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Philippe Douste-Blazy is a United Nations official and former French centre-right politician. He has been Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the United Nations since 2008 and chairman of UNITAID since 2007. UNITAID is an international organization which aims to help developing countries with access to medical treatment against pandemics such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The organisation is made up of thirty countries and uses innovative financing. For example, through micro-solidarity contributions from activities that benefit from...
Robert Hannigan was Director of GCHQ, the UK’s largest technical and cybersecurity agency. Robert established the UK National Cyber Security Centre in 2016 and was responsible for the UK’s first cyber strategy in 2009. He was previously the Prime Minister’s Security Adviser at No10 and worked closely with Tony Blair for a decade on the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Robert is now international Chairman of BlueVoyant, a global cybersecurity services company, and was a Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Co. He...
Erik Saelens is the founder and executive strategic director of Brandhome group, which makes companies grow faster than their markets. With over 25 years’ experience in brand marketing and communication, Erik Saelens specialises in rebranding and renaming, and has executed and researched more than 300 brand-change operations worldwide. He is also an expert on brand management and M&A and IPO strategies, and draws on a strong operational background when putting these strategies into practice. Until 2002 Erik Saelens worked as senior brand...
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, the Finanser.com. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand, a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal’s Financial News. Skinner has previously written many books...
Born without legs, one would think Jen Bricker would be destined for a life of hardship. However, her amazing adoptive family, who gave her one simple rule, “Never Say No” and helped her forge a life of triumph, not tragedy. As a child, Jen was obsessed with gymnastics, and her idol was Olympic gold-medalist Dominique Moceanu. Seemingly against all odds, Jen went on to compete against able-bodied athletes, and became a State Champion in power tumbling—only later to discover Moceanu...
Delphine Remy-Boutang is Founder of The Bureau, a social media strategy agency based in Paris and London. She previously worked at IBM in a number of roles including both Marketing Director and Communications Director for EMEA, after which she became world-wide Social Media Director. Delphine co-ordinated IBM group’s transition to social media globally. For four years she executed the social media strategy inside a world-wide group of 470,000 employees. She identified market trends and developed new means of social media monitoring...
Juan Enriquez is one of those unique individuals who lives in the future and works on the cutting edge of discovery. He is an active investor in early-stage private companies in the life sciences sector, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on the uses and benefits of genomic research. Juan has recently co-authored, with Steve Gullans, an electronic book titled, Homo Evolutis: A Short Tour of Our New Species. The book takes you into a world where humans increasingly...
Jerry Kaplan is a Silicon Valley veteran best known for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry. Kaplan founded several technology companies, two of which became public companies. Kaplan was founder and CEO of GO Corporation, and prior to GO, Kaplan co-founded Teknowledge, one of the first artificial intelligence companies to commercialise Expert Systems. In 1994, Kaplan then co-founded Onsale, the world's first Internet auction website, which went public in 1997. In 2004, he pioneered the emerging market for...
From the day he was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital, Andy McNab has lived an extraordinary life. As a teenage delinquent, he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a member of 22 SAS he was at the centre of covert operations for nine years – on five continents. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol...
Professor Rajeev Gowda studied economics and political science at St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. Gowda holds a PhD in Public Policy and Management from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He was also a Post- Doctoral Fellow in Law and Economics from University of Berkeley, California. In 1991, Gowda was awarded the John M. Olin Post-doctoral Fellow in Law and Economics- Law School (Boalt Hall), University of California. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Jurisprudence and Social Policy- Law...
Born in 1963, Vincent Laudet is currently director of the Marine Station of Banyuls-sur-Mer and professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI). After obtaining his PhD in biology at the Pasteur Institute in Lille in 1992 he founded a research team working on the role of hormones in cancer. From 1997 to 2015 he was a professor at the ENS de Lyon, before he became director of the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon in 2008. Vincent Laudet...
Described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally recognised authority on global, economic, political and social trends. His newest book, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us, was published in 2016. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Executive Director of the Houston-based Centre for Opportunity Urbanism. He is Executive Editor of the widely read website New Geography and writes the weekly New Geographer column for Forbes.com. He...
Graham Weale is an expert on Energy Transitions both in Europe and the USA. He has a deep understanding of their political, economic and technological dimensions explaining how end-goals can be achieved at the lowest cost to society. Weale has the ability to highlight the difficult issues that politicians face and to explain the challenges of such transitions in a way which is illuminating. Between 2007-16 Weale was Chief Economist at RWE, Germany’s largest power generator, and helped navigate the company...
Every city, country, every government are sitting on a goldmine of hidden public assets. Professionally managed, these could help pay for our economic challenges from climate, demography and geopolitics. Through better asset and liability management, government revenues can be increased significantly – by several per cent of GDP annually. Dag Detter can help bring about transformative change by reassessing the potential of the commercial assets on the government balance sheet, most notably real estate and government-owned businesses. Dag Detter has unrivalled hands-on experience,...
Recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the Silicon Valley investors you must know, Edith Yeung is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and China Internet expert. As a partner at 500 Startups, the world’s most active early seed investor, Edith has invested in more than 40 mobile, AI and blockchain startups including Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), AISense, DayDayCook, AppOnBoard, Hooked, Oasis Labs, Stellar, Solana, CoCos-BCX, Palantir and many more. Edith Yeung is also...
Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, having worked in 8 start-ups in two decades (with four IPOs). He currently works as an academic, teaching at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Blank is the co-inventor of the Lean Startup movement, a serial entrepreneur-turned-best selling author and educator who has changed the way startups are built, how entrepreneurship is taught, and how big companies and the U.S. government innovate. He is the author of the startup bibles The Four Steps to the Epiphany...