The WSF High-Level Expert Groups provide international expertize in three key areas important for the Warsaw Security Forum programming: foreign policy, defence and democratic state resilience.
In 2023 the WSF High-Level Expert Groups worked together in the realization of a research project entitled: “Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as a New Center of Gravity: (Wartime) Reordering of Transatlantic Security”
A selected group of 40 high-level international security experts and decision-makers form three working groups in each of the three thematic areas:
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(Foreign Policy) Ensuring Better Regional Stability by Protecting a Rules-Based Order
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(Defense) Europe at War. Strengthening European Defense Capabilities – the role of CEE
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(State Resilience) Making CEE Societies Fit For an Age of Digital and Energy Security Disruptions
The work of the groups was incorporated into the “2023 Warsaw Security Forum Annual Report”, as well as reflected in the programming of the conference. The group chairs and experts had an opportunity to present the work findings at the conference.
Foreign Policy
Group Members:
Catherine Ashton
Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), United Kingdom
Hanna Hopko
Chairwoman, Democracy in Action: Zero Corruption Conference & Member of Parliament, Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014-2019), Ukraine
Paweł Kowal
Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Linas Linkevičius
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012 – 2020), Lithuania
Michał Szczerba
Member of Parliament, Acting President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Poland
Group Leader
Prof. Katarzyna PISARSKA, Chair, Warsaw Security Forum
Group Supervisor
Bartłomiej KOT, Program Director, Warsaw Security Forum
Leading Analyst
Dr Miłosz CORDES, Research Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Defense
Group Members:
Lt. Gen. (R) Andrzej Fałkowski
Polish Military Representative at the Military Committees of NATO and the European Union (2014-2018), Poland
Gen. (R) Mark Carleton Smith
Chief of the General Staff (2018-2022), United Kingdom
LTG (R) Ben Hodges
NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics and Former Commander, US Army Europe
Andrew A. Michta
Director, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative & Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA
Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Minister of Defense of Poland (1992-1993, 1997-2000
General (R) David H. Petraeus
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (2010-2011), Commander of US Central Command (2008-2010), USA
Jamie Shea
Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018), United Kingdom
Group Leader
Robert PSZCZEL, Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Group Supervisor
Tomasz SMURA, Member of the Board, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Group Supervisor
Zbigniew PISARSKI, President Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Leading Analyst
Robert CZULDA, Research Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Resilience: Energy & Climate
Group Members:
Bogdan Chirițoiu
President of the Romanian Competition Council, Romania
Artur Lorkowski
Director of the Energy Community Secretariat in Vienna, Austria
Lt. Gen. (R) Herbert Raymond H.R McMaster
National Security Advisor to the President of the United States (2017-2018), USA
Oleksii Riabchyn
Energy and EU Green deal Advisor to Deputy Prime-Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
Group Leader
Michał Kurtyka, Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland (2019-2021)
Group Supervisor
Sławomir Krenczyk, Member of the Board, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Leading Analyst
Piotr PRZYBYŁO, Research Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Resilience: Cybersecurity
Group Members:
Galina Antova
Co-founder, Chief Business Development Officer of Claroty, USA
Amy Hogan-Berney
General Manager, Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity Policy and Protection, Microsoft
Grzegorz Małecki
Head, Foreign Intelligence Service (AW) (2015-2016), Director of Cybersecurity, Economy and Energy Programs, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Mikael Tofvesson
Head of the Operations Department, Agency for Psychological Defense, Sweden
Victor Zhora
Deputy Chairman and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine
Group Leader
Dr. Bilyana LILLY, Researcher, the RAND Corporation, USA
Group Supervisor
Andrzej KOZŁOWSKI, Head of Research Office, Casimir Pulaski Foundation