Speakers 2022 – German American Conference

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Arthur Abs

Co-Founder and Chairman of agon e.V.

Mridul Agrawal

President and Co-Founder of iuvando Health

Adefemi Akinsanya

Anchor at Arise News and Nieman Fellow at Harvard

Nicolai Andersen

Managing Partner Consulting, Germany and Central Europe at Deloitte

Sonja Anton

Chief of Staff and Co-Founder of DigitalService4Germany GmbH

Jen Ashman

Head of Envisioning at Other Tomorrows

Bela Bach

Former Member of the German Bundestag

Sister Nathalie Becquart XMCJ

Undersecretary of the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican

Jana Bernhard

CEO of FUSSBALL KANN MEHR gGmbH

Benedetta Berti

Head of Policy Planning at the Office of the Secretary General at NATO

Sharon Block

Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School

Irene Braam

Executive Director at Bertelsmann Foundation (North America), Inc.

Joy Bredehorst

Consultant at Boston Consulting Group

Cornell William Brooks

Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School

Ekkehard Brose

Head of Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik

Jan Shelley Brown

Partner at McKinsey & Company

Tobias Brzoskowski

Director of New Mobility Solutions Hamburg

Heike Buchter

US Correspondent for Die Zeit

Hans-Paul Bürkner

Global Chairman Emeritus of Boston Consulting Group

Taryn Burns

Yoga for Performance Specialist

Marco Buschmann

German Federal Minister of Justice

Reinhard Bütikofer

European Parliament Chair, Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China

Alena Buyx

President of the German Ethics Council

Tadeu Carneiro

Chairman and CEO of Boston Metal

Hillary Cauthen

Director of Performance Services at Texas Optimal Performance & Psychological Services

Emily Channell-Justice

Director of the Harvard Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program

Eva Christiansen

Former Advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook

Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Foundation

E. William Colglazier

Editor-in-Chief of Science & Diplomacy

Joseph N. Cooper

J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto

Former Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Julia De Clerck-Sachsse

Visiting Senior Fellow at German Marshall Fund of the United States

Karen Dynan

Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School

Benjamin Ebert

Chair of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Amani El Jack

Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Floris Engelhardt

CEO and Co-Founder of Kano Therapeutics

Fairlee Fabrett

Director of Training and Staff Development, Child and Adolescent Division at McLean Hospital

Elena Fabritius

Founding Member of the ESG Practice at Brunswick Group

Sara Fazilat

Actress and Producer and Screenwriter of NICO

Henning Fehrmann

CEO of FEHRMANN Tech Group

Stefanie Friedhoff

Associate Professor of the Practice at Brown University School of Public Health

Paulina Fröhlich

Head of Resilient Democracy at Das Progressive Zentrum

Melanie Frowein

Systematic Consultant, Executive Coach, and Member of Due Consultants

Jason Furman

Professor of Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School

Sigmar Gabriel

Former Vice Chancellor of Germany

Peter Gassmann

Global Leader of Strategy& and Global ESG Leader at PwC

Joey Goebel

Author of Vincent (Torture the Artist)

Jan Goetz

CEO and Co-Founder of IQM Quantum Computers

Lauren Goode

Senior Writer at WIRED

Megan Gorges

PhD Candidate at Harvard Business School

Andrew Greenough

Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State

Emily Haber

German Ambassador to the United States

Samy Hamama

Divisional Director of International Relations and Sports Partnerships for Eintracht Frankfurt

Tony Hemmelgarn

President and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software

Antje Herrberg

Senior Mediation Advisor at the European External Action Service and CEO of mediatEUr

Stephan Holzer

CEO of Veritic

Kessely Hong

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and the Faculty Chair of the MPA Programs at the Harvard Kennedy School

Lucy Hornby

Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Robert Jacobi

Founding Partner of The Nunatak Group

Marie Jaroni

Head of Decarbonization at thyssenkrupp steel

Anna Johannes

American Swimmer and 2012 Paralympian

Neil Johnson

Professor at George Washington University

Wiebke Judith

Head of Law & Advocacy at PRO ASYL

Andreas Jung

Executive Board Member at FC Bayern Munich

Jan Kallmorgen

Managing Partner and Founder of Berlin Global Advisors

Jürgen Kalwa

Sports Correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and Deutschlandfunk

Stephanie Kelton

Professor at Stony Brook University

Christiane Kilian

Chairwoman of STIFT (Stiftung für Technologie, Innovation und Forschung Thüringen)

Daniel J W King

Chief of Cybersecurity, Region 1 (New England) for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Yannick Kluch

Assistant Professor at the Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University

Thorsten Klute

Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Hanns Koenig

Head of Commissioned Projects at Aurora Energy Research

Murray Kohl

Vice President of Sales for the New England Patriots

Janine Kopp

Investor and Head of Venture Studio at Takeda Digital Ventures

Sonja Kreibich

Consul General of Germany to the New England States

Philipp S. Krüger

Managing Director at Accenture Security for Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Janina Kugel

Supervisory Board Member and Former CHRO at Siemens

Jörg Kukies

State Secretary for Economic, Finance and European Affairs at the German Federal Chancellery

Sidita Kushi

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bridgewater State University

Jeff Kwasi Klein

Project Lead at EOTO e.V.

