Friends of stars
We would be pleased to welcome you in our exclusive circle.
Benefits:
- Exclusive participation at 4-5 Friends of stars meetings per year with top speakers (at no costs)
- Reduced participation fee of CHF 4000 instead of CHF 6000 for personally attending the symposia in Singapore, Switzerland, China
- Possibility to attend as a day guest at the symposia (at no costs)
- 10% discount for nominating a participant to one symposium (nomination criteria must apply)
- Mentioning name of friend of stars on stars website
- Possibility to attend any stars alumni chapter meetings (at no costs)
- Opportunity to participate at stars study tours, combination of conference and company visits (regular registration fee)
- Regular mailing of stars insights and stars alumni newsletter and possibility to attend any stars webinars
Annual Membership fee:
- CHF 5000.00
- The Tax Commission of the Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has recognized the stars foundation as a non-profit organization. Contributions to stars are, therefore, fully deductible from the income.
Friends of stars
Exclusive Friends of stars meetings
2025
Friends of stars Meeting
Annette OXENIUS, Vice President for Research, ETH Zürich; stars Alumna
Spitzenforschung quo vadis?
10 November 2025, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zürich
Friends of stars Meeting
John R. ALLEN, Strategic Advisor, Microsoft; Four-Star General (Ret.), United States Marine Corps; Former Commander, Nato International Security Assitance Force (ISAF) and US Forces in Afghanistan; Former Special Presidential Envoy, Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State; Member, stars Global Advisory Panel, Washington DC, United States
Disruptions all-over: Business Risks in a World of Uncertainty and Insecurity
19 September 2025, 11.30-14.00
Wolfsberg, Ermatingen
Friends of stars meeting
Joerg WUTTKE, Partner, Dentons Global Advisors-Albright Stonebridge Group; President Emeritus EU Chamber of Commerce in China; Member, stars International Board, Washington D.C., United States
Complexity is Destiny
23 May 2025, 10.30-13.00 Uhr
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
Foundation of Universal Peace Forum
Meeting with HE Shyalpa Tenzin RINPOCHE, Kathmandu, Nepal
24 January 2025, 10.30-13.00 Uhr
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
2024
Friends of stars Meeting
Ulrich Zwygart, Executive School, Universität St. Gallen, Altendorf
Master of Disaster – Wie Organisationen und Leader Führungsfehler verhindern oder reduzieren
20. November 2024, 11.30-14.00 Uhr
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zürich
Friends of stars Meeting
Ivo Daalder, CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Former US Ambassador to NATO, Chicago, United States
The Final End of the Pax Americana – Implications for Business and Society
4. September 2024, 11.30-14.00
Wolfsberg, Ermatingen
Friends of stars Meeting
Mark DITTLI, CEO and Editor, The Market, Zurich
Geoökonomische Orientierung in einer orientierungslosen Zeit
13. März 2024, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
Friends of stars Meeting
Parag KHANNA, Leading Global Strategy Advisor, Singapore
This time it is different: Orientierung in einer orientierungslosen Zeit
22. Januar 2024, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
2023
Friends of stars Meeting
Ulrich SCHMID, ehemaliger NZZ-Korrespondent in Moskau, Washington, Beijing, Prag, Berlin und Jerusalem
Orientierung in einer orientierungslosen Zeit
30. November 2023, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
Friends of stars Meeting
Peter MAURER, Präsident, Basel Institute of Governance; ehemaliger Präsident, Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz IKRK, Bern, Schweiz
Humanitäre, wirtschaftliche und politische Antworten in einer Welt wachsender Konflikte
6 October 2023, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
Friends of stars Meeting
Joerg WUTTKE, Chief Representative, BASF China; Former President, European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC), Beijing, China
De-coupling versus De-risking: the Future of Foreign Business in China
10 August 2023, 17.30-20.00
Widder Hotel, Zurich
For the Executive Summary, please click here.
Die Schweiz und die USA: Eine diplomatische Perspektive
S.E. Scott C. Miller, US-Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and to the Principality of Liechtenstein
14 April 2023, 18.00-21.15h
In Partnership with Wolfsberg, Ermatingen
Friends of stars Meeting
HUANG Jing, Richard von Weizäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin; Professor and Director, Institute of the US and Pacific Studies, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU); Chief Strategist and Vice Chairman, Academic Committee, Grandview Institution; Member, stars Scientific Board, Shanghai, China
Post-Putin Russia and Post-Covid China
7 February 2023, 11.30-14.00h
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
2022
Friends of stars Meeting
Bernardino REGAZZONI, Ambassador of Switzerland to the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia and to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Beijing, China (2019-2022)
China nach dem 20. Parteikongress
24 November 2022, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
Friends of stars Meeting
Mona SUTPHEN, Partner, The Vistria Group; Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama Administration; Member, stars International Board, New York, United States
Disruptions all over: Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Risks
24 September 2022, 11.30-14.00
Vienna House, Schaffhausen
Friends of stars Meeting
Urs SCHOETTLI, Consultant on Asian affairs; Former East Asia Correspondent of Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tokyo
China als Angelpunkt einer neuen Weltordnung
30 August 2022, 11.30-14.00h
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
Friends of stars Meeting
HUANG Jing, Professor and Director, Institute of the US and Pacific Studies, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU); Member, stars Scientific Board, Shanghai, China
Geopolitical Disruptions and the Impact on Business
15 June 2022, 11.30-14.00h
Widder Hotel, Zurich
Friends of stars Meeting
Manfred RIST, Former Southeast Asia Correspondent, NZZ, Singapore
Southeast Asia: Major Power Competition and Economic Perspectives
19 May 2022, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
2021
Friends of stars Meeting
Uli SIGG, Art Collector, Business Leader, Former Swiss Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Mauensee, Switzerland
China: Scenarios for 2022, 2027, 2049
30 November 2021, 11.30-14.00
Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich
2020
Friends of stars Meeting
Breakfast Meeting with Volker PERTHES, Director and Executive Chairman of the Board, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
11 February 2020, 7.30-9.30
Au Premier, Zurich Main Station
2019
Friends of stars meeting
Roland SIEGWART, Professor of Autonomous Systems, ETH, Zürich
What the Future of Robots might do to Humanity
21 March 2019, 11.30-14.00
Restaurant Heugümper, Waaggasse 4, Zürich
Friends of stars meeting
Martin BOSSHARDT, CEO, Open Systems AG, Zürich
How IT is accelerating the world
18 June 2019, 11.30-14.00
Open Systems AG, Räffelstrasse 29, Zürich
Friends of stars meeting
John R. ALLEN, President of The Brookings Institution, retired US Marine Corps four-star general, Washington, DC
Business Risks in a World of Uncertainty and Insecurity
14 September 2019, 11.30-14.00
Vienna House, Bleicheplatz 1, Schaffhausen
Friends of stars meeting
WANG Yong, Professor, School of International Studies, Director, Center for International Political Economy, Peking University, Beijing, China
The Rise of China and its Impact on the Global Economy: Leaping Dragon or Paper Tiger?
17 September 2019, 17.30-20.00
WIDDER HOTEL, Rennweg 4, Zürich
2018
- 14 May: Urs Schoettli, Consultant on Asian Affairs, former East-Asia Correspondent of Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tokyo/Zurich Sponsor: Marcel Stalder, EY Switzerland
- 9 August: Joerg Wuttke, President, Chief Representative BASF China, President European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (2014-2017), Member of the stars International Board, Beijing
Sponsor: Markus Neuhaus, PwC - 21 September: Ivan N. Timofeev, Director, Programmes, Russian International Affairs Council; Director, Euro-Atlantic Security Programme, Valdai Discussion Club, Moscow
- 22 September: Ivo H. Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Former US Ambassador to NATO (2009-2013), Former Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council (1995-1997), Chicago, United States
- 25 September: Volker Perthes, Director and Executive Chairman of the Board, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP); Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria and Chairperson of the Ceasefire Task Force for Syria, International Syria Support Group; Member, stars Scientific Board, Berlin/Geneva
Sponsor: Adriano B. Lucatelli, Descartes Finance AG
2017
- 21 September: Brian Hanson, Vice President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Chicago, United States
Sponsor: Christoph Schmid, Wenger Vieli AG - 6 April: Siong Guan Lim, Advisor to the GIC Exectutive Committee Singapore, and Memeber of the stars International Board
Sponsor: Thomas Sauber, Lustenberger Rechtsanwälte - 31 March: Huang Jing, Lee Foundation Professor on US-China Relations, Director, Centre on Asia and Globalization, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore