WSF 2019 Speakers

The agenda of WSF 2019 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.

GOVERNMENTAL DELEGATIONS

  • Mikołaj Wild

    Secretary of state in the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Plenipotentiary of the Government for the Matters of the Central Transport Hub for the Republic of Poland

  • Anna Westerholm

    Ambassador for the Eastern Partnership, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden

  • Karin Wallensteen

    State Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office, Sweden

  • Rafał Trzaskowski

    Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

  • Péter Szijjártó

    Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary

  • Paweł Soloch

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

  • Muayad Mouhammed Salih

    Undersecretary for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iraq

  • František Ružička

    State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovak Republic

  • Edgars Rinkēvičs

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Latvia

  • Jens Plötner

    Political Director, Federal Foreign Office, Germany

  • Maciej Pisarski

    Director-General of the Department of Foreign Policy Strategy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

  • Waldemar Paruch

    Head, Centre for the Strategic Analysis, Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland

  • Róbert Ondrejcsák

    Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, Slovak Republic

  • Denise Natali

    Assistant Secretary, the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), Department of State, USA

  • Georgette Mosbacher

    Ambassador of the United States to Poland, USA

  • Jerzy Kwieciński

    Minister of Finance, Investment and Economic Development, Poland

  • Jaroslav Kurfürst

    Special Envoy for the Eastern Partnership, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

  • Oleg Kravchenko

    Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belarus

  • Dalia Grybauskaitė

    President of Lithuania (2009-2019)

  • Jacek Czaputowicz

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

  • Scott Coltson

    Director, Defense Clandestine Service, Directorate for Operations, Defense Intelligence Agency, USA

  • Carmelo Abela

    Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, Malta

  • Dobran Božič

    Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia

  • Predrag Bošković

    Minister of Defence, Montenegro

  • Mateusz Berger

    Secretary of State, Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, Poland

PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATIONS

  • John Shimkus

    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Committee on House Energy and Commerce; Republican Party, USA

  • Vesna Pusić

    Member of Parliament, First Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia (2012-2016), Minister of Foreign and European Affairs (2011-2016), Croatia

  • Thomas O’Halleran

    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Democratic Party, USA

  • Dave Loebsack

    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Committee on House Energy and Commerce; Democratic Party, USA

  • Julian Lewis

    Chair, Defence Select Committee, House of Commons, UK

  • Sophie Katsarava

    Chairperson, Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Georgia

  • Pål Jonson

    Minister for Defence, Sweden

  • Vicky Hartzler

    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ranking Member, Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, House Armed Forces Committee, USA

  • Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon

    Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico; Chair of the Puerto Rico Republican Party; Committee on Science, Space and Technology

  • John Garamendi

    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California; Senior member of the House Armed Services Committee; Chairman of the Readiness Subcommittee

  • Volkan Bozkır

    Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Minister of European Union Affairs (2015-2016)

  • Mantas Adomėnas

    Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS' DELEGATIONS

  • Radosław Sikorski

    Minister for Foreign Affairs, Poland

  • Robert Pszczel

    Senior Resident Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Maciej Popowski

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

  • Thomas Greminger

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

  • Col. Gjert Lage Dyndal

    Deputy Head, Strategic Analysis Capability, NATO

  • Robert Cooper

    Member of the Council, European Council on Foreign Relations; Special Advisor on Myanmar (2013-2014), European Commission

  • Michael Callender

    Head of the Aerospace Capabilities Section, NATO

  • Vice Admiral Keith Blount

    Commander, Allied Maritime Command, NATO.

  • James Henry Bergeron

    Political Advisor to the Commander, Allied Maritime Command, NATO

ARMED FORCES

  • Navy Commander s.g. Pascale Van Leeuwen

    Commander, Mine Counter Measures Operational Sea Training (MOST) Center in Zeebrugge

  • Col. Andrea Truppo

    General Manager, Eurofighter Program for Kuwait, Joint International Program Office, Italy (Online Speaker)

  • Lt. Col. Beata Targońska

    Chair, Council on Women in Polish Armed Forces, Poland

  • 2nd Lt. Justyna Skrzyńska-Rękawek

    Polish Air Force, Transatlantic Future Leaders Forum

  • Lt. Katarzyna Rzadkowska

    Foreign Missions Preparation Centre, Poland

  • Major Vivien Rummler

    Bundeswehr, Germany

  • Brig. Gen. Almut Nolte

    German Bundeswehr

  • Lt. Com. Caroline Laabs

    Marine, Bundeswehr

  • Major Steven Krolicki

    Ministry of Defence, Belgium

  • Lt. Col. Rupert Burridge

    Human Security Lead, 77 Brigade, British Armed Forces, UK

  • Major (pharmacist) Ina Brandt

    Bundeswehr, Germany

  • Gen. (R) Rajmund Andrzejczak

    Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (2018–2023), Poland

EXPERTS

  • Edit Zgut

    Political scientist, guest lecturer at Center for Europe, University of Warsaw

  • Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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

  • H.E. Paweł Wojciechowski

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

  • Anna Wieslander

    Director for Northern Europe, Atlantic Council, Sweden

  • Hugh White

    Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  • Olin L. Wethington

    Member of the Board, International Republican Institute, USA

  • Tatiana Vorozheikina

    Professor, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia

  • John Venable

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

  • Tomáš Valášek

    Director, Carnegie Europe, Slovakia

  • Paul Taylor

    Senior Fellow, Friends of Europe; Contributing Editor, POLITICO

  • Borys Tarasyuk

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

  • Bart M.J. Szewczyk

    Visiting Senior Fellow, GMF of the US

  • Jonáš Syrovátka

    Project Manager, Prague Security Studies Institute, Czech Republic

  • Svitlana Zalishchuk

    Member of Parliament (2014-2019), Ukraine

  • Paweł Surówka

    President of the Board, PZU S.A., Poland

  • Jan Erik Surotchak

    Senior Director for Transatlantic Strategy, International Republican Institute, USA

