Professor Gary P Hamel, Visiting Professor of Strategic and
International Management, London Business School. Professor Hamel has
authored 15 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most
reprinted author in the Review’s history. His landmark books, Leading
the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on
every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20
languages. The Journal of Business Strategy recently listed Gary
Hamel as one of the 20th century’s 25 most influential business thinkers,
along with business pioneers such as Henry Ford and Bill Gates.
David Brennan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of AstraZeneca in
2006. Previously, David was President and Chief Executive Officer of
AstraZeneca LP, the company’s North America subsidiary. He was appointed
Executive Board Director of AstraZeneca in 2005, with responsibility for the
United States, the company’s largest market, as well as all North American
operations. David is also a Member of the Executive Board of the
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
Professor Lord Robert Winston, Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies
at Imperial College, runs a research programme in the Institute of
Reproductive and Developmental Biology. He has around 300 scientific
publications in peer-review journals on reproduction and embryology. His
activities in the House of Lords include speaking regularly on education,
science, medicine and the arts. He was Chairman of the Lords Select
Committee on Science and Technology 1999-2002 and is a board member and
Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Robert
Winston is committed to scientific education and regularly writes or hosts
popular science programmes for the BBC’s main channel and Discovery
networks. His series include Child of our Time, The Human Body
and Your Life in Their Hands. He won the Voice of the Listener and
Viewer award for the best individual contribution to British television in
2003.
Dr Gerry George, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Faculty
Director, Institute of Technology, London Business School. He is an expert
on managing innovation in technology-based companies and has successfully
launched start-ups in the biotechnology and service industries. He serves on
the boards of high technology companies and is actively engaged in guiding
start-ups.
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is Chairman of Anglo American plc. He was
Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group from 1998-2001. After a doctorate in
geology in 1966 at Cambridge, he worked for Shell in various roles starting
as an exploration geologist, living in the Netherlands, Spain, Oman, Brunei,
Australia, Nigeria, Turkey and Malaysia, as well as the UK. He was Co-Chair
of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy (2000–2001) and was Chairman of
Business Action for Sustainable Development (BASD), an initiative of the ICC
and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development before and during
the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. He was
a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Council for the Global
Compact 2001–2004 and was appointed to the UN Global Compact Board and as
Chairman of the Global Compact Foundation in 2006.
Dr John Llewellyn is Lehman Brothers’ Senior Economic Policy Adviser
for Europe. After spending 17 years at the OECD he then became Deputy
Director for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education and then Head of the
Secretary-General’s Private Office. From 1995 to 2006, he was Global Chief
Economist at Lehman Brothers. John’s published work has covered a range of
topics including: international economic policymaking; economic forecasting
and climate change. Together with two former colleagues, he has also
published two books: one on the international aspects of forecasting,
modelling, and economic cooperation; and the other on economic policies for
the 1990’s. In February 2007, Lehman Brothers published his report, The
Business of Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities.
Dr Craig Smith, Senior Fellow in Marketing and Ethics, London Business
School. Craig teaches the required Business Ethics and Corporate
Responsibility course on the full-time MBA programme, the Marketing core
course on the Executive MBA programme, as well as various executive courses.
He was previously on the faculties of Georgetown University and Harvard
Business School. His research examines corporate responsibility, marketing
ethics, consumer boycotts, deception in consumer research, and ethical
decision-making in an increasingly global business environment. His work on
these topics appears in a variety of publications, including Journal of
Marketing, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal
of Retailing, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review,
and California Management Review.
Fadi Ghandour is Founder, President and CEO of Aramex International, a
position he has held for the past 25 years. Aramex, one of the leading
logistics transportation companies in the Middle East and South Asia, was
the first company from the Arab world to go public on the Nasdaq stock
exchange. After five years of successful trading, Aramex returned to private
ownership and, in June 2005, went public again on the Dubai Financial Market
(DFM). Fadi is a Founding Partner of Maktoob.com, the world’s largest Arab
online community, is a member of the Board of Abraaj Capital and serves on
the Advisory Board of the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the
American University of Beirut. Fadi is actively involved with community and
NGO work and is a founder of the newly formed Entrepreneurs for Development
(EFD), a region-wide corporate social responsibility initiative.
Antoine van Agtmael is a Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer
of Emerging Markets Management, LLC, one of the world’s leading investment
management firms for emerging market equities, with $20 billion under
management for institutional clients around the world. He is also a director
of the Strategic Investment Group. Before founding EMM in 1987, Mr van
Agtmael was Deputy Director of the Capital Markets department of the
International Finance Corporation, a Division Chief in the World Bank’s
borrowing operations. Antoine van Agtmael has just published The Emerging
Markets Century: How a New Breed of World Class Companies is Overtaking the
World and is also author of Emerging Securities Markets and co-editor of The
World’s Emerging Stock Markets. While at IFC, he coined the term ‘emerging
markets’ and founded the IFC Emerging Markets Database.
James Z Li has been Chairman and CEO of E.J. McKay since 2001. E.J.
McKay is a Shanghai based investment banking group focused on China related
mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and merchant banking
transactions. E.J. McKay is present in 17 countries and 23 financial centres
around the world. It is the leading financial adviser for transactions
connecting India and China, two of the largest emerging markets in the
world, advising mainly the largest corporations’ complex cross-border
transactions. The firm also has a presence in North America and Africa, and
has working relationships with leading Russia and Brazil based investment
banking firms. James has conducted over 120 cross border M&A
transactions in China, with an aggregated transaction value over US$10
billion. He is currently the Secretary of the Oxford University Society in
Shanghai, a speaker at the World Economic Forum in China and India, and an
adjunct professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Subramaniam Ramadorai is CEO and Managing Director, Tata Consultancy
Services Ltd and has been associated with the company for the past 30 years.
Joining as a trainee engineer, he took over as CEO in 1996 and has been
instrumental in building TCS to a $3.02 billion global software and services
company with a talent base of over 68,000 associates, a geographical reach
of 35 countries and an enviable client list which includes six of the top
ten Fortune companies. He has now set his sights on ensuring that TCS is
among the global top ten software companies. In October 2006, TCS was
recognised by Economic Times as the Company of the Year, a fitting
tribute to its increasing global presence.
Dr Don Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Strategic
and International Management, London Business School. Donald has taught
entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and strategy at London Business
School, winning teaching awards at both. He has published four books,
including the award-winning Why Good Companies go Bad and Made in China, as
well as several best-selling Harvard Business Review articles. Donald has
been named as an 'up-and-coming business thinker' by the Financial Times and
identified as one of the next generation of management gurus. Donald
received his AB, MBA and doctorate from Harvard University, worked as a
consultant with McKinsey & Company and as a management-investor with the
leveraged buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice prior to academia. He
remains active in private equity as an adviser and investor in emerging
market companies.
