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Group Head of Public Affairs, Axa Group. Previously, she served as Deputy Director General of the French Treasury, where she was also Chief Economist and Head of International Relations. Prior to her latest functions at the Treasury, she worked as Adviser to the President of the Republic for economic policy and public finance and as Head of the Economic Forecasts Division at INSEE. She graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE).

Honorary lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, expert-consultant to international organisations and member of the strategic council of IFRI. Through her research, relationships in the field and various positions held in the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), she has become a specialist in democratisation, crisis and conflict resolution, transition and peace-building processes, especially in Africa. In the OIF, her positions have included chief of staff, delegate for peace, democracy and human rights and special advisor for political and diplomatic affairs to the Secretary-General from 1988 to 2010. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and is a member of the Académie des Sciences d’Outre Mer, and a member of Ifri’s Strategic Advisory Board, founder member of the journal “Nouvelle Afrique Contemporaine”, and an Officer of the Legion of Honour.

President and Co-founder of McLarty Associates. Prior to co-founding McLarty Associates in 1998, he served in the White House as Special Advisor to President Clinton on Western Hemisphere affairs and as General Counsel at the White House Office of Administration. He previously served as General Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then-Chairman Joseph R. Biden. Before moving to Washington, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York (1988-1994). He is a member of the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. He graduated from Yale College and Stanford Law School.

Emeritus director of reseach at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sociology. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru. Ex-Editor of the French Journal of Sociology and member of a dozen editorial committees of international scientific journals, he leads the GEMAS Studies in Social Theory, Bardwell Press, Oxford. He wrote numerous papers and books, including Essai sur l’islamisation (2018). He taught in many higher education institutions such as Sciences Po and many universities: Paris IV, Paris V, Lausanne, Geneva, Casablanca, Rabat, London, Nuffield College Oxford.

Former Finance Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand (2008-2011). He is currently Chairman of Thailand Democrat Party Policy Unit. Previously, he was President and Chairman of JP Morgan Securities (Thailand) (2000-2004). He spent much of his career in the finance sector since his early age at SG Warburg, London. He then co-founded JF Thanakom Securities with Jardine Fleming and was its President for 11 years. After the merger of Jardine Fleming and JP Morgan, he became President and subsequently Chairman of JP Morgan Securities (Thailand). He left to run for Bangkok Member of Parliament in October 2004. He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from St. John’s College, University of Oxford.

Ambassador of Israel to Switzerland and Liechtenstein since 2012. Previously, he served as Deputy Director-General for Media and Public Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009-2012), Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of Korea (2005-2009) and Director, North East Asia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2001-2005). He was also Minister (DCM), Embassy of Israel, Tokyo (1996-2001), Director, Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1993-1996) and Counsellor (DCM), Embassy of Israel, Stockholm (1989-1993). He joined the Foreign Ministry Training Program in 1977. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Former Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland, since 2012. Former President of the Swiss Confederation (2014). He was elected Federal Councillor in 2009. He served as Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). He was Member of the Council of States (2007-2009) and Member of the National Council (2003-2007). He was also President of the Communal council of Neuchâtel on three occasions (1994, 1998, 2001). From 1991 to 1995, he served as a member of the Communal Council of Neuchâtel. He was a member of Neuchâtel Cantonal Parliament (1990-2001). He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Neuchâtel.

Chairman & CEO of Burelle and Honorary Chairman of Plastic Omnium. Honorary President, MEDEF International (2005-2016). Manufacturing engineer at L’Oréal (1966-1967). He was Department Head, General Manager, Chairman & CEO of Plastic Omnium (1967-2001). He was among others Director and President of the Compensation Committee of Essilor International (1997-2009), Board Member of the German-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1997-2003), Director of the French-American Chamber of Commerce (1999-2005) and Director of Lyon School of Management (EM Lyon) (2004-2010). He was also member of the Executive Committee of Medef (2002-2005). He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Banque Hottinguer since 2005. He graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He holds a MBA from Harvard University.

Founder and President of Compagnie Financière Jacques Cœur – CFJC. He started his professional career in 1987 within investment banks. In 1998, he opened the French subsidiary of a Swiss bank and developed the business with professional investors. In 2003, he founded Compagnie Financière Jacques Coeur – a leading European financial multi-specialist broker dedicated to institutional investors. He graduated from IEP of Bordeaux and holds Post-graduate degrees in Public Law and in International Relations from the University of Paris II.

