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LMC 2025

Speakers

as of April 2025, updated constantly

Hiroyuki Akita

Commentator for Nikkei

Minna Ålander

Associate Fellow at Chatham House

HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal AlSaud

Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Omar Ashour

Professor of Security & Military Studies

Eli Bar-On

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MENA2050

Baiba Braže

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia

Steve Clemons

Editor at Large at The National Interest

Gordon Corera

Security Analyst at the BBC

Ann Marie Dailey

Policy Researcher at RAND

Paula Dobriansky

Vice Chair of the Atlantic Council Snowcroft Center for Strategy & Security

Jill Dougherty

Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University

Natalia Drozdiak

US National Security Reporter at Bloomberg News

Onno Eichelsheim

Chief of Defence of the Netherlands

Espen Barth Eide

Foreign Minister of Norway

Steven Erlanger

Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe at The New York Times

Carrie Filipetti

Executive Director of the Vandenburg Coalition

Yevgeniya Gaber

Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council

Susan Glasser

Staff Writer and Columnist at The New Yorker

Camille Grand

Distinguished Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations
JJ Green

JJ Green

National Security Correspondent at WTOP Radio

Jakob Hallgren

Director of Swedish Institute of International Affairs

François Heisbourg

Special Advisor at the Paris Foundation Pour la Recherche Stratégique

Benjamin Hilgenstock

Head of Macroeconomic Research and Strategy at the Kyiv School of Economics Institute

Ben Hodges

Former Commander US Army Europe
Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

President of Estonia (2006–2016)

Shashank Joshi

Defence Editor at The Economist

Rikard Jozwiak

Europe Editor at Radio Free Europe

Kersti Kaljulaid

President of Estonia (2016-2021)

Kaja Kallas

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

Nobukatsu Kanehara

Executive Director of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Alar Karis

President of Estonia

Sylvie Kauffmann

Editorial Director at Le Monde

Marta Kepe

Senior Defence Analyst at RAND

Gabrielius Landsbergis

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania

Jae-Seung Lee

Director of the Ilmin International Relations Institute at Korea University

Fei-fan Lin

Deputy Secretary-General of the National Security Council of Taiwan

Edward Lucas

Senior Advisor at Center for European Policy Analysis

Carlo Masala

Chair for International Politics at Bundeswehr University Munich

Ralph Mathekga

Senior Expert at the Geopolitical Intelligence Services

Jade McGlynn

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

Sergei Medvedev

Professor at Charles University

Arkady Moshes

Programme Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Zohar Palti

Chair of Strategic Dialogue at the European Leadership Network

Hanno Pevkur

Minister of Defence of Estonia

Nataša Pirc Musar

President of the Republic of Slovenia

David Priess

Senior Fellow at Michael V Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security

Jana Puglierin

Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations Berlin

Kaupo Rosin

Director General of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service

Charly Salonius-Pasternak

CEO at Nordic West Office

Mary Elise Sarotte

Fellow at the Belfer Center and Center for European Studies at Harvard

Daniela Schwarzer

Member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung

Radmila Shekerinska

NATO Deputy Secretary General

Sameh Shoukry

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt

Radosław Sikorski

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Elena Simperl

Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London

Constanze Stelzenmüller

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

Rachel Tausendfreund

Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations

Élie Tenenbaum

Director of the Security Studies Center at the French Institute of International Affairs

Bruno Tertrais

Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research

Nathalie Tocci

Director of Istituto Affari Internazionali

Sergey Vakulenko

Senior Fellow at Carnegie Russian Eurasia Center Berlin

Siddharth Varadarajan

Founding Editor of The Wire

Carolina Vendil Pallin

Deputy Research Director of the Swedish Defence Research Agency

Anja Wehler-Schöck

International Editor at Tagesspiegel

Anna Wieslander

Director for Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council