OPENING REMARKS

• Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

• Emil Brix, Director, Vienna School of International Studies

Roundtable 1: FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC INTERACTION AND THEIR MEANING FOR MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY

• Jacob Frenkel, Chairman, Frenkel- Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics, Former Governor, Bank of Israel

• Ewald Nowotny, President Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik/Former Governor OeNB

• Miroslav Singer, Director of Institutional Affairs, Generali/Former Governor Czech National Bank

• Kairat Kelimbetov, Senior Advisor, Freedom Horizons/ Former Governor National Bank ofKazakshtan

• Isabelle Mateos y Lago, Managing Director, Blackrock

• Marco Lombardi, Principal Economist, BIS

• Atanas Pekanov, Economist, WIFO/Former Vice Prime Minister, Bulgari

Roundtable 2: DERISKING, STRATEGIC AUTONOMY AND ECONOMIC SECURITY 

• Henning Vöpel, Director, Cep Network and CEO, Stiftung Ordnungspolitik

• Gabriel Felbermayr, Director General, WIFO 

• Debora Revoltella, Chief Economist, European Investment Bank

• José Rama, Deputy Director, National Office of Foresight and Strategy, Spain

• Otilia Dhand, Institutional Relations Director, Temasek

• Marek Mora, Deputy Finance Minister, Czech Republic

Roundtable 3: THE RISE OF GEOPOLITICS AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF GLOBALISATION

• Ariel Cohen,   Managing Director of Energy, Growth and Security Program, International Tax and Investment Center   ITIC

• Gunter Deuber, Managing Director and Chief Economist, Raiffeisen Bank

• Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University  

• Erica Moret, Senior Researcher, Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies

• Massimiliano Castelli, Managing Director, UBS 

HIGH-LEVEL CONVERSATION:THE AI REVOLUTION

• Vincent Mele, Founder and Director, Otranto

• Loubna Bouarfa, Head of AI and Innovative Platforms, Envision Pharma Group

• Vivienne Ming, Co-Founder and CEO, Socos Labs (online participation)

• Marta Sabou, Professor of Information Systems and Business Engineering, Vienna University of Economics and Business

SPECIAL LECTURE: WEAPONIZATION OF THE ECONOMY

• Henry Farrell, Professor, John Hopkins School of Advanced Studies (author of recently published: “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy”)

Roundbtable 4: TRADE, CONNECTIVITY, NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

• Massimo Deandreis, General Manager, SRM

• Zeno D’Agostino, President, European Sea Ports Organization

• Robert Lichtner, Coordinator, Danube Strategy Point, EU Strategy for the Danube Region

• Philip Sweens, Managing Director, HHLA International 

• Ekaterina Kozyreva, President, IEC International

• Vladislav Inozemtsev, Director, Center for post-Industrial Studies

Roundtable 5: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF MONEY

• Martin Feldkircher, Professor of International Economics, Vienna School of International Studies

• Aniko Szombati, Executive Director and Chief Digital Officer, National Bank of Hungary

• Ousmene Mandeng, Senior Advisor, Accenture

• John Velissarios, Founder and Director, Otranto

• Bernhard Haslhofer, Faculty Member at the Complexity Science Hub and Head of Cryptofinance Research Group, Vienna.

Roundtable 6: AN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FOR ALL? CLIMATE, SECURITY, RESILIENCE AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF GLOBAL COOPERATION 

• Franz Nauschnigg, Board Member, European Task Force Carbon Pricing/Former Head International, OENB

• Livio Stracca, Deputy Director General, European Central Bank

• Christine Muttonen, Vice-President, Austrian Institute for European & Security Policy and Co-President of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament

• Lassina Zerbo, Former Prime Minister, Burkina Faso and Executive Secretary Emeritus of the CTBTO (2013-2021)

• Mario Holzner, Executive Director, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

• Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, President, Instituto Affari Internazionali

• Thomas Wieser, Senior Fellow, Bruegel

CLOSING BOOK TALK- SEVEN CRASHES: THE ECONOMIC CRISES THAT SHAPED GLOBALIZATION   

• Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University