Rana Foroohar is an Assistant Managing Editor at Time and the magazine’s economics columnist. She also speaks regularly on CNN as Global Economic Analyst. Prior to coming to Time, Foroohar spent 13 years at Newsweek, as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. Her book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, was published by Crown in May.

Ian Bremmer is a Global Research Professor at New York University. He is also president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Dubbed the “go-to-guru on political risk” by the Wall Street Journal, he is a foreign affairs columnist at Time and released his latest book, Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World, in May 2015.

David Lipton assumed the position of First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on September 1, 2011. On March 28, 2016, he was reappointed for a second five-year term beginning September 1, 2016. Before coming to the Fund, Mr. Lipton was Special Assistant to the President, and served as Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the National Economic Council and National Security Council at the White House. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Citi, and also served in the Clinton administration as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs — and before that as Assistant Secretary. Mr. Lipton earned a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University in 1982 and a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1975.

Lars-Hendrik Röller is the Chief Economic Advisor to Chancellor Merkel. Previous positions include Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (2003-2006) and President of the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin (ESMT, 2006-2011). He holds a Ph.D. in economics, a Master of Arts in economics, and a Master of Science in Artificial Intelli-gence from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Hon. Kevin Rudd is President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, a think/do tank headquartered in New York. He served as Australia's 26th Prime Minister (2007-2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010-2012). Mr. Rudd co-founded the G20 during the Global Financial Crisis. He served as Chair of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, a two-year review of the United Nations system, releasing his Chair’s Report in August 2016. He is Chair of Sanitation and Water for All, a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House, a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute.