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"
Professor Erik Berglof is the Director of the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The IGA brings together several regional and some thematic research centres in order to increase the impact of research, policy thinking and teaching at the LSE. Prior to the LSE, Erik Berglof was the Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Professor Berglof also previously held the position of Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics.
He was Assistant Professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Currently, he is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Treasurer of the International Economic Association, Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of New Economic Thinking in New York, Board Member and Research Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels, and Board Members of the New Economic School in Moscow. In 2013 he was awarded the Leontief Medal for his contributions to economic reforms.