WSF 2020 Agenda
The agenda of WSF 2020 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.
DAY 1 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17th 2020
Zbigniew Pisarski - President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Michał Baranowski - Director, Warsaw Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Ann Linde - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Linas Linkevičius - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
Anže Logar – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
Moderator: Katarzyna Pisarska – Program Director, Warsaw Security Forum, Poland
General Curtis M. Scaparrotti - Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2016-2019), USA
Moderator: Florence Gaub – Deputy Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies, France
Session co-hosted with Lockheed Martin
Baroness Goldie DL - Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Jan-Olof Lind - State Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Sweden
Thomas Silberhorn - Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Minister of Defence, Germany
Moderator: Ali Aslan, International TV Presenter and Journalist
Thibaut Fourriere - Deputy Secretary General of the Sahel Coalition, France
Kate Guy - Deputy Director, International Military Council on Climate and Security, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Climate and Security, USA
Sherri Goodman - Senior Fellow, Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program, Wilson Center, US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (1993-2001), USA
Audun Halvorsen - State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Moderator: Jamie Shea - Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018), United Kingdom
Session co-hosted with Friends of Europe
Bogdan Lucian Aurescu - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Dmytro Kuleba – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Theresa Fallon - Founder and Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium
Vuk Jeremić – Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2012), Serbia
Stefano Stefanini - Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Former Permanent Representative of Italy to NATO
Robert Pszczel - Senior Officer, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO HQ
Moderator: Florian C. Feyerabend - Desk Officer, South East Europe/Western Balkans, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany
Discussion co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland as part of the public diplomacy 2020 grant scheme
DAY 2 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18th 2020
OPENING OF THE DAY
Katarzyna Pisarska – Program Director, Warsaw Security Forum, Poland
Mircea Geoană - Deputy Secretary General, NATO
Moderator: Kristine Berzina, Senior Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Rajmund Andrzejczak – Chief of the General Staff, Polish Armed Forces, Poland
Ambassador Baiba Braže - Assistant Secretary-General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
Gen. (R) Benjamin "Ben" Hodges - Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, CEPA, Commanding general US Army Europe (2014 – 2017), USA
Tone Skogen - State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Norway
Moderator: Michał Baranowski - Director, Warsaw Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Session co-hosted with Kongsberg
Nicolae Ciucă - Minister of Defense of Romania
Jüri Luik – Minister of Defense of Estonia
João Titterington Gomes Cravinho - Minister of Defense of Portugal
Moderator: Zbigniew Pisarski - President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Stephen E. Biegun - Deputy Secretary of State, Department of State, USA
Moderator: Daniel Twining – President, International Republican Institute, USA
Session co-hosted with the International Republican Institute
Introduction:
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya - Opposition Leader, Belarus
Panel Discussion:
Rasa Juknevičienė - Member of the European Parliament, Minister of National Defence of Lithuania (2008-2012)
Sławomir Sierakowski – Journalist, Krytyka Polityczna, Poland
Katsiaryna Shmatsina - Associated Analyst, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus
Moderator: Roland Freudenstein - Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium
Session co-hosted with Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
Sergei Guriev - Professor of Economics, Science Po Paris, France
Zhanna Nemtsova – Co-Founder, Boris Nemtsov Foundation, Russia
Celeste Wallander – President and CEO, U.S.-Russia Foundation, USA
Moderator: Dr. Graeme P. Herd - Professor of Transnational Security Studies, Chair of Research and Policy Analysis, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, United Kingdom
Session co-hosted with George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
Michael Carpenter - Managing Director, Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, USA
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) – Member of the U.S. House of Representative, Co-Chair of the Poland Caucus, Ukraine Caucus, and Hungary Caucus, USA
David Petraeus - General, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (2010-2011), USA
Moderator: Ali Aslan, International TV Presenter and Journalist
Paweł Soloch - State Secretary, Head of the National Security Bureau, Chancellery of the President of Poland
Zbigniew Pisarski - President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Michał Baranowski - Director, Warsaw Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States