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The GES Advisory Board
The Advisory Board provides advice on the development of the GES, may suggest themes and special events at the GES, helps attracting high-ranking participants, and may propose new Advisory Board members. Its members benefit from a privileged access to the GES’s business, political, civic, and academic communities, and to state-of-the-art economic research on global affairs.
| July 5th, 2010 | |
| Academia: | |
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| Akerlof, George A. | Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley |
| Blanchard, Olivier | Chief Economist, IMF |
| Ernst, Richard | Nobel Laureate; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich |
| Feldstein, Martin | Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| Freeman, Richard | Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| Guidotti, Pablo | Dean of the School of Government and Professor of Economics, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina |
| Heckman, James | Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics, University of Chicago |
| Krueger, Anne O. | Professor of International Economics, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow, Stanford Center for International Development |
| Lazear, Edward | Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University |
| Lindbeck, Assar | Professor of International Economics, University of Stockholm |
| McFadden, Daniel L. | Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley |
| Naim, Moises | Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy Magazine |
| Portes, Richard | Professor of Economics, London Business School |
| Rajan, Raghuram G. | Professor of Finance, University of Chicago |
| Rogoff, Kenneth | Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| Spence, Michael A. | Nobel Laureate; Chairman, Commission on Growth and Development |
| Tyson, Laura D. | Professor of Global Management, Haas School of Business |
| Victor, David G. | Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations, Stanford |
| Yu, Yongding | Director, Institute for World Economics and Politics, Beijing |
| Politics: | |
| Honorary Chairperson | |
| Schmidt, Helmut | Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany |
| Members: | |
| Ahluwalia, Montek Singh | Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, India |
| Almunia, Joaquin | European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Commission |
| Al Qasimi, Sheikha Lubna | Minister of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economy, UAE |
| Arthur, Sir Michael | Ambassador to Germany, Embassy of Great Britain |
| Borg, Anders | Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Sweden |
| Cabral, Antonio José | Senior Advisor of the President, European Commission |
| Domingo-Albert, Delia | Ambassador to Germany, Embassy of the Philippines |
| Liikanen, Erkki | Governor, Central Bank of Finland |
| Ma, Canrong | Ambassador to Germany, Embassy of China |
| Şimşek, Mehmet | Minister of Finance, Turkey |
| Torry, Sir Peter | Former Ambassador to Germany, Embassy of the United Kingdom |
| Visco, Ignazio | Deputy Director General and Member of the Governing Board, Central Bank of Italy |
| Weber, Axel | President, Central Bank of Germany |
| Yamaguchi, Yukata | Former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Japan |
| Yılmaz, Durmuş | Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
| International Organizations: | |
| Cotis, Jean-Philippe | Lead Director General, National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies |
| de Geus, Aart | Deputy Secretary-General, OECD |
| El-Baradei, Mohamed | Director General, IAEA |
| Pachauri, Rajendra K. | Nobel Laureate; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi |
| Supachai, Panitchpakdi | Secretary-General, UNCTAD |
| Zouari, Sonia | President, Abul Abaz Foundation |
| Business: | |
| Browne, Lord John | Managing Director and Managing Partner (Europe), Riverstone Holdings |
| Buerkner, Hans-Paul | President and CEO, The Boston Consulting Group |
| Evans, Richard | CEO (retd.), Alcan Inc and Rio Tinto Alcan |
| Feldmann, John | Member of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF |
| Frenkel, Jacob A. | Chairman and CEO, Group of Thirty; Chairman, J.P.Morgan Chase International |
| Frost, David | Director General, British Chambers of Commerce |
| Haley, John | CEO and Chairman of the Board, Towers Watson |
| Hatzius, Jan | Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs |
| Mittal, Sunil Bharti | Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer, Bharti Enterprises |
| Obermann, René | CEO, Deutsche Telekom |
| Regling, Klaus | CEO, European Financial Stabilization Fund |
| Schwartz, Rodney | CEO, ClearlySo |
| Walter, Norbert | Managing Director, Walter & Daughters Consult |
| Zemlin, Jim | Executive Director, Linux Foundation |