Speakers

Adéla Jurečková

Director, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Prague

Ágnes Urbán

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

Alexander Ackerl

Member of the Vienna City Council and Vienna State Parliament for the SPÖ

Andi Dobrushi

Director, OSF Western Balkans

Andrea Szabó

Senior Research Fellow, ELTE Center for Social Sciences

Anett Mádi-Nátor

Cybersecurity expert, Managing Partner, CyEx

Art O’Leary

Chief Executive, Irish Electoral Commission

Attila Varga

Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University

Benedek Jávor

Head of Brussels Representation, Budapest City Hall

Carsten Q. Schneider

Interim President and Rector, CEU

Diana Kupper

Green Finance Expert, Global Green Growth Institute

Dorka Takácsy

Research Fellow, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy

Ece Özbey

Co-Managing Editor, Review of Democracy

Elliot Wang

Representative, Taipei Representative Office in Hungary

Eszter Kováts

Researcher, University of Vienna; Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute

Ferenc Németh

PhD Candidate, Corvinus University of Budapest

Gábor Scheiring

Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Georgetown University Qatar

Gergely Karácsony

Mayor of Budapest

Ivan Krastev

Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

James O’Brien

Former Head, Office of Sanctions Coordination, U.S. Department of State

Katalin Cseh

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

Krisztián Orbán

Managing Partner, Oriens

Lars-André Richter

Director, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Prague

Lili Takács

Journalist, 444.hu

Maciej Kisilowski

Associate Professor of Law and Strategy, Central European University

Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach

Global Engagement Strategist, Free Press Unlimited; Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

Ming-chin Monique Chu

Author of The East Asian Computer Chip War; Lecturer in Chinese Politics, University of Southampton

Nóra Schultz

Political theorist, podcaster

Pawel Zerka

Senior policy fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Peter Kraus

City Councilor, Vienna; Co-Leader, Green Party

Péter Krekó

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

Rafał Trzaskowski

Mayor of Warsaw

Raluca Radu

Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest

Renáta Uitz

Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute

Richard Turcsanyi

Program Director, Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS); Assistant Professor, Palacky University

Srdjan Cvijić

President, International Advisory Committee, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy; Co-founder, Belgrade Security Conference

Szabolcs Dull

Journalist, political analyst, lawyer

Tamás Matura

Founder, Central and Eastern European Center for Asian Studies

Una Hajdari

Journalist, Politico Europe

Vujo Ilić

Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Zsuzsanna Szelényi

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

Zsuzsanna Végh

Program Officer, The German Marshall Fund of the United States