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.
Denis Redonnet
Deputy Director General,
Trade and Economic Security, European Commission, Brussels
Gundbert Scherf
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Helsing SE, Munich
Peter Sandler
Director for Economic Security, DG for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission, Brussels
Thomas Steffen
Permanent State Secretary
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE)
Brian Menell
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, TechMet Limited, Dublin
Zoran Nechev
Policy and Advocacy Fellow,
Think Europe, Ljubljana
Stanisław Kastory
Co-Founder & General Partner,
Expeditions Fund, Warsaw
Danielle Myles
Senior Financial Editor, fDi Intelligence, Financial Times, London
Yeghishe Kirakosyan
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Member of the Arbitration Council, Arbitration and Mediation Center of Armenia (AMCA), Yerevan |
Quentin Lamarche
CEO, TechMet SCM, Brussels
Phillip Offenberg
Head of Government and
Executive Affairs, Siemens Energy, Brussels
Huw Walters
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Director for Economic Security & Statecraft, UK Ministry of Defence, London |
Ota Šimák
Director of the Department of Trade Policy and International Economic Organizations, Ministry of
Industry and Trade, Prague
Alex Hofmann
Head of Editorial of CEO.Table, Table.Briefings, Berlin
Thomas Ernoult
Head of Unit, Foreign Investment
Screening, French Treasury, Paris
Jessica Lehman
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Senior Advisor for Foreign Direct Investment, US Department of Energy (DOE), Washington D.C. |
Andrew Hill
Senior Policy Advisor, American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, Brussels
Tomasz Dolny
Head of Unit, Free Movement of Capital and Application of EU Law, DG FISMA, European
Commission, 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
Vera Eichenauer
Economist, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
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 Global Policy and International Affairs, Nokia, Brussels
Ana-Maria Belacurencu
Case Handler, Romanian Competition Authority, Bucharest
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
Sofia Trenor
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Director EU Affairs Public Policy, Amazon Web Services, Brussels
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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
John Kay
Head of Programmes and Strategic Partnerships, CELIS Institute, Berlin
Steffen Hindelang
Professor of International Investment and Trade Law,
Uppsala University
Mircea Esanu
Executive Director, Public Services Agency, Chișinău
Megumi Ezaki
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Director of the Foreign Investment Policy and Review Office, |
Sebastian Gräfe
Desk Officer for Investment Screening, German Ministry of Defence (BMVg), Berlin
Rainer Quitzow
Research Group Leader Geopolitics of Energy and Industrial Transformation Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at GFZ, Potsdam
Beltram Dumontier
Group Trade Compliance
Director, Thales Group, Meudon
Santiago Conde Lara
Deputy Director,
Foreign Investment Unit, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Enterprise, Madrid
Mikael Wigell
Founder & CEO of the Economic Security Forum, Helsinki
Joachim Pohl
Head of the International Investment Governance Unit, Investment Division at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris
Martin Friedl
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Directof for South and Latin America |
Tobias Pierlings
Head of Division for External Economic Policy South and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania,
Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), Berlin
Vladi Shlesman
CCO, Hadean, London
Jonne Lasinsk
Case Handler, Investment
Screening Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, The Hague
Jason Hewitt
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Counsel, |
Tsiporah Fried
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Senior Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C |