Speakers of 2022

Gautam Kumra McKinsey & Company
Asia Chairman

Hyung Goo Kang Hanyang University
Associate Professor in Finance

Kyung-wha Kang Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ewha Womans University

Steven Kang Samil PwC
ESG Platform Leader

Kumsil Kang People for Earth Foundation
Chairperson

Hong-Kyu Kang Doosan Enerbility
Vice President of Nuclear Sales & Marketing

Hyunchul Ko Wonik QnC
Executive Vice President & CTO

Gyungyul Kong Foodpang
CEO

Sangjoon Kwak xCREW
CEO

Jin-Hwe Kweon Gyeongsang National University
Professor of School of Aerospace and Software Engineering

Graciana Petersen McKinsey & Company
Partner

Greg Kennedy King′s College London
Professor

Hee-Eun Kim Center for Asia Pacific Strategy (CAPS)
Founder, President & CEO

Hyunuk Kim Department of Administrative Sciences, Boston University
Assistant Professor

Je Young Kim LG Energy Solutions
Advanced Cell Research Center

Jongyoon Kim Yanolja
CEO

Min Sun Kim Museum of Korean American Heritage
Founder & President

Yong-beom Kim Former Vice Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Korea

Jong-hoon Kim Former Trade Minister of the Republic of Korea

Hyun-Wook Kim Korea National Diplomatic Academy
Professor

Jae Cheol Kim Catholic University of Korea
Professor of International Studies

Won-soo Kim Kyung Hee University
Rector of the Global Academy for Future Civilizations

Si Joong Kim Sogang University
Professor of Graduate School of International Studies

Kwang Hwan Kim Yonsei University
Professor

Kyung-Hwan Kim Sogang University
Professor

Inchul Kim Sungkyunkwan University
Professor Emeritus

SEUNGWOO, KIM
Actor

Mingu Kim Starfield Food Science Technology China
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Sung Kim Upstage
CEO

Jun Beom Kim Seoul National University Business School
Professor

Dong Sub Kim Korea National Oil Corporation
President & CEO

Dae-Kwan Kim Kyung Hee University
Professor of the College of Hotel & Tourism

SangHyup Kim Presidential Committee for Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth
Co-Chairperson

Taehyun Kim POZAlabs
CSO

Yoon Kim Saehan Ventures
Partner

Yonghee Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Professor

Soosung Kim UH2SACOMPANY
CEO

Duk Ki Kim ROK Naval Academy
Professor

Jeong-Hoo Kim City, University of London
Head of Policy & Research Institute

Tai Gyu Kim Korea University Business School
Professor

HeeJip Kim Eneridea
CEO

Kyung-won Na Former Member of National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

Gi-Hoon Nam SHIFTBIO
Co-Founder & CSO

Kitae Nam Seoul National University
Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Neda Ulaby NPR
Art Desk Reporter

Gihyun Ro VideoMonster, Inc.
Chief Strategy Officer

Noor Helmi IX Telecom
CEO

Daniel Aminetzah McKinsey & Company
Senior Partner(New York)

Daniel Wolven Swedish Ambassador to Korea

Doug Rae Carbon Engineering
VP Business Development

Duncan Bonfield International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF)
CEO

David Maxwell Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Senior Fellow

David Jou Pomelo
Co-founder & CEO

David Cameron
The 75th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

David Giordano BlackRock
Global Head of Climate Infrastructure

Desmond Tay GUUD
CEO

Lars Peder Nordbakken Civita
Economist

Reince Priebus The 27th White House Chief of Staff
Chairman of the Republican National Committee (2011-2017)

Raji Arasu Autodesk
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Russell Napier Author of ′The Asian Financial Crisis 1995-1998: Birth of the Age of Debt′

Ray Dalio Bridgewater Associates
Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer

Le Hong Thuy Thien IMEX PAN PACIFIC Group
President & CEO

Prince Lorenzo de Medici

Roman Matla Google
APAC Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Robert Zubrin Mars Society
Founder and President

