Participants BGD 2024
Global Dialogue’s annual summit brings together visionary leaders from business, government, and academia.
Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh
Chief Executive Officer
Sabic
Alexander Glätzle
CEO & Co-founder
planqc
Andreas Athanassopoulos
CEO
Olympia Group
Andrew Forrest
Executive Chairman
Fortescue
Anish Shah
Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
Mahindra Group
Anna Makanju
Vice President of Global Impact
OpenAI
Anne-Laure Parrical de Chammard
Member of the Executive Board
Siemens Energy AG
Annette Kroeber-Riel
Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy for Europe
Google
Arancha González Laya
Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs , Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
Sciences Po
Belinda Balluku
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Energy
Albania
Benedikta von Seher-Thoss
Managing Director for Peace, Security and Defence
European External Action Service
Bernard Mensah
President of International
Bank of America
Bernhard Lorentz
Managing Partner, Global Consulting Sustainability & Climate Leader
Deloitte
Bogolo Kenewendo
Former Minister Investment, Trade and Industry, Botswana and Global Economist
Kenewendo Advisory
Brian Deese
Former Director of the White House National Economic Council
United States
Brian Gu
Vice Chairman & President
XPENG
Cecilia Malmström
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute, Former Trade Commissioner
European Union
Christian Lindner
Federal Minister of Finance
Germany
Denzil L. Douglas
Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Economic Development and Investment
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
Director-General for Energy, Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals
European Commission
Emma Marcegaglia
Chief Executive Officer
Marcegaglia Steel
Emmanuel Bonne
Diplomatic Advisor to the President, G7/G20 Sherpa
Emmanuel Macron
President
France
Eric Loeb
Executive Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy
Salesforce
Eva Maydell
Member
European Parliament
Faisal F. Alibrahim
Minister of Economy and Planning
Saudi Arabia
Fatih Birol
Executive Director
International Energy Agency
Fiona du Monceau
Executive Vice President Patient Evidence
UCB
Hans Otterling
Founding Partner
Norrsken22
Helge Lund
Chairman
BP
Hervé Ekué
Managing Partner, Member of the Executive Committee and Board
A&O Shearman
Jean-Jacques Barbéris
Deputy CEO, Director of the Institutional and Corporate Clients Division & ESG
Amundi
Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
Managing Director and Head of Europe at General Catalyst / Founding Partner of La Famiglia VC
General Catalyst / La Famiglia VC
Jennifer Morgan
State Secretary & Special Envoy
International Climate Action, Germany
Jens Spahn
Chairman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group
Germany
Jochen Flasbarth
State Secretary,Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Germany
Jörg Kukies
Economic Advisor to the Chancellor, G7/ G20 Sherpa
Germany
Karen Florschütz
Executive Vice-President Connected Intelligence, & Member of the Executive Committee
Airbus Defence and Space
Keith Svendsen
CEO
APM Terminals
Larry Fink
Chairman and CEO
BlackRock
Laurence Tubiana
Chief Executive Officer
European Climate Foundation
Lieutenant General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart
Commander of Multinational Corps Northeast
Federal Defence Forces of Germany
Lindsay Du
CEO
WinDigital
Manuel Tovar Rivera
Minister of Foreign Trade
Costa Rica
Marc-André Blanchard
Executive Vice-President and Global Head
CDPQ
Markus Krebber
Chief Executive Officer
RWE AG
Martin Ewald
MD & Lead Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors
Martin Guzman
Former Argentinian Minister of the Economy, Professor of Economics
Columbia University
Matthias Berninger
EVP
Bayer
Mehmet Şimşek
Minister of Finance
Turkey
Merit Janow
Dean Emerita & Professor
Columbia University
Michael Ensser
Chair
Egon Zehnder
Mike Pyle
Deputy Head of the Portfolio Management Group, BlackRock & former US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics
United States
Mohammed Al-Jadaan
Minister of Finance
Saudi Arabia
Nathalie Delapalme
Chief Executive Officer
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Nathalie Oosterlinck
Chief Executive Office
JERA Nex bp
Ndiarka Mbodji
Founder and CEO
Kowry Energy
Nicolas Schmit
European Commissioner, Jobs and Social Rights
European Commission
Noelle Walsh
Corporate Vice President & Lead, Cloud Operations + Innovation
Microsoft
Ola Källenius
Chief Executive Officer
Mercedes-Benz
Oliver Bäte
CEO & Chairman of the Board of Management
Allianz SE
Patrick Zhong
Chairman and CEO
M31 Capital
Pawel Karbownik
Deputy Finance Minister, Undersecretary of State
Péter Szijjártó
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Hungary
Robert Habeck
Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Germany
Roger Dassen
EVP & CFO
ASML
Thomas Schulz
Group CEO
Bilfinger
Timotheus Hoettges
Chief Executive Officer
Deutsche Telekom
Trudi Makhaya
Former Chief Economic Advisor to the President, Economist
South Africa
Vera Songwe
Board Chair
Liquidity and Sustainability Facility
Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu
President
Kosovo
Wei Li
Managing Director, Global Chief Investment Strategist
BlackRock
Wolfgang Schmidt
Head of the Federal Chancellery & Federal Minister for Special Tasks
Germany
Xavier Bettel
Vice Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs
Luxembourg
Yusuf Maitama Tuggar
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nigeria
Zhijian Liu
CEO & Founder
Xunce
Åsa Lautenberg
Chief People Officer
Wittur Group
