Viewpoints has hosted a number of global spokespersons of international repute so far

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HE Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi

The Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future of the United Arab Emirates

Topic: Importance of Future Foresight and How It Can Impact Overall Development

Lord Gerry Grimstone

Minister for Investment, Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Topic: The World is Changing – a Chairman’s View

HE Guðmundur Árnason

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Iceland

Topic: Iceland´s New Organic Budget Law–planning for the future

George Yong-Boon Yeo

Former Minister for Information and the Arts, Health, Trade & Industry and Foreign Affairs, Government of Singapore

Topic: Impact of the Rise of China on Asia and the Middle East

Mr. Santiago Calatrava Valls

An internationally renowned Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter

Topic: Architecture as an Art - From Sculpture to Architecture

Lord Gerry Grimstone

Minister for Investment, Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Topic: Has Every Thing Changed – the Post COVID-19 World

Ms. Mina Al-Oraibi

Editor-in-Chief of The National newspaper

Topic: Media Reality.. between the Digital Revolution and the Diversity of Audiences

Dr. Reinhard Christian Zinkann

A fourth-generation Executive Director and Co-proprietor at the 121-years old Miele Group

Topic: The Miele Case: How to Run a Family Business over Generations and Grow the Brand

Ms. Maysa Jalbout

A Visiting Scholar and Special Advisor, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Arizona State University

Topic: The Urgency to Transform Education

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

World’s greatest living explorer

Topic: Conquering Human Limitation

Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf

Director and Leon Levy Professor at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (New Jersey), USA

Topic: The future of science & technology

George de Lama

President of the Eisenhower Fellowships

Topic: The Coin of the Realm

Doug Elmendorf

Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

Topic: Global Economic Challenges

Mary Louise Gorno

Managing Director, Ingenuity International, LLC.

Topic: Step by Step: A Journey to Now

Her Excellency Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy

Minister of State for International Cooperation, UAE

Topic: Discover the experience behind EXPO 2020 Dubai

David Nirenberg

Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Topic: What kind of research and research institutions does the future demand?