Speakers of 2017

Jason Kang Illumina Korea
CEO

Kang Tae Young POSCO Research Institute
President

Kang Youngchul KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Prefessor

Gary Samore Harvard Belfer Center
Executive Director for Research

Koo Sunggy Samsung Electronics
VP, Smart Appliances & Home IoT, Digital Appliance

Kwon Do Youp Former Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs.

Graeme Beardsell Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Managing Director, Asia Pacific & Japan

Tsuneo Kita Nikkei
Chairman

Kim Seungjoo Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University
Professor, Department of Cyber Defense

Kim Young Joon Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Partner, Representative Foreign Legal Consultant

Kim DoHoon Kyunghee University
Professor

Kim Byoung Soo Robotis Ltd.
CEO

Kim Kyoung Hyeok Samsung Heavy Industries
EVP and Head of Marketing Division

Han J. Kim Altos Ventures
Managing Director and Co-Founder

Choong-soo Kim Governor of Bank of Korea (2010-2014)

Kim Sung-han Korea University
Professor

Kim InChul Sungkyunkwan University
Professor Emeritus

Kim Heungkyu Ajou University
Professor

Kim Yonghwan Seoul National University
chair of the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering

Kim Jung Ha Kookmin University
Professor

Bowon Kim KAIST
Associate Vice President of the Office of Planning and Budget

Kim Byoung Yoon KAIST
Director of Institute of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Physics

Kim Sohee Kim Sohee Trend Lab
CEO

Kim Tai-Yoo Seoul National University
Professor of Economics at the Department of Industrial Engineering

Chang-Beom KIM Curriculum Vitae of Ambassador

Kwang-ho KIm Natioanl Security Research Institute
Former President

Kyung-Won Na Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

Nik Gowing International Broadcaster

Nick Holzherr Whisk.com
CEO

Nick Bostrom Oxford Future of Humanity Institute
Director

Nick Bradstreet Savills Asia Pacific
Managing Director

Nirmala Rao Asian University for Women
Vice Chancellor

Dandapani Hindu Priest

Danny Manu Mymanu
Founder & CEO

Damian Madden Woolmark Company
Global Digital Manager

Dirk Ahlborn Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
CEO

David Hanson Hanson Robotics Limited
Founder and CEO

David LEE Kuo Chuen Singapore University of Social Sciences
Professor

Donald Johnston Former Secretary-General of the OECD
Consultant Lawyer

Tomohiro Inoue Komazawa University
Associate Professor

Dong Jun THTI Holdings Co., Ltd.
Board Chairman

Denis Depoux Roland Berger
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Durga Prasad Malladi Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Senior Vice President, Engineering

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

Rafael Martínez Ferreira IE Business School
Professor

Randall R. Rader Former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Professor, The George Washington University

Randy Williams Keiretsu Forum
Founder & CEO

Reinaldo Garcia GE Power Grid Solutions
CEO

Robert C. Merton MIT Sloan School of Management/ Dimensional Fund Advisors
Distinguished Professor of Finance/Resident Scientist

Robert Barro Harvard University
Professor

Robert Gallucci US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Chairman

Robert Koopman World Trade Organization
Chief Economist

Rolf Bachmann St. Gallen Symposium
Vice President

Lukas May TransferWise
Head of Banking

Rutger Bregman Utopia for Realists
Author

YU Jianlong China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC)
Secretary General

Liu Zhen Tsinghua University
Professor

Yu Tiejun The Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Vice President

Richard B. Levin Polsinelli PC
Chairman Financial Services Technology (FinTech) and Regulation Practice

Linda Liukas
Author of ′Hello Ruby′

Lily Lyu CCTV
Anchor

Mari Kiviniemi OECD
Deputy Secretary-General

Maria Guadalupe INSEAD
Professor

Michael Jarrett INSEAD
Professor

Michael Honda Former US Congressman

Michael Stirling Stirling Infrastructure Partners
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Editorial Board

Milo Jones IE Business School
Professor

Mark Stabile INSEAD
Professor

Mark Lippert United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea(2014~2017)

Mark Bregman NetApp
CTO

Mathis Schulte HEC Paris
Associate Professor

Meredith Crowley University of Cambridge
Faculty

Mordechai Sheves Weizmann Institute of Science
Vice President of The Weizmann Institute of Science

Kazuyuki Motohashi University of Tokyo
Professor

Menas C. Kafatos Chapman University
Professor

Michele Wucker ′Gray Rhino′
Author

Park Cheol Hee Seoul National University
Director of Graduate School of International Studies

Park Sangook Soongsil University
Professor

Park Seung-Yong Hyundai Heavy Industries Group
Executive VP, Chief Marketing Officer

Bark Taeho Lee&Ko Seoul Global Commerce Institute
President

Baak Saang Joon Waseda University
Professor

Park Jee-Hyeong Seoul National University
Professor

Park In-kook Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies
President

Park Chong Rae Professor, Seoul National University
Editor of CARBON

Ban Ki-moon Former United Nations Secretary-General

Paik Keun-Wook Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES)
Senior Research Fellow

KEE-SEUNG(David) BAIK Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)
President & CEO

Vu Thu Ha Viet Nam News
Foreign News Editor

Brian Markwalter Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
Senior Vice President

Bruce Bennett RAND
Senior International/Defense Researcher

Bruce Cumings University of Chicago
Swift Distinguished Professor

Bruce Anderson Global Electronics Industry of IBM
Global Managing Director

Bruce Klingner The Heritage Foundation
Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia

Vicki Zhou WiseBanyan
Co-Founder

Beat Ulrich St. Gallen Foundation & St.Gallen Symposium
CEO

Seo Jungjin Celltrion
Chairman

Suh Jeong-in Mission of the Republic of Korea to ASEAN
Ambassador

Dillon Seo VoleR Creative
CEO

Seo Jeongmin Head of Dept. of Middle East & African Studies(HUFS)
Professor

Suh Suk-Hwan POSTECH
Professor and Founding Dean of Graduate School of Engineering Mastership

Sung Nak-in Seoul National University
President

Sophia (Robot) Hanson Robotics

Young Sohn President and Chief Strategy Officer,Samsung Electronics
Chairman of the Board, Harman International

Song SK FutureRobot
CEO

Song Kyungjin Institute for Global Economics (IGE)
President

Song Young Gil The Presidential Committee on Northern Economic Cooperation
Chairperson

Xu Jinghong Tsinghua Holdings Co Ltd.
Chairman

Xu Chenggang Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Professor

Shoeb Kagda Globe Asia Magazine
Chief Editor

Sugiura Tomio Sugiura Machinery Design Office
CEO and CTO

Scott A. Mather PIMCO
CIO U.S. Core

Scott Snyder Council on Foreign Relations
Senior Fellow

Steven Blockmans Centre for European Policy Studies
Senior Research Fellow / Head of EU Foreign Policy Unit

Stephen Gordon Clarksons Research
Managing Director

Shin Jaiwon NASA
Associate Administrator for Aeronautics

Shin Sung-Chul KAIST
President

Shin Kak-Soo Former Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Shim Youngtack IP Law at Seoul National University
Professor

Shim Junbo BlackPearl Security
CTO

Ana Palacio Council of State of Spain
former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Yoshitaka Aranishi Toray Industries
General Manager

Arancha Gonzalez International Trade Centre
Executive Director

Arda Ermut Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT)
President

Arturo Bris IMD World Competitiveness Center
Director

Professor Einstein™ (Robot) Hanson Robotics

Ahn Dong-Hyun Korea Capital Market Institute
President

Andreas Dombret Deutsche Bundesbank
Member of the Board

Antony Lewis R3
Director of Research

Amnon Shashua CEO & CTO of Mobileye
Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation

Andrew Darwis Kaskus
Founder and CCO

Yann Boquillod AirVisual
CEO

Phil S. Yang TK Net and CKT Development
Chairman

Hunter S. URM Head of DSME R&D Institute, DSME
Executive Vice President

Abel Kiwoong Um Law Firm Mundus Apertus
Managing Partner

Enrico Letta Former Prime Minister of Italy

Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau MIT Technology Review
Publisher & CEO

Oh Suktae Société Générale based in Seoul
Chief Korea Economist

Omer Krieger Stratasys Asia Pacific
President

Tetsuo Ochi
Managing Director, CEO, MCP

Oliver Hart Harvard University
Professor

Olivia Onderdonk Deputy Executive Director
NewCities Foundation

Wang Jisi The Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
President

Yoshino Naoyuki Asian Development Bank Institute
Dean

Yiombi Thona Gwangju University
Professor

Urho Konttori Varjo Technologies
CEO

William Kim AllSaints
CEO

Wilfried Vancraen Materialise
CEO

Yoo Janghee Maeil Business Newspaper
Executive Advisor

Yoo Il-ho Former Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs

Yuki Nishio Harvest Global Investments Limited
Vice President

Yoon, Young-kwan Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ROK

Yoon Yoonjin KAIST
Professor

Yun Byung-se Former Foreign Minister of Korea

Jay Eum Translink Capital
Co-founder & Managing Director

Lee Daeyeol Yale School of Medicine
Professor

Lee Jeong-Dong Seoul National University
Professor

Jenna Lee AIM
Founder and CEO

Lee Jung-Hoon Yonsei University
Professor

Lee Hye Min G20
Sherpa

Lee Jong-Wha Korea University
Professor

David Yong-Duk Lee NVIDIA KOREA
General Manager

Lee Min Seob Eone Diagnomics Genome Center (EDGC)
CEO

Hon S. Yi Tytus3D
Co-Founder and VP

Rhee Jaehoon Gyeongbuk Techno Park
President

Lee Tai Sik Hanyang University
Professor

Lee Young-Seak Chungnam National University
Professor

Lee Hakku KTB Asset Management
Executive Vice President

Lee Hee-sung Knight Frank Korea
CEO

Yigal Erlich Yozma Group
Chairman

Ignacio Garcia Alves Arthur D. Little
Global Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Ian Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Professor

Ingo Walter New York University Stern School of Business
Professor Emeritus of Finance

Zhai Xin Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Associate Professor

Gian Paolo Bassi Solidworks
CEO

Zhang Ya-Qin Baidu
President

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

Zhang Tuosheng China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies
Senior Fellow and Chairman of the Academic Committee

Chang Tuwon Hyosung
Vice President (CTO)

Jang Yong Suk Yonsei University
Professor of Department of Public Administration

Chang Young-Keun Korea Aerospace University
Professor

Jang Woongjun Hyundai Motor Company
Head of ADAS Development Group

Jean-Vincent Placé
Former Minister for Government Reform and Simplification of France

Jack C. Liu OKLink
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Jeon Hongbeom Infra Lab., Institute of Convergence Technology, KT
Executive Vice President

Chung Bo Ra ebay korea
CPO

Zheng Yuhuang Tsinghua University
Professor

Hae Kyung Evelyn Chung Coinplug, Inc.
CMO

Chong Hyon Yong Macrogen Inc.
CEO

Chung Duck-koo Former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy of Korea
Chairman of North East Asia Research (NEAR) Foundation

Hoon Jung Data analytics and Business Intelligence, Hana Institute of Finance
General Director

Jerry Jordan Former Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

JP Kloppers BrandsEye
CEO

Zeti Akhtar Aziz Former Governor,Central Bank of Malaysia

Jeffrey Godsick SONY Pictures Motion Picture Group
Executive VP

Cho Kwangsu Yonsei University
Professor

Cho Hwan-Eik Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
President & CEO

Cho Hyun Jae Gwangju University
Professor

Cho Byung-je Korea National Diplomatic Academy
Chancellor

Jonathan Pollack Brookings Institution
Senior Fellow

John Rogers Local Motors
CEO

John Lee Meritz Asset Management
CEO

John Rodriguez Confido Advisors
CEO & Founder

Henry Joo Mercedes-Benz Korea
Director of Business Innovation

Zhu Feng Institute of International Studies in Nanjing University
Director

Judith Miller Commentator of Fox News
Fellow of Manhattan Institute

Jim McIlvenny Dow
President, Asia Pacific

Chey Tae-won SK
Chairman

Choi Jun Kyun KAIST
Professor

Choi Gongpil KIF Center for Finance and Technology and the Asian Prime Collateral Forum
Director

Chi Fulin China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD)
President and Chief Researcher

Tsukasa Jonen Audit & Analysis Co.
Japanese Economist

Qing Sude China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)
Senior Engineer

Carmen Simon Memzy
Cognitive Neuroscientist

Carl Frey Oxford University
Co-Director and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow

Carl Bildt The 39th Prime Minister, Sweden
Foreign Minister, Sweden

Callum Henderson Eurasia Group, Global Markets Asia Pacific
Managing Director

Carol Fishman Cohen iRelaunch
CEO & Co-founder

Kathryn Shih UBS
President of Asia Pacific and a Member of the UBS Group Executive Board

Christian Mancini Savills Asia Pacific
Chief Executive Officer

Christian Lee WeWork Asia
Managing Director

Christopher Hill University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Dean

Cliff Tan Global Markets Research of The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd,
East Asian Head

Tamer Saka Kibar Group
Chief Executive Officer

Takaaki Marumo Nissan
Senior Vice President, Product Planning for Asia and Oceania

Toomas Hendrik Ilves Former President of Estonia

Towia A. Libermann Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor

Tom Byrne Korea Society
President

Thierry de Montbrial French Institute of International Relations(Ifri)
Executive Chairman

Tim Smith Chief Representative for North Asia of Maersk Group
Chairman of Maersk China Ltd.

Tim Draper Draper Associates and DFJ
Founding Partner

Fatih Birol International Energy Agency
Executive Director

Paul Oh University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Professor, Unmanned Aerial System

FURo-D Future Robot

Francois Hollande The 24th President of France

Peter Sharp Taubman Asia
President

Hahn Sunku Yonsei University
Professor

Han Min Koo Seoul National University
Professor

Hans-Martin Henning Fraunhofer ISE (Institute for Solar Energy Systems)
Director

Harry Chemay Clover.com.au
Co-Founder

Hur Kyung-Wook Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
Senior Advisor

Henk Rogers The Blue Planet Foundation
Chairman

Hyun Jung Taik Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
President

Hod Lipson Columbia University
Professor

Hori Yoshito GLOBIS University; GLOBIS Capital Partners
President; Managing Partner

Honda Keiko MIGA, World Bank Group
CEO

Hong Daesoon Ewha Womans University
Professor

Hwang Seung Ho Hyundai Motor
Executive Vice President

Hu Weiwei Mobike
Founder & President

Fujimoto Mamoru SBI Holdings
Executive Officer, Head of Blockchain promotion dept.

Hubert Neiss IMF′s Asian and Pacific Department
Former Director

Hillary Rodham Clinton The 67th United States Secretary of State