Speakers

Luca Baione

Italian Permanent Representative to the World Meteorological Organization

Italian Air Force - Meteorological Service, Italy

Gerard Baker

Editor-at-Large

The Wall Street Journal, United States

Tony Barber

European Comment Editor

Financial Times, United Kingdom

Jennifer Benz

Vice President

NORC at the University of Chicago, United States

Azita Berar Awad

International Advisor on Global Governance, Employment and Social Policy; Chair

Board of UNRISD, Switzerland

Martin Bialecki

Editor in chief

DGAP / Internationale Politik, Germany

Ian Brzezinski

Senior Fellow

Atlantic Council, United States

Mary Burce Warlick

Deputy Executive Director

International Energy Agency, France

Marco Buti

Chair Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

European University Institute, Italy

Paul Cartledge

Senior Research Fellow Clare College

Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook

Executive Vice President/Senior Advisor

Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany

Steven A. Cook

Senior Fellow

Council on Foreign Relations, United States

Mathias Cormann

Secretary-General

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France

Ahmet Davutoglu

Prime Minister of Turkiye (2014-2016)

Türkiye

Maria Demertzis

Professor, Leader of the Economic Strategy and Finance Program

European University Institute, The Conference Board, Belgium

Tatiana Der Avedissian

Head of business development, World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group/ Co-president Harvard Kennedy School Women's Alumni Network

The Economist Group, United Kingdom

Spiros Dimolitsas

Senior Vice President

Georgetown University, United States

Paula J. Dobriansky

Vice Chair

Atlantic Council Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, United States

Ivana Dragicevic

Journalist and Author

N1, Croatia

William Drozdiak

Global Fellow

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, United States

Mikuláš Dzurinda

President

WMCES, Belgium

Janis Emmanouilidis

Deputy Chief Executive & Director of Studies

European Policy Centre (EPC), Belgium

Alexandre Escorcia

Director for Euro-Atlantic Security

French Ministry for the Armed Forces, France

Chad Evans

Executive Vice President

Council on Competitiveness, United States

Roland Freudenstein

Director, Brussels Office

Free Russia Foundation, Belgium

Joan Gabel

Chancellor

University of Pittsburgh, United States

Paolo Gentiloni

Prime Minister of Italy (2016-2018), Commissioner for Economy, European Commission (2019-2024)

Belgium

Arancha Gonzalez

Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs

Sciences Po, France

Peter Grk

Secretary General of Bled Strategic Forum and National Coordinator for Western Balkans

Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovenia

Yoel Guzansky

Senior Fellow

INSS, Israel

Karim Haggag

Professor of Practice

School of Global Affairs and Public Policy / American University in Cairo, Egypt

Meghan Hays

Consultant

West Shore Strategies, United States

François Heisbourg

Special Adviser

FRS PARIS Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, France

Ben Hodges

Former Commander, US Army Europe

FBH Geostrat Consulting GmbH, Germany

Yanzhong Huang

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Council on Foreign Relations, United States

Korbinian Ibel

Director General

European Central Bank, Germany

G. John Ikenberry

Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Princeton University, United States

Tacan Ildem

Chairman

EDAM, Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, Türkiye

Dimitris Kairidis

Member of Parliament for Athens-North

Hellenic Parliament, Greece

Robert D. Kaplan

Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics

Foreign Policy Research Institute, United States

Verena Kasirye

Head of Munich Office

Agora Strategy Group, Germany

Bogolo Joy Kenewendo

Global Economist, fmr Minister Investment, Trade & Industry

Botswana

Guillaume Klossa

Vice-President of Tribvn Holding and President of T-life

France

Sebastian Kurz

Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2017-2019 & 2020-2021)

Austria

Miroslav Lajčák

EUSR for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues

European External Action Service, Slovakia

Nico Lange

Senior Fellow

Munich Security Conference, Germany

Gideon Levy

Columnist

Haaretz, Israel

Cheng Li

Founding Director

Centre on Governance of China and the World (CGCW), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Mark Lilla

Professor

Columbia University, United States

James M. Lindsay

Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United States

Stefan Mair

Executive Board Director

German Institute for International & Security Affairs, Germany

Barbora Maronkova

Global Partners Officer

NATO, Belgium

Terry Martin

TV News Anchor/Journalist

Free agent, Germany

Thomas Mayr-Harting

Ambassador (ret.), Co-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the European Forum Alpbach

