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Based in in Hong Kong and Singapore Ms. Porsche spent more than 10 years working in Asia.

Commuting between Europe and Asia, she advised institutional investors as well as High Networth Individuals on their Asian investments.

Ms. Porsche is one of the Founders of one of the leading political and economic advisory boutiques focused on Asia and Eastern Europe.

Christian Kern has served as Federal Chancellor (Prime minister) of the Republic of Austria and as Chairman of the Socialdemocratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). Before entering politics for three years, he had conducted business for more than 20 years, keeping several Board and C-Level positions in the energy- and rail industry in Austria, Turkey, Italy, and France.

In 2007 he was appointed to the Managing Board of Verbund AG, Austria’s largest energy supplier. In 2010 he was nominated to function as the CEO of the Austrian Federal Railway Group (ÖBB), one of the leading logistics, infrastructure and passenger transport groups in Europe. In 2014 he was elected as the Chairman of the Community of European Railways (CER), based in Brussels.

After his political exit Christian Kern was Managing Partner and owner of The Blue Minds Company/Vienna. The company is investing in and founding ventures with sustainable business models and driving the energy transition.

In September 2022 Christian Kern was appointed CEO of the European Locomotive Group – a company owned by Axa and Credit Agricole.

Christian Kern was born in Vienna in 1966. He holds a Master’s degree in Communication Science from the University of Vienna.

Dr. Philipp Rösler began his career as a physician in the German armed forces. In 2003, he left the German armed forces as a staff physician to devote himself full-time to politics. He was chairman of the Free Democratic Party in Lower Saxony, as well as deputy prime minister and minister of economics, labor and transport.

In 2009, he joined the German government as Minister of Health in Chancellor Merkel’s second cabinet.

In 2011, Philipp Rösler was elected Chairman of the Free Democratic Party in Germany and became Federal Minister of Economics and Technology. At the same time, he also became Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 2013, he left politics and joined the board of the World Economic Forum (WEF) for four years.

This is how he found his way to Switzerland, where he founded his consulting company, Consessor AG, in Zug in 2020 and holds mandates and supervisory board seats in numerous innovative companies worldwide.

Prof. Dr. jur. Herta Däubler-Gmelin, former German Minister of Justice, is a legal scholar and practitioner renowned for her expertise in Constitutional Law, EU Law, International Law, Labour Law, and Data/IT law. Her professional career spans many fields, such as academia, law, and policymaking.

During her tenure as German Minister of Justice from 1998 to 2002, Prof. Däubler-Gmelin spearheaded significant legal reforms, including amendments to the Civil Code, advancements in Family Law, and the enactment of legislation that provided crucial protection to crime victims. She also chaired the Sino-German Government’s Dialogue on Constitutionality and the Rule of Law (Deutsch–Chinesischer Rechtsstaatdialog).

During her career in the Deutsche Bundestag from 1972 to 2009, Prof. Däubler-Gmelin chaired several parliamentary committees, served as in-house counsel, and held the position of Vice President within the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Beyond her ministerial role, she has a long history in parliament and international committees, advocating for human rights and gender equality. She has been a visiting scholar at renowned Universities worldwide, such as Freie Universität Berlin, Peking University, Tongji University in Shanghai, Yale University, and many more.

Prof. Däubler-Gmelin continues to practice law, offering her expertise in mediation, arbitration, labour dispute counselling, compliance, and data/IT issues at Schwegler Rechtsanwälte. Her recent endeavours include chairing expert groups on data protection, media freedom, and housing governance.

SERGE DORNY studied art history, archaeology, musicology, and communication at the University of Ghent and music at the city’s conservatory. In 1983 he joined the La Monnaie/De Munt opera house as dramaturg under Gerard Mortier, before joining the Festival van Vlaanderen, of which he became artistic director in 1989. In 1996, he was appointed Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the resident orchestra at the South Bank Centre in London, which also performs at the Glyndebourne festival’s opera season. He was General Director of the Opéra National de Lyon from 2003 – 2021. In the 2021-22 season, he started his tenure as General Director of the Bavarian State Opera House.

