Status: 16 May 2017

FACULTYThe following speakers participated in the 47th St. Gallen Symposium which took

place from 3–5 May 2017 on the campus of the University of St. Gallen and focused on the topic“The dilemma of disruption”.

Rob Bradley Vice President, Digital Commercial Strategy and Revenue, CNN

Roland Busch Chief Technology Officer & Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG

Santiago Calatrava Architect & Artist

Tim Carter Co-Director & Chief Operating Officer, Peek Vision

Stephan Chambers Director, The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship, London School of Economics

Neal Cross Social Entrepreneur and Chief Innovation Officer, DBS Bank

John Dacey Group Chief Strategy Officer, Swiss Re

Denis Duverne Chairman of the Board of Directors, AXA

Kacem El Ghazzali Co-Scientific Director, Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom

Marcela Escobari Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Omar Abbosh Chief Strategy Officer, Accenture

Samuel Agutu Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Changamka Microhealth Ltd

Sami Atiya President, Robotics and Motion division Member of the Group Executive Committee, ABB Ltd

Anat Bar Gera Chairwoman, Cyverse AG

Andrew Bastawrous Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Peek Vision

Hubertus von Baumbach Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Boehringer Ingelheim

Swan Gin Beh Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board

Heike Bingmann EMG, Management & Organizational Development, ZF Group

Martin Blessing President Personal & Corporate Banking and President UBS Switzerland, UBS Group AG

David Blitzer Managing Director & Chairman of the Index Committee, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Global

Francisco Fernandez Chief Executive Officer, Avaloq

Warren Fernandez Editor, The Straits Times

John Flint Group Managing Director & Chief Executive RBWM, HSBC Holdings plc

Roberta Francis Co-Founder, The Lucy Foundation and Leader of Tomorrow

Christoph Franz Chairman, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

J. Erik Fyrwald Chief Executive Officer, Syngenta

Prof. Joshua S. Gans Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Rotman School of Management

Prof. Timothy Garton Ash Historian, Author and Commentator

Mario Greco Group Chief Executive Officer, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd

Neil Harbisson Cyborg and contemporary artist

Mehdi Hasan Presenter Head to Head and UpFront, Al Jazeera English

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Rachel Haurwitz President & Chief Executive Officer, Caribou Biosciences, Inc.

Beat Hess Statutory Chairman, LafargeHolcim Ltd.

Charles O. Holliday Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc

Thebe Ikalafeng Founder & Chairman,

Brand Leadership Group Ltd

Kuniko Inoguchi Member, House of Councillors, National Diet of Japan

Lance James Chief Scientist, Flashpoint

Vít Jedlička President of the Free Republic of Liberland

Prof. Takaaki Kajita Nobel Laureate in Physics, University of Tokyo

Kersti Kaljulaid President of Estonia

Shira Kaplan Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Cyverse AG

Prof. Michal Kosinski Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University

Ekaterina Kotenko Vice President of Business Development, Astro Digital

James Kuffner Chief Technology Officer, Toyota Research Insitute (TRI)

Ong Ye Kung Minister for Education of Singapore

Leslie Maasdorp Chief Financial Officer, New Development Bank

Prof. Miriam Meckel Publisher, WirtschaftsWoche

Robyn Meredith Executive Director, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.

Evgeny Morozov Author & Columnist

Robert Nemlander Founder, Entocube

Leda Cecilia Samin Master Student of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University and Leader of Tomorrow

Paul Nunes Managing Director, Accenture Research

Stephan Rietiker Chief Executive Officer, LifeWatch

John B. Rogers, Jr. Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Local Motors

Alec Ross Author & Technology Policy Expert

Prof. Deb Roy Director, Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), MIT Media Lab and Chief Media Scientist, Twitter

William Ruh Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, General Electric Company

Susanne Ruoff Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Post

Anders Samuelsen Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Symone D. Sanders Former National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders and Leader of Tomorrow

Sir John Scarlett Former Head of MI6 and Vice Chairman, Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies (RUSI)

Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber Scientific Director, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (IDSIA), University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann Federal Councillor of the Swiss Confederation

Tony Schwartz Ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal and Chief Executive Officer, The Energy Project

Richard Shinn Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AIBrain, Inc

Dan Wagner Serial Tech Entrepreneur

Martin Wolf Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times