Former US president George W. Bush will be a keynote speaker at the HT Leadership Summit, an annual high profile do which will take place this year 30-31 October, sources at the company said.

Other speakers include Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Afghan politician Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Inc.‘s India-born global sales boss Nikesh Arora (who is also an independent director on the board of Bharti Airtel), cricketers Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri as well as actors Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

HT Media’s annual Leadership Summit was first held in 2003.