Simply typing 'james shikwati' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

James Shikwati is a Kenyan and free market economist. He is a writer and a commentator on public policy with a particular interest in development, the environment, trade and issues pertaining to agriculture. He also promotes freedom of trade as the proper remedy to Africa's poverty, and not the aid directed towards Africa, which is primarily used to achieve political ends, and/or acts as a mechanism which encourages the dumping of subsidised foreign agricultural products onto local markets at below cost.

This removes any incentive or need for African farmers to produce and/or compete with non-African producers.

James Shikwati has written for, and been interviewed by Kenyan and international newspapers: Der Spiegel, The Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Sydney Herald, The Business News, The Daily Nation, The East African Standard and The African Executive, for example.

Simply typing 'Ayaan Hirsi Ali' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Dutch feminist and politician and daughter of the Somali warlord Hirsi Magan Isse. Her family left Somalia and she successfully obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a much praised and reviled author and film maker because of her criticisms of Islam. She was a member of the Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) until May 16, 2006, but a political crisis over her citizenship forced her to resign her parliamentary position.

Until the fall of 2007, Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right American think tank. She has appeared on the BBC's HARDtalk and was interviewed by Stephen Sacher. As of February 2008, she is living in Holland and seeking a continuance of her security allowance from state and/or EU funds.

Simply typing 'nazenin ansari' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

Nazenin Ansari is the Diplomatic Editor of Kayhan (London), a weekly Persian language newspaper considered to be the opinion maker for pro-democracy and secular Iranians

In 19980, Nazenin Ansari received a BA in Public Affairs and Government from Mount Vernon College, and, in 1983, an MA in International Relations and Comparative Politics of he Soviet Union and the Middle East from Georgetown University.

Nazenin Ansari is a regular basis to the BBC's Dateline London and News24, CNN International and is a Special London Correspondent for VOA, Persian Service.

Over the years she has worked as a member with Iranian educational foundations and is currently a member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House, London.

Simply typing 'michael o'leary' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

Michael O’Leary has successfully developed Ryanair into a strong and successful European carrier in the face of tough competition from the likes of British Airways (BA). He has achieved this by offering a low cost no-frills service to passengers who can now enjoy business trips and recreational breaks in the heart of Europe, which were too expensive when the dominant players in the airline business had a stranglehold over the market.

Michael O’Leary is well known for his controversial comments and is not averse to challenging the government whenever government policy will impact on his business.

Michael O’Leary lives in Gigginstown House near Mullingar. He is married to Anita Farrell since 2004. In 2006, his horse ‘War of Attrition’ won the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Simply typing 'michael milken' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

Starting his career in 1969, Michael Milken is credited with revolutionising modern capital markets, his innovative range of financing techniques helping to finance the early growth of cutting edge industries and enabled America to remain outstandingly competitive in the face of fierce competition from Japan and Asia, for example.

But in 1989, the United States government charged Michael Milken with conduct that had never been, and has never since been, the subject of criminal prosecution. He agreed to pay an enormous fine and spent twenty-two months in jail.

Since then, Michael Milken has resumed a successful financial career. This wealth has enabled him to significantly fund leading-edge medical research, especially research into prostrate cancer, which he suffered from and survived.

Michael Milken’s website.

Simply typing 'bob friedland' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

Bob Friedland has been to the Venezuelan Amazon, Siberia, the Rocky Mountains, Zambia and the Atlantic coast of Southern Africa, to mine for Gold and other metals and minerals, etc.

He holds dual-nationality with Canada and the United States.

He currently resides in Sydney, Australia.

Simply typing 'margaret thatcher' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

Baroness Margaret Thatcher now attends the House of Lords, and Conservative Party events, etc. She is the head of The Margaret Thatcher Foundation.

She is well remembered as the longest serving Prime Minister in British history, prior to the present incumbent of 10 Downing Street, and for being the only woman Prime Minister, so far, to hold the office. During this time, she presided over radical changes in British industry and the financial sectors, so that the wealth creating sectors of the economy could more ably compete internationally.

Her downfall at the hands of party colleagues, ushered in a steady erosion of the Conservative Party's philosophical base and the subsequent catastrophic loss of support, from which it is struggling to recover, from the no-man's-land of the 'center ground'

Simply typing 'tony o'reilly' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings.

Sir Anthony O’Reilly is Chief Executive, Independent News & Media . He is also non-Executive Chairman of Waterford Wedgwood, and Chairman of Eircom plc.

In 1978 Sir Anthony was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate in Laws from Trinity College. In 2001, he was awarded a KBE for his Northern Ireland work. An example of this is his co-founding of 'The Ireland Funds', to support peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and community development in the island of Ireland .

The O'Reilly Foundation is another of his interests.

Simply typing 'professor richard dawkins' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings of his articles, speeches, affiliations, and associations.

Professor Richard Dawkins, is an ethnologist and popular science writer, best known for his 1976 book: The Selfish Gene, He is as an outspoken Atheist, Humanist and Bright.

Professor Richard Dawkins was an assistant professor of zoology at University of California, Berkeley, between 1967 and 1969. A lecturer in zoology at Oxford University, England. He was also a fellow of New College, from 1970 to 1990. Until 1995 he read zoology, and became the first Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.

In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.Professor Richard Dawkins has also won the International Cosmos Prize (Japan) for 1997, and the Kistler Prize (USA) for 2001. In 2005 the Hamburg, Germany, based Alfred Toepfer Stiftung awarded him their Shakespeare prize because his use of language masterfully explains complex scientific issues to laypeople. Professor Richard Dawkins is the first scientist ever to receive this prize, and holds honorary doctorates in literature and science.

Simply typing 'michael gove' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings of his articles, speeches, affiliations, and associations.

Michael Gove is Saturday Editor of, and a regular columnist for theTimes newspaper.

He is chairman of Policy Exchange, an independent right wing political think tank.

He read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and is married to the arts editor of The Times, Sarah Vine.

Michael Gove is a regular panellist on BBC Radio Four's "The Moral Maze" and has recently published an important new book :Celsius 7/7

Simply typing 'lieutenant-colonel. tim spicer' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings of his articles, speeches, affiliations, and associations.

Formerly of Sandline International, Lieutenant-Colonel.Tim Spicer now has developed a thriving business in private security

He recently won a multi-million pound contract to provide protection to those trying to rebuild the infrastructure of Iraq - contracts, reputedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars - but the job is a difficult one.

An illuminating article can be found on the BBC's website, as part of the 'Breakfast with Frost' show.
(The image of Lieutenant-Colonel.Tim Spicer is from this show).

And more up-to-date material can be found here.

Simply typing 'digby jones cbi' into a Google or MSN search, will bring up many listings of his articles, speeches, affiliations, and associations.

Sir Digby Jones became Director-General of the CBI on 01/01/2000, his term ending on 31/12/ 2006. He regularly visits and revisits businesses around the UK, and the CBI offices in Brussels and Washington DC.

Sir Digby Jones was born in Birmingham in 1955. He gained a 2:1 honours degree in law from University College, London, served in the Royal Navy, and began his legal career with Birmingham corporate law firm Edge & Ellison in 1978, making Partner in 1984.

In 1990 he was made Deputy Senior Partner, and Senior Partner in 1995. In 1998 he joined KPMG as Vice Chairman of Corporate Finance where he acted as close adviser to many public companies across the United Kingdom.