International figures from politics, business, academia and the arts converged to debate the movement of people, resources, cultural artefacts and capital across borders, and the challenges of economic and environmental sustainability.
The forum also asked: Is the G8 an anachronism? Radical changes in patterns of human movement and displacement force us to rethink notions of migration, foreignness and identity. Do they need to be redefined to reflect these changes? If so, how and from whose perspective? Baroness Amos is the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
Before her appointment to the UN, she was British high commissioner to Australia. She was made a Labour life peer in and served as leader of the House of Lords and lord president of the council. Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Norton, and the 4th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy Sage, Ungoverned Territories Harvard University Press will be published in Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages and she is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions.
She was named one of the top global thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. See saskiasassen. Kathleen Newland is co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute MPI and directs its programmes on migration and development and refugee protection.
Mamphela Ramphele is a former anti-apartheid activist, medical doctor, vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town and managing director of the World Bank, and has worked at the top levels of South African business. Lord Malloch-Brown is regional chairman at FTI Consulting and a former minister of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he had particular responsibility for strengthening relationships with Africa and Asia and the international system.
