| WSF 2019 SPEAKERS & GUESTS |
| GOVERNMENTAL DELEGATIONS |
Jerzy Kwieciński
Minister of Finance, Investment and Economic Development, Poland
Carmelo Abela
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, Malta
Péter Szijjártó
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary
Paweł Soloch
Secretary of State, Head of the National Security Bureau, Poland
Denise Natali
Assistant Secretary, the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), Department of State, USA
František Ružička
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovak Republic
Oleg Kravchenko
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belarus
Thomas Silberhorn
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
Mikołaj Wild
Secretary of state in the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Plenipotentiary of the Government for the Matters of the Central Transport Hub for the Republic of Poland
Karin Wallensteen
State Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office, Sweden
Muayad Mouhammed Salih
Undersecretary for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iraq
Waldemar Paruch
Head, Centre for the Strategic Analysis, Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland
Georgette Mosbacher
Ambassador of the United States to Poland, USA
Jens Plötner
Political Director, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
Anna Westerholm
Ambassador for the Eastern Partnership, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Jaroslav Kurfürst
Special Envoy for the Eastern Partnership, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
Mateusz Berger
Director of Treasury Department, Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland
Maciej Pisarski
Director-General of the Department of Foreign Policy Strategy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Róbert Ondrejcsák
Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, Slovak Republic
| PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATIONS |
Volkan Bozkır
Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Minister of European Union Affairs (2015-2016)
John Garamendi
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California; Senior member of the House Armed Services Committee; Chairman of the Readiness Subcommittee
Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico; Chair of the Puerto Rico Republican Party; Committee on Science, Space and Technology
Vicky Hartzler
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ranking Member, Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, House Armed Forces Committee, USA
Dave Loebsack
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Committee on House Energy and Commerce; Democratic Party, USA
John Shimkus
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Committee on House Energy and Commerce; Republican Party, USA
Thomas O’Halleran
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Democratic Party, USA
Sophie Katsarava
Chairperson, Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Georgia
Julian Lewis
Chair, Defence Select Committee, House of Commons, UK
Vesna Pusić
Member of Parliament, First Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia (2012-2016), Minister of Foreign and European Affairs (2011-2016), Croatia
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS’ DELEGATIONS |
Radosław Sikorski
Member of the European Parliament; Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007 - 2014), Poland
Vice Admiral Keith Blount
Commander, Allied Maritime Command, NATO.
James Henry Bergeron
Political Advisor to the Commander, Allied Maritime Command, NATO
Michael Callender
Head of the Aerospace Capabilities Section, NATO
Maciej Popowski
Deputy Director-General, European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
Col. Gjert Lage Dyndal
Deputy Head, Strategic Analysis Capability, NATO
Robert Pszczel
Senior Officer, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO HQ
Robert Cooper
Member of the Council, European Council on Foreign Relations; Special Advisor on Myanmar (2013-2014), European Commission
| ARMED FORCES |
Col. Andrea Truppo
General Manager, Joint International Programme Office, Eurofighter Programme
Lt. Col. Beata Targońska
Chair, Council on Women in Polish Armed Forces, Poland
2nd Lt. Justyna Skrzyńska-Rękawek
Polish Air Force, Transatlantic Future Leaders Forum
Navy Commander s.g. Pascale Van Leeuwen
Commander, Mine Counter Measures Operational Sea Training (MOST) Center in Zeebrugge
Lt. Col. Rupert Burridge
Human Security Lead, 77 Brigade, British Armed Forces, UK
Major (pharmacist) Ina Brandt
Bundeswehr, Germany
Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak
Chief of the General Staff, Polish Armed Forces
Lt. Katarzyna Rzadkowska
Foreign Missions Preparation Centre, Poland
| EXPERTS |
Atifete Jahjaga
President of the Republic, Kosovo (2011-2016)
Vladimir Milov
Member of democratic opposition, Leader of "Democratic Choice" movement (2010-2015), Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation (2001-2002)
Olin L. Wethington
Board of Directors, International Republican Institute; Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council; former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Envoy on China, US Department of the Treasury
Michał Baranowski
Director of the German Marshall Fund’s office in Warsaw
Robert Barić
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, Zagreb University, Assistant Adviser for Defense Affairs to the President (2000-2010)
Jacek Bartosiak
CEO and Founder of Strategy&Future, Director of Wargaming and Simulations Programme, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Małgorzata Bonikowska
President, Center for International Relations, Poland
Elisabeth Braw
Senior Research Fellow, Director, Modern Deterrence Program, The Royal United Services Institute
Justin Bronk
Research Fellow, Airpower and Technology, The Royal United Services Institute, RUSI, United Kingdom
Ian Brzezinski
Resident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
Jakob Bund
Research Associate, Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Marcin Bużański
