Speakers

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Speakers

Speakers of the 2025 Edition

Government

Volodymyr Zelensky

President of Ukraine

Prime Minister, Poland

Jens Stoltenberg

NATO Secretary General (2014-2024); Minister of Finance, Norway

Krzysztof Gawkowski

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Affairs, Poland

Filip Ivanović

Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Montenegro

Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence, Poland

Liviu-Ionuț Moșteanu

Vice Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence, Romania

Radosław Sikorski

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Jean-Noël Barrot

Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Morocco

Carl-Oskar Bohlin

Minister for Civil Defence, Sweden

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Latvia

Ruben Brekelmans

Minister of Defence, The Netherlands

Kęstutis Budrys

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

Andrzej Domański

Minister of Finance and Economy, Poland

Minister of Defense, Kosovo

Ararat Mirzoyan

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

Minister of Defence, Estonia

Boris Pistorius

Federal Minister of Defence, Germany

Tore O. Sandvik

Minister of Defence, Norway

Torsten Schack Pedersen

Minister for Resilience and Preparedness, Denmark

Minister of Energy and Environment, Estonia

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine

Minister of Defence, Albania

Johann Wadephul

Federal Foreign Minister, Germany

Vitaly Balashov

Deputy Minister, Digital Transformation for Cybersecurity and Cloud Technologies, Ukraine

Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski

Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Lord Vernon Coaker

Minister of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy, United States

Benjamin Haddad

Minister Delegate for European Affairs, France

Katarzyna Kotula

Secretary of State, Chancellary of the Prime Minister, Poland

State Secretary for Security Policy, Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, Switzerland

Marcin Przydacz

Secretary of State, Head of the International Policy Bureau, Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

Dariusz Standerski

Secretary of State, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland

Oleg Shymanskyi

Deputy Minister of Veterans Affairs, Ukraine

Secretary of State, Ministry of National Defense, Poland

Urszula Zielińska

Secretary of State, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Poland

Michał Baranowski

Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Poland

Clément Beaune

High Commissioner for Strategy and Planning, France

Pierre Heilbronn

Special Envoy for Ukraine's Relief and Reconstruction, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

Lt Gen (R) Keith Kellogg

Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine, United States

Miroslav Lajčák

Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security, Slovakia

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Department of State, United States

Lt Col Dana Humaid Al Marzouqi

Director General of the International Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Interior, United Arab Emirates

Ambassador, Permanent Representative to NATO, France

Alexandre Escorcia

Director for Euro-Atlantic Security, Ministry for the Armed Forces, France

Étienne de Poncins

Ambassador to Poland, France

Linas Linkevičius

Ambassador to Sweden, Lithuania; Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Melinda Simmons

Ambassador to Poland, United Kingdom

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Head, United Transitional Cabinet, Belarus

Salome Zourabichvili

Fifth President of Georgia

International Organizations

Andrius Kubilius

Commissioner for Defence and Space, European Commission

Michael McGrath

Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection, European Commission

Radmila Shekerinska

Deputy Secretary General, NATO

Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe

João Gomes Cravinho

Special Representative for the Sahel, European External Action Service, European Union

Stacy A. Cummings

General Manager, NATO Support and Procurement Agency

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

Gen Ingo Gerhartz

Commander of NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

Rafael Mariano Grossi

Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency

Thordis Kolbrun R. Gylfadottir

Special Envoy of the Secretary General on the Situation of Children of Ukraine, Council of Europe

Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Maj Gen Krzysztof Kociuba

Chief of Staff, NATO Communications and Information Agency

Łukasz Koliński

Director, Directorate-General for Green Transition and Energy System Integration, European Commission

Director for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber Division, NATO

Deputy Secretary General, Central European Initiative

Kajsa Ollongren

EU Special Representative for Human Rights, European Union

Marcos Perestrello

President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Chair of the Political and Security Committee, European External Action Service, European Union

Herald Ruijters

Deputy Director-General, Head of Task Force for SAFE Instrument, DG for Defence Industry and Space, European Commission

Director, Head of the Security and Defence Office, European Investment Bank

Parliament

Member of the European Parliament; Member of Foreign Affairs Committee, Finland

Baroness Catherine Ashton

Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom; High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (2010-2014); Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Member of Parliament, Vice-president of the Committee for Defence and Security of the Chamber of Deputies, Romania

Pawel Bartoszek

Member of Parliament, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Iceland

