Selected conversations

In 2019, together with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Deutsche Börse Group, he invited Michał Kurtyka, President of the UN Climate Conference COP24, to discuss climate policy after Katowice.

In May 2020, in the early months of the pandemic, he hosted a web talk with Benjamin Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama.

In February 2026 he hosted Oleksandra Matviichuk, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022 and Chair of the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, for a lunch discussion at Villa Bonn.