Ondřej Kovařík
Keynote Speech / 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...
Major General Barre R. Seguin
Keynote Speech / USA
Retired Air Force Major General Barre R. Seguin became the Director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in June 2021. He is...
Panelists
Charles Burton
Political Panel / Canada
Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Centre for Advancing Canada’s Interests Abroad and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, European Values Center for Security Policy. Charles has published extensively on China’s...
Jaroslav Bžoch
Political Panel / Czech republic
Jaroslav Bžoch holds the position of Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and of the Committee on European Affairs in the Chamber of Deputies of the...
Scott Eastman
Political Panel / USA
Scott Eastman is a geopolitical forecaster and analyst, identified as a “Superforecaster™” by outperforming the average of the US Intelligence Community by more than 30% without...
Karel Havlíček
Welcome Speech / Czech Republic
He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University, as well as PIBS at Manchester Metropolitan University, and completed his doctoral studies...
Marcin Jerzewski
Political Panel / Poland
Marcin Jerzewski is the Head of the Taiwan Office of the European Values Center for Security Policy. He also serves as an analyst contributing to the...
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
Economic Panel / Denmark
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard has been a nonresident senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and a resident senior fellow with the German Marshall...
Robert Králíček
Security Panel / Czech republic
Robert Králíček currently works as a Member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Committee on Security and the Committee...
Jan Macháček
Welcome Speech and 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...
Jeff Medeiros
Economic Panel / USA
Jeff Medeiros is a visionary entrepreneur and educator with a track record of international success. As the co-founder of Keastone, a global software company with a...
Cameron Munter
Security Panel / USA
Cameron Munter is a global consultant based in Prague. He previously worked as a diplomat, academic, and executive. He is currently Senior Fellow at the CEVRO...
Erika Rodríguez Pinzón
Security Panel / Colombia/Spain
Erika is a sociologist and earned a Ph.D. in political science at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). Currently, she is a lecturer and associated researcher...
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...
J. E. Luís de Almeida Sampaio
Security panel / Portugal
J. E. Luís de Almeida Sampaio, born in Porto in 1957, is a distinguished diplomat with a law degree from the University of Coimbra in 1982....
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...
Weston Stacey
Economic Panel / USA
Weston Stacey has been the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic since 1992. In that time, AmCham has assisted major...
Nury Turkel
Political Panel / USA
Nury A. Turkel is an attorney, author, and a leading expert on US-China relations. He formerly served as Chair of the US Commission on International Religious...
Moderator
Filip Lukeš
Host of the whole Conference / Czech Republic
Filip Lukeš is a graduate of International Relations with a focus on Anglo-Saxon countries from the University of West Bohemia. He is currently pursuing a master’s...
Dorka Takácsy
Security Panel / Hungary
Dorka Takácsy is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID), focusing on disinformation, and a Visiting Fellow of the German Marshall...
Renata Zilli
Economic Panel / Italy/Mexico
Renata Zilli is a researcher at the European Centre for International Political Economy. She is a graduate of the master’s degree in International Economics and Latin...