In 2023 she received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for Services to Economics in the 2023 New Year Honours List.

Professor Yueh is Adviser to the UK Board of Trade and Member of the Independent Review Panel on Ring-fencing and Proprietary Trading of the UK government. She is Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and Trustee of Malaria No More UK and the Coutts Foundation, where she is Chair of the Audit, Finance and Investment Committee. She is a Non-Executive Director of the following publicly listed companies on the London Stock Exchange: Rentokil Initial plc and SEGRO plc, both FTSE 100 companies, Senior Independent Director of Fidelity China Special Situations plc, a FTSE 250 investment trust, and Chair of Baillie Gifford’s The Schiehallion Fund Ltd, an investment company listed on the Specialist Fund Segment of the LSE Main Market. She serves on the Advisory Board of LSE IDEAS and on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), both at the London School of Economics. She is a Fellow (FRSA) of the Royal Society of Arts.

Dr Yueh is a widely published author who has written 10 books. Her latest book, published in May 2023, is The Great Crashes, Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them. Previous books include: The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today was selected as The Times’s Best Business Books of the Year. The U.S. edition, What Would the Great Economists Do? How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today’s Biggest Problems, was Newsweek’s Best Books of the Year.

She is a TV and radio presenter, including for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, as well as having fronted BBC TV series, such as The New Middle Class, Next Billionaires, and Working Lives. She was Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News and presenter of Talking Business with Linda Yueh for BBC World TV and BBC News Channel. She had been Economics Editor and anchor at Bloomberg TV.

Professor Yueh has advised the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, World Economic Forum in Davos, among others. She was a Non-Executive Director of the publicly listed companies: Baillie Gifford’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc and JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income plc. She was previously Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) of London First; Board Member of London & Partners; Advisory Board Member of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF); advisor to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC); and Advisory Board member of the British Science Association’s For Thought Summit 2019.

Her best-selling books, The Silent Takeover, The Debt Threat and Eyes Wide Open are published in more than twenty countries. Her latest book is the international bestseller The Lonely Century – A Call to Reconnect, which was chosen by The Daily Telegraph, Wired, and El Mundo, amongst other publications, as a Book of the Year.

As a global economist, whose work intersects the nexus of economics, technology, politics and society – and a pioneering and renowned thinker on ESG, the post-millennial generation and community building – Noreena also advises some of the largest organizations and most senior leaders in the world on strategy and transformation.

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She sits on the boards of Nasdaq-listed companies Mattel and Warner Music Group and also the board of the HR Tech Company, Workhuman. She has served on Citigroup’s Politics and Economics Global Advisory Board, the Inclusive Capitalism Taskforce’s Advisory Group, and RWE’s Digital Transformation Board, and her thinking served as the inspiration for Bono’s Product ‘Red’.

As a visionary thinker, Noreena is also frequently sought after as a Keynote Speaker and has given keynote speeches at TED, The World Economic Forum in Davos and Google Zeitgeist as well as for leading global corporations, sharing platforms with such luminaries as President Bill Clinton, Professor Stephen Hawking and David Beckham amongst others.  Her opinion pieces have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Die Zeit, El Pais, and The South China Morning Post.

Noreena also makes frequent television appearances around the world including on flagship television shows such as CBS’ This Morning, BBC’s Question Time, NHK’s Global Debate. She has created and hosted four television documentaries; hosted her own show on the US’ largest radio network Sirius XM and served as the economics editor for the UK’s leading commercial television network, ITV.

Noreena has a PhD from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Having spent 10 years at the University of Cambridge, in 2014 she moved to University College London where she is an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Global Prosperity.

1.    AI: Beyond the Hype: How AI will transform business and society and what this means for us all

AI is already transforming business, healthcare and government. But how radical will the transformation be in business, economic and societal terms? 

Who will be the winners? Who will lose out? What can businesses do to make sure that they thrive in this new age and fully leverage its capabilities? Whilst at the same time have a plan in place to address its downside risks?

And what will happen to us as individuals? Will AI take our jobs? Make us smarter or more stupid? How will it impact not only how we work  but also how we vote? What will it mean to be human in the age of AI? And how do we influence its trajectory?

Combining historical analysis, personal anecdotes, and the latest thinking on where we are heading, Noreena will address these questions and more in this thought-provoking keynote.

2. The New Global Landscape: How to succeed in these radically different times

President Trump is in office. Right wing populists in power across the globe. Russia and Iran increasingly cosy. China continuing to face challenges. There is continued instability in the Middle East and Ukraine. Trade tariffs are the new reality.

The rules of the game have fundamentally changed. The post Cold War consensus that dominated the past 35 years – in which peace was the norm, free trade the mantra, democracy a given and globalisation the accepted way forward – has irrevocably broken down.

This has huge consequences for society but also for business, the implications of which leaders must understand. 

In this stimulating keynote Noreena helps her audience make sense of this radically different political, geopolitical and business environment—and offers a roadmap for how they can adapt their strategies to navigate these shifts to ensure that they successfully thrive in it.

3. Generation K: How to manage, engage, and inspire your post-millennial employees and consumers 

Generation K (today’s 16–26-year-olds) makes up almost a third of employees and has almost $1 trillion in purchasing power. Yet how much do you really know them, a generation that is profoundly different to the millennials? 

Did you know for example that they are the loneliest generation on record? And also the most anxious? That they are profoundly worried about their economic futures? And are reconfiguring their purchasing and workplace behaviours accordingly? That they seek agency in the office and also in the shopping mall and actively seek out both opportunities to connect but also to co-create. That they care passionately about a host of issues – but increasingly along gender lines. And did you know too the extent to which this generation distrusts traditional institutions whether we’re talking big business or Government? 

By deploying her proprietary research on this generation – in this fascinating keynote Noreena helps leaders to both understand this generation but know how to connect with, inspire, engage and retain them – whether as employees or customers.

4. Breaking Barriers, Building Futures: How to shatter the glass ceiling and make an impact

Step into the world of one of Europe’s most extraordinary trailblazers and discover how she shattered the glass ceiling—and how you can too. 

Noreena Hertz is one of the rare women in Europe to serve on the boards of multiple U.S. multibillion-dollar companies. She’s also a best-selling author, renowned academic, and fearless activist whose visionary ideas shaped Bono’s (RED) campaign and inspired Premier League footballers to donate a day’s wages for nurses.

In this empowering keynote, Noreena will share deeply personal stories and reflections from her remarkable journey—how she overcame challenges, stayed true to herself, and forged her own path in male-dominated industries. Alongside her insights, she’ll provide actionable strategies and tools to help women in business take control of their careers, amplify their influence, and lead with purpose.

Authentic, inspiring, and focused on results, this keynote is designed for women looking to break barriers, elevate their careers, and leave a legacy of impact.

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Ann is the author of the book What the U.S. Can Learn from China, an award winning international bestseller, and the book Will China’s Economy Collapse?  She is also a former visiting professor at Peking University and an adjunct professor at New York University and Pace University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives.

She consults with policymakers from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. about U.S.-China relations, international finance and trade, and China’s political economy.  She also sits on the board of Coterie and on the advisory boards of a number of startups.

In addition to television and radio appearances on MSNBC, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, NPR, CCTV, the BBC among many others, her op-eds have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Businessweek, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The American Prospect,  The American Banker, the Hong Kong Economic Journal, and China Newsweek.

She has been quoted in dozens of publications and has been an invited speaker at numerous industry and academic conferences around the world.  A former investment banker in high yield bonds and technology stocks as well as a partner and credit derivatives trader at multi-billion dollar hedge fund firms, she studied at U.C. Berkeley, Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and Harvard Business School.

Professor Ann Lee is host of a new TV show Channel C, a 30-minute weekly show aired on Direct TV by CounterPoint Media, LLC , a Wall Street Multimedia, Inc. production. Channel C, a ground-breaking new program, will help bridge the knowledge gaps and facilitate communication. This program offers insiders’ perspectives in an accessible way, and the audience will develop a more informed view of what makes this fascinating country tick.

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While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China’s economy is the second largest in the world, and many predict it will surpass the United States’ by 2020. President Obama called China’s rise “a Sputnik moment”—will America seize this moment or continue to treat China as its scapegoat?

