Ken Hu joined Huawei in 1990 and has served as President of the Marketing and Sales Department in China, President of the Latin America Region, President of the Global Sales Dept, Chief Sales and Service Officer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Chairman of the Global Cyber Security and User Privacy Protection Committee (GSPC), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Huawei USA, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rotating Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Human Resources Committee. Currently, he is Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman of Huawei. Ken has a Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Ken Hu

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, commonly referred to as Narayana Murthy, is an Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys, a multinational corporation providing business consulting, technology, engineering, and outsourcing services. Murthy studied electrical engineering at the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore, and MTech at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Before starting Infosys, Murthy worked with Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad as chief systems programmer and Patni Computer Systems in Pune (Maharashtra). He started Infosys in 1981 and served as its CEO from 1981 to 2002 and as chairman from 2002 to 2011. In 2011, he stepped down from the board and became chairman Emeritus. On 1 June 2013, Murthy was appointed as Additional Director and Executive Chairman of the board for a period of five years. Murthy has been listed among the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time by Fortune magazine. He has been described as Father of Indian IT sector by Time magazine due to his contribution to outsourcing in India. Murthy has also been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri awards.

Narayana Murthy

Piyush Gupta is a banker in Singapore. He is the current chief executive officer and director of DBS Group, a position he has held since 9 November 2009. Gupta has been credited with leading the banking group to become a leading Asian financial services group. In 2014, Gupta was named as the Singapore Business Leader of the Year by CNBC. In 2013, Gupta was named "Best CEO, Asia Pacific" by The Asian Banker, and "Best CEO, Singapore" by Asiamoney and The Business Times. Gupta started his career at Citibank India at the age of 22, as a management trainee. He did several assignments with Citibank India, eventually being chief of staff to the India head, responsible for finance, technology, human resources and strategy. Gupta then moved to Singapore in 1991, as chief of staff to the Asia head. Gupta held positions of increasing responsibilities, moving into various senior management roles across Citi's corporate and consumer banking businesses. In 2000, he left Citigroup to start up a dot-com company, an internet portal called GO4i.com but closed his venture and re-joined Citigroup in 2001. Gupta served as country officer in Malaysia from 2002 to 2007, where he helped built up Citigroup's branch network, before assuming the role of country officer in Singapore and the head of the Corporate and Investment Bank in ASEAN. In 2008, Gupta was appointed the chief executive officer of Citibank in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In 2009, he left Citigroup to join DBS Group as chief executive officer.

Piyush Gupta

Mrs Cha is Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd and a member of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council. She is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Ant Group Co., Ltd. , a Senior International Advisor of Foundation Assets Management Sweden AB and a member of Sotheby’s International Advisory Board. In addition, she is also Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and a Director of the World Federation of Exchanges.

Laura M. Cha

Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India. She is the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In 2014, she was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the progress of science and chemistry. She was on the Financial Times 2011 top 50 women in business list. In 2019, she was listed as the 68th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes and was named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Dr. Semmoto is a successful entrepreneur in the telecommunication industry, with more than 30 years in senior management positions with leading Japanese telecommunication companies. His career began when he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT, Japan) in 1966, staying until 1983. After favorably campaigning for a deregulated telecom industry in Japan, he cofounded the first private telecom startup, DDI, now KDDI Corporation in 1984. In 1999, Dr. Semmoto founded and served as CEO of eAccess, Ltd. an Internet access startup that commercialized Japan’s DSL market. Following the IPO of eAccess in 2004, he founded and became CEO of EMOBILE, which became Japan’s fourth largest mobile network operator. EMOBILE and eAccess were sold to SoftBank in 2013. Today he serves as Executive Chairman of RENOVA, Inc., a leading renewable energy power company.

