Speakers

Nicolas Firzli is founder of the World Pensions® Conference, the retirement & savings industry group and think-tank, co-chair of the G7 Pensions Roundtable held on the sidelines of the G7 Summit, cofounder and member of the Advisory Council of the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF), the World Bank and G20–led global development finance initiative, and co-chair of the Singapore Economic Forum (SEF)

He has developed notions such as ‘Pension Superpowers’, the ‘Age of Geoeconomics’, ‘Employee Capitalism’, ‘SDG–Driven Investment’..., and chaired the Pensions and Asset Owners Roundtable at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (Paris COP21 Summit/Paris Agreement)

Nicolas is a graduate of Canada’s McGill University (Statistics & Financial Economics), an alumnus of the HEC Paris School of Management (MBA Corporate Strategy & Marketing) and the University of Paris Law School (LL.M. Corporate Law) and has conducted research at the University of Louvain (UCL) Doctoral School of Economics and Management in Waals Brabant (Belgium)

He is a regular contributor to BBC News (Asia), Asharq News with Bloomberg, RTÉ Ireland, and Cairo TV (Qahera News). He is also active in ecumenical, intercultural dialogue, nonalignment, & the promotion of peaceful, inclusive sustainable development endeavours in North America, Britain, the European Union (EU) and the Greater MENA–APAC continuum