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LMC 2025

Speakers

as of April 2025, updated constantly

Dmitry Adamsky

Professor at Reichman University

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

Kęstutis Budrys

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania

Steve Clemons

Editor at Large at The National Interest

Eliot A Cohen

Arleigh Burke Chair in Strategy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Gordon Corera

Security Analyst at the BBC

Ann Marie Dailey

Policy Researcher at RAND

Oleksandr V Danylyuk

Chairman of the Centre for Defence Reforms

Bob Deen

Head of the Security Unit at the Clingendael Institute

Paula Dobriansky

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

Jill Dougherty

Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University

Kimberly Dozier

Global Affairs Analyst at CNN

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

Yuri Felshtinsky

Author, Historian and Journalist

Carrie Filipetti

Executive Director of the Vandenburg Coalition
Sabine Fischer

Sabine Fischer

Senior Fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Liana Fix

Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations
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Daniel Fried

Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council

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

Shane Harris

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

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

Bart Hogeveen

Deputy Director for Cyber, Tech and Security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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

Roderich Kiesewetter

Member of German Bundestag

Janis Kluge

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

Matthew Kroenig

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

Gabrielius Landsbergis

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania

Jae-Seung Lee

Director of the Ilmin International Relations Institute at Korea University
Kadri Liik

Kadri Liik

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Fei-fan Lin

Deputy Secretary-General of the National Security Council of Taiwan

Dmytro Lubinets

Commissioner for Human Rights at the Ukrainian Parliament

Edward Lucas

Senior Advisor at Center for European Policy Analysis

Amy Mackinnon

Intelligence reporter at Politico

Maria Malmer Stenergard

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden

Katia Margolis

Artist and Public Intellectual

Daniel Markić

Director of the European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre

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

John Mead

Deputy Commander of the Joint Force Command Brunssum

Sergei Medvedev

Professor at Charles University

Irina Michalowitz

Senior Director of Policy and Government Relations at Palo Alto Networks

Arkady Moshes

Programme Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

James Nixey

Director of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House

Olga Oliker

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

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

Mihai Popșoi

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova

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

Natallia Radzina

Editor-in-Chief of Charter’97

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

Gundbert Scherf

Co-founder and Co-CEO of Helsing

Teri Schultz

Freelance NATO/EU reporter for NPR and DW

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

Sławomir Sierakowski

President of the Program Board of the Impact Conference

Radosław Sikorski

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Elena Simperl

Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London

Paul B Stares

Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations

Constanze Stelzenmüller

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

Alexander Stubb

President of the Republic of Finland

Rachel Tausendfreund

Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations

Torrey Taussig

Director and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council

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

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar

Chair of the Steering Group of the UDCG IT Coalition

Nathalie Tocci

Director of Istituto Affari Internazionali

Margus Tsahkna

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Sergey Vakulenko

Senior Fellow at Carnegie Russian Eurasia Center Berlin

Peter Van Praagh

President of Halifax

Siddharth Varadarajan

Founding Editor of The Wire

Carolina Vendil Pallin

Deputy Research Director of the Swedish Defence Research Agency

Kurt Volker

Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis

David Vseviov

Professor Emeritus at the Estonian Academy of Arts

Anja Wehler-Schöck

International Editor at Tagesspiegel

Michael Weiss

Editor of The Insider

Anna Wieslander

Director for Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council

Georgina Wright

Special Advisor at the German Marshall Fund

Osvaldo Zavala Giler

Registrar of the International Criminal Court