Speakers of the 40th St. Gallen Symposium
Dr. Josef Ackermann (CH)*
Chairman of the Management Board
Deutsche Bank AG
Frankfurt
Dominic Barton (CA)*
Managing Director
McKinsey & Company
London
Ümit Boyner (TR)*
President of the Board of Directors
Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSIAD)
Istanbul
Paul Bulcke (BE)*
Chief Executive Officer
Nestlé S.A.
Vevey
Bülent Çelebi (US)*
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
AirTies
Istanbul
Dinesh Dhamija (GB)*
Founder & Chairman
Copper Beech Group
Bucharest
Prof. Niall Ferguson (GB)*
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History
Harvard University
Cambridge
Shane Frith (GB)*
Director
Progressive Vision
London
Prof. Dr. Urs Fueglistaller (CH)*
Director
KMU-HSG
St. Gallen
M. Shafik Gabr (EG)*
Chairman & Managing Director
ARTOC Group for Investment and Development
Cairo
Dr. Victor Zhikai GAO (CN)*
Executive Director
China National Association of International Studies
Beijing
Jean-Daniel Gerber (CH)*
State Secretary & Director
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO)
Berne
Jason George (US)*
Associate
McKinsey & Company
Chicago
(Leader of Tomorrow)
Prof. Lord Anthony Giddens (GB)*
Professor Emeritus
London School of Economics and Political Science
London
Sanjiv Goenka (IN)*
Vice Chairman
RPG Entreprises
Kolkata
Suhas Gopinath (IN)*
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board
Globals Inc.
Bangalore
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (GB)*
Vice Chairman
Goldman Sachs International
London
Wolfgang Grupp (DE)*
Owner & Chief Executive Officer
TRIGEMA GmbH & Co. KG
Burladingen
Felix Haas (DE)*
Chief Executive Officer
amiando AG
Munich
Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht (DE)*
Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors
BASF SE
Ludwigshafen
Dr. Andreas Jacobs (DE)*
Chairman of the Board
Barry Callebaut AG
Zurich
Amir Kassaei (AT)*
Chief Creative Officer
Doyle Dane Bernbach Group GmbH
Berlin
Mati Kochavi (IL)*
Chairman
AGT International
New York
Christian von Koenigsegg (SE)*
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Koenigsegg Automotive AB
Ängelholm
John Kornblum (US)*
Former United States Ambassador to Germany
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Georg F. von Krogh (NO)*
Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation
ETH Zurich
Zurich
Christine Lagarde (FR)*
Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment of France
Paris
Judy Leissner (CN)*
Chief Executive Officer
Grace Vineyard
Hong Kong
Jorge Paulo Lemann (BR)*
Member of the Board of Directors
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Brazil
Doris Leuthard (CH)*
President of the Swiss Confederation
Berne
Morten Lund (DK)*
Entrepreneur
Copenhagen
Prof. Kishore Mahbubani (SG)*
Dean & Professor in the Practice of Public Policy
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Singapore
Herman Mashaba (ZA)*
Executive Chairman
Lephatsi Investments (Pty) Ltd.
Sandton
Mark C. Medish (DK/US)*
Visiting Scholar, Senior Adviser
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington
Hiroshi Mikitani (JP)*
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Rakuten Inc.
Tokyo
Dr. Ebenezer Mireku (GH)*
Managing Director
Peatrak Ltd.
Accra
Angad Paul (GB)*
Chief Executive Officer
Caparo plc
London
Robert Peugeot (FR)*
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Société Foncière Financière et de Participations – FFP
Paris
Simon de Pury (CH)*
Chairman
Phillips de Pury & Company
New York
Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi (AE)*
Minister of Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Faisel Rahman (GB)*
Founder & Managing Director
Fair Finance
London
William H. Saito (JP/US)*
Advisor for Start-ups
Innovation Center for Start-ups (INCS), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Tokyo
Samih Sawiris (EG)*
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Orascom Development Holding AG
Altdorf
Joachim Schoss (DE)*
Board President
MyHandicap.com
Zurich
Hendy Setiono (ID)*
Founder and President Director
Baba Rafi Indonesia
Surabaya
Leslie Silverglide (US)*
Co-Founder
Mixt Greens, Inc.
San Francisco
Ron Stamp (CA)*
President
Iceberg Canada Corporation
Saint-Hubert
Olaf Storbeck (DE)*
International Economics Correspondent
Handelsblatt
London
Gautam Thapar (IN)*
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Avantha Group
New Delhi
Kaspar Villiger (CH)*
Chairman
UBS AG
Zurich
Peter R. Voser (CH)*
Chief Executive Officer
Royal Dutch Shell plc.
The Hague
Dr. Notker Wolf (DE)*
Abbot Primate of the Order of Saint Benedict
Rome