Markus J. Beyrer has been Director General of BusinessEurope since late 2012. Prior to this he held the positions of CEO of the Austrian Industry Holding ÖIAG, Director General of the Federation of Austrian Industries (IV) and Director for Economic Affairs of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
Before this Mr Beyrer served as Chief Economic Advisor to the Federal
Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel.
In the 1990s he worked on Austria’s accession to the European Union and the integration of Austria into the European Single Market (at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission).
In addition to his executive positions, Mr Beyrer held a number of non-executive board functions in various Austrian industrial companies and was a member of the non-executive board of the Austrian Central Bank.
Mr Beyrer read Law and Commercial Sciences in Vienna, graduating in Law at the University of Vienna. Later he completed postgraduate studies in European Law at the Danube University in Krems (Austria) and the Stanford Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Mr Beyrer is married with two children.

MA in International Studies, University of Reading, UK; Arabic Language Certificate, Kuwait University. 2005-07, Director, American Center, US Embassy, Prague, in charge of public information programmes. 2007, Public Diplomacy Specialist, US Embassy in Baghdad, responsible for relations with Iraqi media and for a number of education and cultural projects. 2007, joined the Middle East and North Africa team, World Economic Forum, as a Global Leadership Fellow; since 2011, Head of Middle East and North Africa; since 2013, Senior Director.

President/Chairman of the Board, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Sw: Svenskt Näringsliv).

Fredrik Persson is also a chairman of Ellevio AB, ICC Sweden, Chairman, JM AB

He is a member of the board of:

• AB Electrolux
• Hufvudstaden AB
• ICA Gruppen AB
• Ahlström Capital Oy
• Interogo Holding AB
• Nalka Invest AB

M. Witucki is the president of the strongest Polish employers’ Confederation Lewiatan. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Polish communications operator Orange Polska and Work Service, member of the Supervisory Board of the insurance company AXA Polska.

Former Chairman of the Boards of Orange Polska, Work Service and Lukas Bank (Crédit Agricole).

Managing Director of BASF for the Baltic states.

Background: Since 20 years in BASF. Andreas Haase steered global investment projects held several management positions in Germany, Austria, and Russia.

Finished University of Südwestfalen.

Minister of Environment of Lithuania

Graduate of University of Oslo, University of Vienna and Swedish Institute Management Programme, S.Gentvilas started his work experience as an Advisor of the Mayor of Lithuania port city of Klaipėda. Later on worked as an Executive Director of the Association Klaipėda Region and founded the Baltic Institute of Technology. In parallel he worked as a lecturer in Intercultural Communication at SMK University of Applied Sciences.

Member of the Liberal Movement Lithuania from 2011. Then Chair of the Klaipėda division Liberal Movement Lithuania from 2013, Deputy Chair of the Liberal Movement Lithuania from 2015 and member since then.

Kęstutis Sadauskas holds Master degrees from Vilnius University in Political Science/International Relations and Geography. From 1993 until 2006 he worked at the Lithuanian Foreign Service on multilateral issues. In September 2006 Kęstutis Sadauskas was appointed Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Vilnius. From April 2010 until October 2014 he was Head of the Cabinet of Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta responsible for Taxation, Customs, Anti-fraud, Audit, and Statistics. From November 2014 Kęstutis Sadauskas has been the Director for Circular Economy and Green Growth at the DG Environment of the European Commission.

Paulius Ambrazaitis is the Chairman of the Board of NEO GROUP. He has been working in this business area  since 2007. His deep understanding of the plastics industry, broad experience in managing production factory is also enhanced with financial background. He has a strong professional history in several service and product sectors with various positions including CFO and General Manager.

Professor Alexander Stubb is the Director of the School of Transnational Governance as of 1 May 2020. He has served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland (2008-2016). He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and national parliament (2011-2017). He was Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2017 to 2020.

Stubb worked as an advisor at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki and Brussels and in President Romano Prodi’s team at the European Commission (1995-2004). He was involved in the negotiation of the Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon.

Vidmantas Janulevičius is the President of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists and the Chairman of the Board of the Global Bod Group.

Global BOD Group owns companies operating in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – Baltic Disc, BOD Group, BRD, Soli Tek. The company is actively expanding its operations in different countries of the world – the Republic of South Africa, Malaysia, India.

Ms. A.Armonaite received BA in Political Science at Vilnius University and MA in Public Policy and Administration at Vilnius University in 2014. Member of the Council of Vilnius City Municipality and Chairperson of the Environment and Energy Committee from 2015. Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania from 2016. Active in the Committees on European Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Health Affairs. In 2019 one of the founders of Laisvės Party, Chairperson from that on. From 2020 – Minister of Economy and Innovation of Lithuania.

Other activities include chairing the Lithuanian Liberal Youth organization and other youth organizations in Lithuania and abroad.

Algimantas Markauskas, a scientist, biochemist and CEO of Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics.

Simona Andrijauskaitė is a Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Interactio – a meetings platform that revolutionized the way multilingual events are happening. 

Interactio has raised the largest $30M Series A round in Baltics in 2021. Their clients include the EU, UN, Microsoft, BMW among others. Interactio was the platform of choice for the European Commission international pledging conference “Coronavirus Global Response.” Interactio was used to facilitate the multilingual event that raised 7.5 billion EUR in donations to Gali, the vaccine alliance fighting COVID-19.

Simona has empowered the 12-fold growth of the company between 2019 and 2020. Besides that, Simona is a frequent speaker on how to organise successful multilingual events. 

Lithuanian electronics engineer, doctor of technology sciences, businessman, founder and head of the group of high-tech companies Elinta.

Mantas Vilys worked in the Lithuanian Association of Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers, was a representative in the EC working group, and a project manager at the Lithuanian Innovation Center. He is currently teaching at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and is the director of the Lithuanian Innovation Center.