Speakers

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

Stephane Boujnah

CEO & Chairman of the Managing Board

Euronext, France

Eugenia Bozou

Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy for Google Greece, Cyprus & Malta

Google

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

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

Nicholas Chryssanthopoulos

Senior Partner

EOS Capital Partners, Greece

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

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

Vesna Damjanić

Editor in Chief TV

Bloomberg Adria Serbia, Serbia

Zsolt Darvas

Senior Fellow

Bruegel, Belgium

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

Aliki Drakouli

President

Axion Hellas, Greece

William Drozdiak

Global Fellow

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Lars Ebert

Secretary General

Culture Action Europe, Belgium

Evan Ellis

Latin America Research Professor

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

Nikos Erinakis

Asst. Professor of Philosophy, UoC &

Director of Research, ENA Institute, Greece

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

Georgios Evgenidis

Anchorman

Star Channel, Greece

Kevin Featherstone

Emeritus Professor

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Lee Feinstein

President

McLarty Associates, United States

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

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

Apostolos Gkoutzinis

Partner

Milbank LLP, United Kingdom

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

Pierre Gramegna

Managing Director

European Stability Mechanism, Luxembourg

Alvin Graylin

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

United States

Peter Gries

Professor Emeritus

University of Manchester (UK), Greece

Ioannis N. Grigoriadis

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

Yoel Guzansky

Senior Fellow

INSS

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

Lauriane Heau

Researcher, Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden

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

Christopher Hill

Former Ambassador to Serbia, Iraq, South Korea, Poland, and North Macedonia

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, United States

Victoria Hislop

Writer

United Kingdom

Michael Huether

Director and Member of the Presidium

German Economic Institute, Germany

Bettany Hughes

Historian, Broadcaster and Author

SandStone Global, United Kingdom

Fiona Jeffery

President

Just A Drop, United Kingdom

Costas Kadis

Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans

European Commission

Dimitrios Kairidis

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

Hellenic Republic

Evangelos Kanoulas

Professor and Founder

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Lindita Karadaku

Journalist, Anchorwoman, author of TV Documentaries

ABC News Albania, Albania

Maria Karaklioumi

Political Analyst

Netrino Advisory & SpearMind AI, Greece

Ioannis Kefalogiannis

Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection

Hellenic Republic

Ghassan Khalil

UNICEF Representative

UNICEF, Greece

Mikhail Khodorkovskii

Founder

Russian Anti-War Committee, United Kingdom

Fadlo R. Khuri

President

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Victoria Kimonides

Co-Founder biomet.life Ltd UK, BoD Bioinnovation

biomet.life ltd, United Kingdom

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

Svitlana Kovalchuk

Executive Director

YES (Yalta European Strategy), Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine

Larry Kramer

President and Vice Chancellor

London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Guy Krief

Partner

Big Pi Ventures, Greece

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

Vassiliki Lazarakou

Chair

Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Greece

Elena Lazarou

Director General

ELIAMEP, 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)

Elisabeth Lipiatou

Head of Unit European Commission Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology

European Commission, Belgium

David Lubin

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

Chatham House

Bronwen Maddox

CEO and Director

Chatham House

Nicolas Mahler

CEO (interim) / CFO

Vantage Towers AG, Germany

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)

Eugenia Manolidou

Director

Elliniki Agogi - School of Ancient Greek, Greece

Nikos Marantzidis

Professor of Political Science

University of Macedonia, Greece

Pavlos Marinakis

Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and Government Spokesman

Presidency of the Government, Hellenic Republic

Christoph Marschall von Bieberstein

Chief Diplomatic Correspondent

Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

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

Filipe Medon

Professor at FGV Rio Law, Researcher at its Center for Technology and Society, and Assistant Coordinator at its AI Hub

FGV Rio Law, Brazil

Christos Megalou

CEO

Piraeus Bank, Greece

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

Costas Mitropoulos

Chairman

Intergalactic Services S.A., Greece

Wilhelm Molterer

Former Vice Chancellor of Austria

Chairman of the Board of Directors, GLOBSEC, Austria

Andrew Monaghan

Senior Associate Fellow

NATO Defense College, United Kingdom

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

Heracles Moskoff

Secretary General for Vulnerable Persons and Institutional Protection

Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Greece

Andrew Mueller

Journalist

Monocle, United Kingdom

Maira Myrogianni

Secretary General for Greeks Abroad & Public Diplomacy

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic

Nik Nanos

Chief Data Scientist & Founder

Nanos Research, Canada

Mario Nava

Director General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

European Commission, Belgium

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

Andrea Nicastro

War correspondent

Corriere della Sera, Italy

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

Simon Nixon

Editor

Wealth of Nations, United Kingdom

Young-jin Oh

President & Publisher

THE KOREA TIMES, South Korea

Ehud Olmert

Prime Minister of Israel (2006-2009)

