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

Global Capitalism – Local Values

Speakers of the 33rd St. Gallen Symposium
Carlos Abad Rico
General Manager
Sogecable, S.A.
Madrid

Jens Alder
Chief Executive Officer
Swisscom AG
Berne

Toru Arakawa
President and Chief Executive Officer
ACCESS CO., LTD
Tokyo

Heinz Bachmann
Chairman
Swiss Textile Machinery Association
Swissmem
Zurich

Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz
President
National Bank of Poland
Warsaw

Dr. Martin Bartenstein
Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Labour
Republic of Austria
Vienna

Dr. Erich Becker
Chairman of the Managing Board and Chief Executive Officer
VA Technologie Aktiengesellschaft
Vienna

Hans Martin Buhlmann
Chief Executive Officer
VIP
Bonn

Toon Bullens
Managing Director
Interpolis Re
Tilburg

P. Chidambaram
Senior Advocate
Former Minister of Finance
Republic of India
New Delhi

Fujio Cho
President
Toyota Motor Corporation
Tokyo

Victor L.L. Chu
Chairman
First Eastern Investment Group
Hong Kong

Peter Day
Business Correspondent
BBC News
London

Dr. Hebert Demel
President and Chief Executive Officer
Magna Steyr AG
Oberwaltersdorf

Tim Dickson
Executive Director
European Business Forum
London

Dr. Vlado Dimovski
Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs
Republic of Slovenia
Ljubljana

Prof. Dr. Manfred Fassler
Founder and Partner
CCID Center for Media, Knowledge Cultures, Imagination and Development at the J. W. Goethe-University
Frankfurt (Main)

Hidetoshi Fujisawa
Executive Correspondent
NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Tokyo

Joseph B. Fuller
Chief Executive Officer
Monitor Group
Cambridge

John Fund
Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
New York

Ulrich Graf
President and Chief Executive Officer
Kaba Holding AG
Rümlang

Walter Gränicher
President
Alstom Power Service Sector
Baden

Stephen K. Green
Group Chief Executive Officer des.
HSBC Holdings plc
London

Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach
Vice Chairman
Goldman Sachs International
London

Cyrill Gutsch
Founder and Partner
CCID Center for Media, Knowledge Cultures, Imagination and Development at the J. W. Goethe-University
Frankfurt (Main)

Prof. Dr. HAN Seung-soo
Former President of the General Assembly, United Nations
Member of the National Assembly
Republic of Korea
Seoul

Roland Hartung
Chief Executive Officer
MVV Energie AG
Mannheim

Dr. Franz B. Humer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Basel

David Ignatius
Associate Editor
The Washington Post
Paris

Joichi Ito
President and Chief Executive Officer
Neoteny Co., Ltd.
Tokyo

Prof. J. Carlos Jarillo
Professor of Corporate Strategy
HEC, University of Geneva
Geneva

Dr. Tomihisa Kamada
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
ACCESS CO., LTD
Tokyo

Prof. Dr. Gebhard Kirchgässner
Director
Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research
University of St. Gallen

Prof. Dr. Rolf Krebs
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
Ingelheim am Rhein

Christine Lagarde
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Baker & McKenzie
Chicago

Dr. Urs Landolf
Managing Partner, Corporate Tax
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG
Zurich

Dr. David Lindley
Chairman
Ocean Power Delivery Ltd
Edinburgh

Leslie Maasdorp
International Advisor
Goldman Sachs International
Sandton

MAH Bow Tan
Minister for National Development
Republic of Singapore

Jianhe Mao
Managing Director
Unipec GmbH
St. Gallen

Dr. Stefan Marcinowski
Member of the Board of Executive Directors
BASF Corporation
Ludwigshafen

Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge
Group Chairman
British Airways Plc
Middlesex

Dr.oec.HSG Kai H. Matthiesen
Metaplan GmbH

Yves Mersch
Governor
Banque centrale du Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Ruth Metzler-Arnold
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police
Swiss Confederation
Berne

Christopher Meyer
Vice President and Director
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation
Cambridge

S. B. Mittal
Chairman and Group Managing Director
Bharti Enterprises
New Delhi

Charles Moore
Editor
The Daily Telegraph
London

Prof. Dr. Günther Müller-Stewens
Director
IfB Institute of Management
University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen

Marcel L. Ospel
Chairman
UBS AG
Zurich

Hisashi Owada
Member of the Court
International Court of Justice
The Hague

Pierre L. Ozendo
Member of the Executive Board
Chief Executive, Asia Division
Swiss Reinsurance Company
Hong Kong

Dr. Helmut Panke
Chairman of the Board of Management
BMW
Bayerische Motorenwerke AG
Munich

Dr. Wolfgang Petritsch
Former High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations
Geneva

Roland Pfeuti
Senior Portfolio Manager Energy
SAM Sustainable Asset Management
Zurich

Dr. Surin Pitsuwan
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Kingdom of Thailand
Bangkok

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

Dr. Richard W. Rahn
Chairman
Institute for Global Economic Growth
Arlington

Prof. Martin Riesebrodt
Associate Professor of Sociology and in the Divinity School
University of Chicago
Chicago

David Robinson
Deputy Director
Research Department
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Washington

Prof. Winfried Ruigrok
Director
Research Institute for International Management
University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen

Dr. Balaji Sadasivan
Minister of State for Health and the Environment
Republic of Singapore

Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner
Vice Chair Emerita
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
New York

James J. Schiro
Chief Executive Officer
Zurich Financial Services
Zurich

Peter Schwartz
Chairman
Global Business Network
Emeryville

N.K. Singh
Member
Planning Commission - Government of India
New Delhi

Gabriella Stern
Senior Editor, EMEA
Dow Jones Newswires
London

Joel Stern
Managing Partner
Stern Stewart & Co.
New York

Dr. Richard Suzman
Associate Director
National Institute on Aging
Bethesda

Ratan N. Tata
Chairman
Tata Sons Limited
Mumbai

Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi
Professor for International Relations
Georg-August-University of Göttingen
Göttingen

Zdenek Tuma
Governor
Czech National Bank
Prague

Dr. Drasko Veselinovic
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ljubljana Stock Exchange
Ljubljana

Prof. F. Margarethe Wiersema
Professor of Strategic Management
Graduate School of Management
University of California
Irvine

Dr. Daniel Woker
Ambassador of Switzerland to Republic of Singapore

Dr. Rolf Wüstenhagen
Vice Director
Institute for Economy and the Environment
University of St. Gallen
St. Gallen