Egemen Bağış, Minister for European Union Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey Mario Monti, 54th Prime Minister of Italy (2011 – 2013) Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany (1998 – 2005) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2007 – 2011)
Remarks: Bret Stephens, Deputy Editorial Page Editor (International), Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2006; Founder, Grameen Bank; Chairman, Yunus Centre , 9th YES Annual Meeting, 2012
«Poverty is not created by the poor. Poverty is externally imposed on them. Poverty is created by the system that we built…Poverty should be in a museum, not in human society»