Die Welt 2040 – Trends und Prognosen
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English language
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Prof. Leszek BALCEROWICZ
Former Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland; Professor of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw
| 1989-1991 | Deputy Prime Minister of Poland; Minister of Finance of Poland, Warsaw |
| 1995-2000 | President, Freedom Union, Warsaw |
| 1997-2000 | Deputy Prime Minister of Poland; Minister of Finance; President of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers, Warsaw |
| 2001-2007 | Governor, Central Bank of Poland, Warsaw |
Jeremy RIFKIN
President, The Foundation on Economic Trends, Washington, D.C.
| Jeremy Rifkin is the author of The New York Times best selling book "The Third Industrial Revolution, How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World". Mr. Rifkin is an adviser to the European Union and to heads of state around the world. He is a senior lecturer at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. |
Dr. Alexandra FÖDERL-SCHMID
Correspondent, Israel and Palestine Territories, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tel Aviv
| Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, born in 1971, has been with the Süddeutsche Zeitung since September 2017 and reports on Israel and the Palestinian territories. Before that, she was editor-in-chief for ten years and later co-editor of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and the news portal derStandard.at. She has studied journalism, political science and history and earned her doctorate on the dual broadcasting system in Germany. Furthermore, she was 2005 Reuters/APA-Geiringer-Fellow in Oxford. She was awarded with the Austrian Kurt-Vorhofer-Prize for politcal journalism, the Constitutional Award and the Ari-Rath-Prize. In addition, she was instrumental in the reestablishment of the Press Council in Austria. |
