WSF 2022 Speakers

The agenda of WSF 2022 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.

Honorary Guest

  • Olena Zelenska

    First Lady of Ukraine

Government

  • Krzysztof Gawkowski

    Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Affairs, Poland

  • Olha Stefanishyna

    Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration & Minister of Justice, Ukraine

  • George Sergiu Niculescu

    Secretary of State, Ministry of Energy, Romania

  • Karoline Edtstadler

    Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution, Austria

  • Andriy Kostin

    Prosecutor General, Ukraine

  • Masami Oka

    Vice-Minister of Defense of International Affairs, Japan

  • Jan Lipavský

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

  • Nikos Dendias

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece

  • Riina Sikkut

    Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure, Estonia

  • Manuel Lafont Rapnouil

    Director, Centre d'analyse, de prévision et de stratégie (CAPS), Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, France

  • Stéphane Dion

    Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the EU and Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2015-2017), Canada

  • Eivind Vad Petersson

    State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

  • Philip H. Gordon

    National Security Adviser to the Vice President of the United States, USA

  • Mark Brzezinski

    Ambassador, Embassy of the United States of America to Poland, USA

  • Byron Camilleri

    Minister for Home Affairs, Security, Reforms and Equality, Malta

  • Bartosz Grodecki

    Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Interior and Administration, Poland

  • Tamila Tasheva

    Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

  • Thomas Bagger

    Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany

  • Petar Mihatov

    Director General for Political Affairs, Croatia

  • Michael Scharfschwerdt

    Director of Policy Planning, Federal Foreign Office, Germany

  • Ingrida Šimonytė

    Prime Minister of Lithuania

  • Egils Levits

    President of the Republic of Latvia

  • Dainius Kreivys

    Minister of Energy, Lithuania

  • Annalena Baerbock

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany

  • François Bausch

    Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Luxembourg

  • Michał Kurtyka

    Chair of the Energy Security and Climate Track, Warsaw Security Forum, Minister of Climate and Environment (2019-2021), Poland

  • Jacek Czaputowicz

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

  • Linas Linkevičius

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

  • Hanno Pevkur

    Minister of Defence, Estonia

  • Mariusz Błaszczak

    Minister of National Defence, Poland

  • Anett Numa

    Cyber Defence Policy Adviser, Ministry of Defence, Estonia

  • Gordan Grlić Radman

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Croatia

  • Mateusz Morawiecki

    Prime Minister of Poland

  • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

    Leader of the Belarus Democratic Opposition, Belarus

  • Mateusz Berger

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

  • Rafał Trzaskowski

    Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

  • Mantas Adomėnas

    Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

  • Michael R. Carpenter

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

  • Konrad Szymański

    Minister for European Affairs (2020-2022), Poland

  • Paweł Soloch

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

Guest Country Parliamentary Ambassadors

  • Alexander Graf Lambsdorff

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Omid Nouripour

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Nils Schmid

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Norbert Röttgen

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

Parliament

  • Solomiia Bobrovska

    Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

  • Mariana Bezuhla

    Deputy Chair, Committee on National Security, Defence & Intelligence, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

  • Oleksandra Ustinova

    Member of Parliament, Faction Leader, Holos political party, Head of the Temporary Special Commission on Arms Control, Ukraine

  • Natalia Pouzyreff

    Member of Parliament, Defense Committee, France

  • Aydan Özoğuz

    Vice-President & Member of Bundestag, Germany

  • Stephen Doughty

    Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom

  • Anastasia Radina

    Head of Anticorruption Committee, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

  • Alexander Müller

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Olga Richterová

    Member of the Parliament,Deputy Speaker, Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic

  • Steve Cohen

    Member of the House of Representatives, USA

  • Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski

    Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

  • Dietmar Nietan

    Member of the Bundestag, Coordinator of German‑Polish Intersocietal and Cross‑Border Cooperation, Germany

  • Mariia Ionova

    Co-founder, Ukrainian Women Congress, Member of the Board of the International Women Democrat Union, Ukraine

  • Ulrich Lechte

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Chris Murphy

    Senator, United States Senate, USA

  • Jamila Schäfer

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Knut Abraham

    Member of Parliament, Germany

  • Marcos Perestrello

    Chair of the Defence Committee, Member of Parliament, Portugal

  • Reinhard Bütikofer

    Former Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China, Germany

  • Bogdan Klich

    Senator, Chair of Foreign Affairs and EU Committee, Senate, Poland

  • Dovilė Šakalienė

    Member of Parliament, Lithuania

  • Tobias Ellwood

    Member of the Parliament (2005-2024), United Kingdom

  • Nikoloz Samkharadze

    Member of the Georgian Parliament, Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia

  • Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

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

  • Paweł Kowal

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

  • Tomasz Siemoniak

    Member of Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister (2014-2015), Minister of Defence (2011-2015), Poland

Military

  • Maj. Gen. Iulian Berdila

    Chief of the Land Forces Staff, Romania

  • Brig. Gen. Remus Bondor

    Chief of Strategic Planning Directorate, Defence Staff, Romania

  • Maj. Gen. Cezary Wiśniewski

    Deputy Commander, Armed Forces General Command, Poland

  • Maj. Gen. Nicolas Le Nen

    Head of the Command for Joint Operations, French Joint Staff, France

  • Maj. Gen. Anders Rex

    Chief of Plans and Capabilities Staff, Danish Defence, Denmark

  • Maj. Gen. Janne Jaakkola

    Chief of Planning (J5) in Defence Command, Finland

  • Lt. Gen. (R) Andrzej Fałkowski

    Polish Military Representative at the Military Committees of NATO and the European Union (2014-2018), Poland

  • Lt. Gen. Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart

    Commander Multinational Corps Northeast, Germany

  • Gen. (R) David Petraeus

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

  • Gen. (R). Tom Middendorp

    Chair, International Military Council on Climate and Security, The Netherlands

  • Lt. Gen. (R) Ben Hodges

    Former Commander, US Army Europe, USA

  • Gen. (R) Sir Mark Carleton-Smith

    Chief of the General Staff (2018-2022), United Kingdom

  • Vice Adm. Boudewijn Boots

    Vice Chief of Defence, The Netherlands

  • Adm. Michel Hofman

    Chief of Defence of the Kingdom of Belgium, Belgium

  • Lt. Gen. Martin Herem

    Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, Estonia

  • Lt. Gen. Tomasz Piotrowski

    Operational Commander of the Armed Forces, Poland

  • Lt. Gen. Andreas Marlow

    Commander of the German Elements MN Corps at the Army HQ, Germany

  • Vice Adm. Krzysztof Jaworski

    Commander of Maritime Component Command, Poland

  • Brig. Gen. Kazimierz Dyński

    Deputy Inspector of the Branches of Armed Forces, General Command of the Armed Forces, Poland

  • Gen. (R) Philip M. Breedlove

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

  • Gen. (R) Rajmund Andrzejczak

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

European Union

  • Agnieszka Kaźmierczak

    Director General, EURATOM Supply Agency, European Commission

  • Christian Zinglersen

    Director, The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators

  • Ylva Johansson

    European Commissioner for Home Affairs, European Commission

  • Kalin Anev Janse

    Chief Financial Officer and Management Board Member, European Stability Mechanism

NATO

  • Gerlinde Niehus

    Deputy Director, Defence Institution and Capacity Building Operations Division (OPS), NATO

  • Gen. Chris Badia

    Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, NATO

  • Lt. Gen Janusz Adamczak

    Director General of the International Military Staff, NATO

  • Adm. (R) Rob Bauer

    Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2021-2025)

  • Baiba Braže

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Latvia

  • Lt. Gen. Krzysztof Król

    Chief of Staff of Allied Joint Force Command (2020-2023), Brunssum

Experts

  • Daniel Hegedüs

    Visiting Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the US, Hungary

  • Marcin A. Piotrowski

    Analyst, PISM, Poland

  • John Howie

    President of the Society of Maritime Industries, UK

  • Sergiu Panainte

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

  • Frank Sesno

    Director of Strategic Initiatives for George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs; Founding Director of Planet Forward

