Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University (UK); Senior Fellow at Cobden Partners (London); SBS Honorary Programme Director

Investment markets expert and founder at Cobden Partners (London)

Founder of e-gold®

Director and Senior Fellow at the Italina Think Tank Instituto Bruno Leoni; Advisor to Italy's Minister for Economic Development

Chairman of the Center for the Balkan and Black Sea Studies, Honorary member of the Reform Union Club

Independent writer and reseracher on business, finance and investment; Private investor; Former editor of Financial Times Weekend

President of the American Nano Society; Director of National Institute of Arts & Sciences; Founding head of the School of Materials Science & Engineering at Jimma University (Ethiopia); Honorary Professor at both Queen's University (Belfast) and Ulster University

Professor of International Relations at Fudan University, Shanghai

Associate Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University