Thomas H. Davenport
Best-selling author of Competing on Analytics and Analytics at Work, and President's Distinguished Professor at Babson College

Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and co-directs research for the Business Analytics research program at nGenera (formerly BSG Concours). He is the former director of research centres at Accenture, Ernst & Young, and McKinsey, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and the University of Texas at Austin.

Davenport is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading journals. His article "Competing on Analytics" was Harvard Business Review’s most requested article reprint of 2006. Davenport is the author or co-author of 12 books. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning has become a best-seller and has been translated into 10 languages. His latest book, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, was published earlier this year.

Dr. Fan Gang
Director
National Economic Research Institute (China)

Dr. Fan Gang is one of China’s most influential economists and leading reform advocates. A respected advisor to China’s leadership on economic reform and strategic development, he is an expert in the macroeconomics of long-term development, international trade and currency, foreign relations and regional integration within Asia. Fan also is a prolific author, having written more than 100 academic papers and eight books.

Jim Goodnight
CEO
SAS

Since he co-founded SAS in 1976, Jim Goodnight has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. A worldwide leader in enterprise intelligence solutions and services, SAS has more than 11,000 employees in 53 countries. In 2009, the company's 34th consecutive year of growth and profitability, its revenue was $2.31 billion.

In 2004, Harvard Business School named Goodnight as one of the "20th Century’s Great American Business Leaders," citing his impact on "the way people have lived, worked and interacted in the 20th century."

Goodnight has a PhD in statistics and speaks internationally on leadership, education and innovation.

Tim Harcourt
Chief Economist
Australian Trade Commission

As chief economist of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade), Tim Harcourt analyses the global economy to help Australian exporters and helps Austrade devise its own international business strategies.

A prolific author and frequent globe-trotter, he is an active commentator in the Australian and international media on economic and trade issues, and he appears regularly on TV and radio shows and writes for a number of major publications, Web sites and blogs. Harcourt’s latest best-selling business book, The Airport Economist, proves in a uniquely clever and witty way that there’s an export dimension to nearly everything and that not all economics writing leaves readers high and dry.

Before joining Austrade, Harcourt was an economist and industrial advocate with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). He also has worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and has overseas experience in the corporate sector in the UK, US and Israel.

Harcourt was educated at the University of Adelaide, the University of Minnesota and Harvard University.

Alexa Lam
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Policy, China and Investment Products
Securities and Futures Commission

Alexa Lam is the Executive Director and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). She heads the Policy, China and Investment Products Division, leading the development of overall policy for the SFC, with an emphasis on mainland China, as well as the regulation and approval of investment products.

Lam also represents the SFC with the mainland Chinese government, regulatory agencies and business leaders on macro, market and regulatory issues, and is involved in bilateral discussions with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).

She is a member of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law – Asian Institute of International Financial Law Advisory Board; the Hong Kong Trade Development Council – Financial Services Advisory Committee; and the Asian Financial Forum Steering Committee.

Gerard Lyons, PhD
Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research
Standard Chartered

Gerard Lyons is an expert on the world economy, international financial system, macroeconomic policy and global markets in his role at Standard Chartered. He is also an Economic Advisor to the Board and is a member of the bank's Executive Forum.

Lyons has 20 years of experience in senior roles with some of the world's leading financial institutions and as a highly regarded city and international economist with an excellent forecasting record. Previous positions include Chief Economist at DKB International and consultant to the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Chief UK Economist at Swiss Bank Corporation, and beginning his career with Chase Manhattan. He holds a PhD from the University of London.

Kjell Nordström
Visionary on the "new world" of international business and co-author of the best-seller Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance

Dr. Kjell A. Nordström is a guru of the new world of business. The 2009 Thinkers 50, the world's foremost ranking of management thinkers, ranked him at No. 23 in the world and on the top-five list in Europe. His international best-seller Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance (co-authored with Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale) is a manifesto for what our time requires from business firms and their leaders. The duo's latest book, Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind, is a call to arms for businesses to stop institutionalised imitation and place themselves centre stage with imagination and innovation.

