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Karen Koning Abuzayd UN Under-Secretary 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 Kaushik Basu Dr Shamshad Akhtar President of the International Economic UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Association; Chief Economist of the World Secretary of ESCAP & Assistant Bank Secretary-General at UN DESA (2013-2018); (2012-2016) Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (2006-2009)¹ Carol Bellamy Executive Director of UNICEF (1995-2005)¹ Amat Alsoswa UN Assistant-Secretary-General and UNDP Professor Erik Berglöf Assistant Administrator and Regional Director Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, for the Arab States Bureau (2006-2012)¹ London School of Economics; Chief Economist of the EBRD (2006-2014) HE Dr Abdulaziz Altwaijri Director General of the Islamic Educational, Sali Berisha Scientific and Cultural Organization President of Albania (1992-1997); Prime (1991-2019)³ Minister (2005-2013)³ Mohamed Amersi Suman Bery Founder & Chairman, The Amersi Foundation Chief Economist at Royal Dutch Shell (2012-2016); Director-General of the National Baroness Valerie Amos Council of Applied Economic Research, New UN Under-Secretary-General for Delhi Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator (2010-2015); Secretary of State Sir Tim Besley for International Development of the United President of the International Economic Kingdom (2003)¹ Association (2014-2017); Professor of Economics and Political Science, LSE Professor Nava Ashraf Professor of Economics & Research Director Valdis Birkavs of the Marshall Institute, LSE Prime Minister of Latvia (1993-1994)² Shaukat Aziz Tony Blair Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007)³⁴ Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007) 1 Dr Mario Blejer Wendy Carlin Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina Professor of Economics, University College (2002); Director of the Centre for Central London Banking Studies, Bank of England (2003-2008) Hikmet Çetin Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Irina Bokova (1991-1994)³ Director-General of UNESCO (2009-2017)¹ Baroness Lynda Chalker Patrick Bolton Minister of Overseas Development of the Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial United Kingdom (1989-1997)⁵ College London; Professor, Columbia University HE Joaquim Chissano President of Mozambique (1986-2005)² Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister of Norway (1997-2000; Professor Bai Chong-En 2001-2005)² Dean, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University Dumitru Braghiș Prime Minister of Moldova (1999-2001)³ Helen Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008); Lakhdar Brahimi UNDP Administrator (2009-2017)²⁵ Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (1991-1993); UN & Arab League Envoy to Joe Clark Syria (2012-2014); Member of The Elders⁵ Prime Minister of Canada (1979-1980)⁵ María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila Emil Constantinescu Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador President of Romania (1996-2000)³ (1999-2004)¹ Radhika Coomaraswamy Gordon Brown UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Representative for Children and Armed (2007-2010) Conflict (2006-2012); UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (1994-2003)¹ Gro Harlem Brundtland Prime Minister of Norway (1990-1996); Ertharin Cousin Director General of the WHO (1998-2003); Executive Director of the UN World Food Member of The Elders² Programme (2012-2017)¹ John Bruton Professor Diane Coyle CBE Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public (1994-1997)²⁵ Policy, University of Cambridge Robin Burgess Chester Crocker Professor of Economics, LSE Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, United States (1981-1989)⁵ Micheline Calmy Rey President of Switzerland (2007; 2011)²⁵ Mirko Cvetković Prime Minister of Serbia (2008-2012)³ Kim Campbell Prime Minister of Canada (1993)² Marzuki Darusman Attorney General of Indonesia (1999-2001)⁵ Fernando Henrique Cardoso President of Brazil (1995-2003)² 2 Gavyn Davies Mohamed ElBaradei Co-Founder & Chairman, Fulcrum Asset Director General of the International Atomic Management; Chief Economist & Chairman Energy Agency (1997-2009)⁵ of Global Investment Dept, Goldman Sachs (1988-2001); Chairman, BBC (2001-2004) María Fernanda Espinosa President of the UN General Assembly Frederik Willem de Klerk (2018-2019); Minister of Foreign Affairs of State President of South Africa (1989-1994)⁵ Ecuador (2007; 2017-2018) & Minister of