Speakers 2021

Ada Ámon

Head of Department of Climate and Environmental Affairs at the Budapest City Hall

Agis Tsouros

Advisor, WHO Healthy Cities

Ágnes Urbán

Director, Mertek Media Monitor; Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest

Aleksandra Dulkiewicz

Mayor of Gdansk

Alina Polyakova

President of the Center for European Policy Analyis

Amandine Roggeman

Member of the French Citizens' Convention for Climate

Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program , Center for a New American Security

Anna Lisa Boni

Secretary General of Eurocities

Anne Applebaum (online)

Pulitzer Prize winning Historian, Journalist

Ben Rhodes

author, political commentator and former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama

Benedek Jávor

Head of Brussels Representation, Budapest City Hall

Benjamin Novak

Doctoral Candidate, John Hopkins University; Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute

Brendan Boyle

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook

Director, German Council on Foreign Relations

Charles Gati

Professor Charles Gati, Senior Research Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, USA

Charles Sabel

Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School

Claudia Gamon

MEP, NEOS, Renew Europe

Cristina Corduneanu-Huci

Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute, Associate Professor, Central European University

Dániel Bartha

Director for Foreign Affairs, Equilbrium Institute

Dániel Hegedűs

Regional Director, Central Europe, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Daniel Kelemen

Professor of Political Science and Law, Rutgers University

David Blankenhorn

Founder and President, Institute for American Values

David Koranyi

Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Budapest on City Diplomacy, Hungary

David Shullman

Senior Advisor, International Republican Institute

Diána Ürge-Vorsatz

Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Professor, Central European University

Didi Kirsten Tatlow

Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations

Dirk Holemans

Co-President, Green European Foundation (GEF), Director, Oikos

Fabian Zuleeg

Chief Executive and Chief Economist, European Policy Center

Peter Kurz

Mayor of Mannheim, Germany

Edit Inotai

Journalist, Balkan Insight, ARD

Edward Lucas

Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

Eileen O’Sullivan

Deputy Mayor of Frankfurt

Ellen Ueberschär

Co-President, Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Emese Lafferton

Assistant Professor, Central European University

Enrico Letta

President of the Institute Jacque Delors, former Italian Prime Minister

Gábor Kemenesi

assistant professor, National Laboratory of Virology, Pécs

Gábor Kerpel-Fronius

Deputy Mayor of Budapest

Gergely Karácsony

Mayor of Budapest

Gianluca Misuraca

Vice President, Inspiring Futures, Special Advisor, Re-Imagine Europa

George Tilesch

President, PHI Institute for Augmented Intelligence, Co-Author, BetweenBrains: Taking Back our AI Future

Heather Grabbe

Open Society European Policy Institute, University College London

Hermano Sanches Ruivo

Deputy Mayor of Paris

Howard Dean

Board Member, National Democratic Institute

Ivan Vejvoda

Acting Rector, IWM

Ivan Vukovic

Mayor of Podgorica, CEU alumnus

Jamie Bartlett

Author of The Dark Net, Former Senior Fellow at Demos UK

János Kocsány

CEO, Graphisoft Park

Jason Worlledge

Regional Program Director, IRI

Jean Asselborn

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Luxembourg

Jennifer McCoy

Distinguished Professor, Georgia State University

Júlia Király

Associate professor, Corvinus University & IBS Budapest

Kata Tüttő

Deputy Mayor of Budapest

Katalin Cseh

Member of the Hungarian National Assembly for the Momentum Movement, former MEP

Lana Pukanić

Member of Institute for Political Ecology (IPE)

Larry Diamond

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

László Balkányi

former Knowledge Manager at the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control

László Bruszt

Director, CEU Democracy Institute, Professor, Central European University

LaTosha Brown

Co-founder, Black Voters Matter Fund

Laura Pérez

Deputy Mayor of Barcelona

Mark Blyth

Author of Angrynomics, Professor of Political Science, Brown University

Marlene Wind

Director, Center for European Politics; Professor, University of Copenhagen

Martin Churavý

Head of City Diplomacy, Prague

Martin Sandbu

Financial Times

Martin Wolf

Financial Times

Martina Smuclerova

Senior Fellow in International Law, Ambis University/Sciences Po

Mathew Burrows

Director, Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, Atlantic Council

Matt Schrader

Advisor, IRI

Matúš Vallo

Mayor of Bratislava, Slovakia

Nancy Soderberg

Senior Resident Director for Kosovo, NDI

Nick Thorpe

Central Europe Correspondent at BBC

Omar Al-Rawi

City Councillor, Vienna

Péter Balázs

Professor Emeritus, CEU, Former EU Commissioner, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hungary

Peter Langer

Director, European Danube Academy

Peter Pomerantsev

Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Rafał Trzaskowski

Mayor of Warsaw

Robert Braun

Associate Professor, senior researcher Science, Technology and Social Transformation Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Roderick Parkes

Head of Program, Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies

Rumena Filipova

Chairperson and Co-Founder, Institute for Global Analytics

Sándor Zsíros

Euronews

Senem Aydin-Düzgit

Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University, Istanbul

Sergey Lagodinsky (online)

Member of the European Parliament, Greens/European Free Alliance

Shan-Shan Huang

Deputy Mayor, Taipei City Government

Srdja Popovic

Founder and Executive director of CANVAS

Thomas Carothers

Thomas Carothers, interim president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Tim Dixon

Co-founder, More in Common

Timothy D. Snyder

Professor, Yale University

Timothy Garton Ash

Professor, Oxford University

Tom Tugendhat

UK MP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Tomislav Kezarovski

investigative journalist, North Macedonia

Tomislav Tomašević

Mayor of Zagreb

Věra Jourová

Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency

Virginijus Sinkevičius

European Commissioner for the Environment & Oceans and Fisheries

Wen-tsan Cheng

Mayor of Taoyuan City

Zdeněk Hřib

Mayor of Prague, Czech Republic

Zora Jaurová

Member of the Parliament of National Council, Slovak Republic; Vice-Chairwoman, Progressive Slovakia

Zsolt Enyedi

Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute, Professor, Central European University

Zsuzsanna Szelényi

Program Director, CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy; Senior Fellow, CEPA; former Member of Parliament, Hungary