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WES2023 Speakers.
Speakers in Conversation
speakers inconvo anchor
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, philosopher, and bestselling author
Vanessa Nakate
Climate activist from Uganda
Standalones
Anchor 1
José Manuel Barroso
Former President of the European Commission
Beatrice Fihn
Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Nadia Calviño
First Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
Irina Bokova
Former Director-General of UNESCO
François Villeroy de Galhau
Governor of the Bank of France
Lars Peter Hansen
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of economics at the University of Chicago
Richard Blundell
David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London
Barry Schwartz
American psychologist and the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College
Michael Spence
Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management, Stanford University
Recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences
Sonia Bhalotra
Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick
Sanjeev Sanyal
Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India
Anchor 2
Afghanistan: Conflict, Security, and the way forward
Rabia Nasimi
Former Refugee and Human Rights Activist
Ronald E. Neumann
Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan
Sima Samar
Former Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs
Paul Wood
Journalist and former World Affairs Correspondent at the BBC
The New Normal: Future of the Workplace
Anchor 3
Mike Clancy
General Secretary of Prospect Trade Union
Lord John Hendy
Barrister, Politician and Leading Expert in UK Labour Law
Jenni Rantakari
General Manager of Modern Work Solutions at Microsoft EMEA
Simon Jack
BBC Business Editor
International Trade: Challenges to the Global Economy
Anchor 4
Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen
Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD
Pascal Lamy
5th Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee
Joe Lynam
Broadcaster and Moderator
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