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Associate Dean for Ageing, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University. Professor of medicine and biologist, he is Co-holder of the AXA-Paris Descartes Chair in “A systems approach to individual differences in longevity”. A former researcher at the National Institute for Medical Research, in 1993 he became professor of biological gerontology at the University of Manchester. He has served as Advisor to the British Parliament and European President (Biology) of the International Association of Gerontology. He graduated from Oxford and Cambridge in the fields of biology and mathematics.

General Manager and Financial Director of Lebanese Company for Development and Reconstruction of Beirut Central District (Solidere).  Member of the board of Directors of Beirut Waterfront Development, a subsidiary of Solidere in charge of the real estate development around Beirut Marina.  He has six years of experience with accounting firms in London and 15 years of experience in finance, business, accounting and management in the field of real estate and construction in the Middle East and Europe. He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics, and is a Certified Chartered Accountant from the United Kingdom.

Member of the AXA Management Committee, Chairman & CEO of AXA France and in charge of overseeing the worldwide operations of AXA Assistance and AXA Global Direct. He joined AXA in 1991 as Vice-President of the Finance Department and was appointed Senior Vice-President of the AXA Group Finance Department in 1994. In 2002, he was promoted to CEO of AXA Investment Managers and, following his appointment as Group Chief Executive Officer of AXA UK, he became non-executive Chairman of the Board of AXA Investment Managers. He was Group Chief Executive of AXA UK (2006-2010). He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and has an actuarial degree from the Centre d’Etudes Actuarielles.

President of the Center for Global Development since January 2017. He enjoys a 35-year career driving economic development policy initiatives relating to debt, aid effectiveness, trade, and global economic prospects at major international institutions including the IMF, the World Bank, and the DFID. He served for eight years as Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, earning praise from Managing Director Christine Lagarde as a “visionary leader.” In previous years, he also served as the IMF’s director of External Relations, and Deputy Director of the Policy Development and Review Department. From 2003-2006, Ahmed served as Director General, Policy and International at the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID). Ahmed also worked at the World Bank from 1979-2000 in various managerial and economist positions, rising to become Vice President of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management. In January 2023, he received a knighthood (KCMG) from the UK government for his services to international development.

Member of the Executive Committee of AXA as of 1/1/2014. He was Director General and Adviser to President Mario Draghi at the European Central Bank (2011-2013) and Adviser to President Jean-Claude Trichet (2008-2011). He joined the ECB in 1998 from the International Monetary Fund, where he worked in the European Department and the Asia and Pacific Department since 1995. He graduated from the University of Bonn, the London School of Economics and the University of Munich.

Chief Investment Officer, AXA France. He joined AXA early 2001 as a structured portfolio manager in AXA Investment Managers. He soon became AXA IM Head of Structured and Index management business. He was promoted in 2008 to Global Head of Solution Engineering, Structuring and Development, including client relationship management of all AXA Insurance Companies across the globe for their main fund assets. He then took the lead on AXA IM worldwide Asset Allocation teams, Derivatives and Quantitative management teams in Multi Asset Client Solutions Group. He was promoted AXA France CIO end of 2012. Before joining AXA, he has worked for two years at Cardif Asset Management, BNP Paribas’s insurance subsidiary. He graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Paris and from Paris-Dauphine University and ENSAE.

Commissioner for Justice in charge of Rule of Law and Consumer Protection, European Commission. A father of four, Didier Reynders was born in Liège on 6th August 1958. In 1981, he obtained a degree in law at the University of Liège. Guest lecturer at the universities of Liège and Louvain, he has never really left the academic life until he became on 1st December 2019 European Commissioner for Justice. After presiding over the Belgian railways and the Belgian Airways Agency, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the PRL (Liberal party), before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1992 (until 2019). On 12th July 1999, he became Minister of Finance (until 6th December 2011) and, on 18th July 2004, (concurrently) Deputy Prime Minister (until 30th November 2019). He was Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance) from 11th October 2004 until 14th February 2011. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs from 6th December 2011 until 11th October 2014. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, in charge of Beliris and Federal Cultural Institutions on 1st October 2014 (until 30th November 2019). He also became Minister of Defense on 9th December 2018 (until 30th November 2019).  Since 1st December 2019 he is European Commissioner for Justice, in charge of Rule of Law and Consumer Protection.

Québec’s Delegate General in Paris since 2010. He is also the Premier’s official representative to the International Francophone Organization (OIF). Prior to taking up his duties in Paris, he was appointed the first CEO of the Francophone Centre of the Americas (CFA) by the Government of Québec in 2008. He also served as Québec’s Delegate General in New York (2002-2007). He has held various positions within Québec’s international diplomatic network, among others in Brussels as Director of Public Affairs, Cooperation and Culture.

Capgemini’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since May 2012, Paul Hermelin joined the Capgemini Group in 1993, where he fulfilled various roles and became Group CEO in January 2002. He was a member of the Office of Jacques Delors, former French Minister of Finance (1981-1984), and the chief of staff of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former French Minister for Industry and Foreign Trade (1991-1993). Paul Hermelin graduated from Polytechnique and the École nationale d’administration (ENA).

Vice Chairman of BlackRock Inc. He most recently served as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. He played a prominent international role as a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and as the Swiss Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He had been a member of the central bank’s governing board since 2003. He graduated from the University of Toronto and from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of Burkina Faso since 2013. He participated in numerous evaluation missions and meetings organized by various regional organizations and international organizations. He has a deep knowledge and understanding of the West African rural development and food security situation. In Burkina Faso, he worked as the Managing Director of the forecasting and statistics division of the Ministry of Agriculture. He graduated from the Rural Development Institute of Ouagadougou and the African Centre for Advanced Management Studies (CESAG) in Dakar.

Chairman of the Council of Academic Affairs, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS). He is also a guest professor at the PLA National Defense University, Fudan University, Shanghai International Studies University and Soochow University. His most recent book is Grand Integration: Trends of Asian Economic Cooperation (The Tianjin People’s Press, Tianjin, 2007). He graduated from the Shanghai Teachers’ University, the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) and the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. He holds a Ph.D. from the Shanghai International Studies University.

Director of the Center for Energy at Ifri. She began her career in the French National Assembly as a staffer. After five years in the staff of the Defense Committee, she joined the staff of the Law Committee and then the Foreign Affair Committee. Executive at Areva, she was in charge of international affairs for the Chief Executive Officer and of international prospective. She was then responsible for European and international Public Affairs. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Institut d’études politiques, Paris and the Sorbonne Paris IV-University.

Chairman of The House of the Rising Stars Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland), Chairman of the European Leadership Network (Diplomacy & Defense issues, USA – Europe – Middle East). He is also Chairman of the Africa Alive Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland) and a board member of the Hudson Institute (Washington, D.C., USA) and of the Actigenomics Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland). He is currently Dassas & Co.’s Chairman (Paris, France) and Chief Creative Officer of the Paris, New York and Moscow companies. He was previously Marketing Manager for Colgate Palmolive in New York and Paris. He graduated from both Economic Sciences College and Paris Trade and Industry Chamber.

President of OAI Advisors, which provides advice and consults on Middle East business, energy, and private equity. Board member of the Atlantic Council and the Scowcroft Center. Prior to that he was a managing partner of Capital Trust S.A., where he remains a senior advisor. He is among others a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the International Advisory Board of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He received his Ph.D. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, specializing in oil economics.

Former Director of the Global Economy Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He also serves as Chairman of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy and Vice-Chairman of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition. Formerly, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Executive Boards of both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Earlier on, he worked in the Research Department of the Bank of Italy. He graduated from the Bocconi University in Milan and from Oxford University’s Nuffield College.

Partner, Investment Team, Helios Investment Partners since 2017. She started her career at Arthur Andersen in 1997, before joining Rothschild’s M&A team in Paris. She spent 19 years in M&A in Europe and developed in parallel Rothschild’s M&A franchise in Morocco and Francophone Africa (2006-2013). She was appointed Managing Director in 2011 and Head of Africa in 2013. She left the bank in 2014 to develop her own M&A business, staying on as a Senior Advisor at Rothschild. She graduated with an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. She acts also as an independent Board member for Caceis (The European leader of custody services and subsidiary of Credit Agricole) and for Banque Centrale Populaire.

