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Confirmed Panelists
The following is a selection of panelists, who have confirmed their attendance.
August 18h, 2008
| Akerlof, George A. | Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley |
| Almunia, Joaquín | Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Commission |
| Al Quasimi, Sheikha Lubna | Minister of Foreign Trade, UAE |
| Appiah, Francis | Executive Secretary, National APRM Governing Council, Ghana |
| Ariely, Daniel | Professor of Economics, MIT |
| Arthur, Michael | Ambassador of the UK in Berlin |
| Arun, Maira | Chairman, BCG India |
| Baldwin, Richard E. | Professor of Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva |
| Bale, Harvey E., Jr. | Director-General, IFPMA |
| Bangun, Derom | Vice President II, RSPO Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil; Executive Chairman, Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) |
| Berger, Roland | Founder, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
| Bitterlich, Joachim | Executive Vice President, Veolia Environment |
| Blinder, Alan S. | Professor of Economics, Princeton University |
| Borg, Anders | Finance Minister, Sweden |
| Börsch-Supan, Axel | Professor of Economics, Mannheim Research Insitute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) |
| Brown, Lester | President and Founder, Earth Policy Institute |
| Buerkner, Hans-Paul | President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group |
| Burrows, Matthew | Director of Long-Term Threat Analysis, US State Department, CIA |
| Butler, Nick | Chairman, Cambridge Center for Energy Studies (CCES) |
| Carraro, Carlo | Professor of Environmental Economics, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei |
| Cavallo, Domingo | Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, Harvard University; former Minister of Economy, Argentina |
| Cleary, Sean | Chairman, Strategic Concepts |
| Cloete, Kim | Parliamentary Editor, SABC |
| Collier, Paul | Professor of Economics, Oxford |
| Conteh, Alieu | Chairman of the Board, African Wireless, Inc. |
| Cooley, Thomas | Dean, NYU, Stern School of Business |
| Cotis, Jean-Philippe | Director, INSEE |
| Curry, Declan | Business Correspondent, BBC |
| Davis, Evan | Presenter, BBC’s radio 4’s Today Programme |
| de Azevedo, Belmiro | Chairman, Sonae SGPS |
| de Geus, Aart | Deputy Secretary-General, OECD |
| Dräger, Stefan | CEO, Draegerwerk |
| Dutta, Soumitra | Professor of Business and Technology, INSEAD |
| Eichengreen, Barry | Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley |
| Eigen, Peter | Transparency International Founder and Chair of the Advisory Council |
| El Banna, Hany | President, Ismlamic World Relief |
| Elmeskov, Jorgen | Acting Chief Economist, OECD |
| Ernst, Richard | Nobel Laureate; ZHT Zürich |
| Evans, Richard | CEO, Rio Tinto Alcan |
| Faber, Joachim | CEO Allianz Global Investors AG, Board Member of Allianz AG |
| Feldmann, John | Member of the Executive Board, BASF |
| Fels, Joachim | Managing Director and Chief Global Fixed Income Economist and Strategist, Morgan Stanley |
| Field, Chris | Director Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| Fisman, Ray | Professor of Economics, Columbia University |
| Frey, Bruno | Professor of Economics, Institut for Empirical Research in Economics, Zurich |
| Fricke, Thomas | Chief Economist, Financial Times Germany |
| Frost, David | Director General, British Chambers of Commerce |
| Githongo, John | Vice President, Policy & Advocacy, World Vision International |
| Gordon, Charles | President and CEO, Siemens Water Technologies |
| Guidotti, Pablo E. | Dean, School of Government, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella |
| Haley, John J. | CEO and Chairman, Watson Wyatt Worldwide |
| Hatzius, Jan | Chief US Economist, Goldman Sachs |
| Heller, Peter S. | Professor of Economics, University of Bologna |
| Holmes, Richard | CEO Europe, Standard Chartered Bank |
| Hübner, Danuta | European Commissioner for Regional Policy |
| Huntington, Hillard | Executive Director, Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford University |
| Joffe, Josef | Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit |
| Keese, Christoph | Head of Public Affairs, Axel Springer AG |
| Khan, Abdul Waheed | Assistant Director General for Commuication and Information, UNESCO |
| Knies, Gerhard | Coordiantor, Trec |
| Kontenev, Vladimir V. | Russian Ambassador to Germany |
| Krueger, Anne O. | Professor of Economics, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University |
| Lauk, Kurt | Member, European Parliament |
| Lazear, Edward | Professor, Stanford University; Chairman, US Council of Economic Advisors |
| Leamer, Edward | Professor of Economics, UCLA |
| Leipziger, Danny | Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, The World Bank |
| Levi, Michael A. | Project Director, Independent Task Force on Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Liikanen, Erkki | President, Bank of Finland |
| Lindbeck, Assar | Professor of Economics, Stockholm University |
| Loy, Frank E. | Board of Directors, The Nature Conservancy |
| Ma, Canrong | Chinese Ambassador to Germany |
| Maira, Arun | Chairman, Boston Consulting Group India |
| Maskus, Keith | Professor of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| McFadden, Daniel L. | Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics, Berkeley |
| Messerlin, Patrick | Professor of Economics, Sciences-Po, Paris |
| Mukerji, Ayan | Chief Executive, Europe, Wipro Technologies |
| Müller, Alexander | Assistant Director-General, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, FAO |
| Münchau, Wolfgang | Associate Editor, Financial Times |
| Mundell, Robert | Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics, Columbia |
| Nakicenovic, Nebojsa | Professor of Energy Economics, Vienna University of Technology |
| Obermann, René | CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG |
| Panitchpakdi, Supachai | Secretary-General, UNCTAD |
| Papademetriou, Demetrios | President, Migration Policy Institute |
| Paulsen, Frederic | CEO, Ferring AG |
| Persaud, Avinash | Chairman, Intelligence Capital Limited |
| Portes, Richard | Professor of Economics, London Business School |
| Posen, Adam S. | Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute |
| Rapoport, Hillel | Professor of Economics, Bar-Ilan University |
| Reynal-Querol, Marta | Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona |
| Richardson, Louise | Professor of Economics, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies, Harvard University |
| Ritterband, Charles | Correspondent, NZZ |
| Roy, Prannoy | President, NDTV, India |
| Sak, Gueven | Managing Director, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey |
| Schäuble, Wolfgang | Minister of the Interior, Germany |
| Schwammenthal, Daniel | Editorial Page Writer, The Wall Street Journal Europe |
| Shah, Sonal | Global Development Team, Google.org |
| Shankar, Meera | Indian Ambassador to Germany |
| Şimşek, Mehmet | Minister of Economy, Turkey |
| Spence, Michael | Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics, Stanford University |
| Sterner, Thomas | Professor of Environmental Economics, Gothenburg; President, EAERE |
| Stopford, John | Dean Murmann School of Economics |
| Tangermann, Stefan | Director for Trade and Agriculture, OECD |
| Teyssen, Johannes | Vice Chairman of the Board of Management, E.ON AG |
| Tichy, Roland | Editor-in-Chief, WirtschaftsWoche |
| Timken, William R. | U.S. Ambassador to Germany |
| Tricks, Henry | Finance Editor, The Economist |
| Vierhout, Robert | Secretary General, European Bioethanol Fuel Association |
| Visco, Ignazio | Vice President, Banca d'Italia |
| Von Braun, Joachim | Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute |
| Von Weizsäcker, Jakob | Research Fellow, Bruegel |
| Yamaguchi, Yutaka | Former Vice Governor, Bank of Japan |
| Zeigler, Robert Stewart | Director General, International Rice Research Institute |
| Zemlin, Jim | Executive Director, The Linux Foundation |
| Zou, Changzheng | President, Baosteel Europe Trading Company |
| Zwitserloot, Reinier | CEO, Wintershall |