Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He led the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999,appearing at its lead candidate in four general elections,before his appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014. Bildt first entered the Riksdag in 1979,holding a seat until 2001. A member of the Bildt family,he is a great-great grandson of Gillis Bildt,who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1888 to 1889.
Alfred Gusenbauer is an Austrian politician who until 2008 spent his entire professional life as an employee of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) or as a parliamentary representative. He headed the SPÖfrom 2000 to 2008,and served as Chancellor of Austria from January 2007 to December 2008. Since then,he has pursued a career as a consultant and lecturer,and as a member of supervisory boards of Austrian companies.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm. It was founded in 1966 and provides data,analysis and recommendations for armed conflict,military expenditure and arms trade as well as disarmament and arms control. The research is based on open sources and is directed to decision-makers,researchers,media and the interested public.
Adam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish researcher,diplomat,and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister. While in that position,Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions,with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.
Niels Annen is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He served as Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office from 2018 to 2021 in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Nike Wagner is a German dramaturge,arts administrator and author. She directed the festival Kunstfest Weimar,and has been the director of the Beethovenfest from 2014. The daughter of Wieland Wagner,she is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner,and a great-great‑granddaughter of Franz Liszt. She devoted books to the Wagner family and its cultural and political influence.
Tom Buhrow is a German journalist who has been serving as intendant of the WDR since 2013.
Ronald Pofalla is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as the Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs from 2009 to 2013,in the second coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. From 2017 to 2022,he was the CEO of the infrastructure department of Deutsche Bahn.
Michael Hüther is a German economist who currently serves as director of the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft. He has previously been the chief economist of DekaBank. Hüther also is an honorary professor at the European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen.
Norbert Alois Röttgen is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was Federal Minister for Environment,Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2009 to May 2012. From 2014 to 2021,he was Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee.
Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of State at the German Chancellery from 2009 to 2013.
Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer is a former German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag,the German federal parliament,from 2002 until 2021.
Nils Schmid is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2018,he has been the SPD parliamentary group's spokesperson for foreign affairs in the German Bundestag.
The Berlin Demography Forum (BDF) is a global,non-partisan platform providing a new impetus to raise awareness of the significance of demographic change both at a national and international level. The forum brings together high-ranking politicians,scientists,business leaders,and representatives of international organisations and civil society to debate potential solutions and to contribute to sustainable development.
Michael Georg Link is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 and again since 2017. In addition to his parliamentary mandate,he has been serving as the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.
Rainer Michael Müller is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2014 to 2021 as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections,representing the Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district.
Peter Limbourg is a German broadcast journalist and the Director General of Deutsche Welle.
Oliver Bäte is a German business executive who is the CEO of Allianz,a position he has held since October 2014.
Helge Reinhold Braun is a German physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Between 2018 and 2021,he served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was the Parliamentary Secretary of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations at the Chancellery between 2013 and 2018.
Siemtje Möller is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since the 2017 elections.
