The summit program

There are probably few men who have as deep an insight into the German economy as Siegried Russwurm, born in 1963. Since the beginning of 2021, Russwurm, who holds a doctorate in engineering, has been President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). For decades, he worked for Siemens. Until his retirement in March 2017, he sat on the Managing Board for a good eight years. He heads the Supervisory Board and Shareholders' Committee of Voith and is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp.

Dr. Marc Beise is an experienced journalist and business editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung. For more than two decades, he has been shaping economic reporting with well-founded analyses and astute commentary. He founded the Economic Summit and is currently responsible for the Süddeutsche Zeitung's Italy correspondence.

Wolfgang Krach, born in 1963, joined the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" from the news magazine "Der Spiegel" in 2003, as managing editor and head of the newsdesk. In 2007, Krach was appointed to the editorial board, initially as deputy editor-in-chief. He has been editor-in-chief of "Süddeutsche Zeitung" since April 1, 2015, together with Judith Wittwer since July 2020.

Born in Oberhausen in 1979, studied economics and politics in Cologne and Stockholm, at the same time attending the Cologne School of Journalism. 10 years as economics editor at the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung", then moved to the current position as deputy head of the economics department and head of the Frankfurt bureau. Since autumn 2022 she has been head of the SZ economics department.

heads the parliamentary editorial department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Berlin. Previously, he was head of the news desk and the investigative research department, which he helped to set up from 2009.

has been SZ correspondent in Berlin since 2018 and deputy head of the parliamentary office since mid-2022. She reports on the FDP and the federal government's financial and tax policies. Previously, she was an economics correspondent in the Berlin office of the FAZ for eight years and before that was economics editor of the FAZ in Frankfurt. She studied economics and is a graduate of the Cologne School of Journalism.

Ulrich Schäfer is deputy editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. After seven years at Der Spiegel, he began reporting from Berlin in 2003, initially as deputy head of the SZ parliamentary bureau. From 2007, he headed the business editorial department for nine years, the Munich, Region and Bavaria department for three years and built up the SZ's new newsdesk as head of news.

born in 1977, has been leading the editorial team of the Süddeutsche Zeitung together with Wolfgang Krach since summer 2020. Previously, she was business editor for Axel Springer's Handelszeitung in Zurich before returning to Tages-Anzeiger as head of news and CvD and joining the editorial team in 2016, then as editor-in-chief from 2018.