Recent Speakers


Over the past 12 months, we have hosted 200 leading Chairmen/CEOs, government decision makers, opinion-formers and industry experts. They covered a broad array of global issues – ranging from innovation and sustainability to global mobility and capital markets – and of geographies – ranging from “Chindia”, Russia and Kazakhstan to the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Our recent guests/speakers include:

Joaquín Almunia
Vice President, European Commission

Lionel Barber
Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times

Maria Bartiromo
Anchor, CNBC

Dominic Barton
Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company

Sir Roger Bone
President, Boeing UK Ltd

David Brennan
CEO, AstraZeneca

Martin Broughton
Chairman, British Airways

Robert E. Diamond, Jr.
Group Chief Executive, Barclays PLC

Daniel Doctoroff
President, Bloomberg

Thomas J. Donohue
President & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Dan Glaser
Group President & COO
Marsh & McLennan Companies

Tom Glocer
CEO, Thomson Reuters

Sir Mark Lyall Grant
UK Ambassador to the United Nations

Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint
UK Minister of State for Trade & Investment

Stuart Gulliver
Group Chief Executive, HSBC Bank plc

The Rt Honourable William Hague MP
British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

William E. Kennard
U.S. Ambassador to the European Union

Robert P. Kelly
Chairman and CEO, BNY Mellon

Ian King
Chief Executive, BAE Systems

Neelie Kroes
EU Commissioner for Competition 

A.G. Lafley
Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble

Christine Lagarde
(then) Minister of Finance, Economy & Employment, France

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Sir Deryck Maughan
Managing Director, KKR; Chairman, KKR Japan

Raymond McDaniel, Jr.
Chairman and CEO, Moody's Corporation

Harold (Terry) McGraw
Chairman, President & CEO, McGraw-Hill Companies

J.W. Marriott, Jr.
Chairman & CEO,
Marriott International, Inc.

John Micklethwait
Editor-in-Chief,
The Economist

Andrew Moss
Group Chief Executive, Aviva

James Murdoch
Chairman & CEO Europe and Asia, News Corp.

Dennis Nally
Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd

Michael Neeb
President and CEO, HCA International

Duncan Niederauer
CEO, NYSE Euronext

Dick Olver
Chairman, BAE Systems

Mike Oxley
Vice Chairman, Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.

Vikram Pandit
CEO, citi

Pete Peterson
Chairman, Peterson Foundation & Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group

Joe Plumeri
Chairman and CEO, Willis Group Holdings plc

Steve Ridgway
CEO, Virgin Atlantic Airways

Wilbur Ross
Chairman and CEO, WL Ross & Co LLC

Nouriel Roubini
Professor of Economics, New York University & Chairman, Roubini Global Economics

Peter Sands
Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered PLC

Steven Schwarzman
Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group

Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG
(then) UK Ambassador to the United States

Jeff Smisek
President & CEO, United Continental Holdings

Sir Martin Sorrell
Chief Executive, WPP Group

The Hon Louis B. Susman
US Ambassador to the UK

Peter Sutherland
Chairman, BP
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

Ratan Tata
Chairman, Tata Sons

Robert Thompson
Editor in Chief, Wall Street Journal

Rex Tillerson
Chairman & CEO, ExxonMobil

Jean-Claude Trichet
(then) President, European Central Bank

James Turley
Chairman and Chief Executive Office, Ernst & Young

Lord Turner
Chairman, UK Financial Services Authority

Peter Voser
Chief Executive, Diageo, plc

Paul S. Walsh
Chief Executive, Diageo, plc

Willie Walsh
CEO, British Airway

William C. Weldon
Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson

Sandy Young
CEO, Allied Healthcare 

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