Speakers of the 37th St. Gallen Symposium
Markus Akermann
Chief Executive Officer
Holcim Ltd.
Zurich
Prof. Sadik J. Al-Azm
Professor emeritus for
Modern European Philosophy
Damascus University
Damascus
Prof. Gary S. Becker
University Professor, Departments of Economics and
Sociology & Professor, Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
Chicago
Sarthak Behuria
Chairman
Indian Oil Corporation Limited
New Delhi
Dr. Nikolaus von Bomhard
Chairman of the Board of Management
Munich Re Group
Munich
Marcel Brenninkmeijer
Chief Executive Officer
Good Energies Inc.
Zug
CAI Shiyin
Chief Technology Officer, Asia-Pacific
General Electric Infrastructure China
Shanghai
Fujio Cho
Chairman
Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota City
Prof. Dr. Georges Antoine Corm
Former Minister of Finance of Lebanon
Beirut
Mick Davis
Chief Executive Officer
Xstrata plc
London
Peter Day
Business Correspondent
BBC News
London
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
PricewaterhouseCoopers
New York
Prof. Robert H. Frank
H.J. Louis Professor of Management &
Professor of Economics
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University
Ithaca
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach
Vice Chairman
Goldman Sachs International
London
Mohamed Hamel
Head, Energy Studies Department
Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC)
Vienna
Prof. W. Michael Hanemann
Chancellor's Professor, Department
of Agricultural & Resource Economics
and Goldman School of Public Policy
Director, California Climate Change Center
University of California
Berkeley
Michael Hilti
Member of the Board of Directors
HILTI AG
Schaan
Annemarie Huber-Hotz
Federal Chancellor of Switzerland
Berne
Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter
Chief Executive Officer
Forma Futura Invest AG
Zurich
Yoshinori Imai
Executive Editor, Program Host
NHK Japan Broadcasting Corp.
Tokyo
Dr. Tariqullah Khan
Senior Economist and Chief, Islamic Banking and Finance
Division
Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI)
Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
Jeddah
Dr. Seyed Mohammad Khatami
Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Teheran
Fred Kindle
President & Chief Executive Officer
ABB Group
Zurich
Toshiaki Kitamura
Vice Minister for International Affairs
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
of Japan
Tokyo
Dr. Karl-Ulrich Köhler
Executive Board Chairman
of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
and Executive Board Member
of ThyssenKrupp AG
Duisburg
Thomas Krupke
Chief Executive Officer
Solon AG für Solartechnik
Berlin
Prof. Kiyoshi Kurokawa
Special Advisor to the Cabinet for Science,
Technology and Innovation
Government of Japan
Tokyo
Vladimir Victorovich Kuznetsov
Chief Investment Officer
Renova Management AG
Dr. Christoph Leitl
President
Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
Vienna
Dr. Colette Lewiner
Executive Vice President and Global Leader
of the Sector Energy, Utilities and Chemicals
CapGemini
Paris
Thomas Leysen
Chief Executive Officer
N.V. Umicore S.A.
Brussels
Prof. LI Junfeng
Deputy Director General
Energy Research Institute (ERI)
National Development and Reform Commission
of the People’s Republic of China
Beijing
Leslie Maasdorp
Vice Chairman
Barclays Capital and Absa Capital
Johannesburg
Marwan Masri
Vice President, Research
Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI)
Calgary
Mark C. Medish
Vice President for Studies – Russia, China, and Eurasia
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington
Julius Meinl
Chairman of the Management Board
Meinl Bank Aktiengesellschaft
Vienna
Paolo Monferino
Chief Executive Officer
Iveco SpA
Turin
B. Muthuraman
Managing Director
Tata Steel Limited
Mumbai
Hartmut Ostrowski
Member of the Board of Management
Bertelsmann AG
Chief Executive Officer
arvato AG
Guetersloh
Prof. Dr. Gilbert J.B. Probst
Director MBA
University of Geneva
Geneva
Sheika Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi
Minister of Economy and Planning
of the United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Dr. Martin Roman
Chief Executive Officer
CEZ a.s.
Prague
Naguib Sawiris
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.
Cairo
Thomas Scheiwiller
Partner, Global Sustainability Leader
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG
Zurich
Urs W. Schöttli
Foreign Correspondent for China
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Tokyo
Lars Rebien Sørensen
President & Chief Executive Officer
Novo Nordisk A/S
Bagsværd
Dr. Brian W. Tempest
Chief Mentor & Executive Vice Chairman
of the Board
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.
New Delhi
Prof. Dr. Dieter Thomä
Professor of Philosophy
University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen
Dr. Hiroshi Tomono
Representative Director & President
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
Tokyo
Andreas Treichl
Chairman of the Managing Board &
Chief Executive Officer
Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG
Vienna
Tomio Tsutsumi
Member of the Board
Mitsubishi Corporation
Tokyo
Jeroen van der Veer
Chief Executive
Royal Dutch Shell plc
The Hague
Wolfgang Wagner
Senior Partner and Chief Executive Officer
PricewaterhouseCoopers Eurofirms
Berlin
Hiroshi Watanabe
Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs
of Japan
Tokyo
Martin Wolf
Associate Editor &
Chief Economics Commentator
The Financial Times
London
Dr. Rolf Wüstenhagen
Vice Director
Institute for Economy and the Environment
University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen
Prof. John Z. Yang
U.S. Dean
Beijing International MBA at Peking University
China Center for Economic Research
Peking University
Beijing
Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Zakzouk
Minister for Endowments and Religious Affairs &
President of the Supreme Council
for Islamic Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Cairo