Andrej Babiš
Keynote Speaker, Czech Republic
Andrej Babiš has been the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic since December 2017. He served from 2014 to 2017 as Czech Deputy Prime Minister and...
Dita Charanzová
Keynote Speaker; Political Panel, Czech Republic
Dita Charanzová studied at the University of Economics in Prague and later at the Academy of Diplomacy in Madrid. In 2001 she successfully defended her dissertation...
Věra Jourová
Keynote Speaker, Czech Republic
Věra Jourová is currently Vice – President of the European Commission. She is responsible for Values and Transparency. In the previous Juncker’s Commission, her portfolio was Justice,...
Hans Van Baalen
Keynote Speaker, Netherlands
Hans van Baalen was elected President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party on a two-year mandate on 21 November 2015 at the...
Panelists
Rebecca Christie
Economic Panel, USA/ Belgium
Rebecca Christie joined Bruegel as a visiting fellow at Bruegel between March 2019 and February 2020. Prior, Rebecca was a political correspondent in Brussels for Bloomberg...
Susan Corke
Security Panel, Czech Republic
Susan Corke is a senior international affairs leader, democracy advocate, and former State Department official with a proven record over two decades in policymaking, program management, and diplomacy. Currently,...
Jeroen Dobber
Security Panel, Belgium
Jeroen Dobber is the head of the FNF Security Hub and follows political developments in the EU and NATO, with special focus on foreign and security...
Andreas Freytag
Economic Panel, Germany
Dr. Andreas Freytag is Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, where he chairs the Schumpeter-Centre, Director of Tutwa Europe, Visiting Professor in the Institute of...
Ondřej Kovařík
Economic Panel, Czech Republic
Mr. Ondřej Kovařík was born on August 21, 1980 in Kyjov. He studied international trade, international politics and diplomacy at the University of Economics in Prague...
Jan Macháček
Welcome Speech, Economic Panel, Czech Republic
Jan Macháček is a Czech journalist and musician, working as a commentator and analyst for the daily newspaper Lidové noviny. Before, he worked for Hospodářské noviny and Respekt, the latter of...
Milda Matačiūnaitė-Boyce
Closing Remarks, USA
Milda Matačiūnaitė-Boyce is the Director of Transatlantic Leadership at the Center for European Policy Analysis where she leads CEPA’s transatlantic fellowship programs, strengthening the Institute’s commitment to...
Lubomír Metnar
Security Panel, Czech Republic
Lubomír Metnar is a Czech politician who has been the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic since June 2018. Mr Metnar graduated from the Post-Secondary...
Petr Pavel
Security Panel, Czech Republic
General Petr Pavel, former Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army and former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. He holds many Czech and international...
Tomáš Petříček
Politický panel, Česká republika
Tomáš Petříček was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 16, 2018. Tomáš Petříček was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, in charge of setting the...
Tomáš Pojar
Security Panel, Czech Republic
Tomáš Pojar is Vice President for International Relations of the Prague based Cevro Institute and defense, security, and foreign affairs consultant. From 2010 until 2014 Tomáš Pojar served...
Šárka Prát
Welcome Speech, Czech Republic
Šárka Prát is the director of the Institute for Politics and Society. In this position, she is responsible for managing a team and the implementation of...
Lauren Speranza
Security Panel, USA
Lauren Speranza is Director of the Transatlantic Defense and Security program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), leading CEPA’s work on NATO and defense...
Jan Švejnar
Economic Panel, Czech Republic/ USA
Founder of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education-Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) in Prague and a chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI and...
Sasha Toperich
Political Panel, USA
Sasha Toperich is Senior Executive Vice President of the Transatlantic Leadership Network. From 2013 to 2018, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Mediterranean...
Linda Zeilina
Economic Panel, Great Britain
Linda is the Founder and CEO of ISFC, overseeing the strategic development of the think tank and its work on sustainable investing. Linda is a Fellow...
Jitka Látal Znamenáčková
Political panel, Czech Republic
Since September 2020 Jitka Látal Znamenáčková has been a Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic in the Political and Security Committee of the European Union. She...
Moderator
Michala Hergetová
Moderator of the conference, Czech Republic
TV reporter and moderator of the business news and events Graduated from the University of Economics in Prague with the specialization in the International Trade and...