Robert Einhorn Brookings
Senior Fellow

Roy D. Kamphausen National Bureau of Asian Research
President

Rohit Bhattacharya TiNDLE by Next Gen Foods
CFO

Ron Kim
Member of the New York State Assembly from the 40th district

Rob Anders Niio
Co-Founder & CEO

Keunkwan Ryu Department of Economics, Seoul National University
Professor

Richard Baldwin Graduate Institute, Geneva
Professor

Richard Hatchett CEPI
CEO

Marco Marinucci Mind the Bridge
CEO

Marie-Christine COISNE-ROQUETTE Sonepar
Chair

Maria Ressa CEO of Rappler
2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Maria Benjumea Spain Startup
South Summit President & Founder

Matsushige Yutaka Actor

Maya Rogers Tetris
CEO

Mike Haley Autodesk
VP of Research

Michael. J. Green United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney
CEO

Michael Jeon Solasta Ventures
Managing Partner

Milo Jones Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford
Leading analyst/strategist

Mark Steen Corning Incorporated
VP of Sustainability and Climate Initiatives

Mark Sagar Soul Machines
CEO

Mark Read WPP
CEO

Mark Skousen Chapman University
Presidential Fellow

Mark Tetto TCK Investments
Co-CEO

Mark Loehr OpenExchange
Founder & CEO

Mark Mobius Mobius Capital Partners
Founder & Fund Manager

Mati Kochavi Coach AI
Tech&Media entrepreneur

Maximilian Bittner Vestiaire Collective
CEO

Melissa Daimler Chief Learning Officer of Udemy
Author of ′ReCulturing′

Mordechai Sheves Weizmann Institute of Science
Former Vice President

Maurice Levy THE SUPERVISORY BOARD PUBLICIS GROUPE
Chairman

Moshe Ben-Bassat Plataine
Founder

Shmuel (Mooly) Eden Former SVP in Intel Corporation and the president of Intel Israel

Michael Schoellhorn Airbus Defence and Space
CEO

Taeho Bark Lee&Ko
President of the Global Commerce Institute

Woong-Yang Park Geninus
Founder & CEO

John Park Baring Asset Management Korea
Representative Director

Kyung-Ah Park Temasek
Managing Director of ESG Investment

Heong-joon Park Mayor of Busan Metropolitan City

Seongjun Park MALANGHONEY CO.,LTD
CEO

Dong-il Park Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy
Director General for Nuclear Power Industry Policy

Younggun Park GAMDONG INC.
CEO

Hyung Jin Park Coptiq Co., Ltd
CEO & Co-Founder

Ban Ki-moon United Nations
The 8th Secretary General

Bob Sternfels McKinsey & Company
Global Managing Partner

Bob Moritz PwC
Global Chairman

Seung-Wook BAEK Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS)
Director of Policy and Strategy Division

Young Jay Paik Philip Morris Korea Inc.
Managing Director

Valerie Ramey University of California, San Diego
Professor of Economics

Bernard M. Hoekman Global Economics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI)
Professor and Director

Ben Nelson Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva Project
Chancellor, Minerva University

Brunello Cucinelli Brunello Cucinelli
Executive Chairman

Vinod Vaikuntanathan MIT
professor of computer science

Victor Cha CSIS
Senior Vice President for Asia and Korea Chair

Victoria Coleman United States Department of the Air Force
Chief Scientist

Victoria Slivkoff Extreme Tech Challenge
Executive Managing Director

Vincent Koen OECD
Head of Division, Country Studies

Sara Sutton FlexJobs
CEO

Sarosh Mistry Sodexo
North America Chair

Sandhya Sriram Shiok Meats
Group CEO & Co-founder

Sameer Singh TikTok
VP of Global Business Solutions, APAC

Sam Altman OpenAI
CEO

Xiang Bing Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
Founding Dean

Hyejin Sul V Platform Co., Ltd.
CEO

Sorah Seong WR3P
Co-founder & CEO

Sung Y. Kim U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia & U.S. Special Representative for the DPRK

