Government & Politics speakers


Stefan Dercon
Former Chief Economist of DFID

Mark Updegrove
Presidential Historian for ABC News, Author, CEO of the LBJ Foundation

Daniel Tarullo
Former member of the Federal Reserve Board

Xiao Geng
President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance

Wang Xiangwei
Former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post

Weijian Shan
Chairman of PAG and author of "Out of the Gobi"

Larry Elder
Nationally syndicated radio host and newspaper columnist, bestselling author and well-known media figure

Jonas Nahm
Energy Transition Expert


Andrew Leon Hanna
Entrepreneur, Lawyer, and Author of 25 Million Sparks


Michael Sheldrick
Co-Founder of Global Citizen


James Bacchus
Former Chief Judge of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization


Vitali Klitschko
Mayor of Kyiv and Hero of Ukraine,
Founder of Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR),
Former World Boxing Heavy Weight Champion (1999-2000) (2008-13)


Carl Bildt
Prime Minister of Sweden,
Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs,
World Health Organization's Special Envoy - Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator)


Ayesha Hazarika
Editor - The Londoner,
Labour Party Special Adviser (2007 - 2015),
Co-author of " Punch and Judy Politics"


Mohamed ElBaradei
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2005),
Director General - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (1997 - 2009),
Vice president of Egypt (2013)


Willis Sparks
Expert on US politics and Foreign Policy,
Director - Global Macro practice at Eurasia Group,
Senior Editor - Signal,

Robert Service
One of the world's foremost authorities on modern Russia

Elizabeth Duke
Former Governor of the Federal Reserve

Randal Quarles
Former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Former Head of NATO