Our People

Economist; executive director, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University; former vice president, Global Business Environment, Shell International; founder, Prométhée, Paris; coauthor, In the Company of Visions and Enhanced Transparency: Meeting European Investors Needs
Economist and cofounder, Serengeti Advisors, Tanzania; former head of strategy and investment banking, African Banking Corporation; involved in multiple scenario-building efforts throughout Africa
Adviser, World Bank, government and financial institutions; visiting fellow, London Business School; former director, Shell International Petroleum; author, The Living Company
Economist; undersecretary of state for energy, environment and agriculture; former vice chair, Goldman Sachs International; author, Reforming the International Monetary Systems
Advisor on corporate strategy, finance, and international business; co-dean, Duisenberg School of Finance, Amsterdam; former executive at AT&T, PepsiCo, Royal Dutch Shell, and investment banker at Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley; author, Profit Power Economics
Authority on foreign policy and finance; former vice-chairman, World Economic Forum and minister of state, UK foreign office, covering Africa and Asia, member of Gordon Brown's cabinet, UN deputy secretary-general, UNDP administrator, and World Bank vice president; member, House of Lords
Advisor, corporate strategist and scenario planner. Former global head of strategy for investment banking and EMEA, Nomura International; former co-president and scenario/strategy consultant, GBN; former head of strategy, Morgan Stanley-Europe
Political scientist specializing in international and national political economy and security; professor and director, Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas; The Success of Open Source
Global scenarist; director of futures programme, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford; former leader, Shell International's global scenario team; director of major public-private scenario initiatives on sustainability, AIDS in Africa, and global finance; physicist
Managing editor/thought leadership for Oxford Economics. Former Asian bureau chief for Knight Ridder, based in Tokyo; long-time Asia-Pacific foreign correspondent; Pulitzer Prize finalist; author, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Lost Its Way and "China: Life Science Leader in 2020"