Paweł Bliźniuk

Member of the Sejm, Chair of the Polish-French Parliamentary Group, Poland

Solomiia Bobrovska

Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, Ukraine

Senator, Minister of Justice (2023-2025), Poland

Krzysztof Bosak

Deputy Speaker of the Sejm, Poland

Sebastian-Ioan Burduja

Member of Parliament, Romania

Hélène Conway-Mouret

Senator, Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Armed Forces, France

Radosław Fogiel

Member of the Sejm, Deputy Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland

Anton Hofreiter

Member of the Bundestag, Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Germany

Szymon Hołownia

Speaker of the Sejm, Poland

Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica

Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Latvia

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Chair of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the EU, Ukraine

Member of the Sejm, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation, Poland

Sergey Lagodinsky

Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Germany

Marko Mihkelson

Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Estonia

Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, House of Commons, United Kingdom

Natalia Pouzyreff

Member of the National Assembly; Co-President of the French Delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly, France

Member of the Bundestag, Germany

Norbert Röttgen

Member of the Bundestag, Germany; Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Michał Szczerba

Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for EU Defence and Security Partnerships, Poland

Tytti Tuppurainen

Member of Parliament, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Finland

Kazimierz Ujazdowski

Senator, Chair of the Polish-French Senate Group, Poland

Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska

Member of the Sejm, Chair of the Polish-American Parliamentary Group, Poland

Member of the the Swiss National Council, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Switzerland

Military

Lt Gen Piotr Błazeusz

Commanding General of Eurocorps (2024-2025)

Lt Gen Hervé de Courrèges

Director, Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN), France

Lt Gen Jih-Sheng Hsieh

Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Intelligence, Ministry of National Defence, Taiwan

Vice Adm Krzysztof Jaworski

Maritime Component Commander, Polish Navy

Maj Gen Karol Molenda

Commander of the Cyberspace Defense Forces Component, Cyberspace Defense Forces, Poland

Maj Gen Cezary Wiśniewski

Deputy General Commander, Polish Armed Forces, Poland

Brig Gen Michał Marciniak

Deputy Chief, Armament Agency Poland

Rear Adm Marcel Neculae

Deputy Chief od the Romanian Naval Forces, Romania

Rear Adm Vincent Sébastien

Deputy Commander of Cyber Defense, France

Adm (R) Rob Bauer

Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2021–2025), The Netherlands; Edge Fellow, Deloitte Netherlands; Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Gen. (R) Philip M. Breedlove

Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2013-2016), United States

Gen (R) Philippe Lavigne

NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (2021-2024), France

Gen (R) David H. Petraeus

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), United States; Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Gen (R) Tod Daniel Wolters

Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2019-2022), United States

Lt Gen (R) Ben Hodges

Commander of United States Army Europe (2014-2018); Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Lt Gen (R) Dariusz Łukowski

Head of the National Security Bureau (2025), Poland

Rear Adm (R) Mark Montgomery

Senior Director and Senior Fellow, The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, United States

Brig Gen Marcin Górka

Director, Department of Innovation, Ministry of National Defence, Poland

Experts

Deputy Director for Nuclear, Third Way, United States

International Presenter and Journalist, Germany

Secretary of Defense (2021-2025), United States

Yaroslav Bazylevich

Ukrainian father, lost wife and three daughters in a Russian missile attack on Lviv

Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council, United States

Małgorzata Bonikowska

President, Centre for International Relations Foundation (CSM), Poland

Member of the European Parliament (1980-2019), Germany

Sir William Browder

Head, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, United Kingdom

Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek

Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland

Justina Budginaite-Froehly

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Lithuania

Maciej Filip Bukowski

Head of the Energy and Resilience Program, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Michael R. Carpenter

Ambassador to the OSCE (2021-2024); NSC Senior Director for Europe (2024), United States

Kevin Casas Zamora

Secretary General, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

François Chimits

Director of Europe Program, Institute Montaigne, France

Senior Policy Editor, Politico Europe

Ionela Maria Ciolan

Research Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Romania

Antonia Colibasanu

Senior Expert, New Strategy Center

Michael Coulter

CEO, Hanwha Global Defense, South Korea

Jacek Czaputowicz

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2018-2020), Poland; Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (2024), Member of the European Parliament (2009-2024), France

Member of House of Commons (2005-2024), United Kingdom

Minister of Mines and Steel Development (2015-2018), Nigeria

Principal Deputy National Security Advisor (2021-2025), USA

Aleksandra Gasztold

Secretary-General, Women in International Security Poland

Natalia Gavrilita

Prime Minister of Moldova (2021-2023); Oversight Board Member, National Bank of Moldova

