The Commissioners
There are 34 Commissioners. Further Commissioners may join as needs arise. The full list is:
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Former Deputy Chair, Indian Planning Commission
John Allen
President, the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, former US Marine Corps 4-Star General and NATO ISAF Commander
Pedro Aspe
Former Finance Minister of Mexico
Jacques Attali
Economics professor, author and special adviser to French presidents
Emma Bonino
Italian senator and former foreign minister and EU Commissioner
Steven Chu
Nobel Prize in Physics, former US Secretary of Energy, now Stanford professor of both physics and physiology
André Hoffmann
Vice-Chair, Roche Holding
Hailemariam Desalegn
Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Yoichi Funabashi
Former editor-in-chief, Asahi Shimbun, founder and chairman Asia Pacific Initiative
Lynda Gratton
London Business School professor, authority on the future of work and organizational leadership
Hanna Halaburda
NYU Stern School expert on how digital technology affects strategy, markets, networks and currencies
Francois Heisbourg
Eminent French and global strategist
Olivia Judson
Evolutionary biologist, Imperial College London and Free University of Berlin; author forthcoming history of life and the Earth
Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Prize in Economics 2002, for his work on decision-making under uncertainty
Walter Kielholz
Honorary Chairman, Swiss Re
Kiyoshi Kurokawa
Professor of Medicine and Chair, Health and Global Policy Institute, Tokyo
Eric X Li
Chinese venture capitalist and influential commentator
Beverley McLachlin
Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Canada, 2000-17
Trevor Manuel
Former finance minister of South Africa
Federica Mogherini
Rector of College of Europe, former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, former Italian foreign minister
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Medical authority, writer, author of “The Emperor of all Maladies”
Tolullah Oni
Nigerian urban epidemiologist, NextEinstein Fellow, now at Cambridge University
Jim Rogers
Noted investor, co-founder (with George Soros) of the Quantum Fund
Norbert Röttgen
Chairman of the German Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs
Pardis Sabeti
Biologist and geneticist, Harvard/MIT Broad Institute
Simon Schama
Professor of History and Art History, Columbia University
Masaaki Shirakawa
Former Governor, Bank of Japan
Timothy Snyder
Yale professor of history, specialist on central and Eastern Europe
Michael Spence
Nobel Prize in Economics 2001, Professor Emeritus in Management, Stanford
Audrey Tang
Taiwan Cabinet Minister for Digital, Innovation and Youth Affairs
Alvaro Vargas-Llosa
Peruvian-Spanish author and public intellectual
Amos Yadlin
Former head of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies.
Michael Zantovsky
Ambassador, Executive Director of Vaclav Havel Library
