Author, academic, and environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally-known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Jorge Castaneda is the former Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2000-2003). He has authored more than a dozen books including Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. He is a regular contributor to newspapers such as Reforma, El Pais, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek magazine.

Paul Volcker was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve for most of the 1980's. He is credited with a leading role in ending a period of high inflation and restoring a base for sustained growth. His extensive experience with our nation's monetary system spanned the administrations of five presidents.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an internationally known business leader, best-selling author, and expert on strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She advises major corporations and governments worldwide, and is the author or co-author of 15 books.

Wolfgang Grulke has a storied background in all sorts of fascinating areas: nuclear physics, marine biology, and technology to name a few. He has addressed audiences in more than 20 countries, in person, on radio, and on television. His topics range from business transformation to technological revolutions to the sex life of fish!

Ranked number thirteen internationally on the 2007 Thinkers 50, Jonas is recognized as the leading European business guru. His research has been focused on management of global innovation projects, a field of interest in which he has published a number of academic articles. His current research focuses on new organizational form and leadership styles in the information age.

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal recipient, Joseph Stiglitz is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists and international institutes such as the International Monetary Fund. He is a Professor at Columbia University and the former SVP of the World Bank.

Dr. Kjell Nordstrom is a guru in the new world of business. The 2005 Thinkers 50 ranked him at number 9 in the world and number 1 in Europe. He is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics and is co-author of Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism.

Niall Ferguson specializes in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire and is best known for his views on imperialism and colonialism. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is author of The War of the World, a book about the causes and consequences of war and genocide in the first half of the 20th century.

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.