Muhammad Yunus
Recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Muhammad Yunus is internationally recognized for his work in poverty alleviation and the empowerment of poor women
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Niall Ferguson
The Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of ‘The Ascent and Descent of Money’
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Joschka Fischer
Former German Vice-Chancellor and a leading figure in the German Green Party
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Joseph E Stiglitz
Co-Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the U.S.
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Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham
Digby is a name synonymous with British business. He is acutely passionate about it having served as Director General at the CBI (2000 –2006) and Minister of UK Trade & Investment (July 2007 - October 2008)
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Jeremy Rifkin
Rifkin serves as an advisor to the European Commission, the European Parliament, and several EU heads of state on issues related to the economy, climate change, and energy security
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Amartya Sen
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 1998
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Rajendra Pachauri
Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Laura Tyson
Member of President Obama's Economic Advisory Panel, where she is an integral part of a team of advisors assessing the measures needed to get the U.S. economy back on track
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Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Lord Anthony Giddens
According to Google Scholar, he is the most widely cited sociologist in the world today
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Klaus Toepfer
Former United Nations Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
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Sir Stuart Hampson
Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership for 14 years
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Christopher F Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes
The Right Honourable Christopher Francis Patten,
Baron Patten of Barnes
Former Governor of Hong Kong and
European Commissioner for External Affairs
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Norbert Walter - English
Former Chief economist of Deutsche Bank Group and head of Deutsche Bank Research
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Alastair Campbell
Former Director of Communications and Strategy Prime Minister’s Office
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Nick Leeson
The rogue trader whose unchecked risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century
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Rodrigo de Rato
Former Director General of the IMF and Vice President of Spain
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Vaclav Havel
Writer and Dramatist; One of the first Spokesmen for Charter 77; Leading Figure of the Velvet Revolution of 1989; Last President of Czechoslovakia; and First President of the Czech Republic
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Hernando de Soto
President, Institute for Liberty & Democracy, Lima, Peru.
“The world’s greatest living economist.” - Bill Clinton
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Jim Rogers
Co-Founder Quantum Fund (with George Soros) & Private Investor, also Author of “Adventure Capitalist”, “A Bull in China” & “Investment Biker Rogers”
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Jagdish Bhagwati
Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization, and External Adviser to the WTO
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Asit K. Biswas
Founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management, an adviser to six heads of United Nations agencies and the governments of 17 countries
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Tim Smit
CEO and co-founder, The Eden Project
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Daniel Goeudevert
Business Visionary
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Sir Richard Needham
International & Commercial Director of Dyson, Chairman of Avon Rubber and Vice Chairman of NEC (Europe)
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Bjørn Lomborg
The Skeptical Environmentalist
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Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.
Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. is a Civil Rights activist, clergyman, and prominent African American leader in the United States
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Gary Pisano
Author of ‘Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech’ - named best biotech book in 2007
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Sir John Banham
One of the most experiences leaders of UK Plc
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Frits Bolkestein
As European Commissioner until 2004 Bolkestein was responsible for Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union issues
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Director of the World Health Organization and Prime Minister of Norway
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Edmund S. Phelps
The 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Frances Cairncross
Governor of Britain’s National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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Will Hutton
Chief Executive, The Work Foundation and Leading Commentator on Socio-Economic Issues
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Max Clifford
PR guru, one of the UK's best known publicist and a consummate media manipulator
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