Musician, Businessman, Founder and Chair of Band Aid, Live Aid and live8, Co-Founder of DATA and ONE Advisor and Advocate Bob Geldof is an Irish musician, businessman and campaigner against poverty. Mr Geldof’s activism for...

Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Michel Camdessus, an economist and French national, was managing director of the International Monetary Fund from 1987 to 2000.The Fund’s longest-serving leader to date, he managed it...

CEO of Credit Suisse. Tidjane Thiam, born in Côte d’Ivoire in 1962, is the Chief Executive of Credit Suisse since June 2015. He previously served as chief financial officer and then chief executive of the London-based international financial...

Founder of Econet Wireless Strive Masiyiwa, a Zimbabwean national, is one of Africa’s most respected business leaders. He first came to international prominence when he fought a landmark constitutional legal battle in Zimbabwe. The ruling,...

Co-Chair of the Board, Council on Foreign Relations and former Secretary of the United States Treasury Robert E. Rubin became Secretary of the Treasury to President Bill Clinton in 1995, and played a leading role...

Founder and Chair of Advisory Council of Transparency International , Founding Chair of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Chair Governance Projects of HUMBOLDT-VIARINA Governance Platform Professor Peter Eigen, a lawyer by training, worked in economic development...

President of the Foundation for Community Development and Founder of New Faces, New Voices Graça Machel is a renowned international advocate for women’s and children’s rights and has been a social and political activist over...

Former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo was president of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, from 1999 to 2007. He oversaw his country’s first democratic handover of power and administrative reforms that accelerated economic growth. Mr...

Governor of the Bank of Botswana Linah Mohohlo has played a key role in one of Africa’s most successful economies as governor of Botswana’s central bank since 1999. She became governor in 1999 after 23...