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Karen Koning Abuzayd UN Under-Secretary-General And Karen Koning Abuzayd Bertrand Badré UN Under-Secretary-General and Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer Commissioner-General for UNRWA of the World Bank (2013-2016) (2005-2010)¹ Gordon Bajnai Philippe Aghion Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-2010) Professor of Economics, Collège de France & London School of Economics (LSE) Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister of the Netherlands María Elena Agüero (2002-2010)² Secretary General of the WLA-Club de Madrid Ed Balls Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Masood Ahmed Families, United Kingdom (2007-2010); Chief President of the Center for Global Economic Adviser to the Treasury (1997-2004) Development; Director of the IMF Middle East and Central Asia Department (2008-2016) Professor Oriana Bandiera Director of STICERD & Professor of Esko Aho Economics, LSE Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995)² José Manuel Barroso Dr Shamshad Akhtar Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-2004); UN Under Secretary-General and Executive President of the European Commission Secretary of ESCAP & Assistant (2004-2014); Non-Executive Chairman of Secretary-General at UN DESA (2013-2018); Goldman Sachs International² Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (2006-2009)¹ Kaushik Basu President of the International Economic Amat Alsoswa Association; Chief Economist of the World UN Assistant-Secretary-General and UNDP Bank (2012-2016) Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for the Arab States Bureau (2006-2012)¹ Carol Bellamy Executive Director of UNICEF (1995-2005)¹ HE Dr Abdulaziz Altwaijri Director General of the Islamic Educational, Professor Erik Berglöf Scientific and Cultural Organization Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, (1991-2019)³ London School of Economics; Chief Economist of the EBRD (2006-2014) Mohamed Amersi Founder & Chairman, The Amersi Foundation Sali Berisha President of Albania (1992-1997); Prime Baroness Valerie Amos Minister (2005-2013)³ UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Suman Bery Co-ordinator (2010-2015); Secretary of State Chief Economist at Royal Dutch Shell for International Development of the United (2012-2016); Director-General of the National Kingdom (2003)¹ Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi Professor Nava Ashraf Professor of Economics & Research Director Sir Tim Besley of the Marshall Institute, LSE President of the International Economic Association (2014-2017); Professor of Shaukat Aziz Economics and Political Science, LSE Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007)³⁴ 1 Valdis Birkavs Kim Campbell Prime Minister of Latvia (1993-1994)² Prime Minister of Canada (1993)² Tony Blair Fernando Henrique Cardoso Prime Minister of the United Kingdom President of Brazil (1995-2003)² (1997-2007) Wendy Carlin Dr Mario Blejer Professor of Economics, University College Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina London (2002); Director of the Centre for Central Banking Studies, Bank of England Hikmet Çetin (2003-2008) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (1991-1994)³ Irina Bokova Director-General of UNESCO (2009-2017)¹ Baroness Lynda Chalker Minister of Overseas Development of the Patrick Bolton United Kingdom (1989-1997)⁵ Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial College London; Professor, Columbia HE Joaquim Chissano University President of Mozambique (1986-2005)² Kjell Magne Bondevik Professor Bai Chong-En Prime Minister of Norway (1997-2000; Dean, Tsinghua School of Economics and 2001-2005)² Management, Tsinghua University Dumitru Braghiș Helen Clark Prime Minister of Moldova (1999-2001)³ Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008); UNDP Administrator (2009-2017)²⁵ Lakhdar Brahimi Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria Joe Clark (1991-1993); UN & Arab League Envoy to Prime Minister of Canada (1979-1980)⁵ Syria (2012-2014); Member of The Elders⁵ Emil Constantinescu María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila President of Romania (1996-2000)³ Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador (1999-2004)¹ Radhika Coomaraswamy UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Gordon Brown Representative for Children and Armed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Conflict (2006-2012); UN Special Rapporteur (2007-2010) on Violence Against Women (1994-2003)¹ Gro Harlem Brundtland Ertharin Cousin Prime Minister of Norway (1990-1996); Executive Director of the UN World Food Director General of the WHO (1998-2003); Programme (2012-2017)¹ Member of The Elders² Professor Diane Coyle CBE John Bruton Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland Policy, University of Cambridge (1994-1997)²⁵ Chester Crocker Robin Burgess Assistant Secretary of State for African Professor of Economics, LSE Affairs, United States (1981-1989)⁵ Micheline Calmy Rey Mirko Cvetković President of Switzerland (2007; 