Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt won the 1999 Belgian elections becoming their first liberal Prime Minister in more than 60 years, forming the first Belgian government without Christian-Democrats in 40 years. He presided over two Governments with the Belgian socialist parties, partly including the Green parties, and an interim third government in...
Ruben Vardanian
Ruben Vardanian is Chairman of the Investment Bank of Sberbank after its acquisition of Troika Dialog. Previously, Vardanian worked at Troika Dialog since it was founded and was head of the company since 1992. He is an active member of many business organisations, notably the Russian Union of Industrialists...
Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the former Chief Business Officer at Google’s , an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Mo manages Google’s business in over 50 countries with his background as an Engineer, paired with an MBA degree from Maastricht School of...
Hans-Dieter Hermann
Dr. Hans-Dieter Hermann is the first sport psychologist for Germany’s national soccer team since 2004. He also accompanied the team during the FIFA World Cup in Brazil 2014. Before then, he supervised among others, the Austrian ski racing team, the German gymnasts, boxers and hockey players. Together with Prof....
Pelle Tornberg
Pelle Tornberg is an innovative and dynamic CEO, who has founded two profitable international media businesses with a current combined market capitalisation of US$ 4.6 billion. These include; Metro International,the world’s largest international newspaper; Modern Times Group, Northern Europe’s (including Russia) largest broadcaster; SDI, which he founded and grew...
Reinhold Messner
Climber, writer, photographer and Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004, Reinhold Messner started climbing mountains at the age of five and has been one of the world’s most outstanding mountaineers for thirty years. In over three thousand climbs he has achieved over a hundred first ascents...
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields
Joanna Shields (Baroness Shields) is a technology industry veteran who currently serves as Group CEO for BenevolentAI. BenevolentAI is the market leader in harnessing the power of AI to enhance and accelerate global scientific discovery. She previously served as UK Minister for Internet Safety and Security from 2015-17. An...
Julie Meyer
A respected expert in investment in digital, high-growth and early stage businesses, Meyer has driven many important initiatives for creating wealth and growth in the European economy, and backed some of the most explosive growth companies of this era. A business adviser, networking expert, broadcaster and business commentator, she...
Hugh Herr
Hugh directs the Biomechatronics group at The MIT Media Lab. His research program seeks to advance technologies that promise to accelerate the merging of body and machine, including device architectures that resemble the body’s musculoskeletal design, actuator technologies that behave like muscle, and control methodologies that exploit principles of...
John Kufuor
John Kufuor was President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. President Kufuor was a prime mover in bringing democracy back to Ghana after the country had been subjected to a long line of coups and military dictators. In 2001 he was democratically elected as President, defeating Jerry Rawlings, who...
