Washington DC is an international talent magnet, pulling in people from around the world to advance agendas for their home territories. With a milieu that’s about as multicultural as it gets, the District of Columbia is as much an immense reservoir of brainpower as a centre of political activity, and is still the place where the best and brightest go to formulate ideas and get decisions made. Monocle met some of those people on a recent trip to the American capital.