  • Beata Surmacz

    Associate Professor, Maria Skłodowska Curie University, Lublin, Poland

  • Péter Stepper

    Author, International Relations Manager at Security Policy Office, Antall József Knowledge Centre

  • Tomasz Smura

    Head of the Defence Track

  • Hoshyar Siwaily

    Head of Kurdistan Democratic Party’s Foreign Relations Office

  • Robert Siudak

    Advocacy and Projects Director, Kościuszko Institute

  • Jamie Shea

    Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018), United Kingdom

  • Patrycja Sasnal

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

  • Sven Sakkov

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

  • Adam Reichardt

    Editor-in-Chief, New Eastern Europe

  • Alina Polyakova

    President & CEO, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), USA

  • Tomáš Pojar

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

  • Zbigniew Pisarski

    Founder, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Katarzyna Pisarska

    Chair, Warsaw Security Forum

  • Gen. (R) David Petraeus

    Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), USA

  • Laurent Pech

    Head, Law and Politics Department, Middlesex University London, UK

  • Zbyněk Pavlačík

    Director and Co-founder, Jagello 2000, Czech Republic

  • Petr Pavel

    Gen. (ret.), Chairman, NATO Military Committee (2015-2018), Czech Republic

  • Mitchell A. Orenstein

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

  • James O’Brien

    Member of the Board of Directors, NDI, USA

  • Clare Moody

    Member of European Parliament (2014-2019), Labour Party, UK

  • Yasmin Mohamud

    Somalia Dryland Solutions, Founder & Managing Director

  • Vladimir Milov

    Member of Democratic Opposition, Associate of Alexey Navalny, Russia

  • Andrew A. Michta

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

  • Steven E. Meyer

    Dean of Graduate Studies and Chairman, National Security Program and Professor of National Security Studies, Daniel Morgan Graduate School; Former Deputy Chief of the CIA’s Balkan Task Force

  • Danylo Lubkivsky

    Member of the Board of Management, Open Ukraine Foundation, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016), Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine (2014)

  • Bobo Lo

    Russia Research Fellow, French Institute for International Affairs, France

  • Julian Lindley-French

    Senior Fellow, Institute for Statecraft, Chatham House, UK

  • Bilyana Lilly

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

  • Aleksey Levinson

    Head, Division of Socio-Cultural Researches, Levada-Center, Russia

  • Kenneth E. Lawson

    Executive Director, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, USA

  • Rasťo Kužel

    Executive Director, Memo98, Czech Republic

  • Jarosław Kraszewski

    Brig. Gen. (ret.), Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • David Kramer

    Senior Fellow, Havel Program on Human Rights, and Director, European & Eurasian Studies, Florida International University, USA

  • Paweł Kowal

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

  • Nad’a Kovalčíková

    Senior Analyst, Transnational Security, EU Institute for Security Studies, France

  • Daria Kaleniuk

    Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Alina Inayeh

    Director, Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Romania

  • Corinna Hörst

    President, Women in International Security, Brussels (WIIS)

  • Hanna Hopko

    Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Brady Hills

    Mentor, New Security Leaders

  • David Harris

    Chief Executive Officer, American Jewish Committee

  • Benjamin Haddad

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

  • Amir Grgies

    The Head of the European Desk, Kurdistan Democratic Party’s Foreign Relations Office

  • Ellie Geranmayeh

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

  • Daniel Fried

    Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, The Atlantic Council, USA

  • Roland Freudenstein

    Vice President, Head of GLOBSEC Brussels, Belgium

  • Alberto Fernandez

    President, Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), Cuba/USA

  • Theresa Fallon

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

  • Maria Domańska

    Senior Fellow, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland

  • Peter Dobrowiecki

    Author, Head of the EU-V4 Office, Antall József Knowledge Centre

  • Norman Davies

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

  • Michael R. Carpenter

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

  • Marcin Bużański

    Director Center for Diplomacy, Civitas University; Senior Advisor, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Jakob Bund

    Research Associate, Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Ian Brzezinski

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence (2001-2005), USA

  • Justin Bronk

    Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology Royal United Services Institute

  • Elisabeth Braw

    Senior Research Fellow, Director, Modern Deterrence Program, The Royal United Services Institute

  • Małgorzata Bonikowska

    President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland

  • Chris Böhme

    Co-founder, Paterva, Germany

  • Jessica Berlin

    ​ Managing Director, CoStruct, Germany

  • Donara Barojan

    Head of Operations, Astroscreen, Lithuania

  • Robert Barić

    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, Zagreb University, Assistant Adviser for Defense Affairs to the President (2000-2010)

  • Michał Baranowski

    GMF East & Regional Director, GMF East, Poland

  • Atifete Jahjaga

    President of the Republic, Kosovo (2011-2016)

JOURNALISTS

  • Mosharraf Zaidi

    Chief Executive Officer, Tabadlab, Pakistan

  • Bartosz Węglarczyk

    Journalist, Program Director, Onet

  • Witold Repetowicz

    Research Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Andrew Mueller

    The Foreign Desk, Monocle 24

  • Brigham McCown

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

  • Terry Martin

    TV News Anchor, Berlin

  • Christoph von Marschall

    Diplomatic Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

  • David Ignatius

    Associate Editor & Columnist, The Washington Post

  • Nik Gowing

    Founder, Thinking the Unthinkable, UK

  • Henry Foy

    Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times

  • Christian Davies

    Journalist, The Guardian, The Observer, UK

  • Ali Aslan

    International Presenter & Journalist, Germany