Speakers

Inauguration

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister of India

Alexander Stubb

President of Finland

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Abhay Karandikar

Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, India

Abhishek Singh

Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Chief Executive Officer, India AI Mission, India

Abla Abdel Latif

Executive Director and Director of Research, The Egyptian Centre for Economic Studies, Egypt

Adam Segal

Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security; Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations, United States of America

Adelle Nazarian

Chief Executive Officer, US Blockchain PAC, United States of America

Ágnes Vadai

Member of the National Assembly, Hungary

Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh

Chief of the Air Staff, India

Air Marshal Tim Jones CBE

Deputy Chief of Defence Staff for Force Development, United Kingdom

Air Marshall Dominique Tardif

Vice Chief of the Air and Space Force, France

Ajit Isaac

Chairman and Founder, Quess Corp Ltd., India

Aleksandra Morozkina

Senior Expert, Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development, Russia

Alexander A. Dynkin

President, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Alexander Bohmer

Head, South Asia and Southeast Asia Division, Global Relations and Co-operation Directorate, France

Alexander Schallenberg

Former Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Austria, Chairman of the Europe’s Futures Initiative, Austria

Alexandre Fasel

State Secretary, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland

Alexis Konstantopoulos

Special Representative, India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece

Alisee Pornet

Senior Advisor to the Chief Operating Officer, French Development Agency, France

Amanda Healy

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kirrkin, Australia

Amar Bhattacharya

Senior Fellow, Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution, United States of America

Amitabh Kant

Former G20 Sherpa, India

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Former Prime Minister, Denmark

Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik

State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Andreas Schumacher

Chief Strategy Officer, Infineon Technologies, Germany

Angelo George

Chief Executive Officer, Bisleri, India

Anirudh Sharma

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Digantara, India

Anna Tunkel

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Impact LLC, United States of America

Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Director, German Institute of Development and Sustainability and Professor, Global Sustainable Development, University of Bonn, Germany

Anthony Okechukwu Ojukwu

Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, Kenya

Aparna Ray

Joint Secretary (Policy Planning & Research), Ministry of External Affairs, India

Archna Vyas

Country Director, India Country Office, Gates Foundation

Arezo Kohistany

Managing Director, Electrum Group, United States of America

Ashwini Vaishnaw

Minister for Railways; Minister of Information & Broadcasting; Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, India

Astha Kapoor

Co-Founder, Aapti Institute, India

Ayoade Alakija

Ministerial Global Envoy, Government of Nigeria; Board Chair, FIND

Ayumi Moore Aoki

Chief Executive Officer, Tech Diplomacy Forum, France

Bambang Brodjonegoro

Dean and Chief Executive Officer, Asian Development Bank Institute

Benedetta Berti

Secretary General, NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Benedikt Franke

Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Munich Security Conference, Germany

Benedikta Von Seherr-Thoss

Managing Director, Common Security and Defence Policy; Crisis Response, European External Action Service, European Union

Benjamin Haddad

Minister Delegate for Europe, France

Bernard Philip

First Assistant Secretary, International Policy, Department of Defence, Australia

Bernice Lee

Chair, Advisory Board, Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator; Distinguished Fellow and Senior Adviser,, Chatham House

Bharat Lal

Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer, National Human Right Commission, India

Bhumika Tharoor

Managing Editor, The Atlantic, United States of America

Bjorn Lomborg

President, Copenhagen Consensus Centre, Denmark

Bonnie Glick

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, United States of America

Brendan Nelson

President, Boeing Global, Australia

Brent Sadler

Senior Research Fellow, Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology, Allison Center for National Security, Heritage Foundation, United States of America

Brook Cunningham

Senior Vice President, Commercial, Asia Pacific, Corteva Agriscience

Caitriona Heinl

Executive Director, The Azure Forum for Contemporary Security Strategy, Ireland

Carl Bildt

Former Prime Minister, Sweden

Carla Sands

Chair for Foreign Policy and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Energy Policy, America First Policy Institute, United States of America

Carolin Albrecht

Managing Director, Berlin Global Dialogue, Germany

Carolina Chimoy

Anchor, Journalist, Dep. Latin America, Deutsche Welle, Peru

Caroline Delgado

Programme Director, Food, Peace and Security, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden

Caroline Kwamboka

Director, African Renaissance Trust, Kenya

Celeste A. Connors

President, East-West Center, United States of America

Chandrababu Naidu

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India

Chandrika Bahadur

Chief Executive Officer, The Antara Foundation, India

Chevaan Daniel

Executive Group Director, CMG, Sri Lanka

Christopher Landau

Deputy Secretary of State, United States of America

Clara Volintiru

Secretary of State, Inter-Institutional Relations, Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania

Clara von Nathusius

Head, Department for Press, Social Media and Online Communications, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, Germany

