Breadcrumb Home Brussels Forum 2024 Confirmed Speakers Brussels Forum 2024 Confirmed Speakers Program Experts Speakers Michal Baranowski Former Managing Director, GMF East & Regional Director, Poland Warsaw Office Sebastian Bay Former Team Leader, Election Security, Swedish Election Authority; Hybrid CoE Karan Bhatia Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Stephen Biegun Trustee Hendrik Bourgeois Vice President for Government Affairs Europe, Intel Howard G. Buffett Chairman and CEO, The Howard G. Buffett Foundation Aaron Chang Director of Operations Vice President Mike Pence Heather A. Conley Former Senior Adviser to the Board of Trustees Washington, DC Office Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer President Washington, DC Office Rachael Dean Wilson Former Managing Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy and US Elections Washington, DC Office Addisu Demissie Principal and Co-founder, 50+1 Strategies Nataliya Drozd Chairwoman, Dobrochyn Center Steven Erlanger Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, New York Times Henry Foy Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times Alicia Garcia Herrero Chief Economist for Asia Pacific, Natixis Mircea Geoană Deputy Secretary General, NATO Mark Gitenstein Ambassador, US Mission to the European Union Tara Hariharan Managing Director of Global Macro Research, NWI Management LP Jan Hoogmartens Head of Cabinet, Office of the Foreign Minister, Belgium Chrissy Houlahan Member, US House of Representatives (D-PA) Karl Jensen Executive Vice President, AECOM Sarah Jones Managing Director, Leadership Programs Washington, DC Office Věra Jourová Vice President for Values and Transparency, European Commission Karen Kornbluh Former Distinguished Fellow for Technology and Competitiveness Washington, DC Office Dan Kildee Member, US House of Representatives (D-MI) Ivan Krastev Chairman, Center for Liberal Strategies Hadja Lahbib Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Federal Cultural Institutions Ian Lesser Distinguished Fellow Brussels Office Imants Lieģis Former Minister of Defense, Latvia Eva Maydell Member, European Parliament Dorothy McAuliffe Special Representative for Global Partnerships, Office of Global Partnerships, US Department of State George Melashvili Founder and President, The Europe-Georgia Institute Chris Murphy Member, US Senate (D-CT) Mike Pence 48th Vice President of the United States Olivia Perez-Cubas Managing Director, Bullpen Strategy Group Peter Pomerantsev Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute Amelia Powers Gardner Chair, Utah County Commission Samira Rafaela Member, European Parliament Stefano Sannino Secretary General, European External Action Service Ana Santos Pinto Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, Nova University of Lisbon Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen Member, House of Lords, United Kingdom General (Retired) Curtis M. Scaparrotti Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group Bret Schafer Former Senior Fellow, Media and Digital Disinformation, Alliance for Securing Democracy Washington, DC Office Teri Schultz Reporter, NPR and Deutsche Welle Christopher Schroeder (Chair) Author, Entrepreneur, and Venture Capitalist Valentyna Shulimborska COO, Ro3kvit Julianne Smith Ambassador, US Mission to NATO Stuart Smith Director, ARUP Michael Turner Member, US House of Representatives and Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (R-OH) Celeste Wallander Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, US Department of Defense Gunnar Wiegand Visiting Distinguished Fellow Brussels Office Aleksandra Karolina Wiśniewska Member of Parliament, Poland
Rachael Dean Wilson Former Managing Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy and US Elections Washington, DC Office
Hadja Lahbib Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Federal Cultural Institutions
Dorothy McAuliffe Special Representative for Global Partnerships, Office of Global Partnerships, US Department of State
Bret Schafer Former Senior Fellow, Media and Digital Disinformation, Alliance for Securing Democracy Washington, DC Office
Michael Turner Member, US House of Representatives and Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (R-OH)
Celeste Wallander Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, US Department of Defense