Yaena Kwon

TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR

Michael Lake

President and CEO of Leading Cities

Marie-Astrid Langer

US Correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Patty Lee

CEO and Cofounder of Orbit Health GmbH

Claire Leibowicz

Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at The Partnership on AI

Jan Lüdert

Head of Programs at the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York

Fiona Mack

Vice President and Head of CoLABorator at Bayer US

Martin Madaus

Investor & Operating Executive at The Carlyle Group

Apoorva Mandavilli

Science and Global Health Reporter for the New York Times

Father James Martin SJ

Editor at Large, America Magazine and American Jesuit Priest

Chelsea McKelvey

Regional Development Analyst at The Obama Foundation

Lee Moreau

Founding Director of Other Tomorrows

Jennifer Morgan

State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action at the German Federal Foreign Office

Phil Murphy

Governor of New Jersey and Former US Ambassador to Germany

Timo Nentwich

CFO of Siemens Digital Industries Software

Leslie Nicholson

Supply Chain Operations & Digital Business Transformation Lead at Nestlé Canada

Stephanie Oestreich

Chief Business Officer at Galecto

Philipp Offenberg

Senior Manager, Europe at Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Heiko Oldörp

North American Correspondent and Freelance Journalist for ARD, ZDF, and Der Spiegel

Richard Parker

Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School

Franz MJ Pfister

CEO of deepc

Kathy Pham

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Trade Commission in the United States

Victoria Phillips

Immigration Attorney at Wildes & Weinberg

Tim Radville

Head of Brand Experience at Other Tomorrows

Eva Rahner

Scientific Coordinator for Biodiversity and Climate, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Sven Rahner

Head of Secretariat National Skills Strategy Task Force for the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs

Marzia Rango

Migration and Human Mobility Specialist at the UN Operations and Crisis Centre

Abigail Ransmeier

Architect at Behnisch Architekten

Markus Richter

German Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology

Victoria Rietig

Head of the Migration Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations

Christiana Riley

CEO of Deutsche Bank USA Corp

María Risueño

Design Strategist at Other Tomorrows

Sonia Elise Rolland

Professor at Northeastern University School of Law

Jan-Georg Rosenboom

Bioplastics and Drug Delivery Chemical Engineer

Kirsten Rulf

Head of Division for General Digital Policy Issues at the German Federal Chancellery

Nikhil Sahni

Partner at McKinsey & Company

Jeffrey Sánchez

Principal of Sánchez Strategies LLC

Anya Schiffrin

Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications Specialization at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

Dirk Schmitz

Head of Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe at BlackRock

Gregor Pieter Schmitz

Chairman of the Editorial Board at STERN

Oliver Schmolke

Vice Chief of Staff for the Office of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Daniela Schwarzer

Executive Director of the Open Society Foundations for Europe and Eurasia

Jared Sembritzki

Brigadier General in the German Armed Forces and Deputy Commanding General for Integration for U.S. Army Europe and Africa

Philippa Sigl-Glöckner

Founder and Director of Dezernat Zukunft

Calista Small

Research Associate at More in Common

Jeanna Smialek

Federal Reserve and Economy Reporter for the New York Times

Steven Sokol

President of the American Council on Germany

Despina Spanou

Head of Cabinet for European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas

Alfred Spector

Visiting Scholar at MIT and Former CTO and Head of Engineering at Two Sigma

Shira Springer

Sports Journalist and Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management

Ralf Stegner

Member of the German Bundestag and Chair of Foreign Policy Committee

Robert Stoner

Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the MIT Energy Initiative

Rolf Strauch

Chief Economist and Management Board Member at the European Stability Mechanism and the European Financial Stability Facility

Martin Stuchtey

Founder of The Landbanking Group and SYSTEMIQ

Awet Tesfaeisus

Member of the German Bundestag

Kathleen Theoharides

Head of US Offshore (East) at RWE

Rojda Tosun

Co-Founder and Board Member of Young Voice TGD e.V.

Ali Towle

Vice President, Customer Marketing & Brand at Kraft Sports + Entertainment

Jens Ulbrich

Head of the Economics Department at the Deutsche Bundesbank

Andreas Urschitz

Chief Marketing Officer at Infineon

Kostiantyn Usov

Deputy Mayor of the City of Kyiv

Kira Vinke

Senior Scientist at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Kasisomayajula Viswanath

Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Anny Vu

Deputy Director of the Office of China Affairs for the National Security Council

Wolfram von Heynitz

Deputy Consul General at the German Consulate General New York

Gudrun Wacker

Senior Fellow in the Asia Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Martin Waehlisch

Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations

Gerhard Wagner

Elkan Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School

Jim Waldo

Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School

Echo Wang

Reporter for Reuters

Stephen Walt

Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School

Ingmar Weber

Alexander von Humboldt Professor in AI at Saarland University

Benedict Wells

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature

Lothar Wieler

President of the Robert Koch Institute

Dieter Willbold

Co-Founder and Supervisory Board Member of Priavoid

Bishop Dr. Heiner Wilmer

Bishop of the Diocese of Hildesheim

Kyle Wing

Senior Designer and Strategist at Other Tomorrows

Wiebke Winter

Member of the CDU National Board and Chairwoman of Junge Union Bremen

Ali Wyne

Senior Global Macro-Geopolitics Analyst at Eurasia Group

Lauren Zabierek

Director of the Harvard Belfer Center Project on Cyber Security

Cindy Zapata

Clinical Instructor in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program

Lars Zimmermann

Co-Founder of GovTechCampus Deutschland

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For the past 14 years, the German American Conference has provided a space for discussing the world’s most pressing issues. From October 28th-30th, we will host a series of panels, workshops, and networking sessions to bring together leaders, politicians, students, and changemakers.

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