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MEET THE SPEAKERS
* The speaker lineup is still being finalized, and additional speakers will be announced soon.
Conference Chairs
Katherina REICHE
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
Roland BUSCH
APA Chairman
President and CEO, Siemens AG
OPENING KEYNOTE
HAN Seongsook
Prime Minister
Republic of Korea
Friedrich MERZ
Federal Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
MODERATORS & Sessions chairs
Isabelle KÖRNER
German TV Moderator
Ayoung SHIN
TV Host
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Bernhard BARTSCH
Director External Relations, MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies)
Julia BRAUNE
CEO, Germany Trade & Invest
Zsuzsa Anna FERENCZY
Member of the Academic Council, Wilfried Martens Center
Jennifer MOON
Journalist & TV Host
Jie-Ae SOHN
Korean Moderator,
Invited Professor,
Ewha Womans University
speakers
Patrick BERNAU
Incoming Head of the Geoeconomics Newsletter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Rajiv BISWAS
CEO, Asia-Pacific Economics
Hanno BLANKENSTEIN
Co-Founder & CEO, Unleash Live
Anna Maria BRAUN
CEO, B.Braun
Soo-yeon CHOI
President and CEO, NAVER
Sonali CHOWDHRY
Trade Economist, DIW Berlin and Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Karl DEPPEN
President & CEO, Archion
Shashank DESHPANDE
CEO, Boehringer Ingelheim
Toralf HAAG
CEO, Aurubis
Daniel HAGER
CEO, Hager Group &
President, Association of Germany’s Electro and Digital Industry (ZVEI)
Dirk HOKE
President & CEO, Voith Group
Happymon JACOB
Founder and Director,
Council for Strategic and Defence Research (CSDR)
JANG Beomsik
CEO, The Asia Business Daily
Markus KAMITETH
CEO, BASF
Chang-Beom KIM
Vice Chairman, Federation of Korean Industries
Jung-Kwan KIM
Minister, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources
Republic of Korea
Agatha KRATZ
Partner, Rhodium Group
Lynn KUOK
Lee Kuan Yew Chair,
Brookings Institution
Peter LEIBINGER
President, BDI
LEON Vin Sen
Managing Director,
Equalithium Holdings Pte Ltd
Miguel Ángel LÓPEZ BORREGO
CEO, Thyssen Krupp AG
Tobias MEYER
CEO, DHL Group
Sabine NITZSCHE
CFO, TÜV SÜD
Cyn Young PARK
Executive Director,
The South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research
and Training Centre
Andreas PECHER
CEO, Carl Zeiss
Stefan ROUENHOFF,
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and
Energy
Kirsten SCHODER-STEINMÜLLER
Vice President, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Ludger SCHUKNECHT
Ludger SCHUKNECHT, Vice President for Policy & Strategy, AIIB
Francesco SCORTINO
CEO, Proxima Fusion
Taro SHIMADA
President & CEO, Toshiba
Neset TÜKENMEZ
CEO & President, Aerodata AG
Alexander VON ZUR MUEHLEN
CEO for APAC & EMEA, Member of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank
Peter WU
CEO, Taiwan AI Cloud
Yanmei XIE
2026 TOY Senior Fellow, Asia Society Switzerland
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