Speakers

Every year, the Warsaw Security Forum gathers heads of state, ministers, NATO and EU officials, military strategists, and the brightest minds in defense and diplomacy, creating an unparalleled platform for high-level dialogue and strategic foresight on the future of Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance.

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Speakers

Government

Oleksandr Balanutsa

Deputy Minister for Euroatlantic Integration, Ministry of Defence, Ukraine

Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski

Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Andreas von Beckerath

Ambassador, Embassy of Kingdom of Sweden to Poland, Sweden

National Intelligence Officer for Europe, National Intelligence Council, USA

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

Carl-Oskar Bohlin

Minister for Civil Defence, Sweden

Krzysztof Bolesta

Secretary of State, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Poland

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Latvia

Sebastian-Ioan Burduja

Minister of Energy, Romania

Michael R. Carpenter

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe at the US National Security Council, United States

Strategic Affairs and Disarmament Adviser to the President, France

Lord Vernon Coaker

Minister of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Simona Cojocaru

State Secretary, Ministry of National Defence, Romania

Andrzej Domański

Minister of Finance, Poland

President of the Republic of Poland

Director for Ukraine Recovery & Reconstruction, FCDO, United Kingdom

Krzysztof Gawkowski

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Affairs, Poland

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

Bjørn Arild Gram

Minister of Defence, Norway

Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland

Benjamin Haddad

Minister Delegate for European Affairs, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

Pierre Heilbronn

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

Director General of the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, Sweden

Jakub Jaworowski

Minister of State Assets, Poland

Minister for Defence, Sweden

Tomáš Kopečný

Governmental Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Czech Republic

Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence, Poland

Representative for National Revival, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus, Belarus

Ambassador to Iraq, Poland

Prime Minister of Kosovo

Henrik Landerholm

National Security Adviser, Sweden

Gabrielius Landsbergis

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2020-2024), Lithuania

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

Linas Linkevičius

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

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

Minister of State for Europe and Climate, Germany

Lt Gen (R) Dariusz Łukowski

Head of the National Security Bureau (2025), Poland

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

Maria Malmer Stenergard

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Minister of Defense, Kosovo

Col Glenn McCartan

Defense Innovation Unit, US Department of Defense, USA

Ararat Mirzoyan

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

Minister of Climate and the Environment (2023-2025), Finland

Guillaume Ollagnier

Director for Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

Cristina Pereteatcu

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

Minister of Defence, Estonia

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

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

Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Department of State, USA

Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz

Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Justice, Poland

Director General for International Relations and Strategy, Ministry for the Armed Forces, France

Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland

Radosław Sikorski

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Poland

Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka

Undersecretary of State, European Union Affairs Division, Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland

Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland (2015-2022)

Mallory Stewart

Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability, Department of State, USA

Tinne Van der Straeten

Minister of Energy, Belgium

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine

Minister for the European Union, Poland

Secretary of State, Ministry of National Defense, Poland

Rafał Trzaskowski

Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Leader of the Belarus Democratic Opposition, Belarus

Celeste A. Wallander

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

Ana Isabel Xavier

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Portugal

Albinas Zananavičius

Vice-Minister of Energy (2020-2024), Diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

Salome Zourabichvili

President of Georgia

European Union

Anna Jarosz-Friis

Director, Ukraine Service, DG NEAR, European Commission

Vice-President for Values and Transparency, European Commission

Katarina Mathernová

Ambassador of the European Union to Ukraine

NATO

Sergio Coronado

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

Stacy A. Cummings

General Manager, NATO Support and Procurement Agency

Director, Research Division, Defence College, NATO

Director for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber Division, NATO

Director of Nuclear Policy, NATO

Parliament

François-Xavier Bellamy

Member of the European Parliament, France

Solomiia Bobrovska

Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

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

Hélène Conway-Mouret

Vice President of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, France

Member of the House of Representatives, USA

Khatia Dekanoidze

Member of Parliament, Georgia

Robert Aron Emilsson

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

Radosław Fogiel

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

Markéta Gregorová

Member of the European Parliament, Czech Republic

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

Pekka Olavi Haavisto

Member of Parliament, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2019-2023), Finland

Anton Hofreiter

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

Szymon Hołownia

Speaker of the Sejm, Poland

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

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

Michał Kobosko

Member of the European Parliament, Poland

Member of the European Parliament, Latvia

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, Germany

Marko Mihkelson

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

Member of the Bundestag (1998–2002, 2005–2025); Coordinator of German-Polish Intersocietal and Cross-Border Cooperation (2022-2025), Germany

Marcin Przydacz

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

Member of the Bundestag, Germany

Norbert Röttgen

Member of the Bundestag, Germany

Nikoloz Samkharadze

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

Michał Szczerba

Member of the European Parliament, Poland

Member of Parliament, Hungary

Tytti Tuppurainen

Member of Parliament, Finland

Katarzyna Ueberhan

Member of Parliament, Poland

Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska

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

Military

Lt Gen Piotr Błazeusz

Commanding General of Eurocorps

Gen (R) Sir Mark Carleton-Smith

Chief of the General Staff (2018-2022), United Kingdom; Member of the WSF International Advisory Council

Maj Gen (R) James Cowan

CEO, The HALO Trust, United Kingdom

Maj Gen Karol Dymanowski

Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Polish Armed Forces, Poland

Brig Gen Kazimierz Dyński

Deputy Inspector of the Polish Armed Forces, General Command of the Polish Armed Forces, Poland

Lt Gen Carl-Johan Edström

Chief of Defense Staff, Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden

Maj Gen Christian Freuding

Head of the Planning and Command Office, Ukraine Unit, Ministry of Defence, Germany

Brig Gen Marcin Górka

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

Brig Gen (R) Zvika Haimovich

Commander of the Israel Air Defense Forces (2015-2018), Israel

Gen (R) Jeff Harrigian

Commander of US Air Forces Europe, Africa and Allied Air Command (2019-2022), NATO

Lt Gen (R) Ben Hodges

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

Maj Gen Jukka Jokinen

Chief of Staff, Army Command, Finland

Maj Gen Maciej Klisz

Commanding General at the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, Poland

Lt Gen Krzysztof Król

Advisor to the Chief of General Staff, Polish Armed Force, Poland

Lt Gen (R) Mary A. Legere

Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2) of the United States Army (2012-2017), USA

Maj Gen Jonny Lindfors

Chief of Army, Sweden

Maj Gen Karol Molenda

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

Rear Adm (R) Mark Montgomery

Executive Director, Cyberspace Solarium Commission, United States

Maj Gen Johan Pekkari

Chief of Directorate of Strategic Plans and Policy, Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden

Gen (R) David H. Petraeus

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

Gen (R) Curtis M. Scaparrotti

Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2016-2019), USA

VAdm Ewa Skoog Haslum

Chief of Joint Operations, Swedish Navy, Sweden

Maj Gen Cezary Wiśniewski

Deputy General Commander, Polish Armed Forces, Poland

Gen (R) Tod Daniel Wolters

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

Experts

Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland

Baroness Catherine Ashton

Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), United Kingdom

Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, USA

Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council, United States

Stephen E. Biegun

Deputy Secretary of State (2019-2021), USA

Jan Krzysztof Bielecki

Prime Minister of Poland (1991)

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

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

Reinhard Bütikofer

Member of the European Parliament (2009-2024), Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China (2019–2024), Germany

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, Switzerland

Lucinda Creighton

Minister of State for European Affairs (2011-2013), Senior Fellow, Communities & Environmental Protection Alliance, Ireland

Director for Climate & Environmental Policies, Equilibrium Institute, Hungary

Jacek Czaputowicz

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

Klaus Dieter-Borchardt

Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Germany

Nikola Dimitrov

Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration (2020-2022), North Macedonia

Muriel Domenach

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the French Delegation to NATO (2019-2024), France

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

Member of Parliament, House of Commons, United Kingdom

Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega

Director, Center for Energy & Climate, The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), France

Carrie Filipetti

Executive Director, Vandenberg Coalition, USA

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

Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, The Atlantic Council, USA

Justyna Gotkowska

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

Jarosław Grzywiński

Chief Executive Officer, Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK), Poland

Adam Guibourgé-Czetwertyński

Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Climate and Environment (2020-2023), Poland

Senior Advisor, Razom for Ukraine, USA

Pavel Havlíček

Research Fellow, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic

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

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

Marcin Jerzewski

Head of Taiwan Office, European Values Center for Security Policy, Czech Republic

Reuben F. Johnson

Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

Russian Opposition Leader, Russia

Mikhail M. Kasyanov

Prime Minister of Russia (2000-2004)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Co-Founder, Russian Anti-War Committee

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

Guillaume Klossa

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

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

Donatas Kupčiūnas

Baltic Fellow, Baltic Geopolitics Programme, Cambridge University, Lithuania

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

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

Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Tomasz Michalak

Head, AI for Security Program, IDEAS NCBR, Poland

Andrew A. Michta

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

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

Monika Morawiecka

Senior Advisor, The Regulatory Assistance Project, Poland

Vice President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Cornelius Ochmann

Managing Director, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany

Director of the Asia Programme, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, Germany

