WSF 2023 Speakers

Every year, the Warsaw Security Forum gathers heads of state, ministers, NATO and EU officials, military strategists, and the brightest minds in defense and diplomacy, creating an unparalleled platform for high-level dialogue and strategic foresight on the future of Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance.

Government

  • Victor Zhora

    Deputy Chairman and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine

  • Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir

    Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland

  • Thomas Bagger

    Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany

  • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

    Leader of the Belarus Democratic Opposition, Belarus

  • Stéphane Dion

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

  • Slavjanka Petrovska

    Minister of Defence, North Macedonia

  • Salome Zourabichvili

    President of Georgia

  • Rafał Trzaskowski

    Mayor of Warsaw, Poland

  • Pierre Heilbronn

    Special Envoy of the French President for Ukraine's Relief and Reconstruction, France

  • Philip H. Gordon

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

  • Paweł Soloch

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

  • Pål Jonson

    Minister for Defence, Sweden

  • Olha Stefanishyna

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

  • Olha Babiy

    National Commission for State Regulation in Energy and Utilities, Ukraine

  • Miroslav Wlachovský

    Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovakia

  • Michael R. Carpenter

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

  • Marjan Šarec

    Minister of Defence, Slovenia

  • Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

    Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, United Kingdom

  • Kajsa Ollongren

    Minister of Defense (2022-2024), The Netherlands

  • James Heappey

    Minister for Armed Forces, United Kingdom

  • Jacek Siewiera

    Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland (2022-2025)

  • Iulian Fota

    Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Romania

  • Iryna Mudra

    Deputy Minister of Justice, Ukraine

  • Illia Vitiuk

    Head of the Department of Cyber and Information Security, Security Service of Ukraine

  • Henrik Landerholm

    National Security Adviser, Sweden

  • Hanno Pevkur

    Minister of Defence, Estonia

  • Grzegorz Zajączkowski

    Digital Champion for Poland, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland

  • Gabrielius Landsbergis

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

  • Frank A. Rose

    Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, USA

  • Dritan Abazović

    Prime Minister of Montenegro, Coordinator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Montenegro

  • Dragomir Zakov

    Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister, Bulgaria

  • Dr. Hsu Szu-chien

    Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council, Republic of China

  • Dainius Kreivys

    Minister of Energy, Lithuania

  • Carolina Novac

    State Secretary from the Ministry of Energy, Moldova

  • Carl-Oskar Bohlin

    Minister for Civil Defence, Sweden

  • Benoît Guidee

    Director for Asia & Oceania, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

  • Basat Öztürk

    Director General for International Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Türkiye

  • Anne-Marie Trevelyan

    Minister of State for Indo-Pacific, United Kingdom

  • Anne Marie Aanerud

    State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Norway

  • Angel Tîlvăr

    Minister of Defence, Romania

  • Amb. Kate Byrnes

    Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to U.S. European Command, USA

  • Alma Zadić

    Federal Minister for Justice, Austria

  • Alina Koushyk

    Representative for National Revival, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus, Belarus

  • Adam Guibourgé-Czetwertyński

    Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Climate and Environment (2020-2023), Poland

  • Adam Bodnar

    Minister of Justice, Poland

Parliament

  • Žygimantas Pavilionis

    Member of Parliament, Lithuania

  • Zanda Kalnina-Lukaševica

    Member of Parliament, Deputy Speaker, Latvia

  • Yelyzaveta Yasko

    Member of Parliament, Ukraine

  • Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski

    Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

  • Tytti Tuppurainen

    Member of Parliament, Finland

  • Tomasz Siemoniak

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

  • Tobias Ellwood

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

  • Thomas Erndl

    Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Germany

  • Stephen Doughty

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

  • Solomiia Bobrovska

    Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

  • Sarah Atherton

    Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

  • Robert Courts

    Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

  • Reinhard Bütikofer

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

  • Radosław Sikorski

    Minister for Foreign Affairs, Poland

  • Radosław Fogiel

    Member of the Polish Sejm, Deputy Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland

  • Peter Beyer

    Member of Parliament, Germany

  • Pekka Toveri

    Member of the European Parliament, Finland

  • Paweł Kowal

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

  • Olga Richterová

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

  • Oleksandra Ustinova

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

  • Oleksandr Merezhko

    Member of Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Interparliamentary Council, Ukraine

  • Norbert Röttgen

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Nikoloz Samkharadze

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

  • Natalia Pouzyreff

    Member of Parliament, Defense Committee, France

  • Michał Szczerba

    Member of the European Parliament, Poland

  • Markus Reichel

    Member of the Bundestag, Germany

  • Mariia Ionova

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

  • Luke Pollard

    Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for the Armed Forces), Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom

  • Lord Vernon Coaker

    Minister of State for Defence, United Kingdom

  • Knut Abraham

    Member of Parliament, Germany

  • Kira Rudyk

    ember of Parliament, Chair of Political Party Golos, Ukraine

  • Khatia Dekanoidze

    Member of the Parliament, Georgia

  • Kevan Jones

    Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

  • John Spellar

    Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

  • Jason Crow

    Member of the House of Representatives, US Congress, USA

  • Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

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

  • Helene Conway-Mouret

    Vice President of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, France

  • Grigol Vashadze

    Member of the Parliament, Georgia

  • Eva Maydell

    Member of European Parliament, Bulgaria

  • Emma Lewell-Buck

    Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

  • Dietmar Nietan

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

  • Bogdan Klich

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

  • Benjamin Haddad

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

  • Andrzej Szejna

    Member of Parliament, Poland

Military

  • Vice-Admiral Bob Auchterlonie

    Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, Canada

  • Maj. Gen. Cezary Wiśniewski

    Deputy Commander, Armed Forces General Command, Poland

  • Maj Gen (R) James Cowan

    CEO, The HALO Trust, United Kingdom

  • Lt. Gen. Tomasz Piotrowski

    Operational Commander of the Armed Forces, Poland

  • Lt. Gen. Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart

    Commander Multinational Corps Northeast, Germany

  • Lt. Gen. (R) Herbert Raymond H.R McMaster

    National Security Advisor to the President of the United States (2017-2018), USA

  • Lt. Gen. (R) Ben Hodges

    Former Commander, US Army Europe, USA

  • Lt Gen Michael Claesson

    Chief of Defence Staff, Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden

  • Lt Gen (R) Sir Paul Newton KBE CBE

    Commander Force Development and Training (2010 - 2012), United Kingdom

  • Gen. (R) Tod Daniel Wolters

    Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2019-2022), USA

  • Gen. (R) Sir Mark Carleton-Smith

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

  • Gen. (R) Rajmund Andrzejczak

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

  • Gen. (R) David Petraeus

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

  • Brig. Gen. Mariusz Chmielewski

    Deputy Commander, The Cyberspace Defense Forces, Poland

  • Brig. Gen. Kazimierz Dyński

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

NATO

  • Wendy Gilmour

    Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, NATO

  • Marie-Doha Besancenot

    Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

  • Jessica L. Cox

    Director, Nuclear Policy Directorate Defence Policy and Plans Division, NATO

  • Irene Fellin

    Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, NATO

  • Florence Gaub

    Director, Research Division, Defence College, NATO

  • Deeph Chana

    Managing Director, Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), NATO

  • Benedetta Berti

    Head, Policy Planning Unit, Office of the NATO Secretary General, NATO

  • Angus Lapsley

    Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, NATO

  • Adm. (R) Rob Bauer

    Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2021-2025)

International Institutions

  • Virginijus Sinkevičius

    Commissioner, Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Commission

  • Lawrence Meredith

    Director for Neighborhood East and Institution Building, DG NEAR, European Commission

  • Ladislav Hamran

    President, Eurojust

  • Ditte Juul Jørgensen

    Director-General, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission

  • Benedikta von Seherr-Thoss

    Managing Director for Peace, Security and Defence

Think-tanks, Civil Society & Academia

  • Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz

    Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Justice, Poland

  • Wojciech Przybylski

    Editor-In-Chief, Visegrad Insight, Poland

  • Vladimir Milov

    Member of Democratic Opposition, Associate of Alexey Navalny, Russia

  • Victoria Voytsitska

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

  • Toomas Hendrik Ilves

    President of Estonia (2006-2016), Estonia

  • Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff

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

  • Theresa Fallon

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

  • Scott McDonald

    Chief Executive, British Council, United Kingdom

  • Samir Saran

    President, Observer Research Foundation, India

  • Richard L. Morningstar

    Founding Chairman, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council; Former US Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan; Former US Ambassador to the European Union

  • Reuben Johnson

    Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Reinhard Krumm

    Head of FES Office for the Baltic States, Germany

  • Rebecca Harms

    Member of European Parliament (2004-2019), Germany

  • Phillip A. Petersen

    President. New Generation Warfare Centre, USA

  • Paweł Borys

    President of the Management Board, Polish Development Fund, Poland

  • Pavel Havlicek

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

  • Paul Williams

    President and Co-Founder, Public International Law and Policy Group, USA

  • Olha Aivazovska

    Co-founder of International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Olena Halushka

    Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Oleksandra Matviichuk

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

  • Nicolas Tenzer

    Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

  • Nathalie Tocci

    Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy

  • Nad’a Kovalčíková

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

  • Monika Sus

    Visiting Professor, Center for International Security at Hertie School, Germany & Member of Team Europe Direct Poland, Poland

  • Mitchell A. Orenstein

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

  • Mirek Dušek

    Managing Director, World Economic Forum, Switzerland

  • Mieczysław (Mietek) Boduszyński

    Professor at Pomona College, Policy Advisor on Accountability of War Crimes, Office of U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2022-2023)

  • Michał Kurtyka

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

  • Michał Kobosko

    Member of the European Parliament, Poland

  • Majda Ruge

    Director, Member of the Board, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Germany

  • Lynn Kuok

    Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies

  • Lubomír Zaorálek

    Minister of Foreign Affairs (2014-2017), Czech Republic

  • Lt. Gen. Benoît Durieux

    Director, IHEDN, France

  • Linas Linkevičius

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

  • Justyna Gotkowska

    Deputy Director, Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland

  • John Raine

    Senior Adviser for Geopolitical Due Diligence, International Institute for Strategic Studies

  • John K. Glenn

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

  • Jerzy Pomianowski

    Executive Director, European Endowment for Democracy

  • Jacek Czaputowicz

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

  • Heather A. Conley

    President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, USA

  • Hanna Hopko

    Co-Founder, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Goran Buldioski

    Acting Executive Director, Open Society Foundations - Europe and Central Asia

  • George Scutaru

    Founder, CEO, New Strategy Center, Romania

  • Garry Kasparov

    Russian Opposition Leader, Russia

  • Ed Arnold

    Research Fellow for European Security, Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom

  • Dimitar Lilkov

    Senior Research Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Affairs, Bulgaria

  • Daria Kaleniuk

    Co-Founder, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Ukraine

  • Daniela Schwarzer

    Executive Board Member, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany

  • Claudia Major

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

  • Christoph Heusgen

    Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany

  • Charles Clarke

    Home Secretary (2004-2006), United Kingdom

  • Carl Bildt

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

  • Bilyana Lilly

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

  • Bart M.J. Szewczyk

    Visiting Senior Fellow, GMF of the US

  • Baroness Catherine Ashton

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

  • Anne Applebaum

    Staff writter, The Atlantic, USA

  • Anna Wieslander

    Director for Northern Europe, Atlantic Council, Sweden

  • Andriy Zagorodnyuk

    Minister of Defence, Ukraine (2019-2020)

  • Andrew A. Michta

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

  • Adam Weiss

    Regional Director of Programmes, Europe, ClientEarth

Industry

  • VAdm (R) Sir Nicholas Hine

    Second Sea Lord (2019-2022), United Kingdom

  • Sebastian Chwałek

    CEO, PGZ, Poland

  • Royal Hansen

    Vice President, Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering, Google

  • Rebecca Torzone

    Vice-President & Director, Global Battle Management and Readiness, Northrop Grumman

  • Raymond Piselli

    Vice President, International Business, Lockheed Martin

  • Matthias Sachs

    Cybersecurity Policy Lead Europe, Google

  • Lee Alderman-Davis

    Global Product & Development Director, Ligentia, United Kingdom

  • Karim Amin

    Member of Executive Board, Siemens Energy

  • Johannes von Thadden

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

  • Jeff Shockey

    Senior Vice President, Global Government Relations, RTX

  • Grzegorz Należyty

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

  • Faisel Khan

    Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sempra

  • David Lockwood

    Chief Executive Officer, Babcock International Group

  • Dan Brouillette

    President of Sempra Infrastructure, US Secretary of Energy (2019-2021), USA

  • Ariel Porat

    Senior Vice President, Head of Europe, Siemens Energy

Masters of Ceremony and Moderators

  • Zbigniew Pisarski

    Founder, President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Tomasz Smura

    Head of the Defence Track

  • Terry Martin

    TV News Anchor, Berlin

  • Steven Erlanger

    Chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe, The New York Times

  • Robert Pszczel

    Senior Resident Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation

  • Piotr Przybyło

    Resident Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

  • Michał Baranowski

    GMF East & Regional Director, GMF East, Poland

  • Marta Prochwicz-Jazowska

    Deputy Head, Warsaw Office, Policy Fellow, ECFR

  • Marcin Bużański

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

  • Małgorzata Bonikowska

    President, Centre for International Relations Foundation, Poland

  • Malcolm Chalmers

    Deputy Director General, Royal United Services Institute, United Kingdom

  • Łukasz Kulesa

    Head of Research, PISM, Poland

  • Kateryna Ryabiko

    First Deputy Director, OSCE-ODIHR (2020-2023), Chief Strategy Officer, DAC

  • Katarzyna Pisarska

    Chair, Warsaw Security Forum

  • Kasia Madera

    News Anchor, BBC News

  • Justin Bronk

    Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology Royal United Services Institute

  • Jan Cieński

    Senior Policy Editor, Politico Europe

  • James Landale

    Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, BBC

  • Jakub Godzimirski

    Research Professor, NUPI

  • Izabela Albrycht

    Director, Cybersecurity Center, AGH University, Poland

  • Hadley Gamble

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

  • Federica D’Alessandra

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

  • Christoph von Marschall

    Diplomatic Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

  • Bart Kot

    Former Program Director

  • Anna Nalyvayko

    Senior Project Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Brussels

  • Anja Wehler-Schöck

    Head of International Politics, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

  • Ali Aslan

    International Presenter & Journalist, Germany