WSF 2016 Speakers

The agenda of WSF 2016 features a detailed schedule, session locations, and a complete list of speakers and moderators for each panel. Stay tuned for updates and get ready for insightful discussions at one of Europe’s leading security events.

  • Izabela Albrycht

    Director, Cybersecurity Center, AGH University, Poland

  • Tomasz Aleksandrowicz

    Professor | Police Academy in Szczytno

  • Sveinung Alne

    Network Enabled Capabilities, Business Development Manager, Kongsberg, Norway

  • John Baird

    Vice President, Raytheon Poland Programs, USA

  • Michał Baranowski

    GMF East & Regional Director, GMF East, Poland

  • Richard Barrett

    Senior Vice President | Soufan Group, USA

  • Jose Manuel Barroso

    President of the European Commission (2004-2014)

  • Marek Belka

    Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (2004-2005)

  • Roger Berg

    Head of Research and Development Division, Saab Kockums, Saab Group, Sweden

  • Carl Bildt

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

  • Małgorzata Bonikowska

    President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland

  • Gen. (R) Philip M. Breedlove

    Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO (2013-2016), USA

  • Howard B. Bromberg

    Vice President, Air Defense, Lockheed Martin MFC, USA

  • Stanisław Butlak

    Director, Bureau of Offset Agreement | Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland

  • Maksymilian Czuperski

    Strategic Communications Advisor Europe | Atlantic Council

  • David Dondua

    Deputy Minister | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

  • Gilles Dorronsoro

    Non-resident Scholar | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Maj. Gen. Karol Dymanowski

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

  • Richard English

    Director | Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, United Kingdom

  • Maxim Eristav

    Co-Founder | Hromadske International, Ukraine

  • Wojciech Fałkowski

    Undersecretary of State. Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Poland

  • Evelyn N. Farkas

    Nonresident Senior Fellow | Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council

  • Daniel Fried

    Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, The Atlantic Council, USA

  • Mark Galeotti

    Senior Research Fellow | Institute of International Relations Prague, Czech Republic

  • Ellie Geranmayeh

    Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

  • Eytan Gilboa

    Chairman | Israel Public Diplomacy Forum, Israel

  • Margo Gontar

    Co-founder and Editor | StopFake.org, Ukraine

  • Wiesław Goździewicz

    Legal Advisor | NATO Joint Force Training Centre

  • Caroline de Gruyter

    Journalist | NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands

  • Jean-Marie Guehenno

    President | International Crisis Group, Belgium

  • Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer

    Director of the Paris Office, German Marshall Fund of US, France

  • Hanna Hopko

    Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Toomas Hendrik Ilves

    President of Estonia (2006-2016), Estonia

  • Michał Jach

    Chairman | Parliamentary National Defense Committee, Poland

  • Gerhard Jandl

    Security Policy Director | Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria

  • Igor Janke

    President | Freedom Institute, Poland

  • Ralf Jansen

    General Counsel | Member of the Management Board, European Stability Mechanism

  • Łukasz Jasina

    Expert in the Eastern Europe program | Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland

  • Wiesław Jasiński

    Undersecretary of State, General Inspector of the Tax Audit Office | Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Poland

  • Vuk Jeremić

    President, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, Serbia

  • Ivan Jestřáb

    Deputy Minister | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

  • James Jones

    Chairman | Brent Scowcroft Centre on International Security, USA

  • Peter Jones

    Director | Defence and International Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom

  • Jakub Kalensky

    East StratCom Task Force Member | European Union External Action Service

  • Zanda Kalnina-Lukaševica

    Member of Parliament, Deputy Speaker, Latvia

  • Joanna Kamińska

    Policy Advisor | Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament

  • Thomas Karako

    Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Director, Missile Defense Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies

  • Andrzej Karkoszka

    Secretary of State (1993-1997) | Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Poland

  • Can Kasapoğlu

    Defense Analyst | Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, Turkey

  • Kristina Kausch

    Senior Resident Fellow | German Marshall Fund, USA

  • Walter Kemp

    Senior Advisor, OSCE 2017 Chairmanship

  • Łukasz Kister

    Director | Critical Infrastructure Protection Office, PSE S.A

  • Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

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

  • Vera Kobalia

    Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum

  • Michał Kobosko

    Member of the European Parliament, Poland

  • Daniel Kostoval

    Deputy Minister, Head of the Armaments and Acquisition Division | Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic

  • Paweł Kowal

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

  • Stanisław Koziej

    Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland (2010-2015)

  • Hubert Królikowski

    Deputy Director, Department of Military External Affairs | Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Poland

  • Michał Krupiński

    President of the Board | PZU, Poland

  • Jerzy Kwieciński

    Minister of Finance, Investment and Economic Development, Poland

  • Linas Linkevičius

    Ambassador of Lithuania to Sweden, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-2020) Minister of National Defence (1993-1996, 2000-2004), Lithuania

