Daniel Widdicombe in conversation with Stefan Pellech.  

Daniel worked at China Construction Bank ("CCB") in London from 2009 to 2020, building the institutional client platform in the UK and Europe. He has worked on numerous ground-breaking transactions for CCB including the first London-listed RMB-denominated Dim Sum bond issued by a Chinese bank in 2012, the first London-listed RMB-denominated ETF in 2015, and the acquisition of an LME Category 1 Ring Member company, Metdist Trading, in 2016. Prior to CCB Daniel lived in China, Hong Kong and Singapore for 18 years, where he held a number of positions including Chief Financial Officer of Nasdaq-listed Chinadotcom (CHINA-US) and I-Quest Corporation, Independent Non-Executive Director of Nasdaq-listed Corgi Holdings (CRGI US), Head of Pan-Asian Equity Research at Bear Stearns, and China Investment Analyst at HSBC. Daniel graduated with a 1st Class Honours MA in Chinese and Japanese from Edinburgh University and North-West University, Xi'an, China, and has visited over 60 Chinese cities in over 30 Provinces nationwide.   

Stefan is the Founder of Sinotan, a Mainland China consultancy and digital marketing agency working at the nexus of marketing, business and policy. With deep expertise on China's digital marketing landscape and political and economic ecosystem, Sinotan works with leading companies and regional governments, managing their digital strategy and developing opportunities out of China's government policies. He also co-founded Rioni Group, headquartered in Taipei, a digital marketing and design agency, working with clients accessing the Taiwanese market. Stefan was the Head of Asia Strategy and Organizational Development for KUKA, an industrial automation company. Prior to joining KUKA, Stefan worked with Intellecap in Hyderabad, India in the social entrepreneurship sector for South-and South-East Asia, completing projects for the World Bank and Rockefeller Foundation. Stefan holds an Msc. in Management from ESADE in Barcelona and a BBA in Economics and Business Administration from the American University of Paris.   

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Lim Hwee Hua in conversation with Simon Jacot de Boinod.  Lim Hwee Hua is Singapore's first-ever female cabinet minister. She was first elected to Parliament in December 1996 and served till May 2011, last as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and concurrently as Second Minister for Finance and for Transport. Prior to joining the Singapore Cabinet, Hwee Hua enjoyed a varied career in financial services. 

At Temasek Holdings (2000 — 2004), a Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund, she served as Managing Director where she oversaw divestments, restructured companies and boards, established strategic relations with key foreign counterparts and sat on boards including PSA, Keppel and Mapletree. Hwee Hua is currently engaged in private equity (Tembusu Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), financial services (United Overseas Bank, AsiaPacific Exchange) and maritime services (Bergesen Worldwide Group). 

She is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of National University of Singapore at both the Business School and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Between 2011 and 2014, she served on the Ernst & Young Global Advisory Council. Hwee Hua is the author of "Government in Business — Friend or Foe", published in 2014. Her new book, "Government in Business - Leading or Lagging?" is to be published in February 2021.   

Simon Jacot de Boinod is the founder of Forum, a network of privately invited principals and experts. Member are situated across 30 cities worldwide and are drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts also included within the number.  Simon also runs Forum's philanthropic social enterprise: Sporting Chance Prize Draw. Every March, the company runs a Prize Draw competition, with sporting prizes, for the benefits of London's business community. 100% of the funds raised are donated to Forum's chosen charities.     

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Jessica Fellows in conversation with Daisy Waugh.   

I've been an agony aunt, a travel writer, a reviewer of restaurants and of luxury houses. I've written columns in The Independent on Sunday, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Express, The Indy, Standpoint Magazine and the Times. Along the way, I've interviewed many celebrities, among them Donald Trump, who told me in 1987 that he couldn't be bothered to open his own Christmas presents. While teaching in Northern Kenya, I wrote 'A Small Town in Africa', while living in Los Angeles I wrote a column in the Sunday Express and co-wrote a screenplay about a couple of celebrities who turned their married life into a reality TV show. That was twenty-odd years ago. Truth has overtaken our parody long since.   

I wrote an anonymous column or the Sunday Times, "Diary of A Country Mole', which eventually turned into my sixth book, 'The Desperate Diary of a Country Housewife". Back in London, I wrote three more novels, all of them set on the early 20th Century USA; two columns per week for the Sunday Times, a monthly column for Standpoint magazine, and a furious book about modern motherhood: 'Don't Know Why She Bothers'. As E.V. Harte, I wrote a couple of light-hearted 'mysteries about a Tarot-reading sleuth named Dolly. As Guy Woake, I wrote "Guy Woake's Word Diary', an affectionate send-up of a Woke Young Thing battling through his first year at university, which will be published in March 2021. It made me cry with laughter as I wrote it. As Daisy Waugh, I wrote 'In the Crypt with the Candlestick', a comic murder-mystery about modem aristocrats living in a house they can't afford. It's sequel, 'Phone For Fish Knives,' will be published in June 2021.   

