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Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to France, Andorra and Monaco, concurrently the Permanent Representative to UNESCO since October 2010. Prior to this, he was Director General for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (2007-2010). He also served as the Indonesian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (2004-2007). He started his service in the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980. He graduated from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia.

Senior Advisor, Mediobanca. He started his professional activity working at Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (1966), and was appointed Director of the International Banking Consortium (1969). He then joined Lazard Frères Bank in Paris (1973). He was Managing Director of IFI International, in Paris; he also settled the Fiat USA Headquarters in New York (1978), and then he became Chairman and CEO of Fiat France and Senior Executive Vice President in FIATGroup from 1982 to 2006. He was Vice-Chairman of Lazard International (2006-2009). Now he is independent Director of La Compagnie des Alpes and he received the French and Italian Legion of Honour. He received a Ph. D. from Rome Law University.

Senior Associate, Arjil. He began to work in the administration, for the French Ministry of Transport, Defense Ministry, and also for the Prime Minister. He worked for Usinor-Sacilor (1981-1986), Matra (1987-1998), Airbus (1998-2005), and EADS (2005-2006). He was Deputy Director at Lagardère (1992). He is director and member of the Schneider Electric Audit Committee; he is member of the PMU Board. He received the French Legion of Honour and is a Knight of the British Empire. He graduated from the Ecole des Mines.

Senior adviser based in APCO Worldwide’s London office. Before joining APCO Worldwide, he served as an adviser to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Cobourg and in the offices of French Prime Ministers Lionel Jospin and Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He established and was appointed president of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, the largest private philanthropic foundation in Eastern Europe. He also developed the Yalta European Strategy (YES), an international network promoting Ukraine joining the European Union. He graduated from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the Corps des Mines.

Managing Director of EFG Bank (Monaco), a position he has held since January 1994. He has also held positions as Director of EFG Asset Management S.A. in Luxembourg and as member of the EFG Bank Group Advisory Committee. From 1988 to 1992, he was a member of the Investment Funds Group at EFG Private Bank in Geneva. He is a graduate of ACS in Switzerland.

Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, and a member of the BIS’s Executive Committee. Previously, he was a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, responsible for market operations and European and international relations. Prior to joining the ECB, Mr. Cœuré served in various positions at the French Treasury. He was Deputy Chief Executive, then Chief Executive of the French Debt Management office; Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs, Trade and Development, co-chair of the Paris Club, and G8 and G20 Finance Sous-Sherpa; then Deputy Director General and Chief Economist of the French Treasury. A graduate of the École Polytechnique in Paris, he holds an advanced degree in Statistics and Economic Policy from the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE), and a bachelor’s degree in Japanese. 

Deputy Secretary General, Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. He has served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, mainly dealing with international organizations. He also held the positions of State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1992), Diplomatic Adviser (1993-1996) and Spokesman for the President of Romania. He was the Ambassador of Romania to Austria (2001-2005) and he was Special Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Black Sea Issues (2008-2009). He then joined the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (2009).

Central and Commercial Banker, former First Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon. High-level senior finance professional with profound expertise in public and private sectors in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). International strategist in central banking, regulation and supervision, and financial markets, including direct operational experience in commercial banking. Board member of international and regional monetary and financial organizations. Social and economic reformist focusing on economic inclusion, poverty alleviation, women and community empowerment. Writer and speaker on strategy, leadership, monetary policy, finance, economics, and organizational and personal development.

His intellectual contribution is featured on his website.

Chairman & Publisher, Maekyung Media Group. He is Chairman of Maeil Business Newspaper and Maeil Broadcasting Network. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Korea (2002). He currently serves as Founder and Executive Chairman of World Knowledge Forum, Board Member of World Association of Newspapers and Member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance. He graduated from the University of Rochester in Politics, from the George Washington University in International Affairs, from New York University in International Business Management and received a PhD from NYU.

Chief Economist, Head of Strategy and Prospective, EDF. He was a scientific consultant at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France (1986-1993). He was a profesor at the Ecole Polytechnique, at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE), and was a visiting lecturer at the North China Electric Power University in Beijing. He was Deputy Director of Strategy at EDF (1997-2002), and then Industrial Strategy Delegate at the EDF Energies Center (2002-2005). He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE.

President, EuroInsol. He is an attorney at law, insolvency practitioner. He is managing partner within the law firm Borza & Associates, specialized in commercial legal advice, and EuroInsol, professional company specialized in judicial reorganization. He has published various articles and studies within the Romanian Criminal Law Review, The Legal Courier, ”Law” magazine, the Romanian Journal of the Legal Research Institute of The Romanian Academy, the Romanian Intellectual Property Law Review. He has a Ph. D. in Management.

Managing Director at ISS-oekom. Before, he was Chief Operating Officer and Head of Research at oekom research AG since 2003. He joined oekom research AG in 1998 where he held various positions in the research department. He is a visiting lecturer at the Technical University of Munich, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the University of Zurich. He graduated from the University of Cologne in Business Administration.

Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, Washington (leading a Project on Global Trends and the Future of Latin America), President of Fundación Por la Democracia and President and founder of Corporación Museo del Salitre. He served as Minister of Mining (1973, president Allende), Minister of Education (2003-2005, president Lagos) and Minister of Public Works (2008-2010, president Bachelet). He was also Senator (1994-2002) and President of the Party Pro Democracy (PPD) (1992-94, 1997-2000, 2006-2008). The PPD is a member of the Concertación, the political coalition that governed in Chile in the period 1990-2010. He held the position of Coordinator for Michelle Bachelet´s presidential campaign (Dec. 2005-Jan. 2006). He graduated from the University of Chile, the Centre d’Etudes de Programmes Economiques, Paris and from Harvard University.

Chairman of the Economic Council to the Polish Prime Minister since 2010. Former Prime Minister of Poland. He also served as Minister for European Integration and Foreign Affairs in Hanna Suchocka’s government. He represented Poland in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1993-2003). He was President of Bank Pekao SA Management Board and CEO (2003-2010). He was a Member of the Sejm (1989-1993). He graduated from Gdansk University.

President, Narodowy Bank Polski and Professor of Economics. He specialises in applied economics and contemporary economic thought. He has served, among others, as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance (twice) and as Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. He has worked as Chairman of the Council for International Coordination for Iraq, as Director of Economic Policy in the Coalition Provisional Authority, and as Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Europe. Before he was appointed President of Narodowy Bank Polski in June 2010, he was Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund.

Head of the AXA Research Fund. He began his career as an IT Project Manager with Gemplus and then became Associate Banker for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In 2002, he became Assistant Professor and Team Manager at Telecom ParisTech. In 2007, he became CFO and Deputy CEO of Institut Télécom. He is the author of several books and many scientific papers about the use of digital groupware tools in project management and Lean Management. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and from Télécom ParisTech.

Head of the Mediterranean-Africa Center, Head of European and International Affairs, Caisse des dépôts et consignations. He worked at the French Ministery of Industry (1982-2000) notably as Head of Eastern Europe Affairs, Head of Multilateral Trade Negociations, and finally as Deputy Director of European Affairs. He then began to work at the Caisse des dépôts as senior executive of an investment program in North-Africa and then as financial analyst (sovereign wealth funds) and as country-risk analyst. He studied at the Ecole nationale d’administration.

Member of the Supreme Petroleum Council in Kuwait. An Independent Economics advisor in the field of Public policy, Energy, finance and economics of social media. He served as Economics Advisor to the UNDP, Kuwait. Former Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Commercial Bank of Kuwait. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Banking Association (2007-2010). He started his career at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) as a researcher and later as a manager of the economics department. He graduated from Syracuse University and continued post-graduate degrees at Stanford University.

President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. He started as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1968. He joined the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) in 1973. In 1984, he was appointed Director of the African Department at the IMF. In 1988, he was named Governor of the BCEAO. In 1990, he was appointed Chairman of the Interministerial Committee for Coordination of the Stabilization and Economic Recovery Programme by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Then, he became Prime Minister. In 1993, he went back to the IMF where he was named Deputy Managing Director. In 1999, he left the IMF and went back to Côte d’Ivoire. He was elected President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR). He graduated from Drexel Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd since March 2012. Prior to this he served as Vice-Chairman for two years. He also served as chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG (2002-2012). He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the National Bank of Kuwait and of the Akbank in Turkey. He is co-chairman of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. He studied economics and social sciences at the University of St. Gallen and received his PhD in 1977.

Senior Consultant, he runs AgroBrasConsult, a Brazilian consulting company specializes in agricultural markets and investments and based in São Paulo. He is a member of the Global Food Security Forum (GFSF) steering Committee. After being a Cooperating Professor at the University of Brazzaville (1975-1978), he became a Professor of International Economics at the Institut Superieur de Gestion (ISG), and Professor in Agricultural Economics at the Ecole Superieure d’Agriculture d’Angers (1985- 2010). Since 1994, he has been the correspondent in Brazil of the Cercle Cyclope, group set up and coordinated by Professor Philippe Chalmin. His latest book: Le défi chinois, les nouvelles strategies d’un géant (“The chinese challenge : new strategies of a giant”). He graduated in Economics and in Philosophy and holds a postgraduate degree in International Business.

Ambassador for Human Rights and Democracy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. He started his career in the Ministry in 1976. He served as Ambassador of Finland to Luxembourg and as Ambassador to Lisbon, Portugal. He has held various positions in the Political Department and the Department for External Economic Relations. He has served as Head of the Division for the Americas and Asia. During his career, he has been posted in Stockholm, Algiers, Canberra, Paris, Mexico City.