World Economic...

Thomas J. Sargent

In the midst of today’s economic crisis, Tom Sargent looks at answering the questions about the role of government policy and regulation. Tom was the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work in macroeconomics over the last forty years. One of the founders...

Ged Davis

Ged Davis is Managing Director, Head of the Centre for Strategic Insight at the World Economic Forum. Ged Davis joined the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in 1972, and a decade later took the helm of Planning, Europe. From 1986 to 1990, Ged was head of Energy, Group Planning and then...

David Blanchflower

David is editor of the “New Statesman” and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College in the USA. From 2006-8 he was a Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). His time at the Bank of England brought him into the public eye, coinciding with the impending...

Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is an expert in corporate governance, purposeful business, practical investment strategies, behavioural finance, and time management. Alex has a unique combination of deep academic rigour and practical business experience. He is particularly noted for his ability to present...

Adam Fergusson

Adam is a journalist and former MEP but is now best known as the author of the remarkable bestseller “When Money Dies”, about the crisis of hyper-inflation in Germany in the 1920s, where Germany’s currency became effectively worthless. Adam wrote the book in the early 1970s when the global...

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