| ABOUT ROAD2WSF |
The Road to Warsaw Security Forum (#Road2WSF) was a transatlantic online conference, which took place on the 17th and 18th of November 2020 in preparation to the annual Warsaw Security Forum scheduled for June 2021.
The event featured over 40 speakers who engaged in three ministerial conversations, two high-level discussions, three conversations with special guests, and a number of expert webinars on the most important security challenges to transatlantic unity and liberal democracy.
The Road2WSF gathered over 1000 registered online participants from 40 countries, among others ministers of foreign affairs and defence, personalities of international and non-governmental organizations, and leading security experts. A selected group of 200 young Transatlantic Leaders, representing “unheard voices” in the security debate had the opportunity to ask direct questions to the speakers. The event was also watched by thousands of viewers on both sides of the Atlantic ocean through live-stream on WSF YouTube and Facebook pages.
The event was organized by the Casimir Pulaski Foundation and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in strategic partnership with NATO and the National Security Bureau to the President of the Republic of Poland.
The video recordings of the event are available to watch on the WSF YouTube channel: DAY 1, DAY 2.
| AGENDA |
DAY 1 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17th 2020
Zbigniew Pisarski – President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Michał Baranowski – Director, Warsaw Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Ann Linde – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Linas Linkevičius – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
Anže Logar – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
Moderator: Katarzyna Pisarska – Program Director, Warsaw Security Forum, Poland
General Curtis M. Scaparrotti – Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2016-2019), USA
Moderator: Florence Gaub – Deputy Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies, France
Session co-hosted with Lockheed Martin
Baroness Goldie DL – Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Jan-Olof Lind – State Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Sweden
Thomas Silberhorn – Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Minister of Defence, Germany
Moderator: Ali Aslan, International TV Presenter and Journalist
Thibaut Fourriere – Deputy Secretary General of the Sahel Coalition, France
Kate Guy – Deputy Director, International Military Council on Climate and Security, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Climate and Security, USA
Sherri Goodman – Senior Fellow, Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program, Wilson Center, US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (1993-2001), USA
Audun Halvorsen – State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Moderator: Jamie Shea – Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018), United Kingdom
Session co-hosted with Friends of Europe
Bogdan Lucian Aurescu – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Dmytro Kuleba – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Theresa Fallon – Founder and Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium
Vuk Jeremić – Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2012), Serbia
Stefano Stefanini – Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Former Permanent Representative of Italy to NATO
Robert Pszczel – Senior Officer, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO HQ
Moderator: Florian C. Feyerabend – Desk Officer, South East Europe/Western Balkans, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany
Discussion co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland as part of the public diplomacy 2020 grant scheme
DAY 2 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18th 2020
OPENING OF THE DAY
Katarzyna Pisarska – Program Director, Warsaw Security Forum, Poland
Mircea Geoană – Deputy Secretary General, NATO
Moderator: Kristine Berzina, Senior Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Rajmund Andrzejczak – Chief of the General Staff, Polish Armed Forces, Poland
Ambassador Baiba Braže – Assistant Secretary-General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
Gen. (R) Benjamin “Ben” Hodges – Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, CEPA, Commanding general US Army Europe (2014 – 2017), USA
Tone Skogen – State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Norway
Moderator: Michał Baranowski – Director, Warsaw Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Session co-hosted with Kongsberg
Nicolae Ciucă – Minister of Defense of Romania
Jüri Luik – Minister of Defense of Estonia
João Titterington Gomes Cravinho – Minister of Defense of Portugal
Moderator: Zbigniew Pisarski – President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Stephen E. Biegun – Deputy Secretary of State, Department of State, USA
Moderator: Daniel Twining – President, International Republican Institute, USA
Session co-hosted with the International Republican Institute
Introduction:
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya – Opposition Leader, Belarus
Panel Discussion:
Rasa Juknevičienė – Member of the European Parliament, Minister of National Defence of Lithuania (2008-2012)
Sławomir Sierakowski – Journalist, Krytyka Polityczna, Poland
Katsiaryna Shmatsina – Associated Analyst, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus
Moderator: Roland Freudenstein – Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium
Session co-hosted with Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
Sergei Guriev – Professor of Economics, Science Po Paris, France
Zhanna Nemtsova – Co-Founder, Boris Nemtsov Foundation, Russia
Celeste Wallander – President and CEO, U.S.-Russia Foundation, USA
Moderator: Dr. Graeme P. Herd – Professor of Transnational Security Studies, Chair of Research and Policy Analysis, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, United Kingdom
Session co-hosted with George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
Michael Carpenter – Managing Director, Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, USA
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) – Member of the U.S. House of Representative, Co-Chair of the Poland Caucus, Ukraine Caucus, and Hungary Caucus, USA
David Petraeus – General, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (2010-2011), USA
Moderator: Ali Aslan, International TV Presenter and Journalist
Paweł Soloch – State Secretary, Head of the National Security Bureau, Chancellery of the President of Poland
Zbigniew Pisarski – President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Michał Baranowski – Director, Warsaw Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States
| SPEAKERS |
Marcy Kaptur
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Co-Chair of the Poland Caucus, Ukraine Caucus, and Hungary Caucus, USA
Baroness Goldie DL
Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Audun Halvorsen
Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Thomas Silberhorn
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
Baiba Braže
Assistant Secretary-General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
Michael Carpenter
Senior Director, Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (2015 - 2017), USA
Linas Linkevičius
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012–2020), Lithuania
Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti
Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2016-2019)
Katsiaryna Shmatsina
Associated Analyst, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Rethink.CEE fellow, German Marshall Fund
Sławomir Sierakowski
Journalist; Head of Krytyka Polityczna
Stefano Stefanini
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Brussels Director, Project Associates, Former Permanent Representative of Italy to NATO, Brussels
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Opposition Leader, Human Rights Activist, Belarus
Celeste Wallander
President and CEO, U.S.-Russia Foundation, USA
| MODERATORS |
Jamie Shea
Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018), United Kingdom
Daniel Twining
President, International Republican Institute, USA
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| STRATEGIC PARTNERS |
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| GENERAL PARTNERS |
| PROGRAM PARTNERS |
| WE SUPPORT |
This event receives financial support from the European Parliament. Sole liability rests with the organisers, the European Parliament is not responsible for the activity
| PARTICIPANTS |
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Around 1000 registered online participants from 40 countries took part in the event – among others ministers of foreign affairs and defence, personalities of international and non-governmental organizations, and leading security experts, interacting via a chat and question polls.
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Among the registered participants was a group of 200 young Transatlantic Leaders who represented over 40 countries and a variety of the programs run by the Casimir Pulaski Foundation and the European Academy of Diplomacy. These programs were: the Academy of Young Diplomats, the New Security Leaders program and the WSF Western Balkans program.
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The #Road2WSF was be also live-streamed via WSF social media profiles: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and thus available to the wider public in a passive mode.
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The #Road2WSF will be also live-streamed via our social media profiles: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and thus available to the wider public in a passive mode (interactions with the speakers will not be available that way). Please check our channels for more updates.
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For any participation queries, please contact us at WSF@pulaski.pl.