Becky Quick is co-anchor of “Squawk Box”. She also leads CNBC Cures, a multi-platform initiative dedicated to showcasing the voices, research, and progress surrounding rare diseases.
Quick is known for her hard-hitting interviews and profiles of some of the world’s richest and most influential investors, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, T. Boone Pickens, Jamie Dimon, Charlie Munger and many others. She also has interviewed three U.S. presidents and has hosted panels at some of the most prestigious conferences in the world such as the Microsoft CEO Conference, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Conference and the Allen & Co. Sun Valley Media Conference.

Quick was formerly anchor of the nationally syndicated “On the Money,” which was produced by CNBC, and also authored a regular column for Fortune magazine. Prior to becoming an anchor, Quick covered the Wall Street beat for CNBC as part of the network’s partnership with Dow Jones.
Before joining CNBC in February 2001, Quick covered various beats for The Wall Street Journal, including retail, e-commerce and the Internet. She also played a crucial role in the launch of The Wall Street Journal Online, while serving as the site’s International news editor.
Quick graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. She serves on the board of the Economic Club of New York and previously served on the board of The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Lionel Barber is an author, broadcaster, consultant and former editor of The Financial Times (2005-2020). His latest book is Gambling Man, a biography of Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of SoftBank.

At the FT, he led the digital transformation of the newspaper, winning multiple awards for its journalism. He also interviewed many world leaders including Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Narendra Modi. 

During his editorship, Lionel served as a trustee and latterly as chairman of the Tate (2011-2021) and as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (2014-23). 

In his current roles, he is a senior adviser to Allen & Co in New York and a member of the international advisory board of Chubb, the global insurance company, and a member of the Global Council of the I-House,Asia Pacific Initiative in Tokyo. 

He is co-host of Media Confidential, along with former editor of the Guardian Alan Rusbridger, now editor of Prospect magazine. He also serves as chairman of the Wincott foundation and a trustee of the Marjorie Dean Foundation, each promoting quality business and financial journalism in the UK. .  

Lionel is the recipient of the Legion d’Honneur and the Stella d’Italia in recognition of his lifetime achievements in journalism.

Lewis is an endurance swimmer and ocean advocate.

For nearly forty years, he has pioneered swims in some of the most fragile and threatened environments – from the North Pole to Antarctica, and from the Himalayas to the great rivers of the world.

Each swim is undertaken to draw attention to places that are changing rapidly, and to help secure their future.

To support this work, he founded the Lewis Pugh Foundation to turn awareness into lasting protection. The Foundation works with governments, scientists and local communities, and has helped protect more than 3.5 million km² of vulnerable ocean – an area larger than Western Europe.

Lewis has served as UNEP Patron of the Oceans since 2013. In this role, he has been a leading voice for oceans and rivers, and for the wildlife and people that depend on them.

Karin Grundberg Wolodarski is a journalist at Dagens Industri. She is also the author of the books Den döende dandyn, about the art collector Fredrik Roos, and Experimentet – how the Swedish school system became one of the most deregulated in the world.

Joanna Grant is a rising Dartmouth freshman and the founder of PageGeek, an initiative that encourages children and teenagers to read books by creating mock social media pages for classic and contemporary characters. She is a former intern for The Knot, a wedding planning company, where she specialized in marketing for their social media and editorial teams, and for the media company Upworthy, where she focused on spreading good news. Joanna is the co-head editor of her school newspaper, President and first-place champion of the business competition club DECA, and co-leader of her local youth group’s international podcast.

Jens Grede is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of SKIMS. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of FRAME and a prolific investor in the technology, consumer, and media industry through his holding company Popular Culture. Prior to partnering with Kim Kardashian to launch Skims, Grede co-founded Los Angeles-based FRAME in 2012. Before that, he spent years working in fashion and media, co-founding the marketing agency Saturday Group in 2003. The Saturday Group and its subsidiary of companies were sold individually to Omnicom and Interpublic Group between 2015 and 2018 – as Grede shifted his focus to other consumer and media businesses. Jens’ business acumen has been instrumental to SKIMS’ exponential growth, which has a current valuation of $5 billion. The brand’s innovative approach to the intimates and lounge category has become a global phenomenon since its launch in 2019. Grede currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Emma Grede and their four children.

Carl Bildt is Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, contributing columnist to Washington Post as well as columnist for Project Syndicate. He serves as Senior Advisor to the Wallenberg Foundations in Sweden and is on the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation in the US.

He has served as both Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden. March 2021, Mr Carl Bildt was appointed WHO Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator).

Subsequently he served in international functions with the EU and UN, primarily related to the conflicts in the Balkans. He was Co-Chairman of the Dayton peace talks on Bosnia and become the first High Representative in the country. Later, he was the Special Envoy of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the region.

Anas Bukhash is a serial entrepreneur and interviewer, best known as the creator and host of #ABtalks, a talk show launched in 2018 exploring “the human behind the title.” Recognized by YouTube as the leading podcast in MENA, #ABtalks has reached millions through candid conversations with global figures including Anna Wintour, Chris Martin, Sir Magdi Yacoub, and Zlatan Ibrahimović. In 2014, he founded Bukhash Brothers, the UAE’s first influencer marketing agency, and has since launched multiple ventures while partnering with global brands including ZEGNA, Cartier, BMW, and Dubai Tourism.

Binette Seck has built her life’s work on a belief that talent is universal, but opportunity is not, and closing the gap is the work of our time.

Born in Stockholm and raised between Tensta and Dakar, she carries two worlds in everything she co-creates. Together with bold, visionary partners and communities, she has co-founded multiple tech literacy and social impact initiatives, among them ChangersTech, collectively opening pathways that have empowered tens of thousands of young people from under-resourced communities with access to transformative literacy and life opportunities. She is also one of the driving forces behind Sweden’s most modern upper secondary school, deliberately placed in Järva, one of the country’s most underserved neighborhoods, directly alongside the National Museum of Science and Technology, launched on the conviction that world-class education belongs where it is needed the most.

Profiled by CNN, PBS, and Disney, named Sweden’s IT Woman of the Year in 2021, honored with 23 awards for leadership in innovation and social impact, and chosen by the Obama Foundation as Sweden’s first female Obama Leader.

In 2024, she was appointed Chair of Microsoft’s AI Competence Council, a body tasked with a national mission to skill 250,000 Swedes in artificial intelligence, grounded in values of equity, access, and human dignity.

Binette is the host of A Taste of Brilliant Minds, a role she has held for five consecutive years, bringing the spirit of the world’s most forward-thinking gathering to young adults from underserved communities.