WSF 2024 Speakers

Government

2024-09-10T13:25:41+02:00

Olha Stefanishyna

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Ukraine

2024-08-20T18:30:05+02:00

Stephen Doughty

Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom

2024-09-11T14:44:02+02:00

Nils Hilmer

State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany

2024-09-11T15:41:33+02:00

Cristina Pereteatcu

State Secretary for International Affairs, European Integration, and Digitalization, Ministry of Energy, Moldova

2024-09-06T12:48:48+02:00

Pasi Rajala

State Secretary, Ministry of Defence & Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland

2024-09-11T15:50:41+02:00

Jacek Siewiera

Secretary of State, Head of the National Security Bureau, Poland

2024-09-11T20:20:29+02:00

Celeste Wallander

Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense, USA

2024-09-11T14:10:06+02:00

Xavier Chatel

Advisor for Strategic Affairs to the French President, France

2024-09-12T12:38:33+02:00

Tomáš Pojar

National Security Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office, Czech Republic

2024-09-11T14:27:34+02:00

Ros Eales

Director for Ukraine Recovery & Reconstruction, FCDO, United Kingdom

2024-09-12T12:41:12+02:00

Magnus Hjort

Director General of the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, Sweden

2024-09-10T13:27:36+02:00

Phyllis Berry

National Intelligence Officer for Europe, National Intelligence Council, USA

2024-09-10T13:27:55+02:00

Bryan Goodman

Chief Strategist, AI & Machine Learning, Defense Innovation Unit, US. Department of Defense, USA

2024-09-11T15:00:42+02:00

Lin Fei-Fan

Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council, Republic of China (Taiwan)

2024-09-11T15:01:30+02:00

Linas Linkevičius

Ambassador of Lithuania to Sweden, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-2020), Lithuania

2024-09-11T15:53:17+02:00

Paweł Soloch

Ambassador of Poland to Romania, National Security Advisor to the President of Poland (2015-2022), Poland

European Union

2024-09-11T14:51:34+02:00

Věra Jourová

Vice-President for Values and Transparency, European Commission

2024-09-11T15:05:42+02:00

Katarína Mathernová

Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission

NATO

2024-09-10T12:56:26+02:00

Sergio Coronado

Chief Information Officer, NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), NATO

2024-09-11T15:02:36+02:00

Nikos Loutas

Head Data & AI Policy Unit Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber Division, NATO

Parliament

2024-09-12T13:46:45+02:00

Yehor Cherniev

Deputy Chairman, Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence, Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

2024-09-11T14:22:13+02:00

Helene Conway-Mouret

Secretary of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Armed Forces, Member of the French Senate, France

2024-09-11T14:41:08+02:00

Bart Groothuis

Member of the European Parliament, Vice-chair of Delegation for relations with Iran, The Netherlands

2024-09-11T14:45:36+02:00

Anton Hofreiter

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

2024-09-11T14:54:08+02:00

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Member of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Integration of Ukraine to the EU, Ukraine

2024-09-12T11:40:34+02:00

Paweł Kowal

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

2024-09-11T15:09:04+02:00

Marko Mihkelson

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

2024-09-12T11:38:51+02:00

Dietmar Nietan

Member of the Bundestag, Coordinator of German‑Polish Intersocietal and Cross‑Border Cooperation, Germany

2024-09-11T15:46:34+02:00

Olga Richterová

Member of the Czech Parliament, Deputy Speaker, Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic

2024-09-11T15:47:54+02:00

Nikoloz Samkharadze

Member of the Georgian Parliament, Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia

2024-09-10T13:31:04+02:00

Joe Wilson

Member of the House of Representatives, US Congress, USA

Military

Think-tanks, Civil Society & Academia

2024-09-11T13:55:48+02:00

Minna Ålander

Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland

2024-09-11T13:56:11+02:00

Baroness Catherine Ashton

Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), United Kingdom

2024-09-11T13:57:41+02:00

Max Bergmann

Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, CSIS, USA

2024-09-11T13:57:59+02:00

Ilan Berman

Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council, USA

2024-09-11T14:00:33+02:00

Carl Bildt

Prime Minister (1991-1994), Minister for Foreign Affairs (2006-2014), Sweden

2024-09-11T14:04:35+02:00

Matthew Boyse

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia, Hudson Institute, USA

2024-09-11T14:05:35+02:00

Reinhard Bütikofer

Former Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China, Germany

2024-09-11T14:06:47+02:00

James Carafano

Senior Counselor to the President and E.W. Richardson Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, USA

