Previous speakers

The Foundation has a proud record of attracting the highest calibre of speakers, a selection of whom are listed below.

Professor Douglas North Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Washington university, St Louis

Professor Martin Shapiro Professor of Law, University of California

Minxin Pei Senior Associate and Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC

Lord Raymond Plant of Highfield Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy, King's College London

Professor Cass Sunstein Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago

Amitai Etzioni founder of the Communitarian Network and former Senior Advisor to the White House

Chief Justice Pius Langa Chief Justice of South Africa

Aharon Barak former President of the Supreme Court of Israel