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Chairman of Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P), member of the Académie des technologies and French General Inspector of Finance. Since 2010, he has been committed to social investments in Africa. He served as Director in charge of international development at the Ministry of Cooperation and Development, Vice President of the World Bank for Eastern Asia, and CEO of France’s International Development Agency (AFD) from 2001 to 2010. He has been Director of the board of EIB and Orange, lead director of the Board of Danone, and chaired the Board of Ecobank International. He is a Board member and chairman of the governance committee of Michelin. He is a senior fellow of FERDI, the Fondation pour les études et la recherche sur le développement international, for which he published in 2024 several papers related to global governance, Africa’s economic issues and impact investment. His last book, co-written with Jérémy Hadjenberg, Entreprenante Afrique, dedicated to African entrepreneurship was published in 2017 by Odile Jacob.

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. Former executive director of the Atlantic Forum of Israel. As part of his work at the Institute, he heads research programs that focus on Israeli foreign policy and the European Union’s and NATO’s relations with Israel and the Middle East. He teaches International Relations, Government and Security Studies at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the IDC. His areas of specialization include regional cooperation in the Middle East Basin and in the Asia-Pacific region. He holds an MA (cum laude) in International Relations from the Hebrew University.

Vice-Chairman of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, of the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia, of the Delegation for relations with the United States and of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He is a Member of the European Parliament since 1996, Vice-Chairman, PSE Group, European Parliament and PSE Group parliamentary manager. He was Vice-President, Interparliamentary delegation for relations with South-East Europe (1997-2004). He studied law and economics.

Member of the board of Carrefour, Club Méditerranée and Planet Finance & Financité and President of Le Riffray. After four years devoted to urban planning and public housing development programmes in several cities in France on behalf of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (a major French State financial operator), she joined, in 1979, the business world, participating in the management, development and executive direction of her family’s business group. Until January, 2006, she was CEO of Groupe Taittinger and Groupe du Louvre. She also served as CEO and then Chairman of Baccarat. She graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, from HEC (MBA) and Paris 5 University, post graduate degree in sociology, city planning and urban development.

Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the French Republic and Portugal. He was the Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations in Geneva (2007-2010) and the Permanent Representative of Singapore to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. He joined the Singapore Civil Service in 1985 and worked in the Ministry of Defence and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as First Secretary in the Singapore Embassy in Paris, as Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative in the Singapore Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. He graduated with a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie of Strasbourg, France.

Senior Partner, Co-Head of Global Equity Advisory, Rothschild Paris since 2008. As such he advises listed companies in their strategy as part of mergers and acquisitions, financial solutions and restructuring. Before joining Rothschild, he was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Chairman of Equity Capital Market, Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. He joined Deutsche in 1995 as the Head of French Equities in Paris. He became Head of European Equity Sales in 1998, and Head of European Equity in 2000. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he was a Managing Director and Head of French Equities for S.G. Warburg Securities in Paris. He also served as a Director at Lazard Frères & Cie in Paris. He received a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Paris and is also a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.

Minister of Health, Mexico. He was President of the General Council of the Electoral Institute of the State of Guanajuato, Director of the Academy of Professors and Students of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Guanajuato in which he was also full-time professor. He obtained a medical degree from the Medicine Faculty of the University of Guanajuato, speciality in internal medicine at INNSZ of Mexico, General Surgery at University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France.

Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. He is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015) and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Jeffry Frieden is also the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second edition 2020), of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.

Former Prime Minister, South Korea Republic. He served as Minister of Trade and Industry, Korean Ambassador to the US, Chief of Staff to the President, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was the President of the 56th Session of the UN General Assembly, Chair of the 2009 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting and Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change. He received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the United Nations in 2001 and was awarded an Honorary Knighthood from HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 2004.

Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for the Middle East and Europe. Among various positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Yutaka Iimura was appointed as the Minister for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Japan to the United States, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Indonesia and to France. He was a Fellow at Harvard University, the Center for International Affairs and a member of thejury of the Ambassadors Award (prix des Ambassadeurs) in France.

