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Sally Blount: A Social Psychologist’s Touch
Prof. Sally Blount is the dean of Kellogg School of Management. Kellogg is very much seen as a competitor to some of the big names in business education and as such has always needed to be an innovator. Blount is
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Doug Guthrie: Understanding China
Prof. Doug Guthrie is the dean of the George Washington University School of Business. Of course he is a most accomplished academic but interestingly also an expert on China. Guthrie has sometimes come in for criticism as being too pro-China
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Hero Hrabowski: Cool To Be Smart
It’s Birmingham Alabama in 1962 and a twelve year boy with an unusual name is sitting at the back of his church doing maths homework while listening to the minister preaching. Even at that young age it was clear to
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President Kirchner: Another Peron?
President Kirchner, who has been in office since December 2007, was re-elected in 2011 and may have her sights on a third term – which would require an amendment to the constitution. She was the first elected female president of
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Gillard Under Pressure: Unfairly So?
Julia Gillard was born in Barry, South Wales in 1961 but renounced her UK citizenship on entering the Australian parliament in 1988. Her family had moved to Australia when Julia was five years old. She was the first PM since
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Costa Rica’s Chinchilla: A Social Conservative
One of two VPs in the previous administration, Laura Chinchilla was the first female president of Costa Rica when she assumed that office in May 2010. Since coming to power she has had to deal with the Nicaraguan border crisis
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Minister Okonjo-Weala: Right Place at the Right Time
When Dr. Okonjo-Iweala departed the World Bank in 2011 to become Nigeria’s finance minister, she was managing director and second in charge. It was no surprise that in the following year her name appeared on a short-list for the WB
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Powerful Leadership from Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi, aged 66 and widow of former PM Rajiv, is India’s most powerful leader and the longest serving president of the Congress Party. Elected in 1998, Gandhi was the first foreign born president of Congress since Indian Independence. She is
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Michelle Obama: A Debt of Gratitude
The 2012 speech by Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention in support of her husband was undeniably brilliant and a political tour de force. She connected with the aspirations of millions of worried voters by recalling the personal stories
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Chancellor Merkel: Saviour of Europe?
Angela Merkel entered politics in 1989 with fall of the Berlin Wall. When she narrowly defeated Gerhard Shroder in the 2005 election, she became the first former citizen of the GDR to lead reunited Germany and the first woman to
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