Jack Straw
Jack Straw was Foreign Secretary 2001-06, Home Secretary 1997-2001, and Leader of the House of Commons (2006-07) under Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary 2007-10 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He has been described by The Guardian, a renowned UK daily newspaper, as...
Ravi Venkatesan
Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of Bank of Baroda and co-Chairman of Infosys. As Chairman of Microsoft India between 2004-11, Venkatesan helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world. He was instrumental in creating Microsoft India’s Project Shiksha, a computer literacy programme which has so far trained...
Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is a renowned Indian youth icon, author, screenwriter, and columnist. Time magazine named him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World 2010”, Fast company as one of the “100 most Creative People in Business 2011”, Forbes India as one of the “Top 100...
Max Abrahms
Dr Max Abrahms is a leading expert on U.S. national security, foreign policy and the terrorism threat. He is a professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University, a member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and...
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician and businesswoman. She co-led the Orange Revolution and was the first woman appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine, serving from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from December 2007 to March 2010. She trained as an engineer and economist in the east...
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is a nobel prize-winning economist. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PhD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under...
Enrico Letta
Enrico Letta was Prime Minister of Italy from 2013-14, leading a grand coalition comprising the centre-left Democratic Party, the centre-right People of Freedom, and the centrist Civic Choice. A Europhile on the moderate side of the PD, his rapid ascent to the post of Prime Minister was as unexpected...
Mahmoud Kaabour
Mahmoud Kaabour is a multi award-winning director, writer, and lecturer from Lebanon. Now based in the United Arab Emirates, he has emerged as the most distinguished documentary filmmaker in the region. His ground-breaking film Teta, Alf Marra (Grandma, a Thousand Times) screened to packed houses in over 55 cities...
Sundeep Waslekar
Sundeep Waslekar is President of Strategic Foresight Group, a think-tank based in India that advises governments and institutions around the world on managing future challenges. He has presented new policy concepts at committees of the Indian Parliament, the European Parliament, UK Houses of Commons and Lords, United Nations Alliance...
Roy Madron
Roy Madron is a researcher, management consultant and author. Currently based in Brazil, he designs and facilitates the 21st Century Leadership Programme for the University of Industry (UNINDUS). In his co-authored book, Gaian Democracies: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power, he describes an alternative system of globalisation, and sets out a...
