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LMC 2013

Speakers

Urban Ahlin

Speaker of the Swedish Riksdag

Irakli Alasania

Defence Minister of Georgia
Dr Anders Åslund portrait

Anders Åslund

Resident Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council

Graham Avery

Honorary Director General of the European Commission

Thomas Bagger

Ambassador of Germany in Poland

Péter Balás

Deputy Director General, DG Trade, European Commission

Shukria Barakzai

Member of the House of the People (Wolesi Jirga), National Assembly of Afghanistan

Zeyno Baran

Senior Fellow (on leave) with the Hudson Institute’s Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World

Hossein Bastani

Political Analyst, BBC World

Noman Benotman

President Quilliam Foundation

Carl Bildt

Co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations

Matthew Bryza

Chief Executive Officer, Lamor Turkey

Ian Brzezinski

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA

Janusz Bugajski

Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Christopher Coker

Head of Department, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Robert Cooper

Former British Diplomat, Author

Svante Cornell

Research Director, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center

Pavol Demeš

Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the USA

Valdis Dombrovskis

Prime Minister of Latvia

Fernando Teixeira dos Santos

Economist, Former Minister of Finance of the Portuguese Government

Lyse Doucet

Chief International Correspondent and Presenter BBC

Konstantin von Eggert

Commentator and Host, TV Dozhd (TV Rain)

Sandro Gaycken

Senior Researcher, European School of Management and Technology

François Géré

Director, Institut Français d’Analyse Stratégique, Paris

Natalia Gherman

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Moldova

Paul Goble

Analyst and Columnist, Window on Eurasia, and former Special Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State
Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Gottemoeller

Deputy Secretary General, NATO

Anton La Guardia

European Union Correspondent, The Economist

Dan Hamilton

Executive Director of the Centre for Transatlantic Relations

Andrei Illarionov

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

President of Estonia (2006–2016)

Tedo Japaridze

Chairman of the Georgian Parliament’s Committee on International Affairs

Pauli Järvenpää

Senior Research Fellow of the ICDS

Stian Jenssen

Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary General NATO

Eckart von Klaeden

Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and a member of the Bundestag, Germany

Jana Kobzová

Foreign Policy Advisor, Office of the President of Slovakia
Michael Köhler

Michael Köhler

Director for Neighbourhood South at the Directorate General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission

David J. Kramer

Managing Director, Global Policy, George W. Bush Presidential Center

Andrius Kubilius

Former Prime Minister of Lithuania

Batu Kutelia

Deputy Secretary at the National Security Council of Georgia

Mart Laar

Former Prime Minister of Estonia

François Lafond

Special Adviser to Deputy Prime Minister of European Affairs, Government of Macedonia
Kadri Liik

Kadri Liik

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Felix Lindner

Head of Recurity Labs, Germany

Kari Liuhto

Director, Centrum Balticum Foundation, University of Turku

Bobo Lo

Independent International Relations Analyst

John Lough

Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Jüri Luik

Permanent Representative of Estonia to NATO

Jiali Ma

Senior Researcher on South Asian Security and China-India Relations, China Institute of Contemporary

Erik Männik

Senior Fellow, ICDS

Mart Meri

Lennart Meri Foundation, Member of the Board
Federica Mogherini

Federica Mogherini

High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the Commission

Henryka Mościcka-Dendys

Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Arkady Moshes

Arkady Moshes

Programme Director, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Alaa Murabit

Founder and President, Voice of Libyan Women

Boris Nemtsov

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia

Hryhoriy Nemyria

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Committee on European Integration, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

Karlis Neretnieks

MG, Former Chief of Operations, Swedish Central Joint Command

Rain Ottis

Associate Professor at Tallinn University of Technology

Juhan Parts

Minister of Economic Affairs and Communication, Estonia

Andrei Piontkovsky

Senior Visiting Fellow

Ahmed Rashid

Journalist, Writer
Alan Riley

Alan Riley

Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Edgars Rinkevics

Edgars Rinkēvičs

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia

Andrei Sannikov

Coordinator of the civil campaign “European Belarus”.

György Schöpflin

Member of European Parliament

Teri Schultz

Independent Reporter
Harinder Sekhon

Harinder Sekhon

Senior Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation

Peter Semneby

Special Representative

James Sherr

Senior Fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the ICDS

Hanna Smith

Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute and the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Russian Studies, University of Helsinki

Eugeniusz Smolar

Foreign Policy Analyst, Warsaw

Vladimir Socor

Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, in Washington

Theo Sommer

Editor-at-Large, DIE ZEIT

Veiko Spolitis

Parliamentary Secretary, Latvian Ministry of Defence

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution

Ivan Sukhov

Head of Caucasian Broadcasting of the Russian Service of Radio Voice of Russia

Boris Tadič

Former President of the Republic of Serbia

Sergey Tsyplyaev

President, Foundation “Respublica”, St. Petersburg

Vygaudas Ušackas

Ambassador of the EU to the Russian Federation
Tomáš Valášek

Tomáš Valášek

Director, Carnegie Europe, Brussels

Brandon Valeriano

Lecturer in Politics and Global Security School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

Kurt Volker

Distinguished Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

Mike Winnerstig

Security Policy Analyst and Project Manager, FOI, Sweden