BGD 2024
Participants
Global Dialogue’s annual summit brings together visionary leaders from business, government, and academia.
Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh
Chief Executive Officer
Sabic
Andreas Berger
Group CEO
Swiss Re
Andrew Forrest
Executive Chairman
Fortescue
Anna Makanju
Vice President of Global Impact
OpenAI
Anne-Laure Parrical de Chammard
Member of the Executive Board
Siemens Energy AG
Antreas Athanassopoulos
Chief Executive Officer
Olympia Group
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
Børge Brende
President
World Economic Forum
Carl-Henric Svanberg
Chairman
AB Volvo
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
Edi Rama
Prime Minister
Albania
Emily Haber
Former Ambassador to the United States
Germany
Emma Marcegaglia
Chief Executive Officer
Marcegaglia Steel
Emmanuel Macron
President
France
Ertharin Cousin
Member of the Supervisory Board
Bayer
Fabian Billing
Managing Partner Germany and Austria
McKinsey& Company
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
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
Jochen Flasbarth
State Secretary,Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Germany
Justice Tei Mensah
Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, Africa Region
World Bank
Karen Florschütz
Executive Vice-President Connected Intelligence, & Member of the Executive Committee
Airbus Defence and Space
Keith Svendsen
Chief Executive Officer
APM Terminals
Klaus Rosenfeld
Chief Executive Officer
Schaeffler
Lieutenant General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart
Commander of Multinational Corps Northeast
Federal Defence Forces of Germany
Lindsay Du
Founding Partner
WIN Digital Capital
Louisa Terrell
Former Assistant to the President & Director of the White House of Legislative Affairs
United States
Marc-André Blanchard
Executive Vice-President, Head of CDPQ Global and Global Head of Sustainability
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)
Markus Krebber
Chief Executive Officer
RWE AG
Martin Guzman
Former Argentinian Minister of the Economy, Professor of Economics
Columbia University
Matthias Berninger
EVP
Bayer
Mehmet Şimşek
Minister of Finance
Turkey
Michael Ensser
Chair
Egon Zehnder
Mike Pyle
Former Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics
United States
Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan
Minister of Finance
Saudi Arabia
Nader Mousavizadeh
Chief Executive Officer
Macro Advisory Partners
Nathalie Delapalme
Chief Executive Officer
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Nathalie Oosterlinck
Chief Executive Officer
JERA Nex
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
Péter Szijjártó
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Hungary
Ralf Wintergerst
Chief Executive Officer
Giesecke + Devrient
Renat Bekturov
Governor
Astana International Financial Centre
Robert Habeck
Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Germany
Roland Busch
Chief Executive Officer
Siemens
Sandi Peterson
Operating Partner
Clayton Dubilier & Rice
Susanne Wiegand
Chief Executive Officer
RENK Group
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
Wolf Bussian
Managing Partner Germany
A&O Shearman
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
Åsa Lautenberg
Chief People Officer
Wittur Group
