Recent Milken Institute speakers have examined the momentous changes taking place across the Middle East and Africa:
Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri
Cabinet Member and Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, United Arab Emirates
Cristiano Amon
President and CEO, Qualcomm
Marc Andreessen
Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Stéphane Bancel
CEO, Moderna, Inc.
The Honorable Joe Biden
47th Vice President and 46th President of the United States
Albert Bourla
Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, Inc.
Sir Richard Branson
Founder, Virgin Group
The Honorable George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States
Francis Collins
Former NIH Director; Acting Science Advisor to the President of the United States
Larry Culp
Chairman of the Board and CEO, General Electric
Kristin Davis
Actress, Producer, and Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
Carmine Di Sibio
Global Chairman and CEO, EY
Marvin Ellison
Chairman and CEO, Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Anthony Fauci
Director, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Michèle Flournoy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors
Jane Fraser
CEO, Citi
Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Sir Lucian Grainge
Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Group
Tom Hanks
Actor, Producer, and Director
Goldie Hawn
Actress; Founder, MindUP; Founder, The Goldie Hawn Foundation
Gianni Infantino
President, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
His Excellency Paul Kagame
President of Rwanda
Kewsong Lee
CEO, Carlyle
Strive Masiyiwa
Founder and Chairman, Econet Wireless
Rodney McMullen
Chairman and CEO, The Kroger Co.
His Excellency Salaheddine Mezouar
President, COP22; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and former Minister of Economy and Finance, Morocco
The Honorable Steven Mnuchin
77th Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury
His Excellency Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
Group CEO and Managing Director, Mubadala Investment Company
Elon Musk
Founder and CEO, Tesla Inc., SpaceX, and The Boring Company
His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan
Cabinet Member and Minister of Tolerance and Coexistance, United Arab Emirates
John Nikengasong
Former Director, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Indra Nooyi
Former Chairwoman and CEO, PepsiCo; Board of Directors, Amazon
Alexis Ohanian
Founder, Seven Seven Six; Co-Founder and Former Executive Chairman, Reddit
His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba
Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States
Gwyneth Paltrow
Founder and CEO, Goop
Ruth Porat
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google
David Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Carlyle
His Excellency Yasir Othman Al Rumayyan
Chairman of the Board and Governor, Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia
Paul Ryan
54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud
Chairman of the Board, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
Eric Schmidt
Chairman, Steel Perlot
Dan Schulman
President and CEO, PayPal
Rajiv Shah
President, Rockefeller Foundation
David Solomon
Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs
Masayoshi Son
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.
Anil Soni
CEO, WHO Foundation
Yoshihide Suga
Former Prime Minister of Japan
Ambassador Katherine Tai
19th United States Trade Representative
Joseph C. Tsai
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Alibaba Group
Hamdi Ulukaya
Founder, CEO, and Chairman, Chobani
Rochelle Walensky
Director, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cathie Wood
Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest