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Alan Ahearne

Lecturer on the Irish Economy

Saeed Al Muntafiq

Former Executive Charmain of Tatweer

Tevfik Altinok

Former head of KOC HOLDING A.S. financial group

Stephen Archer

Business and Economic Analyst

Patrick Artus

One of the leading economists in France; speaker on the French economy

Jacques Attali

President of PlaNet Finance Group

Oliver August

Correspondent and editor for The Economist

John Authers

Financial Times' Senior Investment Analyst & Columnist

Rafidah Aziz

Malaysia's longest serving Minister of International Trade and Industry

Jose Maria Aznar

Former President of Spain & Executive President of FAES

Leszek Balcerowicz

Former Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister, President of the National Bank of Poland

Tim Beardson

Founder of Crosby, the largest independent investment bank in Asia

Jasper Becker

Author Writer Publisher & Speaker on China Economy & International Affairs.

Todd Benjamin

CNN presenter, financial and economic expert, moderator and interviewer.

Jean Paul Betbeze

Chief Economist at Credit Agricole and a member of the French Prime Minister's Economic Analysis Council

Jagdish Bhagwati

Professor of Economics

Surijit Bhalla

Economist; MD of Oxus Research & Investments

David Blanchflower

Former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee

Roger Bootle

Former Group Chief Economist at HSBC, Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury , columnist for The Times

Gordon Brown

Former UK Prime Minister

Gro Brundtland

Former Director General of WHO & former Prime Minister of Norway

John Bruton

Former Prime Minister of Ireland, EU ambassador to the US

Todd Buchholz

Former Director of Economic Policy to the US President: Hedge Fund Manager

Michel Camdessus

Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

Ha-Joon Chang

Author of 23 Things They Dont Tell About Capitalism

Young Rok Cheong

Global Economist and Speaker on China

Nicos Christodoulakis

Former Greek Economics and Finance Minister

Greg Clark

Expert on cities, former advisor to the Mayor of London

Wolfgang Clement

Renowned German economist, former minister of Economics and Labour

Tim Congdon

One of the UK's leading economists

Peter Costello

Longest serving Treasurer in Australia’s history

Robert Cottrell

Deputy Editor of Economist.com

Richard Curran

Business editor of the Irish Independent

Meleveetil Damodaran

Advisor & Chief Representative in India for ING Group

Alistair Darling

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer (2007-2010)

Gurcharan Das

Management guru, Author, and former CEO of P&G India

Howard Davies

Director of the London School of Economics and former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority

Ged Davis

Head of the Centre for Strategic Insight at the World Economic Forum

Howard Dean

Former US Presidential Candidate, Head of Democratic Party & Gov of Vermont

Bibek Debroy

Economist; Research Professor at IMI

Jacques Delors

Former President of the European Commission

Kemal Dervis

Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution.

Andrew Dilnot

Former Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the UK's leading independent economics research unit

Katja Dofel

Florence Eid

Founder & CEO of Arabia Monitor and President of Arabia Advisors

Mohamed El Baradei

Winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize

Gazi Ercel

Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey from 1996-2001

Marc Faber

Investment analyst & entrepreneur

Martin Feldstein

George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Niall Ferguson

Oxford University Professor of History

Adam Fergusson

Author of "When Money Dies"

Joschka Fischer

Former Foreign Minister of Germany

Stephanie Flanders

Newsnights Economics Editor

Clemens Fuest

Research Director & Professor for Business Taxation at Oxford University

Richard Gardner

Former US Ambassador to Italy

Renaud Gaucher

Expert in the psychology of money

John Gieve

Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

Mikhail Gorbachev

Former President of the Soviet Union

Al Gore

US Vice President & political, business and environmental visionary

George Gu

China Business Author and Commentator

Tim Harford

Author of "The Undercover Economist"

Noreena Hertz

"One of the world's leading young thinkers"

Roman Herzog

Former President of Germany

Jurgen Heyman

Corporate Vice President of Sales Performance International (SPI)

Anthony Hilton

Business and economics commentator for the London Evening Standard

Fred Hu

Fred Hu, Former Chairman of Greater China at Goldman Sachs joins the London Speaker Bureau.

Yasheng Huang

MIT Professor and author of Selling China

Will Hutton

Journalist, broadcaster and commentator

Otmar Issing

Former Chief Economist and member of the Executive Board at the European Central Bank

Stephen J Dubner

Bestselling Author, FREAKONOMICS and SUPERFREAKONOMICS

Bill Jamieson

Editor of The Scotsman

DeAnne Julius

Non-executive director of the Court (Board of Governors) of the Bank of England

Anatole Kaletsky

Principal Economics Commentator of The Times

John Kay

One of the Uk's leading management thinkers; columnist for the Financial Times

Parag Khanna

Author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

Hak-Su Kim

Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Stephen Kinsella

Lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick

Helmut Kohl

Former Chancellor of Germany

Wim Kok

Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Richard Koo

World Class Economist

Lee Kwan Yew

Former Prime Minister of Singapore

Norman Lamont

Former UK Finance Minister

Graeme Leach

Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors

Gerd Leipold

Former Executive Director of Greenpeace International

Justin Yifu Lin

Former World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics

Karin Lissakers

Chief Economic Advisor to George Soros

Rachel Lomax

Renowned economist

Ruud Lubbers

Former Prime Minister of The Netherlands

Catherine Lubochinsky

Economics Professor and member of the Scientific Board of the Association Française de la Gestion Financière

Guy Lundy

Managing Director of Centric Consulting and the CEO of Accelerate Cape Town

Gerard Lyons

Chief Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London since 2013 Chief Economist and Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered 1999-2012.

George Magnus

Senior economic adviser, author of "The Age of Aging"

Vijay Mahajan

Expert speaker on market growth and management

Thierry Malleret

World Economic Forum. Former Chief Economist, Alpha Bank, Moscow

Pippa Malmgren

Founder & President, Principalis Asset Management

Peter Mandelson

Former EU Commissioner for Trade and was the UK's Deputy Prime Minister

Lawrence McDonald

Political risk and market expert

Hamish McRae

Europe's foremost future speaker, author of What Works

Douglas McWilliams

One of Europe's top economic gurus

David McWilliams

Educated at Trinity College Dublin and the College of Europe Bruges, Belgium

Anita Mendiratta

Expert in economic development and tourism

Robyn Meredith

Asia-Pacific Business and Finance Correspondent

Zanny Minton Beddoes

The Economist's Economics Editor, based in Washington DC.

Mark Mobius

One of the "Top Ten Money Managers of the 20th Century"

Mike Moore

Former New Zealand Prime Minister and Director General of the World Trade Organisation

Dambisa Moyo

Author of "Dead Aid"

Robert Mundell

Nobel Laureate in Economics

Lynette Ntuli

Business Development Expert

Dan O'Brien

Economics editor of the Irish Times

Jim O'Leary

One of Ireland's leading economic commentators

Jim O'Neill

Goldman Sachs economist who famously captured the globe's shifting economic power when he coined the "BRIC" acronym

Michael O'Sullivan

Global economist, author of Ireland and the Global Question

Nenad Pacek

Expert on global emerging markets

Supachai Panitchpakdi

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand and Director General of the WTO

Yannos Papantoniou

Former Greek Minister of National Economy and Finance

Armen Papazian

CEO of the International Space Development HUB

Göran Persson

Former Prime Minister of Sweden

Robert Peston

Award winning Business Editor

Edmund Phelps

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2006

Christopher Pissarides

Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics

John Plender

Finance commentator and journalist, expert on corporate governance

Raghuram Rajan

Author of "Fault Lines: How Hidden Cracks Still Threaten The World Economy"."

Mamphela Ramphele

Former Managing Director of the World Bank and Vice-Chancellor of Cape Town University

Jeff Randall

Former BBC Business Editor

Douglas Rediker

Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland, United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights

Nouriel Roubini

Professor of Economics who predicted the global "credit crunch"

Jeffrey Sachs

Special Adviser to Kofi Annan

Eisuke Sakakibara

Former Japanese Vice Minister of Finance

Richard Samans

Former Special Assistant to President Clinton for International Economic Policy

Helmut Schlesinger

Former President of the Bundesbank

Helmut Schmidt

Former Chancellor of West Germany

Andrew Sentance

Former external member of the MPC of the Bank of England

John Sfakianakis

Chief Economist of the the Gulf Research Center in Geneva and Dubai

David Smith

Economics Editor of the Sunday Times

Juergen Stark

Renowned German Economist

Peer Steinbrueck

Former Finance Minister of Germany

Nicholas Stern

Author of the Stern Review on climate change

Heizo Takenaka

Japan's Former Minister for Financial Services & Economic Policy

Jonathan Tepper

Economist and cofounder of Variant Perception

Tony Travers

Expert on regional and local government and public service reform

Georges Ugeux

Former Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange

Guy Verhofstadt

Former Belgian Prime Minister

Theo Waigel

Former German Finance Minister

Chris Weafer

Chief Strategist with UralSib Financial Corporation in Moscow

Axel Weber

Former President of the Bundestag, the German central bank

Martin Wolf

Member of the UK government's Independent Commission on Banking

James Wolfensohn

Chairman and CEO of Wolfensohn and Company

Andy Xie

Renowned Economist who accurately predicted the South East Asian Financial Crisis and the US Subprime Financial Crisis

Linda Yueh

Global authority on the Chinese economy

Muhammad Yunus

Founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Marvin Zonis

World authority on the intersection of e-commerce, globalisation and leadership

Christian de Boissieu

President of the Economic Advisory Council for the French Prime Minister

Rodrigo de Rato

Former Managing Director of the Internatinol Monetary Fund

Hernando de Soto

One of Time magazines "Leaders for the New Millennium"; Expert on CSR"

Marcus du Sautoy

The Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science