Founder of China Care Foundation, which provides medical, social, and educational programs for orphans with disabilities in China; founder and CEO of Endless Mobile, a computer platform aimed at the developing world and built with technology at a fraction of the cost of traditional PCs

Secretary general of China Reform Foundation; former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s central bank; economic professor and director of the National Economic Research Institute; a Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinker

Chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks, a telecommunications firm that specializes in arbitrage and use of radio spectrum; founder and chairman of the pan-European political party Libertas

Director of the Arab Center for Scientific Research and Humane Studies; editor of Arabic-language news website MinbarAlHurriyya.org; professor of economics at Ibn Toufail University in Morocco; recognized for his speech calling for economic freedom in Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring

Former member of parliament, fourth youngest in the country’s history; former parliamentary leader for the Democratic Alliance, the country’s official opposition party; currently studying public policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Chief scientist emeritus at NIIT, an operator of for-profit higher education institutions in India; creator of the Hole-in-the-Wall experiment that demonstrated the value of informal learning and inspired the movie Slumdog Millionaire; professor of educational technology at Newcastle University

Co-founder and director of research at Samriddhi, a foundation that advances ideas for a free and prosperous Nepal through entrepreneurial projects and by working with the national government; honored by John Templeton Foundation for promoting economic liberty and fighting corruption

Member of Parliament representing the Epsom electorate, including parts of Auckland and suburbs; leader of the pro-market ACT party; former government adviser on partnership/charter schools; former policy analyst with think tanks in Canada and New Zealand

Co-founder and CEO of OpenGov Inc.; principal at Formation 8 Partners; former special adviser to General HR McMaster, commander of the Anticorruption Task Force in Kabul, Afghanistan

Award-winning journalist; US bureau chief correspondent for Spain’s Telecinco TV; US correspondent for Diario el Economista; first Spanish-speaking journalist to report live from the NYSE; winner of the 2007 Golden Antenna award for economics broadcasting in Spain