Antoine van Agtmael

In this vital speech, visionary international investment manager Antoine van Agtmael -- the pioneer who coined the term "emerging markets" -- pulls back the curtain on the Global Economy. Picking up where Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat left off, he persuasively demonstrates why the we must look beyond our borders to get a better understanding of what is driving the tumultuous...

David Faber

David Faber appears daily on CNBC's Squawk Box. He also breaks news and provides in depth analysis on a range of business topics for the network during his twice weekly Faber Report. In his eleven years at CNBC, Faber has broken many big financial stories including the massive fraud at WorldCom, the bail out of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management and numerous takeovers.

Dylan Ratigan

Veteran journalist and television host Dylan Ratigan anchors "The Dylan Ratigan Show," weekdays, 4-5 p.m. ET on msnbc. Ratigan is the former anchor and co-creator of CNBC's Fast Money. Dylan also co-anchored The Call and the 3 p.m. hour of the Closing Bell. CNBC's Fast Money is a rapid-paced, highly charged hour where four of Wall Street's best traders debate and discuss...

Gene Stanaland

Dr. Gene Stanaland is the president of GSE, Inc., an economics and management consulting firm. For 20 years, he was a member of the economics department of Auburn University in Alabama, and head of the department for the last eight of those years. His business involvement is far-reaching; Dr. Stanaland serves on the board of several institutions, including First American Bank, Huntingdon College..

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana in 1943. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford...

Marvin Zonis

Marvin Zonis is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and Business Strategy in the Era of eCommerce. Zonis argues that accelerating technological developments drive globalization both economically and politically. And, in the face of these global challenges, business leadership and a...

Niall Ferguson

Harvard's Niall Ferguson is one of the world's leading historians of the global economy and author of such internationally-acclaimed works as The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, and The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. His new book...