Clarisa Rios

Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

Comfort Ero

President and Chief Executive Officer, International Crisis Group, United Kingdom

Corey Thomas

Chief Executive Officer, Rapid7, United States of America

Courtney Fung

Associate Professor, Security Studies, School of International Studies, Macquarie University, Australia

Dag Huse

Principal Advisor, Norges Bank Investment Management, Norway

Damien King

Executive Director, Caribbean Policy Research Institute, Jamaica

Danielle Alakija

Founder, Earth Soli, United Kingdom

David Laborde

Director, Agrifood Economics and Policy Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations

David Victor

Professor, Innovation and Public Policy, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego, United States of America

DB Venkatesh Verma

Former Ambassador of India to Russia

Del Titus

Founder and Chairman, Web 3 Africa Group, Ghana

Dhananjay Ramful

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mauritius

Divyata Ashiya

Trustee, Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom

Edmond Bepi Christian Pout

Minister Plenipotentiary; Director, Strategic Analyses, Forecast and Crisis Management Center, Cameroon

Eghosa Osaghae

Director General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria

Elena Lazarou

Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece

Erik Solheim

Former Minister of Climate and the Environment, Norway

Fane Kite

Chief Operating Officer, Tonga

Feodor Voitolovsky

Director, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Fernando Pablo de Martin

Director of the Digital Office, Madrid City Council, Spain

Fitriani

Senior Analyst, Hybrid Threats Cyber, Technology and Security Program, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Australia

Florence Gaub

Director, Research Division, NATO Defense College, Italy

Francesco Maria Talò

Italian Special Envoy, India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, Italy

Frantisek Ruzicka

Deputy Secretary-General, OCED

Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Principal Investigator,, BharatGen, India

Garima Mohan

Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund, Germany

Gaurav Dalmia

Chairman, Dalmia Group Holdings, India

Gautam Aggarwal

Division President, South Asia, Mastercard, India

General Anil Chauhan

Chief of Defence Staff, India

General Stephen N. Whiting

Commander, US Space Command, United States of America

General Upendra Dwivedi PVSM, AVSM, ADC

Chief of the Army Staff, India

Geoffrey Van Orden

Vice President, New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform Former Leader of the British Conservatives in the European Parliament Former Chairman, European Parliament Delegation for Relations with India, United Kingdom

George Papandreou

Former Prime Minister, Greece

Gordon Flake

Founding Chief Executive Officer, Perth USAsia Center, Australia

Guru Prakash

National Spokesperson, Bhartiya Janta Party, India

Gwendoline Abunaw

Managing Director, Ecobank Cameroon

Hans-Christian Hagman

Deputy Director General and Senior Adviser, Strategic Analysis, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Harsha de Silva

Member of Parliament; Chair, Committee on Public Finance of the Parliament, Sri Lanka

Héctor Cárdenas Suárez

Professor of Practice, Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; President, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, Mexico

Helena Legarda

Head, Program Foreign Relations, Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies, Germany

Herve Lemahieu

Assistant Secretary, Policy Planning Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia

Hiroyuki Akita

Foreign and International Security Commentator, Nikkei, Japan

Ian Borg

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Malta

Ibrahim Agboola Gambari

Former Chief of Staff to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Founder, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, Nigeria

Indrani Bagchi

Chief Executive Officer, Ananta Centre, India

Injoo Sohn

Deputy Director, Institute for Future Strategy; Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Itonde Kakoma

President and Chief Executive Officer, Interpeace

Ivan Timofeev

Director-General, Russian International Affairs Council, Russia

Jackline Kagume

Programme Officer, Constitution, Law and Economy Program, Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya

Jamil Anderlini

Regional Director, Europe, POLITICO, Belgium

Jan Luykx

Former Ambassador of Belgium to India

Jana Pugliering

Head, European Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin Office, Germany

Jane Holl Lute

Former United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, United States of America

Jarosław Ćwiek-Karpowicz

Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs

Jayant Sinha

Former Minister of State for Civil Aviation, India

Jemma King

Research Fellow, The University of Queensland School of Psychology, Australia

Ji Yeon-jung

Assistant Professor, Department of Military History and Strategy, ROK Naval Academy, Republic of Korea

Jorge Quiroga

Former President, Bolivia

Julia Pahina

Co-Founder, Fibre Fale, New Zealand

Justice V. Ramasubramanian

Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission, India

K P Vijayalakshmi

Professor and Head, Manipal Institute of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, India

Karan Bilimoria

Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom

Karim El Aynaoui

President, Policy Center for the New South, Morocco

Karim Haggag

Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Belgium

Kayode Fayemi

Founder, Amandla Institute for Policy and Leadership Advancement,, Nigeria

Kevin Baron

President, Elevation Global Strategies, United States of America

Kiana Aran

Associate Professor, Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California San Diego, United States of America

