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LMC 2024

Speakers

The list of speakers is preliminary and will be continuously updated.

Faisal J Abbas

Editor-in-Chief of Arab News

Dubai Abulhoul

Chief Executive Officer at Fiker Institute

Hiroyuki Akita

Commentator at Nikkei

Ed Arnold 

Research Fellow for European Security at the Royal United Services Institute 

Michał Baranowski

Managing Director of the German Marshall Fund East

Emily Benson 

Director of Project on Trade and Technology at Center for Strategic and International Studies  

Carl Bildt

Co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations

Marshall Billingslea

Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute

Piotr Buras

Senior Policy Fellow and Head of the European Council on Foreign Relations in Warsaw

Christopher S Chivvis

Director and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

Eliot A Cohen

Arleigh Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies 

Oleksandr V Danylyuk

Chairman of the Centre for Defence Reforms

Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer

Senior Vice President of Geostrategy and Member of the Executive Committee at the German Marshall Fund of the United States

Kimberly Dozier

Global Affairs Analyst at CNN

Dmitry Dubrovskiy 

Research Fellow at Charles University 

Yuli Yoel Edelstein 

Chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset 

Steven Erlanger

Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe at The New York Times
Sabine Fischer

Sabine Fischer

Senior Fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Henry Foy

Brussels Bureau Chief at the Financial Times

Ulrike Franke

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Yevgeniya Gaber

Professor of National Security George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies 

Frank Gardner

Security Correspondent at BBC

Luigi Sergio Germani

Director of Gino Germani Institute for Social Sciences and Strategic Studies
JJ Green

J.J. Green

National Security Correspondent at WTOP 

Gustav Gressel 

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations 

Benjamin Haddad

Member of the French National Assembly

Olena Halushka 

Head of Board and Co-Founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory 

Igli Hasani

Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania

Martin Herem

Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces

Benjamin Hilgenstock

Senior Economist at Kyiv School of Economics

Ben Hodges

Former Commander of US Army Europe, FBH Geostrat Consulting GmbH 

Rusif Huseynov 

Director of Topchubashov Center

Keiichi Ichikawa 

Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary and Deputy National Security Adviser 
Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

President of Estonia (2006–2016)

Guðni Th Jóhannesson 

President of Iceland 

Pål Jonson

Minister for Defence of the Kingdom of Sweden

Jan Christian Kaack

Chief of the German Navy

Kornely Kakachia

Director of the Georgian Institute of Politics

Kaja Kallas

Prime Minister of Estonia

Alar Karis

President of Estonia

Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Senior Fellow and Director with the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security 

Janis Kluge

Deputy Head of Research Group at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs 

Rihards Kols

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia

Matthew Kroenig

Vice President and Senior Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and Director of Studies at the Atlantic Council

Philippe Lavigne

Supreme Allied Commander Transformation at NATO/ACT

Jae-Seung Lee

Professor at Korea University and Director of Ilmin International Relations Institute

Tobias Lindner

Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office

Barry C Lynn 

Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute 

Daniel Markić

Director of the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Republic of Croatia

Jade McGlynn

Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London

Rym Momtaz

Consultant Research Fellow for European Foreign Policy and Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

Alexandru Musteață 

Director of the Security and Intelligence Service of the Republic of Moldova 

Hanna Notte

Director of Eurasia Non-proliferation Program at James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies

Olga Oliker

Director of the Europe and Central Asia Program at the International Crisis Group

Markéta Pekarová Adamová 

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Benyamin Poghosyan

Senior Research Fellow at the APRI Armenia

Samuel Ramani 

Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute 
Alan Riley

Alan Riley

Visiting Professor at the College of Europe 

Charlotta Rodhe

Deputy Director of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies

Nils Schmid

Member of the German Bundestag

Jim Sciutto 

Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst at CNN 

Timothy Snyder

Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University

Andrei Soldatov

Editor of Agentura.ru

Jakob Stokes 

Senior Fellow at the Indo-Pacific Security Program Center for a New American Security  

Benjamin Tallis

Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations

Margus Tsahkna

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Sergey Vakulenko

Non-Resident Scholar at Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Center

Carolina Vendil Pallin

Deputy Research Director of the Swedish Defence Research Agency

Pierre Vimont

Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe

Johann David Wadephul

Member of Bundestag, Deputy Chairman for Foreign Affairs and Defence Policy, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group at the Council of Europe

Celeste Wallander

Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy