Christoph Graf von Waldersee  (speaker)	Asia Water Development Corporation Ltd. (HK), Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Veit  (deputy speaker)	University of Applied Siences, Faculty of Economics, Cologne
Dr. h.c. Norbert Burger	Former Lord Mayor of Cologne
Ulrich Linnenberg	Oliver Schrott Communication GmbH, Managing Director, Cologne
Dr. Martin Posth	Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Company Ltd. (SVW), Shanghai - Anting, V.R. China; Ex-Commercial Executive and Deputy Managing Director; Ex-President of the Asia Pacific Forum, Berlin
Dipl.-Ing. Richard Sattler	IBG - Industrie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH, Managing Director, Cologne
Theo Sausen	Managing Director, WOMA Apparatebau GmbH, Managing Director, Duisburg
Wolfgang Schaab	Vice President Eastern Hemisphere, BIODROGA COSMETICS GMBH, The Spa & Skin Care Company, Baden-Baden
Fritz Schramma	Former Lord Mayor of Cologne
Dr. Konrad Seitz	Botschafter a.D. New Delhi, Beijing Politischer Planungschef a.D. Auswärtiges Amt
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz	Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Professur für Japanische Wirtschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M.