Alan Greenspan was chairman of the board of governors of the US Federal Reserve System from 1987 to 2006. He is president of Greenspan Associates LLC
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School and a visiting fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. She is founder of the AHA Foundation, which works to protect women’s rights against Islamic extremism. Her books include Nomad and Infidel
Adam Posen is president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC and was a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee from 2009-12
Ahmed Rashid is the best-selling author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, most recently Pakistan on the Brink
Bruce Bartlett is a former senior economist at the White House, US Congress and Treasury. He is author of The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take
Dambisa Moyo is a global economist and the author of Dead Aid, How the West Was Lost and Winner Take All. She serves on the boards of Barclays Bank, SABMiller and Barrick Gold
DeAnne Julius is the chair of council at University College London and was a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England
Diane Coyle is a professor of economics at the University of Manchester, has served on the BBC Trust, the Competition Commission and the Migration Advisory Committee, and is the author of a number of books on economics including GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
Frances Coppola spent many years working for banks and now writes and speaks about banking, finance and economics. She is associate editor of the online magazine Pieria, and a professional singer, musician and teacher
Fyodor Lukyanov is editor of Russia in Global Affairs, and is the chairman of the non-governmental Council on Foreign and Defense Policy in Moscow
George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and a philanthropist. He is, most recently, the author of The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?
Glen Hubbard is dean of Columbia Business School and was a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W Bush
Howard Davies is a professor at the Institute of Political Science in Paris, and chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland. He is a former chairman of the Financial Services Authority
Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, and a global research professor at New York University
Ivo Daalder is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. From 2009-13 he was the US permanent representative to Nato. He has written on US foreign policy, transatlantic relations and national security affairs
Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of The Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy
Jeffrey Sachs is the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York and author of the upcoming book The Age of Sustainable Development
Joseph Stiglitz is a recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics and University Professor at Columbia University
Kishore Mahbubani is dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His latest book is The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World
Kurt Campbell is chairman and chief executive officer of The Asia Group and serves as chairman of the board at the Center for a New American Security. From 2009-13, he served as the assistant US secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Laura Tyson is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is a former member of the executive board of the European Central Bank and a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and at the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome
Mario Monti is president of Bocconi University and a life member of the Italian Senate. He was the prime minister of Italy (2011-13) and European commissioner for the single market (1995-99) and competition (1999-2004)
Mark Malloch-Brown is a former UN deputy secretary-general, administrator of the UN Development Progamme and an ex-UK minister
Martin Feldstein is professor of economics at Harvard University, president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research in the US, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Ronald Reagan’s chief economic adviser
Mohamed El-Erian is chief economic adviser to Allianz, chairman of President Barack Obama’s Global Development Council, and author of When Markets Collide
Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE. He is the president of the British Academy
Noriko Hama is an economist and professor at the Doshisha University Graduate School of Business. She was chief representative for the Mitsubishi Research Institute in London from 1990 to 1998
Peter Mandelson is the chairman of Global Counsel and a former EU trade commissioner
Philipp Hildebrand is vice-chairman of BlackRock and a member of the company’s global executive committee. Previously he served as chairman of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank and was a member of the Financial Stability Board
Philip Zelikow is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and former counselor of the US Department of State
Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of a number of books on American foreign policy
Richard Lambert is chairman of the British Museum, a former head of the Confederation of British Industry and previous editor of the Financial Times
Robert Reich is the chancellor’s professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, and former US secretary of labour under President Bill Clinton (photograph courtesy Michael Collopy)
Robert Rubin was US Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999 and is co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was co-chairman of Goldman Sachs & Company and served on the board of directors of Citigroup.
Roger Altman is the founder and executive chairman of Evercore and was US deputy Treasury secretary in 1993-94
Stephanie Flanders is chief market strategist for the UK and Europe at JPMorgan Asset Management. She was the BBC economics editor from 2008-13 and has also served as senior advisor and speechwriter to US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers and an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Stephen King is HSBC Group’s chief economist, the bank’s global head of economics and asset allocation research, and the author of When the Money Runs Out
Tolu Ogunlesi is west Africa editor at The Africa Report, and writes a weekly column for the Nigerian newspaper, Punch. He was features editor and editorial board member at NEXT newspaper between 2009 and 2011
Yao Yang is the Dean of the National School of Development and the director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University
Yukon Huang is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment and a former country director for the World Bank in China
Zeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina and the author of a forthcoming book on protests and social movements in the 21st century