Serge Dorny is a Board Member of the Bayerische Rundfunk and the Concours Reine Elisabeth (Queen Elisabeth Competition) in Brussels. He has also served on the jury of international music competitions, including Helsinki and Bamberg (for conductors) and Monte Carlo (for pianists), and has lectured at the University of Zurich in the Executive Master in Arts Administration study programme and at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

He has received various awards, including an honorary doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2008; he became a Knight of “L’ordre national de la Légion d’honneur” in 2012; Commander of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in 2021, and Officer of the “Order of the Crown” in Belgium in 2013.

His publications include “L’avenir d’un passé” (with Johan Thieleman) and “Penser l´opéra à present” (Actes Sud, 2021).  

Ruediger FRANK is Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, where he established an English language MA program on East Asian Economy and Society (EcoS, https://ecos.univie.ac.at). He is the founder and director of the European Centre for North Korean Studies (ECNK, www.ecnk.eu), a platform for scholars and researchers to pursue multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and comparative research on North Korea.

He holds an MA in Korean Studies and International Relations, and a PhD in Economics. He has written on various topics related to North Korea, including economic history during the 1950s, the connections between ideology and economic reform after the 1990s famine, the transformation of state-socialism, tourism and trade, and the political economy of unification. His most recent books are: (2018) „Unterwegs in Nordkorea: Eine Gratwanderung“, and (2017) „Nordkorea: Innenansichten eines totalen Staates“ (revised edition).

Visiting positions included Columbia University New York, Korea University Seoul, and Seoul National University.

He has advised governments and organizations, has been working in Korea-related councils of the World Economic Forum since 2011, and was named one of the 50 most influential German economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2013.

He tweets as @RFrankVienna.

Prof. Dr. Xuewu Gu is Chair in Political Science/International Relations and Director of Center for Global Studies of Bonn University, Germany. He is the Honorary Chairman of the Association of Chinese Professors in Germany.

His main topics of research encompass theories of international relations, global power shift and international politics of East Asia, as well as Chinese foreign and security policy.

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and bestselling author. He is Founder & CEO of Climate Alpha, an AI-powered analytics platform to forecast asset values and future-proof global real estate, and Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag’s latest book is MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), which was preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012).

Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider held a chair in Chinese politics and international relations at Freie Universität Berlin until October 2020. He currently serves as a partner of the Berlin based consulting company Berlin Global Advisors.

He graduated from the Saar University in 1981 in English language and literature, classical philology, and political science and wrote his doctoral dissertation on “Military and Politics in the People’s Republic of China 1969-1986”. In 1993, he was promoted to the position of full professor.  

Between 1995 and 1998, he was a professor of international relations at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz. After moving to Freie Universität Berlin in October 1998, he served as managing director of the Freie Universität’s Otto Suhr Institute from October 1999 to March 2001 and as dean of the Department of Political and Social Sciences from 2001 to 2003.

Between 2003 and 2016, he was Otto Wolff Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Since 2014, he has been one of the two Deans of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance, Zeit Foundation, Hamburg. In 2020, he joined Berlin Global Advisors (BGA), a global risk consulting company, as a Partner.

Professor Sandschneider is a frequent commentator on German TV and Radio and writes op-eds in German and international newspapers. He is also the author of several books and publications, which can be found here.

Former Federal Minister Annette Schavan looks back on a distinguished career in German politics and diplomacy. Her political career with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) began as chairperson of the Young Union in her city association of Neuss. Former Federal Minister Schavan held esteemed positions in local, state, and federal governments.

She served as a Member of the State Parliament and Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in Baden-Württemberg, as Federal Minister of Education and Science in the Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and as German Ambassador to the Holy See. Former Federal Minister Schavan is actively involved in promoting progress in civil society, culture, education, and science.

