Economic & Financial Affairs speakers
Charles Powell
Co-Chair, Government Asia Task Force
Zain Latif
Founder, TLG Capital
Zhou Wenzhong
Secretary General of the Boao Forum for Asia
Liu Mingkang
Prominent Chinese Regulator
Andrew Cahn
Vice Chairman of Public Policy, Nomura Group
Jean-Claude Trichet
Chairman of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences,
(2023) Former President of the European Central Bank,
Honorary Governor of the Banque de France
Craig Pirrong
Professor of Finance, University of Houston
Paulo Vieira da Cunha
Former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Brazil
Stefan Wagstyl
Berlin Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Simon Cox
China Economics Editor, The Economist
Michael Reid
Writer and commentator on Latin American and Iberian affairs.
Joseph Yam
Expert on Banking & Financial Crises
Yu Yongding
China’s Leading Monetary Economist
Hans-Werner Sinn
One of Germany’s Most Influential Economists
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Thabo Mbeki
Former President of South Africa
Vijay L Kelkar
Influential Indian Economist
Esther Duflo
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation & Development Economics, MIT
Robert Peston
ITV’s political editor, presenter of the politics show “Peston”,
Fatih Birol
Executive Director, International Energy Agency