Speakers - Lennart Meri Conference

Knut Abraham

Head of Divison for Bilateral Relations with the States of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, Federal Chancellery, Germany

Anders Åslund

Resident Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council

Václav Bartuška

Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

James Henry Bergeron

Chief Political Advisor, Allied Maritime Command, NATO

Stephen Biegun

Senior Vice President of the Boeing Company, former US Deputy Secretary of State

Carl Bildt

Co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations

Phillip Blond

Head of the Respublica Think-Tank

Ian Bond

Director of Foreign Policy, Centre for European Reform

Reinhard Brandl

Member of the German Bundestag

Heinrich Brauss

Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, NATO

Peter Brookes

Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs, Heritage Foundation

Gerhard Conrad

Director of the EU Intelligence and Situation Centre

Robert Cooper

Former British Diplomat, Author

Andrey Dmitriev

Head of the Tell the Truth Movement, Belarus

Victor Dolidze

State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

Jill Dougherty

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

Kimberly Dozier

Global Affairs Analyst at CNN

Etienne de Durand

Deputy for Defence Policy and Strategic Foresight, Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy, Ministry of Defence, France

Konstantin von Eggert

Commentator and Host, TV Dozhd (TV Rain)

Lars Fredén

Former Swedish Ambassador

Victor Zhikai Gao

Director of the China National Association of International Studies

Anthony Gardner

Former US Ambassador to the EU

Masha Gessen

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Keir Giles

Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House

Rose Gottemoeller

Deputy Secretary General, NATO

Thomas Graham

Managing Director, Kissinger Associates

Przymyslaw Źurawski vel Grajewski

Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Ben Hodges

Former Commander US Army Europe

Saara Jantunen

Doctor of Military Science, Author

Lindsay Jenkins

Journalist and Author

Kersti Kaljulaid

President of Estonia 2016-2021, global advocate of the UN Secretary-General for Every Woman Every Child

Siim Kallas

Professor of the University of Tartu, Former Vice- President of the European Commission

Raimundas Karoblis

Minister of National Defence, Lithuania

Sarah Kendzior

Journalist, Political Analyst, Writer

James Kirchick

Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution

Jana Kobzová

Foreign Policy Advisor, Office of the President of Slovakia

Andrey Kortunov

Director General, Russian International Affairs Council

Hans Kundnani

Head of Europe Programme, Chatham House

François Lafond

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

Kai-Olaf Lang

Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Kristjan Lepik

Product Manager at Move Guides Teleport, Estonia

Enrico Letta

President of the Jacques Delors Institute, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po, and former Prime Minister of Italy

Alexey Levinson

Head of the Socio-Cultural Research Department at Levada Center

Gideon Lichfield

Correspondent and Editor

Kadri Liik

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Edward Lucas

Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Senior Adviser at CEPA

Jüri Luik

Estonian Ambassador to NATO

Hans-Georg Maaßen

President, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany

Damien McGuinness

BBC, Berlin Correspondent

Stefan Meister

Head of Program for Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia; Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia; German Council on Foreign Relations

Sven Mikser

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia

Jelena Milić

Director and Chairman of the Governing Board at the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS)

Vladimir Milov

Founding Chairman and Member of the Board, ‘Democratic Choice’ Movement, Russia

Ognyan Minchev

Executive Director, Institute for Regional and International Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria

Hemin Hussein Mirkhan

Director of the Centre for Regional and International Studies (CRIS), University of Kurdistan Hewlêr

Iztok Mirošič

Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia

Federica Mogherini

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

Christian Mölling

Research Director, German Council on Foreign Relations

Arkady Moshes

Programme Director, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Mustafa Nayyem

Member of Ukrainian Rada, Journalist

Zhanna Nemtsova

Co-Founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and Co-Director of the Boris Nemtsov Academic Centre for the Study of Russia at Charles University