Dr. h.c. Otto Schily is a German lawyer and politician born on July 20, 1932, in Bochum, Germany. He began his career as a lawyer in 1963 after completing his law studies in Munich and Hamburg and his political science studies in Berlin. Schily was involved in several high-profile cases.

In 1980, Schily co-founded the Green Party of Germany and was elected to the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, in 1983. He served as one of the spokespersons for the Green Party of the parliamentary group.

Schily left the Green Party in 1989 and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was appointed as the Federal Minister of the Interior in 1998 and held the position until 2005. During his tenure, Schily oversaw significant changes in German security policies, including the introduction of the German anti-terrorist legislation after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks and the introduction of biometric passports.

After leaving politics, Schily returned to his law practice and continued to be active in public life. He has been involved in numerous cultural and educational initiatives and has written several books on legal and political issues.

In recognition of his contributions to German politics and society, Schily has received numerous honors and awards, such as the Leo Baeck Medal he received in 2005 for his efforts in promoting social justice and tolerance.

Uli Sigg in his career traversed very diverse fields: from journalism to industry to diplomacy as Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia to venture capital investing and to art. Of his extensive interactions in more than forty years with the PR China, two are of historic significance: to establish in 1980 the first industrial joint venture between the PRC and the outside world which marks the beginning of the PRC‘s epochal globalization process; and to form the singular collection of Chinese contemporary art that can represent the story line from its beginnings in the Seventies to the present –  and then restituting 1500 works back to China, to the M+ Museum in Hongkong. He also established 1997 the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Chinese contemporary artists now transformed into the SIGG PRIZE. 

He is a member of the M+ Museum Board, the International Council of New York Modern Art Museum MOMA, International Advisory Council of Tate Gallery, London and of the Board of Kunstmuseum Zürich. Of his various past board seats he now maintains membership in the Swiss IT-group AXON and in the Advisory Board of China Development Bank, Beijing.

Professor Marcos Troyjo is a Transformational Leadership Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society. A former Deputy Economy Minister of Brazil and Special Secretary for Foreign Trade & International Affairs, Professor Troyjo was also President of the New Development Bank (NDB). Professor Troyjo is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He was co-founder and co-director of the BRICLab, Center on Global Economy & Governance, Columbia University, where he taught international affairs, and lectured extensively at universities and think-tanks around the world. He was also Director of the Intelligent Tech & Trade Initiative (ITTI), at the International Chamber of Commerce.

An economist, political scientist and diplomat, he holds a Master’s and a PhD in sociology of international relations from the University of São Paulo and pursued postdoctoral studies at Columbia University.

Troyjo was awarded “The Outstanding Young Persons of the World Prize – TOYP” by JCI (2004), the “Latin America Fellowship-2005” by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the “Invited Foreign Leader” by Japan Economic Foundation in 2012. He is a Research Scholar at CEAQ – Sorbonne and an advisory board member of CEIBS (China-Europe International Business School). Professor Troyjo has authored columns and books on development, technology and global affairs, including Trading Nation, chosen by Americas Quarterly as one of the best new books on policy, economics and business in 2007.

Dr. Xu Feiyu joined nyonic as co-founder since July 2023. Nyonic focuses on establishing large-scale language models to provide generative artificial intelligence applications and solutions across various industries globally. Before co-founding nyonic, Dr. Xu held prestigious roles including Senior Vice President and Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at SAP SE, and Vice President and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Lenovo Group. In these capacities, she was instrumental in guiding the full spectrum of innovation, from foundational research and AI development to productization and market introduction.

Dr. Xu embarked on her academic journey in Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Germany, where she conducted doctoral research with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP). This work laid the groundwork for her extensive contributions to the field. Her career has been marked by several recognitions, including the Google Focused Research Award in 2013. She served as Principal Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). In 2019, Forbes China listed her among the Top 50 Women in Tech, acknowledging her influence and contributions to technology. By 2021, she was recognized by Handelsblatt, as one of the 100 women driving innovation in Germany. Most recently, in 2023, Handelsblatt named her one of the most influential figures in Germany.