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We have had the pleasure of hosting speakers from all walks of life at the E-Lab including founders, CEOs, executives, academics, Heads of State, Nobel Laureates, Poet Laureate, Oscar, Emmy, and BAFTA winners, scientists, policymakers (including members of Congress and Parliament), and journalists.
Geoffrey Hinton (KC 1967): Nobel Prize in Physics (2024) for his work on artificial neural networks, which made him known as the "Godfather of AI".
Dalia GrybauskaitÄ—: former and first female President of Lithuania (2009-2019), EU Commissioner of the Year (2005).
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2001), John Bates Clark Medal (1979), former Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chair of the US Council of Economic Advisers.
Alison Clark: Co-Founder of Carnell Ltd, which floated on the London Stock Exchange (1994), making her the youngest ever female founder of a publicly quoted company.
Indermit Gill: Chief Economist of the World Bank and Senior Vice President for Development Economics.
Tim Yip Kam-tim (葉錦添): Oscar winner for Best Art Direction and Costume Design, British Academy Film Award for Best Costume Design (2000).
Toni Petersson: serial entrepreneur and former CEO of Oatly.
Lily Cole (KC 2006): author, film director, model, actress and entrepreneur.
Oliver Hart, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2016), Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.
Gillian Tett: KC provost, Former Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large, US of the Financial Times.
Michael Spence: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2001), Hoover Institution at Stanford University, John Bates Clark Medal for economists under 40.
Simon Armitage: current national Poet Laureate (2019-2029).
Diane Coyle: former advisor to the UK Treasury, vice-chair of the BBC Trust and member of the UK Competition Commission from (2001-2019)
Cass Sunstein: Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, one of the world’s most influential legal scholars, author of about 60 books.
Liliana Pozzo: Advisory Services Manager for the Financial Institutions Group in LATAM & Europe at IFC World Bank Group.
Jay Clayton: former SEC chair, contributed to the world's second-largest IPO, cross-border mergers, and the development of TARP and mortgage relief programmes, involved in the U.S. COVID-19 response.
Marion Reimers: the first woman commentating the final of the UEFA Champions League (2019), the first Mexican woman nominated for a Sports Emmy by the Television Academy.
Lord Blackwell: former director of Standard Life and Halma, Chair of Lloyds Banking Group, a role for which he received the 2021 FTSE 100 Non-Executive Director Award.
Sonia Singh: India NDTV's first female Editorial Director, leading the NDTV to become recognised as India's top TV and online news source by the Reuters Institute at Oxford for three consecutive years.
Diana Biggs: Partner at 1kx, Board member at HIVE Blockchain Technologies, Associate fellow at SaĂŻd Business School, University of Oxford.
Hermann Hauser: Co-Founder of Amadeus Capital Partners. The porfolio incliude Acorn Computers (helping to spin out ARM), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network.
Josefa González-Blanco Ortiz-Mena: Ambassador of Mexico to the UK, former Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources in Mexico.
Kelechi Okafor: Founder of Kelechnekoff Studio, actress, dance innovator, award-winning podcaster and cultural commentator, and author.
Warren A. East: former CEO of Rolls-Royce Holdings, a leading UK-based engine manufacturer and CEO at ARM Holdings.
Major-General Zachary Stenning, OBE: A senior British Army officer who has been serving as the Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since August 2022.
Laurel Powers-Freeling: Chairman at Uber UK, Chair at Bank of England Cost Benefit Analysis Panel, Ripe Thinking Limited and Moneybox.
Pete Stavros: Co-Head of Global Private Equity at KKR, also a member of several investment and management committees at KKR and has also served as Co-Chair of the firm’s global Inclusion and Diversity Council.
Annette Nazareth: Senior Counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; Chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market.
Sir Martin Sorrell: Founder of WPP which grew into world’s largest advertising and PR group. When he left, WPP had a market cap of >£16 bln, revenues of >£15 bln, profits of ~£2 bln and >200,000 people in 113 countries.
Marina M. Tavares: economist in the Climate Change Structural Reforms Division of the IMF's Research Department.
Jim Swartz: Founder of Accel (1983) where he has been a lead director of >50 successful companies. He also works with the Accel London team as a founder/mentor of Accel's European business.
Jim Bacchus former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and founding member and twice chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.
Peter Barrett: Co-founder and general partner of Playground Global. He gave Elon Musk his first job in the Valley.
Judith Wallenstein: BCG's Senior Partner, Co-lead of Global Climate Moonshot, Global CEO Advisory Practice Head, Former Head of Sustainability Practice in CEE and the Middle East.
Sir Greg Winter: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), Co-founder of Cambridge Antibody Technology, Domantis, and Bicycle Therapeutics.
Afua Hirsch: bestselling and award-winning author, filmmaker, broadcaster (Guardian, Vogue, Sky News). Royal Society of Literature Fellow.
Martin Percy (KC 1982): an award-winning interactive film director who has won a BAFTA, an Emmy and eleven Webby Awards.
Noor Sweid: one of the World's Top 50 Women in Tech.
Matt Clifford: Co-Founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading talent investor, and Chair of ARIA, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
Sarah Wood: Co-Founder of Unruly, the international video advertising marketplace, acquired by NewsCorp for ÂŁ114 million (2015).
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