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© Anne-Marie Slaughter Anne-Marie Slaughter will speak at the Forum

Dr. Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton. She will chair in Sept. 2013 the New America Foundation. Prior to that, she served as Director of Policy Planning for the US Dept. of State, was the Dean of Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard. She has written several books and is an active contributing editor to a number of publications.

List of speakers

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A

Willem Adema, Senior Economist, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
Antônio Carlos Kfouri Aidar, Director of Control, FGV Foundation, Brazil
Rolf Alter, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo
Edgardo Angara, Vice-Chair, Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC)
Sergio Arzeni, Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development, OECD
Ken Ash, Director, Trade and Agriculture, OECD
Boris Azaïs, Director, Industrial Policy Europe Canada, MSD (Merck & Co., Inc)

B

Peter Bale, Vice-President & General Manager, CNN International Digital
Adnan Bali, CEO, Isbank, Turkey
David Bessis, Founder and President, tinyclues
Fernando Blumenschein, Economist, FGV Foundation, Brazil
Romina Boarini, Head of Section, Well-Being and Progress, OECD
Dominique Bocquet, Author, Les Révolutions discrètes de l'OCDE
Christiane Bögemann-Hagedorn, Head, Civil Society and Economy Department, Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, Germany
Alexandrine Bouilhet, Deputy News Editor, Le Figaro, France
Alessio J. G. Brown, Executive Director, Global Economic Symposium (GES), Visiting Research Economist, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister, Norway; Director-General (emeritus), World Health Organization; Vice Chair, Executive Committee, UN Foundation; Member, The Elders
Patrice Bula, Executive Vice President, responsible for the Strategic Business Units, Marketing, Sales & Nespresso, Nestlé S.A.
Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

C

Hugh Carnegy, Paris Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Nikos Charalambides, Executive Director, Greenpeace Greece
Céline Charveriat, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, Oxfam International
Wellington Chibebe, Deputy General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Joohee Cho, Seoul Bureau Chief and Correspondent, ABC News
Yoonsun Cho, Minister, Gender Equality and Family, Korea
Franck Cohen, President, EMEA, SAP
Michael Cole, Chief Operations Officer, Kia Motors Europe
Ed Conway, Economics Editor, Sky News
A. Craig Copetas, Correspondent-at-Large, Quartz
Laurent Cousin, Group Senior Vice President, Marketing Offer, Research & Development, Sodexo
Diane Coyle, Vice-Chairman, BBC Trust; Visiting Research Fellow, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, United Kingdom

D

Celia de Anca, Director, Center for Diversity in Global Management, IE Business School
Guillermo de la Dehesa, President, Centre for Economic Policy Research
Luisa Deplazes Delgado, Member of the Executive Board, Chief Human Resources Officer, SAP AG
Peter Draper, Senior Research Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs
Pamela Druckerman, Journalist and Author
Martine Durand, Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician, OECD
Soumitra Dutta, Dean, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, United States

E

Tuur Elzinga, Senator, Parliamentary Assembly, Netherlands; Member, Council of Europe
Craig Emerson, Minister, Trade and Competitiveness, Australia
Carolyn Ervin, Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
Laurence Evans, President, International, Edelman Berland

F

Luc Frieden, Minister, Finance, Luxembourg

G

James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government and Business Relations, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Philippe Gélie, Foreign Editor, Le Figaro, France
Enrico Giovannini, Minister of Labour and Social Policies, Italy
Burkhard Gnärig, Executive Director, Berlin Civil Society Center
Ronnie L. Goldberg, Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Officer, United States Council for International Business (USCIB)
Arancha Gonzalez, Chief of Staff, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Anthony Gooch, Director, Public Affairs and Communications, OECD
Pravin J. Gordhan, Minister, Finance, South Africa
Tim Groser, Minister, Trade, New Zealand
Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD

H

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon, Norway
Catherine Hakim, Social Scientist and Author
Jarle Roheim Håkonsen, News Anchor and Political Scientist, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)
Ben Hammersley, United Kingdom Prime Minister’s Ambassador, Tech City
Colm Harmon, Head, School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia
Ian Hickie, Professor of Psychiatry; Executive Director, Brain & Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Australia
Daisuke Hiratsuka, Executive Vice-President, Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO)
David Hoey, Chief Executive Officer, WorldSkills International
Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, Department of State, United States
Vanessa Houlder, Tax Correspondent, Financial Times
Anne-Catherine Husson-Traoré, CEO, Novethic

I

Herminia Ibarra, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Ricardo Ibarra, President, Spanish Youth Council (CJE)

J

Sigrid Jacobsen, Chairman, Tax Justice Network - Norway
Annegrethe Jakobsen, Global Head of Public Affairs, Novozymes
Tetsuya Jitsu, Deputy Chief Editorial Writer, NIKKEI, Japan
Sigbjørn Johnsen, Minister, Finance, Norway
Robert Johnson, Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
Sunjoy Joshi, Director, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India

K

Bettina Kashefi, State Secretary, Ministry of Employment, Sweden
John Keane, Professor, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, The University of Sydney, Australia
Marie-Louise Knuppert, Vice President, TUAC; Elected Confederal Secretary, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO-DK)
San Ko, CEO, TIDE Institute, Korea
Monika Kosińska, Secretary-General, European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
Ida Kreutzman, Member of the Board, Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU)
Ulf Kristersson, Minister for Social Security, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden
Alan Krueger, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, United States
Alexei Kudrin, Dean of School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
Andrey Kuzyaev, Vice-President, OAO 'LUKOIL'; President, LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd
Konstantinos Kyranakis, President, Youth of the European People's Party

L

Philippe Lamberts, Member, European Parliament
Michel Landel, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors, President of Executive Committee, Sodexo
Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director, European Competitiveness Initiative, INSEAD
Felipe Larraín, Minister, Finance, Chile
Cristián Larroulet, Minister of the Presidency, Chile
Daphni Leef, Social Activist
Nele Leosk, Program Director, ICT in education, e-Governance Academy, Estonia
Jon Lomoy, Director, Development Co-operation, OECD
Lu Mai, Secretary-General, China Development Research Foundation (CDRF)
Joris Luyendijk, News Correspondent, The Guardian
Ben Lyons, Co-Director, Intern Aware

M

Nick Mabey, CEO & Founding Director, E3G
Dirk Van der Maelen, Member of Parliament, Belgium
Shiv Malik, Journalist and Author, The Guardian
Didier Mamma, Director, Technology and Innovation, SAP
Siri Lill Mannes, Managing Director, SpeakLab AS
Lara Marlowe, Paris Correspondent, The Irish Times
Rodrigo Martin, CEO & Chair of the Administrative Council, Randstad Spain and Latin America; Member, Advisory Board to the Executive Board, Randstad Holding
Frédéric Massé, Vice-President, EMEA Government Relations, SAP
Peter Matjašic, President, European Youth Forum (YFJ)
Vladimir Mau, Rector, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Service (RANEPA)
Heather McGregor, Columnist, Financial Times Weekend
Eppu Mikkonen, Director of Policy and Programmes, HelpAge International
Loretta Minghella, Director, Christian Aid
William Morris, Senior International Tax Counsel & Director Global Tax Policy, General Electric; Chair, Taxation and Fiscal Policy Committee, Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC)
Litha Musyimi-Ogana, Commissioner for Gender, African Union

N

Lee Newman, Dean, School of Social & Behavioural Sciences, IE Business School
Kåre Riis Nielsen, Director for Public Affairs and Communication, Novozymes
Tim Noonan, Director, Campaigns & Communications, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

O

Hyun Oh-seok, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance, Korea
Phil O'Reilly, Vice-Chair, BIAC; Chief Executive Officer, BusinessNZ

P

Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD
Fleur Pellerin, Minister delegate, SMEs, Innovation, and the Digital Economy, France
Mario Pezzini, Director, Development Centre, OECD
Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director, Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
Adam S. Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Q

Glenda Quintini, Senior Economist, Skills and Youth Policies, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD

R

Subramanian Rangan, Professor of Strategy and Management, INSEAD
Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze, Economist, Information, Communications and Consumer Policy, Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
Doug Richard, Founder, School for Creative Start-Ups
Peter M. Robinson, President and CEO, United States Council for International Business (USCIB)
Randolf Rodenstock, Vice-Chair, Executive Board, BIAC; Managing Partner, Optische Werke G. Rodenstock GmbH & Co. KG
Mark Rollinger, Chief Legal Officer, Sodexo
Robert G. Romasco, President, AARP
Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)

S

Pascal Saint-Amans, Directeur, Centre de politique et d'administration fiscales, OECD
Lorena Sanchez, Better Life Index Project Manager, OECD
Álvaro Santos Pereira, Minister of Economy and Employment, Portugal
Kaori Sasaki, Founder & CEO, ewoman, Inc.; Founder & CEO, UNICUL International, Inc.
Stefano Scarpetta, Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director and Special Adviser on Education Policy to the Secretary-General, OECD
Giuseppe Scognamiglio, Executive Vice-President, Head Public Affairs, Unicredit
Sizwe Shezi, Chairman, Jacob G Zuma RDP Education Trust
Carlo Sinatra, Founder, Legal Representative and Member, Global Sustainable Social Energy Program (GSSEP)
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, United States, Princeton University, United States
Jie-Ae Sohn, President & CEO, Arirang TV
Erik Solheim, Chair, Development Assistance Committee, OECD
Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, The University of Sydney, Australia
William Spriggs, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO
Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times
Bruce Stokes, Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center
Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister, Norway
Ola Storeng, Economic Affairs Editor, Aftenposten, Norway
Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, Senior China Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Cobus de Swardt, Managing Director, Transparency International

T

Paul Taylor, European Affairs Editor, Thomson Reuters
Axel Threlfall, Lead Anchor, Reuters
Richard Trumka, President, TUAC; President, AFL-CIO
Emilie Turunen, Member, European Parliament

V

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister, Women's Rights and Government Spokesperson, France
Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of Political Economy, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Jean-Marc Vittori, Editorial Writer, Les Échos, France
Ernst U. Von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair, International Resource Panel, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

W

Justin Wedes, Activist and Member, Occupy Wall Street
Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government; Founder and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Andrew Wyckoff, Director, Science, Technology and Industry, OECD

Z

Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Jérémie Zimmermann, Co-Founder & Spokesperson, La Quadrature du Net

Countries list

Antigua and Barbuda

Bosnia and Herzegovina

British Indian Ocean Territory

Brunei Darussalam

Central African Republic

China (People’s Republic of)

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominican Republic

Equatorial Guinea

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

French Polynesia

French Southern Territories

Hong Kong, China

Islamic Republic of Iran

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Marshall Islands

Micronesia (Federated States of)

Netherlands Antilles

Northern Marianas Islands

Palestinian Administered Areas

Papua New Guinea

Russian Federation

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Sao Tome and Principe

Serbia and Montenegro (pre-June 2006)

Slovak Republic

Solomon Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

St. Pierre and Miquelon

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands

Syrian Arab Republic

Trinidad and Tobago

Turks and Caicos Islands

United Arab Emirates

United States Minor Outlying Islands

United States Virgin Islands

Vatican City State (Holy See)

Virgin Islands (UK)

Wallis and Futuna Islands

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