Panel on the global economic power shift

Dominic Barton (born in 1962) is Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, one of the world's leading consulting firms. In his 25 years with McKinsey & Company, he has advised clients in a broad range of industries -- including banking, consumer goods, high tech and industrial -- but his core area of work is in financial sector development and reform.

Dominic Barton's vast experiences in diverse environments enabled him to author more than 80 articles and books on financial services, history and the issues and opportunities facing global and Asian markets. Prior to his current position, he led McKinsey & Company as regional leader for Asia. He is a Rhodes Scholar with a Master of Philosophy in economics from Oxford University.




Oswald Grübel (born in 1943) has been Group Chief Executive Officer of UBS AG since he joined the bank in 2009. With almost 50 years of experience in the financial services industry, he today leads a company with approximately 65,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Grübel also holds numerous mandates in Boards of Swiss and international organisations. Amongst others, he is a Board member of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and a member of the International Monetary Conference. Between 2004 and 2007, Grübel was Chief Executive Officer of the Credit Suisse Group.

Over the course of his career, he held senior positions in various areas, including in particular Securities Trading and Private Banking. Grübel was educated as a banker at Deutsche Bank AG, where he worked from 1961 to 1970.




Riz Khan (born in 1962) is a British television news reporter and international journalist at Al Jazeera English in Washington D.C. which he joined in 2005. He hosts the network's flagship programme Riz Khan, a daily, interactive global show and Riz Khan's One on One, a weekly profile show. Khan grew up in the then British colony of Aden in the former South Yemen. In 1993, he joined BBC and three years later CNN.

Khan became widely known as a senior anchor and host of his own show, interviewing more heads of state and business personalities than any other global interactive news show presenter. He left CNN in 2001 in order to found and run Colourblind Entertainment, an independent production company. Khan was educated in Great Britain and holds a postgraduate degree in radio journalism from the University of Portsmouth.

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[activist81]

Great discussion! Actually I saw Gruebel today on the Bahnhoffstrasse in Zurich during my lunch break.