Jessica Fellowes is an author, journalist and public speaker. Jessica is well known for her work as author of five official companion books to the globally successful television series and film Downtown Abbey, various of which hit the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists. Former deputy editor of Country Life and columnist on the Mail on Sunday, as well as a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph, she is now author of a bestselling 1920s crime series, The Mitford Murders, which has been nominated wards in England, Germany, Italy and France. Jessica has spoken at events across the UK and US, and has made numerous appearances on radio and television.   

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Rt Hon David Gauke in conversation with Chris Wilkins.  Rt Hon David Gauke was a senior Cabinet Minister under UK prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May. He served on the House of Commons Treasury, Select Committees before spending 7 years in the Treasury itself as Exchequer Secretary, Financial Secretary and finally Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Chancellors George Osborne and Philip Hammond. 

David went on to serve as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and then Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary in Theresa May's government, before leaving Parliament at the election in 2019. Renowned as one of the Conservative Government's most able performers, David became a regular fixture on the Today Programme and broadcast media generally - with the cry 'uncork the Gauke' resonating around the corridors of Downing Street whenever the government sensed trouble ahead. He is now Head of Public Policy at city law-firm Macfarlanes.   

Chris is a former Director of Strategy and Chief Speechwriter at Number 10 Downing Street. During a twenty-year political career,  he has advised successive Conservative Party Leaders and Cabinet Ministers on their communications, policy and political strategies. Beyond Westminster, Chris has built a career in international strategic communications, working with governments, individuals and corporations on campaigns around reputation management, country branding, FDI, security and counter-terrorism. He now runs London based reputation and strategy consultancy Audley, which advises leaders in business and government to help them achieve their political, professional or personal goals.  He also commentates on politics for the BBC, Sky News and others and writes occasional columns lot the Times, Daily Mail and other outlets.  

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Hugo Walkinshaw in conversation with Nicholas Hamilton  

Hugo has been a Permanent Resident in Singapore since 2003. He has thirty years of experience, twenty five years in Asia Pacific and five years in Europe, based in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. His management consulting experience has been with both Deloitte and EY, with seventeen years as a partner, in a range of leadership roles. Most recently, he worked with AntWorks, as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Partnership Officer, based in Singapore. The company is focused on Data & Digitization, enabled by AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Automation technologies.  

He has been the President of the British Chamber of Commerce (Singapore), a Board member of the European Chamber of Commerce (Singapore) and an Advisory Board member for the London School of Business & Finance (Singapore). In 2017, he was awarded an OBE for services to British Business in Singapore and to UK Exports.  

Before joining Laurasia Capital Management, Nicholas was the Head of Special Situations and Distressed Asset Investments for Standard Bank. The business managed individual special situations, distressed assets and NPL portfolio investments with a notional value in excess of $10bn across nine countries but was focused on the Asia Pacific region.  

Nicholas was a Founding Director of CapAsia, the region’s largest infrastructure fund and an Investment Committee Member. He was also a member of Standard Banks Global Principal Investment Committee. He joined Standard Bank as its Chief Executive for Asia Pacific in July 2006. During his tenure, profits in the region increased four times and ICBC acquired a 20% stake in Standard Bank Group for $5.5bn, the largest FDI into Africa.  

Prior to that, Nicholas was the Chief Executive for Asia Pacific at HVB/UniCredit Group where he led a successful business focused on structured finance, principal investments and credit trading. He founded HVB Asset Management in Asia which had over $2bn AUM and focused on credit products and distressed assets. Nick is also the CEO and Co-Founder of The Conduit, a members club based in London focused on social & environmental change.  

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Brooks Blake in conversation with Basil Demeroutis  

Brooks has over 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience. Brooks currently leads real estate investing for Kew Capital LLP, a large single-family office based in London. Prior to Kew, Brooks led real asset investments for the Bain Capital family office based in Boston. Earlier in his career, he worked as a senior private equity real estate executive and led over nine million square feet of development.  

Brooks earned an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a dual degree in Economics and Political Science with Honours and Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar.     

FORE Partnership is a private investment office for European commercial real estate, exclusively for private investors, family offices and high net individuals. Embodying 'family values'. FORE transforms buildings through active, hands-on asset management that focuses on its own particular approach to sustainability, which it calls 'Responsible Real Estate'. After graduating with a BSc in Mechanical & Aerospace engineering from Cornell University in 1991. Basil spent the first half of his career in banking until he moved to the buy-side in 2002.    

Over the last fourteen years, he has worked exclusively with private investors on their real estate strategies initially as a partner at Jargonnant Partners, the European real estate club where he shared responsibility for acquiring, managing and successfully exiting a 400 million European property portfolio. After disposing of their investments in 2007, Basil moved in-house with one of his capital partners, Capricorn Investment Group, the family office of Jedd Skoll. With backing from Capricorn, Basil st up FORE in 2012.   

Forum is a private members network across the major cities of the world. The membership is drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts. All members are either principals or experts in their fields, intellectually curious and internationally minded.