Adel Abdel Ghafar

Director, Foreign Policy Program, Middle East Council, Qatar/Australia

Research Fellow, Head of European Energy and Climate Policies, Energy and Climate Center (IFRI)

Marcin Giełzak

Founder and President, Centre for Social Democracy Foundation, Poland

Marija Golubeva

Distinguished Fellow for the Democratic Resilience Program, Center for European Policy Analysis, Latvia

Director, French Institute of International Relation, France

Arancha González Laya

Dean, Paris School of International Affairs Sciences Po; Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2020-2021), Spain

Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo

Europe Correspondent, Defense News

Justyna Gotkowska

Deputy Director, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland

Robert Greenway

Director, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation, United States

Secretary General, Bled Strategic Forum, Slovenia

Dalia Grybauskaitė

President of Lithuania (2009–2019)

Atsuko Higashino

Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine; Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Senior Advisor to the President at the National Security Council, Taiwan

Advisor on Cybersecurity Policy and International Cooperation, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Latvia

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

President of Estonia (2006-2016)

Director, European Values Center for Security Policy, Czech Republic

Sylvie Kauffmann

Editor, Le Monde, France

Defense Correspondent, POLITICO Europe

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Co-Founder, Russian Anti-War Committee

Christopher Kirchhoff

Founding Partner, Defense Innovation Unit (2016-2017), United States

Michał Kurtyka

Minister of Climate and Environment (2019-2021), Poland

Senior Legal Advisor, European Center for Press & Media Freedom

Marcin Kuśmierczyk

Polityka Zagraniczna YouTube Channel

Tamara Lagurashvili

Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Clean Air Task Force

Director-General of the World Trade Organization (2005-2013); Commissioner for Trade, European Commission (1999-2004), France

Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece

Women’s Activist, Poland

Adjunct Researcher, RAND Corporation, United States

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan

Gustav Lindström

Director General, Council of Baltic Sea States Secretariat, Sweden

Distinguished Fellow Royal United Services Institute; NATO Spokesperson (2010-2023), Germany

Senior Vice President for Transatlantic Security, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Germany

Shairee Malhotra

Deputy Director, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation, India

Marine Commander from Poltava, Defender of Mariupol, Ukraine

Oleksandra Matviichuk

Chairwoman of the Center for Civil Liberties; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2022), Ukraine

Monika Morawiecka

Senior Advisor, The Regulatory Assistance Project, Poland

Georgette Mosbacher

Ambassador to Poland (2018-2021), United Sates

Yulia Navalnaya

Chairwoman of the Advisory Board, Anti-Corruption Foundation, Russia

Zhanna Nemtsova

Co-Founder, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, Russia

Treasurer, Social Democratic Party; Member of the Bundestag (1998–2002, 2005–2025), Germany

Executive Director, The Opportunity Institute for Foreign Affairs, Poland

Honorata Nyga-Łukaszewska

Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Expert, Ignacy Lukasiewicz Institute for Energy Policy, Poland

Kornela Oblińska

Program Director, Women in International Security Poland

Kari Margrethe Osland

Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

Policy Advisor for Nuclear Energy, Third Way, United States

Karolina Pawlik

Senior Specialist, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Katarzyna Pisarska

Chair of the Warsaw Security Forum, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Zbigniew Pisarski

President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Sebastian Płóciennik

Director, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany

Chairwoman, American Chamber of Commerce, Poland

Maddalena Procopio

Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, Italy

Nuclear Energy Program Director, Clean Air Task Force

Vice Chair of the Board, Open Society Foundations, Germany

Margaritis Schinas

Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, European Commission (2019-2024), Greece

Benjamin L. Schmitt

Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, United States

NATO and EU Reporer in Brussels, Germany

Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland (2022-2025)

Ambassador to NATO (2021-2024), United States

Head of the Defence Track, Warsaw Security Forum; Member of the Board, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Chair and Founder, Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, and Non Resident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings

Secretary General, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany

Ruslan Stefanov

Program Director, Chief Economist, Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria

Research Analyst for C4ISR and Emerging Tech, Military Sciences, RUSI

Réka Szemerkényi

Director of International Affairs, The Equilibrium Institute

Konrad Szymański

Minister for European Affairs (2020-2022), Poland

Europe Correspondent, Le Grand Continent

Marcin Terlikowski

Research Director, Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM), Poland

