Participants BGD 2026
Global Dialogue’s annual summit brings together visionary leaders from business, government, and academia.
Abubakar Atiku Bagudu
Minister of Economic Planning and Budget
Nigeria
Alvin Botes
Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
South Africa
Benedetta Berti
Secretary General
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Bernard Mensah
President of International
Bank of America
Bernd Montag
Chief Executive Officer
Siemens Healthineers
Bernhard Lorenz
Managing Partner and Global Climate & Infrastructure Leader
Deloitte
Bettina Orlopp
Chief Executive Officer
Commerzbank AG
Daleep Singh
Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist
PGIM
Daniela Stoffel
State Secretary for International Finance
Switzerland
David Reger
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
NEURA Robotics GmbH
Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara
Chief Executive Officer
Temasek
Dirk Markus
Founding Partner
AURELIUS
Edi Rama
Prime Minister
Albania
Emma Marcegaglia
Chief Executive Officer
Marcegaglia Steel
Fatih Birol
Executive Director
International Energy Agency
Francesco Buquicchio
Global Chief Executive Officer
Egon Zehnder
Friedrich Merz
Chancellor
Germany
Funeka Montjane
Chief Executive Officer of Personal and Private Banking
Standard Bank
Hermann Hauser
Co-Founder and Venture Partner
Amadeus Capital Partners
Hervé Ekué
Global Managing Partner
A&O Shearman
Ibrahim Almubarak
Assistant Minister of Investment
Saudi Arabia
Joe W. Issa-El-Khoury
Minister of Industry
Lebanon
Jörg Kampmeyer
General Partner and Chairman of the Management Board
Knauf
Judith Dada
Co-CEO; Senior Partner
Langdock; Visionaries
Katherina Reiche
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
Germany
KIM Hee-sang
Ambassador, G20 Sherpa
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea
Lindsay Du
Founding Partner
WIN Digital
Markus Krebber
Chief Executive Officer
RWE
Martin Blessing
Personal Representative of the Chancellor for Investment
Germany
Mehmet Şimşek
Minister of Finance
Türkiye
Merete Clausen
Deputy Chief Executive
European Investment Fund
Michael Sen
Chairman of the Management Board
Fresenius
Morten Wierod
Chief Executive Officer
ABB
Noor bint Ali Alkhulaif
Minister of Sustainable Development, Chief Executive of Bahrain Economic Development Board
Bahrain
Ola Källenius
Chief Executive Officer
Mercedes-Benz
Peter Sewing
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Obermark
Petr Pavel
President
Czechia
Pierre Gramegna
Managing Director
European Stability Mechanism
Piyush Goyal
Minister of Commerce and Industry
India
Rafael Laguna de la Vera
Founding Director
Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
René Obermann
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Airbus
Sola Enikanolaiye
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Nigeria
Stefan B. Wintels
Chief Executive Officer
KfW Bankengruppe
Tim Höttges
Chief Executive Officer
Deutsche Telekom
Tobias Pross
Chief Executive Officer
Allianz Global Investors
Valdene Reddy
Group Chief Executive Officer
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Valdis Dombrovskis
Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification
European Union
Vincent Policard
Partner and Co-Head of European Infrastructure
KKR
Xavier Bettel
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs
Luxembourg
