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David Aaronovitch

Challenging political commentator

Martti Ahtisaari

President of Finland 1994-2000; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008

Madeleine Albright

Former U.S. Secretary of State & noted policy expert

Michele Alliot-Marie

French politician, she was France’s first female minister of foreign affairs

Simon Anholt

Independent policy advisor to over forty governments, their Presidents, Prime Ministers and Monarchs

Paddy Ashdown

Former leader of the Liberal Democrats & UK President of Unicef

Shaukat Aziz

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Jose Maria Aznar

Former President of Spain & Executive President of FAES

Kanti Bajpai

International Relations Scholar; Professor in the Politics and International Relations of South Asia at Oxford University

Jasper Becker

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

Carl Bernstein

One of the Watergate investigative journalists

Eric Besson

Former French minister for Industry, Energy & Digital Economy (2010-2012), strategy consultant

Shantanu Bhagwat

Entrepreneur and businessman

Carl Bildt

Foreign Secretary of Sweden

Mahathir Bin Mohamad

Former Prime Minister of Malaysia

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

Zbigniew Brzenzinski

Former national security advisor to the President of the United States

Alastair Campbell

Former Head of Communications for Tony Blair

Kenneth Clarke

Former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer

Wolfgang Clement

Renowned German economist, former minister of Economics and Labour

Robert Cottrell

Deputy Editor of Economist.com

Meleveetil Damodaran

Advisor & Chief Representative in India for ING Group

Alistair Darling

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer (2007-2010)

Howard Dean

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

Jacques Delors

Former President of the European Commission

Mohamed El Baradei

Winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize

Mercedes Erra

Executive President of Euro RSCG Worldwide

Charles Falconer

Former Lord Chancellor in Tony Blair's government

Niall Ferguson

Oxford University Professor of History

Francois Fillon

Prime Minister of France (2007-2012)

Joschka Fischer

Former Foreign Minister of Germany

Francis Fukuyama

Political scientist, economist & author

Ronald Fung

Motivator, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

Richard Gardner

Former US Ambassador to Italy

Scott Goodstein

Developed the social networking platforms for the Obama presidential campaign

Mikhail Gorbachev

Former President of the Soviet Union

Al Gore

US Vice President & political, business and environmental visionary

Howard Gutman

The longest serving U.S. Ambassador to Belgium

William Hague

Former leader of the Conservative Party

Yukio Hatoyama

Former Prime Minister of Japan (2009-2010)

Roman Herzog

Former President of Germany

Dumisani Hlophe

Public Speaker, researcher, and writer

Simon Jenkins

Former editor of The Times of London

Ayo Johnson

Expert on African affairs, human rights and justice

Tessa Jowell

Former Shadow Minister for the Olympics

Garry Kasparov

Celebrity, Former World Chess Champion and activist

Paul Keating

Former Prime Minister of Australia

Hak-Su Kim

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

Vaclav Klaus

Second President of the Czech Republic

Wim Kok

Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

John Kufuor

Former President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009

Norman Lamont

Former UK Finance Minister

Joan Laporta

Former President of Barcelona Football Club

Ken Livingstone

Former Mayor of London; speaker on London in the global economy

Catherine Lubochinsky

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

Pippa Malmgren

Founder & President, Principalis Asset Management

Peter Mandelson

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

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller

Former Head of the MI5, Expert on Security, Transformational Leadership

Andrew Marr

Presenter of BBC's Sunday AM

David Miliband

Former UK Foreign Secretary

George Mitchell

Chaired the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland; Listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world

Dominique Moisi

French Political Scientist, founder of the IFRI, the French Institute for International Relations

Mike Moore

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

Simon Moores

Technology commentator and e-advisor to the Conservative Party

Betsy Myers

Leadership Expert / COO, '08 Obama for America Campaign

Olivia O'Leary

Mehmet Ogutcu

International authority on energy matters

Soli Ozel

Professor of international relations & political science

Brian Paddick

Speaker on Leadership, Politics, Security and Risk

Chris Patten

Chairman of BBC

Ilya Ponomarev

Russian politician, chairman of an Innovations and Venture Capital subcommittee

Michael Portillo

Former Conservative Minister

Jonathan Powell

Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff

Mzukisi Qobo

Leadership consultant & political risk analyst

Ruairi Quinn

Former Leader of the Labour Party

Lord Robertson

Former Secretary-General of NATO

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland, United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights

Petre Roman

Former Prime Minister of Romania

James Rubin

Executive Editor of the Bloomberg View

Maurice Saatchi

Co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi, co-chairman of the Conservative Party

Richard Samans

Former Special Assistant to President Clinton for International Economic Policy

Helmut Schmidt

Former Chancellor of West Germany

Gesine Schwan

German politics expert

Michael Shrimpton

Expert in National Security, Intelligence and Terrorism

Javier Solana

Former Secretary General of NATO & Former Security Policy of the EU

Dick Spring

Former Deputy Prime Minister

Peer Steinbrueck

Former Finance Minister of Germany

Heizo Takenaka

Japan's Former Minister for Financial Services & Economic Policy

Gordon Thomas

World authority on Counter-Intelligence and Terrorism

Tinaz Titiz

Former Minister of Culture & Tourism in Turkey

Tony Travers

Expert on regional and local government and public service reform

David Trimble

Winner of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize

Guy Verhofstadt

Former Belgian Prime Minister

Marco Vicenzino

Leading expert on geopolitics and security hotspots around the world

Theo Waigel

Former German Finance Minister

Lech Walesa

First democratically elected President of Poland

Sundeep Waslekar

Strategic thinker on geopolitical futures

Axel Weber

Former President of the Bundestag, the German central bank

Marvin Zonis

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

Dominique de Villepin

Former Prime Minister of France