WSF 2022 Speakers
Honorary Guest
Government
François Bausch
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Luxembourg
Olha Stefanishyna
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine
Byron Camilleri
Minister for Home Affairs, Security, Reforms and Equality, Malta
Karoline Edtstadler
Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution, Austria
Thomas Bagger
Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Leader of the Belarus Democratic Opposition, Belarus
Philip H. Gordon
National Security Adviser to the Vice President of the United States, USA
Michał Kurtyka
Minister of Climate and Environment (2019-2021) , Poland
Linas Linkevičius
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012 – 2020), Lithuania
Michael R. Carpenter
Permanent Representative of the United States of America to OSCE, USA
Stéphane Dion
Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the EU and Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2015-2017), Canada
Paweł Soloch
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Romania, National Security Advisor to the President (2015-2022), Poland
Mateusz Berger
Secretary of State, Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, Poland
George Sergiu Niculescu
Secretary of State, Ministry of Energy, Romania
Eivind Vad Petersson
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Bartosz Grodecki
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Interior and Administration, Poland
Tamila Tasheva
Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil
Director, Centre d'analyse, de prévision et de stratégie (CAPS), Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, France
Michael Scharfschwerdt
Director of Policy Planning, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
Mark Brzezinski
Ambassador, Embassy of the United States of America to Poland, USA
Guest Country Parliamentary Ambassadors
Parliament
Mariana Bezuhla
Deputy Chair, Committee on National Security, Defence & Intelligence, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine
Solomiia Bobrovska
Member of Parliament, Committee on National Security & Defence, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Delegation in NATO PA, Ukraine
Stephen Doughty
Member of Parliament, Shadow Minister for Europe, North America, and UK Overseas Territories, United Kingdom
Mariia Ionova
Co-founder, Ukrainian Women Congress, Member of the Board of the International Women Democrat Union, Ukraine
Bogdan Klich
Senator, Chair of Foreign Affairs and EU Committee, Senate, Poland
Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
Member of Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Ukraine’s Integration with the EU, Ukraine
Paweł Kowal
Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Dietmar Nietan
Member of the Parliament, Coordinator of German‑Polish Intersocietal and Cross‑Border Cooperation, Germany
Marcos Perestrello
Chair of the Defence Committee, Member of Parliament, Portugal
Anastasia Radina
Head of Anticorruption Committee, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine
Nikoloz Samkharadze
Member of Parliament, Chair of Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia
Tomasz Siemoniak
Member of Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister (2014-2015), Minister of Defence (2011-2015), Poland
Oleksandra Ustinova
Member of Parliament, Faction Leader, Holos political party, Head of the Temporary Special Commission on Arms Control, Ukraine
Military
Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak
Chief of the General Staff, Polish Armed Forces, Poland
Adm. Michel Hofman
Chief of Defence of the Kingdom of Belgium, Belgium
Gen. (R) Mark Carleton Smith
Chief of the General Staff (2018-2022), United Kingdom
Brig. Gen. Kazimierz Dyński
Deputy Inspector of the Air Force, General Command of the Armed Forces, Poland
Lt. Gen. (R) Ben Hodges
NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics and Former Commander, US Army Europe
Lt. Gen. Martin Herem
Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, Estonia
Lt. Gen. (R) Andrzej Fałkowski
Polish Military Representative at the Military Committees of NATO and the European Union (2014-2018), Poland
Gen. (R) David Petraeus
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), USA
Lt. Gen. Tomasz Piotrowski
Operational Commander of the Armed Forces, Poland
Maj. Gen. Cezary Wiśniewski
Deputy Commander, General Command of the Armed Forces, Poland
Vice Adm. Krzysztof Jaworski
Commander of Maritime Component Command, Poland
Lt. Gen. Andreas Marlow
Commander of the German Elements MN Corps at the Army HQ, Germany
Maj. Gen. Janne Jaakkola
Chief of Planning (J5) in Defence Command, Finland
Maj. Gen. Nicolas Le Nen
Head of the Command for Joint Operations, French Joint Staff, France
Maj. Gen. Anders Rex
Chief of Plans and Capabilities Staff, Danish Defence, Denmark
Brig. Gen. Remus Bondor
Chief of Strategic Planning Directorate, Defence Staff, Romania
Gen. (R) Philip M. Breedlove
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO (2013-2016), USA
Gen. (R). Tom Middendorp
Chair, International Military Council on Climate and Security, The Netherlands
European Union
Ylva Johansson
European Commissioner for Home Affairs, European Commission
Agnieszka Kaźmierczak
Director General, EURATOM Supply Agency, European Commission
Christian Zinglersen
Director, The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
Kalin Anev Janse
Chief Financial Officer and Management Board Member, European Stability Mechanism
NATO
Lt. Gen. Krzysztof Król
Chief of Staff of Allied Joint Force Command, Brunssum, NATO
Lt. Gen Janusz Adamczak
Director General of the International Military Staff, NATO
Gerlinde Niehus
Deputy Director, Defence Institution and Capacity Building Operations Division (OPS), NATO
Experts
Olga Aivazovska
Head of Board of Opora & Expert on Elections, Co-founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Catherine Ashton
Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), United Kingdom
Sibylle Bauer
Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden
Laura Birkman
Senior Strategic Analyst, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Netherlands
Małgorzata Bonikowska
President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland
Paweł Borys
President of the Management Board, Polish Development Fund, Poland
Min-Hua Chiang
Research Fellow and Economist, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation, USA
Heather A. Conley
President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, USA
Lucinda Creighton
Senior Fellow, CEPA, Minister for European Affairs, Ireland (2011-2013), Ireland
Carl Dolan
Acting Program and Regional Director, Open Society Foundations
David Ensor
Director, Voice of America (2011-2015), Founding Director, George
John K. Glenn
Senior Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Mike Gonzalez
Angeles T. Arredondo Senior Fellow, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, USA
Olena Halushka
Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Pavel Havlicek
Research Fellow, Association for International Affairs (AMO.CZ), Czech Republic
Daniel Hegedüs
Visiting Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the US, Hungary
Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer
Director of the Paris Office, German Marshall Fund of US, France
Hanna Hopko
Chairwoman, Democracy in Action: Zero Corruption Conference & Member of Parliament, Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014-2019), Ukraine
Daria Kaleniuk
Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Christos Katsioulis
Head of FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe, Austria
Katarina Kertysova
Policy Fellow, European Leadership Network, Wilson Center Global Fellow, WSF New Security Leader 2018, Slovakia
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Guido Goldman Distinguished Scholar for Geostrategy, German Marshall Fund of the US, Germany
Nad’a Kovalčíková
Senior Analyst, Transnational Security, EU Institute for Security Studies, France
Alena Kudzko
GLOBSEC Vice President, Director of the GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Slovakia
Arthur de Liedekerke
European Affairs Director, Rasmussen Global, former Strategy Officer, French Ministry for the Armed Forces, Cyber Command, France
Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Poland (2020 - 2022), Germany
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Head, Centre for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (2022), Ukraine
Clemens Mayr-Harting
Chief of Staff of the Federal Minister for EU and Constitutional Affairs, Austria, WSF New Security Leader 2022
Vladimir Milov
Member of Democratic Opposition, Associate of Alexey Navalny, Russia
Monika Morawiecka
Senior Advisor, The Regulatory Assistance Project, Poland
Niklas Nováky
Senior Research Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Finland
Sergiu Panainte
Director, Black Sea Trust, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Romania
Suzanne Raine
Affiliate Lecturer, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, Member of the Board of Trustees, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), United Kingdom
Vivian Schiller
Executive Director, Aspen Digital, CEO & President, National Public Radio (2009-2011), USA
Frank Sesno
Director of Strategic Initiatives for George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs; Founding Director of Planet Forward
Victoria Voytsitska
Member of Parliament, Secretary, Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security (2014-2019), International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Maria Zolkina
Head of Regional Security and Conflict Programme, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Ukraine
Industry
Karan Bhatia
Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google, USA
Cezary Cierzan
Director of the Miecznik Programme, Polish Armament Group
Grzegorz Zajączkowski
Digital Champion for Poland, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland
Christine Harbison
Sector Vice President and General Manager, Combat Systems and Mission Readiness, Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA
Paul Jones
Vice President for Relations with Strategic Partners, Raytheon Technologies, USA
Kasia Kieli
President & Managing Director Warner Bros. Discovery Poland, CEO TVN, Poland
Ewa Łabno-Falęcka
Director, Corporate Communication & External Affairs, Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland
Grzegorz Należyty
Vice President Eastern Europe & Managing Director of Siemens Energy in Poland
Mary D. Petryszyn
Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman, USA
Masters of Ceremony and Moderators
Jerzy Aleksandrowicz
Research Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Michał Baranowski
Managing Director, GMF East & Regional Director, Poland
Federica D’Alessandra
Deputy Director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, United Kingdom
Theresa Fallon
Founder & Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium
Peter Hefele
Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium
Alina Inayeh
Director, Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Romania
Tadeusz Iwański
Head of Department for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland
Bilyana Lilly
Chair of the WSF Democratic Resilience Track, Researcher, RAND Corporation, USA
Fredrik Löjdquist
Director, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, Sweden
Christoph von Marschall
Diplomatic Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany
Brigham McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security, Hudson Institute, USA
Joanna Van der Merwe
Privacy & Protection Lead, Centre for Innovation, Leiden University & Non-Resident Fellow, Defense Tech Initiative at CEPA, The Netherlands
Zbigniew Pisarski
Founder of the Warsaw Security Forum, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Johannes von Thadden
Co-Chairman, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, CEO Airbus Poland
Theresa Winter
Manager Security & Defence Policy, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Germany
