Joel Whitaker
Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research at Frontier Strategy Group
Jack A. Goldstone
Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, Head of the International Laboratory for Political Demography and Macrosociological Dynamics at Moscow’s RANEPA
Oliver Stuenkel
Professor of International Relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo
Mo Ibrahim
Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, founder of Celtel
Pierre Casse
Professor of Leadership at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Shailesh Rao
Director of New Products & Solutions at Google Enterprise, Head of Google’s Cloud Global Business Unit
Maxim Kronhaus
Head of the Social Linguistics Centre at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management, and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Marcos Troyjo
Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, where he also teaches international affairs
Claire Hsu
Co-founder of the Asia Art Archive and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
Nouriel Roubini
Chairman of Roubini Global Economics, Professor of Economics and International Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University
Pankaj Ghemawat
Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University
Rodrigo Canales
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management
Vladislav Inozemtsev
Head of the Public Administration Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Director of Moscow’s Centre for Post-Industrial Studies
Christopher Hartwell
Head of Global Markets and Institutional Research, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
Founder of The Evian Group, an international coalition of corporate, government and opinion leaders, and Professor Emeritus of International Political Economy at IMD
Simon Anholt
independent policy advisor on strategies, author of the Nation Brands Index, winner of the 2009 Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking
Sergey Mitrofanov
Head of the Moscow office of Brandflight, founder of Mitrofanov & Partners
Pushpa Arabindoo
Co-Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory at University College London
Celso Amorim
Brazil’s Minister of Defense and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Michael Spence
Nobel laureate and William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University
Matthew Ferchen
Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, Resident Scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Tao Ran
Professor in the Department of Economics at the Renmin (People’s) University of China