Institute for Trade and Innovation
Speakers
Hosted by the Institute for Trade and Innovation (IfTI), we connected innovators and exporters with leaders from governments, innovation funds, multilateral development banks, bilateral development finance institutions and export credit agencies from many countries in order to discuss economic development in a world of change.
Abdulmajeed H. Alomrani
Director Innovation Department, Monsha'at
Avag Avanesyan
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs of Armenia
Prof Dr Mathias Bärtl
Member, Institute for Trade and Innovation (IfTI)
Astrid Bronswijk
Head of Export Finance and Investment Guarantees, Dutch Ministry of Finance
Kirstine Damkjær
CEO, EKF Denmark's Export Credit Agency
David Drysdale
Head of Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Simon Edmonds
Deputy Executive Chair, Innovate UK
Massimo Falcioni
CEO, Etihad Credit Insurance
Reimund Felderhoff
Co-Founder, tr8fin
Dr Rebecca Harding
CEO, Coriolis Technologies and Research Fellow, Institute for Trade and Innovation (IfTI)
Jens Heitmann
Head of Division, Euler Hermes
Ambassador Dr Eric Jakob
Director, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
Dr Marion Jansen
Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
Jonathan Joseph-Horne
Global Co-Head of Structured Export Finance, SMBC
Prof Dr Andreas Klasen
Head, Institute for Trade and Innovation (IfTI)
Nina Kopola
CEO, Business Finland
Dr Simone Krummaker
Senior Lecturer, City, University of London
Philipp Lemmerz
Director, PwC
Jennifer Loewen
Director, International Financial Consulting Ltd.
Christine Lund Andersen
Senior Advisor, EKF
Xiana Margarida Méndez Bértolo
Secretary of State, Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
Dr Robert Ochola
Director Strategy and Innovation, Afreximbank
Prof Dr Benedict Oramah
President & Chairman of the Board, Afreximbank
Sandra Planes Satorra
Innovation Policy Analyst, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Beatriz Reguero Naredo
COO, CESCE and President, Berne Union
Dan Riordan
President PRCB, AXA XL
Jan Sasse
CEO, Tesi Finland
Volker Schebesta
State Secretary, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
Johannes Schmidt
Global Head of Finance Advisory, Siemens Financial Services
Werner Schmidt
Global Head Structured Trade & Export, Deutsche Bank
Dr Karine Siegwart
Vice Director, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU)
Hani Salem Sonbol
CEO, ITFC, Islamic Development Bank
Mariane Søndergaard-Jensen
Director, EKF Denmark’s Export Credit Agency
Annette Ssemuwemba
Deputy Executive Director, WTO EIF
Juri Suehrer
IfTI Researcher and Senior Strategist, Government of Dubai
Louis Taylor
CEO, UK Export Finance
Dr. Philipp Wackerbeck
Partner and Head of Financial Services Europe, Strategy&
Janusz Wladyczak
CEO, KUKE