WSF 2023 Speakers

Government

2023-09-26T10:00:44+01:00

Olha Stefanishyna

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine

2023-09-25T15:42:46+01:00

Iulian Fota

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Romania

2023-09-18T16:40:13+01:00

Thomas Bagger

Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany

2023-09-18T16:40:24+01:00

Jacek Siewiera

Secretary of State, Head of the National Security Bureau, Poland

2023-09-25T15:46:36+01:00

Philip H. Gordon

National Security Adviser to the Vice President of the United States, USA

2023-09-25T15:49:32+01:00

Frank A. Rose

Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, USA

2023-09-29T15:59:52+01:00

Stéphane Dion

Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the EU and Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2015-2017), Canada

2023-09-25T15:54:34+01:00

Paweł Soloch

Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Romania, National Security Advisor to the President (2015-2022), Poland

2023-09-28T17:07:01+01:00

Victor Zhora

Deputy Chairman and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine

Parliament

2023-09-29T16:04:10+01:00

Solomiia Bobrovska

Member of Parliament, Committee on National Security & Defence, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Delegation in NATO PA, Ukraine

2023-09-26T08:15:19+01:00

Stephen Doughty

Member of Parliament, Shadow Minister for Europe, North America, and UK Overseas Territories, United Kingdom

2023-09-19T15:34:55+01:00

Mariia Ionova

Co-founder, Ukrainian Women Congress, Member of the Board of the International Women Democrat Union, Ukraine

2023-09-29T16:00:51+01:00

Bogdan Klich

Senator, Chair of Foreign Affairs and EU Committee, Senate, Poland

2023-09-28T17:17:40+01:00

Paweł Kowal

Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland

2023-09-19T15:46:20+01:00

Oleksandr Merezhko

Member of Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Interparliamentary Council, Ukraine

2023-09-19T15:46:49+01:00

Dietmar Nietan

Member of the Parliament, Coordinator of German‑Polish Intersocietal and Cross‑Border Cooperation, Germany

2023-09-28T17:22:39+01:00

Tomasz Siemoniak

Member of Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister (2014-2015), Minister of Defence (2011-2015), Poland

2023-09-19T15:48:40+01:00

Radosław Sikorski

Member of the European Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2014), Poland

2023-09-19T15:48:55+01:00

Michał Szczerba

Member of Parliament, Acting President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Poland

2023-09-27T10:41:35+01:00

Oleksandra Ustinova

Member of Parliament, Faction Leader, Holos political party, Head of the Temporary Special Commission on Arms Control, Ukraine

Military

NATO

2023-09-29T15:56:56+01:00

Benedetta Berti

Head, Policy Planning Unit, Office of the NATO Secretary General, NATO

2023-09-29T16:09:22+01:00

Irene Fellin

Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, NATO

International Institutions

Think-tanks, Civil Society & Academia

2023-09-28T17:28:47+01:00

Ed Arnold

Research Fellow for European Security, Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom

2023-09-28T17:29:25+01:00

Catherine Ashton

Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), United Kingdom

2023-09-06T13:54:41+01:00

Carl Bildt

Co-chair of ECFR’s Council, Former Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Sweden

2023-09-19T16:02:10+01:00

Paweł Borys

President of the Management Board, Polish Development Fund, Poland

2023-09-14T10:41:45+01:00

Theresa Fallon

Founder & Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium

2023-09-14T10:42:15+01:00

Olena Halushka

Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

2023-09-14T10:43:07+01:00

Pavel Havlicek

Research Fellow, Association for International Affairs (AMO.CZ), Czech Republic

2023-09-14T10:44:08+01:00

Hanna Hopko

Chairwoman, Democracy in Action: Zero Corruption Conference & Member of Parliament, Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014-2019), Ukraine

2023-09-21T16:58:31+01:00

John K. Glenn

Senior Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, USA

2023-09-21T17:01:17+01:00

Daria Kaleniuk

Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

2023-09-21T17:02:17+01:00

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff

Guido Goldman Distinguished Scholar for Geostrategy, German Marshall Fund of the US, Germany

2023-09-28T17:35:10+01:00

Bilyana Lilly

Chair of the WSF Democratic Resilience Track, Researcher, RAND Corporation, USA

2023-09-28T17:38:12+01:00

Claudia Major

Head of Research Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany

2023-09-28T17:38:47+01:00

Andrew A. Michta

Director, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative & Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA

2023-09-29T15:58:56+01:00

Vladimir Milov

Member of Democratic Opposition, Associate of Alexey Navalny, Russia

2023-09-28T17:40:14+01:00

John Raine

Senior Adviser for Geopolitical Due Diligence, International Institute for Strategic Studies

2023-09-21T17:17:01+01:00

Monika Sus

Visiting Professor, Centre for International Security at the Hertie School Berlin, Germany

2023-09-29T16:08:23+01:00

Nicolas Tenzer

President, Centre d’étude et de réflexion pour l’action politique (CERAP), France

2023-09-21T17:20:09+01:00

Victoria Voytsitska

Member of Parliament, Secretary, Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security (2014-2019), International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

Industry

2023-09-22T13:20:09+01:00

Karim Amin

Member of Executive Board, Siemens Energy

2023-09-21T17:26:50+01:00

Grzegorz Należyty

Vice President Eastern Europe & Managing Director of Siemens Energy in Poland

2023-09-21T17:27:42+01:00

Ray Piselli

Vice President, International Business, Lockheed Martin

2023-09-21T17:26:57+01:00

Ariel Porat

Senior Vice President, Head of Europe, Siemens Energy

2023-09-21T17:28:55+01:00

Rebecca Torzone

Sector Vice President and General Manager, Combat Systems & Mission Readiness, Northrop Grumman, USA

Masters of Ceremony and Moderators

2023-09-26T08:15:52+01:00

Federica D’Alessandra

Deputy Director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, United Kingdom

2023-09-21T17:36:43+01:00

Ali Aslan

International Presenter & Journalist, Germany

2023-09-21T17:32:01+01:00

Justin Bronk

Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology Royal United Services Institute

2023-09-21T17:33:02+01:00

Bart Kot

Program Director, Warsaw Security Forum

2023-09-21T17:38:33+01:00

Zbigniew Pisarski

Founder of the Warsaw Security Forum, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

2023-09-21T17:39:02+01:00

Tomasz Smura

Member of the Board, Casimir Pulaski Foundation