The Leading Speakers Bureau

IMD Professor & Founding Director of the Evian Group

Prof. Jean-Pierre Lehmann has been Professor of International Political Economy at IMD since 1997. In 1995, he launched the Evian Group, which has developed as a leading global voice on global trade and investment issues and acts as a forum for dialogue and a birth place of ideas. He was also Associate Professor of International Business at INSEAD. He is the author of several books and articles primarily dealing with globalization, modern East Asian history and East Asia and the international political economy.

“Advisor to WTO Director General, Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi”

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Lehmann studied in Japan, Switzerland, the United States (Georgetown) and received his doctorate from Oxford. Prior to joining IMD, his academic and business careers encompassed activities in virtually all Asian and Western European countries, as well as North America. He was founding director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) at the Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of East Asian Political Economy and Business. He established and directed the East Asian operations of InterMatrix, a London-based business strategy research and consulting organization (1986-1992). During this time he was concurrently Affiliated Professor of International Business at the London Business School.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Jean-Pierre Lehmann offers vast and highly respected experience in areas including globalization, global governance, trade and development, the role of business in reduction of poverty and inequality and the socio-economic, cultural, and business dynamics of Asia. Acting in various leading capacities in a number of public policy institutes and organizations, as an adviser to governments and corporations, and as a frequent commentator in the international media he is uniquely positioned to provide answers to questions on a variety of current issues.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]World famous thinkers in management, Jean-Pierre Lehmann’s highly sought-after presentations are thought provoking and captivating, enjoyed by audiences worldwide.[/expand]
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Former Canadian Minister of Trade, Canadian Ambassador to the WTO, President Canada China Business Council

Sergio Marchi is a former Canadian politician who served as a federal Cabinet Minister in three different portfolios during his time in government: Citizenship and Immigration, Environment, and International Trade. He was also the Ambassador of Canada to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Office of the United Nations (UN), in Geneva, 1999 – 2004, and a UN Migration Commissioner, 2004 – 2006. He also served as the former President of the Canada China Business Council. Sergio Marchi is an Adjunct Professor at Webster University, in Geneva, where he teaches a graduate course on Globalisation.

“Sergio Marchi is one of the leading voices on global politics and economics”

[expand title=”In detail”] Marchi left politics in 1999 to accept an appointment as Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. He was subsequently elected unanimously as Chairman of the WTO’s General Council. In the private sector he has fulfilled roles as the Senior Business Advisor, Lang Michener LLP, from 2006 to 2008 and is the Senior Advisor, to the Chairman of a Family-owned International Business Enterprise. He was also the Chairman of the Canadian Services Coalition from 2006 to 2008.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Sergio Marchi informs and engages as he contributes incisive analysis of how organisations and individual leaders can deal with challenges, prepare for a new world and develop a truly global perspective. He brings a trusted, tested international perspective to such issues as the world economy, politics, and globalisation showing audiences how global events resonate locally. An extensive career, both in business and government, puts the Honourable Sergio Marchi in an excellent position to also explain the impressive growth and role of China within the international community.[/expand]
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Former CEO of Ferrari in North America

Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni is currently the CEO of Goal.com a new Media company, providing the best international football coverage on the web and mobile.

He has led some of the world’s most prestigious consumer products companies and has a remarkable ability to transform products like Ferrari into irresistible brands.

“He is a charismatic personality, and socially at home with any group of people”
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[expand title=”In detail”] He is well known for his great success at Ferrari North America, where he was CEO from 1992 to 2000. During that time Ferrari sales in North America increased by 80%. He saw Ferrari as “the ultimate factory of dreams” and after a far-ranging analysis of high-end marketing and business trends, he developed the concept of “DreamMarketing.” Prior to joining Ferrari, he was an executive in his family’s European company, Industrie Buitoni Perugina (makers of Buitoni brand foods and Perugina luxury chocolates).

He was also CEO of Polo Europe, a division of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation form 2000 to 2003. He was appointed for his broad base of experience in luxury goods and branded products.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]he art of successful “DreamMarketing” is the wave of the future to sustain and maintain customer loyalty. Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni teaches audiences how to tap into those dreams to make them successful realities in business and in life.

His comprehensive international perspective, allows him to show companies how to accelerate their growth.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Gian Luigi is a charismatic speaker who delivers compelling presentations.[/expand]
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Leading Expert on Economic, Social, Political Issues

Carlo Ungaro is an Italian ambassador and retired Diplomatic Officer who has served in a variety of postings in Africa, Asia and Europe. From 2005 to 2007 he was the political adviser to the Italian contingent of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Herat, Afghanistan and served as head of the Italian Diplomatic Delegation to Somalia. Ungaro has published a book of short stories ‘Il Manuale del Perfetto Diplomatico’ and, recently an article in the International Herald Tribune on Afghanistan.