American Ambassador to Morocco. He is founding member and President of the Kaplan, Strangis and Kaplan law firm and member of the board of directors of several listed corporations. He served as one of the managers of John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004 and member of Barack Obama’s National Finance Committee. Ambassador Kaplan received business administration and law degree from the University of Minnesota, where he was elected President of the Law Review.

Journalist and a media specialist, he is Editor-in-chief of Revue Economia and Managing Director of the CESEM, HEM’s Research Center (HEM is a leading Moroccan Business School). He leads the Moroccan think tank Collectif Stratégie. He is also a literary critic and a member of many international magazines editorial boards. His novel Ma boîte noire was published by Le Grand Souffle, Paris, and Tarik Editions, Casablanca.

Professor of Philosophy of law at University of São Paulo and President of FAPESP (São Paulo Foundation for the Advancement of Research). He was Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade, Ambassador-Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO, the UN and the specialized agencies in Geneva. In 2006, he was the Countries and Cultures Chair at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. He holds a PhD at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Executive Vice President, Sustainable Development and Environment, at Total. She served as Vice President-Exploration in Norway before becoming Total’s Vice President-Geosciences in the United States in 2000. In 2004, she was appointed Vice President-R&D at Total Exploration & Production, responsible for all programmes designed to secure the technologies and capabilities required for future oil and gas exploration, production and development, while addressing the full range of technical, business and environmental issues. Ms. Lepoutre is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure de géologie de Nancy (ENSG) and the École nationale supérieure des pétroles et des moteurs (ENSPM) engineering school.

French Ambassador to the Czech Republic and former Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry of France. Former Secretary General of the Commission of the White Paper on France’s Foreign and European Policy, Head of the Service for Common Foreign and Security Policy and Deputy Director of the Cabinet of Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs. He holds degrees from the Ecole européenne des affaires (ESCP-EAP) and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris. He also graduated from ENA.

Appointed Managing Director of Studies and Documentation (DGED) by HM Mohammed VI, he has been in turn Wali and Managing Director of Foreign Affairs for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. His negotiation skills allowed him to play an active role in the normalization of Spanish-Moroccan relations, mainly through his work on joint measures against illegal emigration and drug traffic.

President of Mercer & Associates, a government and public affairs consulting firm. Previously, he served as the Deputy National Finance Director for the Democratic National Committee and as Finance Director for Operations for the DNC’s 1996 Democratic Convention. He has also held senior roles ranging from strategic communications to convention delegate operations in five presidential campaigns. In the private sector, he worked with Procter & Gamble, Citizens Energy, the Bank of Boston and the Monitor Channel.

Advisor to King Mohammed VI. He previously served as Minister of State to the Prime Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the government of King Mohammed Karim Lamrani III and Policy Officer in the Royal Cabinet. He graduated from the Rabat Faculty of Law and later earned a PhD in Political Science. His books include L’Expérience parlementaire au Maroc (The Parliamentary Experience in Morocco) and Le Régime politique marocain (The Moroccan Parliamentary Regime).

Principal of First Charnock Pty Ltd, Australia. He joined North Broken Hill in 1965, becoming a Director, Marketing and Finance (1971-1976). Hugh is currently Chairman of The Order of Australia Association Foundation Limited, Chairman Emeritus of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre, President of the National Gallery of Victoria Foundation, Member of the RAND Australia Advisory Council and Chairman of True Gold Consortium Pty Ltd. Previously he was a Member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1981-1984 and 1996-2007), Director of the Australian Stock Exchange (1982-1989), Chief Executive Officer of Western Mining Corporation (1990-2003), Member of Foreign Affairs Council, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2002-2008), President of the Business Council of Australia (2003-2005) and Member of the LafargeHolcim International Advisory Board (2001-2017).

Associate Editor and European Economic Columnist of the Financial Times. Together with his wife, the economist Susanne Mundschenk, he runs Euro- intelligence.com, an internet service that provides daily comment and analysis of the euro area, targeted at investors, academic and policy makers. He was one of the founding members of the Financial Times Deutschland where he served as Deputy Editor and then Editor-in-chief. He holds a MA in International Journalism at the City University, London. His book Vorberen, on the financial crisis, has received the prestigious GetAbstract business book award and is now published by McGraw Hill in the US.

