Speakers 2023

Ada Ámon

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

András Bartók

Assistant Lecturer at the University of Public Service, Analyst at Political Capital Institute

András Földes

journalist, hvg.hu

Anja Wehler-Schöck

International Editor, Tagesspiegel

Anna Unger

Assistant Professor, Institute of Political and International Studies, Eötvös Lóránd University

Anton Shekhovtsov

Director, Centre for Democratic Integrity

Balázs Felsmann

Associate Professor at Corvinus University, Senior Researcher at Regional Energy Policy Research Centre

Balázs Vedres

Senior Research Fellow at CEU Democracy Institut

Bas Eickhout

Member of the European Parlaiment

Benedek Jávor

Head of Brussels Representation, Budapest City Hall

Benjamin Denis

Senior Policy Advisor, IndustriAll European Trade Union

Benjamin Novak

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

Beth Goldberg

Head of Research, Jigsaw at Google

Blanka Zöldi

Editor-in-Chief of Lakmusz

Boris Kálnoky

Head of the School of Media, Mathias Corvinus Collegium

Dániel Hegedűs

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

Daphne Halikiopoulou

Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of York

Dénes Krusovszky

József Attila Prize-winning Poet, Critic and Translator

Didier Reynders (online)

European Commissioner for Justice

Dorka Takácsy

Research Fellow, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy

Edit Inotai

Journalist, Balkan Insight, ARD

Edit Zgut-Przybylska

re:constitution Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute

Eero Yrjö-Koskinen

Executive Director, Institute for European Environmental Policy

Elisa Ferreira (online)

European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms

Eva van de Rakt

Head of the Division EU/North America, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin

Flóra Garamvölgyi

Contributing Writer, The Guardian; Investigative Reporter, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Gábor Kerpel-Fronius

Deputy Mayor of Budapest

Gergely Karácsony

Mayor of Budapest

Gladden Pappin

President, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs

Goran Buldioski

Executive Director, Open Society – Europe and Central Asia

Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield

MEP, Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA)

Helena Dalli (online)

European Commissioner for Equality

Irina Kravchenko (online)

Deputy Head of Ukraine, EBRD

Jan Philipp Albrecht

President, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

János Kendernay

Senior Adviser on City Diplomacy, Budapest City Hall

Jeffrey Gedmin

Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, American Purpose; Acting President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague

Jesse Scott (online)

Research Fellow, German Institute for Economic Research

John Morijn

Professor, University of Groningen, Fellow in Law and Public Policy, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs

Jordan Warlick

Policy Advisor at the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Joseph E. Uscinski

Professor, University of Miami

Karolina Zbytniewska

Editor-in-Chief, Euractiv.pl

Katalin Cseh

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

László Bruszt

Director, CEU Democracy Institute, Professor, Central European University

Liu Shih-chung

Taiwan Representative to Hungary

Lo Ping-cheng (online)

Minister without Portfolio and Spokesperson at Executive Yuan in Taiwan

Lucia Plaváková

Deputy Party Leader at Progressive Slovakia

Magdalena Grabowska

Associated Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (online)

Poet, Novelist, Literary critic

Márta Pardavi

Co-Chair, Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Matthijs Bogaards

Associate Professor, CEU; Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute

Michael Jennewein

Researcher for Democracy and Economics at Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung

Michael Shermer (online)

Founding Publisher, Skeptic magazine; host, The Michael Shermer Show; Presidential Fellow, Chapman University

Mihnea Cătuți

Head of Research at the Energy Policy Group

Min Hsuan Wu

Co-founder and CEO, DoubleThinkLab

Nick Thorpe

Central Europe Correspondent at BBC

Nika Kovač

Founding Director, 8th of March Research Institute

Niklas Nienaß (online)

Member of the European Parliament

Ostap Sereda

Visiting Professor, CEU; Director, Invisible University for Ukraine

Péter Krekó

Director, Political Capital Institute; Policy Leader Fellow, European University Institute

Petr Luňák

Deputy Head, Engagement Section, NATO Public Diplomacy Division

Petra Guasti

Associate Professor, Charles University

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Economist at United Nations Conference On Trade And Development

Pietro Reviglio

Policy Officer, Eurocities

Réka Sáfrány

Chairwoman at Hungarian Women’s Lobby

Réka Szemerkényi (online)

Senior Advisor on Transatlantic Strategy, International Republican Institute

Roland Freudenstein

Director, Free Russia Foundation Brussels; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Brussels Freedom Hub

Rosa Martinez Rodriguez

Member of Editorial Borad, Green European Journal

Shalini Randeria (online)

President and Rector, CEU

Stéphane Bourgeois

Leader of Collaborative Low Energy Vision, European Region and European Relations; Policy Manager, NégaWatt Association

Tamás Boros

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Equilibrium Institute of Budapest

Tanja Dramac Jiries

Deputy Director, Europe, National Endowment for Democracy

Taube Van Melkebeke

Policy Manager, Green European Foundation

Tomáš Kopečný (online)

Tomáš Kopečný, Governmental Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine in Czech Republic

Tomislav Tomašević

Mayor of Zagreb

Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova

Head of Political Science PhD Programme, Riga Stradins University; Director, RSU China Studies Centre

Una Hajdari

Journalist, Politico Europe

William Browder (online)

CEO,Hermitage Capital Management; Head, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign

Žiga Faktor

Deputy Director and Head of Brussels Office, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Zsolt Enyedi

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

Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy

Associate Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Assistant Professor at the National Dong Hwa University

Zsuzsanna Szelényi

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