Executive Director, Agora Think Tanks, Germany

Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy

Rafał Trzaskowski

Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

Siarhei Tsikhanouski

Belarusian Opposition Leader

Symeon Tsomokos

Founder and President, Delphi Economic Forum, Greece

Veteran of the War in Ukraine, U.S. Marine Corps, United States

Olesya Vinhas de Souza

Researcher, NATO Defense College, Italy

Sir Ben Wallace

Secretary of State for Defence (2019-2023), United Kingdom

Anna Wieslander

Director for Northern Europe, Atlantic Council, Sweden

Karolina Wigura

Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna, Poland

Chairman of the Main Council, Lewiatan Confederation, Poland

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Chairman, Kyiv Security Forum, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)

Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Germany

Vladyslav Zhaivoronok

Veteran of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Defender of Mariupol and Azovstal

Zbysław Ziemacki

Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance, Poland

Industry

Chris T. Bailey

General Manager, Global National Security, Amazon Web Services

Senior Vice President, Polish Armaments Group (PGZ)

Éric Béranger

Head of Revenue, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Poolside

Antoine de Braquilanges

Director General, Helsing, France

Christopher Brown

Vice President, Global Strategy & International Business Development, General Dynamics

Gen (R) Thierry Caspar-Fille-Lambie

Executive Vice President, Babcock Aviation, France

Łukasz Chaberski

CEO, Polish Airports S.A., Poland

Anne-Laure de Chammard

Member of the Executive Board and Group Executive Vice-President, Siemens Energy

R Adm (R) Rex Cox

Trials and Acceptance Director, Babcock International

Executive Committee Member of Thales International, SVP Thales Europe

Wojciech Drewczyński

Operating Partner, Balnord

Group Export Sales Director, MBDA

Jean-Brice Dumont

Executive Vice President for Air Power, Airbus

Senior Director International Policy & Growth at Northrop Grumman

Agnieszka Gajewska

Global Government & Public Sector Leader, PwC Poland

Vice President of the Board, Polish Armaments Group (PGZ)

Head of Defence, KPMG CEE

Vice President, Engineering, Google

Partner, Defence & Space, KPMG, Germany

Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group

Vice President, Polish Armaments Group (PGZ)

Micael Johansson

President and CEO, Saab

Co-founder and CEO, Frontier Rare Earths, Ireland

Marcin P. Kowalik

General Partner, Balnord

Michał Kramarz

Head of Google Startups, Poland

Eliza Kruczkowska

Director, Innovation Development Department, Polish Development Fund, Poland

Krzysztof Krystowski

Vice President, Northrop Grumman

Bartosz Łopiński

CEO, Billennium, Poland

Global Government & Public Services Leader, Deloitte Global

Aleksander Mokrzycki

Deputy CEO, PFR Ventures, Poland

Stephen O’Bryan

Vice President, Northrop Grumman

Johan Pelissier

President of Region Europe, Airbus

Alexandre Louis Penley

Vice President Europe & NATO, KNDS France

Raymond Piselli

Vice-President, Lockheed Martin

Mikołaj Raczyński

Vice-President of the Management Board, Polish Development Fund

Head of Defense & National Security Public Policy, EMEA

Lt Gen (R) Steven Michael Shepro

Vice-President, Pratt & Whitney

Vice President of Europe and NATO, Requirements and Capabilities, Raytheon, an RTX Business

Benjamin Tallis

Head of Thought Leadership, Helsing

Wouter van Wersch

Executive Vice President International, Airbus Group

Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Kockums, Saab AB

Marcin Wiśniewski

President, CTM PGZ

Alina Wołoszyn

Partner, Head of Advisory in Poland and Deal Advisory in CEE, KPMG

Grzegorz Wyszyński

Member of the Board, PZL-Świdnik

Oleksandr Yakovenko

Founder & CEO, TAF Industries

Alexandre Ziegler

Executive Vice President, Defense Division of Safran Electronics & Defense

Vice President, Multi-Domain Command and Control Programs, Northrop Grumman

Global Security Leader, Partner, PwC Germany

MCs

Marcin Bużański

Director, Centre for Diplomacy and Negotiation at Civitas University; Advisor to the Management Board, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Federica D'Alessandra

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

News Anchor, BBC News, United Kingdom

Senior Anchor, Deutsche Welle News, Germany

Maia Mazurkiewicz

President of the Board, PZU Foundation, Poland