Chairman of Centaurus Capital, a private investment management company he founded in 2000. Centaurus Capital is located in London and Hong Kong, and invests in Europe, Asia and the emerging markets. Bernard Oppetit is a Director of Natixis, and of Tigers Alliance (Vietnam), he sits on the Supervisory Board of HLD and the Advisory Board at Ondra Partners. He joined Paribas in Paris in 1979 where he served as Global Head of Equity Derivatives in London (1995-2000) and then Head of Risk Arbitrage at BNP Paribas in London. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

G8 Sherpa, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan. Among various positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, he was appointed as the Minister for Economic Affairs of the Embassy of Japan to France, the Director-General for African Affairs and as the Director-General of Economic Affairs Bureau.

Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS), Morocco. He is an economist, with a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris (1968). He was Mayor of Rabat (2009-2015), Minister of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco (1998-2008), Member of the Moroccan Parliament (1977-2002), President of the National Union of Students of Morocco (UNEM) (1966-1968). He has also been a University Professor, Chairman of the Association of Moroccan Economists (AEM) and of the Union of Arab Economists. He has authored many papers on economic theory, financial policy, international economic relations, with a focus on the Euro-Afro-Mediterranean area. La mondialisation et la pandémie. Chroniques de confinement (2021. PCNS. Rabat), La mondialisation et nous (2020. Ed. La Croisée des Chemins. Casablanca), La Chine et nous (2017. Ed. La Croisée des Chemins. Casablanca) are among his latest publications.

Former Chairman for Europe of Promontory Financial Group and President of Notre Europe. He was Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy, Chairman of the Trustees of the IASC Foundation and member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. After having been General Director for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Commission of the European Communities, he has been Joint Secretary to the Delors Committee. He graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University and has a MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

International affairs Editor of the Financial Times, he is also an associate Editor, responsible for leader and feature writing. Working at the FT since 1975, he served successively as southern Africa correspondent, Africa Editor, European Community correspondent and Brussels bureau Chief, Moscow correspondent and chief correspondent in Germany. On his return to London, he became foreign Editor. He was educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge, where he studied Economics with French and German.

Chief Executive Officer, EFG Bank European Financial Group SA. He is a member of the Board of Directors of EFG International and of EFG Bank AG. He is also a member of the Board of various subsidiaries of EFG Group. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and General Secretary of Banque de Dépôts, Geneva. He also worked for the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich (1978-1980). He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics and a post-graduate degree in Industrial and Management Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

CEO, Alma Consultance. Former Vice President, International and Marketing, Areva France. After holding many diplomatic posts with the United Nations in Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, he became an Advisor to former Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine, for North African, Middle East and United Nations Affairs. After serving as French Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, he joined, for the second time, the French mission to the United Nations as Political Counsellor. In late 2005, he became Deputy Director, Far East Asia, responsible for bilateral relations between France and North-East Asian countries. A graduate of IEP-Paris and the Institute of Asian Languages and Civilisations, he won the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s “Cadre Orient” competition, Asian Division (Chinese, Vietnamese).

Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, USA. Founder and President of Human Rights First, he has been at the forefront of the international human rights movement for 30 years. Previously, he was a lawyer with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago, a lecturer at Yale Law School and a visiting lecturer at Columbia Law School. A member of the California Bar and the Illinois Bar, he received his JD from the University of California, Berkeley Law School and a BA from the University of Michigan.

Former President of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Active in the Catalan autonomy movement from a very young age, he founded the political party Convergencia Democratica de Catalunya (CDC) in 1974. In May 1980, he became the 126th Head of Catalan’s autonomous government (President of the Generalitat). After 23 years in power, he gradually retired from political life after the 2003 elections. He still serves as President of the CiU and CDC. He earned a medical degree from the University of Barcelona and has received honorary doctorates from several French-language universities, including Lumière Lyon II, Paris VIII, Toulouse and the Catholic University of Brussels.