The 38th St. Gallen Symposium
University of St. Gallen
Switzerland
15–17 May 2008

Global Capitalism – Local Values

Speakers of the 35th St. Gallen Symposium
Dr. Asfa-Wossen Asserate
Consultant for African and
Middle Eastern Affairs
Frankfurt-on-Main

Paul S. Atkins
Commissioner
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington

Dr. Claude Béglé
Chief Executive Officer
GeoPost International Management & Development Holding GmbH
Paris

Thomas Bergen
Chief Executive Officer
getAbstract AG
Lucerne

Pierre Bessard
Political Editor
L'Agefi
Berne

Prof. Dr. Mathias Binswanger
Professor of Economics
University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzeland
Olten

Matthew Richard Bishop
Business Editor
The Economist
London

Dr. Taddy Blecher
Chief Executive Officer
CIDA City Campus
Johannesburg

John Coomber
Chief Executive Officer
Swiss Re
Zurich

Peter Day
Business Correspondent
BBC News
London

Sheila Dikshit
Chief Minister
Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi
New Delhi

Franz Fehrenbach
Chairman of the Board of Management
Robert Bosch GmbH
Stuttgart

Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach
Vice Chairman
Goldman Sachs International
London

Dr. Ulrich Gygi
Chief Executive Officer
Swiss Post
Berne

Pentti Hakkarainen
Member of the Board
Bank of Finland
Helsinki

Jouni Hartikainen
President and Chief Executive Officer
Elcoteq Network Corporation
Helsinki

Dr. Noreena Hertz
Professor of Global Political Economy
University of Utrecht
Utrecht

Dr. Philipp Hildebrand
Member of the Governing Board
Swiss National Bank
Zurich

Regine Hohnsbein
Director Handhelds and Mobility EMEA
Hewlett-Packard EMEA GmbH
Personal Systems Group
Dornach

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Secretary General
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Brussels

HU Shuli
Editor
Business & Finance Review
Beijing

Dr. Konrad Hummler
Managing Partner
Wegelin & Co. Private Bankers
St. Gallen

Dr. Erich Hunziker
Deputy Head of the Corporate Executive Committee
and Chief Financial Officer
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Basle

Prof. Dr. Kuniko Inoguchi
Professor of Political Science
Sophia University
Former Permanent Representative and
Ambassador of Japan to
the Conference on Disarmament
Tokyo

Martin Jahn
Vice Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of
the Czech Republic
Praha

Dr. Eugen von Keller
President Asia
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Shanghai

Prof. Gilbert Khadiagala
Associate Professor of African Studies and Comparative Politics
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
Washington

Michael Kubena
Country Senior Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Moscow

André Kudelski
President and Chief Executive Officer
Kudelski Group
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne

Kazumasa Kusaka
Vice Minister for
International Affairs of Japan
Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI)
Tokyo

Barbara Kux
Chief Procurement Officer and
Member of the Group Management Committee
Philips Electronics N.V.
Eindhoven

Christine Lagarde
Chairman of the Policy Committee
Baker & McKenzie
Chicago

Dr. Gerd Leipold
International Executive Director
Greenpeace
Amsterdam

Moritz Leuenberger
Federal Councillor and
Head of the Federal Department of
Environment, Transport, Energy and
Communication
Berne

Thomas Limberger
Chief Executive Officer
GE Europe GmbH
Munich

Prof. Dr. Heribert Meffert
Chairman of the Executive Board
Bertelsmann Foundation
Gütersloh

Dr. Armin Meyer
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc.
Basle

Dr. Daniel J. Mitchell
Senior Fellow
The Heritage Foundation
Washington

Zembei Mizoguchi
President
Japan Center of International Finance
Tokyo

Prof. Dr. Ernst Mohr
President
University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen

Thierry Moulonguet
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Renault S.A.
Boulogne Billancourt

Carolina Müller-Möhl
Chairman
Müller-Möhl Group
Zurich

Yoji Ohashi
Chairman of the Board
All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.
Tokyo

Terje Osmundsen
Chief Editor
Mandag Morgen Norge AS
Oslo

Dr. Bernd Pischetsrieder
Chairman of the Board of Management
Volkswagen AG
Wolfsburg

Prof. Dr. Gilbert J.B. Probst
Director MBA
University of Geneva
Geneva

Dr. Lutz R. Raettig
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Morgan Stanley Bank AG
Frankfurt-on-Main

Dr. Klaus Rauscher
Senior Executive Vice President
Vattenfall AB
Berlin

Kai-Uwe Ricke
Chairman of the Board of Management
Deutsche Telekom AG
Bonn

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger von Rosen
Managing Director
Deutsches Aktieninstitut e.V.
Frankfurt

Hans-Jörg Rudloff
Chairman
Barclays Capital
London

Toshiyuki Sato
Director General
International Planning & Broadcasting Department
NHK Japan Broadcasting Corp.
Tokyo

Urs Schöttli
Foreign Correspondent for China
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Tokyo

Prof. Dr. Hellmut Schütte
Dean of Asia Campus
INSEAD
Singapore

Gary Steel
Head of Human Resources and Member
of the Group Executive Committee
ABB Ltd.
Zurich

Prof. Dr. Dieter Thomä
Professor of Philosophy
University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen

Phiroz Vandrevala
Executive Vice President
Tata Consultancy Services
New Delhi

Wolfgang Wagner
Chairman and Senior Partner Continental Europe
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Berlin

Hiroshi Watanabe
Vice Minister of Finance of Japan
Tokyo

Christian Wenaweser
Permanent Representative of the Principality
of Liechtenstein to the United Nations
New York

Martin Wolf
Associate Editor and
Chief Economics Commentator
The Financial Times
London

Siegfried Wolf
Chief Executive Officer
MAGNA International Inc.
Oberwaltersdorf

Dr. Peter A. Wuffli
President of the Group Executive Board and
Group Chief Executive Officer
UBS AG
Zurich

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