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
Thomas Silberhorn
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
František Ružička
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovak Republic
Oleg Kravchenko
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belarus
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, Russia and Western Balkans, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO
Robert Cooper
Member of the Council, European Council on Foreign Relations; Special Advisor on Myanmar (2013-2014), European Commission
Armed Forces
Lt. Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak
Chief of the General Staff, Polish 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
Lt. Katarzyna Rzadkowska
Foreign Missions Preparation Centre, Poland
Experts
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Benjamin Hodges
Pershing Chair, CEPA Partner, Berlin Global Advisors; Commanding general US Army Europe (2014 - 2017), USA
David Petraeus
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011 - 2012), USA
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
