Ľubomír Ábel Vice President of the Police Force of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic Adrian Adam Corporate & Diplomatic Sales Auto Palace Bratislava s.r.o. Slovakia Alexander Aksenenok Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Expert Committee on International Affairs Federation Council of the Russian Federation Russia Hussam Al Husseini Ambassador Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Vienna Baria Alamuddin Foreign Editor Al Hayat United Kingdom Madeleine Albright Chair; former U.S. Secretary of State Albright Stonebridge Group United States of Izabela Albrycht Chairperson of the Board Kosciuszko Institute Poland Nina Aleksieva Country Executive Honeywell Slovakia

Sinisa Aleksoski National Security Advisor Cabinet of the President of Macedonia** Emiliano Alessandri Senior Officer External Co-operation Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Austria Oľga Algayerová Ambassador Permanent Mission of the Slovak Republic to the International Organizations Ebtesam Al-Ketbi President Emirates Policy Center United Arab Emirates John Allen Former Special Presidential Envoy for Global Coalition to Counter ISIL United States of America Kristóf Altusz Deputy State Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Niels Martin Andersen Advisor to the Chairman Rasmussen Global Denmark Matej Andolšek Adviser Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia

Oliver Andonov Professor Faculty of Security SMIT University Macedonia** Ian Anthony Programme Director European Security ProStockholm International Peace Research institute (SIPRI) Sweden Oksana Antonenko Senior Political Counsellor European Bank for Reconstruction and Development United Kingdom James Appathurai Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy NATO Belgium Anne Applebaum Director Transitions Forum Legatum Institute United Kingdom Steluta Arhire Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Romania in Bratislava Jessikka Aro Investigative Reporter YLE Kioski Finland Michael Arwas Market and Competitor Analyst BAE Systems United Kingdom

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Matthew Atkins Defence Attaché Embassy of the United States of America in Bratislava Bogdan Aurescu Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Shlomo Avineri Professor The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel Ladislav Babčan Member of Minister's Cabinet Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic András Bácsi-Nagy Head of International Public Affairs MOL Group Hungary Daniel Baer Ambassador Permanent Representation of the United States of America to the OSCE John Baird Vice President Integrated Defense Systems Raytheon United States of America Falah Bakir Head of Department of Foreign Relations Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq Péter Balás Deputy Director General (rtd) DG TRADE European Commission Belgium

Péter Balázs Director Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) Hungary Zoltán Bali Head of Defence Planning Department Ministry of Defence of Hungary Peter Balík Economic Specialist Embassy of the United States of America in Bratislava Peter Balint Sales Manager HP Inc. Slovakia István Balogh Director General Department for SecuriMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Natália Barter Director B2 Consulting Slovakia John Barter Regional Director Central Europe BAE Systems (International) Limited Slovakia Lorenz Barth Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bratislava Dániel Bartha Executive Director Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID) Hungary

Vladimír Bartovic Director EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy Czech Republic Vasco Batista Spokesperson's Service of the EEAS European Commission Portugal Radoslav Baťo Advisor Office of the President of the Slovak Republic Peter Bátor Head of the Security Policy Division Office of the President of the Slovak Republic Jozef Bátora Associate Professor Department of Political Science Comenius University in Bratislava Slovakia Ansgar Baums Head Europe | Middle East | Africa Government Relations HP Germany Ján Bečky Sales Manager HP Inc. Slovakia Jozef Benčík Sales Director SAS Slovakia, s.r.o. Slovakia

Anton Bendarzsevszkij Research Director Institute of Geopolitics PAGEO - Pallas Athene Geopolitical Foundation Hungary Kristof Bender Deputy Chairman European Stability Initiative (ESI) Austria Levente Benkő Political Director & Deputy State Secretary for Security Policy Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Július Berith Chairman of the Board Virtual Reality Media, a.s. Slovakia Haydar Berk Ambassador & Director RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation Croatia Joel Best Senior Manager Europe Global Military Programs Bell Helicopter Czech Republic Subrata Bhattacharjee Ministry of State for External Affairs of the Republic of India Jaroslav Bieleny Sales Manager MSM Martin Slovakia Vladimír Bilčík Head of EU Program Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) Slovakia

