WSF 2024 Speakers
Government
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Poland
Krzysztof Gawkowski
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Affairs, Poland
Olha Stefanishyna
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Ukraine
Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland
Vernon Coaker
Baron Coaker, Shadow Spokesperson for Defence, House of Lords, United Kingdom
Stephen Doughty
Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom
Anna Lührmann
Minister of State for Europe and Climate, Germany
Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski
Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Krzysztof Bolesta
Secretary of State, Ministry of Climate & Environment, Poland
Simona Cojocaru
State Secretary, Ministry of National Defence, Romania
Cristina Pereteatcu
State Secretary for International Affairs, European Integration, and Digitalization, Ministry of Energy, Moldova
Pasi Rajala
State Secretary, Ministry of Defence & Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland
Jacek Siewiera
Secretary of State, Head of the National Security Bureau, Poland
Celeste Wallander
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense, USA
Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Justice, Poland
Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
Undersecretary of State, European Union Affairs Division, Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland
Emmanuel Bonne
Diplomatic Adviser to the President, G20 & G7 Sherpa, France
Xavier Chatel
Advisor for Strategic Affairs to the French President, France
Tomáš Pojar
National Security Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office, Czech Republic
Michael R. Carpenter
Senior Director, European Affairs, National Security Council, USA
Pierre Heilbronn
Special Envoy of the French President for Ukraine's Relief and Reconstruction, France
Magnus Hjort
Director General of the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, Sweden
Tomáš Kopečný
Governmental Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Czechia
Phyllis Berry
National Intelligence Officer for Europe, National Intelligence Council, USA
Andreas von Beckerath
Ambassador, Embassy of Kingdom of Sweden to Poland, Sweden
Bryan Goodman
Chief Strategist, AI & Machine Learning, Defense Innovation Unit, US. Department of Defense, USA
Lin Fei-Fan
Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Linas Linkevičius
Ambassador of Lithuania to Sweden, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-2020), Lithuania
Paweł Soloch
Ambassador of Poland to Romania, National Security Advisor to the President of Poland (2015-2022), Poland
Jarosław Stróżyk
Chief of the Military Counterintelligence Service, Poland
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Leader of the Belarus Democratic Opposition, Belarus
Alina Koushyk
Representative for National Revival United Transitional Cabinet, Belarus
European Union
Věra Jourová
Vice-President for Values and Transparency, European Commission
Anna Jarosz-Friis
Director, Ukraine Service, DG NEAR, European Commission
Katarína Mathernová
Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
NATO
Angus Lapsley
Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, NATO
Stacy A. Cummings
General Manager, NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), NATO
Sergio Coronado
Chief Information Officer, NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), NATO
Nikos Loutas
Head Data & AI Policy Unit Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber Division, NATO
Parliament
Yehor Cherniev
Deputy Chairman, Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence, Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine
Helene Conway-Mouret
Secretary of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Armed Forces, Member of the French Senate, France
Jason Crow
Member of the House of Representatives, US Congress, USA
Radosław Fogiel
Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Bart Groothuis
Member of the European Parliament, Vice-chair of Delegation for relations with Iran, The Netherlands
Anton Hofreiter
Member of the Bundestag, Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Germany
Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
Member of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Integration of Ukraine to the EU, Ukraine
Paweł Kowal
Member of the Polish Sejm, Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Marko Mihkelson
Member of Parliament, Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee, Riigikogu, Estonia
Dietmar Nietan
Member of the Bundestag, Coordinator of German‑Polish Intersocietal and Cross‑Border Cooperation, Germany
Olga Richterová
Member of the Czech Parliament, Deputy Speaker, Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic
Nikoloz Samkharadze
Member of the Georgian Parliament, Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia
Military
Gen. Wiesław Kukuła
Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Poland
Lt. Gen. Krzysztof Król
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, Poland
Maj. Gen. Mihail Iancu
Deputy Chief of the Department for Defense Policy and International Relations, Romania
Maj. Gen. Karol Molenda
Commander, Cyber Command, Polish Armed Forces, Poland
Maj. Gen. Johan Pekkari
Chief of Directorate of Strategic Plans and Policy, Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden
Gen. (R) Sir Mark Carleton-Smith
Chief of the General Staff (2018-2022), United Kingdom
Lt. Gen. Cezary Wiśniewski
Deputy Commander, Armed Forces General Command, Poland
Gen. (R) Jeff Harrigian
Commander of US Air Forces Europe, Africa and Allied Air Command (2019-2022), NATO
Gen. (R) David Petraeus
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), USA
Gen. (R) Curtis M. Scaparrotti
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2016-2019), USA
Gen. (R) Tod Daniel Wolters
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2019-2022), USA
