Speakers of 2012

Gamal Aziz MGM Hospitality
President and Chief Executive Officer

Condoleezza Rice United States of America
Former Secretary of State

Kwak Seung Jun Presidential Council for Future & Vision (PCFV)
Chairman

Kweon Sang-hee Sungkyunkwan University
Professor of Mass Communication & Journalism

Kwon Young-Min Former Korean Ambassador to Germany

Kwon Oh-gap Hyundai Oilbank Co.,Ltd
President & C.E.O

Jimmy Kim USTREAM Korea
CEO

Kim Hyoung-Tae Korea Capital Market Institute
President

Kim Yeonhee Boston Consulting Group
Senior Partner and Managing Director

Joey Kim Softbank Ventures Korea
Venture Capitalist

Jim Yong Kim World Bank
President

Kym Hyogun Knowledge Management Society of Korea
President

Rah Seungyun 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympic & Paralympics Bid Committee
Communications Director

Naji Al-Mutairi Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Director General

Nouriel Roubini New York University Stern School of Business
Professor

Nik Gowing
International Journalist and Broadcaster

Dani Rodrik Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Professor of Economics

Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics

David Drummond Google Inc
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer

David Gordon Eurasia Group
Head of Research and Director, Global Macro

Donald Johnston Former Secretary General of the OECD
Counsel and Founding Partner Heenan Blaikie LLP

Doreen Lorenzo frog
President

Dominique Strauss-Kahn IMF
Former Managing Director

Dean Karlan Yale University
Professor of Economics

Rosalind Mathieson The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires
World, Politics and Policy Editor, Asia

Rudy Simone ‘Aspergirls’
Author

Ruchir Sharma Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Managing Director

Rishaad Salamat Bloomberg TV
Anchor

Lijun Zhao Neusoft Corporation
Director

Richard Duncan `Dollar Crisis`
Author

Richard Dobbs McKinsey Global Institute
Director

Richard Brandweiner Perpetual Investments
Group executive for income and multi sector

Lin Shunjie China Chamber of International Commerce(CCOIC)
Secretary General

Manoj Menon Frost & Sullivan (S) Pte Ltd
Managing Director & Partner

Michael E. Brown Elliott School of International Affairs of GW
Dean

Michael Evans The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Vice Chairman and Global Head of Growth Markets

Michael A. Leven Las Vegas Sands Corp
President & Chief Operating Officer

Marc Smith Social Media Research Foundation
Chief Social Scientist

Mark Mobius Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Group
Executive Chairman

Martin Wolf Financial Times
Chief Economics Commentator

Martin Boehm IE Business School
Associate Dean of the Master in Management Programs

Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker
Journalist

Maeng Hyung Kyu Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS)
Minister

Moon Hwy-Chang Seoul National University
Dean of Graduate School of International Studies

Michelle Gielan Institute for Applied Positive Research
Co-founder

Fukao Mitsuhiro Keio University
Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce

Mika Vehvilainen Finnair Plc
President & CEO

Bark Taeho Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Repulic of Korea
Minister for Trade

Park Nei-Hei Sookmyung Hospitality
Business School Dean

Valeria Budinich Ashoka
Founder and CEO of the Full Economic Citizenship.

Bob King International Union, UAW
President

Barry J. Eichengreen UC Berkeley
Professor of Economics

Victor Cha Georgetown University
Professor and Director of Government and Asian Studies Department

Willem Kok Netherlands
Former Prime Minister

Samuel Rhee Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Head of Asian equity

Simon Cooper HSBC, Middle East & North Africa, HSBC Bank Middle East Limited
Deputy Chairman & CEO

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño IE Business School
Dean

Sanford Panitch Fox International Productions
President

Seo June Won NIMBUSCHAIR Integral Humanities
Head Editor

Daniel Sung Gyeonggi Content Agency
President

Sara Olsen SVT Group
Founder & CEO

Serguei Netessine INSEAD
Professor of Technology and Operations Management

Serhan Dagtas TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center
Director of Energy Institute

Shen Dingli Fudan University
Executive Dean

Sohn Jie-ae Arirang TV & Radio
President & CEO

Song E Young Sogang University
Professor of Economics

Song Sang Kee Korea University
Professor

Shawn Achor `The Happiness Advantage`
Author

Supachai Panitchpakdi UNCTAD
Secretary General

Sulaiman Al-Yahya Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
Dean of the college of engineering

Xu Dingbo China Europe International Business School
Associate Dean, Member of Management Committee

Scott Panzer Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.
Vice Chairman

Steven D’Souza IE Business School
Professor

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh NYU Stern School of Business
Professor/Director of the CREFR at NYU Stern

Shin Jang-Sup National University of Singapore
Professor of Economics

Shin Sunghwan Hongik Universiry
Professor, College of Business

Shin Sung-Chul Hanyang University
Professor

Arvind Rajan LinkedIn, AP & Japan
Managing Director& Vice President

Amitava Chattopadhyay INSEAD
L’Oreal Chaired Professor of Marketing-Innovation and Creativity; Professor of Marketing

Akimoto Hisao HEISEI Corporation
President

Ahn Nam-sung KETEP
President

Antonio Fatas INSEAD
The Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of European Studies, Professor of Economics

Alex Tabarrok George Mason University
Professor

Alexis Karklins-Marchay Ernst & Young
Emerging Markets Center Leader

Anthony Scaramucci SkyBridge Capital
Managing Partner

Anthony Thomson Qualcomm
Vice President, Business Development & Marketing

Yakov Bart INSEAD
Professor of Marketing

Edward Jung Intellectual Ventures
Co-Founder/CTO

Eric Kim Maverick Capital
Managing Director

Erik Berglof European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Chief Economist

Emmanuel Limido Centuria Capital
Chairman

Esko Aho Prime Minister of Finland (1991~1995)

Eamonn Mckee Ambassador of Ireland

Young Chin Pyramis Global Advisors
Chief Investment Officer

Osama S. Tayeb King Abdulaziz University(KAU)
President

Ochi Tetsuo MCP Asset Management Company Limited
CEO & Managing Partner

Wang Yong Peking University
Professor

Joschka Fischer Germany
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor

Urata Shujiro Waseda University
Professor of Economics

Walter Lohman The Heritage Foundation
Director of Asian Studies Cente

Wiboon Shamsheun Science and Technology of Thailand
Vice-Minister

William Lazonick University of Massachusetts Lowell
Professor of Economics

Rhee Changyong Asian Development Bank
Chief Economist

Lee Junkyu Ministry of Strategy and Finance, Republic of Korea
Senior International Economic Adviser and G20 Special Adviser

Lee Jong-Wha Office of the President, Republic of Korea (Cheongwadae)
Senior Advisor to the President for International Economy

Lee Kwon Kim&Chang
Attorney(US)

Lee Kang Deok Korea Coast Guard
Commissioner General

Rhee Namuh Taurus Investment & Securities
Deputy CEO

Iguchi Tetsuya NIKKEI Industrial Daily
Editor-in-Chief

Ignacio Garcia Alves Arthur D. Little
Global Chairman and CEO

Ian Bogost Georgia Institute of Technology
Professor of Interactive Computing

Yuka Ichiki NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
Game Method Consulting Executive Director

Zakri Abdul Hamid Office of Prime Minister, Malaysia
Science Advisor

Jean Pisani-Ferry Brugel Institute
Director

Zhang Wei China Chamber of International Commerce and CCPIT
Vice President

Chang Dae Whan Founder of World Knowledge Forum
Chairman of Maekyung Media Group

Zhang Yan Beijing Pangu Investment Group
General Manager

Chang Jonghyun B&MC Korea Inc. (Booz & Co. Seoul Office)
President

Jang Yongsuk Science and Technology Policy Institute
Research Fellow

Jean-Louis Beffa Lazard Asia Financial Advisory
Chairman

Jean-Michel Six Standard & Poor’s
European Chief Economist

Jean-Pierre Raffarin France
Former Prime Minister

Oaksook Chun Kim
Doctor

Jun Kwang-woo NPS(National Pension Service)
Chairman and CEO

Jesper Juul New York University Game Center
Arts Professor of Tisch

James Gwertzman Asia Pacific, PopCap Games Inc.,
General Manager

James Kruger Macquarie Group Limited
General Counsel

Gemma Calvert Neurosense Ltd.
Founder and Managing Director

Cho Kyung Rae HSBC Securities Korea
Chief Executive Officer

Emily Cho Korean Air
Vice President of Corporate Communications

H. S.(Hyun Sang) Cho Hyosung Group
President of Industrial Materials PG

George Tanasijevich Marina Bay Sands
President & Chief Executive Officer

John Bruton Ireland
Former Prime Minister

John Chambers Standard & Poor’s S&P Sovereign Rating Committee
Chairman

John Rogers CFA Institute
President and CEO

Jean Lin Isobar Global
Global Chief Strategy Officer

Tran Viet Thanh Science and Technology of Viet Nam
Vice-Minister

Charlie Welsh Mergermarket Group
Co-founder

Charles Spence Oxford University
Professor of Psychology

Peng Chen Dimensional Fund Advisors
CEO of Asia Pacific

Chuen Choi David Raymond Leung MTR Corporation Limited
Chief of Operations Engineering

Choi Byung-il Korea Economic Research Institute
President/CEO

Chua Beng Huat National University of Singapore
Professor of Sociology

Chitra Padmanabhan eClerx Services Limited
Principal

Qinghai Wu Siemens Ltd., China
Senior Key Expert

Cass Sunstein Harvard Business School
Professor

Colin McIvor WorleyParsons
iM Group Manager-Knowledge Management

Christopher Hill University of Denver
Dean of Josef Korbel School of International Relations

Christian Wulff Germany
Former Federal President

Christian Edelmann Oliver Wyman
Region Head, Asia Pacific

Claude Barfield American Enterprise Institute
Resident Scholar

Tyler Cowen George Mason University
Professor of Economics

Todd Buchholz `Rush`
Author

Thomas Pugel NYU Stern School of Business
Professor and Vice Dean

Timothy Llewellynn nViso SA
CEO

Thierry De Montbrial IFRI, French Institute of International Relations
President

Paris de l’Etraz IE Business School
Professor

Pan Xiaoli ChunQiu Institute
Researcher and TV News anchor

Paul Krugman City University of New York
Distinguished Professor

Fraser Howie `Red Capitalism`
Co-author

Peter A. Petri Brandeis International Business School
Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance

Pik Yee, Agnes Mak Tang Hong Kong Productivity Council
Executive Director

Phil Smith Reuters News
General Manager South Asia

Hahm Chaibong The Asan Institute for Policy Studies
President

Hur Nam-suk POSCO ICT
CEO

Herbjorn Hansson Nordic American Tankers Limited
Chairman & CEO

Jorge Sicilia Chief Economist of BBVA group
Director of BBVA Research

Hori Yoshito GLOBIS University
President

Jose Maria Aznar Spain
Former President

Whang Jooho Korea Institute of Energy Research
President