Speakers

Abla Abdel Latif

Executive Director & Director of Research

The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt

Ahmed Aboudouh

Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Head of China Studies at Emirates Policy Center

United Kingdom

Eirini Agapidaki

Alternate Minister of Health

Hellenic Republic

Ebtesam Al-Ketbi

President

Emirates Policy Center, United Arab Emirates

Mohammad Almasri

Head of the PCRSS

Palestinian Center of Strategic Researsh and Studies, Palestine

Mohamed Amersi

Chairman

Amersi Foundation

Othon Anastasakis

Director, European Studies Centre

St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Simos Anastasopoulos

President of Associations of S.A. Entrepreneurship and The Council on Competitiveness of Greece Chairman & CEO of PETSIAVAS S.A.

Greece

Spyros Andreopoulos

Founder and Chief Economist

Thin Ice Macroeconomics, Germany

Oksana Antonenko

Professor

European University Institute, Italy

Michael Arghyrou

Head of the Economics Office of the Prime Minister

Hellenic Republic

Dimitris Avramopoulos

EU Commissioner (2014-2019), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-2013), Member of the Hellenic Parliament

Moderators

Mohammed Baharoon

Director General

Dubai Public Policy Research Center (b’huth)

Joseph Bahout

Director; Associate Professor

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Peter Baker

Chief White House Correspondent

The New York Times, United States

Gerard Baker

Editor-at-Large

The Wall Street Journal, United States

Michal Baranowski

Undersecretary of State

Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Poland

Tony Barber

Writer on international affairs

Financial Times (former), United Kingdom

Roderick Beaton

Emeritus Professor, King's College London

Chairman, British School at Athens, United Kingdom

Iain Begg

Professorial Research Fellow

London School of Economics and Political Science , United Kingdom

Celia Belin

Head of Paris office and Senior Policy Fellow

ECFR, France

Jenna Ben-Yehuda

Executive Vice President

Atlantic Council, United States

Michael Bernitsas

Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

CEO, Vortex Hydro Power, United States

Moreno Bertoldi

Senior Associate Research Fellow

ISPI - Italian Institute for International Political Studies, Belgium

Martin Bialecki

Editor in Chief

DGAP / Internationale Politik, Germany

Elaine Birchall

Non-Executive Director

Eakin Healthcare Group, United Kingdom

Michail Bletsas

Governor of the National Cybersecurity Authority of Greece

Malgorzata Bonikowska

President

Centre for International Relations, Poland

Konstantina Botsiou

Professor of Political History and International Relations

University of Piraeus, Greece

Mark Bromley

Director, Dual-use and Arms Trade Control Programme

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden

Ian Brzezinski

Senior Fellow

Atlantic Council, United States

Nicholas Burns

Professor

Harvard Kennedy School, United States

Creon Butler

Director, Global Economy and Finance Program

Chatham House, United Kingdom

Moderators

James Carafano

Senior Counselor to the President and E.W. Richardson Fellow

The Heritage Foundation, United States

Constantinos Cartalis

Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, Greece

Gautam Chikermane

Vice President

Observer Research Foundation, India

Themis Christophidou

Director-General for Regional and Urban Policy

European Commission, Europe

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook

Executive Vice President/Senior Advisor

Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany

Alexander Cooley

Professor and Vice Provost for Research

Barnard College, Columbia University

Mathias Cormann

Secretary-General

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Simon Critchley

Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York

United States

Moderators

Ivo H. Daalder

Chief Executive Officer

Chicago Council of Global Affairs

Galip Dalay

Senior Consulting Fellow, Turkiye Initiative, Middle East & North Africa Programme

Chatham House

Rob De Wijk

Founder

HCSS

Sivaaji De Zoysa

Founder and Managing Director

Gaia Greenway Group, Sri Lanka

Maria Demertzis

Professor of Economic Policy

Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI

Patrick Deneen

Professor

University of Notre Dame, United States

Anna Diamantopoulou

President, Diktio - Network for Reform in Greece and Europe; Former EU Commissioner

Nikola Dimitrov

President

Balkan Center for Constructive Policies - SOLUTION Skopje, North Macedonia

Meletios Dimopoulos

Professor of Therapeutics of Hematology-Oncology

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Department of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

Hugo Dixon

Commentator-at-Large

Reuters

Paula J. Dobriansky

Vice Chair

Atlantic Council Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Valdis Dombrovskis

Commissioner

European Commission, Belgium

Haris Doukas

Mayor of Athens

City of Athens

George Doukidis

Professor of eBusiness

Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

William Drozdiak

Global Fellow

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Moderators

Evan Ellis

Latin America Research Professor

U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, United States

Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces

President of the UN 73rd General Assembly, Board of Trustees Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

