SPEAKERS
Adnan Rondić
Presenter and senior reporter, Al Jazeera Balkans
Andreas Umland
Analyst, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)
Ashley Rhoades
Defense Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Borut Pahor
President of the Republic of Slovenia
Damon M. Wilson
President and CEO, National Endowment for Democracy
Dritan Abazović
Prime Minister of Montenegro
Daniel Markić
Director, Security and Intelligence Agency, Croatia
Edward P. Joseph
Adjunct Lecturer, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Evelyn N. Farkas
Executive director, McCain Institute, Arizona State University
Gordana Đurović
Full-Time Professor, University of Montenegro
Ivana Stradner
Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), USA and Advisor at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Jakub Kalenský
Senior analyst, Hybrid Centre of Excellence, Helsinki
Jasmina Kos
Reporter, Al Jazeera Balkans
Jasna Jelisić
Head of the Western Balkans Task Force, Strategic Communication Division of the European External Action Service, Brussels
Jason Jay Smart
Special Correspondent, Kyiv Pos
Judy Rising Reinke
U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro
Majda Ruge
Senior Policy Fellow, Wider Europe Program, European Council on Foreign Relations
Milica Pejanović-Đurišić
Chairwoman of the Governance Board, Atlantic Council of Montenegro
Milo Đukanović
President of Montenegro
Minghao Zhao
Professor at Institute of International Studies, Fudan University and China Forum Expert
Mircea Geoana
Deputy Secretary General of NATO
Miroslav Lajčák
EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western
Balkan regional issues
Richard Kraemer
President, US-Europe Alliance, non-resident senior fellow, European Values Center for Security Policy, Prague
Mykhailo Samus
Director, New Geopolitics Research Network
Noah Barkin
Managing Editor in the China practice, Rhodium Group and Visiting Senior Fellow in the Asia Program, German Marshall Fund
Péter Szijjártó
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
Roman Jakič
Founder & CEO, Galitija Business Consulting
Rumena Filipova
Chairperson, Institute for Global Analytics, Bulgaria
Savo Kentera
Director of the National Security Agency, Montenegro
Ranko Krivokapić
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Montenegro
Raško Konjević
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Montenegro
Sharyl Cross
Director, Kozmetsky Center, St. Edward’s University (Austin), USA
Siniša Vuković
Senior Lecturer of Conflict Management and Global Policy, Director of the Master of Arts, Global Policy Program (MAGP)
Sifet Podžić
Minister of Defence of BiH
Slavjanka Petrovska
Minister of Defence of the Republic of North Macedonia
Steven Feldstein
Senior fellow for International Peace, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Endowment
Sir Stuart Peach
UK Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Western Balkans
Thomas O’Donnell
Energy & Geopolitical Expert
Urmas Reinsalu
Minister ofForeign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia
Vessela Tcherneva
Deputy Director, Head, ECFR Sofia
Vladimir Shopov
Visiting policy fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine