Berlin Economic Forum 2025

"International Business, Sustainable Investments & Environmental Projects for Advancing Global Development, Democracy and Peace"

(Berlin; March 3rd - 6th, 2025)

Forum Speakers & Delegates

Speakers for the Forum include (among others) the following Dignitaries:

Ahmet Aras
Mayor of Muğla Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey		 Akkan Suver
President of the Marmara Group Foundation		 Albert Ramdin
Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business, and International Cooperation of the Republic of Suriname
Aliou Barry
Ambassador of Guinea to Berlin		 Ana Polak Petrič
Ambassador of Slovenia to Germany		 André Azoulay
Consellor to H.M. King Mohammed VI, Morocco
Andrian Iastremschi
President of the Moldovan Stock Exchange		 Ann Linde
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden 2019-22		 Anette Ustrup Svendsen
Head of Corporate Communications of Scandlines Danmark ApS
Attila Gyorgy
State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Finance of Romania 		 Aureliu Ciocoi
Ambassador of Moldova to Berlin		 Bamir Topi
President of Albania 2007-12
Boris Tadić
President of Serbia 2004-12		 Boris Petrović-Njegoš
Member of the House of Petrović-Njegoš; Son and Heir Apparent to Nicholas, Prince of Montenegro		 Carlos James
Minister of Tourism of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
Celso Amorim
Chief Advisor to the President of Brazil for Foreign Policy; Minister of Foreign Affairs 2003-10		 Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 2010-14		 Charles Fernandez
Minister of Tourism, Investment and Economic Development of Antigua and Barbuda
Damir Arnaut
Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Germany 		Clement Kayitakire
Chief Executive Officer of the East Africa Exchange (EAX)		 Dimitris Avramopoulos
European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship 2014-19; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece 2012-13; Mayor of Athens 1995-2002
Davor Filipovic
Former Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Croatia 		Denitsa Dimitrova Simeonova
Chairperson of the Committee on EU Affairs of Bulgaria		 Emil Constantinescu
President of Romania 1996-2000
Erkki Tuomioja
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland 2000-07, 2011-15		 Etleva Kadilli
Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF		 Francesca Amfitheatrof
Artistic Director for Watches and Jewelry at Louis Vuitton
Galo Enrique Sandoval Duque
Vice Minister of Culture and Heritage of Ecuador		 George Panteli
Director General of the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth 		 Gjorge Ivanov
President of North Macedonia 2009-19

Hamid Younis Saleh
Undersecretary of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for Refining Affairs

 Harris C. Georgiades
Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Foreign and European Affairs of Cyprus		 Heidi Heitkamp
United States Senator from North Dakota 2013-19
Ibrahim Faisal
Minister of Tourism of the Maldives		 Ioannis Kefalogiannis
Deputy Minister of National Defence of Greece		 Irina Bokova
Dierctor General of UNESCO 2009-2017
Ivan Ivanov
Chairman of the Board, International Center Alliance of Civilizations		 Ivo Josipović
President of Croatia 2010-15		 Jacob Mwale
Executive Director of Zambian Commodities Exchange (ZAMACE)
Jan Vapaavuori
Head of the Finnish Olympic Committee, Former Mayor of Helsinki, Former Minister of Economic Affairs		 Jean-Philippe Chauzy
Chief of Mission, IOM Germany		 Jekaterina Rojaka
Member of the Parliament of Lithuania
Katarzyna Ueberhan
Member of the Polish Parliament		 Leila Ali Elmi
Member of the Parliament of Sweden		 Lorenzo Castillo Barvo
Deputy Minister of Business Development of Colombia
Luis Carlos Reyes Hernández
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia		 Luitpold Prinz von Bayern
Head of König Ludwig Schlossbrauerei; Member of the House of Wittelsbach		 Mariana Oleskiv
Chairperson of the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine 
Martin Frick
Director of the WFP Global Office Berlin		 Mabrouka Othman Oki
Senior Libyan Politician		 Már Guðmundsson
Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland 2019
Massimo d'Alema
Prime Minister of Italy 1998-2000; Minister of Foreign Affairs 2006-8		 Meenakshi Lekhi
Former Minister of State for External Affairs of India

 

 Michel Liegeois
Senior Professor in International Relations and Security Studies at UCLouvain (Belgium)
Miguel Ángel Moratinos
United Nations Under-Secretary-General, High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations		 Miguel Pedro Sousa Monteiro
President of the Board of Directors of Cape Verde Stock Exchange		 Mladen Ivanic
Chairman of Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina 2014-15, 2016-17
Mohamed Said Salim Dahalani
General Director, National Agency of Maritime Affair (ANAM), The Government of Union of Comoros		 Mohammad Haneef Atmar
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (2020-21); Minister of Interior (2008-10); Minister of Education (2006-08)		 Mohammed Omran
Former Executive Chairman of the Egyptian Exchange
Natalia Gavrilița
Prime Minister of Moldova 2021-23		 Nina Gregori
EUAA Executive Director, European Union Agency for Asylum		 Nicola Sturgeon
First Minister of Scotland 2014-23
Nondas Metaxas
Former Founder & CEO ot the Cyprus Stock Exchange		 Oscar George
Minister of Culture, Youth, Sports and Community Development of Dominica		 Pablo Hernández de Cos
70th Governor of the Bank of Spain 2018-24
Peter Jambrek
Rector of the New University, Slovenia		 Rajeeva Bandaranaike
Chief Executive Officer, Colombo Stock Exchange		 Randall Dolland
Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Grenada Tourism Authority
Sanita Osipova
Judge of the Supreme Court of Latvia		 Saqlain Syedah
Ambassador of Pakistan to Berlin 		 Shovakanta Poudel
Chairman of NEPSE and Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Finance of Nepal
Sok Hour Hong
CEO of the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX)		 Stephanie García Albán
Director of the Anthropological and Contemporary Museum of Ecuador		 Sunil Benimadhu
Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM)
Supachai Panitchpakd
9th Secretary-General of the UNCTAD (2005-2013); 4th Director-General of the World Trade Organization (2002-05)		 Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
Chair of the Alba Party, Scotland

 Zam Nyema
CEO of Samuh, Bhutan