Dr. Sachio Semmoto

Ronnie C. Chan is Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited. Both are publicly listed companies in Hong Kong, with the latter being a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index. Founded in 1960, the Group has been expanding into mainland China since 1992. Mr. Chan co-founded the Morningside group. In the past 26 years, Morningside and its associates owned and managed companies focusing on manufacturing, public transport operations, outdoor advertising, media, healthcare, online game operators, high tech and biotech investments in mainland China, developmental capital investments in Southeast Asia, manufacturing and distribution in Europe, and service industries, biotech and other venture capital investments in North America. In Hong Kong and the mainland of China, Mr. Chan is Chairman of the Executive Committees of One Country Two Systems Research Institute and of Better Hong Kong Foundation, Convenor of Hong Kong Development Forum, a Vice President of The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a Governing Board member of China-United States Exchange Foundation, an Advisor and former Vice President of China Development Research Foundation in Beijing, and a former Trustee of China Foreign Affairs University. Internationally, Mr. Chan is Co-Chair of the Board of Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, a founding Trustee of African-Asian Society and a Director of the Board of Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Ronnie C. Chan

Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital plc, the tech led, new age / new era digital advertising and marketing services company. Sir Martin was Founder and CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million ‘shell’ company in 1985 into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company. Prior to that, Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi plc for nine years and worked for James Gulliver, Mark McCormack and Glendinning Associates before that. S4Capital is listed on the London Stock Exchange under SFOR.L. Sir Martin supports a number of leading business schools and universities, including his alma maters, Harvard Business School and Cambridge University, and a number of charities. He was ranked the second best-performing CEO in the World by the Harvard Business Review in 2016 and 2017, and received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. He has also been nominated as one of the TIME 100: The Most Influential People.

Sir Martin Sorrell

Mr Bernard Charnwut Chan is a Deputy to the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. He was a Member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the HKSAR) (from 2004 to 2009, and from 2012 to 2022), the Convenor of its Non-Official Members (from 2017 to 2022), and a Member of the Legislative Council (Insurance Functional Constituency) of the HKSAR (from 1998 to 2008). A graduate of Pomona College in California, Mr Chan is the Chairman and President of Asia Financial Holdings Limited, and the Chairman of Asia Insurance Company Limited. He is the Chairman of the Hong Kong-Thailand Business Council, and an advisor to Bangkok Bank (China) Company Limited. He sits on the boards of several local and overseas companies in financial services, and is a Director of Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company in Thailand. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2002, and a Commander (3rd Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand in 2004. In 2006, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the HKSAR Government, and in 2020 he received Hong Kong’s highest honor, the Grand Bauhinia Medal. He has been conferred honorary degrees from Lingnan University, City University, Open University, and Savannah College of Art and Design.

Bernard Charnwut Chan

Jim O’Neill is an internationally published economist, and until 2013 was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, having previously been the organisation’s Head of Economic Research. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1995, after 13 years working in the City of London for the Swiss Bank Corporation, the Marine Midland Bank, and Bank of America.Jim is particularly well-known for his work in relation to developing economies, having been one of the earliest (and most prominent) economic commentators to identify the enormous potential for growth by middle income countries during the first half of the 21st century. In 2001, Jim published his influential Building Better Global BRICs research paper, which was credited with coining the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) acronym, and foresaw the radical shift in global economic power away from the established western economies towards these rapidly-expanding economies. Jim O'Neill was made a Life Peer and member of the House of Lords in May 2015 as Lord O’Neill of Gatley. He served as the Commercial Secretary to HM Treasury from May 2015 until September 2016 before leaving the government.

Lord Jim O’Neill

Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Founder of BML Educorp Services and Bml Munjal University, Sunil Kant Munjal is a businessperson who has been the head of 15 different companies and occupies the position of Chairman at The Doon School, Chairman & Managing Director at Hero Management Service Ltd., Chairman of Hero Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Chairman at BML Educorp Services, Chairman for Management Entrepreneurship & Professional Skills Council, Chairman of Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures, President for Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam and Chairman of Hero Corporate Services Pvt Ltd. In the past Sunil Kant Munjal occupied the position of Chairman for Shivam Autotech Ltd., Joint Managing Director & Non-Executive Director at Hero MotoCorp Ltd., CEO & Managing Director-Cold Rolling Division at Hero Cycles Ltd., President of Confederation of Indian Industry and President of All India Management Association. Mr. Munjal received an undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi.

