Audience
Past speakers have included politicians such as Gerhard Schröder, Otto Schily, Michael Howard, Jack Straw, Denis MacShane, Peter Hain, Peter Mandelson, Clare Short and Kenneth Clarke, as well as a variety of business figures (e.g. Heinrich von Pierer of Siemens, John Gardiner of Tesco, Gerhard Cromme of ThyssenKrupp, Bernd Pischetsrieder of BMW, John Rose of Rolls-Royce, Jean-Claude Trichet and Otmar Issing of the European Central Bank, Ernst Welteke of the Bundesbank). The audience is composed of 200 - 300 people from business, politics, the media and academe.