Nordström holds a doctoral degree in international business from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he is responsible for the international business course and focuses his research on corporate strategy, multinational corporations and globalisation.

Thornton May
Futurist, Executive Director and Dean of the IT Leadership Academy

May's extensive experience researching and consulting on the roles and behaviours of boards of directors and C-level executives in creating value with information technology has won him an unquestioned place on the short list of serious thinkers on this topic. He combines a scholar's patience for empirical research, a stand-up comic's capacity for pattern recognition and a second-to-none gift for storytelling about the information technology management problems facing executives.

May is a columnist at Computerworld and CIO Decisions and has served as an advisor to the founding editors of Fast Company magazine. His latest book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics, is due out later this year.

Geoffrey Moore
Managing Director, TCG Advisors
Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Geoffrey Moore is a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges, an expert in market development and business investment strategies, and a best-selling author. In addition to his roles with TCG Advisors and Mohr Davidow Ventures, he is the founder of the Chasm Group.

Moore’s books, including Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado and Living on the Fault Line, are required reading at leading business schools.

He holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Washington.

Andrew Sheng
Chief Advisor
China Banking Regulatory Commission

In addition to his responsibilities at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Andrew Sheng serves as a board member of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority and Sime Darby Berhad, Malaysia. He is also an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University's Graduate School of Economics and Management in Beijing and at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Previously, Sheng was Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, and the Deputy Chief Executive for Reserves Management and External Affairs Departments at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He has also held positions at the World Bank and Bank Negara Malaysia. Sheng is a published author and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol.

Rogelio L. Singson
Secretary
Department of Public Works and Highways, Republic of the Philippines

Singson was recently appointed to the position of Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways by the President of the Phillipines to lead the department, advocate transformation, innovations and good governance through transparency and accountability.

Prior to this appointment, Singson was the President and CEO of Maynilad Water Services Inc., the largest private water utility company in terms of customer base in the Philippines. He was responsible for transforming the once-ailing company into a modern, customer-focused service provider. Singson championed culture change initiatives and an operations modernisation program, and advocated low-cost water projects for the urban poor.

A veteran of both the public and private sectors, Singson has extensive experience in the field of privatization and public-private partnerships, as well as management of tollroads, expressways, water and power utilities, airports, seaports and resorts.

Don Tapscott
Chairman of nGenera Insight, co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and the upcoming MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

Don Tapscott is an internationally renowned authority on the strategic value and impact of information technology. He consistently predicts the next business imperatives and defines the business models and strategies that the new imperatives require. He has authored or co-authored 13 widely read books on technology in business and society, and his most recent book was named one of the best books on innovation in 2006 by BusinessWeek. Tapscott served as founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm prior to its acquisition by nGenera. Poised to transform every social institution, the Net Generation is reshaping the form and functions of school, work and even democracy. This first truly global generation is making it necessary for employers, instructors, parents, marketers and political leaders to adapt to the changing social fabric. Within its comprehensive examination of the Net Generation, and based on a US$4.5 million study, Tapscott's Grown Up Digital offers valuable insight and concrete takeaways for leaders across all social institutions.

Jim Davis
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
SAS

As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Jim Davis provides worldwide marketing direction for SAS^® solutions and services. He is responsible for managing product direction, professional services, education, advertising and communications.

A respected thought leader, Davis co-authored the book Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Your Business.

Since joining SAS in 1994, Davis has pioneered many key initiatives, including global projects that incorporate customer feedback in the development process. Today, he continues to refine the model for continuous collaboration and innovation among engineers, marketers and customers, enabling SAS to meet the global demand for enterprise intelligence.

Mikael Hagström
Executive Vice President, EMEA and Asia Pacific
SAS

Executive Vice President Mikael Hagström leads a global team of more than 4,000 professionals in over 50 countries throughout Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. He is responsible for delivering consecutive revenue growth, ensuring profit, harnessing the potential in the current market and preparing the organization for the future.

Hagström holds the position of chair of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) Executive Council, a member of the Executive Committee of the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), and is a frequent speaker on the multinational business climate at the World Economic Forum and OECD in particular.