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"
Ivan Mikloš is former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic (2002-2006, 2010-2012), Deputy Prime Minister for Economy (1998-2002), Minister of Privatization (1991-1992). He co-founded and led a think-tank MESA10 (1992-1998). During 2006-2010 and 2012-2016 he was a Member of Parliament. In 2014 he was appointed as a President of MESA 10 and became a member of the International Advisory Board of National Reform Council of Ukraine and VoxUkraine. From February 2015 he serves as a Chief Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine and as an Advisor to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.
He was one of the leading figures of economic transformation in Slovakia. Ivan Mikloš significantly contributed to the entry of the Slovak Republic into the OECD and started an extensive and effective tax reform. He led the government agenda on economic restructuring and fiscal consolidation. The second Dzurinda´s government (2002-2006) gained a very reformist reputation thanks to severe austerity measures and a comprehensive program of structural reforms (tax, social sector, pension, healthcare, public finance, labour market) backed by Ivan Mikloš. Thanks to these reforms Slovakia was able to join Eurozone in 2009. In 2004 he was awarded by Euromoney the best Minister of Finance of the Year and the top business reformer by the World Bank´s Doing Business report. Ivan Mikloš is the author of the Book of reforms (2005), Rewriting the Rule (2001) and also of dozens of studies and articles in the expert and popular press.