VAdm (R) Sir Nicholas Hine
Second Sea Lord (2019-2022), United Kingdom
Rear Admiral (R) Mark Montgomery
Executive Director, Cyberspace Solarium Commission, USA
Brig. Gen. (R) Zvika Haimovich
Commander of the Israel Air Defense Forces (2015-2018), Israel
Think-tanks, Civil Society & Academia
Olha Aivazovska
Co-founder of International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Minna Ålander
Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland
Baroness Catherine Ashton
Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), United Kingdom
Michał Baranowski
Managing Director, GMF East & Regional Director, Poland
Max Bergmann
Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, CSIS, USA
Ilan Berman
Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council, USA
Carl Bildt
Prime Minister (1991-1994), Minister for Foreign Affairs (2006-2014), Sweden
Klaus Dieter-Borchardt
Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Germany
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia, Hudson Institute, USA
Reinhard Bütikofer
Former Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China, Germany
James Carafano
Senior Counselor to the President and E.W. Richardson Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, USA
Andrew Caruana Galizia
Head of Europe and Eurasia, World Economic Forum
Dóra Csernus
Director for Climate & Environmental Policies, Equilibrium Institute, Hungary
Jacek Czaputowicz
Professor, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2018-2020), University of Warsaw, Poland
Muriel Domenach
Permanent Representative, French Delegation to NATO in Brussels (2019-2024), France
Vít Dostál
Executive Director, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic
Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega
Director, Center for Energy & Climate, IFRI, France
Daniel Fried
Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, The Atlantic Council, USA
Adam Guibourgé-Czetwertyński
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Climate and Environment (2020-2023), Poland
Hanna Hopko
Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Daria Kaleniuk
Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine
Heino Klinck
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia (2019-2021), USA
Ivan Krastev
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria
Guillaume Klossa
President of EuropaNova, Chairman of the Board of Conclave, France
Donatas Kupciunas
Baltic Fellow, Baltic Geopolitics Programme, Cambridge University, Lithuania
Fredrik Löjdquist
Director, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, Sweden
Claudia Major
Head of the Research Division on International Security, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany
Tarek Megerisi
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Andrew A. Michta
Director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative and Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Arkady Mil-Man
Head of the Russia Program, Institute for National Security Studies, Israel
Monika Morawiecka
Senior Advisor, The Regulatory Assistance Project, Poland
Rolf Nikel
Vice President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Germany
Barry Pavel
Vice President, Director of the National Security Research Division · RAND Corporation, USA
Cornelius Ochmann
Managing Director, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany
Janka Oertel
Director, Asia Programme, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR, Germany
Kajsa Ollongren
Minister of Defense (2022-2024), The Netherlands
Mitchell A. Orenstein
Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sebastian Płóciennik
Director, Member of the Board, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany
Majda Ruge
Director, Member of the Board, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany
Benjamin L. Schmitt
Senior Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Daniela Schwarzer
Executive Board Member, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany
Ivana Stradner
Research Fellow, Barish Center for Media Integrity, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, USA
Nathalie Tocci
Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
Kurt Volker
United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (2017-2019), USA
Anna Wieslander
Director for Northern Europe, Atlantic Council, Sweden
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Chairman, Kyiv Security Forum, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)
Industry
Małgorzata Bjorum
Head of Cybersecurity Department, Polish Airports, Poland
Karan Bhatia
Vice-President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google
Beth McGrath
Global Industry Leader for Government and Public Service, Deloitte Global
Rebecca Torzone
Vice-President & Director, Global Battle Management and Readiness, Northrop Grumman
Masters of Ceremony and Moderators
Federica D’Alessandra
Deputy Director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, United Kingdom
Małgorzata Bonikowska
President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland
Marcin Bużański
Resident Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Hadley Gamble
Chief International Anchor and Host, “The Hadley Gamble Show”, Al-Arabiya
Jakob Hallgren
Director, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden
Michał Kurtyka
Chair of the Energy Security and Climate Track, Warsaw Security Forum, Minister of Climate and Environment (2019-2021), Poland
Bilyana Lilly
Chair of the WSF Democratic Resilience Track, Researcher, RAND Corporation, USA
Zbigniew Pisarski
Founder of the Warsaw Security Forum, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Teri Schultz
NATO and EU reporter in Brussels, freelance for NPR and Deutsche Welle, Germany
Maria Tadeo
Head of Communications, Brussels Institute for Geopolitics
Benjamin Tallis
Democratic Strategy Initiative, Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Germany