CEO of Roland Berger. He joined the firm in 2001 as Senior Partner in the Paris office, where he headed the Financial Services and Energy & Utility Competence Centers as well as the firm’s Private Equity activities. He became President & Managing Partner of Roland Berger for Greater China in 2006. Since 2009, he is heading the Asian Leadership Team. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he was Vice President of another leading global strategy consultancy (1997-2001). He started his career as an investment banker at Société Générale (M&A and corporate finance) in Paris and London. One of his latest books, Light Footprint Management – Leadership in Times of Change, provides an innovative set of principles by which leaders can succeed in an increasingly challenging environment.

Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2014). He is professor in Constitutional law at Sofia University since 1983. Since 2012 he is visiting professor at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”. From February to May 214, he served as Chair-person of the Initiative committee for the organisation of a national referendum on election rules reform. He was a member of the 40^th Bulgarian Parliament (2005-2009). In 2007, he was a member of the European Parliament. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Bulgarian observer at the European Parliament. He was also a member of the 36^th Bulgarian Parliament (1991-1994). He graduated from Sofia University. He holds a PhD in Constitutional law.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar since 2013. Previously, he was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Council of Ministers. He also served as Chairman of the Board of the Qatar’s Stock Exchange, Vice Chairman of the Qatar Financial Center Authority, Acting Minister of Business and Trade and Minister of State for International Cooperation. From 2003 to 2008, he was President of the National Committee for Human Rights. He started his career as a Fighter Pilot in Qatar’s Emiri Air Force (1987-1995). He graduated from King Faisal Air Academy and Beirut Arab University. He holds a doctorate in Law from Cairo University.

Managing Partner and Founder, Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital. Former Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of the World Bank Group. He chairs the advisory board of Project Syndicate and he is a member of the board of CGDev and IDDRI. He is also a trustee of the IFRS Fondation. Previously, he served as the Group Chief Financial Officer at Société Générale, and before that as the Group Chief Financial Officer of Crédit Agricole (2007-2011). He was Managing Director of Lazard in Paris responsible for the Financial Institutions Group (2004-2007). In 2003, he was invited to join President Chirac’s diplomatic team and was closely involved in the preparation of the G8 summit in Evian. He graduated from the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA), the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, Sorbonne Paris IV University and from HEC.

Chairman of France Brevets, Scientific Advisor of the Center for Energy and Climate of Ifri, former President of the French Energy Council. He is a member of the French Academy of Engineering. He has been General Delegate of the French Academy of Engineering. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of IFP Energies Nouvelles (2003-2015). Prior to that, in 1999 he was appointed Director of the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Cooperation and Policy Analysis Directorate. From 1989 to 1994, he headed the oil and gas department of the French Industry Ministry. He worked as Executive Vice-President of the IFP in charge of research and development activities (1994-1998). He graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École des mines.

Former Executive Director of the Balkan Political Club (2005-2014). He was Secretary for the International Cooperation, Office of the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2005-2012), Adviser to UNESCO on the Scientific Co-operation among the Countries of Southeast Europe (1999-2004) and Representative to UNESCO’s Executive Board (1993-1997). He also served as Bulgarian Ambassador to France (1991-1997) and permanent delegate to UNESCO (1992-1998). He was Senior Research Fellow, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1981-1990). He holds a PhD in Chemistry.

Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Countries, Islamic Republic of Iran, since 2011. Previoulsy, he was Director General for the Persian Gulf and the Middle-East (2010). He was also Iran’s Ambassador to Bahrain (2007-2010), Head of the Special Department for Iraq (Foreign Ministry) (2006-2007), Deputy Director General for the Persian Gulf and the Middle-East (2006), Special Assistant of the Foreign Minister for Iraqi Affairs (2003-2006), Deputy of the First Persian Gulf Political Department (2001) and Political Expert and Deputy Ambassador in the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad (1997-2001). He is a Founding Member of the West Asia Research Center. He holds a PhD. in International Relations from Tehran University.

