 ELIZABETH WARREN is the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, formerly known as TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program), designed to oversee the US government banking bailouts. She is also a Professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy and commercial law. In 2009 she was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people. |
 GARY LOVEMAN is an American business executive and former academic. Since 2003 he has been the CEO of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc, which runs many of the large casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He also has a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. |
 ROBERT REICH has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He also served on President-Elect Obama’s transition advisory board. He has written twelve books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best sellers, The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet; and his most recent book, Supercapitalism. |
 PAUL EHRLICH is an American entomologist specializing in butterflies. He is the author of the 1968 book The Population Bomb. Ehrlich is Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. |
 DAN NIGRO is the asset backed security portfolio manager for Dynamic Credit in New York. He has over 23 years of fixed income experience on the buy-side – as an analyst, trader and portfolio manager. He has worked across all sub-sectors of the ABS market at both insurance companies and for a money manager. |
 ROBERT M. SOLOW is Institute Professor of Economics emeritus at MIT. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987. He has been studying the limits to economic growth and has recently argued that we have reached a plateau without significant technological advancement. |
 STEPHANIE RETCHLESS is the author of Are All Banks Bastards? and was employed by the banking industry for over 36 years, the last ten in the capacity of a bank manager. Stephanie has spent the last six years as a mortgage broker, financial consultant and writer. |
 BEN DUNNE is an Irish Entrepreneur and former director of his family firm, Dunnes Stores one of the largest chains of department stores in Ireland. He now owns a chain of low price fitness centres in Dublin. |
 JOHN KAY is one of Britain’s leading economists and has a special interest in the relationship between economics and business. He has written several books and also writes a weekly column for the Financial Times. |
 ANDREW GOWERS was head of corporate communications at Lehman Brothers, from mid 2006 until the collapse of the firm. Prior to that he was editor of the Financial Times. |
 PROF YE HANG is a professor of economics and Economics Director at Zhejiang University. |
 Dr IAN GOLDIN has been the director of the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford since 2006. Goldin was previously Vice President of the World Bank (2003-2006) and prior to that the Bank’s Director of Development Policy (2001-2003). He has also been nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. |
 PAUL GILDING is an independent writer, advisor and advocate for action on climate change and sustainability aiming to motivate action globally on the transition of society and the economy to sustainability. He pursues this purpose across all sectors, working around the world with individuals, businesses, NGOs, entrepreneurs, academia and government. |
 RICHARD BOOKSTABER spent ten years at Morgan Stanley, first designing and marketing derivative instruments, then as a proprietary trader and their first ever market risk manager. He is also a published author, with his latest book being A Demon of Our Own Design and has earned a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. |
 JUSTIN O’BRIEN was initially a news journalist with the BBC and editor of television current affairs at the main commercial station in Belfast. He moved into academic life in 2002, after securing a PhD in Political Science. Professor O’Brien has published many books, journals and newspaper articles, as well as presenting at many international conferences. His most recent monograph, Engineering a Financial Bloodbath, has just been published by Imperial College Press. |
| Prof ZHANG ZUOYI has been Director of the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Tsinghua University since 2001. Zhang is one of the scientists dealing with the problem of powering China’s growing economy, and has been involved with the development of Very High Temperature Reactors (VHTR) to produce hydrogen for fuel cells as well as research into technical issues involving nuclear power plants. |
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SHAI AGASSI is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Better Place, a company that focuses on green transportation infrastructure based on electric cars. In 2003, at the age of 36, Agassi has been included in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people list of 2009. |
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ROBERT KAISER is associate editor and senior correspondent of THE WASHINGTON POST and author of So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of lobbying and the corrosion of American Government. |
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SUSAN BOWER is executive producer of Australian TV show Neighbours. She has worked as Producer and Executive Producer of McLeod’s Daughters and script producer for All Saints, A Country Practice and Neighbours. |
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PETER SCHIFF is an American economist, author and commentator and president of Euro Pacific Capital. Schiff predicted the US housing bubble and overall economic crisis. |
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SIMON JOHNSON is a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, a widely cited website on the global economy, and is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, Professor Johnson was the International Monetary Fund’s Economic Counsellor (chief economist) and Director of its Research Department. |
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PETER SUTHERLAND is the ex-chairman of BP plc and Goldman Sachs International. He is currently UN special representative for migration and development. Before these appointments, he was the founding director-general of the World Trade Organisation, chairman of Allied Irish Banks, chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration and attorney general of Ireland. |