2024-09-11T14:23:04+02:00

Dóra Csernus

Director for Climate & Environmental Policies, Equilibrium Institute, Hungary

2024-08-20T19:54:40+02:00

Jacek Czaputowicz

Professor, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2018-2020), University of Warsaw, Poland

2024-09-11T14:25:32+02:00

Muriel Domenach

Permanent Representative, French Delegation to NATO in Brussels (2019-2024), France

2024-09-11T14:25:57+02:00

Vít Dostál

Executive Director, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic

2024-09-11T14:29:52+02:00

Josh Freed

Senior Vice President for Climate & Energy, Third Way, USA

2024-09-11T14:30:29+02:00

Daniel Fried

Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, The Atlantic Council, USA

2024-09-11T14:47:03+02:00

Hanna Hopko

Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

2024-09-11T14:48:13+02:00

Tacan İldem

Assistant Secretary General of NATO (2016-2020), Türkiye

2024-09-11T14:51:56+02:00

Daria Kaleniuk

Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

2024-09-11T14:53:22+02:00

Heino Klinck

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia (2019-2021), USA

2024-09-11T14:56:46+02:00

Ivan Krastev

Founder and Chairman of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria

2024-09-12T13:06:18+02:00

Guillaume Klossa

President of EuropaNova, Chairman of the Board of Conclave, France

2024-09-11T14:58:02+02:00

Donatas Kupciunas

Baltic Fellow, Baltic Geopolitics Programme, Cambridge University, Lithuania

2024-09-11T20:02:08+02:00

Claudia Major

Head of the Research Division on International Security, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany

2024-09-11T15:08:14+02:00

Tarek Megerisi

Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

2024-09-11T15:08:41+02:00

Andrew A. Michta

Director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative and Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

2024-09-11T15:09:27+02:00

Arkady Mil-Man

Head of the Russia Program, Institute for National Security Studies, Israel

2024-09-11T20:05:07+02:00

Rolf Nikel

Vice President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Germany

2024-09-11T15:40:47+02:00

Barry Pavel

Vice President, Director of the National Security Research Division · RAND Corporation, USA

2024-09-11T15:27:21+02:00

Cornelius Ochmann

Managing Director, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany

2024-09-11T15:29:13+02:00

Janka Oertel

Director, Asia Programme, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR, Germany

2024-09-11T15:49:06+02:00

Benjamin L. Schmitt

Senior Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA

2024-09-11T20:07:56+02:00

Ivana Stradner

Research Fellow, Barish Center for Media Integrity, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, USA

2024-09-11T20:19:46+02:00

Kurt Volker

United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (2017-2019), USA

2024-09-11T20:28:27+02:00

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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

Industry

2024-09-11T13:58:31+02:00

Karan Bhatia

Vice-President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google

2024-09-11T14:59:52+02:00

Mark Lennon

Managing Director, Public Sector, Accenture

2024-09-11T15:07:48+02:00

Beth McGrath

Global Industry Leader for Government and Public Service, Deloitte Global

2024-09-11T15:43:58+02:00

Marta Poślad

Director, CEE & Transatlantic Public Policy, Google

Masters of Ceremony and Moderators

2024-09-11T14:24:41+02:00

Federica D’Alessandra

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

2024-09-11T14:28:01+02:00

Bill Echikson

Senior Fellow, Digital Innovation Initiative, CEPA, USA

2024-09-11T14:31:23+02:00

Hadley Gamble

Chief International Anchor and Host, “The Hadley Gamble Show”, Al-Arabiya

2024-09-11T14:42:55+02:00

Jakob Hallgren

Director, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

2024-09-04T14:04:57+02:00

Michał Kurtyka

Chair of the Energy Security and Climate Track, Warsaw Security Forum, Minister of Climate and Environment (2019-2021), Poland

2024-09-11T15:00:18+02:00

Bilyana Lilly

Chair of the WSF Democratic Resilience Track, Researcher, RAND Corporation, USA

2024-08-20T20:55:34+02:00

Zbigniew Pisarski

Founder of the Warsaw Security Forum, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

2024-09-11T15:49:27+02:00

Teri Schultz

NATO and EU reporter in Brussels, freelance for NPR and Deutsche Welle, Germany

2024-09-06T14:26:10+02:00

Maria Tadeo

Head of Communications, Brussels Institute for Geopolitics

2024-09-11T20:12:24+02:00

Benjamin Tallis

Democratic Strategy Initiative, Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Germany