Global Solutions 2019: Speakers
Below you can find a selection of speakers attending the Global Solutions Summit 2019. A detailed overview of speakers and sessions can be found in the program overview.
ANGELA MERKEL
Federal Chancellor of Germany
FRANS TIMMERMANS
First Vice President, EU Commission
PETER BOFINGER
Professor, International and Monetary Economics, University Wuerzburg
ALEXANDER BONDE
Secretary General, German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
CHAD BOWN
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
COLIN BRADFORD
Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution
ERIC BEINHOCKER
Executive Director, Institute for New Thinking (INET)
MARGARITA BENEKE DE SANFELIO
Director, Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES)
CHRISTOPH BENN
Director, Global Health Finance Diplomacy, Joep Lange Institute (JLI)
AMANDA BENNETT
Director, Voice of America (VOA)
AMAR BHATTACHARYA
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution
FATOUMATA BA
Founder & CEO, Janngo
PETER BAKKER
President & CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
KATARINA BARLEY
German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection
MONIKA BECK
Member of Management Board, Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG)
CHRISTOPH BEIER
Vice Chair of the Management Board, GIZ
FAHAD ALMUBARAK
Secretary General G20 Saudi Secretariat; G20 Sherpa Saudi Arabia
NIELS ANNEN
German Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office
ANGUS ARMSTRONG
Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
DEEPAK ASHWANI
Founder, Sarvahit & Dazin
RONNIE CHAN
Chairman, Hang Lung Group
HELA CHEIKHROUHOU
Chairman & CEO, Nithio
BARBARA CHESIRE-CHABBAGA
Co-Founder, CoverApp
NICOLAS BUCHOUD
Founding Principal, Renaissance Urbaine
MAYRA BUVINIC
Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation
PAUL COLLIER
Professor, Economics & Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
IGNACIO SAIZ
Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
EDWARD WHITING
Director, Wellcome Trust
ELLEN EHMKE
Analyst, Social Inequality, Oxfam Germany
VALDIS DOMBROVSKIS
Vice-President, European Commission
SEBASTIAN SCHIENLE
Program Manager, Benckiser Foundation
DAVID SLOAN WILSON
Professor, Biology & Anthropology, Birmingham University
SABINA DEWAN
President & Executive Director, Just Jobs Network
MALU DREYER
Minister-President, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
OLAF SCHOLZ
German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance
GALA DÍAZ LANGOU
Social Protection Director, CIPPEC
THOMAS FERGUSON
Director of Research, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
PEDRO VILLAGRA DELGADO
Sherpa for Argentine at the G20
ULRICH STÖRK
Chairman of the Management Board & Senior Partner, PwC Germany
CECILIA UGAZ ESTRADA
Director, Department of Policy Research and Statistics, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
GABRIEL FELBERMAYR
President Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
HENRIK ENDERLEIN
President, Hertie School of Governance & Host of the GSI Secretariat
PAOLA SUBACCHI
Founding Director, Essential Economics
NAOYUKI YOSHINO
Chair T20 Japan; Dean & CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
MARC FLEURBAEY
Robert E. Kuenne Professor, Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
DETLEV GANTEN
Founding President, World Health Summit
DENNIS J. SNOWER
President, Global Solutions Initiative (GSI)
ROGÉRIO LUCAS ZANDAMELA
Governor, Bank of Mozambique
MICHAEL HEISE
Chief Economist, Allianz
RUBANA HUQ
Managing Director, Mohammadi Group
ARIANE STEINS-MEIER
Executive Director Europe, RARE
GUNTRAM WOLFF
Director, Bruegel
NOBUKO KAYASHIMA
Director, JICA Research Institute
HUBERTUS HEIL
German Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
HELIODORO TEMPRANO ARROYO
Adviser on International Economic Relations and Global Governance, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
LEANDER KANDILIGE
Academic & Course Coordinator, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana
AMY JADESIMI
CEO, Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL)
LAURENCE TUBIANA
CEO, European Climate Foundation (ECF)
TAKESHI YAGI
Ambassador of Japan to Germany
DIANA KINNERT
Founder & CEO, Newsgreen
ABIR IBRAHIM
Founder & CEO, Inua Naturals
DAVID TUCKETT
Psychoanalyst, Social Scientist & Economist, University College London (UCL)
ALLEN ASIIMWE
Executive Director, AVID Development
COLM KELLY
Global Leader, Tax and Legal Services; Purpose, PwC
MOHAMMED „MO“ IBRAHIM
Founder, Celtel International, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
GUANDALUPE TAGLIAFERRI
Minister of Human Development and Habitat City of Buenos Aires
CLAUDIA COSTIN
Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation of Education Policies (CEIPE)
ILONA KICKBUSCH
Director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
MIRIAM KOREEN
Senior Counsellor on SMEs, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD
MARGO THOMAS
Associate Fellow, Chatham House; Founder & President, Women’s Economic Imperative
MARTINA NIEMANN
German representative, Business Women Leaders‘ Taskforce (BWLTF)
LENE KROGH JEPPESEN
Senior Consultant, Danish National Centre of Public Sector Innovation (COI)
PASCAL LAMY
Former President, World Trade Organisation President Emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute
KLAUS KLEINFELD
Economic Advisor to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
COLIN MAYER
Peter Moores Professor, Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
SIMONE MENNE
Non Executive Board Member, BMW, DPDHL, JCI and Springer Nature
STEFAN MAIR
Member of Executive Board, Federation of German Industries (BDI)
ARUN MAIRA
Chairman, HelpAge International
GURU MADHAVAN
Director, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
JOHN MICKLETHWAIT
Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg
MAHMOUD MOHIELDIN
Senior Vice-President, The World Bank
BRIGITTE MOHN
Member of the Board, Bertelsmann Foundation
EMINE BOZ
Assistant Director, IMF Research Department
MICHAEL MÜLLER
Governing Mayor of Berlin, Germany
BEATRIZ NOFAL
Founder & CEO, Eco-Axis
AMRITA NARLIKAR
President, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
IRENE NATIVIDAD
President, Globe Women Research & Education Institute
JULIA POMARES
Executive Director, CIPPEC
GABRIELA RAMOS
Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, OECD
THOMAS REITER
ESA Interagency Coordinator & Advisor to the Director General
LARS-HENDRIK RÖLLER
Economic and Financial Advisor to the German Federal Chancellor G20 Sherpa Germany
IZUMI OHNO
Director, JICA Research Institute, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
MICHAL OLSZEWSKI
Deputy Mayor of Warsaw, Poland
IRENE OVONJI-ODIDA
Politician, Women’s Rights Activist Member of the Uganda Law Reform Commission
GUNTER PAULI
Founder, The Blue Economy
HELENE SCHUBERTH
Head, Foreign Research Division, National Bank of Austria (OeNB)
SVENJA SCHULZE
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
BLAIR SHEPPARD
Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership Development, PwC
MEHMET ŞIMŞEK
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey
HANNAH RYDER
CEO, Development Reimagined