  • Sam Feist

    CNN's Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Vice President

  • Heather Nauert

    Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

  • Carl Dolan

    Acting Program and Regional Director, Open Society Foundations

  • Niklas Nováky

    Senior Research Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Finland

  • Vivian Schiller

    Executive Director, Aspen Digital, CEO & President, National Public Radio (2009-2011), USA

  • David Ensor

    Director, Voice of America (2011-2015), Founding Director, George

  • Rolf Nikel

    Vice President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Germany

  • Katarina Kertysova

    Policy Fellow, European Leadership Network, Wilson Center Global Fellow, WSF New Security Leader 2018, Slovakia

  • Andriy Zagorodnyuk

    Minister of Defence, Ukraine (2019-2020)

  • Christos Katsioulis

    Head of FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe, Austria

  • Arthur de Liedekerke

    European Affairs Director, Rasmussen Global, former Strategy Officer, French Ministry for the Armed Forces, Cyber Command, France

  • Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff

    Guido Goldman Distinguished Scholar for Geostrategy, German Marshall Fund of the US, Germany

  • Szymon Hołownia

    Speaker of the Polish Sejm, Poland

  • Mike Gonzalez

    Angeles T. Arredondo Senior Fellow, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, USA

  • Lt. Gen. Benoît Durieux

    Director, IHEDN, France

  • Lucinda Creighton

    Minister of State for European Affairs (2011-2013), Senior Fellow, CEPA, Ireland

  • Min-Hua Chiang

    Research Fellow and Economist, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation, USA

  • Olena Halushka

    Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Justyna Gotkowska

    Deputy Director, Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland

  • Heather A. Conley

    President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, USA

  • Laura Birkman

    Senior Strategic Analyst, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Netherlands

  • John K. Glenn

    Senior Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, USA

  • Olga Aivazovska

    Head of Board of Opora & Expert on Elections, Co-founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Maria Zolkina

    Head of Regional Security and Conflict Programme, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Ukraine

  • Victoria Voytsitska

    Member of Parliament, Secretary, Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security (2014-2019), International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven

    Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Poland (2020 - 2022), Germany

  • Ieva Ilves

    Policy Advisor, WithSecure

  • Chih-Hao Jiho Chang

    Keelung City Councilor, Taiwan

  • Sibylle Bauer

    Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden

  • Paweł Borys

    President of the Management Board, Polish Development Fund, Poland

  • Clemens Mayr-Harting

    Chief of Staff of the Federal Minister for EU and Constitutional Affairs, Austria, WSF New Security Leader 2022

  • Oleksandra Matviichuk

    Head, Centre for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (2022), Ukraine

  • Marie Mendras

    Researcher, CNRS, Professor at Sciences Po, France

  • Monika Morawiecka

    Senior Advisor, The Regulatory Assistance Project, Poland

  • Baroness Catherine Ashton

    Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), UK

  • Hanna Hopko

    Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Pavel Havlicek

    Research Fellow, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic

  • Alena Kudzko

    GLOBSEC Vice President, Director of the GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Slovakia

  • Phillip A. Petersen

    President. New Generation Warfare Centre, USA

  • Reuben Johnson

    Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Małgorzata Darowska

    Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Suzanne Raine

    Affiliate Lecturer, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, Member of the Board of Trustees, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), United Kingdom

  • Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer

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

  • Nad’a Kovalčíková

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

  • Vladimir Milov

    Member of Democratic Opposition, Associate of Alexey Navalny, Russia

  • Daria Kaleniuk

    Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Anna Wieslander

    Director for Northern Europe, Atlantic Council, Sweden

  • Roland Freudenstein

    Vice President, Head of GLOBSEC Brussels, Belgium

  • Małgorzata Bonikowska

    President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland

  • Robert Pszczel

    Senior Resident Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Michał Kobosko

    Member of the European Parliament, Poland

Industry

  • Przemysław Kowalczuk

    CEO, PIT-RADWAR, Poland

  • Ewa Łabno-Falęcka

    Director, Corporate Communication & External Affairs, Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland

  • Andreas Maierhofer

    CEO, T-Mobile Polska

  • Grzegorz Zajączkowski

    Digital Champion for Poland, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland

  • Raymond Piselli

    Vice President, International Business, Lockheed Martin

  • Marcin Olender

    Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager, Google

  • Cezary Cierzan

    Director of the Miecznik Programme, Polish Armament Group

  • Alexander C. Karp

    Co-founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc., USA

  • Ariel Porat

    Senior Vice President, Head of Europe, Siemens Energy

  • Grzegorz Należyty

    Vice President Eastern Europe & Managing Director of Siemens Energy in Poland

  • Kasia Kieli

    President & Managing Director Warner Bros. Discovery Poland, CEO TVN, Poland

  • Karim Amin

    Member of Executive Board, Siemens Energy

  • Karan Bhatia

    Vice President and Global Head, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google

  • Christine Harbison

    Sector Vice President and General Manager, Combat Systems and Mission Readiness, Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA

  • Paul Jones

    Vice President for Relations with Strategic Partners, Raytheon Technologies, USA

  • Mary D. Petryszyn

    Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman, USA

Masters of Ceremony and Moderators

  • Tomasz Smura

    Head of the Defence Track

  • Bart Kot

    Former Program Director

  • Tadeusz Iwański

    Head of Department for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland

  • Amanda Rivkin

    Journalist, DW News, Germany

  • Anja Wehler-Schöck

    Head of International Politics, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

  • Katarzyna Sławińska

    Foreign News Anchor, Fakty TVN, Poland

  • Greta Van Susteren

    Host of “The Record”, Newsmax

  • Teri Schultz

    NATO and EU reporter in Brussels, freelance for NPR and Deutsche Welle, Germany

  • Piotr Marciniak

    News Anchor, TVN24

  • James Harding

    Director, BBC News (2013-2018), United Kingdom

  • Joanna Stolarek

    Director, Heinrich Böll Foundation Warsaw Office, Poland

  • Monika Tomasik

    News Anchor, TVN24 BiS

  • Johannes von Thadden

    Co-Chairman, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, CEO Airbus Poland

  • Michał Sznajder

    News Anchor, TVN24

  • Łukasz Kulesa

    Head of Research, PISM, Poland

  • Peter Hefele

    Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium

  • Matthew Karnitschnig

    Chief Europe Correspondent, POLITICO

  • Joanna Van der Merwe

    Privacy & Protection Lead, Centre for Innovation, Leiden University & Non-Resident Fellow, Defense Tech Initiative at CEPA, The Netherlands

  • Alisa Vogt

    Programme Director, Körber Network Foreign Policy, Germany

  • Wojciech Jakóbik

    Editor-in-Chief, BiznesAlert.Pl, Poland

  • Hadley Gamble

    Chief International Anchor and Host, “The Hadley Gamble Show”, Al-Arabiya

  • Theresa Winter

    Manager Security & Defence Policy, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Germany

  • Symeon Tsomokos

    Founder & President, Delphi Economic Forum, Greece

  • Federica D’Alessandra

    Deputy Director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, United Kingdom

  • Kasia Madera

    News Anchor, BBC News

  • Ernest Wyciszkiewicz

    Director, Mieroszewski Centre, Poland

  • Andrew Mueller

    The Foreign Desk, Monocle 24

  • Christoph von Marschall

    Diplomatic Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

  • David Ignatius

    Associate Editor & Columnist, The Washington Post

  • Christoph Heusgen

    Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany

  • Michał Baranowski

    GMF East & Regional Director, GMF East, Poland

  • Zbigniew Pisarski

    Founder, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Katarzyna Pisarska

    Chair, Warsaw Security Forum

  • Wojciech Przybylski

    Editor-In-Chief, Visegrad Insight, Poland

  • Beata Górka-Winter

    University of Warsaw, Poland

  • Jerzy Aleksandrowicz

    Research Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Charles Clarke

    Home Secretary (2004-2006), United Kingdom

  • Fredrik Löjdquist

    Director, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, Sweden

  • Bilyana Lilly

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

  • Alina Inayeh

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

  • Terry Martin

    TV News Anchor, Berlin

  • Ali Aslan

    International Presenter & Journalist, Germany

  • Brigham McCown

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

  • Theresa Fallon

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

  • Marcin Bużański

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