H.E. Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Foreign Trade, UAE
Ole von Beust, First Mayor and President of the Senate, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Simon Brooks, Vice President, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Klaus Bernhart, General Manager, HSH Nordbank AG, New York Branch, Global Head of Energy, U.S.A.
Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Member of the Board, BASF SE, Hong Kong
Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Group, Hong Kong
Prof. Leonard Cheng, Acting
Dean, School of Business and Management, Chair Professor, Department of
Economics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Lt. General (Ret.) Daniel Christman, Senior Vice President, US Chamber of Commerce, U.S.A.
Dai Wenkai, Deputy President, Chief Economist, Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery (Group) Co. Ltd., P.R. China
Yury Y. Demidov, Chairman of the Board, SCHWARZMEER UND OSTSEE Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft SOVAG, Germany
Dr. Bernd Drouven, Chief Executive Officer, Norddeutsche Affinerie AG, Germany
Jochen Friedrich, Member of the Management Board in charge for the Financial Markets Division, HSH Nordbank, Germany
Prof. Jens Froese, Professor
and Head of Institute of Ship Operation, Sea Transport and Simulation
(ISSUS), Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Professor of
International Logistics Management and Engineering, Jacobs University
Bremen gGmbH, Germany
Dr. Ilham Akbar Habibie, Chairman, Institute for Democratization and Socialization of Technology, Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, The Habibie Center Foundation, Indonesia (confirmed)
Dr. Richard Hausmann, Chairman, German Chamber of Commerce in China, President and Chief Executive Officer of North East Asia Region, Siemens AG, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Ltd., P.R. China
August Wilhelm Henningsen, Chairman of the Executive Board, Lufthansa Technik AG, Germany
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Heseltine CH, Former Deputy Prime Minister and First Minister of State, Chairman, Haymarket Media, U.K.
Frank Horch, President, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Germany
Arding Hsu, Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Technology, Siemens Ltd., China, P.R. China
Anne Marie Idrac, Minister of State to the Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment, with responsibility for Foreign Trade, France
Dr. N. Janardhan, Political Analyst, Gulf-Asia Affairs, Dubai, UAE
Jiang Yiren, Member of the Standing Committee, CPPCC National Committee, Chairman, CFIE Presidium, Chairman, Shanghai Federation of Industrial Economics, P.R. China
Peter Kleinschmidt, Member of the Executive Board, Beiersdorf AG, Germany
Steffen Klusmann, Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times Deutschland, Germany
László Kovács, Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission, Belgium
Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor, Republic of Singapore (via satellite)
Christine Loh, Chief Executive Officer, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong
Lu Weiding, President, Wanxiang Group Corporation, Chairman, CFIE Presidium, P.R. China
David Marsh, Chairman, London and Oxford Capital Markets plc, U.K.
Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, DIE ZEIT, Germany
David O’Sullivan, Director General, Directorate General Trade, European Commission, Belgium
Prof. Lucas D. Papademos, Vice President, European Central Bank, Germany
Prof. Edmund Phelps, Nobel Laureate, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University, U.S.A.
Thomas Richterich, Chief Executive Officer, Nordex AG, Germany