Nouriel Roubini is the Co-Founder,

Chairman and Chief Economist of Roubini

Global Economics, an independent, global
macroeconomic research firm. The firms
website, Roubini.com, has been named
one of the best economics web resources
by BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Wall Street
Journal and the Economist. He is also a
professor of economics at New York
Universitys Stern School of Business. Dr
Roubini has extensive policy experience
as well as broad academic credentials.
Dr Roubinis views on global economic
issues are widely cited by the media, and
he is a frequent commentator on various
business news programs. He has been the
subject of extended profiles in the New
York Times Magazine and other leading current-affairs publications. The Financial Times has
also provided extensive coverage of Dr Roubinis perspectives. Dr Roubini received an
undergraduate degree at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a doctorate in economics at
Harvard University. Prior to joining Stern, he was on the faculty of Yale Universitys
department of economics.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent more than

20 years as a derivatives trader
specializing in hedging nonlinear risks,
managing payoffs under complicated
probability distributions, before starting a
full-time career in research in the field of
risk management and applied probability.
Before becoming a researcher, he held
senior positions with major financial
institutions: Credit Suisse First Boston, UBS, BNP-Paribas, Indosuez (now Calyon), Bankers
Trust (now Deutsche Bank). He also worked as an independent pit trader and ran his own
derivatives firm for 6 years.
Taleb has also been involved in risk-based policy making, advising the IMF, and the UK Prime
Minister on model error and the detection and mitigation of tail exposures. He has also been
hired the RAND corporation and various branches of the U.S. government and has testified
twice for the United States Congress.

Ram Charan is a world-renowned

business advisor, author and speaker
who has spent the past 35 years working
with many top companies, CEOs, and
boards of our time. In his work with
companies including GE, MeadWestvaco,
Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC,
3M, Verizon, Aditya Birla Group, Tata
Group, GMR, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings,
and Grupo RBS, he is known for cutting
through the complexity of running a
business in todays fast changing
environment to uncover the core
business problem. His real-world
solutions, shared with millions through
his books and articles in top business publications, have been praised for being practical,
relevant and highly actionablethe kind of advice you can use Monday morning.
Rams introduction to business came early while working in the family shoe shop in a small
town in northern India, where he was raised. He earned an engineering degree in India and
soon after took a job in Australia. When his talent for business was discovered, Ram was
encouraged to develop it. He earned MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business
School, where he graduated with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar, then served on
the faculties of Harvard Business School and Northwestern University before pursuing
consulting full time.