Gordon Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer, a role he held for
more than a decade, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He
is credited with preventing a second Great Depression through his
leadership at the 2009 London G20 summit where he mobilised global
leaders to walk the world back from the financial brink. Today he
is fully engaged in international development work serving as the
United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, spearheading
efforts to deliver a quality and inclusive education for all of the
world's children, and as the World Health Organization's Ambassador
for Global Health Finance. Brown has a PhD in History from the
University of Edinburgh. A Member of Parliament between 1983 and
2015, he lives in Fife, Scotland, and is married to Sarah, and the
couple have two teenagers.
Mohamed A. El-Erian is the President of Queens’ College, University
of Cambridge. Since 2014, he has served as Chief Economic Advisor
at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO where he formerly served
as Chief Executive and Co-chief Investment Officer. He is Chair of
Gramercy Fund Management, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and a
Financial Times contributing editor. He is a Senior Global Fellow
at the Lauder Institute and the Rene M. Kern Practice Professor at
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was
previously a deputy director at the International Monetary Fund, a
managing director at Solomon Smith Barney/Citigroup, and President
and CEO of Harvard Management Company. From 2012 to 2017, Dr
El-Erian served as Chair of President Obama’s Global Development
Council. His books When Markets Collide (2008) and The Only Game in
Town (2016) were New York Times bestsellers. Michael Spence is the
Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow at
Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and a Council on Foreign Relations
Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He is an adjunct professor at
Bocconi University and an honorary fellow of Magdalen College,
Oxford. In 2001, Spence received the Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences for his work in the field of information economics. He is
the author of The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth
in a Multispeed World (2011). Spence served as Dean of the Stanford
Business School from 1990 to 1999 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences at Harvard from 1984 to 1990. He is a recipient of the
John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching and the
John Bates Clark Medal recognising American economists under forty.
Reid Lidow served as Executive Officer to the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Prior to this, Reid worked for Gordon Brown on a range of
campaigns. Reid completed his undergraduate studies at USC where he
double majored in International Relations and Political Science. He
was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and went on to earn an
MPhil in Development Studies from Queens’ College, Cambridge.
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