Basmah Bint Saud
Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al Saud is the youngest daughter of King Saud who reigned over Saudi Arabia from 1953-64. She spent the first twenty years of her life studying and travelling the world. She came to the UK with her mother when civil war broke out...
Sanjit Bunker Roy
For Prof Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy his “real” education started when he dug open wells for drinking water as an unskilled labourer for 5 years (1967-1971). A Doon School and St. Stephens College Delhi University alumnus, Bunker was the Indian National Squash Champion in 1965, 1967 and 1971. It was...
Ron Kaufman
Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading educator and motivator for uplifting customer service and building service cultures. Rated one of the “Top 25 Who’s Hot” speakers by Speaker Magazine, Ron presents powerful insights and global best practices from working with clients on every continent for more than twenty years....
Nick Bostrom
One of the most important thinkers of our time, Nick Bostrom changes the way we view the big picture—how advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies will reshape the human world, and how present actions affect the future. Nick Bostrom is Professor at Oxford University, where he is the...
Oliver Burkeman
Burkeman is a journalist running a popular weekly column in The Guardian and online, and is a winner of the Foreign Press Association’s Young Journalist of the Year award. He is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking (2012), which explores the upsides...
Julian Caldecott
Dr Julian Caldecott is a world renowned ecologist and conservationist. He has spent more than 20 years promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability around the world. He has contributed to major conservation programmes in Indonesia (protected areas in Siberut, Flores and Central Sulawesi), Malaysia (the Maliau Basin Conservation Area...
Nenad Pacek
Nenad and his businesses currently advise global and regional directors of over 380 multinational corporations. He is founder and president of Global Success Advisors (global business and economic advisory) and co-founder and co-CEO of the CEEMEA Business Group corporate service (advisory for regional executives running Central Eastern Europe, Middle...
Deniz Ulke Aribogan
Deniz Ulke Aribogan is a Professor of International Relations at Istanbul University and a Senior Fellow of CRIC (Center for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict) at the University of Oxford. She was previously the Rector of Bahcesehir University from 2007-10. She lectures at Istanbul University, Istanbul Bilgi University, the Turkish...
Michele Alliot-Marie
Now a Member of the European Parliament, Michèle Alliot-Marie was successively Minister of defence (2002-2007), Minister of the Interior, of the overseas and territorial communities (2007-2009), Minister of Justice and freedoms (2009-2010), then Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs (2010-2011) during the presidencies of Jacques...