Defence (2012-2014)¹ Álvaro de Soto UN Under-Secretary-General (1999-2007)⁵ Gareth Evans Foreign Minister of Australia (1988-1996); Kemal Derviş President and CEO of International Crisis Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey Group (2000-2009)⁵ (2001-2002); Administrator of UNDP (2005-2009); Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar Senior Fellow Global Economy and Director of the Wellcome Trust Development, Brookings Institute Christiana Figueres Mathias Dewatripont Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Professor of Economics, Université libre de Convention on Climate Change (2010-2016)¹ Bruxelles Jan Fischer Božidar Djelić Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (2007-2011) (2009-2010); Finance Minister (2013-2014)³ Beatrice Weder di Mauro Joschka Fischer President, Centre for Economic Policy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Research (CEPR); Professor of International Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005) Economics, Graduate Institute in Geneva Franco Frattini The Hon. Mark Dybul, MD Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Executive Director of the The Global Fund to (2002-2004; 2008-2011); European Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Commissioner (2004-2008)³ (2012-2017); Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact & Louise Fréchette Professor of Medicine, Georgetown UN Deputy Secretary-General (1998-2006)⁵ University Medical Center Ahmed Galal Šefik Džaferović Finance Minister of Egypt (2013-2014) Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina³ Nathalie de Gaulle Chairwoman & Co-founder of NB-INOV; Dr Victor J. Dzau Founder of Under 40³ President of the National Academy of Medicine Professor Maitreesh Ghatak Professor of Economics, LSE Hans Eichel Minister of Finance of Germany (1999-2005); Professor Ian Goldin Co-Founder of the G20 Chief Executive & Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa Barry Eichengreen (1996-2001); Vice President of the World Professor of Economics and Political Science, Bank (2003-2006) University of California, Berkeley Felipe Gonzalez Prime Minister of Spain (1982-1996)²⁴ 3 Dr Lawrence Gonzi Dalia Itzik Prime Minister of Malta (2004-2013)⁵ Interim President of Israel (2007); President of the Knesset (2006-2009)³ Rebeca Grynspan Ibero-American Secretary-General; Second Gjorge Ivanov Vice President of Costa Rica (1994-1998); President of North Macedonia (2009-2019)³ UN Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of UNDP (2010-2014)¹ Harold James Professor of European Studies & Professor of Ameenah Gurib-Fakim History and International Affairs, Princeton President of Mauritius (2015-2018)³ University Sergei Guriev Hina Jilani Chief Economist of the EBRD (2016-2019); Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Member of The Elders Alfred Gusenbauer HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Chancellor of Austria (2000-2008)² President of Liberia (2006-2018); Member of The Elders Tarja Halonen President of Finland (2000-2012)² Mehdi Jomaa Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)² Dr Han Seung-soo Prime Minister of South Korea (2008-2009)² T. Anthony Jones Vice-President and Executive Director of the Ameerah Haq Gorbachev Foundation of North America² UN Under-Secretary-General for Field Support (2012-2014) & Special Dr Lee Jong-Wha Representative of Professor of Economics, Korea University; the Secretary General in Timor Leste Chief Economist & Head of the Office of (2009-2012)¹ Regional Economic Integration at the Asian Development Bank (2007-2013) Dr Noeleen Heyzer Member of the High-Level Advisory Board on Ivo Josipović Mediation of the UN Secretary-General; UN President of Croatia (2010-2015)³ Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP (2007-2014)¹³ Angela Kane UN Under-Secretary-General for Management Mo Ibrahim (2008-2012); UN High Representative for Founder of Celtel; Chairman of the Mo Disarmament Affairs (2012-2015)¹ Ibrahim Foundation⁴ Mats Karlsson Enrique Iglesias Vice President, External Affairs at the World Foreign Minister of Uruguay (1985-1988); Bank (1999-2011)³ President of the Inter-American Development Bank (1988-2005)²⁵ Caroline Kende-Robb Executive Director of the Africa Progress Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Panel (2011-2017); Secretary General of Secretary General of the Organization of CARE International (2018-2020) Islamic Cooperation (2004-2014)³ Kerry Kennedy Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva President
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