Harvard Leadership Dinner with Prof. Jörg Rocholl

Germany at a Turning Point: Can brain gain and talent become the next engine of economic growth?

Germany’s future prosperity and stability can no longer be taken for granted. Economic pressure, demographic change, and global competition are raising urgent questions about how we stay innovative, resilient, and socially cohesive.

In this moment of strategic reorientation, we invite you to a Leadership Dinner and Lecture with Professor Jörg Rocholl, president of ESMT Berlin and a leading voice on Germany’s economic future. As a finance expert and chair of the advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance, Rocholl is deeply engaged in some of the country’s most urgent debates. He is currently contributing to the German pension commission, where the challenge of financing social security in an aging society is no longer theoretical. It is immediate.

Germany’s demographic reality is reshaping everything, from pensions and public finances to skilled labor and long-term growth. To answer this Germany must become a country of brain gain that attracts, retains, and empowers international talent while strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship. At a time when many highly qualified people from the U.S. and around the world are reconsidering where they can best live, work, and build their future, Germany has a real opportunity to position itself as a destination of choice. Brain gain is also about building a society where talent can succeed, education and lifelong learning are prioritized, and transformation is embraced. At ESMT Berlin, where Jörg Rocholl serves as president, this mission is central to developing the leaders the country requires. 

What does Germany need to thrive economically, socially, and globally? And what decisions must be made now to secure long-term prosperity for the next generation?

Join us for this timely and forward-looking conversation on February 19. The discussion will be held in English.

We look forward to welcoming you.