The Global Speaker Network

Economics & Political Speakers

Arun Shourie Former Union Minister to the Government of India
M Damodaran Former Chairman of the Securities Exchange Board of India
Surijit Bhalla Economist; MD of Oxus Research & Investments
Bibek Debroy Economist; Research Professor at IMI
Subir Gokarn Economist; Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
R A Mashelkar Leading architect of India's science and technology policies
Ajit Ranade Group Chief Economist - Aditya Birla Group
Ajay Shah Economist - National Institute for Public Finance & Policy
Yashwant Sinha Former Finance Minister to The Government of India
Mark Tully Former BBC journalist and Chief of Bureau for India
Mahesh Vyas Chief Economist & Managing Director of CMIE
Ram Guha Historian and Author
David Miliband Former UK Foreign Secretary
Linda Yueh Global authority on the Chinese economy
Muhammad Yunus Founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Bernard Kouchner Former French Minister of Foreign & European Affairs
John Kufuor Former President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009
Martti Ahtisaari President of Finland 1994-2000; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008
Michel Camdessus Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Alastair Campbell Former Head of Communications for Tony Blair
Ha-Joon Chang Author of "23 Things They Don't Tell About Capitalism"
Augusto Lopez Claros Former Director of the Global Competitveness Report at the World Economic Forum
Rodrigo de Rato Former Managing Director of the Internatinol Monetary Fund
Hernando de Soto One of Time magazines "Leaders for the New Millenium"; Expert on CSR
Dominique de Villepin Former Prime Minister of France
Jan Eliasson Former Swedish Foreign Minister
Roger Fisk Former National Director of Special Events for Barack Obama's presidential campaign
Mikhail Gorbachev Former President of the Soviet Union
Parag Khanna Author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Norman Lamont Former Cabinet Minister in Margaret Thatcher's government
Ken Livingstone Former Mayor of London; speaker on London in the global economy
George Mitchell Chaired the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland; Listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world
Mike Moore Former New Zealand Prime Minister and Director General of the World Trade Organisation
Chris Patten Former Governor of Hong Kong and European Commissioner
Christopher Pissarides Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics
Peer Steinbrueck Former Finance Minister of Germany
Joseph Stiglitz Former Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors
Axel Weber Former President of the Bundestag, the German central bank
David A. Smith Chief Executive of Global Futures and Foresight
David Aaronovitch Challenging political commentator
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Authority on the relationship between the West and Islam
Martin Bell Former BBC journalist and Independent MP
Carl Bernstein One of the "Watergate" investigative journalists
Mahathir Bin Mohamad Former Prime Minister of Malaysia
David Blanchflower Former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee
Zbigniew Brzenzinski Former national security advisor to the President of the United States
Todd Buchholz Former Director of Economic Policy to the US President: Hedge Fund Manager
Greg Clark Expert on cities, former advisor to the Mayor of London
Howard Dean Second longest serving Governor in Vermont
Frederick Dubee Senior Advisor of Global Compact in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Larry Elliot The Guardian’s economics editor
Charles Falconer Former Lord Chancellor in Tony Blair's government
James Fergusson Journalist and author, expert on Islam and the Taliban
Adam Fergusson Author of "When Money Dies"
Joschka Fischer Former Foreign Minister of Germany
Cesar Gaviria Former President of Colombia
John Gieve Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
Scott Goodstein Developed the social networking platforms for the Obama presidential campaign
Peter Hain Former British Cabinet Minister and government minister
Tim Harford Author of "The Undercover Economist"
Anthony Hilton Business and economics commentator for the London Evening Standard
Will Hutton Journalist, broadcaster and commentator
Otmar Issing Former Chief Economist and member of the Executive Board at the European Central Bank
Ayo Johnson Expert on African affairs, human rights and justice
Paul Keating Former Prime Minister of Australia
Vaclav Klaus President of the Czech Republic
Helmut Kohl Former Chancellor of Germany
Lee Kwan Yew Former Prime Minister of Singapore
Gerard Lyons Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered Bank
George Magnus Senior economic adviser, author of "The Age of Aging"
Lord Mandelson Former EU Commissioner for Trade and was the UK's Deputy Prime Minister
Dambisa Moyo Author of "Dead Aid", expert on international development and micro-finance
Robert Mundell Nobel Laureate in Economics
Armen Papazian World Authority on Islamic Finance, Former Head of Islamic Finance at UBS
Edmund Phelps Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2006
Jonathan Powell Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff
Michel Prada Chairman of the International Valuation Standards Council.
Lord Robertson Former Secretary-General of NATO
James Rubin Executive Editor of the Bloomberg View
John Sfakianakis Chief Economist of the the Gulf Research Center in Geneva and Dubai