SPEAKERS #GMIS2020

Joe Kaeser was born in Arnbruck/Regen district (Germany) in 1957. After completing his studies with a degree in business administration (FH), he joined Siemens AG in 1980.

Following various positions in business management and management positions at Siemens AG in the areas of administration, finance and strategy, Joe Kaeser was appointed to the Managing Board of Siemens AG as Chief Financial Officer in 2006.

Since August 2013, Joe Kaeser is President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG (listed).

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak is Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Mubadala Investment Company. In this position he is responsible for ensuring the company’s strategy is aligned to Abu Dhabi’s objective of advancing its globally integrated, sustainable and diversified economy.
Government responsibilities include, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council; Presidential Special Envoy to China; Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority, which provides strategic policy advice to the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, and membership of the UAE Supreme Petroleum Council.
Khaldoon serves on the Boards of a number of significant businesses, including Chairmanships of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, Emirates Global Aluminium and City Football Group. He is also a non-Executive Board member of First Abu Dhabi Bank.
Khaldoon Co-Chairs the Abu Dhabi-Singapore Joint Forum and is a member of the New York University Board of Trustees.

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Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak has been appointed Managing Director and
Group Chief Executive Ofcer of Mubadala Investment Company, the entity
formed from the merger of Mubadala Development Company, where he
currently serves as Group CEO and Managing Director, and the International
Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC).
He is also Chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Executive Afairs Authority (EAA), which
provides strategic policy advice to the Chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Executive
Council, of which he is also a member. In addition, he is a member of the UAE
Supreme Petroleum Council. Khaldoon’s other board positions include:
Chairman of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Emirates Global
Aluminium (EGA); Vice Chairman of Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council; and
board member of First Gulf Bank.
He graduated from Tufts University, Boston with a degree in economics and
finance.

H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei was appointed as the Minister of Energy on March 2013 where his mandate focusses on providing support to sustainable development, address oil, minerals, and water and electricity issues for the benefit of the UAE.

H.E. Al Mazrouei is also a Board Member of IPIC ; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA); Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mubadala Petroleum Co; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Liquefied Gas Co; Member of the Supreme Petroleum Council and the executive Committee of SPC; Member of the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Development Co; Member of the Board of Directors of the Dolphin Energy Co.

His Excellency also Chair some of the international companies outside of the UAE such as : Borealis, NOVA Chemicals and CEPSA.

H.E. Al Mazrouei has considerable experience in corporate administration in different sectors, including ship building, defence systems, oil and gas services sector and real estate development.

H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei holds a B.A. in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa in the US in 1996.

General Secretary,
IFR International Federation of Robotics

John Defterios is CNN Business’ Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor. Based in the network’s Abu Dhabi bureau since 2011, his reporting focuses on the top business stories from emerging economies, with a specialty in trade, geo-politics and energy.

Defterios has built a long-standing reputation for securing exclusive interviews with high-level figures during breaking news situations including: HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rachid, PM of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Ali Al Naimi & Khalid Al Falih, Energy Ministers of Saudi Arabia, HH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto as well many of the leading CEOs in the Fortune 100.

Defterios has three decades of financial news and current affairs experience covering some of the landmarks events during that period including the Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the World Trade Centre bombings and G8/G20 summits, the L.A. Riots from his postings in London, Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Rome and the U.A.E.

He is a World Economic Forum media leader and member of the Global Agenda Council on the Arab World and serves on the board of the Stern Stewart Institute in Germany, a non-for-profit group promoting leadership and entrepreneurship.

Defterios chairs more than a dozen high level events annually including the World Economic Forum, the OPEC Seminar, the IMF Roundtable, St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Atlantic Council Energy Forum, U.A.E. World Government Summit, U.S.-Saudi Arabia Investment Summit, Islamic Development Bank Annual Meeting and Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative.

Prior to CNN, Defterios worked for Reuters Television as European Correspondent, U.S. West Coast Correspondent and special series producer in a joint-venture with The Nightly Business Report on PBS-TV.

He graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Journalism and Political Economics and was a fellow at the USC’s Institute of Politics and Government in Washington D.C.

João Carlos Ferraz has been involved with the economics of change, at corporate, sectoral or country levels, their determinants, impacts and policy implications. These are the subject matters driving the different professional activities.

Professor Ferraz holds an Associate Professorship at the Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ). He was IE/UFRJ Dean between 1998 and 2003 and Visiting Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, from 1995 to 1997. In public offices, between 2007 and 2016, he was Vice-president and Executive Director of the Brazilian Development Bank, BNDES, in Rio de Janeiro.

In international organizations, he was Director of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations (UN/ECLAC), Santiago, Chile (2003-2007). I have been involved with different Boards and Councils: UFRJ Higher University Council (1998-2002), Banco do Brasil SA Board of Directors (2002-2007), Brazil´s Industrial Policy Executive Secretariat (2008-2010), Brazilian Symphony Orchestra Foundation Board of Trustees (2013-2014), and JBS SA Board of Directors (2013-2016), among others. Professor Ferraz holds a DPhil from Sussex University (Science Policy Research Unit), UK.

