Speakers 2022

Agnese Kalnina

Ambassador of Latvia to Hungary

Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk

Member of the Polish Parliament

András Bíró-Nagy

Director, Policy Solutions

András Rácz (online)

Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations

Andrea Michalcova

Deputy Director, European Values Policy Center

Andreas Schedler

Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute

Balázs Felsmann

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

Bas Eickhout

Member of the European Parlaiment

Bastian Hermisson

Head of European Union and North America Division, Heinrich Böll-Stiftung

Benedek Jávor

Head of Brussels Representation, Budapest City Hall

Borislav Sandov

Former Deputy Prime Minister for Climate Policies, Minister of Environment and Water, Bulgaria

Branimir Jovančićević

Vice President, Democratic Party, Member of Serbian Parliament

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

Claire Roumet

Director, Energy Cities

Dag Hartelius

Ambassador of Sweden to Hungary

Dániel Hegedűs

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

David Koranyi

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

Désirée Bonis

Ambassador of The Netherlands to Hungary

Edit Inotai

Journalist, Balkan Insight, ARD

Edwin Bendyk

Chairman Of The Board, Stefan Batory Foundation

Eero Ailio

Policy Adviser on Energy Transition and Local Governance

Elena Avramovska

Senior Researcher, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Filip Milačić

Senior Researcher, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung

Francis Fukuyama

Senior Fellow, Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Gergely Karácsony

Mayor of Budapest

Géza Jeszenszky

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

Hanna Abdullah

Senior Program Officer & Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Hanna Hopko

expert in advocacy on Russian expansionism and hybrid warfare

Heather Grabbe

Open Society European Policy Institute, University College London

Hedvig Morvai

Director, Strategy and Europe, ERSTE Foundation

Helena Ivanov

Associate Research Fellow, Henry Jackson Society

Ilya Yablokov

Lecturer, University of Sheffield

Ivan Krastev

Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Jamie Fly

President and Chief Executive Officer, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Jan Philipp Albrecht

President, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Jean-Yves Camus

Special Counsel, Paris City Hall International Relations Department

Johanna Lutz

Head of the Vienna Office, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung

Kadri Simson

Commissioner for Energy, European Commission

Kálmán Mizsei

EU High Level Adviser on Confidence Building Measures to the Republic Moldova

Katalin Cseh

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

Kati Marton

Action for Democracy Advisory Council Chair

Kim Van Sparrentak

Member, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

Klára Siposné Kecskeméthy

Ludovika University of Public Service

László Andor

Former European Commissioner, Secretary General, FEPS

László Bruszt

Director, CEU Democracy Institute, Professor, Central European University

Manuel Sarrazin

Special Representative for the Countries of the Western Balkan, Germany

Masha Smirnova

Campaign Manager European Green Deal, Eurocities

Mathieu Lefèvre

CEO and Co-founder, More in Common

Mircea Geoană

Deputy Secretary General, NATO

Nikola Dimitrov

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, North Macedonia

Nina Hachigian

Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles

Olga Richterová

Member and Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic

Olivér Várhelyi

EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement

Orsolya Barsi

Deputy Head of the Department for Environment and Climate, City of Budapest

Paul Leonard Fox

Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Hungary

Péter Balázs

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

Péter Csunderlik

Historian, Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Research Fellow at Institute of Political History

Péter Krekó

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

Senada Šelo Šabić

Institute for Development and International Relations

Sergei Guriev

Provost, Sciences Po, Paris

Shalini Randeria (online)

President and Rector, CEU

Simon Cheng

exiled pro-democracy activist; Founder, Hongkongers in London (online)

Sofia Oliynyk

Program Coordinator “Democracy Support and Human Security”, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Kyiv Office Ukraine

Tibor Bial

Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Hungary

Timothy Garton Ash

Professor, Oxford University

Toby Trister Gati

Former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research

Viola von Cramon-Taubadel

Representative of the European Parliament

Wen-tsan Cheng

Mayor of Taoyuan City

Zsolt Szegfalvi

Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity Hungary

Zsuzsanna Szelényi

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