A young but extremely successful financial counselor, David Bach believes every woman, whether single, married, divorced or widowed, should be in complete control of her financial destiny. He is the senior vice president of investments at Dean Witter Reynolds and a partner in The Bach Group.

Financial expert and award-winning journalist, Jean Chatzky is a bestselling author and motivational speaker. She is the editor-at-large for Money Magazine and serves as AOL's official Money Coach. She is the financial editor for NBC's Today Show and hosts "Talking Money with Jean Chatzky", on CNBC.

An investor, financial commentator, college professor, author, world traveler and economic commentator, Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund and is the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index. He now resides in Singapore.

Jessica Jackley Flannery first saw the power and beauty of microfinance while working in rural Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Co-founder of Kiva with her husband Matt, Jessica speaks widely on microfinance and social entrepreneurship. She serves on a number of non-profit boards, including Opportunity International.

C.K. Prahalad has been named a 2001 top-10 worldwide management thinker by the Financial Times, UK Observer and BusinessWeek. His 1990 co-authored essay on 'core competence' is the Harvard Business Review's most reprinted article ever. Dr. Prahalad specializes in corporate strategy and the role and value of top management in large, diversified, multinational corporations.

Host of CNBC's The Suze Orman Show, Suze has written six consecutive NYT bestsellers, has written, co-produced and hosted six PBS specials based on her books. She is host of QVC, the leading home shopping network and in 2006 won two daytime Emmys for her PBS specials. In 2008 she was selected by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.

Professor of economics and author of Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus is famous for his successful application of microcredit: the extension of small loans. He is the founder of Grameen Bank and in 2006 was awarded the Nobel Peach Prize. He is one of the founding members of Global Elders and serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation.

A frequent columnist for, Newsweek International, Jeffrey Garten is widely known in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs. He was the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade under the Clinton administration and former Dean of Yale School or Management. He has worked on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers.

Michael Levy of Mill Hill is President of the Jew's Free School, Chair of the Policy Network Foundation, a politician and a Labour member of the House of Lords and a former music record label owner. He spent nine years as former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair's special envoy to the Middle East. He has been the driving force behind the Academies Programme in Education.

Paul Kangas was dubbed by The Detroit Free Press as "the Walter Cronkite of business broadcasting." A former stockbroker with more than 12 years experience, he is now the co-anchor and financial commentator for public television's Nightly Business Report and television's leading provider of daily stock market information.