Sunil K. Munjal

Sir John Scarlett served as Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) from 2004 to 2009. Sir John joined the SIS in 1971 and over the next 20 years served in Nairobi, Paris and twice in Moscow as well as several assignments in London covering the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. His second time in Moscow (1991-1994) coincided with the end of the USSR and the early years of the Russian Federation. In early September 2001, he retired from SIS on appointment as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) in the Cabinet Office.Sir John took up the appointment at the JIC six days before 9/11. During the following three years, he was responsible for the co-ordination and presentation of intelligence advice to the Prime Minister and senior members of the Government. On the 1st of August 2004, Sir John rejoined SIS as its Chief. Since leaving SIS, he has become a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Sir John is Chairman of the Strategy Advisory Council at Statoil ASA. He is an Advisor to Swiss Re and Chairman of SC Strategy Ltd. He is a Director of Times Newspaper Holdings, Vice Chairman at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and a Member of the Global Advisory Council at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC. Sir John was appointed OBE (Officer of the British Empire) in 1987.

Sir John Scarlett

Ajay Gopikisan Piramal is Chairman of the Piramal Group, a conglomerate with interests in pharmaceutical, financial services, real estate, healthcare analytics and glass packaging. In 1977, at age 22, Piramal started out in his family's textile business, founded in 1934 by his grandfather Piramal Chatrabhuj. His father, Gopikisan Piramal, died in 1979, and after five years he lost an older brother to cancer, prompting him to take over the business. Piramal holds a bachelor's degree in Science from the Jai Hind College and Basantsingh Institute of Science, University of Mumbai (then Bombay), a master's degree in management studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Mumbai, and in 1992 attended the six-week Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.[5] Piramal has received an honorary doctorate by Amity University, India[7] and Honorary Doctor of Science from IIT Indore.

Ajay Piramal

Presently, Ming Wai Lau holds the position of Chairman of Chinese Estates Holdings Ltd. He is also on the board of 10 other companies. In the past he was Chairman for Aidigong Maternal & Child Health Ltd. He received a graduate degree from London School of Economics & Political Science and a graduate degree and a doctorate from King's College London.

Ming Wai Lau

Lord Green began his career in 1970 with the British Government’s Ministry of Overseas Development.  In 1977, he joined McKinsey & Co Inc, management consultants, with whom he undertook assignments in Europe, North America and the Middle East.  He joined The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) in 1982. In 1998, he was appointed to the Board of HSBC Holdings plc as Executive Director, Investment Banking and Markets.  He became Group Chief Executive in 2003 and Group Chairman 2006.  He retired from HSBC in December 2010. He was created a Life Peer in 2010 and was appointed Minister of State for Trade and Investment on 11 January 2011. He retired from this position on 9 December 2013. He was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Oxford University where he graduated in 1969 with a BA (First Class Honours) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.  He also obtained a Masters Degree in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.  

Lord Stephen Green

H.S.H. Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein, born on August 19, 1966, is a member of the royal family of Liechtenstein and a prominent figure in business and finance. He is the second son of H.S.H. Prince Hans-Adam II and H.S.H. Princess Marie of Liechtenstein.Following his education, Prince Philipp embarked on a successful career in finance. He joined the internationally renowned investment bank J.P. Morgan in London, where he gained valuable experience in the financial industry. Later, he returned to Liechtenstein and contributed significantly to the growth and success of the LGT Group. The company has expanded its operations globally and has become a leading institution in wealth management, serving clients around the world.Aside from his achievements in business, Prince Philipp is known for his dedication to philanthropy and cultural endeavours. He is actively involved in charitable organizations and initiatives, particularly those related to education, healthcare, and the preservation of cultural heritage. His vision, leadership, and commitment to making a positive impact have earned him admiration and recognition both within Liechtenstein and beyond.

