
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...

Jan Erik Surotchak
Keynote Speaker/ USA
Jan Surotchak first joined the International Republic Institute (IRI) in 1994 and currently serves as Senior Director for Transatlantic Strategy. Surotchak oversees IRI regional programming that...
Panelists

Tony Barber
Economic Panel/ Great Britain
Tony Barber is European Comment Editor at the Financial Times in London. He joined the newspaper in 1997 and served as bureau chief in Frankfurt (1998-2002),...

Benedetta Berti
Security Panel/ Belgium
Dr Benedetta Berti is Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General at NATO. She is also Associate Researcher at the Institute for...

Debra Cagan
Political Panel/ Czech Republic
Debra Cagan is a retired senior State Department diplomat and Defense Department official serving from the Reagan to Trump administrations, including deputy assistant secretary of Defense...

Dita Charanzová
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...

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...

Claus Gramckow
Political Panel/ Germany, USA
Claus Gramckow was appointed Head of the North America Regional Office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Washington, D.C., in February of 2005. He is also...

Karel Havlíček
Political Panel/ Czech Republic
He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech University of Ctu, pibs at Manchester Metropolitan University, completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty...

Jan Havránek
Security Panel/ Czech Republic
Jan Havránek Deputy Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic responsible for defence policy and strategy. Prior to his appointment, he was the Policy Adviser at the...

Věra Jourová
Security Panel/ 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...

Daniel Kaddik
Closing Remarks/ Germany, Belgium
Daniel Kaddik is the Executive Director of the European Liberal Forum (ELF), the political foundation of the European Liberal Party, the ALDE Party. Together with 46...

Andrea Keerbs
Security Panel/ USA, Hungary
Ms. Keerbs first began working with IRI in February 2006 in Ukraine and served there until July 2008. During that time, she was responsible for managing...

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/ 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...

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...

Mark Pfeifle
Security Panel/ USA
Mark Pfeifle was deputy national security advisor for strategic communication and global outreach at the White House from 2007 to 2009. Mark was the lead interagency...

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...
Moderator

Irena Krcháková
Moderator/ Czech Republic
Irena Krcháková began her professional career at a radio station, then moved to Czech Television. She managed to combine her personal interest in what was happening...

Pavlína Kvapilová
Moderator/ Czech Republic
Pavlína Kvapilová has 20 years of experience in large media houses (Czech Radio, Czech Television) as she was working on various positions – from editorial to...