GLOBSEC 2018 Bratislava Forum - Speakers

Alan Riley

Senior Fellow, Insttute for Statecraft, London

Aleksey Pushkov

Chairman of the Commission on Information and Media, Council of Federation, Federal Assembly of the Russian...

Alena Kudzko

Deputy Research Director, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Bratislava

Alexander Klimburg

Director, Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Hague

Ali Aslan

International Presenter, Berlin

Andrej Babiš

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Andrej Kiska

President of Slovakia
Anosh Thakkar

Anosh Thakkar

Senior Vice President for Digitalisation, Shell, Amsterdam

Anwar Gargash

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates

Arnaud Danjean

Vice-Chair, Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, European Parliament, Brussels

Arthur Runge-Metzger

Director, DG Climate Action, European Commission, Brussels

Aya Yoshida

Head of Asia Pacific and Partnership Division, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Ben Makuch

Reporter, Vice News, Toronto

Bobo Lo

Russia Research Fellow, French Institute for International Affairs, Paris

Brian Whitmore

Director, Russia Program, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C.

Carl Bildt

former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden; Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations, Stockholm

Catherine Ashton

Chair, Global Europe Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former High Representative of the European...

Christian Danielsson

Director General of Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission, Brussels

Christopher Painter

Former Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U. S. Department of State, Washington, D. C.

Claudia Major

Senior Associate, International Security Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin

Damon Wilson

Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council, Washignton, D. C.

Daniel Milo

Head of Strategic Communication Programme, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Bratislava

Danit Gal

Project Assistant Professor, Global Research Institute, Keio University, Tokyo

Denis Mercier

Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, NATO, Norfolk

Erin Marie Saltman

Lead Policy Manager for Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism, Facebook, London

Frank Gardner

Security Correspondent, BBC, London

Frederic de Wilde

President European Union, Philip Morris International, Lausanne

Gabriela Fischerová

Director General, Directorate of Climate Change and Air Pollution, Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic

Gregori Lebedev

Chairman, Center for International Private Enterprise, Washington, D. C.

Gudrun Wacker

Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin

Hans-Jakob Schindler

Coordinator, ISIL (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations Security Council, New York

Howard Bromberg

Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Air and Missile Defence, Lockheed Martin, Washington, D. C.

Ian Brzezinski

Senior Fellow, The atlantic council, Washington, D.C.

Isaac Ben-Israel

Head of Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, Tel Aviv University

Ivan Korčok

Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic integration

Jacek Czaputowicz

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw

Jakub Wiśniewski

Vice President, GLOBSEC; Director, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Bratislava

Jamie Fly

Director, Future of Geopolitics Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, D. C.

Jan Krzysztof Bielecki

Chairman of the Partners Board, Ernst & Young Poland, Warsaw

Jānis Sārts

Director, Director, Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, NATO, Riga

Jeff Moss

Founder and CEO, DEF CON, Seattle

Jeffrey Sachs

Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York

John Allen

President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C.

Joseph Hwang

Program Director, Institute of Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Taoyuan City

Joseph Nye

Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge

Julio Alejandro

Global Communications, aeternity Blockchain, London

Jüri Luik

Minister of Defence of the Republic of Estonia

Kacper Rękawek

Head of Defence and Security Programme, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Bratislava

Katarína Kakalíková

Director, Public Policy In Europe, Mastercard

Katarína Mathernová

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

Kathleen Koch

Author, Journalist, and Founder, LeadersLink, Washington, D.C.

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Founder, Innovation and Planning Agency, Vienna

Klaus Foedinger

Managing Director and Chairman of the Board, CRH Slovakia, Bratislava

Koichi Ai

Director General (acting), The Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo

Kurt Volker

U. S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, U. S. Department of State, Washington, D. C.

Larry Schuette

Director of Global Science and Technology Engagement, Lockheed Martin, Washington, D. C.

Laura Rosenberger

Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy, Washington, D. C.

Laurence Bindner

Consultant on the spread of jihadist content online, Paris

Levente Magyar

Deputy Minister and Parliamentary State Secretary

Magnus Ranstorp

Research Director, Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies, Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm

Maqsoud Kruse

Executive Director, Hedayah, The International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

Marek Rosa

CEO & CTO, GoodAI, Prague

Mari Kiviniemi

Deputy Secretary-General, OECD, Paris

Marietje Schaake

Member, European Parliament, Brussels

Marina Kaljurand

former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia; Chair, Global Commission on the Stability...

Mark Lyall Grant

Former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, London

Maroš Šefčovič

Vice President for the Energy Union, European Commission, Brussels

Martin Sajdik

Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, OSCE, Vienna

Martin Stropnický

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Martina Larkin

Head of Europe & Eurasia, Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, Geneva

Matthew Karnitschnig

Chief Europe Correspondent, POLITICO Europe, Brussels

Melissa Hathaway

Senior Adviser, Cybersecurity Initiatives, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University,...

Merle Maigre

Director, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

Michael Chertoff

former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace,...

Michèle de Waard

Reporter, Het Financieele Dagblad, The Hague

Mike Maddison

Partner, EMEIA Advisory Cyber Leader, Ernst & Young, London

Miroslav Lajčák

Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Mobashar Jawed Akbar

Minister of State for External Affairs of the Government of India

Natalie Nougayrède

Columnist, The Guardian, London

Nicholas J. Rasmussen

former Director, National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington, D. C.

Nik Gowing

International Presenter, London

Norbert Kurilla

State Secretary, Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic

Olaf Kolkman

Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society, Amsterdam

Patrick Tucker

Technology Editor, Defense One, New York

Paul Taylor

Contributing Editor, POLITICO Europe, Brussels

Pauline Neville-Jones

Member, House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern, London

Peter Pellegrini

Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava

Peter Terem

Head of the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Faculty of Political Science and International Relations,...

Peter Vesterbacka

Founder, Slush; Co-Founder, Lightneer; former Mighty Eagle, Angry Birds, Helsinki

Philip Breedlove

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe

Predrag Bošković

Minister of Defence of Montenegro

Ralf Ketzel

Senior Vice President, KMW, Munich

Randy Scheunemann

Member of the board of directors, international Republican Institute, Washington, D.C.

Rastislav Káčer

Honorary Chairman, GLOBSEC, Bratislava

Róbert Vass

President, GLOBSEC, Bratislava

Samir Saran

President, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi

Sara Stefanini

Freelance Journalist, London

Scott Carpenter

Managing Director, Jigsaw, Alphabet Inc, Washington, D.C.

Sophie Gaston

Deputy director, Demos, London

Steve Clemons

Washington Editor-at-large, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.

Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei

Minister of Energy and Industry of the United Arab Emirates

Tacan Ildem

Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO, Brussels

Theresa Fallon

Director, Centre for Russia, Europe, Asia Studies, Brussels

Thomas Greminger

Secretary General, OSCE, Vienna

Thomas Silbehorn

Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal...

Tom Clark

Chief Political Correspondent, Global News, Ottawa

Tom Nuttall

Charlemagne Columnist, The Economist, Brussels

Tomáš Valášek

Director, Carnegie Europe, Brussels

Tong Zhao

Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing

Tze Yun Leong

Director, AI Technology, AI Singapore, Singapore

Vassily Nebenzia

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations

Vazil Hudák

Vice-President, European Investment Bank

Vladimír Bilčík

Politics Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Philosophical Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava

Vyacheslav Nikonov

Chairman, Committee on Education and Science, State Duma, Moscow

Wolfgang Ischinger

Chairman of the Munich Security Conference

Zuzana Gabrižová

Editor-in-chief, EURACTIV Slovensko, Bratislava

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