Chairman and Senior Partner,
PwC

Dr. Jochen Koeckler is Chairman of the Managing Board of Deutsche Messe AG based in Hannover, Germany. He was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2012 and took over the chairmanship on 1 July 2017. In his executive role, he is responsible for the business units “Industry, Energy, Logistics” with the trade fairs in these industries and “Digital Business & Transformation” and Services. Koeckler is also responsible for the divisions Hosted Trade Fairs, Hosted Events & New Trade Fairs, HR, Auditing, Protocol and the Strategic Program Management. In addition Koeckler oversees the subsidiaries event it, Elektro Messehaus Hannover GmbH, Messe Energie GmbH, Deutsche Messe Technology Academy GmbH and Deutsche Messe Beteiligungsgesellschaft (DMB) as well as spring Messe Management GmbH and Messe-Gastronomie Hannover GmbH.

On graduating from high school and completing his compulsory military service, Koeckler commenced his university studies in agricultural economics and policy, gaining a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1999. His doctoral thesis, undertaken as part of an international EU research project, was on the development of an agricultural policy information system to quantify the anticipated impacts of EU accession, with specific reference to the Hungarian agriculture sector.

In 1999, Koeckler commenced employment with the German Agricultural Society (DLG), where he served in various roles, including Managing Director of the Exhibition Department and, from 2008 to 2012, Deputy CEO. During his tenure at DLG, he was responsible for organizing the Society’s trade fairs worldwide. Under his leadership, the AGRITECHNICA show in Hannover became the world’s biggest trade fair for agricultural technology. In addition to overseeing this two-yearly trade fair in Hannover, Koeckler was responsible for national-level DLG trade shows in Poland, Russia, China and the USA. Dr. Koeckler left DLG to take up his role on the Managing Board of Deutsche Messe in April of 2012.

With 2018 revenue totaling about 310 million euros, Deutsche Messe ranks among the world’s Top 10 tradeshow producers. In 2018, Deutsche Messe planned and staged 113 trade fairs and congresses in Germany and around the world – events hosting a total of roughly 37,000 exhibitors and attracting some 3.5 million visitors. The company’s event portfolio includes such world-leading events as HANNOVER MESSE (industrial technology), LABVOLUTION (lab technology), didacta (education), DOMOTEX (carpets and floor coverings), INTERSCHUTZ (fire prevention, disaster relief and safety & security), and LIGNA (woodworking, wood processing, forestry). With approx. 1,200 employees and a network of 58 sales partners, representatives and branch offices, Deutsche Messe is present in about 100 countries.

Koeckler holds the following external board memberships and honorary posts: Member of the Managing Board of Foerderkreis der Deutschen Industrie e. V. (Society for the Promotion of German Industry) and guest member of the Presidential Board of BDI (Federation of German Industries),

Member of the Managing Board of GDG – Gemeinschaft Deutscher Großmessen e. V. (Association of Major German Exhibition Organizers), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of event it AG and miovent AG, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Messe Technology Academy GmbH, Supervisory Board member of Hannover Marketing & Tourismus GmbH (HMTG) ,Advisory Board member of Hannover Airport, Member of the Board of Trustees of Maedchenchor Hannover (Hannover Girls’ Choir), Member of the Board of Directors AUMA – Ausstellungs- und Messe-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft e. V.

(Association of the German Trade Fair Industry), Member of the Advisory Board of Industrie-Club Hannover e.V.

Partner,
Coal Hill Ventures and the Robotics Hub

John O’Shea has more than 22 years career experience in a variety of global roles including executive leadership, business development, sales and marketing.

He currently works in Lenovo as Global Leader of Smart Solutions within Blockchain and AI and IoT.

He is a member of the Worldwide Blockchain Forum and is a renowned keynote speaker within Blockchain, IoT & AI and Edge computing.

His career in science and technology includes scientific product development within the disciplines of AI and 3D Technologies. He also holds a Doctorate Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology.

Dr. Volker Treier is Member of the Executive Board. As the Chief Executive of Foreign Trade he is responsible for International and European Economic Affairs, the network of bi-national German Chambers, Delegations and Representations of German Industry and Commerce (AHKs) in 92 countries worldwide

Ms. Cecilia Ugaz Estrada is the newly appointed Director of UNIDO’s Department of Policy Research and Statistics, Policy and Programme Support. She holds a PhD in economics from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France as well as graduate degrees in economic modelling from France and Peru. Prior to joining UNIDO, she served as the United Nations Resident Coordinator as well as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative for Paraguay. She also served as the Deputy Resident Representative for UNDP in Argentina and as Deputy Director for the Human Development Report Office in UNDP headquarters in New York. Ms. Ugaz Estrada has also held various positions in academia in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Finland as well as with the World Bank in Washington DC.