Speakers

Adéla Jurečková

Director, Prague Office of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Andrea Szabó

Research Professor, Eötvös Loránd University Center for Social Sciences

Benedek Jávor

Head of Representation of Budapest in Brussels

Bernadett Szél

Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute; MOFA Taiwan Fellow, 2025

Feledy Botond

Director, Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs

Carsten Q. Schneider

Interim President and Rector, Central European University

Csaba Mányai

Executive Director, Hungarian Blueprint Institute

Dániel Hegedűs

Deputy Director, Institut für Europäische Politik

Dominika Hajdu

Director for Policy and Programming, GLOBSEC

Edit Inotai

Senior Fellow, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy

Elliott Wang

Representative, Taipei Representative Office in Hungary

Gábor Rácz

Lecturer, Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Gerald Knaus

Founding Chairman, European Stability Initiative

Gergely Karácsony

Mayor of Budapest

I-Chung Lai

President, Prospect Foundation, Taiwan

István Hegedűs

Chairman, Hungarian Europe Society

Ivana Karásková

China Team Lead, Association for International Affairs

Jakub Stefaniak

Secretary of State, Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland

Jakub Wisniewski

Director, Waclaw Felczak Institute for Polish-Hungarian Friendship

Jan Philipp Albrecht

Co-president, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Jean-Yves Camus

Director, Observatoire des radicalités politiques, Fondation Jean Jaurès, Paris

Kata Tüttő

President of the Committee of the Regions

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University

Krisztián Ungváry

Research Professor, University of Miskolc

Lars-André Richter

Director, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Prague

László Eörsi

Historian

Leszek Jażdżewski

Editor-in-Chief, Liberte!; Vice-President, Fundacja Liberte!

Nathalie Tocci

Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Péter Balázs

Former Commissioner and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary

Péter Csunderlik

Research Fellow, Eötvös Loránd University

Péter Krekó

Director, Political Capital Institute; Professor, ELTE University

Randi Weingarten

President, American Federation of Teachers

Renáta Uitz

Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute

Roland Freudenstein

Freedom Hub, Senior non-resident Fellow of the Center for European Policy Analysis

Sergey Lagodinsky

Member of the European Parliament

Stefánia Kapronczay

Human Rights & Narrative Strategist

Tamás Csiki Varga

Senior Research Fellow at the John Lukacs Institute for Politics and Strategy, National University of Public Services

Thomas O. Melia

Senior Fellow, Georgetown University, Former Assistant Secretary of State

Zoltán Fleck

Professor, Eötvös Loránd University

Zoltán Tarr

Minister of Social Relations and Culture of Hungary

Zoltán Varga

CEO, Central Media Group

Zsuzsanna Szelényi

Program Director, CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy; Senior Fellow, CEPA