Kajsa Ollongren

Minister of Defense (2022-2024), The Netherlands

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

Sebastian Płóciennik

Director, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany

US Deputy Secretary of Energy (2009-2014), USA

Stephen J. Rapp

Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2009-2015), USA

Research Fellow & Program Manager, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, Hudson Institute, USA

Maria Sannikova-Franck

Director, Russia Programme, Zentrum Liberale Moderne (LibMod), Germany

Benjamin L. Schmitt

Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Daniela Schwarzer

Executive Board Member, Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany

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

Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Réka Szemerkényi

Senior Advisor, Equilibrium Institute, Hungary

Bart M.J. Szewczyk

Visiting Senior Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Konrad Szymański

Minister for European Affairs (2020-2022), Poland

Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), USA

Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy

Symeon Tsomokos

Founder and President, Delphi Economic Forum, Greece

Jan Vincent-Rostowski

Minister of Finance (2007-2013), Poland

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

Victoria Voytsitska

Member of Parliament, Secretary at the Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security (2014-2019); Advocacy Director, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

Anna Wieslander

Director for Northern Europe, Atlantic Council, Sweden

Karolina Wigura

Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna, Poland; Senior Fellow, Center for Liberal Modernity, Germany

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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

Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Germany

Industry

Vice President, Security Engineering, Google

Magdalena Bartoś

Vice President of the Management Board, Chief Financial Officer, ORLEN S.A.

Vice President and Global Head, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google

Misty Damvakaris

Vice President, Contracts and Corporate Compliance Officer, Northrop Grumman

Senior Vice President of Hub Europe, Siemens Energy

Deborah Fairlamb

Founding Partner, Green Flag Ventures

Vice President Strategy and Business Development Defense & Systems, GE Aerospace

Director of the Department for Business and Trade, UK Defence and Security Exports, United Kingdom (2020-2024)

Vice Chair and US Defense, Security and Justice Leader, Deloitte

Policy Advisor, WithSecure

Micael Johansson

President and CEO, Saab

Marcin Krasuski

Head of CEE Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google

Managing Director, Global Public Sector Strategic Initiatives, Accenture

Global Industry Leader for Government and Public Service, Deloitte

Andrii Nemyrovskyi

Member of the Management Board, UKRENERGO

Paweł Poncyljusz

Secretary of State, Ministry of the Economy (2006–2007), Member of Parliament (2001–2011, 2019–2023), Poland

Digital Defense, AI Strategy Leader, Deloitte

Global Health and Public Sector Group Lead, NATO Client Account Lead, Accenture

Sebastian Straube

Venture Partner, Sunfish Partners

Wouter van Wersch

Executive Vice President, Airbus

Mateusz Zawistowski

CEO, MS Mutual Funds Society (MS TFI), Polish Armaments Group (PGZ)

MCs and Moderators

Alicja Bachulska

Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Michał Baranowski

East and Regional Director, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Poland

Małgorzata Bonikowska

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

Marcin Bużański

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

Home Secretary (2004-2006), United Kingdom

Federica D’Alessandra

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

Senior Fellow, Digital Innovation Initiative, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), USA

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

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA

Director, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

Christoph Heusgen

Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany

Wojciech Jakóbik

Editor-in-Chief, Biznes Alert, Poland

Wojciech Konończuk

Director, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland

Program Director, Warsaw Security Forum, Poland

Chief Executive Officer, European Leadership Network for Central and Eastern Europe (ELNET CEE)

Michał Kurtyka

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

Senior Fellow, Chatham House, Belgium

Chair of the Democratic Resilience Track, Warsaw Security Forum; Researcher, RAND Corporation, USA

Fredrik Löjdquist

Director, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, Sweden

News Anchor, BBC News, United Kingdom

Senior Anchor, Deutsche Welle News, Germany

Maia Mazurkiewicz

President of the Board, PZU Foundation, Poland

Ignacy Morawski

Chief Economist, Puls Biznesu, Poland

Senior Project Officer (2023-2025), Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium

Mitchell A. Orenstein

Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Katarzyna Pisarska

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

Zbigniew Pisarski

President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Marta Prochwicz-Jazowska

Deputy Head of the Warsaw Office, Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Piotr Przybyło

Resident Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Jonasz Rewiński

News Anchor, TVP World, Poland

Freelance Reporter for NPR and Deutsche Welle, Belgium

Founder and CEO, New Strategy Center, Romania

News Anchor, TVP World, Poland

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

Joanna Stolarek

Director, Warsaw Office, Heinrich Böll Foundation

Europe Correspondent, Le Grand Continent

Benjamin Tallis

Director, Democratic Strategy Initiative; Senior Research Fellow & Lead, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Anja Wehler-Schöck

Head of International Politics, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

Anna Wittenberg

Journalist, PTWP Group, Poland