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...

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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...

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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),...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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