Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2014, and as Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2001.
Pascal Lamy is a French political consultant and businessman. He was the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 1 September 2005 to 1 September 2013 for 8 years. In April 2009, WTO members reappointed Lamy for a second 4-year term, beginning on 1 September 2009. He was then succeeded by Roberto Azevêdo. Pascal Lamy was also European Commissioner for Trade for 5 years, from 13 September 1999 to 22 November 2004 and is an advisor for the transatlantic think-tank European Horizons, as well as currently serving as the Honorary President of the Paris-based think tank, Notre Europe.
Sir Paul Rupert Judge was an English business and political figure. He served as Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts, President of the Chartered Management Institute, and Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association. He also served as the Director General of the Conservative Party and a Ministerial Advisor to the Cabinet Office. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Gary David Cohn is an American businessman, investment banker, investor, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th Director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. He managed the administration's economic policy agenda. Before serving in the White House, Cohn was president and COO of Goldman Sachs, where he worked for more than 25 years. Cohn was appointed vice-chairman of IBM on January 5, 2021.
Ronald Allen Williams is an American Businessman, Entrepreneur and management consultant, and board director on corporate, public sector and non-profit boards. Williams is the author of Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization, which appeared on The Wall Street Journal's best seller list. He is founder, chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises, LLC. He is the former chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Aetna Inc., a diversified benefits company. Aetna is now part of CVS Health.
Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin is an academic and historian, former vice chancellor and former President of the National Library of Wales. From 2013 to 2020, he served as Chair of Wales Remembers 1914-1918 and was expert adviser to the First Minister of Wales for the Centenary of the First World War. Hopkin was from 2001 until 2009 vice-chancellor and chief executive of London South Bank University, England. From 2011 to 2015, he was president of the National Library of Wales. He is an historian, originally from Wales and a fluent Welsh speaker.
Sir Ian Edward Lamert Davis is an English businessman, best known for his role as managing director of McKinsey & Company. He succeeded Rajat Gupta on 1 July 2003. He joined McKinsey in 1979 retired in 2010, after 7 years at Bowater and currently serves as a senior partner emeritus.
Air Marshal Timothy Garden, Baron Garden,, FRUSI, FCGI was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who later became a university professor and a Liberal Democrat politician.
Jaime Augusto Miranda Zóbel de Ayala II, also known as Jaime Augusto Zóbel, is a Filipino businessman from the prominent Zóbel de Ayala family. He currently serves as the chairman of Ayala Corporation. He succeeded his father, Jaime Zóbel de Ayala, as the company's president and CEO in 1994. He was the company's chairman and CEO from 2006 to 2020.
Timothy John Crommelin Eggar is a British businessman and former politician. He holds positions on the boards of multiple organisations including Shiplake College and Cape plc, and was the Conservative MP for Enfield North between 1979 and 1997.
Sir John Boothman StuttardKStJ JP FCA is an English chartered accountant who was Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2006-07.
Barbara Thomas Judge, Lady Judge, previously known as Barbara Singer Thomas, was an American-British lawyer and businesswoman, based in London with dual American-British citizenship.
Dr. Nasser Saidi is a Lebanese politician and economist who served as the Minister of Economy and Industry and the Vice Governor for the Lebanese central banks for several terms in the last decade of the 20th century.
Robert (Bob) Wigley, OStJ, BSc, HonDBA, FCA, CCMI, is chairman of UK Finance, Vesta Global Holdings Ltd, Vizolution Ltd and is an investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is author of a book about the effects of technology on Gen Z, Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted generation. He is a non-executive director of Symphony Environmental Plc, the Qatar Financial Centre and chairman of its audit committee. He is a Founding Global Britain Commissioner, member of the Trade Advisory Group for Financial Services at the Department for International Trade and a member of the UK's Economic Crime Strategic Board, co-chaired by the Home Secretary and chancellor. He is an executive member of Seraphim Space Enterprise LLP. He is vice patron of the RMA - the Royal Marines Charity, supporter and adviser to St John Ambulance's development team, and is a corporate board member of Cancer Research UK. He sits on the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, on the Leadership Council of TheCityUK and on the advisory boards of Cap10 Partners LLP, Grant Thornton UK LLP, Privately SA, Remora Ltd, Ueni Ltd, Vidrate Ltd and VML Technologies Ltd. He is a visiting fellow of Oxford University's Said Business School, an honorary fellow of Cambridge University's Judge Business School and an adjunct professor at The University of Queensland. He is an ambassador for Nevill Holt Opera. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and has a business degree and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath. He is also co-proprietor of Margot Restaurant in Covent Garden. He is an officer of the Order of St. John. He is a Past Master and member of the Court Emeritus of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers.
Denise Patricia Byrne Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill CBE is a British Labour peer. She was appointed as a life peer in 2006 after practising as a solicitor in personal injury, trade union and employment law.
John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-American businessman serving as executive chairman and chief executive officer of BlackBerry Ltd. Previously, he served as the chief executive officer and president of Sybase, a software vendor specializing in data management, analytics, and mobility technology.
William Samuel Hugh Laidlaw is the Executive Chairman of Neptune Energy, the independent E&P company. He is former chief executive officer of Centrica, the British natural gas and electricity company.
Caio Kai Koch-Weser is a German economist, civil servant and business executive. He was Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry of Finance 1999–2005. Prior to becoming Secretary of State, he served in the World Bank in a number of positions for 26 years, from 1991–1999 as Vice President and from 1996–1999 as Managing Director of Operations. He is now a Vice Chairman and senior adviser with Deutsche Bank.
The Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB) is a research center was launched in March 2009 as part of Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, England, to support the university's growing engagement with India. As a research centre and an engagement platform CIGB is dedicated to the study of India's rapidly expanding role in the global knowledge economy.
Andrew Griffith is a British politician and former senior media executive who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel and South Downs since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been serving as Economic Secretary to the Treasury since October 2022. He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exports in July 2022 and served until September 2022. Griffith previously was Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit from February 2022 to July 2022.