John Oredo

Senior Lecturer

University of Nairobi, Kenya

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

George Pagoulatos

Ambassador of Greece to the OECD

Greek Delegation to the OECD

Ana Palacio

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2002-2004)

Kingdom of Spain

Alexandra Palli

Chair of BoD

CSR HELLAS, Greece

Yannis Panagopoulos

President

Greek General Confederation Of Labour, Greece

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

Takis S. Pappas

Political Scientist and Author

Gladden Pappin

President

Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Hungary

Aspasia Pastra

Assistant Professor

World Maritime University, Sweden

Prokopios Pavlopoulos

Former President of the Hellenic Republic

Member of the Academy of Athens

Volker Perthes

Senior Distinguished Fellow

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

Jean Pisani-Ferry

Senior Fellow

Bruegel, France

Athanasios Platias

Professor Emeritus of Strategy

University of Piraeus, Greece

Lusine Poghosyan

Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor of Nursing; Professor of Health Policy and Management; Executive Director Center for Healthcare Delivery Research & Innovations (HDRI)

Columbia University, 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

Sergey Radchenko

Professor

Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, SAIS/Johns Hopkins, United States

Faysal Rahman

Director

Deutsche Bank, United Kingdom

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)

Andrea Ruggeri

Professor of Political Science

University of Milan, Italy

Filippos Sachinidis

Former Minister of Finance (2012-2012); Scientific Council Coordinator

Progressive Lab, Greece

Katerina Sakellaropoulou

President of the Hellenic Republic (2020-2025)

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

Jeffrey Schlegelmilch

Associate Professor for Professional Practice in Climate, Director National Center for Disaster Preparedness

Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, United States

George Scutaru

CEO

New Strategy Center, Romania

Alexandra Sdoukou

Spokesperson, New Democracy &

F. Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy

Howard J. Shatz

Senior Economist

RAND

Eugenia Siapera

Professor, (co)Director UCD Centre for Digital Policy

University College Dublin, Ireland

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

Theodore Skylakakis

Member of Parliament State; Minister of Environment and Energy (2023-2025); Alternate Minister of Finance (2020-2023)

Dimitrios Sotiropoulos

Professor of Political Science

National and Kapodistrian University Athens, Greece

Alkiviadis Stefanis

Governor, Mount Athos, f. Minister of National Defence, Hellenic Republic, Honorary Chief of the Hellenic Army

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

Evangelos Syrigos

Member of the Parliament

Hellenic Parliament

Dubravka Šuica

Commissioner for the Mediterranean

European Commission

Maria Tadeo

Head of EU News and Correspondent

Euronews

Frank Talbot

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Atlantic Council, United States

Spyros Theodoropoulos

Chairman

SEV, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, Greece

Stig Thorgersen

Partner | Global Consulting Government & Infrastructure Leader

EY, Norway

Nathalie Tocci

Director

Institute of International Affairs

Antonia Trichopoulou

Member of the Athens Academy

Academy of Athens, Greece

Julia Tsetis

President & CEO

UNI-PHARMA & InterMed, Greece

Vasileios Tsianos

Vice President

Neo Performance Materials, Canada

Dimitrios Tsiodras

Member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

Loukas Tsoukalis

President

Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece

Robert Tyler

Senior Policy Advisor

New Direction - Foundation for European Conservatism, United Kingdom

Harlan Ullman

Chairman

The Killowen Group, United States

Sanam Vakil

Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme

Chatham House, United Kingdom

Konstantin Valkov

Director Special Projects and University Lecturer

New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria

Robin Van Puyenbroeck

Executive Director - Business Development

World Trade Centers Association, United States

Anna Van Zoest

Director

Netherlands Atlantic Association, Netherlands

Georgios Varouxakis

Professor of the History of Political Thought

Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Miltiadis Varvitsiotis

Vice President and CEO

Skaramangas Shipyards, Greece

Evangelos Venizelos

former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Professor emeritus of Constitutional Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Nikos Vettas

General Director, IOBE and Professor

Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Leslie Vinjamuri

President and CEO

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Joshua Volz

Special Envoy for Energy Integration

U.S. Department of Energy, United States

Ioannis Vougioukas

CEO

Cooperative Bank of Epirus, Greece

Henry Huiyao Wang

Founder and President, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

Former Counselor to China State Council

Anna Wieslander

Director for Northern Europe

Atlantic Council

Deborah Wince Smith

President & CEO

Council on Competitiveness, United States

Martin Wolf

Chief Economics Commentator

Financial Times

Cornelia Woll

President

Hertie School Berlin, Germany

Lawrence Yanovitch

CEO and Founder

OPSWF, France

Tomoyuki Yoshida

Chief Executive Director

The Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan

Viktor Yushchenko

President of Ukraine (2005-2010)

George Zanias

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Eurobank, Greece

Endy Zemenides

Executive Director

Hellenic American Leadership Council

Valbona Zeneli

Senior Fellow

Atlantic Council, United States

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Director

Bruegel, Belgium