Kira Vinke

Head, Center for Climate and Foreign Policy, German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany

Kwame Owino

Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya

Lalit Keshre

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Groww, India

Laura Mahrenbach

Adjunct Professor, Technical University of Munich; Senior Researcher, University of Bonn, Germany

Leslie Vinjamuri

President and Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, United States of America

Lieutenant-General Derek A. Macaulay

Regional Representative of the Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff, Canada

Lina Khatib

Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, United Kingdom

Lindy Cameron

British High Commissioner to India, Afghanistan

Lisa Singh

Director and Chief Executive Officer, Australia India Institute; Former Senator, Tasmania, Australia

Louise Marie Hurel

Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, France

Louise van Schaik

Head, Unit EU & Global Affairs, Clingendael, Netherlands

Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd)

Former General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Army Training Command, India

Lt. Gen. Susan Coyle

Chief, Joint Capabilities Group, Australia

Lucy Corkin

Business Strategist, Markets, Rand Merchant Bank, United Kingdom

Luis Vassy

President, Sciences Po, Paris, France

M. Guillaume Ollagnier

Director General, International Relations and Strategy, France

Madan Oberoi

Chief Security Advisor and Lead, Intelligence & Public Safety, APAC, Google Cloud, Singapore

Magdalena Skipper

Editor, Nature, United Kingdom

Maiara Folly

Co-Founder, Plataforma Cipó, Brazil

Mara Motherway

Vice-President, Strategy and Business Development, Lockheed Martin, United States of America

Marcos Perestrello De Vasconcellos

Member of Parliament, Portugal

Marilyne Andersen

Director General, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator, Switzerland

Marise Payne

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Former Minister of Defence, Australia

Mark Leonard

Director, European Council on Foreign Relations, Germany

Maroun Kairouz

Managing Director, Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics, World Economic Forum

Martina Lodrant

Policy Coordinator, External Relations, European Commission President von der Leyen's Cabinet, Belgium

Matias Marttinen

Minister of Employment, Finland

Matthew Foldi

Political reporter, The Spectator; Editor-in-Chief, Washington Reporter, United States of America

Matthias Berninger

Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Science, Sustainability and HSE, Bayer, United States of America

Mehdi Jomaa

Former Prime Minister, Tunisia

Mehul Pandya

Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, CareEdge Group, India

Minh-Thu Pham

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Starling Institute; Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International, United States of America

Mogomme Alpheus Masoga

Chairperson, South African BRICS Think Tank; Professor and Dean, Humanities, University of the Free State, South Africa

Mohamed Nasheed

Former President; Secretary-General, Climate Vulnerable Forum & V20, Maldives

Monika Halan

Founder, Dhan Chakra Financial Education, India

Mudit Kapoor

Associate Professor, Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, India

Muhammad Takdir

Head, Foreign Policy Strategy Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia

Musalia Mudavadi EGH

Minister of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Kenya

Myan Tantawy

Political Coordinator and Director of Communications, Permanent Mission of the UAE to the UN

Nancy Karigithu

Advisor Blue Economy, Executive Office of the President of Kenya, Kenya

Nandan Nilekani

Non-Executive Chairman, Infosys, India

Navya Naveli Nanda

Founder, Project Naveli;, Nimaya Foundation, India

Neelkanth Mishra

Chief Economist, Axis Bank and Head, Global Research, Axis Capital, India

Neena Malhotra

Secretary [South], Ministry of External Affairs, India

Nico Lange

Senior Fellow, Munich Security Conference, Germany

Niels Annen

State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

Nikhil Ravishankar

Chief Executive Officer, Air New Zealand, New Zealand

Nikit Abhyankar

Associate Adjunct Professor, Co-Faculty Director, India Energy and Climate Center, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

Nikki Grady-Smith

Chief Transformation Officer, Rolls-Royce, United Kingdom

Nikolaus Marschik

Secretary General, Foreign Affairs, Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Austria

Nisha Biswal

Partner, The Asia Group, United States of America

Niven Winchester

Professor, Economics, Auckland University of Technology; Senior Fellow, Motu Economics, New Zealand

NK Singh

President, Institute of Economic Growth; Former Chairman, 15th Finance Commission, India

Noah Barkin

Senior Advisor, Rhodium Group's China Practice, Germany

Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rwanda

Ornela Çuçi

Head, Center for Medical Sciences, Technology and Innovation, Western Balkan University, Albania