European Forum Alpbach, Austria

Rory Medcalf

Head of College

National Security College, Australian National University, Australia

Konstantinos Meghir

Douglas A Warner III Professor of Economics

Yale University, United States

Mabel Lu Miao

Co-founder & Secretary General

Center for China and Globalization, China

Greg Mills

Director

The Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa

Andrew Mueller

Journalist

Monocle, United Kingdom

John Negroponte

Vice Chairman

McLarty Associates, United States

Hryhoriy Nemyria

First Deputy Chairman of the Parliament

Ukraine

Kalypso Nicolaidis

Chair in International Affairs, School of Transnational Governance

EUI, Italy

C. L. Max Nikias

President Emeritus and Professor

University of Southern California, United States

Georgios Nounesis

Director & Chairman of the Board

National Centre for Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS", Greece

Andrew Novo

Professor

The National Defense University, United States

Young-jin Oh

President & Publisher

THE KOREA TIMES, South Korea

Ehud Olmert

Former Prime Minister of Israel

EOC, Israel

Charalampos Pampoukis

Lawyer, Professor

Pamboukis - Maravelis - Nikolaidis & Associates, Greece

Georgios Papaconstantinou

Professor of International Political Economy, Dean of Executive Education

European University Institute, Italy

Dimitris Papastergiou

Minister of Digital Governance

Hellenic Republic

Aspasia Pastra

As. Professor

World Maritime University, Sweden

David H. Petraeus

Chairman

KKR Global Institute, United States

Zbigniew Pisarski

Founder and President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Rosen Plevneliev

President of Bulgaria (2012-2017)

Nizami Ganjavi Int’l Center, Bulgaria

Shishir Priyadarshi

President, Global Relations

Adani Group, India

Pierre Raffard

Geopolitician & Strategy Consultant

Kereviz

Viviane Reding

Former Vice-President

European Commission, Luxembourg

Nouriel Roubini

CEO

Roubini Macro Associates, United States

Michael Rubin

Senior Fellow

American Enterprise Institute, United States

Rainer Rudolph

Ambassador

Munich Security Conference, Germany

Charlotte Ruhe

Managing Director, Central and South Eastern Europe

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), United Kingdom

Abdulaziz Sager

Founder & Chairman

Gulf Research Center, Saudi Arabia

Paul Salem

Vice President for International Engagement

Middle East Institute, United States

Saran Samir

President, Observer Research Foundation; Curator, Raisina Dialogue

India

Vicky Saporta

Executive Director, Markets

Bank of England, United Kingdom

Mary Elise Sarotte

Professor

Johns Hopkins Univ., School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC, United States

Margaritis Schinas

Vice-President

Promoting our European Way of Life, European Commission, Belgium

Benjamin Schreer

Executive Director IISS-Europe

International Institute for Strategic Studies, Germany

Moritz Schularick

President

Kiel Institute für Weltwirtschaft, Germany

Howard Shatz

Senior Economist

RAND Corporation, United States

Peter Spiegel

US Managing Editor

The Financial Times, United States

Viktorija Starych-Samuoliene

Co-Founder

Council on Geostrategy, United Kingdom

Umberto Tavolato

Director for Special Projects

Med-Or Foundation, Italy

Harry Theoharis

Member of Parliament, former Deputy Minister of Finance, Candidate for Secretary- General of UNWTO

Hellenic Parliament, Greece

Nathalie Tocci

Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Italy

Gönül Tol

Founding Director of the Turkey Program

The Middle East Institute, United States

Adam Tooze

Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History Director of the European Institute

Columbia University, United States

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Leader of the Opposition of Belarus

Belarus

Philippe Van Parijs

Professor

Universities of Louvain and Leuven, Belgium

Leslie Vinjamuri

Director of the US and Americas Programme

Chatham House, United Kingdom

Henry Huiyao Wang

Founder and President

Center for China and Globalization(CCG), China

Almut Wieland-Karimi

Senior Policy Advisor

Mercator Foundation, UN Peacebuilding Fund, Germany

Anna Wieslander

Director for Northern Europe

Atlantic Council, Sweden

Mikael Wigell

Research Director

Mikael Wigell, Finland

Deborah Wince-Smith

President and CEO; Founder and President

Council on Competitiveness; Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC), United States

Gabriele Woidelko

Head of History and Politics Department

Körber-Stiftung, Germany

Martin Wolf

Chief Economics Commentator

Financial Times, United Kingdom