The Summit´s Speakers

  • Dr. Sönke Bästlein, Director Asia House, McKinsey & Company, Germany
  • Ole von Beust, First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic
    City of Hamburg, Germany
  • Lance Browne, Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank, PRC
  • Cao Baijun, President, China Economic Cooperation Centre (CECC), PRC
  • Prof. Chen Ming-Jer (Author of: ‘Inside Chinese Business’), Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration, The Darden School, University of Virginia, USA
  • Dr. Peter Cornelius, Chief Economist, Royal Dutch / Shell Group, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Karl-Joachim Dreyer, President, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce / Speaker of the Board, HASPA Hamburger Sparkasse, Germany
  • Dr. Klaus Ebermann, Ambassador, Head of the European Union Delegation to China, PRC
  • Ulrich W. Ellerbeck, Member of the Board of Managing Directors, HSH Nordbank AG
  • Dr. Marc Faber, Managing Director, Marc Faber Limited / Author and Publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, Hong Kong
  • Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
  • Dr. Heike Holbig, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Asian Affairs, Germany
  • Fred Hu Ph. D., Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Asia, Hong Kong
  • Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Iseux, Special member of the Chinese Upper-House of Parliament and Adviser to the Ministry of Commerce, PRC
  • Jiang Zhou, Managing Director, Huapeng Trading GmbH, Germany
  • Ian Johnson, Bureau Chief Germany, The Wall Street Journal, Germany
  • Dr. Andreas Kreimeyer, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF AG, Germany
  • Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor, Prime Minister´s Office, Republic of Singapore (via satellite)
  • Dr. h.c. Bernd Leißner, President, Volkswagen Group China, Germany
  • Liu Yong-hao, Chairman, New Hope Group / President, Hope Group / Vice Chairman,
    China Minsheng Banking Corporation, PRC
  • Christof G. Maetze, Global Head of International Products and Financial Institutions,
    Dresdner Bank AG, Germany
  • Dr. Werner Marnette, Chairman of the Board, Norddeutsche Affinerie AG, Germany
  • Stefan Matz, Director International Business, Hamburg Business Development Corporation, Germany
  • H.E. Prof. Dr. Mei Zhaorong, Honorary Director, Institute of World Development, State Council Development Research Center / Special Consultant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Vice Chairman, China Institute of International Strategic Studies, PRC
  • Prof. Dr. Robert A. Mundell, Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics, Columbia University, USA
  • David Murphy, Beijing Correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review, PRC
  • Nan Cunhui, Chairman and President, CHINT Group, PRC
  • John F. Perkowski, Chairman & CEO, ASIMCO Technologies Limited, PRC
  • Mark Qiu Ph. D., CFO & Senior Vice President, CNOOC China National Offshore Oil Corporation Limited, PRC
  • Dr. Frank Jürgen Richter, President, Horasis / Former Director, World Economic Forum, France
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Rohkamm, Chairman, OAV German-Asia Pacific Business Association, Germany
  • Otto Schily, Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany
  • Helmut Schmidt, Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, Germany
  • Dr. Ludwig Schmucker, Managing Director, Berenberg Consult GmbH, Germany
  • Hans-Otto Schrader, Member of the Executive Board, OTTO Group , Germany
  • Nikolaus W. Schües, Conference Chairman / Former President of the Hamburg
    Chamber of Commerce / Shipowner, Germany
  • Patrick T. Siewert, Group President East and South Asia, The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, Hong Kong
  • Dr. Stefan Simons, Editor, Der Spiegel, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar, President, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. h.c. Horst Teltschik, Chairman, Teltschik Associates, Germany
  • Dr. Gert Vogt, ASEM Spokesman of German Business / CEO, Sterling Invest AG, Switzerland
  • Dr. Henning Voscherau, Former Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg / Former Member and President of the Federal Council of Germany, Germany
  • Marcus Wallenberg, President and CEO, Investor AB, Sweden
  • Capt. Wei Jiafu, Group President & CEO, China Ocean Shipping Group Co. (COSCO), PRC
  • Dr. Horst-Henning Wolf, former Senior Vice President Technical Purchasing, BMW Group, Germany
  • Dr. Bruno Wu, Chairman, Group Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director, Sun Media Group Holdings Limited / Executive Chairman, Sun Media Investment Holdings Limited, Hong Kong
  • Prof. Xu Xiaonian, Professor of Economics and Finance, CEIBS, PRC
  • Yang Lan, Chairwoman, Sun Media Investment Holdings Limited / Delegate of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, PRC
  • Yu May Wong, Managing Director, HSH Nordbank AG, Hong Kong
  • Prof. Dr. Maximilian von Zedtwitz, Director of the Research Center for Global R&D Management, University of St. Gallen / Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Tsinghua University, Switzerland
  • Zeng Peiyan, Vice Premier, People’s Republic of China / Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, PRC
  • Zhang Yue, Chairman, Broad Air Conditioning, PRC
  • Jonathan Zhu, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia Limited, Hong Kong
  • Bernd Ziesemer, Editor in Chief, Handelsblatt, Germany