David Davis
David Davis served as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from July 2016 to July 2018. In 2016, following a referendum in which a majority of those voting supported leaving the European Union, David Davis was appointed by new Prime Minister Theresa May as Secretary of State...
Mike Moore
Mike Moore, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in politics and acted as the driving force behind important changes within the WTO. A dedicated voice in shaping New Zealand’s political future, Moore will...
John Sfakianakis
John Sfakianakis advises global corporations on the future of oil and oil policy, the regional economy, privatisation, fiscal management, macro fiscal planning and debt management. Sfakianakis is Director of Economics Research at the Gulf Research Center in Riyadh. Previously he was Middle East Director of the Ashmore Group in...
George Magnus
George Magnus is the former Senior Economic Adviser at UBS Investment Bank, one of the world’s leading financial services institutions, having previously been the Chief Economist for 10 years. In almost 30 years of working experience in the City, he has held senior positions at SG Warburg, Chase Manhattan...
Jay Tuck
Jay Tuck is a journalist, television producer and the founder of Airtime Dubai Ltd, an international media company serving the Arab world. He is Executive Producer of Understanding Tomorrow, a weekly TV magazine airing on the Al-Jazeera Network. For over thirty years Tuck has held positions of major editorial...
David Eldon
David Eldon is Chairman of HSBC Bank Middle East and HSBC Bank Oman. He was also Chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority. He has nearly 50 years of banking experience mostly within the HSBC Group, starting his career in HSBC Bank Middle East in 1968, and serving...
Michael Jordaan
Michael Jordaan, venture capitalist and wine enthusiast, stepped down as CEO of First National Bank (FNB) one of SA’s largest banks with a customer base of nearly nine million, in 2013 to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship. The former banker now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital...
David Li Dao Kui
David Li Daokui is one of China’s most influential economists and most eminent professors. He is a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. He is the Director of the Centre for China in the World Economy (CCWE), Mansfield Freeman Professor of the...
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was named by The Economist as running one of the two most important think tanks in the world; TIME magazine chose him as one of the five leading Latin American innovators of the century and Forbes Magazine named Hernando as one of 15 innovators “who will...
Philippe Legrain
Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed thinker with high-level international policy experience. A senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, he is also the founder of Open Political Economy Network (OPEN), a think-tank that focuses on international political economy, and a columnist for Project Syndicate...
