Speakers
- Mohamed Jamel Eddine Zarrouk , Chief Economist, Islamic Development Bank
- Suma Chakrabarti , President, EBRD
- Christine Lagarde , Managing Director, IMF
- Christopher A. Pissarides , Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Daron Acemoğlu , Professor of Applied Economics, M.I.T., co-author of the best-seller "Why Nations Fail"
- David Li Daokui , Director, Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE), Tsinghua University
- Edward Prescott , Joint Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, 2004
- Erik Berglof , Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, The London School of Economics and political Science (LSE)
- François Fillon , Former Prime Minister of France
- Ha-Joon Chang , Korean economist, author of the bestseller "23 Things They Don`t Tell You About Capitalism"
- Ivan Mikloš , Advisor to the Minsiter of Finance of Ukraine and Advisor to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
- Jack Ma , Chinese billionaire, founder & Chairman of the Board, "Alibaba Group"
- Jacob Frenkel , Chairman, JP Morgan Chase International, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Group of Thirty (G-30)
- Jacques Attali , President of Positive Planet Foundation and A&A Group, Chairman of Supervisory Board of Slate.fr, first president of the EBRD
- James G. McGann , Director, Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania
- Jeffrey D. Sachs , Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University , senior UN advisor and bestselling author
- Jesus Felipe , Advisor, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, ADB
- Marc Uzan , Founder and Executive Director of Reinventing Bretton-Woods Committee
- Mattia Romani , Managing Director, Country and Sector Economics, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Peter Frankopan , Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, author of the bestseller "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World", the book of the year 2015 according to The Daily Telegraph
- Sergei Glazyev , Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on Regional Economic Integration
- Simon Baptist , Chief Economist at the EIU
- Song Hongbing , World financial expert, author of best-seller "Currency Wars"
David D. Li is China’s leading economist and a top advisor to Chinese senior leaders. He is the Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor of Economics and the Director of the Tsinghua University Center for China and the World Economy. He is also the founding Dean of Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University, a fellowship program with a master’s degree curriculum that seeks to bring future global leaders to Tsinghua with the goal of bridging the gap between China and the world. The launch of the program in 2013 elicited congratulatory letters from China President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Obama. Professor Li has served on the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s central bank and is currently a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which functions in a capacity similar to that of Britain’s House of Lords.
David Li is an active writer and speaker on issues regarding the Chinese economy and global politics. He frequently participates in discussions with leading intellectuals and other prominent figures from around the world, such as debating with Henry Kissinger, Fareed Zakaria and Niall Ferguson on the topic of whether the 21st century will belong to China. He also makes frequent appearances on television outlets such as CNBC and Bloomberg, and his writings and quotes can be found in prominent publications such as the New York Times, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.