SPEAKER
2025 CFIS - Investment Screening and Economic Security
CFIS 25 Convenors
Steffen Hindelang
Executive Director, CELIS Institute, Berlin; Professor of International Investment and Trade Law, Uppsala University, Uppsala
Roland M Stein
Director, CELIS Institute, Berlin; Partner, Blomstein, Berlin
CFIS 25 Speakers and Chairs
Additional speakers will be added continuously.
Peter Sandler
Director for Economic Security, DG for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission, Brussels
Pascal Lagarde
Executive Director, Strategy,
Development, International Affairs & ESG, Bpifrance, Maisons-Alfort
Andy Bamford
Chief Executive Officer, National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), London
Antonio Calcara
Head of the Geopolitics and
Technology Programme and Research Professor, Center
for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Brussels
Tomasz Dolny
Head of Unit, Free Movement of Capital and Application of EU Law, DG FISMA, European
Commission, Brussels
Gundbert Scherf
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Helsing SE, Munich
Stanisław Kastory
Co-Founder & General Partner,
Expeditions Fund, Warsaw
Brian Menell
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, TechMet Limited, Dublin
Katrin Kamin
Senior Director, Government Affairs for Strategic Technologies, Siemens, Munich; Associate Fellow, Kiel Institute of the Economy, Kiel
Phillip Offenberg
Head of Government and
Executive Affairs, Siemens Energy, Brussels
Ota Šimák
Director of the Department of Trade Policy and International Economic Organizations, Ministry of
Industry and Trade, Prague
Thomas Ernoult
Head of Unit, Foreign Investment
Screening, French Treasury, Paris
Andrew Hill
Senior Policy Advisor, American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, Brussels
Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
Member of the European
Parliament, Brussels
Florentine Kessler-Grobe
Head of Unit, Foreign
Investment Screening, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
Luci Hague
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington D.C
Sergio Pardo
Executive Director for Investment and International Trade, the Argentine Agency of Investment and International Trade (AAICI), Buenos Aires
Robert Tay
Commissioner, Office for Significant Investments Review, Singapore
Victor Mizo
Vice President Government Affairs, Kostal Group; Managing Director Kostal Macedonia, Skopje
Mehreen Khan
Economic Editor, The Times, London
Anne Bonet
Director of Investment Screening, FPS Economy, Brussels
Bimal Patel
Member, National Security
Advisory Board of India; Professor and Vice Chancellor at Rashtriya
Raksha University, Gujarat
Aniruddha Chatterjee
Chief Executive Officer, NSE Data & Analytics, Mumbai
Alvaro Ramos
Vice President Legal, European Legal Affairs, Chief Antitrust Compliance Officer, Qualcomm, San Diego
Julia Jasinska
Head of Policy & International Affairs, Nokia, Berlin
Marta Mont Monfort
Head of Unit, Foreign Investments, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Enterprise, Madrid
CHUA Eu Jin
Head of Institutional Relations & Managing Director Singapore Market, Temasek Holding, Singapore
Rodrigo Monardes
Head of International Affairs, International Finance and Affairs Division, Ministry of Finance, Santiago
Anna Herranz Surralles
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Maastricht University
Dominik Eisenhut
Senior Legal Counsel Special Projects, Airbus SE
Andrew Preston
Deputy Director, Investment Security and Organised Crime, British Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, London
Sarah Bauerle-Danzman
Associate Professor,
Indiana University, Bloomington
Mircea Esanu
Executive Director, Public Services Agency, Chișinău
Sebastian Gräfe
Desk Officer for Investment Screening, German Ministry of Defence (BMVg), Berlin
Beltram Dumontier
Group Trade Compliance
Director, Thales Group, Meudon
Vera Eichenauer
Economist, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
Danielle Myles
Senior Financial Editor, fDi Intelligence, Financial Times, London
Jonne Lasinsk
Case Handler, Investment
Screening Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, The Hague
Ana-Maria Belacurencu
Case Handler, Romanian Competition Authority, Bucharest