Chad Evans

Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

Council on Competitiveness, United States

Moderators

Kevin Featherstone

Emeritus Professor

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Constantinos Filis

Director/Professor

Institute of Global Affairs/American College of Greece, Greece

Gordon Flake

Chief Executive Officer

Perth USAsia Centre, Australia

Thanasis Fokas

Professor

Academy of Athens and University of Cambridge, Greece

Simon Fraser

Chair

Chatham House, United Kingdom

Oscar Friedel

Director of Programmes

Helsing, France

Moderators

Alexander Gabuev

Director

Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Germany

Paolo Gentiloni

Prime Minister of Italy (2016-2018), Commissioner for Economy, European Commission (2019-2024)

Adonis Georgiadis

Minister of Health

Hellenic Republic

George Gerapetritis

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Hellenic Republic

Tassos Giannitsis

Emeritus Professor, University of Athens

Minister of Labour & Social Security (2000 -2001), Hellenic Republic

Susan Glasser

Staff Writer

The New Yorker, United States

Arancha Gonzalez

Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs

Sciences Po

Yanos Gramatidis

Partner

Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners, Greece

Alvin Graylin

Author, Our Next Reality Digital Fellow, Stanford HAI Sr. Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute Chairman, Virtual Reality Society Lecturer, MIT

United States

Ioannis N. Grigoriadis

Associate Professor & Jean Monnet Chair Bilkent University and Senior Fellow & Head, Program on Türkiye, ELIAMEP

Yoel Guzansky

Senior Fellow

INSS

Moderators

Karim Haggag

Professor of Practice

School of Global Affairs and Public Policy / American University in Cairo

Gikas Hardouvelis

Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Bank of Greece; Minister of Finance (2014-2015)

Greece

Charles Hecker

Journalist, Author, Geopolitical Risk Consultant

United Kingdom

François Heisbourg

Special Adviser

FRS PARIS Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique

Charles Hendry

Distinguished Fellow

Atlantic Council, United Kingdom

Victoria Hislop

Writer

United Kingdom

Michael Huether

Director and Member of the Presidium

German Economic Institute, Germany

Moderators

Costas Kadis

Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans

European Commission

Dimitrios Kairidis

Member of Parliament; Minister of Migration and Asylum (2023-2024)

Hellenic Republic

Maria Karaklioumi

Political Analyst

Netrino Advisory & SpearMind AI, Greece

Ioannis Kefalogiannis

Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection

Hellenic Republic

Mikhail Khodorkovskii

Founder

Russian Anti-War Committee, United Kingdom

Fadlo Khuri

President

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Guillaume Klossa

President, EuropaNova; Chairman of the board, Conclave; CEO, T-life

Gerald Knaus

Chairman

European Stability Initiative (ESI), Germany

Daniel Kochis

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Hudson Institute, United States

Athanasios Kontogeorgis

Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister

Presidency of the Government, Hellenic Republic

Marilena Koppa

Professor of Comparative Politics

Panteion University, Greece

Giorgos Kotsiras

Deputy Minister

Ministry of National Economy and Finance, Hellenic Republic

Markos Kounalakis

Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution

Lecturer, Stanford University, United States

Valeriia Koval

Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for the Development of the Ecosystem of Digital and Offline Personalized Services

Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Ukraine

Larry Kramer

President and Vice Chancellor

London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Alena Kudzko

Executive Director

GLOBSEC US Foundation, Slovakia

Krishna Kumar

Executive Vice President of Research

NORC at the University of Chicago

Konstantinos Kyranakis

Alternate Minister for Transport

Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Hellenic Republic

Koray Köse

CEO & Chief Analyst

KŌSE Advisory, United States

Moderators

Vassiliki Lazarakou

Chair

Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Greece

Ian Lesser

Distinguished Fellow and Advisor to the President

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Cheng Li

Founding Director

Centre on Governance of China and the World (CGCW), University of Hong Kong

James M. Lindsay

Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

David Lubin

Michael Klein Senior Research Fellow in the Global Economy and Finance Programme

Chatham House

Moderators

Bronwen Maddox

CEO and Director

Chatham House

Stefan Mair

Executive Board Director

German Institute for International & Security Affairs , Germany

Ioannis Maniatis

Member of the European Parliament, Professor; Former Minister and Deputy Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (2009-2015)

