2018 Speakers
The Forum unites hundreds of speakers from around the globe, representing a variety of sectors – local and national governments, international organizations, NGOs, large companies, philanthropy, academia, media, and more. This multi-stakeholder approach ensures a comprehensive balance of sectors, themes, and geographical areas. Everyone from high profile personalities, project experts and actors of civil society take part in open dialogue, standing united in diversity as they discuss solutions rather than problems.
The Forum serves as a platform upon which state and non-state actors engage in transnational cooperation for collective action. Renowned speakers are brought together to lend their expertise in a rigorating program covering both precise questions as well as transversal topics.
HEADS
OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT
Over 10% of 2018 participating speakers directly represented state and local governments. Dialogue between Heads of State and Government, project leaders, and participants from all over the world took place in various formats, sharing governance ideas in their own countries, and exchanging with academics and experts in various masterclasses and roundtable contributions.
LEADERS
OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Roughly 20% of the 2018 participating speakers represented international organizations, gathered to lend their expertise in close exchange on global governance issues.
OTHER ACTORS
OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
The remaining 70% of the 2018 speaker profiles represented NGOs of all sizes, media, academia and research, philanthropy, global companies, trade unions and employers’ associations, and religious organizations, brought together to discuss and promote innovative solutions to global governance challenges.
Heads of State and Government
ALVARADO QUESADA
Carlos
President
- The Right Time for a Global Pact for the Environment?
MACRON
Emmanuel
President
SOLBERG
Erna
Prime Minister
Leaders of International Organizations
AZOULAY
Audrey
Director-General
GURRIA
Angel
Secretary-General
RYDER
Guy
Director-General
Other actors of global governance
ABDI ALI
Fauzyia
Founder and President
- Collective Traumas: Healing the We
ADAMSKI
Lucacz
Deputy-Director
AL OLAMA
Omar
Minister
AL-KHATER
Khalid
Director of Policy and Planning Department
ALLAM
Miriam
Head of MENA Governance Programme
ALLAN
Richard
Vice-President for Policy Solutions
- Fair Elections: A New Digital Horizon
ANDERSSON
Mats
Vice-Chairman
- Finance for Climate: A Way to Go Forward, a Way to Go Faster
ANDHERIA
Anish
President
- Saving Biodiversity from the Cliff
ANDRIEUX
Véronique
CEO
- Food Security: Bedrock of Stability, Cornerstone of Peace
ANNAN
Roberta
Founder
ANTOINE
Stéphanie
Journalist
BADRE
Bertrand
Founder and CEO
- Financing SDGs: Is Orange the New Blue?
BAGE
Lennart
Co-Chair
- Finance for Climate: A Way to Go Forward, a Way to Go Faster
BARUCCO
Armando
Director of Department of Political Planning
BASSOU
Abdelhak
Senior Fellow
BEIER
Christoph
Vice-Chair of the Management Board
BENKLER
Yochai
Professor
BENNER
Thorsten
Co-Founder and Director
- Antarctica: Poster-Child or Sick Man of Multilateralism?
BHATIA
Monica
Head of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information
- Fiscal Erosion and Tax Evasion: Connecting the Dots
BOCCUNI
Andrea
Head of Partnership
- Democracy With a Bustling ‘Demos’
BOMBERGER
Kathryne
Director-General
BORD-LAURANS
Mathilde
Head of the Energy unit
- Lights on for Innovation in Energy!
BORDES
Antoine
Director for AI Research Science
BOUCHAMAOUI
Ouided
BOUSQUET
Franck
Senior Director for Fragility, Conflict and Violence
- Smarter Aid in Fragile Contexts
BRAHIMI
Lakhdar
Member
BREYER
Stephen
Associate Justice
BRIDGETT-JONES
Sundaa
Senior Associate Director
- Smarter Aid in Fragile Contexts
BROOKIE
Graham
Director of the Digital Forensic research Lab
- Fair Elections: A New Digital Horizon
BROOKS
Cassandra
Assistant Professor
- Antarctica: Poster-Child or Sick Man of Multilateralism?
CALDAS
Alexandre
Chief of Country Outreach and Technology Division
- Share Knowledge, Save the Planet
CARBONNIER
Gilles
Vice-President
CASS-BEGGS
Duncan
Counsellor for Strategic Foresight
CHERGUI
Smail
Commissioner for Peace and Security
-
Restoring Faith in the UN Security Council
- UN - UA: Joint Perspectives on Crafting Sustainable Peace
CHETCUTI
Pauline
Head of Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy
- United Against Inhumanity: A Call to Action
CIPRIANI
Simone
Founder and Chief Technical Advisor
CONCHOU
Odile
Head of Social Link, Gender, Sport and Development Unit
- Women Deliver Peace
CROWELL
Colin
Vice-President for Public Policy
CUNLIFFE
Chip
Head of Sustainable Development
- Oceans: The Incomplete Governance
DA SILVA
Jorge Moreira
Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate
- Smarter Aid in Fragile Contexts
DAUCHEZ
Alex
CEO
- For a Sustainable Democracy: A Global Movement of CivicTechs
DE CLERMONT
Jean-Arnold
DE CLERMONT
President
The Pharos Observatory
President
DE LA CHAPELLE
Bertrand
Executive-Director
- Laws Online: The Geography of Cyberspace
DE MONTBRIAL
Thierry
Founder and President
DE ROQUEFEUIL
Léonore
President
- For a Sustainable Democracy: A Global Movement of CivicTechs
DECKER
Erick
Head of Investment
- Finance for Climate: A Way to Go Forward, a Way to Go Faster
DEGALLAIX
Serge
Director-General
- One Belt One Road: Two Options for Multilateralism?
DELETROZ
Alain
Director-General
- Stand for Peace, Care for Health
DELMAS-MARTY
Mireille
Professor
- International Mobility: Beyond the Migration Compact
DELPHIN
Hervé
Head of Division for Strategic Planning
DERVEDET
Michel
Secretary-General
- Lights on for Innovation in Energy!
DEWAN
Sabina
DEWAN
President & Executive Director
JustJobs Network
President & Executive Director
DOYLE
Michael
Professor
- International Mobility: Beyond the Migration Compact
DRUMMOND
Jamie
Co-Founder
DUCLOS
Michel
Senior Fellow
DURANT
Isabelle
Deputy Secretary-General
EKMAN
Alice
Head of China Research
- One Belt One Road: Two Options for Multilateralism?
EKOMO
Kessy Martine
Founder and Executive Director
EL KAROUI
Hakim
Senior Fellow
- Religious Radicalism: A Combat 2.0
EL-ZUBI
Ahmad
CEO
- Boosting Social Impact: The Need for a Culture of Giving
ELOUNDOU ASSOMO
Lazare
Director of Culture and Emergencies
- Universal Heritage: A Vulnerable Asset
ESTRIN
Miriam
Policy Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Religious Radicalism: A Combat 2.0
EZIAKONWA
Ahunna
Assistant Administrator
FABER
Emmanuel
Chairman and CEO
- How about a Business for Inclusive Growth Platform?
FARAG
Mariam
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Boosting Social Impact: The Need for a Culture of Giving
FICARELLI
Giorgio
Senior Adviser on Culture, Education, Health
- Universal Heritage: A Vulnerable Asset
FORST
Michel
Special Rapporteur for Human Rights
FRELAND
Valéry
Executive Director
- Universal Heritage: A Vulnerable Asset
FRITZ
Joachim
Head of the Division on Governance & Conflict
- SDGs: Measuring off, Measuring out
GADEL
Anne
Program Director
- Global Governance: Bottom-up Mode
GAO
Yuanyuan
Minister Counsellor
- One Belt One Road: Two Options for Multilateralism?
GEIGER
Henriette
Director for People and Peace
- Women Deliver Peace
GIRARD
Renaud
Editor
GLIDDON
Derek
Head of Network Coordination Unit
- Share Knowledge, Save the Planet
GOLDSTAUB
Tabitha
Chair
GOMART
Thomas
Director
GONTMAKHER
Evgeny
Member of the Coordination Board
GOOCH
Anthony
Director of Public Affairs and Communication
GOSH
Arunaba
Director-General
- Financing SDGs: Is Orange the New Blue?
GROTH
Sebastian
Deputy Director for Policy Planning
GUEHENNO
Jean-Marie
Member of Secretary General's High Level Advisory Board on Mediation
- United Against Inhumanity: A Call to Action
GUERRY
Anne
Senior Research Scientist
- Nature: A Stakeholder in Global Governance
GUTHRIE
Carol
Head of Media and Public Affairs
HADLEY
Adam
Director
- Tech Efforts to Combat Terrorism Online: A Year of Progress
HAGSTROM
Camilla
Deputy Head of Employment, Social Inclusion, Migration
- International Mobility: Beyond the Migration Compact
HAIGNERE
Claudie
Ambassador
HANSEN
Dennis
Advisor
- Conserving the Aldabra Tortoise Through Regional Cooperation
HAVERKAMP
Gerbrand
Executive Director
- SDGs: Measuring off, Measuring out
HEILBRONN
Pierre
Vice-President Policy and Partnerships
-
The Right Time for a Global Pact for the Environment?
HILGERT
Markus
Secretary General
- Universal Heritage: A Vulnerable Asset
HOCHSCHILD
Fabrizio
Assistant to the Secretary General for Strategic Coordination
HOLMES
John
Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
- Global Powers and The Middle East: Meeting the Challenge of Cooperation
HOPENHAYM
Fernanda
Co-Executive Director
IBRAHIM
Hauwa
ILLOUZ
Jean-Marc
Former Senior Foreign Correspondent
- Food Security: Bedrock of Stability, Cornerstone of Peace
JAIME
Edna
Director
JIN
Keyu
Associate Professor of Economics
KAMAL-CHAOU
Lamia
Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities
- SDGs: Measuring off, Measuring out
KAPLAN
Thomas S.
Chairman
- Conserving the Aldabra Tortoise Through Regional Cooperation
KASTOUEVA-JEAN
Tatiana
Head of Russia-NIS Center
KAUFFMANN
Sylvie
Editor
- Fair Elections: A New Digital Horizon
KAWAKAMI
Tsuyoshi
Principal Fellow
- Share Knowledge, Save the Planet
KHATIBZADEH
Saeed
Vice President for Research, Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS
- Diplomacy: Old Art and New Practices
KHEIR
Eiman
Diaspora Policy Officer
- Religious Radicalism: A Combat 2.0
KIM
Hyo-Jeong
Leader of the Attacks on Health Care Initiative
- Stand for Peace, Care for Health
KING
Julian
Commissioner for Security Union
- Fair Elections: A New Digital Horizon
KLEISER
Andreas
Director for Policy and Coordination
KUMARASWAMY
PR
Professor
- Global Powers and The Middle East: Meeting the Challenge of Cooperation
LACROIX
Jean-Pierre
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
- UN - UA: Joint Perspectives on Crafting Sustainable Peace
LAJEUNESSE
Ross
Global Head of International Relations
LAMY
Pascal
President of the Steering Committee
LAROCCO
James
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Near Eastrn Affairs
- Global Powers and The Middle East: Meeting the Challenge of Cooperation
LAUNAY
Frédéric
LAUNAY
President and CEO
Panthera
President and CEO
- Saving Biodiversity from the Cliff
LEIGHTON
Michelle
Director of the Migration Department
- International Mobility: Beyond the Migration Compact
LENORMAND
Patrice
Deputy Head for Policy Development and Regional Strategy
- Stand for Peace, Care for Health
LEON
Bernardino
Director-General
- Diplomacy: Old Art and New Practices
LEONARD
Mark
Co-Founder and Director
- Second Series of Masterclass: Crafting Sustainable Peace
LETTA
Enrico
Dean of the School of International Affairs
LINDBORG
Nancy
President
MA
Yo-yo
Cellist and Messenger for Peace
MACKINNON
Rebecca
Director
- Engaging the Digital Industry for Human Rights
MAGNUSSON
Magnus
Director of the Division of Partnerships and Outreach
- Global Governance: The Two Cents of Philanthropists
MAHJOUBI
Mounir
Secretary for Digital Affairs
- For a Sustainable Democracy: A Global Movement of CivicTechs
MAIRE
Jacques
Vice-chair of the Committee of Foreign Affairs
- Global Governance: Bottom-up Mode
MALGUINE
Artem
Vice-Rector
MALIK
Abdul
Global Lead for Economic Development
MALLEY
Robert
President
-
Sober Celebrations for UN Declarations on Human Rights
- UN - UA: Joint Perspectives on Crafting Sustainable Peace
MANSERVISI
Stefano
Director-General for International Cooperation
- One Belt One Road: Two Options for Multilateralism? -
Fighting Climate Change, the Urban Way
MANSOUR
Khaled
Co-Founder & Board Member
- United Against Inhumanity: A Call to Action
MAR DIEYE
Abdoulaye
Assistant Administrator
MARGOT-DUCLOS
Alex
Lead France
- For a Sustainable Democracy: A Global Movement of CivicTechs
MARTINEZ
Esperanza
Head of Health Unit
- Stand for Peace, Care for Health
MENS
Yann
International Editor
- Universal Heritage: A Vulnerable Asset
METTLER
Ann
Director-General and Head of the European Policy Strategy Centre (EPSC)
MHAISSEN
Rouba
Founder and Director
MOALLIM
Osman
Executive Director
- Collective Traumas: Healing the We
MODEAS
Carlos
European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
MOLLO
Nicole
Executive Director, Conservation
- Conserving the Aldabra Tortoise Through Regional Cooperation
MONTESI
Carla
Director for Planet and Prosperity
- Saving Biodiversity from the Cliff
MORATINOS
Miguel-Angel
Former Minister
- Diplomacy: Old Art and New Practices
MOREL
Pierre
Ambassador and Co-Chair
MORIN
Hervé
Former Minister and President of Normandie Region
MORTON
Oliver
Journalist
- Nature: A Stakeholder in Global Governance - Share Knowledge, Save the Planet
MURAD
Nadia
Founder and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
N'DOUR
Youssou
Artist and Former Minister
NAVIZET
Damien
Head of Climate Change Section
- Financing SDGs: Is Orange the New Blue?
NGARNIM-GANGA
Hélène
Head Policies and Civic Transition
- Smarter Aid in Fragile Contexts
NIKKHOU-O'BRIEN
Maty
Founder and Director
NITSCHKE
Ulrich
Head of Sector Program Values, Religion and Development
NIU
Xinchun
Head of the Middle East Institute
- Global Powers and The Middle East: Meeting the Challenge of Cooperation
OWEN
Mark
Journalist
- Crafting Sustainable Peace: Masterclass #3
- Crafting Sustainable Peace: Masterclass #4
- Crafting Sustainable Peace: Masterclass #5
- Crafting Sustainable Peace: Masterclass #6
OWONO
Julie
Executive Director
- Engaging the Digital Industry for Human Rights
PARK
Han Soal
Associate Legal Officer
- Tech Efforts to Combat Terrorism Online: A Year of Progress
PATRICK
Stewart
Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program
-
Better Policy-Making: Matching Decision-Makers with Think Tankers
- Smarter Aid in Fragile Contexts
PAULSON
Lex
Director of international projects
- For a Sustainable Democracy: A Global Movement of CivicTechs
PEH
Kelvin
Visiting Researcher
- Saving Biodiversity from the Cliff
PESSEZ
Laurence
Director for CSR
- Financing SDGs: Is Orange the New Blue?
PISANI-FERRY
Jean
Holder of the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair
PISARSKI
Maciej
Head of Policy Planning
PLANCARTE
Francisco
President
- Global Governance: Bottom-up Mode
POIRSON
Brune
Secretary of State for the Environment
- Conserving the Aldabra Tortoise Through Regional Cooperation
POWELL
Joseph
Deputy CEO
- Democracy With a Bustling ‘Demos’
PUSHPENDRA YADAV
Megha
Lead-Strategic Communication
- Lights on for Innovation in Energy!
RAMOS
Gabriela
Chief of Staff
RAMOS-HORTA
José
RANKOVIC
Aleksandar
Senior Research Fellow, Lead on Post-2020 International Biodiversity Governance
- Nature: A Stakeholder in Global Governance - Saving Biodiversity from the Cliff
RAZZOUK
Assaad
CEO
- The Power of Blockchain
REED
Matt
CEO
- Boosting Social Impact: The Need for a Culture of Giving
RESSA
Maria
CEO
RICHARD
Noëlla
Youth Global Program Manager
RICHARDSON
Rashida
Director of Policy Research
RIOUX
Rémy
CEO
ROCHETTE
Julien ROCHETTE
Ocean Program Director
- Oceans: The Incomplete Governance
ROJKOFF
Audrey
Deputy Director of Climate Division
- Finance for Climate: A Way to Go Forward, a Way to Go Faster
RÖDER
Friederike
Director for Europe & France
- Women Deliver Peace
SACHS
Jeffrey
Director
- How about a Business for Inclusive Growth Platform? -
Inequalities: Globalization Shooting Itself in the Foot?
SACK
Karen
Managing-Director
- Antarctica: Poster-Child or Sick Man of Multilateralism?
SAINT-AMANS
Pascal
Director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration
- Fiscal Erosion and Tax Evasion: Connecting the Dots
SALTMAN
Erin
Policy Manager, Dangerous Organizations
- Tech Efforts to Combat Terrorism Online: A Year of Progress
SANTALA
Satu
Director-General for Development Policy
- Fiscal Erosion and Tax Evasion: Connecting the Dots
SCHELER
Ronja
Program Director
- Women Deliver Peace
SCOTT
Mark
Chief Technology Correspondent
- Laws Online: The Geography of Cyberspace
SEN
Amartya
SESAN
Gbenga
Executive Director
- Engaging the Digital Industry for Human Rights
SHAIKH
Salman
Founder and CEO
- Global Powers and The Middle East: Meeting the Challenge of Cooperation
SHAPIRO
Jeremy
Director of Research
- Global Governance: The Two Cents of Philanthropists
SHARIF
Maimunah Mohd
Executive Director
SILVA
Maria Luisa
Geneva Director
- SDGs: Measuring off, Measuring out
SIMONS
Paul
Deputy Executive Director
- Lights on for Innovation in Energy!
SINGH
Michael
Managing-Director
SMITH
Brad
President
SOROS
Alexander
Global Board Deputy Chair
- Global Governance: The Two Cents of Philanthropists
STAGNO-UGARTE
Bruno
Deputy Executive Director
STAUSBOLL
Hans
Director EU - Africa Relations, East and Southern Africa
- Collective Traumas: Healing the We
STEPANOV
Oleg
Director for Policy planning
STÜBER
Vincent
Researcher
- Food Security: Bedrock of Stability, Cornerstone of Peace
TALAAT
Amr
Minister
- The Power of Blockchain
TISNE
Martin
Investment Partner
TORKUNOV
Anatoly
Rector State’s University in Moscow
- Diplomacy: Old Art and New Practices
TRENIN
Dmitrij
Director
- Global Powers and The Middle East: Meeting the Challenge of Cooperation
TRENT NORRIS
Catherine
International Correspondent
- Oceans: The Incomplete Governance - Stand for Peace, Care for Health
TRIWIBOWO
Darmawan
Executive Director
- Democracy With a Bustling ‘Demos’
TUBIANA
Laurence
CEO
-
Fighting Climate Change, the Urban Way
- People Power: Collective Inteligence in a New Era of International Co-Operation
VAÏSSE
Justin
Director General
- French Perspectives on Crafting Peace
- UN - UA: Joint Perspectives on Crafting Sustainable Peace - Closing Ceremony
VEDRINE
Hubert
Former Minister
VULOVIK
Visna
Assistant Director
- Women Deliver Peace
WALDEN
Alex
Counsel Free Expression Rights
- Tech Efforts to Combat Terrorism Online: A Year of Progress
WHITE
Aidan
President and Founder
WITTKAMPER
Jonah
President
- Global Governance: The Two Cents of Philanthropists
WÖRSDOERFER
Mechthild
Director for Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks
- SDGs: Measuring off, Measuring out
YODER-MAINA
Angela
Executive Director
- Collective Traumas: Healing the We
YURGENS
Igor
Chairman of the Management Board
-
Between Words and War: International Sanctions in Question
- Bringing Back Diplomatic Trust: A Role for Civil Societies