Christian Angermayer

Board Member of Altira Group, responsible for Business Development
Managing Director of Silvia Quandt & Cie. AG, Frankfurt
Founder and Partner of ABL Unternehmensgruppe GmbH, majority owner of Altira Group and one of Germany´s largest and fastest growing independent financial services groups
Member of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) in Rwanda, advising President Paul Kagame on development strategies, together with leading international personalities, such as Tony Blair, Michael Fairbanks and Michael Porter
Active member of the Clinton Global Initiative and Co-Chairman of Cinema for Peace

Member of the Advisory Council for the Global Growth Company programme of the World Economic Forum

Alastair Newton

Senior Political Analyst at Nomura International plc since October 2008. He first joined Lehman Brothers in that capacity in August 2005
Active participant in Track 2 discussions aimed at enhancing economic and political stability across the MENA region
Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Middle East

Prior to this, he spent 20 years as career diplomat with the British Diplomatic Service. He served in sub-Saharan Africa, Paris (at the OECD) and The United States. In London, he worked in intelligence co-ordination (including during the 1990/91 Gulf War), policy planning and economic relations as well as running the Prime Minister’s G7/8 team from 1998 to 2000

CEO of Aragon AG, an independent financial sales company
CEO of Jung, DMS & Cie. AG, the most important investment of Aragon AG
Partner of ABL Unternehmensgruppe GmbH, majority owner of Altira Group and one of Germany´s largest and fastest growing independent financial services groups

Prior to this, he held various positions at Allianz Group including assistant to the Management Board and branch manager at Allianz Private Krankenversicherung AG