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Gala Dinner

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2013 CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Check all speakers confirmed

Reinhard Bütikofer

MEP

European Parliament

Gerhard Schneider

Director General Technics and Logistics

Audi Brussels

James Kanter

Paris & Brussels Correspondent

International Herald Tribune

Schauff Frank

Chief Executive Officer

Association of European Businesses In The Russian Federation

Egbert Lox

Senior Vice-President Government

Umicore

Philippe Lambrecht

Secretary General

Federation of Enterprises in Belgium

Ruth Paserman

Head of Unit

DG Entreprise and Industry, European Commission,

Pierre Alain De Smedt

President

Federation of Enterprises in Belgium

Fernand Dimidschstein

Managing Director, Management Consulting France & Benelux

Accenture

Willem Stevens

CEO

Europe Unlimited

Céline Fremault

Brussels Minister of the Economy and Employment

Aongus Hegarty

President EMEA

Dell

Jean-Michel Glachant

Director

Florence School of Regulation

Peter Löscher

President & CEO

Siemens

Christian Morales

Vice President and General Manager

Intel

Jörg Sievert

Managing Partner

SAP Ventures

Wilhelm Molterer

Vice-President

European Investment Bank

Jean Schmitt

Managing Partner

Jolt Capital

Henryka Bochniarz

President

Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan

Mikael Hagström

Executive Vice President EMEA and Asia Pacific

SAS

Michael Duncan

CEO

Telefónica Digital Europe

A.S. Lakshminarayanan

President

Tata Consultancy Services

William Kennard

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union

Peter Köhler

CEO Weidmüller

Chair of Industrial Affairs Committee BUSINESSEUROPE

Alexander von Gabain

Chairman

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

Alvaro Santos Pereira

Minister of the Economy and Employment, Government of Portugal

Valery Shantsev

Governor of Nizhny Novgorod region

Antonio Tajani

Vice-President & Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship

European Commission

Lisbeth Kirk

Editer-in-Chief

EU observer

Afke Schaart

Senior Director, EU Institutional Relations

Microsoft

Fredrik Erixon

Director

European Centre for International Political Economy

Paul Adamson

Senior European Policy Advisor

Covington & Burling

Karl-Ulrich Köhler

CEO, Managing Director

Tata Steel Europe Limited

Ann Cahill

Europe Correspondent, President

Irish Examiner, International Press Association

José Manuel Barroso

President

European Commission

Joana Drake

Director, SMEs and Entrepreneurship

DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

Eric Cornut

Chief Commercial Officer

Novartis

Pieter Timmermans

CEO

Federation of Enterprises in Belgium

Geert Bruyneel

Managing Director

Volvo Cars Ghent

Markus J. Beyrer

Director-General

BUSINESSEUROPE

Marc Van Gastel

Head of Department Invest

Flanders Investment & Trade

Paulo Andrez

President

European Business Angel and Early Stage Investors Network

Jacques Pelkmans

Senior Fellow

CEPS

Didier Reynders

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Belgium

Karel De Gucht

Commissioner for Trade

European Commission

Pascal Lamy

Director-General

World Trade Organisation

Phedon A. Nicolaides

Director of European Economic Studies

College of Europe

Gérard Worms

Chairman

International Chamber of Commerce

Jan Peter Balkenende

Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands & Chair

Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition

Måns Hultman

Partner at Zobito and Former CEO and Chairman

QlikTech

Helge Lund

CEO

Statoil

Leif Johansson

Chairman

European Round Table of Industrialists, Ericsson

Herman Van Rompuy

President

European Council

Alexey Prazdnichnykh

Managing Director

Eurasia Competitiveness Institute

Björnsdóttir Svana Helen

President

Federation of Icelandic Industries

Stephen Fidler

Brussels Bureau Chief

Wall Street Journal

Bruno Berthon

Global Managing Director, Strategy & Sustainability

Accenture

Alia Papageorgiou

Managing Editor

New Europe

László Andor

Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

European Commission

Philip Lowe

Director-General

Energy European Comission

Rudy Mareel

Entrepreneur

Sandro Bonomi

President

Orgalime, Enolgas Bonomi spa

Geert De Cock

Policy Officer

Food & Water Europe

Mark Spelman

Global Managing Director

Accenture

Tom Crotty

Director

INEOS Group

Harry Sachinis

Chairman and CEO

DEPA

Philippe Haspeslagh

Dean

Vlerick Business School

Michel Tombroff

CEO

Softkinetic

Peter Praet

Member of Executive Board

European Central Bank

André Sapir

Senior Fellow

Bruegel Think Tank

Nikolaas Baeckelmans

Director, European Union Affairs

ExxonMobil

Danny McCoy

CEO

Irish Business and Employers and Confederation

Vincent Van Dessel

Ceo and Chairman

Euronext Brussels

Richard Pelly

Chief Executive

European Investment Fund

Reinhard Quick

Chairman, Managing Director

BUSINESSEUROPE FTA and WTO Working Groups, Brussels Office, VCI

José Furtado

Board Member

Caixa Capital

Alexander Italianer

Director-General for Competition

European Commission

Richard Weber

Vice-President, Executive Associate

EUROCHAMBRES, Karlsberg Brauerei

David Thomlinson

Member of the Global Management Committee and Chief Geographic Strategy & Operations Officer

Accenture

Koenraad Debackere

General Manager, Founder and Chairman

KU Leuven, Leuven Inc.

Jean-Michel Glachant

Director

Florence School of Regulation

José Zurstrassen

Founder

Skynet & Keytrade Bank

Alexander Idrisov

Managing Partner

Strategy Partners Group

Connie Hedegaard

Commissioner for Climate Action

European Commission

Jean Félix

Vice-President

European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations

Bernadette Ségol

General Secretary

European Trade Union Confederation

Ruksana Mirza

Senior Vice President, Sustainable Development

Holcim Group

Richard Straub

Director, President

EFMD, Peter Drucker Society Europe

Neelie Kroes

Vice-President & Commissioner for Digital Agenda

European Commission

Tim Bennett

Director-General

The Transatlantic Business Council

Diana Saraceni

General Partner

360° Capital Partners
International Venture Club

Jürgen R. Thumann

President

BUSINESSEUROPE

Ian Hudson

President EMEA

Dupont

Jonathan Faull

Director-General for Internal Market and Services

European Commission

Oliver Bell

Executive Vice-President

Norsk Hydro

Marion Dewar

Member of Cabinet of Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

European Commission

Vladimir Gruzdev

Governor of Tulia region

Sven Lingiaerde

Managing Partner, Endeavour Vision/ Founder

European Tech Tour

Gabriel Masfurroll Lacambra

Founding Partner and Chairman

Wing 4 Business

Giorgio Squinzi

CEO, President

Mapei, Confindustria

Margot Fröhlinger

Principal Director Patent Law and Multilateral Affairs

European Patent Office

Paula Pinho

Member of Cabinet

Günther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Energy

Karsten Langer

Partner

The Riverside Company

Adrian Van den Hoven

Deputy Director General

BUSINESSEUROPE

Andrea Renda

Senior Research Fellow

Centre for European Policy Studies