Review

John Micklethwait, Editor-in-chief, The Economist  

John Micklethwait is Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. His previous roles at The Economist included: setting up the bureau in Los Angeles, where he worked as the newspaper’s media correspondent; editing the business section; running the New York bureau; and, most recently, editing the United States section. He was voted Young Financial Journalist of the Year in 1990, and has co-authored four books, ‘The Witch Doctors’, ‘A Future Perfect: the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation’, ‘The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea’, and ‘The Right Nation’, which is a study of conservatism in America.

Mark Foster, Group Chief Executive, Global Markets and Management Consulting, Accenture

Mark Foster has overall responsibility for driving and enabling the growth, differentiation and innovation agenda of Accenture.  He leads Accenture's involvement with the World Economic Forum, where he serves as Chairman of the Global Health Advisory Board, which oversees the Forum’s health related activities. In addition, Mr. Foster is on the Board of Directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company and holds the position of Vice-chairman of the Board of the International Business Leaders Forum, which supports business development in the developing world. Mr Foster joined Accenture in 1983 and became a partner in 1994. He holds a degree in classics from Oxford University.

Sanjay Khosla, Executive Vice-president and President, International, Kraft Foods  

Sanjay Khosla leads the Kraft Foods businesses in developing markets, specifically the Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America regions.  He also has strategic oversight of Kraft’s global category teams.

Mr Khosla graduated with honours in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.  In 1998, he completed the Harvard University Advanced Management Program. That same year, he was named "Marketing Superstar" by the prominent marketing industry publication, Advertising Age. 

Mr Khosla serves on the Board of Directors of Best Buy and NIIT.  He has taught courses on managing international brands and business at Columbia University in New York, and at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.  

Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft 

Craig Mundie has spent much of his career building startups in various fields, including supercomputing, consumer electronics, healthcare, education and robotics, and remains active in incubating new businesses. For more than a decade, he has also served as Microsoft’s principal technology-policy liaison to the U.S. and foreign governments, with an emphasis on China, India and Russia. 

Another long-standing focus for Mr Mundie is privacy, security and cyber-security. Based on this work, he serves on the U.S. National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and in April 2009 was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. 

Mr Mundie holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in information theory and computer science from Georgia Tech.

Nouriel Roubini, Chairman, Roubini Global Economics and Economist, New York University

Nouriel Roubini is an internationally known expert in the field of international macroeconomics. He has published over 70 theoretical empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and co-authored the books Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence (M.I.T. Press, 1997) and Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets (Institute for International Economics, 2004).   

Professor Roubini has served as Senior Economist for International Affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisors and as the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have also drawn upon his consulting expertise.

Professor Roubini’s views on global economics issues are widely cited by the media, and his blog was named one of 20 “must-read” sources by the WSJ. He is a frequent commentator on various business news programmes.

Adi Godrej, Chairman, The Godrej Group  

Adi Godrej is a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business, the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry and the FICCI National Executive Committee. He has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and a member of the Wharton Asian Executive Board.  He is also a patron of the Himalayan Club.

Mr Godrej holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.