Taeyoon Sung Yonsei University
Professor

Yongjun Sung Korea University Department of Psychology
Professor

Sébastien Borget Sandbox
Co-Founder and COO

Shayn Hawthorne AWS Aerospace & Satellite Solutions Division
Space Technology Leader

Young Sohn Walden Catalyst Ventures
Founding Managing Partner

Jie-ae Sohn Ewha Womans University
Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies

Yul Sohn Yonsei University
Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies

Alex Song Shinsegae Food, Better Foods
CEO

Kyungjin Song Innovative Economy Forum
Executive Director

Stephen Roach Yale University
Senior Fellow

Yuji Shimizu Film (BSF) Technology & Production of Toray Industries
General Manager

Sanghoon Shin Greenlabs
Founder & CEO

Jhinyoung Shin Korea Capital Market Institute
President

Anousheh Ansari X PRIZE Foundation
CEO

Anindya Ghose NYU Stern
Professor

Adam Benayoun Collider Ventures
Founding Partner

Asaf Ashkenazi Everysight
CEO

Aireen Omar Capital A
President(Ventures)

Ho-Young Ahn University of North Korean Studies
Former President

Byongjin Ahn Global Academy for Future Civilizations, Kyung Hee University
Professor

Cheol-soo Ahn Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

Alexander Tkachenko VNX
Founder and CEO

Ali Izadi BloombergNEF
Managing Director and Head of Asia-Pacific

Abdulla Abdul Aziz AlShamsi Abu Dhabi Investment Office
Acting Director General

Henri de Branche J.P. Morgan
Executive Director & Head of Asia Pacific ESG Advisory

Anthony Kim The Heritage Foundation
Senior Policy Analyst

Yaron Brook Ayn Rand Institute
Chairman of the Board

Hee-Dong Yang Ewha Womans University School of Business
Professor

Jong-Ryul Yang Yeungnam University
Associate Professor of Electronic Engineering

Edwin Feulner The Heritage Foundation
Founder

Eran Fine Nanolock Security
Co-founder & CEO

Erica Kang KryptoSeoul
CEO & Founder

Eric Xing Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(MBZUAI)
President & Professor

Eric Daimler Conexus AI
Co-founder & CEO

Eric Allison Joby Aviation
Head of Product

Eric Gray GE Gas Power
President & CEO

Emi Yoshikawa Ripple
VP of Corporate Strategy and Operations

Emilio Tenuta Ecolab
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer

Avner Ben-Bassat Plataine
President & CEO

Esko Aho The 37th Prime Minister of Finland

Enrique Dans IE Business School
Professor

Youngju L. Nielsen Sungkyunkwan University
Professor of Graduate School of Business

Jesper Holst Copenhagen Offshore Partners
Senior Vice President

Miyeon Oh Johns Hopkins University
Director and Senior Faculty Lead, Korea Studies

Se-hoon Oh
Mayor of Seoul

Othman Ben Abbes Aqua Development ltd
Co-Founder and COO

Ohad Topor TCK Investments
Founder

Johan Pelissier Airbus Defence and Space
Head of Asia Pacific

Urs Gerber Center for Asia Pacific Strategy (CAPS)
Chairman of Board

Wendy Cutler Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)
Vice President

William Lee Milken Institute
Chief Economist

Yuriy Gorodnichenko U.C Berkeley
Professor

Jae Yoon NYLIM
CIO

Stella Yoon Starlinkcompany
CEO

Young-kwan Yoon Seoul National University
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science and International Relations

Brian S Yoon SK Gas
CEO

Gene Yoon California State Senate
Candidate

Yuliia Svyrydenko First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
Minister of Economy of Ukraine

Duk-Soo Eun Gyeongbuk Technopark
Head of Innovation Project Planning Team

Byoungchan Eum TWO Platforms, Inc
VP of APAC

Min Jin Lee Award-winning & Bestselling Novelist and Essayist

Injong Rhee Bowery Farming
CTO

Sooinn Lee Enuma
CEO

Min-Young Lee Korea Exchange
Research Fellow

Mingu Lee Cleveland Avenue Technology Investments
Managing Partner

Sirgoo Lee Dunamu
CEO

Duhee Lee LIKELION
CEO

Jangwon Lee Beyond Music
Founder & CEO

Sinhae Lee GBIC
Partner

Jong-Wha Lee Korea University
Professor of Economics

Sang Hoon Lee ABL Bio
Founder & CEO

Yohan Lee The Sandbox
Global Operations Manager

Richard Lee McKinsey & Company
Senior Partner(Korea)