Carl Bildt Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kingdom of Sweden Ana Birchall Chairperson Committee on European Affairs Parliament of the Republic of Romania Steven Blockmans Head of EU Foreign Policy Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Belgium Phillip Blond Director ResPublica United Kingdom Daniel Boestad Vice President - Gripen CEE Saab AB Czech Republic Andreja Bogdanovski Security Research Fellow Analytica Think Tank Macedonia** Radomír Boháč Director General Section of the MinistMinistry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Werner Böhler Director for Czech Republic and Slovakia Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Czech Republic David Jan Bosschaert Student College of Europe Belgium

Cristian Botan Advisor Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Romania Norbert Brada Deputy Director Office of the State Secretary Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Radovan Bránik Independent Publisher & Expert Slovakia Markus Breyer General Manager Microsoft Slovakia Josip Brkić Deputy Minister Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ingrid Brocková Director General Economic Cooperation Section Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Barbara Brooš-Budišová Attaché Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CIVCOM) Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU Belgium Jean-Louis Bruguière Eminent European Person; Antiterrorism Expert Council of Europe France Martin Bruncko Managing Partner Steam Capital United Kingdom

Matthew Bryza Member of International Advisory Board International Centre for Defence Studies Turkey Ian Brzezinski Senior Fellow The Atlantic Council United States of America Kerry Buck Ambassador and Permanent Representative Joint Delegation of Canada to NATO Belgium Neil Buckley Eastern Europe Editor The Financial Times United Kingdom Lenka Bučková Program Manager International Visegrad Fund Slovakia Goran Buldioski Director Open Society Initiative for Europe Hungary Tobias Bunde Head of Policy and Analysis & Research Associate Munich Security Conference Germany Kathy Bunka Chargé d'Affaires Embassy of Canada in Bratislava Chris Burelli Alumni Relations Specialist George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Germany

Peter Burian EU Special Representative for Central Asia European External Action Service (EEAS) Belgium Patrick Bury Consultant European Security Iniative GLOBSEC Policy Institute United Kingdom Martin Bútora Ambassador; Honorary President Institute for Public Affairs Slovakia Furkan Çako Minister of Foreign Investments Government of the Republic of Macedonia** Anne-Marie Callan Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Ireland in Bratislava Vincenzo Camporini Vice President Institute of International Affairs (IAI) Italy Helfried Carl Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Austria in Bratislava Martin Cimerman Official Foreign Affairs and Protocol Department Chancellery of the National Council of the Slovak Republic

Ján Cingel Research Fellow European Neighbourhood Program GLOBSEC Policy Institute Slovakia Jurate Cizauskaite Lawyer NATO Belgium Tom Clark Chief Political Correspondent Global News Canada Steve Clemons Washington Editor at Large The Atlantic United States of America Amy Coetzee CEO Global Voices Australia Keren Cohen-Gat Advisor Central Europe DepartMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel Oana Antonia Colibasanu Honorary Adviser; Partner - Regional Director Eurasia Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Romania; Stratfor Magnus Collett First Secretary Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden in Vienna Lazăr Comănescu Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Romania

Robert Cooper Member European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) United Kingdom Caroline Cooper Regional Director for Europe Raytheon International, Inc. United States of America Alexander Corbeil Lead Analyst Special Operations and Intelligence The SecDev Group Canada Martin Coyne Director Business Development Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control United States of America Igor Crnadak Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Katarína Cséfalvayová Vice Dean for Foreign Affairs Faculty of International Relations University of Economics in Bratislava Slovakia Éva Czimbalmosné Molnár Ambassador Embassy of Hungary in Bratislava Markéta Čadková Innovation Program Director Central Europe Saab AB Slovakia

