Speaker |
Title* |
Year |
| Konrad Adenauer | Grandson of the first chancellor | 2002 |
| Professor Lothar Bisky | Leader, Linkspartei.PDS | 2006 |
| Petra Bläss | Vice-Parliamentary Leader of the PDS | 2002 |
| Willy Bogner | CEO, Bogner; Olympic Skier; Film Producer | 2002 |
| HE Georg Boomgaarden | German Ambassador to the UK | 2009 |
| Dr Rolf E Breuer | President of the Associations of German Banks | 2005 |
| Frank Bsirske | President of ver.di (United Services Union) | 2009 |
| Edelgard Bulmahn | Former Minister for Education and Research | 2006 |
| Dr Jorgo Chatzimarkakis | 2010 | |
| Dr Thomas de Maizière | Chief of Staff and Head of the German Federal Chancellery | 2006 |
| Dr Alexander Dibelius | Head of Germany and Eastern Europe, Goldman Sachs | 2004, 2010 |
| Dr Peter Diesch | Partner, Board Consultants International | 2010 |
| Dr Olav Ermgassen | CEO, Ermgassen & Co | 2002, 2003, 2004 |
| Klaus Ernst | Head of DIE LINKE (Socialist Party) | 2010 |
| Dr Reinhard Erös | Head of German Aid for Afghan Children | 2005 |
| Dr Kurt Faltlhauser | Former Bavarian Minister of Finance | 2010 |
| Joschka Fischer** | German Foreign Minister | 2004 |
| Dr Michel Friedman | TV Host; Former Deputy Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany | 2003, 2006 |
| Lukas Gadowski | Team Europe Ventures | 2010 |
| Joachim Gauck | Former head of the Stasi files releasing agency | 2004 |
| Florian Gerster | CEO, Federal German Employment Agency | 2004 |
| Thomas Gottschalk | TV Host | 2002 |
| Andrew Gowers | Chief Editor, Financial Times | 2005 |
| Professor Dr Wolfgang Grewe | Chairman and Managing Partner EMEA, Deloitte | 2005 |
| Dr Jürgen Großmann | CEO RWE | 2008 |
| Professor Peter Gruss | President, Max-Planck Society | 2006 |
| Dr Gregor Gysi | Chair of Die Linke, Left Party | 2008 |
| Felix Haas | CEO, amiando | 2010 |
| Jens Hofman | Managing Director Finance Group, Goldman Sachs | 2007 |
| Erwin Huber | Former Head of CSU (Christian-Socialist Party) | 2010 |
| HE Wolfgang Ischinger | German Ambassador to the UK | 2007, 2008 |
| Peter Jungen | Entrepreneur; President, European Business Angels Network | 2003 |
| Carsten Kengeter | Partner and Co-Head of FICC Distribution Europe, Goldman Sachs | 2005 |
| Dr Jürgen Kluge | Head, McKinsey Germany | 2004 |
| Charlotte Knobloch | President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany | 2008 |
| Professor Dr Annette Koehler | Leipzig Graduate School of Management | 2005 |
| Berthold Kohler | Editor Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) | 2009 |
| Martin Korbmacher | Head of Global Equity, Dresdner Bank AG | 2002 |
| Dr Otto Graf Lambsdorff | Former Minister of Economics | 2007 |
| Jens Lehmann | FC Arsenal, German National Football Team | 2008 |
| Ursula von der Leyen** | Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth | 2007 |
| Max Maldacker | First Counsellor for Political Affairs, German Embassy, London | 2004 |
| Dr Antonella Mei-Pochtler | Senior Partner of the Boston Consulting Group | 2008 |
| Frank Mattern | Head, McKinsey Germany | 2007, 2009, 2010 |
| Dr Thomas | Matussek German Ambassador to the UK | 2003 |
| Wolfgang | Mayrhuber Chairman and CEO, Lufthansa AG | 2007 |
| Angela Merkel** | Chair of the CDU | 2003 |
| Friedrich Merz | German MP, Dept. leader of CDU/CSU faction in the German Bundestag | 2003 |
| Professor Hans Mommsen | European Historian | 2003 |
| Dr Claus Mueller | Political Department, German Embassy to the UK | 2002 |
| Dr August Oetker | Chairman, Dr. August Oetker KG | 2010 |
| Ferdinand Oetker | Member of the Oetker Family | 2002 |
| Sir Geoffrey Owen | Former Chief Editor, Financial Times; LSE Managerial Economics and Strategy Group | 2003, 2007 |
| Cem Özdemir | MEP, The Greens/European Free Alliance | 2004, 2006 |
| Hans Peter Peters | CEO, Peters Associates | 2005 |
| Dr Marcel Reichart | Managing Director, Hubert Burda Media | 2006 |
| Andreas Ritter | Board of Directors, Allianz Venture Partners GmbH | 2002 |
| Claudia Roth | Head of Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen (Green Party) | 2010 |
| Colin T Roy | Head, Greenhill Germany | 2005, 2007, 2008 |
| Max Scheder-Bieschin | Managing Director, Corporate Advisory Group, Deutsche Bank AG | 2003 |
| Otto Schily | Former Minister of the Interior | 2007 |
| Wolfgang Schäuble | Federal Minister of the Interior | 2003, 2009 |
| Rezzo Schlauch | Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour | 2004 |
| Nikolaus Schmeja | Colonel, retired | 2005 |
| Christian Schmidt | Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defence | 2009 |
| Harald Schmidt | Late night talk host | 2003 |
| Ulla Schmidt | German Federal Minister of Health | 2005 |
| Felix Schönauer | London Correspondent, Handelsblatt | 2004 |
| Gerhard Schröder | Former Chancellor of Germany | 2007 |
| Fedor Schulten | Swiss Advisory Group, Goldman Sachs | 2006 |
| Dr Hajo Schumacher | journalist, n24 | 2008 |
| Professor Gesine Schwan | SPD Candidate for President of Germany | 2009 |
| Professor Dr Wilhelm Simson | CEO, E.ON | 2002 |
| Joachim Spill | Co-Head, Transaction Services, Ernst & Young Europe | 2006 |
| Robin Stalker** | CFO Adidas Group | 2008 |
| Dr Christoph Stanger | Managing Director, Goldman Sachs | 2003, 2004 |
| Dr Bernd Stecher | Chief Economist, Siemens AG | 2003 |
| Peer Steinbrück | Former German Minister of Finance | 2010 |
| Barry Stickings | Chairman BASF plc | 2002, 2003 |
| Alexander Straub | CEO, Straub Ventures | 2010 |
| Gisela Stuart, MP | Labour MP | 2008 |
| Dr h.c. Wolfgang Thierse | Vice-President of German Parliament | 2010 |
| Dr Michael Träm | CEO, A.T. Kearney Central Europe | 2005 |
| Professor David Vande Linde | Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick | 2006 |
| Günter Verheugen | EU-Commissioner for Enlargement | 2003 |
| Thomas Walde | ZDF-Correspondent in London (Public Broadcasting) | 2010 |
| Professor Dr Norbert Walter | Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank AG | 2003,2005,2006, 2009 |
| Dr Guido Westerwelle | Chair, FDP/Die Liberalen | 2007 |
| Ulrich Wickert | Author / journalist | 2010 |
| Hans-Heinrich Wrede | Ambassador of Germany to the UNESCO in Paris | 2006 |
| Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann | President German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Director IZA, Bonn (Institute for the Study of Labor), Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin | 2008 |
| Archbishop Dr Robert Zollitsch | Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church | 2009 |
* At time of most recent attendance
** Speakers during the academic year