Mainstream media and the U.S. government regularly target China as a threat. Rather than viewing China’s power, influence, and contributions to the global economy in a negative light, Ann Lee asks, What can America learn from its competition?

Why did China recover so quickly after the global economic meltdown? What accounts for China’s extraordinary growth, despite one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world? How does the Chinese political system avoid partisan rancor but achieve genuine public accountability? From education to governance to foreign aid, Lee details the policies and practices that have made China a global power and then isolates the ways the United States can use China’s enduring principles to foster much-needed change at home.

This is no whitewash. Lee is fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in the area of human rights. She has relatives who suffered during the Cultural Revolution. But by overemphasizing our differences with China, the United States stands to miss a vital opportunity. Filled with sharp insights and thorough research, What the U.S. Can Learn from China is Lee’s rallying cry for a new approach at a time when learning from one another is the key to surviving and thriving.

Winner of the Gold IPPY award in the category of current events.

She lectures at Sandhurst and in the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program.

Pippa makes regular guest appearances on Bloomberg and the BBC and speaks to audiences worldwide on emerging trends.

She has been named a Fellow of The Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation for 2022-2024. She is also a Founder member of the Lunar University, a NASA-originated project to ensure the first human institution on the moon represents the arts and humanities.

She served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on The National Economic Council. She served on the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. After 9/11 she was also responsible for assessing Terrorism Risks to the Economy and technology as a source of geopolitical competitiveness.

Before joining the White House, she ran the Bankers Trust Asset Management business in Asia and was then appointed as the Global Chief Currency Strategist. She was then named the Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS. More recently she advised the British Cabinet on trade issues as a Board Member for The Department for International Trade from 2017-2019. She is also on the Board of Premios Verdes which holds the “Green Oscars” to support cleantech start-ups in emerging markets and serves as a judge on The Queen’s Enterprise Business Awards and is a Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI, the world’s leading defence think tank. She has also been involved in the Planning Committee of the BSA Huxley Summit. In 2014, she co-founded a robotics firm that made industrial drones which won the Cog X Award for Autonomy, the 2020 National Technology Award and Power Product of the Year 2020.

Her most recent bestseller, The Infinite Leader, won the International Press Award for the Best Book on Leadership for 2021. Her previous book, The Leadership Lab, was named Business Book of the Year and Best Book on Leadership in 2019 and won the International Press Award 2020 and the NYC Library Big Apple Award. She is also the author of: Geopolitics for Investors (2015) and Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World’s Turbulent Economy a crowd-funded Amazon best-seller (2016/7). She has been named one of the Fifty Top Inspiring Women in the UK and one of the Top 100 in Tech by @WATC_WeAreTech and longlisted by Computer Weekly as a Most Influential Women in Tech for 2019, 2020 and 2021. She began her career at the OECD in Paris in the Science and Technology Directorate (STI).

She has a BA from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and PhD from LSE. She completed the Harvard Program on National Security. She gave the graduation address at the London School of Economics in 2013 and 2016. Commercial firms like Google, American Express, major banks and asset managers like Citigroup and State Street and military leaders retain her to speak.

PRIMARY SPEAKING TOPICS:
Pippa takes a “holistic” approach and weaves together politics, policy, geopolitics, tech and markets.
The Hot War in Cold Places and The Cold War in Hot Places
Why The New Space Economy Will Transform Earth
Tech, Innovation, Geopolitics, and the Social Contract
The New Globalization is Glocalization
Conscious Capitalism
Digital Divining, AR/VR/XR and the Metverse

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Previously, he served on the National Security Council staff as director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and later as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asia. Medeiros was President Obama’s top advisor on the Asia-Pacific and was responsible for coordinating US policy toward the region across the areas of diplomacy, defense, economy, and intelligence.

He previously served as a policy advisor to former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson on the US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue and has held senior positions at the Eurasia Group and the RAND Corporation.

His research and teaching focuses on the international politics of East Asia, U.S.-China relations and China’s foreign and national security policies. He has published several books and articles and regularly provides advice to global corporations and international media.

