WSF 2017 Speakers

The agenda of WSF 2023 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.

  • Alberto Alemanno

    Founder, Good Lobby, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris, France

  • Jerzy Aleksandrowicz

    Research Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Sveinung Alne

    Network Enabled Capabilities, Business Development Manager, Kongsberg, Norway

  • Arturo Alfonso-Meirino

    Director, Organisation conjointe de coopération en matière d'armement (OCCAR), Spain

  • Anders Åslund

    Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, United States

  • Adam Baczko

    Research Fellow, Noria South Asia Program, Sorbonne, France

  • Michał Baranowski

    GMF East & Regional Director, GMF East, Poland

  • Isaac Ben-Israel

    Head of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Studies Center, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

  • Małgorzata Bonikowska

    President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland

  • Klaus Dieter-Borchardt

    Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Germany

  • Frances G. Burwell

    Distinguished Fellow, Future Europe Initiative, Atlantic Council, United States

  • Michael R. Carpenter

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

  • Melissa Conley Tyler

    National Executive Director, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia

  • Norman Davies

    ​Historian, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, United Kingdom

  • Anna Maria Dyner

    Head of the Program, Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs, Poland

  • Adam Eberhardt

    Director, Centre For Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland

  • Anna-Karin Eneström

    Director General for Political Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

  • Theresa Fallon

    Founder & Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium

  • Roland Freudenstein

    Vice President, Head of GLOBSEC Brussels, Belgium

  • Thomas Garrett

    Secretary General, Community of Democracies, Poland

  • Aleksandra Gasztold

    Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland

  • Giorgi Margvelashvili

    President of Georgia

  • Francois Godement

    Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom

  • Wiesław Goździewicz

    Legal Advisor | NATO Joint Force Training Centre

  • Thomas Greminger

    Director, Geneva Center for Security Policy, OSCE Secretary-General (2017-2020), Switzerland

  • Martin Griffiths

    Executive Director, European Institute of Peace, Belgium

  • Magdalena Grono

    Program Director, Europe & Central Asia, International Crisis Group, Belgium

  • Mark Gunzinger

    Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, United States

  • Lóránt Győri

    Political Analyst, Political Capital Institute, Hungary

  • Benjamin Haddad

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

  • Sylvia Hartleif

    Team Leader, Foreign Policy Team, European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission

  • Hanna Hopko

    Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Vladislav Inozemtsev

    Director, Center for Post-Industrial Studies, Russia

  • Michał Jach

    Chairman | Parliamentary National Defense Committee, Poland

  • Jakub Janda

    Head, Kremlin Watch Program; Deputy Director for Public and Political Affairs, European Values, Czech Republic

  • Vuk Jeremić

    President, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, Serbia

  • Mehdi Jomaa

    Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)

  • Thomas Karako

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

  • Walter Kemp

    Senior Advisor, OSCE 2017 Chairmanship

  • Gilles de Kerchove

    Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, European Council

  • Hamoon Khelghat-Doost

    PhD scholar, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • James Kirchick

    Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, United States

  • 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

  • Miriam Lexmann

    EU Regional Program Director, International Republican Institute, Belgium

  • Linas Linkevičius

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

  • Piotr Łukasiewicz

    Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Claudia Major

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

  • Grzegorz Małecki

    Head, Foreign Intelligence Service (AW) (2015-2016), Director of Cybersecurity, Economy and Energy Programs, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Brigham McCown

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

  • Antónia Mészáros

    Anchor, ATV, Hungary

  • Andrew A. Michta

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

  • Dominik Mierzejewski

    Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Łódź, Poland

  • Daniel Mitov

    Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria (2014-2017)

  • Monika Morawiecka

    Senior Advisor, The Regulatory Assistance Project, Poland

  • Mateusz Morawiecki

    Prime Minister of Poland

  • Nitzan Nuriel

    Director, Counter-Terrorism Bureau of at the Prime Minster's Office ( 2007-2012), Israel

  • Ted Piccone

    Senior Fellow and Acting Director, Brookings Institutions, United States

  • Katarzyna Pisarska

    Chair, Warsaw Security Forum

  • Zbigniew Pisarski

    Founder, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Tengiz Pkhaladze

    Advisor to the President, Georgia

  • Maciej Popowski

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

  • Robert Pszczel

    Senior Resident Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Peter Roberts

    Director of Military Sciences and Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom

  • Frank A. Rose

    Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, USA

  • Mikheil Saakashvili

    President of Georgia (2004-2013)

  • Sven Sakkov

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

  • Patrycja Sasnal

    Head of Research, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

  • Olivier Schmitt

    Associate Professor, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark; Scientific Director, L’Association pour les Études sur la Guerre et la Stratégie, Denmark

  • Tobias Schumacher

    Chairholder of the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, College of Europe, Poland

  • Roman Shutov

    Program Director, Telekritika NGO, Ukraine

  • Paweł Soloch

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

  • Brooke Stedman

    Deputy Director, Women in International Security

  • Christian Strohal

    Ambassador, Special Representative for the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship

  • Justyna Szczudlik

    Head of Asia-Pacific Program, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland

  • Zsuzsanna Szelényi

    Non-resident Fellow, Institute of Human Studies, Austria

  • Nicolas Tenzer

    Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

  • Bruno Tertrais

    Deputy Director, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, France

  • Hannah Thoburn

    Research Fellow, Hudson Institute, USA

  • Rafał Trzaskowski

    Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

  • David Venable

    Vice President of Cyber Security Masergy Communications

  • Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

    President of the Republic of Latvia (1999-2007)

  • Christopher Walker

    Vice President, National Endowment for Democracy, United States

  • Brian Whitmore

    Senior Fellow and Director of Russia Program, CEPA

  • Lt. General (ret.) Moshe Ya’alon

    Minister of Defence (2013-2016), Israel

  • Roberto Zadra

    Head of the Ballistic Missile Defence Section, NATO

  • Andrzej Zybertowicz

    Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland