Over the past two decades, THE FOCUS has featured a great number of leading figures from business and beyond.
Leaders Dialogue
Business Leaders
- Marissa Mayer
- Strive Masiyiwa
- Sonia Cheng
- Pius Baschera
- Choo Chiau Beng
- Kendall J. Powell
- Paul Bulcke
- Anne M. Mulcahy
- Umran Beba
- Henry and Sunny Tan
- Matti Alahuhta
- A. Vellayan
- René Obermann
- Stephen Green
- Cathie Black
- Ben Lipps
- Wolfgang Reitzle
- Franz Fehrenbach
- Jacob Wallenberg
- Maurice Lévy
- Michael Critelli
- Kazuo Furukawa
- Wanda Rapaczynski
- Jimmy Wales
- Kasper Rorsted
- Jan du Plessis & Francois Pienaar
- Jeremy Heimans & Taiye Selasi
- Kumi Naidoo & Hans Wijers
- Wynton Marsalis & Indra K. Nooyi
- Ólafur Elíasson & Alexander Ljung
- Beatriz Milhazes & Hélio Bruck Rotenberg
- Lang Lang & Paul E. Jacobs
- Marjorie Yang
- Wendy Luhabe
- “If I Have to Give You One Piece of Advice, It Is to Be Yourself and Accept Who You Are; Never Complain and Never Compare.”
Politics and Society
- Fred Swaniker
- Katherine Grainger and Ben Medlock
- Ela Bhatt
- Henryka Bochniarz
- Lord Mervyn Davies
- Lord Jacob Rothschild
- Bill Drayton
- Diarmuid Martin
- Esther Dyson
- Bill Clinton
- Pierluigi Collina
- Lord Christopher Patten
- Mary Robinson
- Desmond Tutu
- Stéphane Hessel †
- Jan du Plessis & Francois Pienaar
- Kumi Naidoo & Hans Wijers
- Jasmine Whitbread & Sugata Mitra
The Arts
- Pico Iyer
- Joseph W. Polisi
- Wayne McGregor and Nikesh Arora
- Carlus Padrissa
- John Brockman
- Francis Kéré
- Andris Nelsons
- Lang Lang
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Mads Øvlisen and Herbert Blomstedt
- Michael Craig-Martin and Paul Myners
- Okwui Enwezor
- Bjarke Ingels
- Jeremy Heimans & Taiye Selasi
- Wynton Marsalis & Indra K. Nooyi
- Ólafur Elíasson & Alexander Ljung
- Beatriz Milhazes & Hélio Bruck Rotenberg
- Lang Lang & Paul E. Jacobs
- Louis Begley
Science and the Humanities
- Stewart D. Friedman
- Luciano Floridi
- Binna Kandola
- Julian Baggini
- Tony Wagner and Ben Nelson
- Edward O. Wilson
- Michael J. Sandel
- Deborah Cadbury and Nigel Nicholson
- Fritjof Capra
- George Bonanno
- Jim Collins
- Edmund S. Phelps
- Daniel Kahneman
- Jane Goodall
- David Mayer de Rothschild
- Jasmine Whitbread & Sugata Mitra
