Events

Guest Speakers since 2004

  • Bill Browder; CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management and author
  • Galina Timchenko, journalist, owner and publisher of Meduza
  • Admiral Rob Bauer, Chair of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
  • Olivier Blanchard, the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter, American President and CEO of New America, and former director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State
  • José Manuel Barroso, Former President of the European Commission
  • Dambisa Moyo, global economist and author
  • Jared Cohen, Founder & CEO of JIGSAW (Google/Alphabet)
  • Craig Mundie, Sr Advisor Microsoft & Leo Kouwenhoven, Professor of Physics, Delft University of Technology
  • Andrew McAfee, researcher MIT
  • Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial TImes
  • Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
  • Robert B. Zoellick, Former President of the World Bank Group
  • Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore
  • Lord Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority
  • George Papakonstantinou, Minister of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change
  • Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council
  • Frits Bolkestein, Former Commissioner European Commission
  • David Rubenstein, Founder and Chairman of The Carlyle Group
  • Ad Melkert, Special Representative for Iraq of the UN Secretary-General
  • Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer of Microsoft Corporation
  • John Monks, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation
  • Dambisa F. Moyo, Author of Dead Aid
  • George Osborne, U.K. Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and M.P.
  • Muhtar Kent, President and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company
  • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General of NATO
  • Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore
  • Madeleine K. Albright, Former Secretary of State, United States
  • Willem Buiter, Chair in European Political Economy, London School of Economics
  • Ernest-Antoine Seillière, President of UNICE
  • Neelie Kroes, European Commisioner for Competition
  • Henry Kravis, Founding Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co
  • William Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Moscow
  • Mario Monti, Former Member of the European Commission
  • Roland Koch, Minister President of the State of Hessen
  • Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times
  • Ali Babacan, Minister of State for Economy, Turkey
  • Andrzej Olechowski, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland