The WSF High-Level Expert Groups provide international expertize in three key areas important for the Warsaw Security Forum programming: foreign policy, defence and Energy/Resiliance.
In 2024 the WSF High-Level Expert Groups works together on a research project dedicated to the operationality of the Weimar Triangle format. A group of German, French and Polish practitioners and policy-makers are crafting advocacy causes in three thematic areas:
- Foreign Policy
- Defense
- Energy/ Resilience
The work of the groups will be incorporated into the “2024 Warsaw Security Forum Annual Report”, as well as reflected in the programming of the conference. The group chairs and experts will have the opportunity to present the work findings at the conference.
The goal of WSF 2024 Report is to draft concrete proposals for the initiatives for the Weimar Triangle along with a roadmap and milestones for their implementation that can be later used by decision makers and experts from France, Poland and Germany as well as all other interested countries.
As the Report from the last year available under this link was dedicated for the advocacy causes for the Central and Eastern Europe, this year it is time to build up on a political momentum of the Weimar format and galvanize it’s long term operationality.
Foreign Policy
Group Members:
Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski
Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Helene Conway-Mouret
Secretary of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Armed Forces, Member of the French Senate, France
Anton Hofreiter
Member of the Bundestag, Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Germany
Paweł Kowal
Member of the Polish Sejm, Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Dietmar Nietan
Member of the Bundestag, Coordinator of German‑Polish Intersocietal and Cross‑Border Cooperation, Germany
Defense
Group Members:
Bogdan Klich
Senator, Chair of Foreign Affairs and EU Committee, Senate, Poland
Lt. Gen. Krzysztof Król
Chief of Staff of Allied Joint Force Command (2020-2023), Brunssum
Claudia Major
Head of the Research Division on International Security, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany
Rolf Nikel
Vice President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Germany
Paweł Poncyljusz
Poseł na Sejm IV, V, VI i IX kadencji (2001–2011, 2019–2023), wiceminister gospodarki (2006–2007)
Lt. Gen. Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart
Commander Multinational Corps Northeast, Germany
Resilience: Energy & Climate
Group Members:
Klaus Dieter-Borchardt
Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Germany
Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega
Director, Center for Energy & Climate, IFRI, France
Adam Guibourgé-Czetwertyński
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Climate and Environment (2020-2023), Poland
Michał Kurtyka
Chair of the Energy Security and Climate Track, Warsaw Security Forum, Minister of Climate and Environment (2019-2021), Poland
Monika Morawiecka
Senior Advisor, The Regulatory Assistance Project, Poland
Dominique Ristori
Former Director-Generale for Energy in EU (2014-2019)