BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008
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 | Helen Alexander, CBE, is vice-president of the CBI (the Confederation of British Industry), a senior adviser to the private equity firm Bain Capital, and a non-executive director of Rolls-Royce and Centrica. She chairs the Business Advisory Forum of the Said Business School, Oxford, is a Trustee of the Tate Gallery where she chairs Tate Enterprises, and is deputy chair of the governors of St Paul’s Girls’ School. | ||||
 | Lionel Barber is the editor of the Financial Times, appointed in November 2005. He was previously the newspaper’s US managing editor, based in New York, responsible for the US edition and all US news on FT.com. Mr Barber has written several books and has lectured widely on US foreign policy, transatlantic relations, European security and monetary union. | ||||
 | Lloyd C. Blankfein is chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and chairman of the Board of Directors. He joined Goldman Sachs’ J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division in 1982 after working as an attorney in a law firm. Mr Blankfein served as vice chairman of the firm from 2002 to 2003, and served as the firm’s president and chief operating officer from December 2003 to June 2006 before assuming his current role. | ||||
 | Sung-Joo Kim is the Founder of Sungjoo Group, which consists of Sungjoo International Ltd., Sungjoo Merchandising Inc. and Sungjoo Design Tech & Distribution Inc. The company has also acquired MCM’s global business, distributing to more than 150 retailers in 30 countries worldwide. The estimated gross annual revenue of the group will be approximately $200m (USD) in 2008. | ||||
 | Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A prolific author and commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Mr Ferguson is a contributing editor of the FT. | ||||
 | Mario Monti is president of Bocconi University, Milan, and honorary president of BRUEGEL, the Brussels think-tank he launched in 2005 with the support of 16 European governments and a number of global corporations. Mr Monti is also, since 2006, an international advisor to Goldman Sachs and serves on the advisory boards of The Coca-Cola Company and Moody’s. | ||||
