Global thinkers to grace ADB meet

thinkers in economics, history and digital technology are set to speak on global economic trends that will shape the world’s future during a forum to be hosted by the Philippines this May in a run-up to the 51st Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila.

- mist Paola Subacchi and technology investor Masayoshi Son will be among the key speakers at the May 4 forum.

- - nomic Planning secretary and current Monetary Board board member; Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino, dean of the ADB Institute; Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; and Steven Mnuchin, secretary of the

history at Oxford University, is the author of the best-selling book Silk Roads: A New History of the World.

Subacchi, a former director of international economics research at Chatham House, is an acknowledged expert on international

Son is the CEO of the multinational conglomerate Softbank Group, which owns businesses in telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing.

Set on May 3-6 at the bank’s headquarters in Mandaluyong City, the 51st ADB Annual Meeting development ministers and central bank governors of the ADB’s 67 member-economies, of which 48