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Christoph Heusgen

Christoph Heusgen is a diplomat and Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. For more than a decade, he was the foreign and security policy advisor to Angela Merkel, whom he accompanied on all her trips abroad. His close ties with America and his comprehensive concept of security have shaped his career over the past decades. Christoph Heusgen is considered to have an excellent international network, right up to the upper echelons. Ambassador Heusgen joined the Foreign Service in 1980 and his career took him to the German Consulate in Chicago and the German Embassy in Paris. For two years he headed the European Sub-Department at the Federal Foreign Office and subsequently the political staff of the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, Javier Solana. Before taking over as Chair of the MSC, Ambassador Heusgen was Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to 2021 and chaired the UN Security Council in April 2019 and July 2020. © MSC/Kuhlmann

Kit Yates

Kit Yates is an author, broadcaster and academic who specializes in the role of mathematics in everyday life. As a speaker, he can explain scientific material in an understandable way with humor and expertise. Kit Yates is Director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath and completed his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of two books, “Why math is (almost) everything… and how it determines our lives” (a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year) and “How to predict what no one expects” (a Waterstones Popular Science Book of the Year). Kit Yates is a prominent commentator on the role of math/science in society and writes regularly for the Guardian, the Independent and other media. He regularly appears on radio programs such as the BBC’s “More or Less” and “Inside Science” as well as TV news programs and documentaries. © epmedia advertising agency / Sandra Oblak

Sven Gábor Jánszky

Sven Gabor Janszky Guest speaker for the future (5-sterne-redner.de) No other keynote speaker in Europe has given more talks on the topic of the future in recent years than futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky. And no other futurologist brings future topics to the stage in such a rousing and inspiring way – his fascinating mix of science fiction and strategy makes futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky’s lectures a unique experience. The 5-star speaker presents future scenarios in an impressive and understandable way, describing their consequences for the living and working environments of the next ten years, giving concrete recommendations for action and thus encouraging people to take the shaping of the future into their own hands. The entrepreneur and futurologist Sven Gábor Jánszky is an impressive visionary. As the author of the exciting trend books “2030: Wie viel Mensch verträgt die Zukunft” and “2025 – So arbeiten wir in der Zukunft” as well as the management strategy book “Rulebreaker – Wie Menschen denken, deren Ideen die Welt verändern”, futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky has become the mouthpiece of disruptive innovators in the German economy. Together with heads of innovation and future thinkers from over 250 of the most important international companies, the futurologist analyzes current developments and future trends at the 2b AHEAD ThinkTank’s annual Future Congress and constructs the future living and business worlds for Europe in the coming decade. Sven Gabor Janszky, the number one futurologist, has inspired more than 180,000 people in 600 keynotes around the world. Janszky is a member of the supervisory board of Karlshochschule International University, a member of the advisory board of Management Circle AG and president of the Rulebreaker agency, which specializes in disruptive innovations. The trained journalist became the youngest head of news at ARD at the age of 23 and is now himself present in the German business media every other day. Futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky has climbed Kilimanjaro three times and run 19 marathons to date. In 2012, he received the 5-Star Speaker Award in the “Special Award” category for his extraordinary achievements outside of the speaker scene in a Round Table charity project. Since 2021, futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky has also been presenting the forward-looking lecture series “+100: Next steps for humankind” at the FUTURE FORUM by BMW Welt. © epmedia advertising agency / Sandra Oblak