• Abdulkhaleq Abdulla

    Abdulkhaleq Abdulla is a professor of political science at Emirates University and the lead author of the Arab Knowledge Report 2008. He was a member of the Dubai Cultural Council, the general co-ordinator of the Gulf Development Forum, director of the research center at AlKhaleej...

  • Greece
    Anthony Courakis

    An Official Fellow and member of the Governing Body of Brasenose College, Oxford, Anthony has taught at the University of Oxford since 1971. His expertise lies primarily in the areas of money and banking, macroeconomics, and international economics.  His research, numerous conference and...

  • India
    C. Uday Bhaskar

     

    Commodore C Uday Bhaskar, is currently Senior Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, where he served as Director from 2009 - 2011. He retired from the Indian Navy in early 2007 after 37 years of service.

    He joined the Institute for Defense Studies...

  • United States
    Craig Olson

     

    A retired Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, Craig has had a rich and distinguished career in which he has held positions of high responsibility both in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. From 1975 to 2001, he was employed by Development Alternatives Inc. and...

  • Australia
    David Vines

    Professor of Economics at Oxford University, Fellow of Balliol College, and Director of the Centre for International Macroeconomics at Oxford, David is a hallowed name in Oxford. He completed his PhD at Cambridge where he worked with Nobel Prize-winning economist, James Meade, who was deeply...

  • United States
    Donald Marron

    Director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, Donald is an expert on fiscal policy and the interplay between government and the economy. From 2002 through early 2009, he served in a series of senior government positions, including as a...

  • India
    Dr. Rajiv Kumar

    Rajiv Kumar, a well known economist and the author of several books, joined the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as Director General in October 2010 and subsequently as Secretary General in May 2011. Prior to FICCI, he was Director & Chief Executive of the...

  • United States
    Franklin Allen

     

    Co-author of the finance textbook known to anyone who studies the subject, Principles of Corporate Finance, Co-Director of Wharton Financial Institutions Center, and Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics, Franklin Allen is simply a legend. His advisers at Oxford were the...

  • Israel
    Gilead Sher

    Attorney Gilead Sher (IDF colonel, res.) was Prime Minister Ehud Barak's chief of staff and policy coordinator, and Israel's co-chief negotiator at the Camp David summit in 2000 and the ensuing Taba talks in 2001. The English version of his book, ...

  • United States
    Glenn Carle

     

    As Deputy National Intelligence Officer, Mr. Carle led the sixteen agencies of the U.S. intelligence community in preparing the United States government's most senior assessments of threats to the nation for the President, members of cabinet, and the nation's most senior...