Single Market Summit 2026

Bart De Wever has served as Prime Minister of Belgium since February 2025. He previously served as Mayor of Antwerp from 2013 to 2025 and led the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) for over two decades. De Wever has held roles as a Flemish MP, federal MP and senator. He is also a published author and columnist.

Paolo Gentiloni served as European Commissioner for Economy from 2019 to 2024. In December 2024, he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as Co-Chair of the Group of Experts on resolving the global debt crisis and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He previously served as Prime Minister of Italy and held key ministerial roles, including Foreign Affairs and Communications. A long-standing member of the Italian Parliament, he also worked as a journalist and local councillor in Rome. Paolo is a founding member of the Democratic Party.

Before her current appointment as second-ever woman to hold the post of head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva was the first CEO of the World Bank, during which time she also served as Interim President of the World Bank Group. Previously, she served as EU Commission Vice President for Budget and Human Resource, where she was involved in tackling the Euro Area debt crisis and the 2015 refugee crisis. She also worked as EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, managing one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid budgets. Prior to her time at the EU, Georgieva worked for 17 years at the World Bank.

Alberto de Gregorio Merino is Director-General of the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he provides legal advice across a wide range of EU policies and institutional matters. He has played a leading role on major files including crisis-response mechanisms, Brexit, support to Ukraine, NextGenerationEU and the EU’s long-term budget. Previously, he headed the Business Law team in the Commission’s Legal Service and served as Director and Legal Adviser at the Council of the European Union. He began his career in the Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade.

Kyriakos Iordanou is Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry of Cyprus. He previously served as General Manager of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus, where he was responsible for the management, development and representation of the accountancy profession in Cyprus and internationally. Earlier in his career, he worked in the banking sector and held senior roles in financial control, consultancy and internal audit across public and private organisations. He has also held leadership positions in professional bodies and has been active in governance, audit and advisory roles related to research, innovation and digital policy.

Fritzi Köhler-Geib is a Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, responsible for IT, data and statistics, risk control and the research centre. She previously served as Chief Economist and First Vice President of KfW Group. Before that, she held senior roles at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, including as Lead Economist and Programme Leader for Central America. Köhler-Geib has extensive experience in international finance and economic policy, with a focus on financial crises, stabilisation and growth-enhancing reforms.

Fabrizia Lapecorella has been Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD since April 2023, overseeing Tax Policy and Administration, Statistics, Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, and the Centre on Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity, as well as coordinating the Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches. She was Director-General of Finance at Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (2008–2022), managing tax policy, agencies, IT infrastructure, and judicial administration. Chair of the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs in 2022, she also served on the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS.

Enrico Letta is Dean of the IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs, and President of the Jacques Delors Institute and AREL. He served as Prime Minister of Italy and has held multiple ministerial roles, including Minister for EU Affairs and Minister for Industry and Foreign Trade. Letta previously led the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po and chaired the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. He was tasked by European institutions to draft a Report on the Future of the Single Market, reflecting his expertise in European policy and governance.