“A renowned and respected expert on economy and politics”

[expand title=”In detail”] During his five-year-stay in the Balkans, Carlo Ungaro opened the Headquarter of the European Community Monitoring Mission in Croatia. In Albania he served as diplomatic advisor to the Italian led multilateral military contingent, and then, with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Croatia and, finally as head of the OSCE Spillover Mission in Skopje. He was also Counselor in Kuala Lumpur, Consul General in Rotterdam, and served as a junior diplomat in Kinshasa, and as Vice Consul in Bedford (England).[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Carlo Ungaro has a wide experience as consultant in issues such as social, political and economic developments in Central Asia and the Balkans, also in the light of gender issues and protection of ethnic minorities.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Carlo Ungaro is an engaging and insightful communicator. His presentations are an in depth analysis of economic, political and social issues masterfully delivered for audiences around the globe.[/expand]
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Author and Acclaimed Contemporary Historian

Professor Timothy Garton Ash is an internationally acclaimed historian, commentator and best-selling author. Having charted the spectacular transformation of Europe over the last quarter century, his current work focuses on the emerging geopolitical triangle between Europe, the United States and Asia, and on how we can avoid a “Clash of Civilizations” with Islam. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Timothy features in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Garton Ash’s honours include the David Watt Memorial Prize, Commentator of the Year in the ‘What the Papers Say’ annual awards for 1989, the Premio Napoli, the Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque, the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for political writing, the Order of Merit from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, and the British CMG. In 2005, he featured in a list of 100 top global public intellectuals chosen by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy, and in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2006, he was awarded the George Orwell Prize for political writing.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Timothy offers audiences his expert views on exactly why the United States can never rule the world on its own, why the new, enlarged Europe can only realise its aspirations in a larger, transatlantic community and why the conflicts in the Middle East and the rise of Asia can only be addressed by a wider community of democracies. Sweeping historical insight related in his own conversational style, help his incisive commentary on world affairs stand apart from its competitors.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A compelling and enlightening speaker, few historians match Timothy Garton Ash for his combination of clarity and reportorial brilliance. His superlative presentations defy conventional wisdom and challenge contemporary thinking.[/expand]
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Authority on Western and Third World Economies

Hernando de Soto is currently President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) based in Lima, Peru. The ILD has been described as one of the most important think-tanks in the World and Mr de Soto as the “World’s Greatest Living Economist”. In 2004 he received Cato Institute’s the Milton Friedman Prize.

The World’s Greatest Living Economist

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr. de Soto was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1941 and did his post-graduate work at the ‘Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales’ in Geneva. He has served as an economist for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as President of the Executive Committee of the Copper Exporting Countries Organisation (CIPEC), as Managing Director of Universal Engineering Corporation, as a principal of the Swiss Bank Corporation Consultant Group, and as a governor of Peru’s Central Reserve Bank.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]As his principle activity he designs and implements capital formation programmes aimed at strengthening the economy in developing countries in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Mr de Soto is widely regarded as one of the most influential development theoreticians of the last millennium and offers corporations the benefit of his wealth of experience.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A brilliant speaker and charismatic personality, Mr de Soto’s presentations are both entertaining and enlightening. [/expand]
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Financial and Economic Expert, Moderator and Interviewer, Former CNN Presenter

Todd Benjamin is well known to television audiences across the globe. For 26 years he worked as an anchor, correspondent, and financial editor for CNN. During that time he was based in Washington DC, New York, Tokyo, and London. An award winning journalist, Todd has interviewed everyone including most recently former US President Bill Clinton, Nobel Economic Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Mikhail Gorbachev, Alan Greenspan and several of the world’ leading CEOs including Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, and Carlos Ghosn.

“Todd is known for his no-nonsense style and punchy interviews”

[expand title=”In detail”] Todd Benjamin holds a bachelor’s degree in English from The University of Puget Ound. He has travelled throughout Europe covering economic and corporate stories including, G8, EU and the Frankfurt Auto show.

Todd joined CNN in 1982 working in Washington and later in New York. Before joining CNN he worked as an investigative and business reporter in local television news in Phoenix, Arizona.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Having interviewed many of the world’s leading CEOs for the Benjamin’s Boardroom series, Todd has developed a unique and fascinating focus on leadership. As well as sharing his clear insights of the economic market, Todd also demonstrates how strategies can be developed to benefit from globalisation and offers insights into how the world may develop.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Todd Benjamin delivers a clear and informative message that conveys the global economic context with ease. A skilled facilitator and an excellent communicator, he is direct and straight to the point making him highly sought-after as a conference moderator and speaker.[/expand]
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President of PlaNet

Jacques Attali is an eminent economic advisor. From 1981 to 1991 he was special advisor to François Mitterrand and in 1990 he became the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD. Now, he is chairman of A&A, an international consultancy company and the founder and president of PlaNet Finance, an international non-profit organisation that uses the Internet to combat poverty concentrating on the microfinance sector.

Economic theorist, advisor and author

[expand title=”In detail”] In 1984 he founded Eureka, the main European programme on new technologies. Then in 1989, he launched an international action programme against massive floods in Bangladesh. Recently, he also served as Conseiller d’Etat in Paris and has advised the United Nations Secretary General on nuclear proliferation.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]This former advisor and scholar expounds great insights into the affects of globalisation, the changing world order, geo-political issues and the future of Europe. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A flamboyant and outspoken speaker, he never fails to instigate debates after his presentations. He is in demand for keynotes at prestigious conferences across the globe.[/expand]
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