Palki Sharma

Journalist, India

Pankaj Saran

Convenor, NatStrat, India

Paolo Magri

Director, Italian Institute for International Political Studies, Italy

Paula Cipierre

Global Head of Privacy, HCL Tech, Germany

Periasamy Kumaran

Secretary [East], Ministry of External Affairs, India

Peter Gluckman

President, International Science Council, New Zealand

Philip Green

High Commissioner of Australia to India, Albania

Philippe Varin

Chair, International Chamber of Commerce, France

Piyush Goyal

Minister of Commerce & Industries, India

Priyanka Chaturvedi

Member of Parliament, India

Rachel Kyte

Special Representative for Climate, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, United Kingdom

Radhicka Kapoor

Senior Employment Specialist, International Labour Organisation

Ram Madhav

President, India Foundation, India

Ravi Bapna

Curtis L. Carlson Chair Professor, Business Analytics and Information Systems, United States of America

Rear Admiral (RADM) J.M. (Jeanette) Morang

Special Envoy to the Chief of Defence, Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN), Netherlands

Rebecca Arcesati

Lead Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Germany

Renato Galvão Flôres

Director, International Intelligence Unit, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil

Rishi Bal

Chief Executive Officer, BharatGen, India

Róbert Vass

President, GLOBSEC, Slovakia

Rohini Pande

Henry J. Heinz Professor of Economics; Director, Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, United States of America

Romana Vlahutin

Special Envoy Strategic Connectivity and Three Seas Initiative, Government of the Republic of Croatia; Distinguished Fellow for Geostrategy, German Marshall Fund, Croatia

Rush Doshi

C.V. Starr Senior Fellow, Asia Studies and Director, China Strategy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations, United States of America

Ruth Schilling

Managing Director, German Maritime Museum, Germany

S. Jaishankar

Minister of External Affairs, India

Sabeen Malik

Vice President, Global Government Affairs and Public Policy, Rapid7, United States of America

Sakshi Gupta

Policy Expert, Global Government Affairs, Qualcomm, United States of America

Sanjay Bahl

Director General, Computer Emergency Response Team, India

Sanjay Jain

Director, Digital Public Infrastructure, Gates Foundation

Sanjeev Krishan

Chairperson, PwC, India

Sara Roversi

Founder and President, Future Food Institute, Italy

Sarah Andries

Vice President, Africa Team, Global Health Services

Sasmit Patra

Member of Parliament, India

Scott Moe

Premier of Saskatchewan; President of Executive Council, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs for Saskatchewan, Canada

Sean Willy

President and Chief Executive Officer, Des Nedhe Group, Canada

Seema Paul

Programme Director, Sequoia Climate Foundation, United States of America

Shambhu Hakki

Sous Sherpa BRICS, Ministry of External Affairs, India

Shombi Sharp

Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Shruti Pandalai

Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India

Shubhransh Srivastav

Senior Vice President, DP World, India

Shuvaloy Majumdar

Member, House of Commons, Canada

Sibi George

Secretary [West], Ministry of External Affairs, India

Simona Malpezzi

Senator, Italian Republic

Siphamandla Zondi

Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations; Director, Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Smita Prakash

Editor, Asian News International, India

Smriti Irani

Former Minister of Education, India

Sophia Besch

Senior Fellow, Europe Programme, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States of America

Sophie Briquetti

Political Officer, Division of Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO

Soumya Swaminathan

Paediatrician; Former Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, India

Sripriya Ranganathan

Secretary [CPV & OIA], Ministry of External Affairs, India

Stefan Löfven

Former Prime Minister of Sweden and Club de Madrid Member

Stéphane de La Faverie

President and Chief Executive Officer, Estée Lauder Companies, United States of America

Stephanie Diepeveen

Senior Lecturer, Global Digital Politics, King's College London, United Kingdom

Stephen Harper

Former Prime Minister, Canada

Steve Clemons

Editor-at-Large, The National Interest, United States of America

Stormy-Annika Mildner

Director, Aspen Institute, Germany

Subhrakant Panda

Managing Director, Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Limited, India

Sudhakar Dalela

Secretary [ER], Ministry of External Affairs, India

Sujan Chinoy

Director General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India

Suzannah Jessep

Chief Executive, Asia New Zealand Foundation, New Zealand

Tadashi Maeda

Chairman of the Board, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Japan

Tan Ya

Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Department of Energy and Low Carbon Economics, School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, China

Tanya Röling

Director, Policy Planning Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands Antilles

Tara Varma

Managing Director, Strategic Foresight Programme, German Marshall Fund, France

Tatiana Kukhareva

Journalist, Russia

Tom Tugendhat

Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

Tomoyuki Yoshida

Chief Executive Director, The Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan

Tony Abbott

Former Prime Minister, Australia

Tshering Cigay Dorji

Former Chief Executive Officer, Thimphu TechPark, Bhutan

Ummu Salma Bava

Professor of European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Valbona Zeneli

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council, United States of America

Valerie Dabady

Division Manager, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Department, AfDB

Vali Nasr

Majid Khadduri Professor, Middle East Studies and International Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America