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Idris Jala has a global reputation for rescuing ailing ventures or confronting difficult scenarios to turn around. He is steadfast in his belief that all organisations can lift themselves out of even the worst situations. During his tenure as CEO of the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU), he was tasked with spearheading the Malaysian Government’s transition towards high income status by 2020. Bloomberg placed Idris Jala among the top 10 most influential policy makers in the world. Under his leadership,...
Varun Agarwal is an Indian first-generation entrepreneur, film maker and author. Born on December 6, 1987, in Bangalore, India, he attended Bishop Cotton Boys' School before going on to study engineering at the CMR Institute of Technology in Bangalore, Karnataka. He decided to drop out of college because he lacked interest in pursuing engineering and started making short films instead. Shortly after this he co-founded Last Minute Films. LMF is an indie film production company which focuses on producing music videos,...
General Bikram Singh was Chief of the Indian Army until 2014. During his eventful and distinguished military career of over 42 years, he held a number of key positions in India and overseas. Before taking over as Chief of Army Staff, General Singh was Chief of Eastern Command and before that General Officer Commanding of the Kashmir Valley based Chinar Corps. During his tenure as Chief of the Indian Army, General Singh enhanced the responsiveness, potency, accountability and relevance of...
Luca di Montezemolo was Chairman of both Ferrari and FIAT and is one of Europe’s best known business leaders. Di Montezemolo's career began at the wheel of a Giannini Fiat 500 which he raced together with his friend Cristiano Rattazzi. Later, di Montezemolo drove for the Lancia rally team known as HF Squadra Corse. He joined the auto manufacturing conglomerate FIAT and in 1973 was moved to Ferrari, where he became Enzo Ferrari's assistant and, in 1974, manager of the Scuderia. ...
Один из наиболее значимых мыслителей современности, Ник Бостром, меняет наше видение общей картины мира – как постоянно совершенствуемый искусственный интеллект и другие технологии будут менять человечество, и как наши настоящие действия влияют на будущее. Ник Бостром – профессор Оксфордского университета, где он является директором-основателем Института будущего человечества. Это уникальный исследовательский центр, где лучшие умы в области вычислительной техники и компьютеров, математики, философии, экономики и техники размышляют о будущем воздействии технологий на человечество, о глобальных приоритетах, возможности глобальных катастроф в будущем и...
Fredrik Reinfeldt has been active in Swedish and international politics for over 25 years. As Party leader and Swedish Prime Minister, Mr Reinfeldt reinvented the Moderate Party (centre-right) and formed a four-party alliance that won two successive elections. Today Mr Reinfeldt is active giving lectures on geopolitical situation, leadership, economy and European and Nordic politics. In March 2023 Mr Reinfeldt was appointed President of the Swedish Football Association. The Swedish FA is the governing and body of football in Sweden. It organises...
Palaniappan Chidambaram was India's Finance Minister from 2004-14, except for a three and a half year stint - beginning November 2008 - as Home Minister, in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Chidambaram is a corporate lawyer and an important member of the last Congress-led government. The Indian National Congress appointed P. Chidambaram as one of thirteen senior spokespersons on 15 September 2014. Chidambaram brought discipline in government spending and launched an ambitious tax reform program to tackle an unwieldy...
Bhawani Singh Shekhawat is an experienced management leader with over 20 years of experience working in senior positions with top F-500 companies in Asia, Middle East, Africa, North America and Europe He is currently the CEO of The Akshaya Patra Foundation in Europe, the world’s largest and perhaps most celebrated school meals programme. Currently serving over 1.6 million children every day, amounting to over 2 billion meals. Prior to leading Akshaya Patra in Europe, Shekhawat held senior General Management positions with...
Vinita Bali is a business leader with extensive experience in leading large Companies both in India and overseas. She has worked with eminent multinationals like The Coca-Cola Company and Cadbury Schweppes PLC in a variety of Marketing, General Management and Chief Executive Officer roles in the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Latin America and the USA, in addition to Britannia Industries Ltd., in India. She brings a global and pragmatic perspective to strategy, marketing, innovation and operations, having worked across countries...
Vineet Nayar is Founder and Chairman of Sampark Foundation and former CEO of HCL Technologies. He is also author of the highly acclaimed management book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down. With ‘Innovation led large scale social change’ as the central idea, Nayar co-founded Sampark Foundation with his wife, Anupama Nayar. Today Sampark Foundation is transforming learning outcomes of 3 million children studying in 50,000 schools in Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Ladakh; making it one of the world’s largest...
Dr Anil Kumar Gupta is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalisation and entrepreneurship. Ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s ‘most influential living management thinkers’, Dr Gupta has also been named by The Economist as one of the world’s “superstars” for research on emerging markets in a cover story on “Innovation in Emerging Economies.” The UK-based Hot Topics has also named him as one of the world’s ‘100 most influential professors of entrepreneurship’. Furthermore, he...
Rahul Dravid is a former Indian cricketer, who captained the national Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket teams. He started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later represented the state team at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 levels. Popularly nicknamed "The Wall", Rahul Dravid has been described as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000 and received...
Lord Edmund John Browne was the CEO of BP from 1995 to 2007. He is considered one of the most forward thinking and strategic business leaders in the world and guided BP’s transformation into one of the world’s largest companies. Lord Browne was the first to build an oil company through a series of record-breaking mergers, and was the first to build a successful large oil company in Russia. During his tenure at the helm of BP, he led the way...
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is Chairman of the French bank Société Générale and was a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 2005-11. During that period he acted as G7 and G20 Deputy for the euro area and was responsible for its international relations He is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Senior Research Fellow at Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. He is Chairman of the Boards of SNAM and the Fondazione Palazzo...
Jamling Tenzing Norgay is an Indian-Nepali Sherpa Everest climber, a mountain guide, author and motivational speaker. In 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and his father Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Retracing his father’s footsteps, Norgay summited Mount Everest in 1996, and was the star of the awe-inspiring IMAX documentary ‘Everest’. As the star of Director David Breashears IMAX film ‘Everest’, Jamling helped to portray not only the physical challenges of the Mountain, but also...
Sir John Armitt is currently Chairman of the National Express Group and City & Guilds, and is Deputy Chairman of the Berkeley Group. Sir John is also a member of the Board of Transport for London and the Airports Commission and is Senior Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. In September 2013 the Armitt Review, Sir John’s independent review of long term infrastructure planning in the UK, was published; the review is now Labour Party policy. After leaving John Laing...