Jan
20
2010
Expert on Employment and Workforce Diversity
Amin Rajan is Chief Executive of the Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe (CREATE) – a pan-European network of prominent researchers undertaking high level advisory assignments for the UK government, City institutions, multinational companies and international bodies such as the EU, OECD and ILO. He is also a visiting professor at the Cass Business School, London Guildhall University and at the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University, and also President of the Scientific Committee at Audencia-Nantes, Ecole de Management.
“ Amin’s work has proved so influential that he now provides leadership coaching to top executives and investment specialists”
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Dec
18
2009
World’s Leading Historian of the Global Economy
Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s leading historians of the global economy. He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4. A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, he writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers. In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the world’s hundred most influential people.
Controversial, expansive, and eloquent, Ferguson has been called “the most talented British historian of his generation”
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Nov
27
2009
President of South Africa 1989-1994 and Joint-Winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize
FW de Klerk was one of the main architects of South Africa’s constitutional democracy. During his presidency he played a central role in initiating and managing the transformation process that helped to resolve centuries of inter-community conflict and create a basis for peace between South Africa’s many and varied communities.
“A renowned and respected leader for Human Rights”
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Nov
16
2009
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature
Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and is the recipient of numerous national and international literary awards. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 2006, becoming the first Turkish person to receive a Nobel Prize. He is currently a Fellow with Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and holds an appointment in Columbia’s Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at The School of the Arts.
“One of the world’s most celebrated novelist”
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Jun
30
2009
Former Canadian Minister of Trade, Canadian Ambassador to the WTO, President Canada China Business Council
Sergio Marchi is a former Canadian politician who served as a federal Cabinet Minister in three different portfolios during his time in government: Citizenship and Immigration, Environment, and International Trade. He was also the Ambassador of Canada to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Office of the United Nations (UN), in Geneva, 1999 – 2004, and a UN Migration Commissioner, 2004 – 2006. He also served as the former President of the Canada China Business Council. Sergio Marchi is an Adjunct Professor at Webster University, in Geneva, where he teaches a graduate course on Globalisation.
“Sergio Marchi is one of the leading voices on global politics and economics”
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Apr
15
2009
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson is an internationally esteemed economist and renowned statesman. He is currently Chairman of the Central Europe Trust, an advisory and private equity firm specialising in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also a past President of the British Institute of Energy Economics. Most recently his major focus of interest has been the economics and politics of climate change and the consequences for businesses around the world.
Leading expert on European economics and Chairman of the Central Europe Trust
In detail
During his political career he was a key figure in shaping Britain’s fiscal and economic policies. As Secretary of State for Energy he had responsibility for the privatisation of the energy sector until he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post he held for six years.
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Apr
03
2009
Former President of Costa Rica & Former CEO of the WEF
José María Figueres Figueres served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. As such, he was the youngest President of a Central American country in modern times. Today his work revolves around the issues of climate change having; conceptualised The Global Observatory Project, as well as being the Executive Chairman of The Carbon War Room alongside Richard Branson and being named an advisor to the United Nations Secretary General’s Task Force on Climate and Energy.
“The world of tomorrow, which we are constructing today, will be different”
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Prior to serving as President, José Maria was Minister of Foreign Trade and Minister of Agriculture. He has pioneered the linkage between sustainable development and technology, in the realms of business, public service, and non-profit organisations. He helped create and lead the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force and is the founder of the Fundación Costa Rica para el Desarrollo Sostenible in Costa Rica. In 2000, he joined the WEF and became its first CEO in 2003.
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Apr
01
2009
Former Polish Deputy Prime and Finance Minister & President of the National Bank (until 2006)
Leszek Balcerowicz is a pioneer of radical reforms who has been at the centre of Poland’s economic and political life since 1989. Having been three times in government in charge of economic reforms, he is acclaimed as the architect of his country’s economic growth and as a leader of free market economy. He is the Governor of the National Polish Bank and has also held positions including Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister and President of the National Bank. He is a member of the group of trustees of the Institute of International Finance (USA) and also a Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is the only Central/Eastern European member of the prestigious “Group of Thirty
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Oct
17
2008
12th President of the Philippines
Fidel Valdez Ramos was the 12th President of the Philippines. He succeeded Corazon Aquino and governed until 1998, when he was succeeded by Joseph Estrada. The first half of Ramos’ six-year term as President was characterized by rapid economic growth and political stability in the country despite facing communist insurgencies, an Islamic separatist movement in Mindanao, and the onslaught of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
“One of the Greatest President’s of all time”
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Oct
13
2008
Former European Commissioner for External Relations and Former Governor of Hong Kong
Lord Patten of Barnes was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in April 1992, a position he held until 1997, overseeing the return of Hong Kong to China. He was Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland set up under the Good Friday Peace Agreement, which reported in 1999. In September 1999 he was appointed European Commissioner for External Relations, a post he held until November 2004. On leaving office in Brussels he was made a life peer and took his seat in the House of Lords in January 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Co-Chair of the UK-India Round Table.
“Arriving in Hong Kong, more than anything else in my life, affected my views – both my views on political life and my views on leadership”
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