High profile speakers at the School during 2009/10 included:
- Lionel Barber, editor, the Financial Times
- Lakhdar Brahimi, veteran United Nations Envoy
- The Lord Browne of Madingley, former group chief executive BP, MD and managing partner, Riverstone Holdings
- Roger Carr, outgoing chairman, Cadbury
- Sir William Castell, chairman, the Wellcome Trust
- Ann Cotton, Executive Director, Camfed International
- Lord Drayson, then Minister for Science and Innovation, UK government
- Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt, Stanford University
- Paul Farmer, Co-Founder, Partners In Health
- Bob Goodson, CEO and co-founder, YouNoodle
- Duncan Ingram, director, BT's London 2012 Olympic programme
- Reid Hoffman, CEO and co-founder, LinkedIn
- Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive, Tesco
- Lord Mandelson, then Business Secretary, UK government
- Miles Morland, founder and chairman, Blakeney Management, founding partner, Development Partners International
- Kim Polese, CEO, SpikeSource
- Sir Michael Rake, chairman, BT
- Hector Sants, outgoing CEO, Financial Services Authority
- Dr Paolo Scaroni, CEO, Eni
- John W Snow, 73rd US Treasury Secretary, chairman, Cerberus Capital Management
- Ram Shriram, founding board member, Google, founder, Sherpalo Ventures
- Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman, Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, and Skoll Global Threats Fund
- Biz Stone, co-founder, Twitter
- Peter Thiel, co-founder, Paypal, president, Clarium Capital Management
- Terry Vega, chairwoman, Ariesco, chairman, Cambridge Broadband Networks