Past Events
2016
2015
Previous speakers
- World leaders and politicians
- President Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America, Founder of the Carter Center and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America, Founder of the Clinton Global Initiative
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Chair of The Elders
- President Mary Robinson, former President of the Republic of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Jeb Bush, former US Governor of Florida and Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education
- Sir Richard Dearlove, former Chief of MI6 and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Sir Jeremy Heywood, UK Cabinet Secretary
- Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary and former Mayor of London
- The Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown, former Minister of the State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Rt Hon David Miliband, former MP and Foreign Secretary 2007-2010, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee
- Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the UK, Senior Advisor to Credit Suisse, and President of Chatham House
- Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, President of Chatham House, Chair of the board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust, former Chief of MI5
- Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of Oxford University, former Governor of Hong Kong
- John Snow, former US Treasury Secretary and Chairman of Cerberus Capital Management
- Lord Mandelson, author, Chairman of Global Counsel and former First Secretary of State and Business Secretary
- Business / Finance / Economics
- Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times
- Ana Botin, Executive Chairman of Santander Group
- Sir Richard Branson, Chairman of Virgin Group
- Paul Bulcke, CEO of Nestle SA
- Steve Case, founder of AOL and former Chairman of Time Warner
- Sir Charles Dunstone, Chairman of Dixons Carphone, Chairman of Talk Talk
- Sir Christopher Gent, Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and former CEO of Vodafone
- Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Chairman of easyGroup
- Mo Ibrahim, Chairman and founder of Mo Ibrahim Foundation and Founder of Cetel International
- Jeffery Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE
- Bill Janeway CBE, Author and senior adviser to Warburg Pincus
- David Jones, former CEO of Havas and founder of One Young World
- Lord Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England and Fellow of the British Academy
- Shad Khan, Owner of Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL), Fulham F.C., and Flex-N-Gate Inc.
- Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean and Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School
- John Micklethwait, former Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX
- Lord O’Neill, retiring Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever Plc
- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google
- Professor Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University
- Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP
- Professor Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business
- Paul Walsh, former CEO of Diageo and chairman of Compass Group
- Willie Walsh, CEO of British Airways / International Airlines Group
- Michael Woodford, author and former CEO of Olympus
- Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Editor, Financial Times
- Arts and Sports
- Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of The British Olympic Association and former Chairman of the London Olympic Committee
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes, world-renowned explorer
- Peter Gabriel, musician and co-founder of The Elders
- Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
- Sam Mendes, Academy Award Winning producer and director
- Kevin Spacey, Academy Award Winning actor and former creative director at The Old Vic
- Arsène Wenger, Manager of Arsenal Football Club
- Will.i.am, co-founder of the Black-Eyed Peas and Grammy Award winning musician, founder of the i.am.angel foundation and Director of Creative Innovation for Intel Corporation