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"
Dr. Edward Prescott was awarded the Nobel Prize for contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles. He is currently working as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and a Professor at Arizona State University's School of Business.
Edward Prescott received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Swarthmore College, a master's degree from Case Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. He has held teaching positions at the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a coeditor of Economic Theory and a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former president of the Society of Economic Dynamics and a former associate editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review and the Journal of Econometrics.