2017 •
Alexander Betts, University of Oxford •
Sarah Chayes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace •
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) •
Dennis Lo, Chinese University of Hong Kong •
W.E. Moerner, Stanford University •
Jian-Wei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China •
Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town •
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Swiss AI Lab •
Christina Smolke, Stanford University
2016 •
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, CAPRISA, Durban •
Kevin Bales, University of Nottingham •
Neil Gershenfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
Rob Knight, University of California, San Diego •
Lim Chuan Poh, A*STAR, Singapore •
Randolph Nesse, Arizona State University •
Peter Neumann, King's College London •
Hélène Rey, London Business School •
Katherine Richardson, University of Copenhagen •
Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths, University of London
2015 •
June Andrews, University of Stirling, UK •
Bruce A. Beutler, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA •
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany •
Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany •
Nilüfer Göle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France •
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, London, UK •
Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland •
Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK •
Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA •
Nina Kraus, Northwestern University, USA •
Joanne Liu, Médecins Sans Frontières, Switzerland •
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, New York City •
Brian Schmidt, Australian National University •
Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore •
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, European Research Council (Session Host) •
Rush D. Holt, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Session Host) •
Johanna Wanka, German Federal Minister of Education and Research (Official Opening)
2014 •
David Chipperfield, David Chipperfield Architects •
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA •
Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany •
Lisa Kaltenegger, Cornell University, USA •
Christof Koch, Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA •
Nathan S. Lewis, California Institute of Technology, USA •
Mariana Mazzucato, University of Sussex, UK •
Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany •
Alan Rusbridger, Former Editor-in-Chief of
The Guardian, UK •
Thierry Zomahoun, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa •
Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, Austria •
Diane Griffin, vice-president of the United States National Academy of Sciences (Session Host) •
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (Official Opening) •
Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, UK (Session Host) •
Rupert Stadler, CEO, AUDI AG, Germany (Dinner speech) •
Philippe Taquet, President of the French Academy of Sciences (Session Host) •
Lev Zelenyi, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Session Host)
2013 •
Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Columbia University, USA •
Olafur Eliasson, artist •
Jill Farrant, University of Cape Town, South Africa •
Stephen Friend, President Sage Bionetworks, USA •
Anita Goel, CEO Nanobiosym, USA •
Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN, Switzerland •
Jules A. Hoffmann, Université de Strasbourg, France •
Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University, USA •
Daniel G. Nocera, Harvard University, USA •
Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, University of Cambridge, UK •
Mark Pagel, University of Reading, UK •
Dan Shechtman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel •
Salil Shetty, Secretary General Amnesty International, UK •
Luc Steels, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain •
Ai Weiwei, artist
2012 •
David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara •
Monique Breteler, Harvard School of Public Health in Boston •
Michael Bruter, London School of Economics •
Philip Campbell, Nature Publishing Group •
Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Senegal's Health Minister •
David Harel, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel •
Michel D. Kazatchkine, UN Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Eastern Europe and Central Asia •
Alan I. Leshner, AAAS and Science •
Daniel Libeskind, Architect •
Helga Nowotny, European Research Council (ERC), Vienna •
Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS/Technische Universität Berlin •
Hal Varian, Google Inc. •
Daniel Zajfman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2011 •
Anastasia Ailamaki,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne •
Nick Barton, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria •
Aaron Ciechanover, Technion •
Robert Darnton, Harvard University •
Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University •
Robert E. Horn, Stanford University •
Wang Hui, Tsinghua University, Beijing •
Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics •
Ferenc Krausz, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Munich •
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany •
Helga Nowotny, European Research Council (ERC), Vienna •
Kõji Omi, The Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum Kyoto •
Annette Schavan, German Federal Minister of Education and Research •
Dennis J. Snower, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy •
Cédric Villani, Université de Lyon •
Stewart Wallis, nef (the new economics foundation), London
2010 •
Dalton Conley,
Sociologist •
Frederick Cooper, historian •
Helmut Dosch,
Physicist •
Olafur Eliasson, artist •
Doug Guthrie, Dean of
The George Washington University School of Business •
Olga Holtz, mathematician •
Reinhard Hüttl, President at
acatech •
Thomas Lengauer, Director at the
Max Planck Institute for Informatics •
Yves Leterme,
Prime Minister of Belgium •
Karl Ulrich Mayer, President of the
Leibniz Association •
Jürgen Mlynek, President of the
Helmholtz Association •
Annette Schavan, professor, German Federal Minister of Education and Research •
Sabine Schmidtke, professor,
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies,
University of Pennsylvania •
Christian Wulff,
President of Germany 2009 •
Jutta Allmendinger •
Alain Aspect •
Michel Brunet •
Dipesh Chakrabarty •
John-Dylan Haynes •
Rolf-Dieter Heuer •
Harold James (historian) •
Angela Merkel •
Amélie Mummendey •
Miguel Nicolelis •
Tricia Striano •
Wendelin Werner •
Thomas Wiegand •
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