2007 Speakers   

Sanjiv Ahuja, Chairman, Orange Ltd, United Kingdom

Luis Alvarez, President EMEA and Latin America, BT International, BT Plc, United Kingdom

Paz Ambrosy Eyzaguirre, Managing Director & Professor of Entrepreneurship, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid

Jacques Attali, Author and Chairman of Attali & Associés, France

Karlheinz Brandenburg, Professor of the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University llmenau & Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT), Germany

Lino Briguglio, Islands & Small States Institute, Foundation for International Studies, Malta

Mathieu Carenzo, Managing Director, IESE Center for Entrepreneurship, Barcelona

Lluís Carreras, President and Founder, IOR Consulting., Spain

Ian Cloete, President & Professor of Computational Intelligence, International University, Bruchsal, Germany

Alfons Cornella, President, Infonomia, Spain

Joël Decaillon, Political Secretary, Training and Education, ETUC, Belgium

Emiliano Duch, President and Founder, Competitiveness, Spain

Carles Flamerich, President of the Circle of Technology of Catalonia (C-Tecno), Spain

Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University

Andrea Gerosa, Co-founder, Think Young

Bruno Giussani, European Director, TED and Co-founder, Tinex, Switzerland

Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC, UK

Holger Hartmann, Founder and CEO, BadenSolar, Germany

Karoli Hindriks, Founder Goodmood, Estonia

Glenn Hoetker, Resident Associate, Center for Advanced Study, Faculty Fellow, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Associate Professor , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Enrique V. Iglesias, Secretary-General, Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat, Former President, Inter-American Development Bank

Susan Kish, VP Network and Community Practice, Xing, Switzerland

Philippe Li, President of the French Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Attorney at law, Kim & Chang, Korea

Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Lucy Marcus, Chief Executive Officer, Marcus Venture Consulting, United Kingdom

Antoni Martínez, Manager of the Energy Park, b_TEC, Barcelona Innovation and Technology, Barcelona

Andreu Mas-Colell, Professor of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics & Business, Spain

Paul Menmuir, President, A.T. Kearney Spain & Portugal

Ann Mettler, Executive Director, Co-Founder, Lisbon Council, Brussels

Mark Minevich, Partner, Founder and Chairman, Executive Board of Directors, Going Global Ventures Inc, Billion Minds Foundation, USA

Juli Minoves, Ministry Spokesperson, Minister of Culture and Higher Education, Andorra

Hugo Niesing, Co-founder and Director International, WattPic

Herbert Oberhänsli, Head, Economics and International Relations, Nestle SA, Switzerland

Joseph O. Okpaku, President and CEO, Telecom Africa International Corporation, USA

Liz Padmore, Consultant and Former Director of Policy and Corporate Affairs, Accenture

Dirk Pilat, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD, Paris

Jordi Pujol, Former President of Catalonia, Spain

Peter Siderman, Managing Director, Adecco Institute

Frederic Soudain, MyHearth, The Fair Business Group, Belgium

Tan Chin Nam, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore

Ziga Turk, Minister for Growth of Slovenia

Jan van den Biesen, Vice-President & Director, Public R&D Programs, Philips Research, The Netherlands