2025 Speakers

Program in progress – full list of speakers will be announced soon.

Adnan Rondić

Presenter and senior reporter, Al Jazeera Balkans

Andrew M. Rohling

Deputy Chair of the NATO Military Committee

Ante Kotromanovic

Former Minister of Defence, Croatia

Borut Pahor

Former President of Slovenia

Christian Schmidt

High Representative, Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dragan Krapović

Minister of Defence of Montenegro

Fritz Rademacher

Professor, Regional Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

Jakov Milatović

President of Montenegro

James Sherr OBE

Honorary Fellow, ICDS and Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Jasmina Kos

Presenter and reporter, Al Jazeera Balkans

Judy Rising Reinke

Ambassador, U.S. Embassy in Montenegro

Klaus Welle

Academic Council Chairman, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

Kurt Volker

Advisory Board Co-Chair, BGR Group

Marie-Doha Besancenot

Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

Martin Sklenár

Distinguished Fellow, GLOBSEC, and Former Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic

Milica Pejanović-Đurišić

Chairwoman, Atlantic Council of Montenegro

Milo Đukanović

Former President of Montenegro

Miroslav Lajčák

EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues

Nikola Lunić

Executive Director, Council for Strategic Policy

Peter Grk

National Coordinator for the Western Balkans at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia and Secretary General of the Bled Strategic Forum

Rachel Tausendfreund

DGAP

Reinhold Lopatka

Member of the European Parliament

Steven Erlanger

Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe, The New York Times

Tomas Jermalavičius

Head of Studies/Research Fellow, ICDS

Tomáš Pojar

National Security Adviser, Government of the Czech Republic

Victoria Vdovychenko

Program Director for Security Studies, Center for Defence Strategies

Werner Fasslabend

President, AIES and Vice President of the Board, ATA

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