Ambassador of India to France since 2013. Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of India, Washington D.C (2008-2013), Ambassador of India to Israel (2005-2008), Joint Secretary at the Ministry of External Affairs (2000-2005). He also served in the Indian Mission at Moscow as Counsellor-Minister (1997-2000) and as Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations Office, New York (1993-1997). He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1979. He graduated from Delhi University.

Foreign policy columnist at the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (The Nikkei Newspapers) in Tokyo. He received the Vaughan-Ueda Memorial Prize (Japanese version of the Pulitzer Prize) in 1998 for his outstanding news gathering and analysis in international affairs. His journalistic career includes four years in the Nikkei’s Washington, DC, bureau as chief political correspondent and, subsequently, as a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo.

International Director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Honorary Advisor on Interfaith Relations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Among his honorary positions, he is President of the World Conference of Religions for Peace and serves on the Board of Directors of the KAICIID Dialogue Center founded by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia together with the governments of Austria and Spain and the Vatican. In November 2005, he was made a Knight Commander by the Pope, and in 2010 he was made a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. He is a former Chief Rabbi of Ireland (1979-1985) and former Senior Rabbi of the largest Jewish congregation in South Africa (1975-1979).

World News Editor, The Daily Beast. Former Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor, The Daily Beast, author of seven books, most recently Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South. He was formerly the Paris Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine, and previously covered the Middle East and Central America for The Washington Post. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Wired and National Geographic. He frequently appears as a commentator on CNN, France 24, the BBC and many other networks in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). She oversees one of Africa’s largest grant-making organizations in the food security and agricultural development sector. She took up the presidency of AGRA in 2012 after serving as Deputy Chief Executive and Secretary-General of Telkom Kenya. She has held senior positions in a number of international corporate organisations including Cadburys Limited, as Managing Director for East and Central Africa. She graduated from the University of Nairobi and holds an MBA in Marketing from the National University of California.

Executive Director of the Lowy Institute. He has also worked as a Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, an adviser to Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, and a lawyer. He remains a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. He writes widely on foreign policy and global issues in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest and Foreign Affairs. He graduated from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales and he holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Foreign Minister of Sweden since 2006. He served as Prime Minister (1991-1994). He was also a member of the Swedish Parliament (1976-2001) and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans (1999-2001). Previously, he held the position of European Union’s Special Envoy to the former Yugoslavia (1995) and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995-1997).

President of the Constitutional Council, President of the COP 21.  He played a crucial role in the negotiations and success of the Paris Climate Agreement, the first universal agreement to fight against climate change. Member of the Conseil d’État, he occupied several governmental positions in France: Minister for the Budget (1981-1983), Minister of Industry and Research (1983-1984), Prime Minister (1984-1986), Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry (2000-2002), Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development (2012-2016). He was also member of Parliament from 1978 to 2012, and served twice as President of the French National Assembly, from 1988 to 1992, and again from 1997 to 2000. He is a former student of the École normale supérieure of the Rue d’Ulm, holder of an Agrégation higher degree in French Language and Literature and a former student of the École nationale d’administration.

Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute. Previously, he was Economics and Policy Practice Leader in the World Bank’s Agriculture and Environmental Services Department, he coordinated the Secretariat of the Bank’s Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP), and was Program Manager for the Global Agricultural and Food Security Program (GAFSP). He also worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute and the International Livestock Research Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University.

Member of the Institut de France and honorary professor at the Collège de France (Chair of Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law). She has published numerous books and articles on criminal law, human rights law and globalization of the law, such as: Le flou du droit (PUF 2ème éd. 2004) ; Les grands systèmes de politique criminelle (PUF 1992) ; Pour un droit commun (Seuil 1994) ; Vers un droit commun de l’humanité (Textuel 2nd ed. 2005) ; Trois défis pour un droit mondial (Seuil 1998) ; Les forces imaginantes du droit : (I) Le relatif et l’universel, (II) Le Pluralisme ordonné, (III) La refondation des pouvoirs, (IV) Vers une communauté de valeurs ? Seuil, 2004-2011; Libertés et sûreté dans un monde dangereux, Seuil, 2010 ; La Chine et la démocratie (avec Pierre-Étienne Will) ; Fayard 2007 Résister, responsabiliser, anticiper, Seuil, 2913 ; Le travail à l’heure de la mondialisation, Bayard, 2013.