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LMC 2024: Let Us Not Despair, But Act

Speakers

Dubai Abulhoul

Chief Executive Officer at Fiker Institute

Hiroyuki Akita

Commentator at Nikkei

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  

Boryslav Bereza

Ukrainian politician and former member of the Verkhovna Rada

Jonas Bering Liisberg

State Secretary for European Affairs and the Arctic at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

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 

Steve Clemons

Founding Editor at Large of Semafor

Eliot A Cohen

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

Ivo Daalder

CEO of Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Christian Danielsson

State Secretary for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister´s Office Sweden

Oleksandr V Danylyuk

Chairman of the Centre for Defence Reforms

Roman Dobrokhotov

Editor-in-Chief of The Insider

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 

Mohamed Elbadri

Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt

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
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Daniel Fried

Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council

Yevgeniya Gaber

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

Frank Gardner

Security Correspondent at BBC

Aleksandra Garmazhapova

President of the Free Buryatia Foundation

Aaron Gasch Burnett

Security Policy Fellow at the European Resilience Initiative Center

Luigi Sergio Germani

Director of Gino Germani Institute for Social Sciences and Strategic Studies

Nigel Gould-Davies

Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

Charles Grant

Director of the Centre for European Reform
JJ Green

J.J. Green

National Security Correspondent at WTOP 

Gustav Gressel

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations 

Igor Gretskiy

Research Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security

Christo Grozev

Lead Investigator at The Insider

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)

Peter Viggo Jakobsen

Associate Professor at Royal Danish Defence College

Guðni Th Jóhannesson

President of Iceland 

Kate Johnston

Associate Fellow with the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security

Seth G Jones

Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Pål Jonson

Minister for Defence of the Kingdom of Sweden

Věra Jourová

Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency

Rikard Jozwiak

Europe Editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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

Sylvie Kauffmann

Editorial Director

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

Mart Kuldkepp

Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at the University College London/University of Tartu

Dmytro Kuleba

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (online)

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

Bobo Lo

Independent International Relations Analyst

Edward Lucas

Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Senior Adviser at CEPA

Jüri Luik

Estonian Ambassador to NATO

Barry C Lynn

Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute 

Robert Magowan

Deputy Chief of Defence Staff of the Royal Marines of United Kingdom

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

Marko Mihkelson

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee at Riigikogu

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

Hanno Pevkur

Minister of Defence of Estonia

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

Jeremiah Sam

Executive Director of Penplusbytes

Samir Saran

President of the Observer Research Foundation

Nils Schmid

Member of the German Bundestag

Teri Schultz

Independent Reporter

Jim Sciutto

Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst at CNN 
Harinder Sekhon

Harinder Sekhon

Distinguished Fellow, CUTS International, Washington D.C. Centre

Anton Shekhovtsov

Director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity
Artyom Shraibman

Artyom Shraibman

Political Analyst and Founder of Sense Analytics

Timothy Snyder

Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University

Andrei Soldatov

Editor of Agentura.ru

Jacob 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

Roman Vassilenko

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Carolina Vendil Pallin

Deputy Research Director of the Swedish Defence Research Agency

Pierre Vimont

Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe

Kurt Volker

Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis

David Vseviov

Professor Emeritus at the Estonian Academy of Arts

Jonatan Vseviov

Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

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

Michael Weiss

Editor of The Insider

Peter Wilson

Director General for Europe at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Ana Isabel Xavier

Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence of Portugal