WSF 2023 Speakers
Government
Dritan Abazović
Prime Minister of Montenegro, Coordinator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Montenegro
Olha Stefanishyna
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine
Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State for Indo-Pacific, United Kingdom
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, United Kingdom
Miroslav Wlachovský
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovakia
Anne Marie Aanerud
State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Norway
Thomas Bagger
Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany
Jacek Siewiera
Secretary of State, Head of the National Security Bureau, Poland
Carolina Novac
State Secretary from the Ministry of Energy, Moldova
Adam Guibourgé-Czetwertyński
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Poland
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Leader of the Belarus Democratic Opposition, Belarus
Philip H. Gordon
National Security Adviser to the Vice President of the United States, USA
Dragomir Zakov
Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister, Bulgaria
Dr. Hsu Szu-chien
Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council, Republic of China
Frank A. Rose
Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, USA
Benoît Guidee
Director for Asia & Oceania, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
Basat Öztürk
Director General for International Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Türkiye
Amb. Kate Byrnes
Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to U.S. European Command, USA
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
Pierre Heilbronn
Special Envoy of the French President for Ukraine's Relief and Reconstruction
Paweł Soloch
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Romania, National Security Advisor to the President (2015-2022), Poland
Alina Koushyk
United Transitional Cabinet Representative for National Revival, Belarus Democratic Opposition
Grzegorz Zajączkowski
Digital Champion for Poland, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland
Olha Babiy
National Commission for State Regulation in Energy and Utilities, Ukraine
Victor Zhora
Deputy Chairman and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine
Parliament
Solomiia Bobrovska
Member of Parliament, Committee on National Security & Defence, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Delegation in NATO PA, Ukraine
Vernon Coaker
Baron Coaker, Shadow Spokesperson for Defence, House of Lords, United Kingdom
Jason Crow
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, USA
Stephen Doughty
Member of Parliament, Shadow Minister for Europe, North America, and UK Overseas Territories, United Kingdom
Thomas Erndl
Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Germany
Radosław Fogiel
Member of Parliament, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
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
Mimi Kodheli
Member of Parliament, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, Albania
Paweł Kowal
Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Oleksandr Merezhko
Member of Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Interparliamentary Council, Ukraine
Dietmar Nietan
Member of the Parliament, Coordinator of German‑Polish Intersocietal and Cross‑Border Cooperation, Germany
Gary Palmer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, USA
Luke Pollard
Member of the Parliament, Shadow Minister (Defence), United Kingdom
Kira Rudyk
ember of Parliament, Chair of Political Party Golos, Ukraine
Tomasz Siemoniak
Member of Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister (2014-2015), Minister of Defence (2011-2015), Poland
Radosław Sikorski
Member of the European Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2014), Poland
Michał Szczerba
Member of Parliament, Acting President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Poland
Tytti Tuppurainen
Member of Parliament, Chair of The Social Democratic Parliamentary Group, Member of Foreign Affairs Committee
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
Vice-Admiral Bob Auchterlonie
Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, Canada
Gen. (R) Mark Carleton Smith
Chief of the General Staff (2018-2022), United Kingdom
Brig. Gen. Mariusz Chmielewski
Deputy Commander, The Cyberspace Defense Forces, Poland
Lt Gen Michael Claesson
Chief of Defence Staff, Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden
Maj Gen (R) James Cowan
CEO, The HALO Trust, 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. (R) Herbert Raymond H.R McMaster
National Security Advisor to the President of the United States (2017-2018), USA
Lt Gen (R) Sir Paul Newton KBE CBE
Commander Force Development and Training (2010 - 2012), United Kingdom
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
Gen. (R) Tod D. Wolters
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2019-2022), USA
NATO
Marie-Doha Besancenot
Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
Wendy Gilmour
Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, NATO
Angus Lapsley
Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning Division, NATO
Benedetta Berti
Head, Policy Planning Unit, Office of the NATO Secretary General, NATO
Jessica L. Cox
Director, Nuclear Policy Directorate Defence Policy and Plans Division, NATO
Deeph Chana
Managing Director, Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), NATO
Irene Fellin
Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, NATO
International Institutions
Virginijus Sinkevičius
Commissioner, Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Commission
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
Director-General, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission
Lawrence Meredith
Director for Neighborhood East and Institution Building, DG NEAR, European Commission
Benedikta von Seherr-Thoss
Managing Director for Peace, Security and Defence
Think-tanks, Civil Society & Academia
Ed Arnold
Research Fellow for European Security, Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom
Catherine Ashton
Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), United Kingdom
Olha Aivazovska
Head of the Board, OPORA Civil Network, Co-founder, ICUV, Ukraine
Carl Bildt
Co-chair of ECFR’s Council, Former Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Sweden
Mieczysław (Mietek) Boduszyński
Policy Advisor on Accountability of War Crimes, Office of U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2022-2023)
Paweł Borys
President of the Management Board, Polish Development Fund, Poland
Goran Buldioski
Acting Executive Director, Open Society Foundations - Europe and Central Asia
Heather A. Conley
President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, USA
Mirek Dušek
Managing Director, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
Theresa Fallon
Founder & Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium
Olena Halushka
Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Rebecca Harms
Member of European Parliament (2004-2019), Germany
Pavel Havlicek
Research Fellow, Association for International Affairs (AMO.CZ), Czech Republic
Christoph Heusgen
Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany
Hanna Hopko
Chairwoman, Democracy in Action: Zero Corruption Conference & Member of Parliament, Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014-2019), Ukraine
John K. Glenn
Senior Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Daria Kaleniuk
Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
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
Michał Kurtyka
Minister of Climate and Environment (2019-2021) , Poland
Dimitar Lilkov
Senior Research Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Affairs, Bulgaria
Bilyana Lilly
Chair of the WSF Democratic Resilience Track, Researcher, RAND Corporation, USA
Linas Linkevičius
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012 – 2020), Lithuania
Claudia Major
Head of Research Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Head, Centre for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (2022), Ukraine
Scott McDonald
Chief Executive, British Council, United Kingdom
Andrew A. Michta
Director, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative & Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA
Vladimir Milov
Member of Democratic Opposition, Associate of Alexey Navalny, Russia
Mitchell A. Orenstein
Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jerzy Pomianowski
Executive Director, European Endowment for Democracy
John Raine
Senior Adviser for Geopolitical Due Diligence, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Majda Ruge
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, Germany
George Scutaru
Founder & CEO of the New Strategy Center, Romania
Bart M.J. Szewczyk
Visiting Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the US, Brussels
Daniela Schwarzer
Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany
Monika Sus
Visiting Professor, Centre for International Security at the Hertie School Berlin, Germany
Nicolas Tenzer
President, Centre d’étude et de réflexion pour l’action politique (CERAP), France
Victoria Voytsitska
Member of Parliament, Secretary, Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security (2014-2019), International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Adam Weiss
Regional Director of Programmes, Europe, ClientEarth
Paul Williams
President and Co-Founder, Public International Law and Policy Group, USA
Lubomír Zaorálek
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2014-2017), Czech Republic
Industry
Lee Alderman-Davis
Global Product & Development Director, Ligentia, United Kingdom
Royal Hansen
Vice President, Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering, Google
Vice-Admiral (R) Sir Nick Hine
Managing Director AUKUS and International, Babcock
Faisel Khan
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sempra
David Lockwood
Chief Executive Officer, Babcock International Group
Grzegorz Należyty
Vice President Eastern Europe & Managing Director of Siemens Energy in Poland
Jeff Shockey
Senior Vice President, Global Government Relations, RTX
Rebecca Torzone
Sector Vice President and General Manager, Combat Systems & Mission Readiness, Northrop Grumman, USA
Johannes von Thadden
Co-Chairman, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, CEO Airbus Poland
Masters of Ceremony and Moderators
Izabela Albrycht
Director, Cybersecurity Center, AGH University, Poland
Federica D’Alessandra
Deputy Director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, United Kingdom
Michał Baranowski
Managing Director, GMF East & Regional Director, Poland
Małgorzata Bonikowska
President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland
Justin Bronk
Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology Royal United Services Institute
Malcolm Chalmers
Deputy Director General, Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom
Steven Erlanger
Chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe, The New York Times
Christoph von Marschall
Diplomatic Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany
Anna Nalyvayko
Senior Project Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
Zbigniew Pisarski
Founder of the Warsaw Security Forum, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Marta Prochwicz-Jazowska
Program Manager & Analyst, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Warsaw Office
Kateryna Ryabiko
First Deputy Director, OSCE-ODIHR (2020-2023), Chief Strategy Officer, DAC
