Richard Quest is CNN’s foremost international business correspondent and anchor of Quest Means Business. Prior to joining CNN, he worked at BBC as a North America business correspondent at Wall Street for 12 years. He also holds a LLB (Hons) degree in Law from Leeds University. His dynamic and distinctive style has made him one of the most recognisable face in the business.

He has covered a wide range of breaking news, from the death of Yasser Arafat, the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 crash to the death of Michael Jackson. His guest list is as varied too, in his career, he has interviewed His Holiness The Dalai Lama, actress Joan Collins, and Playboy Magazine founder, Hugh Hefner. On top of that, he has also written extensively on airline and aviation, and interviewed all major airline CEOs, including AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes and Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker.

Stephen M. R. Covey is a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust – The One Thing That Changes Everything – a paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue. Instead, it demonstrates that it is a hard-edged economic driver – a learnable, measurable skill that makes organisations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energising.

He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen personally propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the most in_uential business books of the 20th Century. Stephen co-founded CoveyLink, a consulting practice which focuses on enabling leaders and organisations to increase and leverage trust to achieve superior performance.

Dr. Samuel West is a licensed clinical psychologist and PhD in organisational psychology with a focus on innovation. Along with his research at Lund University, West has worked as a consultant helping organisations improve their climate for innovation, through which he became the founding director and curator of the Museum of Failure. Apart from Sweden, a direct extension of the museum opened in Hollywood in March 2018.

Contrary to its name, the museum is a celebration of creativity. The innovations housed here showcase products that took a large leap in trying something new, but ultimately did not stick with consumers. Instead of masking its failure, which happens countless times before a truly successful product is introduced by corporations, it shines light on imperfections in the hope of creating an environment where people are moved to innovate and not be afraid to fail.

Brett King is a futurist, an Amazon bestselling author, an award-winning speaker, hosts a globally recognised radio show, and the CEO of Moven. He focuses on how technology is disrupting business, changing behaviour and influencing society.

Moven is a USD200M mobile bank start-up with the world’s first smart bank account. Moven’s app is used around the globe with over a million users. His radio show, Breaking Banks, began in May 2013. It was the first global show and podcast on FinTech, and has grown to popularity with 3.6 million listeners in 140 countries.

In 2010, Brett published Bank 2.0: How Customer Behaviour and Technology will change the future of financial services. He was at the forefront of the FinTech movement, where futurists are advancing the way we use our money smarter and faster

Dr. Wan Wardatul Amani Wan Salim, or Dr. Amani is the first Malaysian to launch a NASA satellite to space. She was entrusted to lead a team of 28 scientists, technologists and engineers to work on NASA’s first ever “astrobiology” programme.

She received the Thora Halstead ‘Young Investigator’ award in 2012, for her work on the Cell-Electrophysiology Lab-on-a-chip, an interdisciplinary project joining biology and fluid physics at the first national conference for the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR).

Since moving back to Malaysia in 2014, Dr Amani has shifted her focus to creating simple devices for local communities. Currently an Assistant Professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), her research interests are focused on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches in the development of advanced sensor technologies and its applications.

Rajeev’s professional roots are in the industry. He has been Chief Learning Officer of both Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley, and has formerly held senior positions at American Express and Goldman Sachs. He has provided coaching, consulting and advisory services globally. His clients include Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Mitsubishi, Johnson & Johnson, MetLife, The World Bank, US Treasury, PwC, Nestlé, Prudential, Maybank, Great Eastern, Citibank and many more.

Rajeev is a sought after international speaker and has been widely featured in international media platforms such as Bloomberg TV & radio, National Public Radio (NPR), Harvard Business Review, Mint-Wall Street Journal and the Conference Board.

He has been named one of Top 100 Global Thought Leaders for Trustworthy Business in 2014, and a 2017 Top Thought Leader in Trust by ‘Trust Across America’. Rajeev and his family have lived in fourteen cities in eight countries.

Dr. Julia Kim is the current Programme Director of the GNH (Gross National Happiness) Centre Bhutan. She is also a member of the International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm that is convened by the Government of Bhutan.

As a global health and development specialist, Julia has worked extensively in Africa and Asia. During her previous tenure with the Bureau for Development Policy at UNDP in New York, her interest has been focused on addressing gender, HIV, socio-economic inequalities, and other cross-cutting development. She was also tasked with leveraging private-public partnerships, leadership development and community capacity-building programs. Her more recent work within UNICEF has seen her focus on incorporating equity, well-being, and sustainable development within the post-2015 agenda.

Julia has participated in the 2012 UN High-Level Meeting on “Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”. She has also contributed to the research and policy analysis on “Health, Happiness and Well-being: Implications for Public Policy” (Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH Research).

Outside of her career, Julia’s other interests include integrating compassion and awareness-based practices within leadership development and organisational change initiatives. She is a member of the Presencing Institute – a global community that sees the integration of awareness-based practices as a core capacity of 21st-century innovation and leadership.

Julia is a graduate of Cornell University and is recognised as a Specialist in Internal Medicine and Community-Oriented Primary Care by the Tufts University School of Medicine. She also holds a MSc. In Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.