2024 Speakers

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