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"
A professor of Applied Economics at M.I.T., Daron Acemoglu is among the 20 most cited economists in the world. A 2012 New York Times Magazine feature said he is “as hot as economists get.” In 2005, he received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, for being a top economist under 40. Acemoglu is the co-author, with Harvard’s James Robinson, of The New York Times bestseller "Why Nations Fail", which, like Jared Diamond’sGuns, Germs, and Steel, is a major work of historical, political and cultural heft that comes along once every few years.
Born in Turkey and educated in England, Acemoglu has written for mainstream magazines such as Esquire and co-edits academic publications, such as The Journal of Economic Growth. Acemoglu’s expertise stretches across the full spectrum of macroeconomics, with a focus on the role of institutions in economic development.