Dr. Medeiros’ expertise is a unique blend of research experience and practical experience. He previously served for six years on the staff of the National Security Council as Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia and then as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia.

In the latter role, Dr. Medeiros served as President Barack Obama’s top advisor on the Asia-Pacific and was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific across the areas of diplomacy, defense policy, economic policy, and intelligence. He was actively involved in all aspects U.S.- China relations for six years, including several U.S.-China summit meetings.

In recent years, Dr. Medeiros advised multinational companies on Asia in his role as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific at Eurasia Group, the global political risk consultancy. Dr. Medeiros also worked for seven years as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. From 2007-2008, he served as policy advisor to Secretary Hank Paulson working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the Treasury Department.

Dr. Medeiros holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in addition to an M.Phil degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), a M.A. degree in China studies from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and a B.A. degree in analytic philosophy from Bates College in Maine

He has published several books and articles on East Asia, U.S.-China relations, and China’s foreign and national security policies, including in August 2023 Cold Rivals: The New Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition, with Georgetown University Press.

With 250+ strategic publications and audiences in more than 120 countries, his insights have shaped the thinking of CEOs, investors, policymakers, and national security leaders. Murati is widely recognised for his ability to decode macro geoeconomic complexity, helping leaders not only understand the world, but actively shape it.

He ensures AI enhances strategic judgement rather than replacing it, preserving the human edge at the centre of high-performance leadership. As a Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Geoeconomics Institute, he merges theoretical depth with practical strategy, informed by a multidisciplinary foundation spanning anthropology, political economy, human rights, security studies, financial crime, and emerging technology governance.

A powerful and captivating keynote presence, Murati is known for his clarity, originality, and counterintuitive insights. He does not simply inform audiences, he transforms how they think, decide, and lead.

2026 – Themes & Topics

China’s fifthteen five Year Plan will be a major business driver for 2026.

Every five years China announces their policy, fiscal, technological and geopolitical direction and agenda for the next 5 years. 2026 will be the 15th time they have done this and it will have major ramifications on supply chains, tech innovation, business openness, and leadership challenges. Using the Global Power Index Prof. Murati has already crunched the numbers and has already provide analysis for clients on what this initiative means for global business and investing.

Rising Government Debt is going to be a catalyse for major economic volatility in 2026

If more government revenue is going into paying off debt, then less is going towards public services and this funding shortfall will have major social, business, investment and policy ramifications. Public debt is at record highs, and we will see major market dislocations in 2026. Italy, Egypt, Japan, Argentina, the UK and the US are countries to watch.

Germany’s bet on public spending on infrastructure development will fail, thus exacerbating the economic degradation and social discontent

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is spending unprecedented sums to reinvigorate German’s economy through public sector infrastructure financing. Although a good aim the money is not being spend on the right things and will inevitably be wasted causing even more frustration and more of Germany leaning towards alternative political leadership.

A US invasion of Venezuela will lock the US into another sticky forever war causing increased geopolitical instability

For reasons which have not yet been substantiated the US in the process of engaging military assets on Venezuela. Depending on the intensity of this military engagement this will ignite multiple responses from other governments, financial markets and business. The pro peace president will have tarnished his promiss of bringing pease to the world and this will compound the migrant crises that the US government is facing by dispelling even more civilians form their homes and into neighbouring countries causing already challenged public services to feel even more strain and face more social pressures.

She was Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, a member of the Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisors, among others.

Carmen’s areas of expertise are in international finance, and macroeconomics. Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. She has published extensively on capital flows, exchange rate policy, banking and sovereign debt crises, and contagion.

Presently she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland.

During her career, Reinhart has worked in numerous roles to address policy challenges including most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impact.

Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. Her best-selling book (with Kenneth S. Rogoff) entitled This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly documents the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history. It has been translated to over 20 languages and won the Paul A. Samuelson Award. She is an elected member of the Group of Thirty and is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Carmen Reinhart is ranked among the top economists worldwide according to Research Papers in Economics. She has been listed among Bloomberg Markets Most Influential 50 in Finance, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, and Thompson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. In 2018, she was awarded the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and NABE’s Adam Smith Award, among others.