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...
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
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...
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...
Ieva Ilves
Economic panel / Latvia
Ms Ieva Ilves is a diplomat, an expert on foreign and security policy, digital politics, and cyber security with over 20 years of experience in national...
Andrea Keerbs
Political 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...
John Lloyd
Political Panel / Great Britain
John Lloyd is a British journalist and contributing editor for the Financial Times. He co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University...
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...
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Political Panel / Ukraine
Oleksandra Matviichuk is a human rights defender who works on issues in Ukraine and the OSCE region. At present, she heads the human rights organization Center...
Joanna van der Merwe
Security Panel / Netherlands
Joanna van der Merwe is a Non-resident Fellow with the Defense Tech Initiative at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Joanna holds an MA in...
Phillip Petersen
Closing Remarks / USA
Phillip A. Petersen has a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. For fifteen years he served as a United States Army officer, an intelligence analyst...
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...
Robert Pszczel
Security panel / Poland
Robert Pszczel is a Senior Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Warsaw. Between 1990-99 he was a diplomat in the Polish MFA, an expert on security...
Kira Rudyk
Security Panel / Ukraine
Kira Rudyk is the Vice President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the Leader of Holos Liberal Political Party. She has...
Šárka Shoup
Welcome Speech / Czech Republic
Šárka Shoup is the director of the Institute for Politics and Society. In this position, she is responsible for managing a team and the implementation of...
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...
Moderator
Andreas Elfving
Economic Panel / Finland
Mr. Andreas Elfving is the Head of Policy of the Svenska folkpartiet in Finland (SFP), currently in government, and a frequent commentator on US Affairs in...
Jan Havlíček
Political Panel / Czech Republic
Jan Havlíček is a graduate of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, where he acquired a Master’s degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies....
Roman Máca
Security Panel / Czech republic
Roman Máca works as an analyst at the Institute for Politics and Society. He studied the International Development Studies program at the Palacký University in Olomouc....