Parag Khanna is the leading next-generation voice on the future of global affairs. Named one of Esquire magazine's 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century and at the top of Wired magazine's Smart List, Khanna was a foreign policy advisor to President Barack Obama during his historic presidential campaign. He is currently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, the country's most innovative think tank, where he directs the Roundtable on the Future of the World Economy and advises the US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2030 program. He is also co-director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a global advisory firm providing insight into the implications of emerging technologies.
Recently described as one of the century’s most insightful corporate philosophers and by Forbes Asia as "one of the smartest people on the planet". Richard Hames is an organisational designer, social entrepreneur, futurist, speaker and best selling author. He is widely considered to be among the world's most influential thought leaders and change strategists. An architect of mindful evolution, Richard works at the interface between organisations and society. Using various forms of enquiry he helps us cut through the fog of our current paradigm. By asking challenging questions wisdom is liberated, leading to the deep renewal of worldviews, strategies, structures and practices.
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He
is one of the world's leading historians on the global economy.
Controversial, expansive and eloquent, he writes and speaks about the costs and benefits of globalisation and the relations between finance and politics.
LUCY P. MARCUS won the Thinkers 50 Future Thinker Award which recognises "A Thinker who has emerged over the last two years with the potential to change the world of theory and practice”
DIANE COYLE (OBE) former economist at the U.K Treasury, European Editor of Investors Chronicle and Economics Editor of The Independent. Presently she is Director of “Enlightenment Economics”, the consultancy company she founded in 2001, specialising in global and technological issues.
Amar Bhidé is Thomas Schmidheiny Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Previously he was Professor of Business at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and editor of its journal, Capitalism and Society.
Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, effective July 2010. He joined Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program.
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs and the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies at Princeton University.