Participants BGD 2025
Global Dialogue’s annual summit brings together visionary leaders from business, government, and academia.
Almudena de la Mata
Chief Executive Officer
Blockchain Intelligence
Amanda Dasch
Chief Development Officer
Ørsted
Aminata Touré
High Representative of the President & former Prime Minister
Senegal
Anabelle Long
Founding and Managing Partner
BAI Capital
Andreas Berger
Group Chief Executive Officer
Swiss Re
Andrius Kubilius
Commissioner, Defence and Space
European Commission
Anish Shah
Chief Executive Officer
Mahindra Group
Annika von Mutius
Founder & CEO
Empion
Arif Havas Oegroseno
Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
Indonesia
Benedetta Berti
Secretary General
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Bernard Mensah
President of International
Bank of America
Bernhard Lorentz
Managing Partner and Global Climate & Infrastructure Leader
Deloitte
Bill Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
Bayer
Chris Bryant
Minister for Trade
United Kingdom
Chris Rehse
Founder, neotiv & Navan Technologies, State Representative for Berlin
German Startup Association
Christian P. Illek
Chief Finance Officer
Deutsche Telekom
Christiane Laibach
Member of the Executive Board
KfW
Daleep Singh
Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist
PGIM
Diella
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence
Albania
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
Director-General, Directorate-General for Energy
European Union
Ebru Ozdemir
Chair
Limak Holding
Edi Rama
Prime Minister
Albania
Emma Marcegaglia
Chief Executive Officer
Marcegaglia Steel
Fabian Billing
Managing Partner, Germany and Austria
McKinsey & Company
Faisal Bin Fadhil Alibrahim
Minister of Economy and Planning
Saudi Arabia
Fernando Queiroz
Chief Executive Officer
Minerva Foods
Francesco Sciortino
Co-Founder & CEO
Proxima Fusion
François Villeroy de Galhau
Governor
Banque de France
Funeka Montjane
Chief Executive Officer, Personal and Private Banking
Standard Bank
Günther Thallinger
Member of the Board of Management
Allianz
Hans Joachim Reinke
Chief Executive Officer
Union Investment
Henry Kravis
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman
KKR
Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven
Managing Director of the Management Board
GIZ
Jean-Christoph Tellier
Chief Executive Officer
UCB
Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
Managing Director
General Catalyst
Jens Spahn
Chairman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group
Germany
Joachim Nagel
President
Deutsche Bundesbank
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Executive Secretary
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UN
Jörg Kukies
Former Minister of Finance
Germany
Katherina Reiche
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
Germany
Katrin Suder
Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board
DHL Group
Kay Bailey Hutchinson
former US Ambassador to NATO & Senator
NATO
Kyriakos Pierrakakis
Minister of Economy and Finance
Greece
Leila Fourie
Chief Executive Officer
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Leon Amos Schreiber
Minister of Home Affairs
South Africa
Lindsay Du
Chief Executive Officer
WinDigital
Lucy Yu
CEO & Founder
Centre for Net Zero, & AI Champion for Clean Energy, UK
Ludger Schuknecht
Vice President for Policy and Strategy
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Luukas Ilves
Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine & Former Government CIO
Estonia
Maria Rocha Barros
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal & Public Affairs Officer
Booking.com
Markus Krebber
Chief Executive Officer
RWE
Martin Blessing
Personal Representative of the Chancellor for Investment
Germany
Martín Guzmán
Professor, Columbia University & former Minister of Economy
Argentina
Michael Ensser
Chairman
Egon Zehnder
Michael Schoellhorn
Chief Executive Officer
Airbus Defence and Space
Michael Sen
Chairman of the Management Board
Fresenius
Mohamed BinTaliah
Chief of Government Services
UAE
Morten Wierod
Chief Executive Officer
ABB
Nadia Calviño
President
European Investment Bank
Nathalie Moll
Director General
European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
Nathalie Oosterlinck
Chief Executive Office
JERA Nex bp
Ola Källenius
Chief Executive Officer
Mercedes-Benz
Oleksandr Bornyakov
Deputy Minister for European Integration
Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Piyush Goyal
Minister of Commerce and Industry
Government of India
Prakash Kannan
Chief Economist & Director Economic and Investment Strategy
GIC
René Obermann
Chairman
Airbus
Sandra E. Peterson
Operating Partner
Clayton Dubilier & Rice
Sanja Bozinovska
Minister of Energy, Mining and Mineral Resources
North Macedonia
Sean Kask
Chief AI Strategy Officer
SAP
Sheikh Khalifa Alharthy
Undersecretary for Political Affairs
Foreign Ministry of Oman
Timotheus Höttges
Chief Executive Officer
Deutsche Telekom AG
Ursula von der Leyen
President
European Commission
Valdis Dombrovskis
Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification
European Commission
Vera Songwe
Chair and Founder, Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, and Non Resident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings
Liquidity and Sustainability Facility
Vjosa Osmani
President
Kosovo
Wei Li
Managing Director & Global Chief Investment Strategist
BlackRock
Wolf Bussian
Managing Partner
A&O Shearman
Wolfgang Schmidt
Former Minister and Head of Chancellery
Germany
Xavier Bettel
Vice Prime Minister
Luxembourg
Yichen Zhang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
CITIC Capital
Yusuf Tuggar
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nigeria
Zhang Qi
Vice President (Vice Minister)
Development Research Centre of the State Council, China