Diplomat, Special Advisor, Diplomatic Affairs, to the President of the Republic of Benin since 2007. Previously, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006-2007). She served as Ambassador, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration (2004-2006), Ambassador, Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration (2002-2004) and analyst at the Permanent Secretariat of the Strategic Analyses Cell at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration (2001-2002). She held various positions at the Embassy of Benin in Bonn. She graduated from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration, Francophonie and Beninese Diaspora. Previously, he served as Mayor of the Municipality of Pobè (2008-2015). He was Foreign Affairs Inspector (2006-2008), Director of Europe Department (1996-1998) and Director of Legal affairs, Analysis and Forecasting (DAJAP) (1986). From 1998 to 2006, he was Chief of Staff of the General Administrator at the International Francophone Organization (OIF). He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Politics (FASJEP), Cotonou, University of Dahomey, the Centre of Administrative Training and Refresher’s Course for Public Administration Executives (CEFAP), the International Institute of Public Administration (IIAP) Paris and the Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University.

Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Swiss Confederation and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva. Former Ambassador of Bangladesh to Brazil. Former High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Brunei Darussalam (2009-2012). From 2005 to 2008, he served as Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran with concurrent accreditation to Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. He joined the Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1986. He is a medical graduate of the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was also awarded the post-graduate “Diplôme d’etudes Supérieures Specialisés (DESS)” in Diplomacy and Administration of International Organizations from the Jean Monnet-Sceaux Law Faculty of the University of Paris XI.

Chun Yungwoo is a Senior Advisor at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. He is also the Chairman and Founder of the Korean Peninsula Future Forum (KPFF). Previously, he served as the National Security Advisor to President Lee Myung-Bak, from 2010 to 2013. In his 33 years of service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, He served as Second Vice Foreign Minister (2009-2010), Korean Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2008-2009) and Head of the ROK Delegation to the Six-Party Talks (2006-2008). He received a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Korea. Previously, he had worked at the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, first as Head of the Department for Regional Initiatives (2011-2012), then as Head of the Department for Europe (2012-2013).  He has also been Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, to the Republic of Singapore, to the Kingdom of Cambodia, to the Republic of the Philippines and to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade.

Chief Executive Officer of NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS). He has been working at the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development for 30 years. He has published two books on microfinance and written on rural banking for several papers. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, in Ahmedabad, India, and a master’s degree in Agriculture and Rural Development from the University of Western Sydney, in Hawkesbury, Australia.

Professor of economic development at Seoul National University and Tübingen University. Formerly, he taught the same course at the Moscow Higher School of Economics. He has also taught economics at Seoul National University since 1977, as assistant, associate, and full professor until 2010, and is now a professor emeritus of the same university. He served as Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at Seoul National University, first Chairman of the Korean Electricity Commission and Co-Chairman of the Green Growth Committee of the Korean government. He holds a BE degree in electronics from Seoul National University and a PhD in economics from Northwestern University. He also studied energy economics and economic development.

Landry Signé is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and Founding Chairman of the Global Network for Africa’s Prosperity. He is also fellow at Stanford University’s Center for African Studies, chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Research and Creative Activity and assistant professor of political science at UAA, and lecturer in Emerging Markets at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies. His research and policy work focuses on the transformation of African economies, governance, political processes, development, and the role of international actors in Africa. He is the recipient of 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity and the Governor General of Canada Award.

Country Manager for Côte d’Ivoire, General Electric, since 2014. Prior to joining General Electric, he worked 12 years for Citi where he held various positions, including CFO for West and Central Africa based in Côte d’Ivoire. From 2012 to 2013, he was Acting General Manager for Citi’s operations in Côte d’Ivoire. He also served as board member and vice president of Citibank Cote d’Ivoire S.A. He has also been a lecturer at the National school of statistics and applied Economics (E.N.S.E.A.) in Côte d’Ivoire for the past 10 Years. He graduated from the National school of statistics and applied Economics (E.N.S.E.A.) in Côte d’Ivoire, and he holds a MBA TRIUM, an alliance of New York Stern University, London School of Economics, and H.E.C. Paris.

Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South, and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Executive Vice-President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco as the Director of Economics, Statistics and International Relations. Prior to this, he served as an economist at the World Bank. He holds scientific and advisory positions in various institutions, including the Malabo-Montpellier Panel, the Moroccan Capital Market Authority, and the French Institute of International Relations. He is also advisor to the CEO and Chairman of the OCP Group, and serves as a board member of the OCP Foundation and as a global member of the Trilateral Commission. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bordeaux.