Stephen Green is currently chairman of HSBC, following his time as CEO from 2003 – 2006. He is chairman of the British Banker’s Association, and chair of the Prime Minister’s Business Council for Britain.  This event marks the launch of Stephen Green's book Good Value.  Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Fareed Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International, host of CNN`s Fareed Zakaria: GPS, and author of The Post-American World and the best-selling The Future of Freedom,

Walter Russell Mead is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations

Speakers: Ernest Aryeetey; Surjit Bhalla; Richard Portes; Yu Yongding. Chair: Gobind Nankani

Hussain Abdul Hussain is the former managing editor of Beirut`s Daily Star and an expert on the Levant region of the Middle East..