Since our first meeting in 1993, we have been honored to feature some of the world’s leading thinkers, practitioners, politicians, scientists and media leaders. A selection of these featured commentators, with title and affiliation at the time of their participation, include:
His Royal Highness
Prince Felipe de Borbón y Grecia
Prince of Asturias
José María Aznar
President
Government of Spain
(1996-2004) and
President, Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales
Michelle Bachelet
President
Government of Chile
(2006-2010) and
Under-Secretary-General, UN Women
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
President
Government of Brazil
(1995-2003)
Steve Case
Chairman
AOL Time Warner, Inc.
Jorge Castañeda
Professor
Universidad Naciónal Autónoma de México
Juan Luis Cebrián
Founder, El País and
CEO, Grupo Prisa
Cheng Siwei
Vice-Chairman
Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress
Paul Collier
Director, Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University
and Best-Selling Author
Greg Craig
Senior Policy Advisor to Barack Obama and
Partner, Williams & Connolly
Rodrigo de Rato
Managing Director
International Monetary Fund
Paquito de Rivera
Grammy Award-Winning Musician, Composer and Producer
John Deutch
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
William Donaldson
Chairman
New York Stock Exchange
Peter Eigen
Chairman and Founder
Transparency International
Moctesuma Esparza
President
Maya Pictures
Tony Fernandes
CEO
AirAsia
Luis Fernández
President
Corporación RTVE
Nathaniel Fick
CEO
Center for New American Security
José María Figueres
President
Government of Costa Rica
(1994-1998) and
CEO, Concordia 21
Ann Florini
Professor and Founding Director
Centre on Asia and Globalisation, National University of Singapore
Alejandro Foxley
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Government of Chile
Thomas L. Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist
The New York Times
Francis Fukuyama
Professor, Institute of Public Policy
George Mason University
John Gage
Chief Scientist
Sun Microsystems
Jeffery E. Garten
Dean
Yale School of Management
Baltasar Garzón
Magistrate
Audiencia Naciónal de España
Bill George
Professor, Harvard Business School
and Best-Selling Author
Carl Gershman
President
National Endowment for Democracy
Larry Gold
Founder, Chairman and CEO
SomaLogic
Felipe González
Prime Minister
Government of Spain
(1982-1996) and
President, Reflection Group on the Future of Europe
Alma Guillermoprieto
Award-Winning Author and Journalist
Richard Haass
President
Council on Foreign Relations
Lee Hartwell
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Deb Henretta
Group President for Asia
Proctor & Gamble
Anwar Ibrahim
Deputy Prime Minister
Government of Malaysia
(1993-1998)
Enrique V. Iglesias
Secretary General
Iberoamericana
Patricia Janiot
Senior Anchor
CNN en Español
Enrique Krauze
Author, Historian and Publisher
Editorial Clío
Jules Kroll
Executive Chairman of the Board
Kroll Inc.
Ricardo Lagos
President
Government of Chile
(2000-2006) and
President, Club de Madrid
Richard Lapper
Latin American Editor
Financial Times
Marne Levine
Vice-President
Global Public Policy
Facebook
Penny Low
Member of Parliament
Government of Singapore
Kishore Mahbubani
Dean
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore
Jessica T. Mathews
President
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Thomas “Mack” McLarty
Vice Chairman
Kissinger McLarty Associates
Gabriela Montero
Grammy-Nominated Classical Pianist
Luis Alberto Moreno
President
Inter-American Development Bank
Craig Mundie
Chief Research and Strategy Officer
Microsoft Corporation
Chandran Nair
Founder and CEO
Global Institute for Tomorrow
John D. Negroponte
Director of National Intelligence
United States Government
Florentino Pérez
President
Real Madrid C.F.
Sebastián Piñera
Presidential Candidate and
President, Fundación Futuro
Borja Prado Eulate
President
Endesa
C. K. Prahalad
Professor
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
William Rhodes
Vice Chairman
Citigroup
Alec Ross
Senior Advisor for Innovation
U.S. Department of State
Linda Rottenberg
CEO and Co-founder
Endeavor
Jeffrey Sachs
Director
Center for International Development
Harvard University
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
President
Government of Bolivia
(1993-1997; 2002-2003)
Roger Sant
Chairman of the Board
AES Corporation
Susan L. Segal
General Partner, Latin American Group
Chase Capital Partners
Jaime Serra Puche
Secretary of Trade and Industrial Development
Government of Mexico
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Minister for Finance
Government of Singapore
George Soros
Chairman and Founder
Open Society Institute
Admiral James G. Stavridis
Commander
U.S. Southern Command
Joseph Stiglitz
Professor, Columbia University
and Nobel Laureate, Economics
Lawrence Summers
Under Secretary
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Strobe Talbott
Under Secretary
U.S. Department of State
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
President
Government of Colombia
(2002-2010)
Mario Vargas Llosa
Novelist, Essayist and Journalist
Andrés Velasco
Minister of Finance
Government of Chile
Margaret C. Whitman
President and CEO
Ebay.com, Inc.
Martin Wolf
Associate Editor and Chief
Economic Commentator
Financial Times
Paul Wolfowitz
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
(2001-2005) and
President, World Bank Group (2005-2007)
Bob Woodward
Editor
The Washington Post
Fareed Zakaria
Editor
Newsweek International
Benjamin Zander
Music Director
Boston Philharmonic
Ernesto Zedillo
President
Government of Mexico
(1994-2000) and
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Robert Zoellick
President
World Bank Group