Speakers at the 42nd St. Gallen Symposium
Please note that this is not the final excerpt of speakers who will participate in the upcoming symposium. Thus, the list will be updated continuously.
Dr Josef Ackermann (CH)*
Chairman
Deutsche Bank AG
Frankfurt am Main
Yukiya Amano (JP)*
Director General
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Vienna
Michael Aymong (CA/US)*
Chief Executive Officer
WPC Financial Corp.
Vancouver
Rajiv Bajaj (IN)*
Managing Director
Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Pune
Dominic Barton (CA)*
Global Managing Director
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
London
Prof. Dr Ulrich Beck (DE)*
Institute of Sociology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Munich
Joseph S. Blatter (CH)*
President
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Zurich
Dr Nikolaus von Bomhard (DE)*
Chairman of the Board of Management
Munich Re
Munich
Dr Larry Brilliant (US)*
President
Skoll Global Threats Fund
San Francisco
Dr CAI Fang (CN)*
Director
Institute of Population and Labor Economics (IPLE), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Beijing
Dennis H. Chookaszian (US)*
Chairman
Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC)
Norwalk
David Cole (NL/US)*
Group Chief Risk Officer & Member of the Group Executive Committee
Swiss Re
Zurich
Prof. George S. Day (US)*
Goeffrey T. Boisi Professor
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
William C. Dudley (US)
President
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
New York
Sergio Ermotti (CH)
Group Chief Executive Officer
UBS AG
Zurich
Prof. Simon Evenett (GB)*
Director
Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research, University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen
Dr Shenggen FAN (CN)*
Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Washington D.C.
Douglas J. Flint (GB)*
Group Chairman
HSBC Holdings plc
London
Sanjiv Goenka (IN)*
Chairman
RP - Sanjiv Goenka Group
Kolkata
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (GB)*
Vice Chairman
Goldman Sachs International
London
Prof. Stuart L. Hart (US)*
S.C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise Professor of Management
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Ithaca
Dr Elina Hiltunen (FI)*
Futurist & Founder
What’s Next Consulting Oy
Helsinki
Prof. Dr Pervez A. Hoodbhoy (PK)
Visiting Professor, Department of Physics
LUMS School of Science & Engineering
Lahore
Dr Andreas Jacobs (DE)*
Chairman of the Board
Barry Callebaut AG
Zurich
Prof. Dr Daniel Kahnemann (IL/US)
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
Princeton
Walter Kielholz (CH)*
Chairman
Swiss Re
Zurich
Prof. Dr Georg F. von Krogh (NO)*
Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation
ETH Zurich
Zurich
Reinhard Lange (DE)*
Chief Executive Officer
Kühne + Nagel International AG
Schindellegi
Laurent Le Bon (FR)*
Director
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Metz
Dr Arthur D. Levinson (US)
Chairman
Apple Inc.
Cupertino
Trevor A. Manuel (ZA)*
Minister in the Presidency & Head of the National Planning Commission of the Republic of South Africa
Pretoria
Ueli Maurer (CH)*
Vice President of the Swiss Confederation
Berne
Marc C. Medish (DK/US)*
President
Guggenheim International
Washington D.C.
Dr MENG Zhaoyi (CN)*
Chairman of the Board
Taiping Reinsurance Co. Ltd.
Hong Kong
Hiroshi Mikitani (JP)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Rakuten Inc.
Tokyo
Wolfgang Münchau (DE)*
Co-Founder & President
Eurointelligence ASBL
Brussels
Simon Murray (GB)*
Founder
Simon Murray & Company
Hong Kong
Kumi Naidoo (ZA)*
Executive Director
Greenpeace International
Amsterdam
Patrick J. Natale (US)*
Executive Director
American Society of Civil Engineers
Reston
Prof. Dr. Peter Nobel (CH)*
Partner
Nobel & Hug Rechtsanwälte
Zurich
Yukiko Omura (JP)*
Vice President
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Rome
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri (IN)
Chairman
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
New Delhi
John L. Petersen (US)*
President & Founder
The Arlington Institute
Berkeley Springs
Sachin Pilot (IN)
Minister of State for Communication & Information Technology
Government of India
New Delhi
Dr Surin Pitsuwan (ID)
Secretary General
Association of SE Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Jakarta
Shaikh Sultan Saud Al-Qassemi (AE)*
Arab Affairs Commentator
Sharjah
Erik Rasmussen (DK)*
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mandag Morgen
Copenhagen
Dr Olli Rehn (FI)
Vice-President of the European Commision
Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro
Brussels
Dev Sanyal (IN)*
Executive Vice President & Group Chief of Staff
BP plc
London
Peer M. Schatz (AT/CH)*
Chief Executive Officer
Qiagen GmbH
Hilden
Dr Severin Schwan (AT)*
Chief Executive Officer
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Basel
Tomáš Sedlácek (CZ)*
Chief Macroeconomic Strategist
Ceskoslovenská obchodní banka, a.s. (CSOB)
Prague
Prof. Dr Peter Sloterdijk (DE)
Director & Professor for Philosophy and Aesthetics
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Karlsruhe
Yngve Slyngstad (NO)*
Chief Executive Officer
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)
Oslo
Prof. Didier Sornette (FR)*
Professor for Entrepreneurial Risks
ETH Zurich
Zurich
Peer Steinbrück (DE)
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Berlin
Richard Sulik (SK)*
Member & Former Speaker of the
National Council of the Slovak Republic
Bratislava
John Tan (SG)*
Chief Executive Officer
Asian Capital Reinsurance Group Pte Ltd.
Singapore
Sir David Tang (HK)*
Chairman
D.W.C. Tang Development Ltd.
Hong Kong
Martin Taylor (GB)*
Chairman
Syngenta International AG
Basel
Paul Taylor (GB)*
Chief Executive Officer (design.)
Fitch Ratings
New York
Gautam Thapar (IN)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Avantha Group
New Delhi
Jean-Claude Trichet (FR)*
Gouverneur Honoraire
Banque de France
Paris
Gita Wirjawan (ID)
Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia
Jakarta
Dr Peter Wuffli (CH)*
Chairman
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
Zurich
Dr ZHU Yunlai (CN)
President & Chief Executive Officer
China International Capital Corporation Limited (CCIC)
Beijing
*confirmed