Breadcrumb Home Brussels Forum 2025 Confirmed Speakers Brussels Forum 2025 Confirmed Speakers Program Experts Speakers Wally Adeyemo Former Deputy Secretary of Treasury, US Department of the Treasury Michał Baranowski Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Poland Cici Battle Social Impact Strategist, Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network Fellow ‘19 Jo Inge Bekkevold Senior Adviser, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Thorsten Benner Director, Global Public Policy Institute Meredith Berger former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, US Kristine Berzina Senior Fellow, US Defense and Transatlantic Security Washington, DC Office Carl Bildt Council Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations John Boerstler GMF Visiting Senior Fellow; Head of Public Sector, Ipsos Public Affairs; Former Chief Experience Officer, US Department of Veterans Affairs Washington, DC Office Nadia Calviño President, European Investment Bank Joyce Chang Chair of Global Research, J.P. Morgan Dan Conston Former President, Congressional Leadership Fund Helene Cooper Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times Sudha David-Wilp Vice President of External Relations and Senior Fellow Berlin Office Thierry Déau Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam Fernando Dominguez-Pinuaga Vice President Global Outreach, SandboxAQ Mark Duffy Senator, Parliament of Ireland; Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network Fellow ‘23 John B. Emerson Vice Chairman, Capital International, Inc. Adrian Fontes Secretary of State, Arizona Henry Foy Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times Heike Freund Chief Operating Officer, Marvel Fusion Theodora Gentzis Secretary-General and President of the Board of Directors, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium Dr. Dalia Ghanem Senior Visiting Fellow, GMF South Lindsay Gorman Managing Director & Senior Fellow, GMF Technology Washington, DC Office Benjamin Haddad Minister Delegate for Europe, France Tara Hariharan Managing Director of Global Macro Research, NWI Management LP Heidi Heitkamp Former Senator, North Dakota Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer President Washington, DC Office Fernando Iglesias Member, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar External Affairs Minister, India Dan Jørgensen Commissioner for Energy and Housing, European Commission Kaja Kallas Commissioner, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President, European Commission Keith Kellogg Assistant to the President and Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine Jacob Kirkegaard Senior Fellow, Bruegel Agatha Kratz Partner, Rhodium Group Ewa Krukowska Deputy Bureau Chief, Bloomberg Andrius Kubilius Commissioner for Defence and Space, European Commission Sergey Lagodinsky Member, European Parliament Gabrielius Landsbergis Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lithuania Ian Lesser Distinguished Fellow Brussels Office Miriam Lexmann Member, European Parliament Gus MacGregor-Millar General Manager for Defense and Intelligence, Microsoft Dr. Claudia Major Senior Vice President, Transatlantic Security Berlin Office Maria Malmer Stenergard Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden Ottilia Maunganidze Head of Special Projects, Institute for Security Studies Frank McCourt Founder and Executive Chairman, Project Liberty Tobias Meyer Chief Executive Officer, DHL Group Dan Michaels Brussels Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal Zaynab Mohamed Minnesota State Senator; Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network Fellow ‘25 Penny Naas Senior Vice President, Innovation and Competitiveness Washington, DC Office Vali Nasr Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Heather Nauert Advisory Board Member, BGR Group Lucy Okumu Visting Fellow, Leadership Programs Washington, DC Office Stanley Pignal Columnist, The Economist Tatiana Prazeres Foreign Trade Secretary, Brazil Maxime Prévot Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Development Cooperation, Belgium Martin Quencez Senior Fellow and Special Advisor to the President Michelle Rozo Vice Chair, National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology Daniel Runde Senior Vice President and Director of Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS Walter Russell Mead Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute David Salvo Former Managing Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy Washington, DC Office General (Retired) Curtis M. Scaparrotti Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group Christopher Schroeder (Chair) Author, Entrepreneur, and Venture Capitalist Brad Setser Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Radmila Shekerinska Deputy Secretary General, NATO Desmond Shum Businessman and Author Andrew Small Former Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Program Berlin Office Jeanna Smialek Brussels Bureau Chief, The New York Times Kristen Soltis Anderson Republican Pollster and Writer Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann Member and Chair, Committee on Security and Defence, European Parliament Zsuzsanna Szelényi Director, Democracy Institute Leadership Academy for Central and Eastern Europe; Marshall Memorial Fellow ’93 Neera Tanden President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for American Progress Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Head, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus Daniel Twining President, International Republican Institute Mene Ukueberuwa Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal Gesine Weber Former Fellow Paris Office Matthew Whitaker Permanent Representative, US Mission to NATO Darren Woods Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, ExxonMobil Georgina Wright Senior Fellow and Special Adviser to the President Paris Office Jörg Wuttke Partner, DGA Group Pierre Yared Vice Chair and Member, Council of Economic Advisers, Office of the President of the United States Arseniy Yatsenyuk Chair, Kyiv Security Forum Barçın Yinanç Journalist and Foreign Policy Analyst, Y24
John Boerstler GMF Visiting Senior Fellow; Head of Public Sector, Ipsos Public Affairs; Former Chief Experience Officer, US Department of Veterans Affairs Washington, DC Office
Theodora Gentzis Secretary-General and President of the Board of Directors, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium
Kaja Kallas Commissioner, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President, European Commission
Vali Nasr Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Maxime Prévot Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Development Cooperation, Belgium
Walter Russell Mead Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann Member and Chair, Committee on Security and Defence, European Parliament
Zsuzsanna Szelényi Director, Democracy Institute Leadership Academy for Central and Eastern Europe; Marshall Memorial Fellow ’93
Pierre Yared Vice Chair and Member, Council of Economic Advisers, Office of the President of the United States