  • Liviu Livadariu

    Integrated Air and Missile Defence Section | Defence Investment NATO

  • Andre Loesekrug-Pietri

    Chairman | A Capital Funds & Paulina Foundation, YGL 2011, France

  • Fredrik Löjdquist

    Director, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, Sweden

  • Agata Łoskot-Strachota

    Senior Fellow | Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland

  • Edward Lucas

    Senior Editor | The Economist, United Kingdom

  • Jüri Luik

    Minister of Defense of Estonia

  • Robert Łukawski

    Deputy Director | Inspectorate of Implementation of Innovative Defence Technologies, Poland

  • Bruno Maçães

    Nonresident Associate | Carnegie Europe

  • Merle Maigre

    Security Adviser to the President of the Republic of Estonia

  • Mieczysław Malec

    Deputy Head of Strategic Defence Review Team, Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland

  • Brigham McCown

    Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security, Hudson Institute, USA

  • Bessma Momani

    Associate Professor | University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada

  • Mateusz Morawiecki

    Prime Minister of Poland

  • Sebastian Dănuţ Neculăescu

    Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania

  • Dr Bartłomiej E. Nowak

    Member of the Board, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Włodzimierz Nowak

    Director, Cybersecurity Department | Ministry of Digital Affairs of the Republic of Poland

  • Tony Ogilvy

    Sales Executive | Gripen, Sweden

  • Andrzej Olechowski

    Minister of Finance (1992) and Foreign Affairs (1993-1995) of the Republic of Poland

  • Maciej Olex-Szczytowski

    Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister | Minister of Development and Finance of the Republic of Poland

  • Janusz Onyszkiewicz

    Minister of Defense of Poland (1992-1993, 1997-2000

  • Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

    Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation (2014 – 2016)

  • Katarzyna Pisarska

    Chair, Warsaw Security Forum

  • Zbigniew Pisarski

    Founder, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Tengiz Pkhaladze

    Advisor to the President, Georgia

  • Friedrich Ploeger

    Lieutenant General (ret) | German Air Force

  • Ilya Ponomarev

    Politician, Member of Russian State Duma (2011-2016)

  • Maciej Popowski

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

  • Robert Pszczel

    Senior Resident Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Alan Riley

    Professor of Law at the City Law School | City University of London, United Kingdom

  • Adam Daniel Rotfeld

    Professor, University of Warsaw (2005) | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

  • Szczepan Ruman

    Director, Strategy and Analysis Office. Polish Armaments Group, Poland

  • Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour

    Head of the Centre for International Research and Education, Iran

  • Sven Sakkov

    Director, International Centre for Defence and Security; Undersecretary for Defence Policy (2008 - 2015), Ministry of Defence, Estonia

  • Philipp Schön

    Head of Sales, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, Germany

  • Peter Semneby

    Head of Mission | Embassy of Sweden in Damascus

  • Zach Sherman

    Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, USA

  • Daniel Silverberg

    National Security Advisor at Office of the Democratic Whip | House of Representatives, USA

  • Aleška Simkić

    Deputy Chief Monitor | OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

  • Arkadiusz Siwko

    President of the Board of the Polish Armaments Group

  • Ivana Smolenova

    Communications and Outreach Manager | Prague Security Studies Institute, Czech Republic

  • Paweł Soloch

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

  • Adam Sowa

    Advisor to Rector for Space and Satellite Affairs | Military University of Technology in Warsaw

  • Alexander Stubb

    Prime Minister (2008-16) | Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Finland

  • Mark Supko

    Vice President | BAE Systems Electronic Systems, United Kingdom

  • Tomasz Szatkowski

    Undersecretary of State | Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Poland

  • Radosław Szczęch

    Partner at Ernst & Young

  • Lior Tabansky

    Director of Strategy, Cyber Security Group, Researcher | Tel Aviv University, Israel

  • Fred Tanner

    Senior Adviser | Office of the Secretary General OSCE

  • Borys Tarasyuk

    Ambassador, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (1998-2000, 2005-2007), Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (2002-2019)

  • Brett Taylor

    Cyber Pre-Sales Technical Manager | BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, United Kingdom

  • Sten Tolgfors

    Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Sweden (2007-2012)

  • Rafał Trzaskowski

    Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

  • Tamás Vargha

    Deputy Minister | Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Hungary

  • David Venable

    Vice President of Cyber Security Masergy Communications

  • John Venable

    Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy, Center for National Defense, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, USA

  • Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

    President of the Republic of Latvia (1999-2007)

  • Brian Whitmore

    Senior Fellow and Director of Russia Program, CEPA

  • Dariusz Wichniarek

    Director of the Strategy and Defense Planning Department | Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland

  • Damon Wilson

    Executive Vice President | Atlantic Council

  • H.E. Paweł Wojciechowski

    Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the OECD (2010–2014), Minister of Finance (2006)

  • Piotr Wojciechowski

    President of the Board WB Electronics

  • Yoram Schweitzer

    Head of the Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict | Institute for National Security Studies, Israel

  • Przemysław Zaleski

    Research Fellow | Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Marek Ziółkowski

    Undersecretary of State for Security and Eastern Policy | The Americas and Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

  • Andrzej Zybertowicz

    Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland