19th - 22nd January
St Moritz
St Moritz
PROGRAM
WELCOME
We are delighted to welcome you to
the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat 2023.
As always, the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat
is a collegial and informal conversation
between friends.
It is an opportunity to compare ideas,
concerns and hopes with
the best and brightest of your peers.
We encourage you to actively participate,
interject, comment, question, dissent
and otherwise, speak your mind.
And to have fun while doing so.
Life is too short for anything else.
Welcome to St Moritz.
the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat 2023.
As always, the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat
is a collegial and informal conversation
between friends.
It is an opportunity to compare ideas,
concerns and hopes with
the best and brightest of your peers.
We encourage you to actively participate,
interject, comment, question, dissent
and otherwise, speak your mind.
And to have fun while doing so.
Life is too short for anything else.
Welcome to St Moritz.
AGENDA
WEDNESDAY 18
12:00 - 24:00 Arrivals
Consider: the train from Zürich Airport to St Moritz with 2 changes at Zürich central station and Chur travels through a scenic Winter Wonderland and is highly recommended, especially during daylight.
One can buy train tickets online from the official SBB website.
Car service is also available at the Palace concierge.
19:30 - 20:45 Pop-in Pop-out Welcome Drinks
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Veranda -Palace]
Option:
21:00 Private dinner: join GRI members’ table
Chesa Veglia (2 minutes from Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge
+ 41 81 837 2629
[email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
Tip:
Equipment rental
Today if possible (or any other downtime if not) is an ideal quiet time to rent/reserve equipment in the hotel's excellent ski shop before the crunch on activity days.
Consider: the train from Zürich Airport to St Moritz with 2 changes at Zürich central station and Chur travels through a scenic Winter Wonderland and is highly recommended, especially during daylight.
One can buy train tickets online from the official SBB website.
Car service is also available at the Palace concierge.
19:30 - 20:45 Pop-in Pop-out Welcome Drinks
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Veranda -Palace]
Option:
21:00 Private dinner: join GRI members’ table
Chesa Veglia (2 minutes from Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge
+ 41 81 837 2629
[email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
Tip:
Equipment rental
Today if possible (or any other downtime if not) is an ideal quiet time to rent/reserve equipment in the hotel's excellent ski shop before the crunch on activity days.
THURSDAY 19
daylight
Program
08:45 - 17:30
Opening debate
Breakout discussions
Keynote
Plenary reporting & dissent
Chairmen's forecasts & votes
Members-only
Guided spouse activities & lunch
Spouses & Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
09:30 Skiing
evening
Gala drinks | dinner
19:00 - 22:00 [jacket required (tie optional)]
Spouses & Partners
[Le Restaurant - Palace]
Program
08:45 - 17:30
Opening debate
Breakout discussions
Keynote
Plenary reporting & dissent
Chairmen's forecasts & votes
Members-only
Guided spouse activities & lunch
Spouses & Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
09:30 Skiing
evening
Gala drinks | dinner
19:00 - 22:00 [jacket required (tie optional)]
Spouses & Partners
[Le Restaurant - Palace]
FRIDAY 20
daylight
Guided networking activities & lunch
Members & Spouses/Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
08:30+ Skiing (Palace lobby) Last departure: 10:30
10:00 Curling (Palace lobby) Novices preferred
Independent activities
Request information at the Concierge
Hiking - all levels
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Ice skates can be rented at the Ludains ice arena next to the lake.
Familiarity with ice skating is advisable.
dusk
Program
16:00 Café, Kirsch & Cake
Spouses & Partners welcome
[Le Restaurant - Palace]
17:00 Keynote
18:30 Wrapup & takeaways
evening
Option:
20:00 Private dinner: join GRI members’ table
Matsuhisa Nobu (at Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge
+ 41 81 837 2629
[email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
Guided networking activities & lunch
Members & Spouses/Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
08:30+ Skiing (Palace lobby) Last departure: 10:30
10:00 Curling (Palace lobby) Novices preferred
Independent activities
Request information at the Concierge
Hiking - all levels
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Ice skates can be rented at the Ludains ice arena next to the lake.
