Prof Dr Gunnar Heinsohn has over 1,000 publications and is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Bremen. Four of his works are recorded in the Lexikon ökonomischer Werke (Encyclopaedia of Economic Works [2006]), which covers the 650 most important economic texts.

In 1993, he founded Europe’s first institute devoted to comparative genocide research. In his bestseller, Söhne und Weltmacht (Sons and World Power [2003]) he predicted the Arab Spring of 2011. He developed the first war index for anticipating the translation of extreme birth rates into future violence.

He predicts that the increasing scarcity of high skilled will lead to the mutual cannibalisation of the leading nations for top talent.

Only those who keep their best in the country, recruit experts worldwide and close their borders for the low-skilled will survive. Prof Heinsohn has taught military demography at the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome, and ownership economics at the Management Zentrum St Gallen (St Gallen Management Centre [MZSG]).

Richard Tromans is the founder of TromansConsulting, which advises lawyers on strategy and innovation, including the adoption of legal AI and other ’New Wave’ technology.

He has spent over 18 years working in the legal sector focused on the UK and global legal markets.

Richard is also the founder of the global legal AI and new technology site, Artificial Lawyer, which was recently recognised as one of the top 50 information sites in the world on Artificial Intelligence

Prof Mark A. Cohen is a global thought leader in the legal industry. He is presently the Chair of the Advisory Board and Chief Strategy Officer at Elevate; a Distinguished Fellow at Northwestern University Law School; a regular contributor to Forbes where he has a column on the global legal marketplace; a sought-after keynote speaker; and CEO of LegalMosaic (www.legalmosaic.com), a legal business consultancy and repository for his work.

His LegalMosaic blog was recently honoured by the ABA as one of the 50 outstanding worldwide legal blogs in their inaugural “Web 100.”

Gale Crosley, CPA, was selected one of the Most Recommended Consultants in the Inside Public Accounting BEST OF THE BEST for the fourteenth consecutive year, one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today for the twelfth consecutive year and has been named to The Advisory Board Hall of Fame. She consults with accounting firms, assisting managing partners, partners, and marketing directors, to effectively increase their firm’s revenues.

She guides them through the development of the best strategies and tactics to achieve aggressive revenue growth objectives. Gale’s 35-year-plus career represents a unique combination as a practising CPA at Arthur Andersen, PwC, and a local CPA firm. She has also held senior management roles in business development and marketing in the cutting edge technology environment with IBM, MCI and several start-up technology companies.

Gale has helped dozens of firms, both domestic and international, create high growth cultures, driving revenue from all aspects of the practice. She is an honours accounting graduate from the University of Akron, Ohio, and winner of the Simonetti Distinguished Business Alumni Award. Gale is a licensed CPA in Ohio and Georgia, a member of the AICPA, the Ohio Society and Georgia Society of CPAs, and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Accountancy.

Juerg Kiener is presently the Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Swiss Asia Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd and has more than 40 years’ experience in the banking industry, with extensive knowledge in the private banking, asset management and securities industries.

Juerg has gained considerable global investment experience, having taken up positions in Zurich, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Guernsey, Hong Kong and Singapore with two leading Swiss banks, Credit Suisse and Union Bancaire Privee, and has been instrumental in establishing the Private Banking offices in Asia and as a CIO for both. For the past 18 years at Swiss Asia Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd, his investment emphasis has been on hard-rock mining, particularly precious metals.

His specialty is targeted at investing in late development-stage and producing resource companies for portfolio inclusion into in-house funds and tailor-made investment structures like managed accounts/bespoke mandates and investment certificates.

James Taylor M.B.A. F.R.S.A. - who started his career managing high profile rock stars - is now an in-demand keynote speaker and internationally recognised leader in business creativity and innovation. For over 20 years, he has been advising CEOs, entrepreneurs, educators, governments and leaders from Silicon Valley to Singapore on how to build innovative organisations, unlock creative potential, and increase productivity. As the founder of C.SCHOOL™ and the host of multiple global summits, he has personally interviewed over 500 of the world’s leading creative minds including Silicon Valley tech CEOs, New York Times bestselling authors, and artificial intelligence pioneers.

Hundreds of thousands of people in over 120 countries have learned about creativity and innovation through his online courses, videos, media interviews and keynote speeches. His clients have included Fortune Global 500 companies, government policy-makers, industry associations, and he was recently the subject of a BBC documentary about his life and work. He was awarded the S.D. Southern Prize from Canadian energy services company ATCO and named 'ONTRApreneur of the Year’ from US business and marketing automation leaders ONTRAPORT.

James is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (F.R.S.A.), whose Fellows have included global innovators and leaders including President Benjamin Franklin, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Bob Dylan, Adam Smith, Nelson Mandela and Professor Stephen Hawking.

Pierre Hagmann

Counsellor & Deputy Head of Mission

Embassy of Switzerland in Thailand