President, Global Leader.PL; Senior Advisor, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Michael Carpenter
Senior Director, Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (2015 - 2017), USA
Patrycja Chomicka
Head, Organizing Committee, Warsaw Security Forum; Director, Cybersecurity Program, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Norman Davies
Historian, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Peter Dobrowiecki
Author, Head of the EU-V4 Office, Antall József Knowledge Centre
Maria Domańska
Senior Fellow, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland
Theresa Fallon
Founder and Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium
Alberto Fernandez
President, Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), Cuba/USA
Roland Freudenstein
Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium
Daniel Fried
Distinguished Fellow, Future Europe Initiative and Eurasia Center; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2005-2009), USA
Ellie Geranmayeh
Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations
Amir Grgies
The Head of the European Desk, Kurdistan Democratic Party’s Foreign Relations Office
Benjamin Haddad
Director, Future Europe Initiative, Atlantic Council
David Harris
Chief Executive Officer, American Jewish Committee
Brady Hills
Brady Hills Senior Programme Officer, International Republican Institute, Beacon Project, USA
Benjamin Hodges
Pershing Chair, CEPA Partner, Berlin Global Advisors; Commanding general US Army Europe (2014 - 2017), USA
Hanna Hopko
Member of Parliament, Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014-2019), Ukraine
Corinna Hörst
President, Women in International Security, Brussels (WIIS)
Alina Inayeh
Director, Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, GMF
Daria Kaleniuk
Executive Director, Anti-Corruption Action Center, Ukraine
Nada Kovalcikova
Program Manager, Alliance for Securing Democracy, GMFUS Brussels Office
Paweł Kowal
MEP & Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-2014), Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2006-2007)
David Kramer
Senior Fellow, Havel Program on Human Rights, and Director, European & Eurasian Studies, Florida International University, USA
Jarosław Kraszewski
Brig. Gen. (ret.), Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Kenneth E. Lawson
Executive Director, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, USA
Aleksey Levinson
Head, Division of Socio-Cultural Researches, Levada-Center, Russia
Julian Lindley-French
Senior Fellow, Institute for Statecraft, Chatham House, UK
Danylo Lubkivsky
Member of the Board of Management, Open Ukraine Foundation, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016), Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine (2014)
Steven E. Meyer
Dean of Graduate Studies and Chairman, National Security Program and Professor of National Security Studies, Daniel Morgan Graduate School; Former Deputy Chief of the CIA’s Balkan Task Force
Andrew Michta
Dean of College of the International and Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, USA
Yasmin Mohamud
Somalia Dryland Solutions, Founder & Managing Director
Clare Moody
Member of European Parliament (2014-2019), Labour Party, UK
Mitchell A. Orenstein
Professor and Chair. Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Petr Pavel
Gen. (ret.), Chairman, NATO Military Committee (2015-2018), Czech Republic
Zbyněk Pavlačík
Director and Co-founder, Jagello 2000, Czech Republic
Laurent Pech
Head, Law and Politics Department, Middlesex University London, UK
Gen. David H. Petraeus
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011 - 2012), USA
Katarzyna Pisarska
Program Director of the Warsaw Security Forum
Zbigniew Pisarski
President and Founder, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Tomáš Pojar
Vice-President, Aspen Institute Central Europe, Czech Republic
Alina Polyakova
Director, Project on Global Democracy and Emerging Technology; Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution, US
Sven Sakkov
Director, International Centre for Defence and Security; Undersecretary for Defence Policy (2008 - 2015), Ministry of Defence, Estonia
Patrycja Sasnal
Head of Research, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)
Jamie Shea
Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018), United Kingdom
Robert Siudak
Advocacy and Projects Director, Kościuszko Institute
Hoshyar Siwaily
Head of Kurdistan Democratic Party’s Foreign Relations Office
Tomasz Smura
Director of Research Office, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Péter Stepper
Author, International Relations Manager at Security Policy Office, Antall József Knowledge Centre
Beata Surmacz
Associate Professor, Maria Skłodowska Curie University, Lublin, Poland
Jan Erik Surotchak
Senior Director for Transatlantic Strategy, International Republican Institute, USA
Svitlana Zalishchuk
Member of Parliament (2014-2019), Ukraine
Jonáš Syrovátka
Project Manager, Prague Security Studies Institute, Czech Republic
Bart Szewczyk
Adviser on Global Affairs, European Politcal Strategy Centre
Borys Tarasyuk
Ambassador, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (1998-2000, 2005-2007), Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (2002-2019)
Paul Taylor
Senior Fellow, Friends of Europe; Contributing Editor, POLITICO
John Venable
Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy, Center for National Defense, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, USA
Tatiana Vorozheikina
Professor, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia
Hugh White
Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Brian Whitmore
Senior Fellow and Director of Russia Program, Center for European Policy Analysis, USA
Anna Wieslander
Chairperson, Director for Northern Europe, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Atlantic Council
Paweł Wojciechowski
Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Founder, Open Ukraine Foundation, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014 - 2016)
| JOURNALISTS |
Christian Davies
Journalist, The Guardian, The Observer, UK
Mosharraf Zaidi
Chief Executive Officer, Tabadlab, Pakistan