2011)²⁵ Prime Minister of Serbia (2008-2012)³ 2 Marzuki Darusman Barry Eichengreen Attorney General of Indonesia (1999-2001)⁵ Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Gavyn Davies Co-Founder & Chairman, Fulcrum Asset Mohamed ElBaradei Management; Chief Economist & Chairman Director General of the International Atomic of Global Investment Dept, Goldman Sachs Energy Agency (1997-2009)⁵ (1988-2001); Chairman, BBC (2001-2004) María Fernanda Espinosa Frederik Willem de Klerk President of the UN General Assembly State President of South Africa (1989-1994)⁵ (2018-2019); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador (2007; 2017-2018) & Minister of Álvaro de Soto Defence (2012-2014)¹ UN Under-Secretary-General (1999-2007)⁵ Gareth Evans Kemal Derviş Foreign Minister of Australia (1988-1996); Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey President and CEO of International Crisis (2001-2002); Administrator of UNDP Group (2000-2009)⁵ (2005-2009); Senior Fellow Global Economy and Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar Development, Brookings Institute Director of the Wellcome Trust Mathias Dewatripont Christiana Figueres Professor of Economics, Université libre de Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Bruxelles Convention on Climate Change (2010-2016)¹ Božidar Djelić Jan Fischer Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (2007-2011) Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (2009-2010); Finance Minister (2013-2014)³ Beatrice Weder di Mauro President, Centre for Economic Policy Joschka Fischer Research (CEPR); Professor of International Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Economics, Graduate Institute in Geneva Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005) The Hon. Mark Dybul, MD Franco Frattini Executive Director of the The Global Fund to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2002-2004; 2008-2011); European (2012-2017); Co-Director of the Center for Commissioner (2004-2008)³ Global Health Practice and Impact & Professor of Medicine, Georgetown Louise Fréchette University Medical Center UN Deputy Secretary-General (1998-2006)⁵ Šefik Džaferović Ahmed Galal Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Finance Minister of Egypt (2013-2014) Herzegovina³ Nathalie de Gaulle Dr Victor J. Dzau Chairwoman & Co-founder of NB-INOV; President of the National Academy of Founder of Under 40³ Medicine Professor Maitreesh Ghatak Hans Eichel Professor of Economics, LSE Minister of Finance of Germany (1999-2005); Co-Founder of the G20 3 Professor Ian Goldin Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Chief Executive & Managing Director of the Secretary General of the Organization of Development Bank of Southern Africa Islamic Cooperation (2004-2014)³ (1996-2001); Vice President of the World Bank (2003-2006) Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva President of Kyrgyzstan (2010-2011)² Felipe Gonzalez Prime Minister of Spain (1982-1996)²⁴ Dalia Itzik Interim President of Israel (2007); President of Dr Lawrence Gonzi the Knesset (2006-2009)³ Prime Minister of Malta (2004-2013)⁵ Gjorge Ivanov Rebeca Grynspan President of North Macedonia (2009-2019)³ Ibero-American Secretary-General; Second Vice President of Costa Rica (1994-1998); Harold James UN Under-Secretary-General and Associate Professor of European Studies & Professor of Administrator of UNDP (2010-2014)¹ History and International Affairs, Princeton University Ameenah Gurib-Fakim President of Mauritius (2015-2018)³ Hina Jilani Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; Sergei Guriev Member of The Elders Chief Economist of the EBRD (2016-2019); Professor of Economics, Sciences Po HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President of Liberia (2006-2018); Member of Alfred Gusenbauer The Elders Chancellor of Austria (2000-2008)² Mehdi Jomaa Tarja Halonen Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)² President of Finland (2000-2012)² T. Anthony Jones Dr Han Seung-soo Vice-President and Executive Director of the Prime Minister of South Korea (2008-2009)² Gorbachev Foundation of North America² Ameerah Haq Dr Lee Jong-Wha UN Under-Secretary-General for Field Professor of Economics, Korea University; Support (2012-2014) & Special Chief Economist & Head of the Office of Representative of Regional Economic Integration at the Asian the Secretary General in Timor Leste Development Bank (2007-2013) (2009-2012)¹ Ivo Josipović Dr Noeleen Heyzer President of Croatia (2010-2015)³ Member of the High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation of the UN Secretary-General; UN Angela Kane Under-Secretary-General and Executive UN Under-Secretary-General for Management Secretary of ESCAP (2007-2014)¹³ (2008-2012); UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (2012-2015)¹ Mo Ibrahim Founder of Celtel; Chairman of the Mo Mats Karlsson Ibrahim Foundation⁴ Vice President, External Affairs at the World Bank (1999-2011)³ Enrique Iglesias Foreign Minister of Uruguay (1985-1988); Caroline Kende-Robb
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