The Speakers
Lineup
The people who will shape the conversation in Oxford. From cabinet tables to newsrooms, lecture halls to boardrooms, our speakers bring the perspectives that define the British-German relationship today, and where it goes next. Outreach has only just begun and new names are being confirmed by the day, so check back as the line-up takes shape.
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Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee
Former German Federal Minister of Education and Research; Senior Strategic Advisor, Focused Energy
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, BioNTech
Former Leader of the Conservative Party; Former UK Home Secretary
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Jung & Naiv
Former German Federal Minister for Special Affairs and Head of the Federal Chancellery; Senior Advisor, Macro Advisory Partners
Former UK Secretary of State for Business; Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Author and Middle East Analyst; Deputy Federal Chairman, BSW
His Majesty's Ambassador to Germany
German Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Three-time Wimbledon Champion; Tennis Analyst, Eurosport
Former UK Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Third Church Estates Commissioner
Former Chair of the German Ethics Council; Professor of Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies, Technical University of Munich
Former Berlin Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion; Managing Director, Airforce1 Entertainment Holding
Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Former President and CEO, Siemens AG; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy AG
Former German Minister of State for Migration, Refugees and Integration; Member of the German Bundestag
President, British Polling Council; Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde
Former European Commissioner; Former Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg
His Majesty's Ambassador to Austria
Head of the ZDF Studio in Washington; Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief, ZDF
Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; Former UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Senior Fellow, Munich Security Conference
Founding Chairman, European Stability Initiative
Former UK Secretary of State for the Environment; Former Chair of the Climate Change Committee
Former Federal Spokesperson, Grüne Jugend
Former Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Advisor, Bertelsmann Stiftung
High Commissioner of The Gambia to the United Kingdom; Former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Chair of the German Startup Association; Entrepreneur and Author
Public Prosecutor General, Federal Court of Justice
Professor of Security Studies, King's College London
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the State of Palestine to the United Kingdom; Former Head of the PLO General Delegation to the United States
Former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
Professor of Sociology and Vice-President, LMU Munich; Member of the German Ethics Council
Member of the German Bundestag; Spokesperson for Interior and Refugee Policy, Die Linke
Former Head of the UK Diplomatic Service
Co-Host, Lage der Nation; Co-Founder and Former Legal Director, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte
Executive Editor and Head of Audio, POLITICO; Former Senior Editor, The Economist
Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Former Director, World Bank Development Research Group; Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Oxford
Director, German Economic Institute (IW)
Founder and Editor-at-Large, Prospect; Head of Demography, Immigration and Integration, Policy Exchange
Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford; Former Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Former President and Chief Financial Officer, Deutsche Bank; Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus
Former Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales; Senior Counsel and Policy Advisor, King & Spalding
Member of the German Council of Economic Experts; Professor of Social Policy and Public Finance, Ruhr University Bochum
Presenter, ZDFheute live; Co-Host, Die da Oben! (funk)
Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Energy, Scottish Government
Professor of the History of European International Relations, University of Cambridge
Barrister; Former Lead Prosecutor of Slobodan Milošević
Founder, CureVac; Ambassador, European Innovation Council
Writer, The Sunday Times; Former Editor of the New Statesman
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
Social Media Presenter, Tagesschau; Host, tagesschau together
Author and Broadcaster; Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI
Former Vice-President of the German Federal Constitutional Court; Professor Emeritus of Public, Financial and Tax Law, University of Tübingen
Emergency Physician, Médecins Sans Frontières; Former President, MSF Germany
Member of Parliament for Chelsea and Fulham; UK Trade Envoy to Morocco and francophone West Africa
Professor of Public, European and International Law, University of Konstanz
Former Justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court; Professor of Public and International Law, University of Göttingen
Professor of Surgery, University of Oxford; Chair, Medical Aid for Palestinians
Member of the European Parliament; EPP Foreign Affairs Spokesman
Professor of European Union and Employment Law, University of Cambridge
Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute
Member of the European Parliament; Vice-Chair of the S&D Group
Liberal Democrat Defence Spokesperson, House of Lords; Professor of European Politics, University of Cambridge
CEO and Scientific Director, DFKI; Professor of Computer Science, Saarland University
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford; Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs
Honorary President, Royal Air Force Air Cadets
Chief Economist, German Federal Ministry of Finance
Former Justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court; Professor of Public Law, University of Freiburg
Former Commander, UK Space Command
Professor of Ethics in Information Technology, University of Hamburg
Member of the European Parliament; Committees on Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence
Director-General and Chief Executive, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Professor of Strategy and Organisation, Technical University of Munich
Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine, Technical University of Munich; Professor of Visual Information Processing, Imperial College London
Professor of English Law and British Economy and Politics, Humboldt University Berlin
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic; Former Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind
Associate Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge; Philosopher, Google DeepMind
Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information; Professor of Information, Media and Internet Law, University of Freiburg
Security-Policy Content Creator; Former Youth Officer, Bundeswehr
Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation and State Threats Legislation; King's Counsel, 6KBW College Hill
Senior Advisor Infrastructure, KKR; Founder, thermondo
Founder, hedgefonds.henning and Apollo Studios
Former CEO, Ablynx; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Avantium
Partner and Associate Director, Boston Consulting Group
Campaign Strategist; Former Organiser, Obama for America
Founder and CEO, Barocal; Professor of Materials Physics, University of Cambridge
President, British Chamber of Commerce in Germany; Former CEO, BP Europa SE
Co-Owner, Klocke Group; Former Chairman of the Advisory Board, Volocopter
Associate Dean for AI in Medicine; Lombardi-Shinozuka Professor of Experimental Pathology Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Co-Founder and CEO, Hades Mining
Founding Partner, Linden Capital; Former Head of 3M Corporate Ventures
CEO, ARX Robotics UK
Professor of Translational Neurotechnology, Technical University of Munich
Director of Programmes, Helsing UK
Applied AI Lead for Startups, EMEA, OpenAI
Co-Founder and Director of Strategy, Council on Geostrategy
Executive Director, Stiftung Jugend forscht
King's Counsel, Serle Court; Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Co-Founder and CEO, MatNex
Senior Partner, Digital, AI and Data, Roland Berger
Professor of International Politics, Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences
Founder, LifeScience ORG