WSF2015 Speaker: Jiří Schneider Director of Special Projects at Prague Security Studies Institute
WSF2015 Speaker: Jiří Schneider Director of Special Projects at Prague Security Studies Institute
The WSF Team is proud to announce that Jiří Schneider Director of Special Projects at Prague Security Studies Institute will be a speaker at the Warsaw Security Forum 2015.
Jiří Schneider served as the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2010-2014. From 2005-2010, Mr. Schneider was a Program Director of the Prague Security Studies Institute. He was formerly Head of the Policy Planning Department of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1993-1994, 1999-2001, 2003) and Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Israel (1995- 1998). Mr. Schneider was an International Policy Fellow at the Open Society Institute in Budapest (2002) and an MP of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly (1990-1992). He is a graduate of Czech Technical University and holds Diploma from University of Cambridge. During the WSF 2015 he will discuss with other panelists during the session “Border states – New security wave in Northern and Central Europe?”.
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WSF2024: Summary
The 11th edition of the Warsaw Security Forum (WSF), held on October 1-2, 2024, successfully brought together 2,600 participants from 90 countries, 30 governmental delegations, and over 250 speakers to address critical issues surrounding European and transatlantic security. With 1 million combined online views and over 14,000 live viewers, the WSF reaffirmed its importance as a leading platform for security dialogue in Europe.