Acknowledged Thought Leaders?

Tony Abbott has been confirmed as an Adviser to the Board of Trade. The others are:

Karen Betts, "UK's No.1 Permanent Makeup Professional", unless there is another one of either; 

Anne Boden MBE, "founder and CEO of Starling Bank, a UK mobile-only bank";

Daniel Hannan, an Irish-Peruvian whose parents decided that if they bought him an expensive enough education, then he might end up running Britain, a country that he cannot forgive for loving the NHS and for never having heard of his favourite obscure Whigs from the eighteenth century;

Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, who used to tell speakers at Labour Party Conferences, "Do not use the word "equality"; the preferred term is "fairness"." She it was, a mere Press Officer, who, in a sign of things to come, was not told where to get off for having presumed so to instruct her betters. She went on to help found the Institute for Public Policy Research, and then, soon after Tony Blair became Leader, to become Head of Research at Andersen Consulting, a position for which she had no apparent qualification beyond her closeness to the Prime Minister in Waiting. In 1997, she entered Parliament, he entered Downing Street, the Labour commitment to regulate such companies was dropped, and so was the previous Conservative Government's absolute ban on all work for Andersen in view of its role in the DeLorean fraud. Andersen paid just over £21 million of the £200 million that Thatcher and Major had demanded, barely covering the Government's legal costs. It went on to write, among other things, a report claiming that the Private Finance Initiative was good value for money, the only report on the subject that the Blair Government ever cited, since the only one to say that ridiculous thing. As Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Hewitt tried to give auditors limited liability. It took the Conservative Opposition and the Bush Administration to see her off; 

Emma Howard Boyd, "Chair of the Environment Agency, UK Commissioner for Global Commission on Adaptation, keen cyclist"; 

Michael Liebreich, "an acknowledged thought leader on clean energy, mobility, technology, climate, sustainability and finance";

Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of the City of London, William Russell, there in the same capacity as the Remembrancer; and 

Dr Linda Yueh, the only economist on the list.