Robert Chohen and Simon Jacot de Boinod  

Robert has 25 years of experience in investment management and investment banking. He is the Managing Partner of Benson Oak, a highly successful central European investment firm which he joined in 1996. Robert served on the Board of several investee companies, including AVG, one of the global leaders in cybersecurity, where he handled strategic financing issues for the company and executed its first corporate acquisitions. He had previously managed Benson Oak's advisory, private-equity, financing, domestic and international capital market fund-raising and general management advisory.     

Simon Jacot de Boinod is the founder of Forum, a network of privately invited principals and experts. Member are situated across 30 cities worldwide and are drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts also included within the number.  Simon also runs Forum's philanthropic social enterprise: Sporting Chance Prize Draw. Every March, the company runs a Prize Draw competition, with sporting prizes, for the benefits of London's business community. 100% of the funds raised are donated to Forum's chosen charities.     

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Elizabeth Linder in conversation with Simon Jacot de Boinod  From serving as Facebook's first "secretary of state" to founding Brooch Associates, a global policy advisory firm led entirely by women. Elizebeth is at the forefront of modern corporate and government diplomacy, communications and policy. She has physically worked in more than fifty-five countries in both developed and emerging markets. Elizabeth started her career in Global Communications & Political Policy at Google/Youtube, specializing in political campaigning the year user-generated content first splashed onto the national political scene in the United States.     

In 2006, Facebook recruited Elizabeth to join its two-person International Communications team. At the time, the company had no policy nor communications representatives outside the United States. During the eight years, she served as the companies first corporate diplomat dedicated to the government, political and civil society use of Facebook. Elizabeth opened Facebook's first office in India and founded and build Facebook's Politics and Government division for the Europe, Middle East & Africa region.     

Currently, Elizabeth looks after the global portfolio of government ministers and private sector CEOs as Chief Diplomatic Officer at Brooch Associates. She co-Charis the St Jame's Roundtable - Chatham House's fastest-growing member tier - and Chairs the Kinross House Meetings, which take place twice-yearly in Scotland. Elizabeth serves on the Board of the Gates-funded Medicines for Malaria Ventures, the Program Committee of Ditchley Park; and the Board of Strategy International. Elizabeth graduated from Princeton University. A California native she resides in London.   

Simon Jacot de Boinod is the founder of Forum, a network of privately invited principals and experts. Member are situated across 30 cities worldwide and are drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts also included within the number.  Simon also runs Forum's philanthropic social enterprise: Sporting Chance Prize Draw. Every March, the company runs a Prize Draw competition, with sporting prizes, for the benefits of London's business community. 100% of the funds raised are donated to Forum's chosen charities.     

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Forum is a private members network across the major cities of the world. The membership is drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts. All members are either principals or experts in their fields, intellectually curious and internationally minded.

Fiona Dent is CEO of Materversity. Europe's most iconic creator, membership community headquartered at Sommerset House, one of London's Leading Cultural hubs. She is responsible for Makerversity's growth and its mission to power the best creative, science and technology start-ups. Fiona is passionate about innovation, supporting early-stage companies and identifying future trends on her regular global travels.     

Fiona is also an active angel investor and a member of 24 Haymarket, the UK's leading angel investor syndicate. She has invested in diverse sectors, from data privacy, B2B design SaaS, vegan food, med tech, fashion couture, e-commerce and cyber & aviation security. She sits on the Board of Trackonmics, an enterprise marketing data aggregation platform. In addition, she is a Fellow Royal Society of Arts, whose mission is to enrich society through ideas and action.   

Simon Jacot de Boinod is the founder of Forum, a network of privately invited principals and experts. Member are situated across 30 cities worldwide and are drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts also included within the number.  Simon also runs Forum's philanthropic social enterprise: Sporting Chance Prize Draw. Every March, the company runs a Prize Draw competition, with sporting prizes, for the benefits of London's business community. 100% of the funds raised are donated to Forum's chosen charities.      

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Avantika Daing and John McCormick.

Avantika is a partner at Plum Alley, an investment platform focused on investing in gender diverse founding teams and raising the equity bar for investors. Having scaled teams and businesses to billion+ dollar valuations and a successful IPO (NASDA), respectively, across health care and technology. Her diverse background across early stage, growth and a public exit provides Plum Alley with a unique perspective during deal sourcing, evaluation and strategic direction. As a founder of a cross border SaaS company, early team member of a first to market biotech product and as an executive in Unicron companies she has expertise focusing on analytics, proprietary modelling and growth strategies in venture-backed companies. Her domain knowledge spans healthcare, CPG, HCM, Foodtech and market places. She is active in the startup ecosystem in New York, San Franciso, London and India and is a TEDx speaker.   

John is the managing director at InnovaHealth Partners. From 1996, John was a Principle at BPI Capital Partners, LLC where he worked closely with Tim Berkowitz, the President and CEO of InnovaHealth Partners. In the 1990s, he was an Associate with Baker Nye, LP a US $600 million hedge and private equity fund. He started his career as a macroeconomic and financial research analyst at the World Bank in Washington DC.   John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Koelis, SAS and OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. He had previously served as a member of the Leadership Board of the McGovern Institute of Brain Research at M.I.T and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute, also at M.I.T.