ALAN MOORE is a charismatic visionary who has a firm grasp of the significant and disruptive trends which are currently reshaping our world. Through his most recent project  and book No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world, he enables organizations and companies to address the challenges we now face to develop transformational and winning ways for ‘what next’ practically looks like.

AMAR BHIDÉ is a leading authority on the role innovation and entrepreneurship play in creating prosperity in a globalized world. He is the Author of A call to Judgement: sensible finance for a dynamic economy and the best seller The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world"

CARMEN REINHART identified the possibility of severe economic dislocations from the sub-prime crisis in 2007. She is co-author of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly which documents the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history and  won the 2010 TIIA-CREF Paul Samuelson Award. 

CHRIS TRIMBLE has dedicated the past ten years to studying a single challenge that vexes even the best-managed corporations: how to execute an innovation initiative. His work came to fruitition with the publication of his book, The Other Side of Innovation, solving the execution challenge with Vijay govindarajan. They also co-wrote 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators.

CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN  was ranked No.1 Business Management Thinker in  theThinkers50. Author of several best sellers including The Innovator's Solution he argues that innovation can be a predictable process that delivers sustainable, profitable growth.

DIANE COYLE former economist at the U.K Treasury, European Editor of Investors Chronicle and Economics Editor of The Independent. She is author of The Economics of Enough - how to rule the economy if the future matters. Diane is Director of “Enlightenment Economics”, the consultancy company she founded which specialises in global and technological issues. 

 E-PATIENT DAVE  is the leading spokesperson for the "e-Patient movement". He is an advocate of "participatory medicine" and believes the "patient" is the best resource of their own healing.
"e-patients" are encouraged to be empowered, engaged, equipped and enabled. His inspiring TEDx Maastricht brought went viral and has encouraged people all over the world to participate in their own treatment.

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA has written widely on issues relating to democratization and international political economy. The Origins of Political Order, was published in April 2011. Other books include America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative legacy. Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States.

HAROLD JAMES is Professor of History and International Affairs and European Studies at Princeton University. He has written several books, the most recent being: The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.He is also Marie Curie Visiting Professor at the European University Institute, and writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate.

HENRY CHESBROUGH was ranked No 38 in the Thinkers50 and is a co-founder of the Open Innovation Community. He created the theory and coined the term "open Innovation." He is Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley.

JOHN MATTONE  was ranked in the Thinkers50 as one of the world’s emergent thought leaders and appears on their “Guru Radar”. He has been recognised as as one of the fastest rising stars in the field of leadership development, an inspiring speaker, prolific author and highly sought-after executive coach.

KATIE LEDGER is a former UK National TV News Presenter with 15 years of broadcast experience working as a journalist for the BBC, ITN, Channel 5 in the UK and TVB in Hong Kong. She now concentrates on her a career as a conference facilitator, communications consultant, author and speaker. A superb facilitator she firmly believes in being the “voice of the audience” on stage

 LUCY P. MARCUS won the Thinkers 50
Future Thinker Award.
She speaks and writes about corporate governance, ethics and leadership in her own column for Reuters.  She also contributes to The Harvard Business Review, Business Week, and The Huffington Post.  

NIALL FERGUSON is one of the world's leading historians on the global economy. A contributing editor at the Financial Times, he brings unique historical perspective to contemporary economic and political issues. His recent book Civilisation The West and the Rest is an international best seller and the basis for a multi-part television documentary.

PARAG KHANNA Parag Khanna is a leading geo-strategist, world traveler and author. He is author of the international bestseller How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance. Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and one of fifteen individuals featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List".

RICHARD HAMES has been described as one of the century’s most foresightful corporate philosophers, considered to be among the world's influential intellectuals and futurists. His best seller,The Five Literacies of Global Leadership was the result of ten years of research and argues a case for jettisoning many of today's leadership orthodoxies in order to liberate collective wisdom.

ROGER MARTIN  was ranked No. 6 in the Thinkers50. Dean of the Rotman School of Management and advisor to CEO’s of major global corporations. He writes for BusinessWeek, The Washington Post and The Financial Times and has published several books including Fixing The Game and The Design of Busines.

STÉPHANE GARELLI is a professor at IMD International Business School. An exciting speaker who combines content with an entertaining approach to complex issues. He wrote the  best-seller Top Class Competitors - How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness  

TIM CAMPBELL retired from the World Bank in December of 2005 after 17 years working in various capacities in the urban sector. He is the Chairman of The Urban Age Institute which fosters leadership and innovation between and among cities and the author of Beyond Smart Cities, how cities, network, learn and innovate.

UMAIR HAQUE  was ranked No. 49 in the Thinkers50. An economist consultant and author of The New Capitalist Manifesto, building a disruptively better business and Betterness, economics for humans. He is columnist and blogger for the  Harvard Business Review and director of Havas Media Labs.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN was ranked No. 3 in the Thinkers50. He is one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He wrote bestsellers Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators and The Other Side of Innovation which focuses on how to turn an innovative idea into a successful business.