Nicholas Kristof
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has traveled China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into such issues as global health, poverty and ...
Sheryl WuDunn
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and professional speaker, Sheryl WuDunn offers a unique perspective on current economic, political and social issues such as women's rights. As co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Half the Sky, WuDunn calls attention to the trials and triumphs of women ...
Rob Gifford
An NPR Foreign Correspondent and China Editor of The Economist magazine, Gifford authored the critically acclaimed China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
As Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department, Anne-Marie Slaughter touched on nearly every foreign policy issue. She was named a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.
Ted Fishman
A veteran journalist and former commodities trader, Fishman has emerged as a leading expert on China and its development as a world power. Describing the effects of China’s momentous change on the lives of people and businesses everywhere, he authored the best-selling book, China, Inc.
Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas is a columnist for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune. Their first Bombay-based correspondent in the modern era, he reported on India's transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. As a keynote ...
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Bhagwati, Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has made contributions to development theory and policy, public finance, immigration and to the new theory of political economy. His books are acknowledged to have provided the intellectual case for the economic reforms now ...
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
With her father former President of Sri Lanka and mother the world’s first women Prime Minister, Kumaratunga was destined to be the first woman President of Sri Lanka. Renowned for her energy and intellect, she describes leading a nation through challenging times, including the 2004 tsunami, fighting terrorism, and ...
Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk research and consulting firm that provides financial, corporate, and government clients with information and insight on how political developments move markets. He is the author of the national bestseller The End of the Free Market: Who Wins ...
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta's book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found was called "narrative reporting at its finest" by The New York Times; The Economist named it a Book of the Year. Mehta's journalism and fiction won him the Whiting Award and the O. Henry Prize. He has written and spoken widely on the future of ...
Mike Chinoy
Former foreign correspondent for CNN, Chinoy is the author of the acclaimed books China Live: People, Power and the Television Revolution and Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at USC's US-China Institute and also serves as Asia’s Vice President ...
Ayesha Khanna
Ayesha Khanna is Partner of Hybrid Realities, a research and consulting firm headquartered in New York, and Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a think tank which explores human-technology co-evolution in the "hybrid age" and its implications for society, business, and politics. She is a strategy advisor with over ...
Jenny Shipley
Shipley has held many distinguished positions throughout her career in politics. Most notable was her role as the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand, which she held from 1997 to 1999. As Prime Minister, Shipley was the first woman to chair the highly successful APEC in New Zealand in 1999, advancing the free ...
Somaly Mam
Sold into sexual slavery as young girl, Mam has dedicated her life to finding a way to stop this horrific practice. Her past has fueled her passion and all her efforts to help young children and women who have become victims of sex slavery and human trafficking. Her incredible life experiences, stalwart dedication, and ...
Mira Kamdar
The award-winning author of Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the World’s Largest Democracy and the Future of our World, Kamdar is a globally renowned expert on India.
John Wood
At age 35, John Wood left an executive career track at Microsoft Corporation to form Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that "combines the heart of Mother Theresa with the scalability of Starbucks" to help children across the developing world break the cycle of poverty through the power of education. Razor-sharp ...
Mike Moore
Mike Moore, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in politics and acted as the driving force behind important changes within the WTO. He is a sought after keynote speaker on global economic and social issues.
Christopher Patten
The last British Governor of Hong Kong, Christopher Patten orchestrated the transfer of rule over the colony to China. From this historical vantage point, he offers his views on the impact Communist rule and China's promise of "one nation, two systems" may have on one of the world's most successful free-market societies.
Mahathir Bin Mohamad
Mahathir Bin Mohamad, known to many as Dr. M, was the Malaysian Prime Minister from 1981-2003. He is credited as being the figure who engineered Malaysia’s rapid modernism and swift growth of prosperity and is an expert on Asian culture and global development.
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Xavier Sala-i-Martin is Professor of Economics at Columbia University in New York and the Chief Economic Advisor to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A respected economist, Sala-i-Martin is also a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a member of the Counseling Board of Telefonica ...
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