Elizabeth Linder (Florida/London) has spoken at several Forum events, and we are honoured to have her as our guest this week. She has an extraordinarily insightful mind that manages to encompass the ever-expanding worlds of geopolitics, social ...

Roozbeh Aliabadi (Lisbon) is an AI education entrepreneur, geopolitical commentator and former military service member with expertise in the Middle East, Central Asia and geo-economics. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal...

Doris loves gemstones. After listening to this episode, you'll understand why – and perhaps have a different appreciation for them yourself. Sitting in her beautiful atelier in Zurich, Forum member Doris Hangartner talks to Jessica Fellowe...

The luckiest amongst us will enjoy living to a grand old age, but are any of us looking forward to those years? Zurich member Jan Garde is on a mission to ensure that we are... As founder of The Embassies of Good Living, Jan is building mixed-u...

Would you invest in space? Raphael Roettgen (Zurich) talks to Jessica Fellowes about the ever-expanding universe for investment and why you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get into it. Raphael is the founding partner of E2MC,...

Tracy Hall is a former speaker for Forum in Singapore, talking here to Jessica Fellowes about her devastating experience as ‘the last victim’ of serial conman Hamish McLaren, currently in jail for fraud estimated at the value of $60-80m worldwi...

Bala Chandra (Dubai) talks to Jessica Fellowes this week about ‘inorganic growth,’ how having a performance psychologist in his staff transformed his company and what Harvard Business school did teach him. Bala grew up in I...

This week’s episode of Forum Radio is with Parag Khanna. Technically a Singapore member, Parag is perhaps more accurately a citizen of the world, having travelled to more than 150 countries and lived in several of them. A leading global strateg...

Series Two of Forum Radio begins with Erkin Bek. As most of us would like to find a way to prolong the tranquility of our summer rest into our autumn work schedule, Erkin is the one to teach us how to do it. Founder of the All Here Organisation...

Juliet Stannard is our guest this week on Forum Radio. A longstanding member, Juliet moved to Singapore from Britain in 1993, and has built a successful career in property in the region. Juliet also talks movingly about the tragedy ...

This week is a special edition of Forum Radio – an interview with Forum’s founder, Simon Jacot de Boinod. Interviewed by his wife and co-founder, Jessica, Simon talks about how he came to create Forum and the exciting plans that are now in plac...

Ziad Salloum (Abu Dhabi) talks to Jessica Fellowes about his legal practice, advising governments and corporations in the UAE and elsewhere, his knighthoods from Italy and the Vatican, and how his father inspired him. Ziad grew up in the UAE – ...

Betsy Pearce (New York) talks to Jessica Fellowes about her work as a lawyer and strategic advisor for creative businesses. In the past, Betsy has overseen deals with fashion giants such as Alexander McQueen and Gucci. She talks about how inves...

This week's interview is with long-standing New York member John McCormick. Jessica talks to John about his work at InnovaHealth partners, where investment in the healthcare space has brought him to some of the most cutting edge developments in...

In this week's episode, Jessica talks to Anita Beacroft (Singapore). Born and raised in Sydney, before moving to Tokyo and Hong Kong, Anita began her professional career in finance and property. Following health challenges, she trained in energ...

Michael Beneville (New York) is a familiar face to many of our members, as the co-founder of Beneville Studios, which hosts Forum breakfasts so brilliantly. An artist, storyteller and futurist, Michael talks to Jessica about his childhood inspi...

This week's conversation is with New York member James Greenberg, founder of Greenberg Art Advisory, member of the Whitney Museum Library Fellows and Vice Chairman for The Center for Arts Education. He is also an artist himself, working out of ...

Daniel Widdicombe (London), CFO of Devolver Digital, and former head of investment banking for CBB (the world's second-largest bank), talks to Jessica about a career that has bridged east and west, the creative and the financial, and his plans ...

Jennifer Schipf (London) is Global Chief Underwriting Officer Fine Art & Specie at AXA XL, which means she sets worldwide strategy for client solutions in the specialised market of fine art underwriting. In her conversation with Jessica, Je...

Pano Anthos is based in New York, where he is founder and managing partner of XRC Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. Pano talks to Jessica about how technology has disrupted and changed human behaviour in the retail space, now we li...

Our latest podcast is an interview with Shwan Ibrahim Taha, our member based in Istanbul. Shwan grew up in Iraq, worked in America (for Franklin Templeton, later co-managing a hedge fund sponsored by George Soros) and has returned to the  ...

Jessica talks to Dan Sandhu (London), CEO of Education Development Trust (EDT), a vast not-for-profit organisation working to improve education outcomes around the world. Dan talks about how COVID changed education globally, how remote learning...

Jonathan Aeberhard (London) is Senior Vice President of Cheng Chung Design (CCD), leading the foundation of the CCD London studio. Founded in Shenzhen, the award-winning, publicly traded architecture and interior design studio has a focus on ho...

Justin Peimani (London), a strategic advisor and investor, talks to Jessica Fellowes this week about his move to London, his excitement about the opportunities for investors in software companies and the constant flow of new information and pos...

This week, Jessica Fellowes is in conversation with Chris Wilkins (London), managing partner of Audley. Chris is an expert in strategic leadership, having whispered in the ears of several Conservative Party leaders and cabinet ministers. Audley...