Pavlos Marinakis

Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and Government Spokesman

Presidency of the Government, Hellenic Republic

Terry Martin

TV News Anchor/Journalist

Free agent

Matthias Matthijs

Senior Fellow for Europe

Council on Foreign Relations, United States

Francis Maude

Co-Chair

Greek-British Symposium

Tarek Megerisi

Visiting Fellow

ECFR, United Kingdom

Lina Mendoni

Minister of Culture

Hellenic Republic

Mabel Lu Miao

Co-founder & Secretary General

Center for China and Globalization, China

Domna Michailidou

Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs

Hellenic Republic

Greg Mills

Senior Associate Fellow: RUSI;Strategic Advisor: Leader of the Democrqtic Alliance, South Africa;Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Economics, University of Navarra

GREG MILLS & ASSOCIATES, South Africa

Joaquim Miranda Sarmento

Minister of State and Finance

Ministry of Finance, Portugal

Wilhelm Molterer

Former Vice Chancellor of Austria

Chairman of the Board of Directors, GLOBSEC, Austria

Vassilis Monastiriotis

Professor of Political Economy;El. Venizelos Chair of Contemporary Greek Studies;Director, Hellenic Observatory

London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Georgette Mosbacher

Ambassador

GME Consulting ; Co- Chair, 3 Seas programming, Atlantic Council's Europe Center, United States

Andrew Mueller

Journalist

Monocle, United Kingdom

Maira Myrogianni

Secretary General for Greeks Abroad & Public Diplomacy

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic

Moderators

Nik Nanos

Chief Data Scientist & Founder

Nanos Research, Canada

Alexander Nehamas

Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature Emeritus

Princeton University, United States

Susan Neiman

Director

Einstein Forum, Germany

Kalypso Nicolaidis

Chair in International Affairs, School of Transnational Governance

EUI, Italy

C. L. Max Nikias

President Emeritus and Professor

University of Southern California , United States

Moderators

Young-jin Oh

President & Publisher

THE KOREA TIMES, South Korea

Ehud Olmert

Prime Minister of Israel (2006-2009)

Burcu Ozcelik

Senior Fellow, Middle East, North Africa and Turkey Security Programme

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), United Kingdom

Soli Ozel

Lecturer

Kadir Has University, Türkiye

Moderators

George Pagoulatos

Ambassador of Greece to the OECD

Greek Delegation to the OECD

Ana Palacio

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2002-2004)

Kingdom of Spain

Christina Papaconstantinou

Deputy Governor

Bank of Greece

Georgios Papaconstantinou

Full-time Professor, Chair in International Political Economy, Academic Director, Global Executive Master

European University Institute, Florence School of Transnational Governance, Italy

Nikos Papathanasis

Alternate Minister of Finance & Economy

Hellenic Republic

Gladden Pappin

President

Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Hungary

Volker Perthes

Senior Distinguished Fellow

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany

David H. Petraeus

Chairman

KKR Global Institute, United States

Charles Powell

Director

Elcano Royal Institute, Spain

Anita Prakash

Head

Research Lab Asia, India

Shishir Priyadarshi

President, Global Relations

Adani Group, India

Geoffrey Pyatt

Assistant Secretary of State, Energy Resources (2022-2025); Senior Managing Director for Energy and Critical Minerals, McLarty Associates; Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council Global Energy Center

Moderators

Mandeep Rai

Founder

The Values Compass, United Kingdom

Matthew Rojansky

President

USRF

Grégoire Roos

Director, Europe, Russia & Eurasia

Chatham House, United Kingdom

Rainer Rudolph

Vice Chairman

Munich Security Conference (MSC)

Moderators

Paul Salem

Vice President for International Engagement

Middle East Institute, Lebanon

Sten-Kristian Saluveer

Director

Tallinn Digital Summit - hosted by the Prime Minister of Estonia, Estonia

Carla Sands

Chair, Foreign Policy Initiative, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Energy Policy, AFPI US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark (ret.)

America First Policy Institute, United States

Andreas Richard Schaal

Global Relations and Cooperation Director and Sherpa

OECD, France

Alexander Schallenberg

President

Europe's Futures Initiative (EFI), Austria

George Scutaru

CEO

New Strategy Center, Romania

Howard J. Shatz

Senior Economist

RAND

Monika Sie Dhian Ho

General Director

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Slawomir Sierakowski

President of the Program Board

Impact CEE Conference, Senior Fellow DGAP, Head of Krytyka Polityczna

Kostas Skrekas

MP for Trikala, Secretary General

Nea Demokratia

Dimitrios Sotiropoulos

Professor of Political Science

National and Kapodistrian University Athens, Greece

Yannis Stournaras

Governor

Bank of Greece

Monika Sus

Professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute and Faculty Member of the Hertie School

Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland