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GBS Speakers 2025

  • Plenary Stage
  • Parallel Stage

Global Influential Voices in Attendance

Meet the influential voices at The Times Group ETNOW Global Business Summit 2025 who are steering change across industries. Discover their expertise and forward-thinking solutions that are set to redefine the future of global businesses and foster long-term growth and innovation.

Chief Guest

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister of India

Special Guests

HM Queen Rania Al Abdullah

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC

Secretary-General – Commonwealth of Nations

Álvaro S. Pereira

Chief Economist and G20 Finance Deputy – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Andrés Vicente

Head of Market Area South East Asia

Anshula Kant

MD & CFO – World Bank

Arvind Tiku

Founder and Group Chairman, AT Capital Group

Borje Ekholm

CEO and President – Ericsson

Cameron Adams

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer – Canva

Christian Dustmann

German economist, Professor of Economics at Dept. of Economics of University College London

Devansh Jain

Executive Director of the INOXGFL Group

Dilip Shanghvi

Founder Chairman and Managing Director – Sun Pharmaceutical Industries

Dov Moran

Managing Partner – Grove Ventures

Dr. Sama Bilbao y León

Director General – World Nuclear Association

Dr Hal Brands

Political Scientist; Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Dr Michael Spence

President and Provost – University College London

Harvey Schwartz

CEO and member of the Board of Directors – Carlyle Group

Kevin Sneader

President of Asia Pacific – Goldman Sachs

Katie Sadleir

CEO – Commonwealth Games Federation

Luciano Rossi

President – International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)

Michael Williamson

President – Lockheed Martin International

Naveen Jindal

Chairman of Jindal Group

Omri Morgenshtern

CEO – Agoda

Prof Dr Kan Zaw

Union Minister for Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations, Myanmar

Prashant Ruia

CEO – Essar

Simon Stiell

Executive Secretary – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Raj Subramaniam

President, CEO and a member of the board of directors – Fedex

Willonius Hatcher

Comedian and AI Storyteller

Warren “Woody” Hoburg

Astronaut Candidate

Global Influential Voices in Attendance

Meet the influential voices at The Times Group ETNOW Global Business Summit 2025 who are steering change across industries. Discover their expertise and forward-thinking solutions that are set to redefine the future of global businesses and foster long-term growth and innovation.

Aleksandra Pietilä

Chief Growth Officer – StepOne Tech

Anne Raudaskoski

Head of Circular Design & Co-Founder – Ethica

Dr. Diana Anne Vorsatz

Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University (CEU)

Dimitris Manikis

President of EMEA – Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Dikshu Kukreja

Counsel General of Albania – Managing Director and Principal Architect, C P Kukreja Associates

Dr Alex Zhavoronkov

Founder and CEO – Insilico Medicine

H.E. MINN MINN

Hon’ble Deputy Minister, Ministry of Commerce Government of Myanmar Ministry of Commerce – Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Inna Braverman

Co-Founder – Eco Wave Power Ltd.

Karlijn Sibbel

Innovation Director – Notpla

Luigi Caini

Brazilian skydiving legend and 11-time world record holder

Martin Nils Mikael Hermansson

Global Educator

Shahriare Mahmood

Chief Product & Sustainability Officer – Spinnova Group

Sheenam Ohrie

Managing Director, Broadridge Financial Solutions

Shalini Goyal Bhalla

Managing Director – International Council for Circular Economy

Svilen Rangelov

Co-Founder and CEO – Dronamics

Rahul Taneja

Partner – Lightspeed

Parthaa Bosu

Innovation and Future Strategies Expert – Domain and Functional Advisory Group