Speakers

Opening plenary session

• 
  Ursula von der Leyen

  President of the European Commission 

• 
  Macky Sall

  President, Senegal

• 
  Edi Rama

  Prime Minister, Albania

• 
  Sheikh Hasina

  Prime Minister, Bangladesh

• 
  Amina J. Mohammed

  Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

• 
  Fumio Kishida

  Prime Minister, Japan and Chair, Group of Seven (G7)

• 
  Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

  Deputy Prime Minister, Namibia

• 
  Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani

  President, Mauritania

• 
  Mostafa Madbouly

  Prime Minister, Egypt

• 
  Maroš Šefčovič

  European Commission Executive Vice-President

• 
  Tran Hong Ha

  Deputy Prime-Minister, Vietnam

• 
  Werner Hoyer

  President, European Investment Bank

• 
  Dan Jørgensen

  Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Denmark

• 
  Sirojiddin Muhriddin

  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tajikistan

• 
  Germán Umaña

  Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Colombia

• 
  Roland Siller

  Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG)

• 
  Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

  President, Somalia

• 
  Edouard Ngirente

  Prime Minister, Rwanda

• 
  Jutta Urpilainen

  European Commissioner for International Partnerships

• 
  Amina J. Mohammed

  Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

• 
  Rigathi Gachagua

  Vice-President, Kenya

• 
  Bojan Marichikj

  Deputy Prime Minister, North Macedonia

• 
  Chrysoula Zacharopoulou

  Minister of State for Development, Francophonie & International Partnerships, France

• 
  Tomas Tobé

  Chair of the Development Committee, Member of the European Parliament

• 
  The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP

  Minister of State (Development and Africa), United Kingdom

• 
  Dr. Vicente Atxa Uribe

  President of Mondragon Knowledge, and Chancellor of Mondragon University

• 
  Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge

  Prime Minister, Democratic Republic of the Congo

• 
  Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Director-General, World Trade Organisation

• 
  Thierry Breton

  European Commissioner for Internal Market

• 
  Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane

  Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zambia

• 
  Thomas Alweendo

  Minister of Mines and Energy, Namibia

• 
  Alfonso Durazo Montaño

  Governor of Sonora, Mexico

• 
  Jusipdek Kazbekov

  Deputy Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change, Uzbekistan

• 
  Dubravka Šuica

  European Commission Vice-President

• 
  José Ulisses de Pina Correia e Silva

  Prime Minister, Cape Verde

• 
  Irakli Garibashvili

  Prime Minister, Georgia

• 
  Dorin Recean

  Prime Minister, Moldova

• 
  Adina-Ioana Vălean

  European Commissioner for Transport

• 
  Ana Brnabic

  Prime Minister, Serbia

• 
  Odile Renaud-Basso

  President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

• 
  Abdulkadir Uraloğlu

  Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Türkiye

• 
  Marat Karabayev

  Minister of Transport, Kazakhstan

• 
  Serdar Jorayev

  Minister of Finance and Economy, Turkmenistan

• 
  Boudewijn Siemons

  Chief Executive Officer, Port of Rotterdam Authority

• 
  José de Lima Massano

  Minister of State for Economic Coordination, Angola

• 
  Olivér Várhelyi

  European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement

• 
  Macky Sall

  President, Senegal

• 
  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

  Director-General, World Health Organisation

• 
  Stella Kyriakides

  European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

• 
  Caroline Gennez

  Minister for Development Cooperation, Belgium

• 
  Peter Sands

  Chief Executive Officer, The Global Fund

• 
  Hala Audi

  Chief Executive Officer of Unizima, a Univercells company

• 
  Dr Ngashi Ngongo

  Chief of staff, Africa Centres for disease control and prevention

• 
  Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare

  Presidential Advisor on Health, at the Office of the President of Ghana

• 
  Vahagn Khachaturyan

  President, Armenia

• 
  Ana Brnabic

  Prime Minister, Serbia

• 
  Kaja Kallas

  Prime Minister, Estonia

• 
  Doreen Bogdan-Martin

  Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• 
  Anna Bjerde

  Managing Director, World Bank Group

• 
  Benjamin Diokno

  Secretary of Finance, Philippines

• 
  Arnoldo André Tinoco

  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Costa Rica

• 
  Nuria Kutnaeva

  Minister of Digital Development, Kyrgyzstan

• 
  Jessika Roswall

  Minister of EU Affairs, Sweden

• 
  Yusuf Maitama Tuggar Oon

  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria

• 
  Melissa Schoeb

  Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Nokia

• 
  Věra Jourová

  European Commission Vice-President

• 
  Josep Borrell Fontelles

  High Representative/Vice-President of the European Commission

• 
  Jutta Urpilainen

  European Commissioner for International Partnerships

• 
  Azali Assoumani

  President, Comoros (Chair of the African Union)

• 
  Dammu Ravi

  Principal Secretary, India and Chair, the Group of Twenty (G20)

• 
  Pedro Sánchez

  President of the Government of Spain (Presidency of the Council of the EU)

• 
  Xavier Bettel

  Prime Minister of Luxembourg

• 
  António Costa

  Prime Minister of Portugal

• 
  Antonio Tajani

  Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Incoming G7 Presidency

• 
  Alexander De Croo

  Prime Minister of Belgium