Jay Lee OpenExchange APAC
CEO

Jake Lee GOPAX
CSO & Vice President

Eunyoung Lee CAN(Community Alliance Network)
Co-Founder

Jae-Seung Lee Korea University
Professor & Jean Monnet Chair

Lee Teuk Super Junior
SM Entertainment

Lee Ji Min DAEDONGYEOJUDO
CEO

Chang Yune Lee Ministry of Science and ICT
Deputy minister of R&D policy

Sang Il Lee Hyundai Engineering
Head of Nuclear Business Office

Jiyoung Lee Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Research Professor

Joon Ho Lee SK Telecom
Vice President (ESG Office)

Lee JiHo Junnam Art Museum
Head

Yigal Erlich Yozma Group
Founder & Chairman

Hiroo Ichikawa Meiji University
Professor Emeritus

Chae Young Lim Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
Senior Vice President for Innovative Nuclear Reactor System

Seol-Ah Lim 2LA, Inc
CEO

Jong In Lim School of Cybersecurity of Korea University
Distinguished Professor

Lim Jungwook Ministry of SMEs and Startups
Deputy Minister

Hyun-kook Jang WeMade
CEO

Chang Dae-Whan Founder of World Knowledge Forum
Chairman of Maekyung Media Group

Dongha Jang KYOWON
Planning & Management Executive Director

Wonbong Jang ITDA
CEO

Zhou Li Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
Assistant Dean

Saeju Jeong Noom
Co-Founder & CEO

Jiwon Joung Algocare
CEO & Founder

Woo-Sung Jung Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, POSTECH
Professor

Myunghoon Chung GC Company
CEO

Hyuk Hoon Jung Maeil Business Newspaper
Agriculture & Food Correspondent

Jung-Ho Chung Philophos, Inc.
CEO & Founder

Tong Soo Chung Striker Assets LLC
Managing Director

YoonYoung Chung POSTECH University
Associate Professor of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Semiconductor Engineering

Jenny Chu The Korea Conference
Founder

Jennifer Stojkovic Founder, Vegan Women Summit
Executive Director, sf.citi

Jerome Kim International Vaccine Institute (IVI)
Director General

Jay Dessy Breakthrough Energy
Director

Jaeson Ma OP3N
Co-Chief Executive Officer

Jason Brink Gala Games
President of Blockchain

Jason Greenblat Former White House Middle East Envoy

James Huang eXp Commercial
President

Jeffrey J. Schott Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
Senior Fellow

Dongchul Cho KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Professor

Weon-kyoung Jo UNIST Global University-Industry Relations Center
Director and Professor

Hyun Seung Ashton Cho Korea Association of Military Studies
Executive Director

Jonathan Cole Corio Generation
CEO

Jonathan Drew Head of Global Banking Sustainability, Asia-Pacific
HSBC

Jordan Rochester Nomura Securities
Executive Director

Joel Wainwright Ohio State University (USA)
Professor of Geography

Joseph Nye Harvard University
Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus

John Everard
Former British ambassador to North Korea

John Chambers NYU Stern School of Business
Professor

John Taylor Stanford University
Professor

John Bolton National Security Advisor (2018-2019)
Author of ′The Room Where It Happened′

Zhu Feng Nanjing University
Director and Professor for Institute of International Studies

Julia Hoggett London Stock Exchange Group
CEO

Susan Yeyoung Ji Baker Hughes
Executive Country Director of Korea

Charlie Walker London Stock Exchange Group
Head of Equity & Fixed Income Primary Markets

Charles Ferguson Globalization Partners
Asia Pacific General Manager

Chad Sbragia
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China

JungHee Cheon Seoul National University
Professor of Mathematics and director of IMDARC(the center for industrial math)