H.S.H. Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein

Sir Tony Brenton is the former British Ambassador to the Russian Federation, in post between 2004 and 2008. Upon his retirement from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Sir Tony had served for 30 years. Sir Tony has worked on Middle East issues, energy and European matters amongst other roles. Taking a sabbatical at Harvard University, Sir Tony wrote a book on international environmental policy titled &ldquo;The Greening of Machiavelli&rdquo;. A fluent Russian speaker, Sir Tony was first posted to Moscow in 1994, when he focused on Russian economic reform. In the early 2000s, Sir Tony focused on UN matters in London, and was subsequently posted to Washington to deal with the consequences of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the ensuing wars. He was awarded a KCMG by Her Majesty the Queen in 2007, and became a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge in 2009.

Sir Tony Brenton

Beatrice Weder di Mauro is President of the Centre for Economic Policy Reserarch, the leading European network of economists; Distinguished Fellow, Emerging Markets Institute, INSEAD; Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute in Geneva (from Jan. 2019). Weder di Mauro has held the Chair for International Macroeconomics at the University of Mainz in Germany and visiting positions at Harvard University, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations University in Tokyo and INSEAD in Singapore. She was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts for eight years and has provided high-level policy advice to European governments, the European Commission, international organizations and central banks. Weder di Mauro has served as non-executive director on the boards of leading companies in banking, development finance, pharmaceuticals, technology and insurance globally. Member of the Board: Bombardier, Bosch and UBS.

Prof. Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Jordi Gual is Chairman of the Board of Directors of VidaCaixa since April 2021. He is member of the Advisory Board of Telefónica España and member of the Board of Directors of Telefônica Brasil. Since March 2022 he is Associate of OXERA Consulting LLP (London). He also serves on the board of CEDE Foundation and he has recently become a SUERF Fellow and member of the Advisory Board of Instituto Español de Analistas Financieros. Between 2016 and 2021, he served as Chairman of CaixaBank. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Economist and Head of Strategic Planning and Research for CaixaBank and Director-General of Planning and Strategic Development for CriteriaCaixa. Jordi Gual joined the “la Caixa” Group in 2005. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Telefónica, Erste Group Bank and Repsol. He also was Vice President of Círculo de Economía, Chairman of FEDEA and he served as an economics advisor for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs in Brussels. He holds a PhD in Economics (1987) from the University of California at Berkeley and he is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.

Prof. Dr. Jordi Gual

Gerard Lyons is a British economist and writer. He is an expert on the world economy, global financial  markets and on economic and regulatory policy, focusing on international banking. Lyons was the co- founder of 'Economists for Brexit' and played a leading role in the UK European Union Referendum.  From January 2013 to May 2016 he was Chief Economic Advisor to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Prior to that, Lyons spent 25 years in the City, most recently as Chief Economist and Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered Bank. He is an author and public speaker, as well being a regular commentator for the press and television. Currently, Lyons is Chief Economic Strategist at Netwealth Investments. Additionally, he is a Senior Economic Advisor to Parker Fitzgerald and a Senior Advisor to DealGlobe. He is involved with organisations promoting UK education, UK trade and the City of London: Advisory Board of Warwick University Business School; Advisory Board of the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics and Imperial College, University of London; Vice-Chairman of the 48 Group, boosting UK–China ties, Committee Member of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs; Committee Member of the Hong Kong Association; Council Member of Open Europe and Commissioner on the London Stansted Growth Commission.

Dr. Gerard Lyons

Li Yongzhong has been serving as Vice President and Executive Director in Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co., Ltd. since October 2016. He used to be Assistant General Manager and Deputy General Manager in Shanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. He holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from China Europe International Business School.

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