Speakers and contributors 2011-2018 (extract)
Business
- Paul M. Achleitner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
- Frank Appel, CEO, Deutsche Post DHL
- Simone Bagel-Trah, Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
- Thomas Buberl, CEO, AXA Group
- Olaf Coenen, Vice President European Publishing, Electronic Arts
- Marijn Dekkers, CEO, Bayer AG
- Volkmar Denner, CEO, Robert Bosch GmbH
- Yuval Dvir, Head of EMEA Online Partnerships, Google Cloud
- Nick Earle, SVP Global Field Operations, Hyperloop One Inc.
- Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS N.V. Netherlands
- David Eyton, Head of Technology, BP p.l.c.
- Tina Fordham, Managing Director, Citigroup & Chief Global Political Analyst
- Heinrich Hiesinger, CEO, ThyssenKrupp AG
- Timotheus Höttges, CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG
- Stéphane Israël, Chairman and CEO, Arianespace SA
- Joe Kaeser, CEO, Siemens AG
- Alex Karp, CEO, Palantir Technologies
- Jean Lemierre, Advisor to the Chairman, BNP Paribas
- Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd.
- Ingo Neubert, Member of the Board, ZAO Achimgaz
- Stefan Oschmann, CEO, Merck KGaA
- Paolo Poma, CFO, Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
- Thomas Rabe, CEO, Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
- Ulf Schneider, CEO, Fresenius SE & Co.
- Lars Rebien Soerensen, President & CEO, Novo Nordisk A/S
- Carsten Spohr, CEO, Lufthansa AG
- Johannes Teyssen, CEO, E.ON AG
- Franck Tuil, Portfolio Manager, Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd.
- Philippe Varin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, AREVA SE
- Dieter Zetsche, CEO, Daimler AG
Politics
- Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister of Economics and Energy, Germany
- Dora Bakoyannis, MP, former Secretary of State, Greece
- Leszek Balcerowicz, former Minister of Finance, Poland, former President of the National Bank of Poland
- Riccardo Barbieri Hermitte, Director Economic and Financial Analysis, Ministry of Economy and Finance
- Elmar Brok, MEP, Speaker of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Udo Bullmann, MEP, Chairman of Socialist Group, European Parliament
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-Chair, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, European Parliament
- Thomas de Maizière, Federal Minister of the Interior
- John B. Emerson, US-Ambassador to Germany
- Sally Gimson, Labour Party Councillor, London Borough of Camden
- Joseph Krulic, Judge and Member of the Cour Nationale du Droit d‘Asile
- David Lidington MP, Minister of State for Europe
- Lord Peter Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Council
- Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, German Ambassador to France
- Mario Monti, former Prime Minister of Italy, President of the Luigi Bocconi University
- Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland
- Andrea Nahles, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
- Angelika Nußberger, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
- Günther Oettinger, EU-Commissioner
- Dimitri Papadimitriou, Minister for the Economy, Hellenic Republic
- Wolfgang Schäuble, Federal Minister of Finance
- SHI, Mingde, Ambassador of the Peoples Republic of China
- Olaf Scholz, Governor of the State of Hamburg
- Reinhard Silberberg, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union, Brussels
- Mehmet Şimşek, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
- Engin Soysal, Undersecretary, Ministry for European Union Affairs, Turkey
- Guy Verhofstadt, MdEP, Chairman of ALDE, Former Prime Minister of Belgium
- Ursula von der Leyen, Federal Minister of Defence
- Selim Yenel, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of Turkey to the EU
- Manfred Weber, MEP, Chair, Group of the European People's Party
- Klaus Welle, Secretary General, European Parliament, Brussels
- David Willets, MP, Minister of State for Europe, United Kingdom
- Sir Sebastian Wood, H.M. Ambassador, United Kingdom
Federal Offices, State-Institutions, Society, Science and Academia, etc.
- Dyab Abou Jahjah, Political Activist, Journalist and Writer, former Leader of the Arab European League
- Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Conduct Authority, Bank of England
- Don Brind, Journalist and Member of the Labour Movement for Europe
- Paul Drechsler, President, Chamber of British Industry, and Chairman, Bibby Line Group
- Giuseppe Farina, Secretary General, Federazione Italiana Metalmeccanici (FIM-CISL)
- Dr. Georg Gänswein, Archbishop, Prefect of the Papal House
- Pierre Gattaz, Président, MEDEF
- José Luis Gómez, Director, Theater Abadía Madrid
- Monika Harms, former Federal Attorney General
- Christopher Hein, Speaker and Strategic Advisor to the Italian Refugee Council (CIR)
- Jörg Hofmann, Chairman, Federal Trade Union of Metal Industry
- Cecilie Hollberg, Director, Galleria dell’ Accademia, Florenz
- Johannes Laitenberger, Director General, Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission
- Maurizio Landini, Secretary General, Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici (FIOM-CGIL)
- Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
- Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President, Goethe-Institute
- Ludwig Leinhos, First Inspector, Cyber- und Information Space of the Bundeswehr
- Dimitrios Mallios, Director of the Border Protection Division at the Hellenic Police Headquarter and Member of the Frontex Management Board
- Julia Middleton, Founder and CEO, Common Purpose Charitable Trust European Reform
- Xavier Niel, Founder and President of école 42
- Danièle Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the SSM, ECB
- Felix Pirson, Director, German Archaeological Institute (Istanbul)
- José Ángel Sánchez, CEO, Real Madrid
- Peter Schaar, Federal German Data Protection Commissioner
- Sir John Scarlett, former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service
- Detlef Scheele, CEO, Federal Labour Office
- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Research
- Jerzy Stępień, former President of the Polish Constitutional Court
- Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı, Ankara Office Director, German Marshall Fund of the United States
- Michael Vassiliadis, Chairman, Federal Trade Union of Chemical Industry
- François Villeroy de Galhau, Gouvernor, Banque de France
- Andreas Voßkuhle, President, Federal Constitutional Court
- Susanne Wasum-Rainer, German Ambassador to Italy/France
- Michael Werz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, Washington
- Hans-Werner Wiermann, German Military Representative to the NATO and the EU
- Peer Zumbansen, LL.M.(Harv.), Director, Transnational Law Institute, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London