Global Solutions 2019: Speakers
Below you can find a selection of speakers attending the Global Solutions Summit 2019. A detailed overview of speakers and sessions can be found in the program overview.
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ANGELA MERKEL
Federal Chancellor of Germany
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FRANS TIMMERMANS
First Vice President, EU Commission
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PETER BOFINGER
Professor, International and Monetary Economics, University Wuerzburg
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ALEXANDER BONDE
Secretary General, German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
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CHAD BOWN
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
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COLIN BRADFORD
Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution
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ERIC BEINHOCKER
Executive Director, Institute for New Thinking (INET)
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MARGARITA BENEKE DE SANFELIO
Director, Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES)
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CHRISTOPH BENN
Director, Global Health Finance Diplomacy, Joep Lange Institute (JLI)
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AMANDA BENNETT
Director, Voice of America (VOA)
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AMAR BHATTACHARYA
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution
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FATOUMATA BA
Founder & CEO, Janngo
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PETER BAKKER
President & CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
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KATARINA BARLEY
German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection
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MONIKA BECK
Member of Management Board, Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG)
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CHRISTOPH BEIER
Vice Chair of the Management Board, GIZ
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FAHAD ALMUBARAK
Secretary General G20 Saudi Secretariat; G20 Sherpa Saudi Arabia
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NIELS ANNEN
German Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office
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ANGUS ARMSTRONG
Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
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DEEPAK ASHWANI
Founder, Sarvahit & Dazin
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RONNIE CHAN
Chairman, Hang Lung Group
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HELA CHEIKHROUHOU
Chairman & CEO, Nithio
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BARBARA CHESIRE-CHABBAGA
Co-Founder, CoverApp
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NICOLAS BUCHOUD
Founding Principal, Renaissance Urbaine
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MAYRA BUVINIC
Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation
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PAUL COLLIER
Professor, Economics & Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
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IGNACIO SAIZ
Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
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EDWARD WHITING
Director, Wellcome Trust
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ELLEN EHMKE
Analyst, Social Inequality, Oxfam Germany
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VALDIS DOMBROVSKIS
Vice-President, European Commission
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SEBASTIAN SCHIENLE
Program Manager, Benckiser Foundation
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DAVID SLOAN WILSON
Professor, Biology & Anthropology, Birmingham University
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SABINA DEWAN
President & Executive Director, Just Jobs Network
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MALU DREYER
Minister-President, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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OLAF SCHOLZ
German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance
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GALA DÍAZ LANGOU
Social Protection Director, CIPPEC
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THOMAS FERGUSON
Director of Research, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
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PEDRO VILLAGRA DELGADO
Sherpa for Argentine at the G20
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ULRICH STÖRK
Chairman of the Management Board & Senior Partner, PwC Germany
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CECILIA UGAZ ESTRADA
Director, Department of Policy Research and Statistics, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
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GABRIEL FELBERMAYR
President Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
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HENRIK ENDERLEIN
President, Hertie School of Governance & Host of the GSI Secretariat
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PAOLA SUBACCHI
Founding Director, Essential Economics
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NAOYUKI YOSHINO
Chair T20 Japan; Dean & CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
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MARC FLEURBAEY
Robert E. Kuenne Professor, Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
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DETLEV GANTEN
Founding President, World Health Summit
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DENNIS J. SNOWER
President, Global Solutions Initiative (GSI)
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ROGÉRIO LUCAS ZANDAMELA
Governor, Bank of Mozambique
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MICHAEL HEISE
Chief Economist, Allianz
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RUBANA HUQ
Managing Director, Mohammadi Group
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ARIANE STEINS-MEIER
Executive Director Europe, RARE
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GUNTRAM WOLFF
Director, Bruegel
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NOBUKO KAYASHIMA
Director, JICA Research Institute
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HUBERTUS HEIL
German Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
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HELIODORO TEMPRANO ARROYO
Adviser on International Economic Relations and Global Governance, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
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LEANDER KANDILIGE
Academic & Course Coordinator, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana
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AMY JADESIMI
CEO, Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL)
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LAURENCE TUBIANA
CEO, European Climate Foundation (ECF)
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TAKESHI YAGI
Ambassador of Japan to Germany
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DIANA KINNERT
Founder & CEO, Newsgreen
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ABIR IBRAHIM
Founder & CEO, Inua Naturals
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DAVID TUCKETT
Psychoanalyst, Social Scientist & Economist, University College London (UCL)
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ALLEN ASIIMWE
Executive Director, AVID Development
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COLM KELLY
Global Leader, Tax and Legal Services; Purpose, PwC
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MOHAMMED „MO“ IBRAHIM
Founder, Celtel International, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
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GUANDALUPE TAGLIAFERRI
Minister of Human Development and Habitat City of Buenos Aires
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CLAUDIA COSTIN
Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation of Education Policies (CEIPE)
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ILONA KICKBUSCH
Director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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MIRIAM KOREEN
Senior Counsellor on SMEs, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD
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MARGO THOMAS
Associate Fellow, Chatham House; Founder & President, Women’s Economic Imperative
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MARTINA NIEMANN
German representative, Business Women Leaders‘ Taskforce (BWLTF)
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LENE KROGH JEPPESEN
Senior Consultant, Danish National Centre of Public Sector Innovation (COI)
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PASCAL LAMY
Former President, World Trade Organisation President Emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute
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KLAUS KLEINFELD
Economic Advisor to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
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COLIN MAYER
Peter Moores Professor, Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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SIMONE MENNE
Non Executive Board Member, BMW, DPDHL, JCI and Springer Nature
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STEFAN MAIR
Member of Executive Board, Federation of German Industries (BDI)
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ARUN MAIRA
Chairman, HelpAge International
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GURU MADHAVAN
Director, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
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JOHN MICKLETHWAIT
Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg
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MAHMOUD MOHIELDIN
Senior Vice-President, The World Bank
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BRIGITTE MOHN
Member of the Board, Bertelsmann Foundation
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EMINE BOZ
Assistant Director, IMF Research Department
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MICHAEL MÜLLER
Governing Mayor of Berlin, Germany
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BEATRIZ NOFAL
Founder & CEO, Eco-Axis
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AMRITA NARLIKAR
President, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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IRENE NATIVIDAD
President, Globe Women Research & Education Institute
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JULIA POMARES
Executive Director, CIPPEC
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GABRIELA RAMOS
Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, OECD
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THOMAS REITER
ESA Interagency Coordinator & Advisor to the Director General
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LARS-HENDRIK RÖLLER
Economic and Financial Advisor to the German Federal Chancellor G20 Sherpa Germany
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IZUMI OHNO
Director, JICA Research Institute, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
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MICHAL OLSZEWSKI
Deputy Mayor of Warsaw, Poland
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IRENE OVONJI-ODIDA
Politician, Women’s Rights Activist Member of the Uganda Law Reform Commission
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GUNTER PAULI
Founder, The Blue Economy
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HELENE SCHUBERTH
Head, Foreign Research Division, National Bank of Austria (OeNB)
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SVENJA SCHULZE
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
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BLAIR SHEPPARD
Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership Development, PwC
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MEHMET ŞIMŞEK
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey
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HANNAH RYDER
CEO, Development Reimagined