Yung Nok Chun Doomoolmori
Founder and CEO

Zhiwu Chen University of Hong Kong
Professor

Chun Yungwoo Korean Peninsula Future Forum
Chairman and Founder

Cheong Jin Xi Aonic
CEO

Chen Fang BitGo
COO

Seokyoung CHOI Lee&Ko
senior advisor

Siwon Choi SM Entertainment
Singer & Actor

Gi-Hyuk Choi Korea Aerospace Research Institute
Principal Scientist

Woojin Choi Corio Generation
Head of Korea

Younghee Choi Blackstone
Managing Director of ICS

Choi EunJoo the Daegu Art Museum
Head

Carmine Di Noia OECD
Director of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs

Carl Kock IE Business School
Professor

Carl Bildt The 30th Prime Minister of Sweden

Carl Benedikt Frey Oxford Martin School
Director of the Future of Work Programme

Kam Ghaffarian Axiom Space
Founder and Executive Chairman

Karen Mangia Salesforce
Vice President of Customer and Market Insights

Kathleen McCarthy Blackstone
Global Co-Head of Real Estate

Kerry Cheung U.S. Department of Energy
Korea Office Director

Kevin Ali Organon
CEO

Colin James Crooks British Embassy Seoul
British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

Wai-Lum Kwok Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Senior Executive Director

Chris Chelliah Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific
Senior Vice President, Technology and Customer Strategy

Kirsi Terho Key Account Manager
Infinited Fiber Company

Tamir Pardo Former Director of the Mossad
Senior Advisor to Nanolock Security

Tyler Cowen George Mason University
Economics Professor

Yong-ho Tae Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

Terry Martin
TV News Anchor

Tony Fernandes Capital A
CEO

Thomas Schaefer
Former German ambassador to North Korea

Tom Lawrence Harbour Partners & The Eden Group
Founder & Chairman

Thierry de Montbrial Institute for International Relations(IFRI)
Founder and Executive Chairman

Paul Schreyer OECD
Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics and Data Directorate

Fatih Birol International Energy Agency (IEA)
Executive Director

Pham Nam Long Abivin
CEO and Founder

Pernille Berg Bloxhub
Science Director

Per Mejnert Kristensen ØRSTED
APAC President

Felipe Chavez Kiwibot
CEO

Paul Krugman City University of New York
Distinguished Professor

Pauline Brown Former Chairman of Chairman of LVMH North America
Author of ′Aesthetic Intelligence′

Francois Hollande
The 24th President of France

Francis Fukuyama Stanford University
Professor

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

Frederique Picard Carel Paris
President

Fleur Pellerin Korelya Capital
CEO

Philip Kotler Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Professor Emeritus of Marketing

Philip Dalidakis Former Victorian Minister for Innovation & the Digital Economy, Trade & Investment and Small Business

Philip Rosedale Linden Lab
Founder

John Ha Bear Robotics
CEO

Harindar Keer Flixstock
CEO

Heino Klinck Pentagon
Former DASD for East Asia

HH Princess Haifa Al Saud Saudi Vice Minister of Tourism

Hoon Han Statistics Korea
Commissioner

Kyung Ae Han Kolon Industies FnC organization
CSO

Chang Heon Han KAI
Executive Vice President

Denys Han GITSN
CEO

Anne Kari Hansen Ovind Norwegian Ambassador to Korea

Haluk Bayraktar BAYKAR Technology
CEO

Kyung Wook Hur Chairman of the Board of Directors at Korea Center for International Finance
Senior Advisor and a member of the Finance Group at Bae, Kim & LEE LLC(BKL)

Unna Huh Chadwick International School
Associate Head for External Affairs & Development

Changseong Ho CAN (Community Alliance Network)
Co-Founder

Daesoon Hong Global Institute for Strategy & Policy(GISP)
President

Cherry Huang Janssen
Area Managing Director of North Asia Cluster

Young-Key Hwang TCK Investments
Senior Advisor

Yukiko Fukagawa Waseda University
Professor