Familiarity with ice skating is advisable.
dusk
Program
16:00 Café, Kirsch & Cake
Spouses & Partners welcome
[Le Restaurant - Palace]
17:00 Keynote
18:30 Wrapup & takeaways
evening
Option:
20:00 Private dinner: join GRI members’ table
Matsuhisa Nobu (at Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge
+ 41 81 837 2629
[email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
SATURDAY 21
daylight
Guided networking activities & lunch
Members & Spouses/Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
08:30+ Skiing Last departure: 10:30
Independent activities
Request information at the Concierge
Hiking - all levels
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Ice skates can be rented at the Ludains ice arena next to the lake.
Familiarity with ice skating is advisable.
dusk
Program
17:30-18:30 Goodbye Drinks
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Veranda - Palace]
evening
Option:
20:30 Private dinner: join GRI members’ table
King's Social House (at Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge
+ 41 81 837 2629
[email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
Guided networking activities & lunch
Members & Spouses/Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
08:30+ Skiing Last departure: 10:30
Independent activities
Request information at the Concierge
Hiking - all levels
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Ice skates can be rented at the Ludains ice arena next to the lake.
Familiarity with ice skating is advisable.
dusk
Program
17:30-18:30 Goodbye Drinks
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Veranda - Palace]
evening
Option:
20:30 Private dinner: join GRI members’ table
King's Social House (at Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge
+ 41 81 837 2629
[email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
SUNDAY 22
08:00 - 14:00 Departures
If available, members of the GRI Chairmen's Retreat will be extended a 15:00 late checkout upon timely prior request.
If available, members of the GRI Chairmen's Retreat will be extended a 15:00 late checkout upon timely prior request.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY 19
08:45 Opening Plenary
10:00 Breakout discussions
Debt Financing
Time to dial down?
[Embassy]
Europe vs Putin and Xi
Common front or is the enemy within?
[Relais]
Logistics
Overdone?
[Roni Pieper I]
Dry Powder
Opportunities galore or no distress in sight?
[Roni Pieper II]
11:00 Break
Debt Financing
Time to dial down?
[Embassy]
Europe vs Putin and Xi
Common front or is the enemy within?
[Relais]
Logistics
Overdone?
[Roni Pieper I]
Dry Powder
Opportunities galore or no distress in sight?
[Roni Pieper II]
11:00 Break
11:45 Plenary Reporting & Discussion
12:45 Tour du Monde
Lunch
12:45 Tour du Monde
Lunch
13:45 Keynote
Energy, prosperity and climate change
A compromised future?
Caspian Conran
Economist and
Spokesperson
Baringa Energy
Consultants
Economist and
Spokesperson
Baringa Energy
Consultants
15:00 Breakout discussions
Inflation & interest rates
Could it hurt?
[Embassy]
Investments
Is anything still ‘core’?
[Relais]
Resi
Cool down or demand/supply forever imbalanced?
[Roni Pieper I]
Offices in a WFH World
Which to thrive, which to convert?
[Roni Pieper II]
16:00 Break
16:15 Reporting Plenary & Discussion
16:15 Reporting Plenary & Discussion
FRIDAY 20
17:00 Keynote
World Dis-order
Geopolitics after Ukraine
World Dis-order
Geopolitics after Ukraine
Mark Galeotti
Honorary Professor, UCL School Slavonic & East European Studies, Exec. Director, Mayak Intelligence
UCL
Honorary Professor, UCL School Slavonic & East European Studies, Exec. Director, Mayak Intelligence
UCL
18:00 Wrap Up and Takeaways
KEYNOTES
THURSDAY 19
Energy, prosperity and climate change
A compromised future?
A compromised future?
Caspian Conran
Economist and Spokesperson
Baringa Energy Consultants
Economist and Spokesperson
Baringa Energy Consultants
Caspian Conran is a Political Economist at Baringa Partners and leads their Global Energy Perspectives team. Baringa is a leading energy consultancy, helping companies navigate industry shifts and investors deploy capital. He appears regularly across the media including the Wall Street Journal, FT, Telegraph, BBC News and Bloomberg.
Caspian has a first class degree in PPE from the University of Warwick. He specialises in understanding and communicating how the macro-economic and political environment influences the energy transition across markets, supporting clients maximise investment opportunities. Recently Caspian has been supporting investors, businesses and governments understand the implications of the war in Ukraine on the energy commodity price outlook as well as the economic, political and policy consequences. He was also responsible for briefing the boards of FTSE 100 companies on the ongoing risks of the COVID-19 pandemic whilst leading the macroeconomic capability at Baringa.
Caspian has a first class degree in PPE from the University of Warwick. He specialises in understanding and communicating how the macro-economic and political environment influences the energy transition across markets, supporting clients maximise investment opportunities. Recently Caspian has been supporting investors, businesses and governments understand the implications of the war in Ukraine on the energy commodity price outlook as well as the economic, political and policy consequences. He was also responsible for briefing the boards of FTSE 100 companies on the ongoing risks of the COVID-19 pandemic whilst leading the macroeconomic capability at Baringa.
FRIDAY 20
World Dis-order
Geopolitics after Ukraine
Geopolitics after Ukraine
Mark Galeotti
Honorary Professor, UCL School
Slavonic & East European Studies,
Exec. Director, Mayak Intelligence
UCL
Honorary Professor, UCL School
Slavonic & East European Studies,
Exec. Director, Mayak Intelligence
UCL
Mark Galeotti is one of the world’s leading experts on Russian security affairs, which may explain why Moscow banned him this year. He read history at Cambridge and took his doctorate in government at the LSE, and after a stint with the Foreign Office has been a scholar and thinktanker in London, New York, Moscow, Prague and Florence. He heads the UK-based risk consultancy Mayak Intelligence and is an Honorary Professor at UCL and a senior associate fellow with RUSI, the Council on Geostrategy and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has been consulted by individuals from prime ministers to CEOs and bodies from the British Foreign Affairs Select Committee to the US National Intelligence Council. A prolific author, his most recent books include Putin’s Wars (Bloomsbury, 2022), The Weaponisation of Everything (Yale, 2022), We Need To Talk About Putin (Ebury, 2019) and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale, 2018).
PROVOCATEUR
Breakout Session Provocateur
Europe vs Putin and Xi
Inflation and interest rates
Dr David Stubbs
Global Head Thematic Strategy
J.P Morgan
Europe vs Putin and Xi
Inflation and interest rates
Dr David Stubbs
Global Head Thematic Strategy
J.P Morgan
Dr. David Stubbs is the Global Head of Thematic Strategy for J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank. Based in the New York office, he is responsible for delivering research-driven insights on the global economy and thematic investing to ultra-high net worth clients. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN and other major market outlets. David was most recently the Global Head of Market Strategy at the Private Bank and was formerly a member of Asset Management’s Market Insights team, where he was responsible for formulating and communicating the business’s market views to institutional investors and financial advisors across the region and around the world. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, David worked at MRB Partners in New York, where he was a senior macro strategist as well as Roubini Global Economics and Heitman Securities in London. Prior to joining the finance industry, David worked at the United Nations Department for Economics and Social Affairs and UK’s Department for International Development. David holds a M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from The New School for Social Research in New York.
Floorplan
BETTER HALVES
António & Barbara Pereira Dias
Aref & Manon Lahham
Bryan Colwell & Allison Wagner
Christian & Victoria Jamison
Christo & Victoria Iliev
Ciaran & Susan McNamara
Coley Brenan & Lauren Maynard
Dieter & Carmen Kräuchi
Dimitri & Alina Chandogin
Gavin & Alexandra Neilan
Jean-Louis & Béatrice Charon
Joanne & Gary McNamara
John Nacos & Natalia Lesnikova
Jordi Robinat & Rita Rosés
Josh & Stefanie Lawrence
Juan José Vera Villamayor & Noemi Magallon
Keith & Lauren Breslauer
Lee Timmins & Elena Lebedeva
Luke & Gina Savage
Michael Peter & Sarune Drublionyte
Michael & Gabi Zerda
Nikoletta Fouska & Bo Ilsoe
Nuno & Fernanda Coelho
Pedro Silveira & Jamile Salomão
Philippe Camus & Laurel Polleys
Richard & Georgie Croft
Robert & Severine Zolne Balick
Robert & Stephanie Rackind
Roberto & Marisa Kelleher
Roger & Lisa Orf
Seth Lieberman & Krista Murray
Scott O'Donnell & Anne-Emmanuelle
Tom-Eric Möller & Sabine Nass
Toni & Cecilia Rossi
Travis Pritchett & Mary Catherine
Van & Sharon Stults
Yakir & Elena Gabay
Zsolt & Katie Kohalmi
PRACTICAL
Arrival
Wednesday arrival, however late, is strongly advised, as the program starts at 08h45 on Thursday and St Moritz is a long journey from anywhere.“Lucky Encounter” dinners
There are no GRI dinners on the program on Wednesday (arrival day), Friday or Saturday, which are reserved for independent networking and private dinners by members and spouses.Members that prefer using such occasions to let luck expand their friendships, or are new and yet unconnected, can choose to join member dinners at GRI-selected restaurants around St Moritz.
While facilitated by the GRI, these discretionary options are not part of the GRI program and are at members’ own cost.
Lunches
This invitation extends to members and their registered spouse/partners. It does not extend to their guests or other family that are not members of the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat.
Champagne vote & program awards
Members that enjoy making the program the best it can be, can make their stay even more pleasurable, as follows:
- Be greeted to their room by champagne on ice for contributing to the program by moderating or scribing/reporting one of the breakouts.
- Enjoy a luxurious room upgrade for expressing interest and being selected to deliver the 5-minute closing wrap-up of the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat on Friday evening (based on their compilation of summary take-aways throughout the program).
Spouses | Partners
Over half of Retreat Members bring their spouses/partners.
Spouses/Partners MUST be listed with the GRI or may (mistakenly) be denied entry or lunch or other courtesy.
Retreat Members Profiles
Retreat Members’ photos and profiles are listed on www.griclub.org/members-directory.
Retreat Members agree that photos and information provided may be used by the GRI at its discretion in its communication activities.
Activities and Insurance
Weather permitting, skiing, curling and other activities in small GRI groups has been arranged, each of them accompanied by qualified guides. Guides and lunch are courtesy of the GRI. Equipment rental is Retreat Member’s individual responsibility. Prior sign-up on-site is necessary for all group activities. Retreat Members sign up for any such activity at their own responsibility and release the GRI and any Retreat-related sponsors from any responsibility or potential liability.
Curling (novices are favoured)
Wear Loose-fitting trousers, such as track suit/jogging trousers along with a jumper and coat. One can get warm on the ice, so bring a few layers, as well as gloves and warm socks. Footwear must be clean and rubber soled.
Over half of Retreat Members bring their spouses/partners.
Spouses/Partners MUST be listed with the GRI or may (mistakenly) be denied entry or lunch or other courtesy.
Retreat Members Profiles
Retreat Members’ photos and profiles are listed on www.griclub.org/members-directory.
Retreat Members agree that photos and information provided may be used by the GRI at its discretion in its communication activities.
Activities and Insurance
Weather permitting, skiing, curling and other activities in small GRI groups has been arranged, each of them accompanied by qualified guides. Guides and lunch are courtesy of the GRI. Equipment rental is Retreat Member’s individual responsibility. Prior sign-up on-site is necessary for all group activities. Retreat Members sign up for any such activity at their own responsibility and release the GRI and any Retreat-related sponsors from any responsibility or potential liability.
Equipment Rental
Ski & Equipment Hire - The Palace sports store
(tel: +41 81 833 7585)
is excellently stocked, swift and professional and opens daily until late. Curling (novices are favoured)
Wear Loose-fitting trousers, such as track suit/jogging trousers along with a jumper and coat. One can get warm on the ice, so bring a few layers, as well as gloves and warm socks. Footwear must be clean and rubber soled.
Retreat Extension
If you would like to arrive a few days earlier or stay longer, Retreat Members are invited to extend their stay using the GRI Retreat special room rates. No formal program is planned.
Dress Code
The Retreat dress code is casual throughout, except for Cocktails and Gala Dinner, which is jacket required, tie optional.
Salutation
Retreat and GRI etiquette calls for all to address each other on a first-name basis.
For more information, contact
[email protected]
[email protected]
The Retreat dress code is casual throughout, except for Cocktails and Gala Dinner, which is jacket required, tie optional.
Salutation
Retreat and GRI etiquette calls for all to address each other on a first-name basis.
Language
The Retreat language is “international” English and all grammar, syntax and other vocabulary rules are suspended. All native English speakers are urged to articulate slowly and loudly. As Anglo- Americans have a natural language advantage, they are encouraged to help non-native English speakers articulate their views. All are encouraged to help with occasional translation, where appropriate.For more information, contact
[email protected]
[email protected]