Participants BGD 2023
Global Dialogue’s annual summit brings together visionary leaders from business, government, and academia.
Amitabh Kant
G20 Sherpa
India
Angela Titzrath
CEO
HHLA
Anish Shah
Chief Executive Officer
Mahindra Group
Ann Mettler
Vice President
Breakthrough Energy
Anna Bjerde
Managing Director
World Bank
Annabelle Long
Founding & Managing Partner
BAI Capital
Bernard Mensah
President of International
Bank of America
Bill Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
Bayer
Børge Brende
President and CEO
World Economic Forum
Carmen Moreno Toscano
Deputy Foreign Minister and G20 Sherpa
Mexico
Charles Michel
President
European Council
Chen Dongxiao
President
Shanghai Institute for International Studies
Clément Beaune
Minister Delegate of Transport
France
Delina Ibrahimaj
Minister of Entrepreneurship and Business Climate
Albania
Delphine Traoré
CEO
Sanlam Allianz General Insurance
Dirk Elvermann
CFO
BASF
Edi Rama
Prime Minister
Albania
Emmannuel Bonne
Diplomatic Advisor to the French President; G7/G20 Sherpa
France
Franziska Brantner
Parliamentary State Secretary
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Germany
Friedrich Merz
Party Leader
Christian Democratic Party
Germany
Glenn Fogel
CEO
Booking.com and Booking Holdings
Jean-Christophe Tellier
Chief Executive Officer
UCB
Jennifer Holmgren
Chief Executive Officer
LanzaTech
Jeremy Farrar
Chief Scientist
World Health Organization
Jochen Flasbarth
State Secretary,Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Germany
Jonathan Black
UK AI Representative; former G7/G20 Sherpa
UK
Jörg Kukies
Minister of Finance
Germany
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
President
Kazakhstan
Katherina Reiche
CEO
Westenergie
Khalid Hashim Al-Dabbagh
Chairman
SABIC
Khotso Mokhele
Chancellor
University of the Free State, Government of South Africa
Klaus Rosenfeld
CEO
Schaeffler AG
Larry Fink
Chief Executive Officer
BlackRock
Marianne Janik
Vice President Google Cloud EMEA North
Google
Markus Krebber
Chief Executive Officer
RWE
Martín Guzmán
Former Argentinian Minister of the Economy, Professor of Economics
Columbia University
Matt Brittin
President EMEA
Google
Michael Ensser
Chair
Egon Zehnder
Mike Pyle
Deputy National Security Advisor, U.S.; G7/G20 Sherpa
US
Mmamoloko Kubayi
Minister of Human Settlements
South Africa
Nader Mousavizadeh
Chief Executive Officer
Macro Advisory Partners
Ola Källenius
Chief Executive Officer
Mercedes-Benz
Olaf Scholz
Former Chancellor
Germany
Ralf Wintergerst
CEO
Giesecke+Devrient
Ranil Wickremesinghe
President
Sri Lanka
Renat Bekturov
Governor
Astana International Finance Center
Robert Habeck
Vice Chancellor
Germany
Roland Busch
Chief Executive Officer
Siemens
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Minister of Finance
Indonesia
Thomas Bagger
State Secretary, Foreign Office
Germany
Timotheus Höttges
CEO
Telekom
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful
Minister for Communication and Digitalisation
Ghana
Vera Songwe
Chair of the Board
Liquidity and Financial Stability Facility
Wolfgang Schmidt
Head of Chancellory and Federal Minister for Special Affairs
Germany
Yichen Zhang
Chairman and CEO
CITIC Capital Holdings Limited
