Politics, Government & Global Affairs speakers
Tom Bower
Investigative Historian & Journalist
Jeremy Rifkin
Leading expert on global energy policy
Koichi Hamada
Prominent Japanese Economist
Gavin Hewitt
Expert Commentator on the Eurozone Crisis
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David Pilling
Associate Editor & Africa Editor - Financial Times
Álvaro Uribe
Former President of Columbia
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Mary Ann Sieghart
Highly Regarded Current Affairs Commentator and author of award-winning book, The Authority Gap
Richard Dowden
Director, Royal African Society
Clark T. Randt, Jr.
Expert on Chinese Business, Politics & Law
Steve Tsang
Leading Expert on China
Charles Powell
Co-Chair, Government Asia Task Force
Joe Foweraker
Expert on Governance in Latin America
Jonathan Fenby
Journalist, Author & Expert on China and France
Charles Grant
Director & Co-founder, Centre for European Reform
Mats Persson
Director, Open Europe
Roula Khalaf
Editor, Financial Times
Rosemary Foot
Expert on International Security & US-Chinese Relations
Camilla Cavendish
Contributing editor and columnist at The Financial Times, Senior Fellow at Harvard University
Cherie Blair
Leading Human Rights Barrister
Zhou Wenzhong
Secretary General of the Boao Forum for Asia