Meeting Schedules

Managing Director, IMF

Kristalina Georgieva is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is the first person from an emerging market economy to lead the IMF since its inception in 1944. Before joining the Fund, Ms. Georgieva was Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank and also served as Interim President for a time. Previously, she served at the European Commission as Vice President for Budget and Human Resources – and as Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response. She was named “European of the Year” and “Commissioner of the Year” by European Voice for her leadership in the European Union’s humanitarian response to crises.

Vice Chair, National AI Strategy Committee, Korea

Governor, Bank of Canada

Tiff Macklem was appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada in June 2020 for a seven-year term. As Governor, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements or BIS. In addition, he chairs the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, he chairs the Financial Stability Board’s Standing Committee for the Assessment of Vulnerabilities, and he co-chairs the FSB Regional Consultative Group for the Americas. Mr. Macklem first joined the Bank of Canada in 1984 and held various senior positions including Chief of Research and Advisor to the Governor. He was appointed a Deputy Governor in 2004 and Senior Deputy Governor in 2010. During the Global Financial Crisis, Mr. Macklem was Associate Deputy Minister at the Department of Finance, and represented Canada at the G7, G20 and FSB. From 2014 until his appointment as Governor, Mr. Macklem was the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Chief Executive Officer DHL Group

Since May 2023, Dr. Tobias Meyer is the CEO of DHL Group with additional responsibility for Global Business Services (GBS). Tobias Meyer joined the company in 2013 as Executive Vice President Corporate Development. From 2015, he was part of the leadership team at DHL Global Forwarding, serving as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the division. Subsequently, in 2019, he was appointed as a Member of the Board of Management, assuming leadership of the Post & Parcel Germany division. Prior to joining the company, Tobias Meyer was a Partner at McKinsey & Company Inc., primarily based in Frankfurt am Main and from 2005 to 2008 in Singapore. He studied Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Illinois in the USA. Furthermore, he holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He is a German citizen, married, and has three sons.

Cofounder and Head of Policy, Anthropic

Jack Clark is co-founder and Head of Public Benefit at Anthropic, an AI research company. Prior to Anthropic, Jack was the Policy Director of OpenAI. Before OpenAI, Jack was a technical journalist who wrote in detail about supercomputers, neural networks, and advanced technology, working for publications ranging from The Register to BusinessWeek. Along with his work at Anthropic, Jack writes Import AI, a popular AI newsletter read by more than 130,000 people every week.

Anchor and Correspondent, CNN

Richard Quest is CNN’s international business correspondent and anchor of Quest Means Business. He also serves as CNN Business editor-at-large in the network’s New York bureau. Quest hosts Quest’s World of Wonder, a monthly travel program in which he visits different destinations and speaks with local residents and expert.

Quest Means Business airs weekdays at 4 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. UK on CNN International and covers business, economics, markets, and corporate leadership. Guests have included senior figures from banking, international institutions, policymaking, and business.

Quest has reported on stock markets and financial crises since Black Monday in 1987, including from Wall Street, London, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. During President Donald Trump’s second term, he reported on U.S. tariff policy and its implications for consumers, companies, and the global economy. He is also CNN’s airline and aviation correspondent.

Quest has also contributed to CNN’s coverage of major UK events. In addition, he has reported from G20 meetings and attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The United Nations World Tourism Organization awarded him the 2013 UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement for his reporting on business and tourism.

Prior to joining CNN, he worked at the BBC, where he was the North America business correspondent, based on Wall Street for 12 years.  Quest is British, holds an LLB (Hons) degree in Law from Leeds University, and was called to the Bar.

Find Quest on X @richardquest and Instagram @questinny.