Maja Čavlović Defence and National Security Adviser to the President Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia Daniel Čech Director General Tax and Customs Section Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic Milan Čelko Director General National Armament Department Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Radka Čížová Conference Manager European Alliance for Innovation Slovakia Christian Danielsson Director General for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations European Commission Belgium Julia De Clerck-Sachsse Adviser Strategic Planning European External Action Service Belgium Rob de Wijk Director The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) Netherlands Slawomir Dębski Director Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) Poland

Aleksandar Dedović Executive Director NVO Alpha Centar Montenegro Michelle DeFreese International Research Fellow Young Professionals for Foreign Policy United States of America Pavol Demeš Senior Transatlantic Fellow The German Marshall Fund of the United States Slovakia Attila Demkó Head of Defence Policy Department Ministry of Defence of Hungary Judy Dempsey Nonresident Senior Associate Carnegie Europe Germany Will Dempster Vice President McBee Strategic Consulting United States of America Neelam Deo Co-founder and Director Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations India Šani Dermaku Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Bratislava Vitalie Diaconu First Secretary Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Moldova to the OSCE

Angeliki Dimitriadi Research Fellow Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy Germany Filip Djuranovic Public Relations Adviser Government of Montenegro Vít Dostál Research Director Association for International Affairs (AMO) Czech Republic Peter Dostál CEO Aliter Technologies, a.s. Slovakia Juraj Droba Member of Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee National Council of the Slovak Republic Francisco Duarte Lopes Political Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal Martin Dubéci Researcher Progressive Centre Slovakia Daniel Duchoň Member of Parliament, Chairman Committee on Finance National Council of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Duračinská Security Analyst National Computer Security Incident Response Team Czech Republic

Tibor Ďurajka Head of Business Department MSM Group Ltd Slovakia Naz Durakoglu Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs U.S. Department of State United States of America Denisa Ďurišová Director of Protocol Government Office Slovakia Helen Eduards Ambassador Embassy of Kingdom of Sweden in Vienna Martin Ehl Chief International Editor Hospodářské noviny Czech Republic Kristina Eichhorst Coordinator Crisis and Conflict Management Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Germany Lawrence Elder Principal Intelligence & Investigation Practice SAS United Kingdom Amr Elhenawy Ambassador Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Bratislava

Jessica Elledge Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Chris Murphy U.S. Senate United States of America Spaden Elmhirst Product Manager – Government Solutions BAE Systems Apllied Intelligence United Kingdom Muhammad El-Orabi Chairman; former Foreign Minister of Egypt Foreign Relations Committee Parliament of the Arab Republic of Egypt Marek Eštok Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Paris Jonathan Eyal International Director Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) United Kingdom Justina Fakejevaite Group Business Development Graduate BAE Systems plc United Kingdom Theresa Fallon Senior Associate European Institute for Asian Studies Belgium Björn Fägersten Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Europe Program The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) Sweden

Martin Fedor Member of Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee National Council of the Slovak Republic Gabriel Fedorko Public Sector Lead Microsoft Slovakia Alexei Fedotov Ambassador Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bratislava Marcus Felsner President Eastern Europe Business Association of Germany Germany Tomáš Ferko Director of Protocol Department Office of the President of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Ján Figeľ Former EU Commissioner for Education, Training and Culture Slovakia Branimir Filipović Assistant Minister Section for Security Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Mary Fitzgerald Foreign Affairs Correspondent The Irish Times Ireland

Jacek Foks Deputy Director The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) Poland Frank Foley Lecturer in International Relations Department of War Studies King's College London United Kingdom Joerg Forbrig Transatlantic Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe German Marshall Fund of the United States (Berlin) Germany John Frank Vice-President EU Government Affairs Microsoft Corporation Belgium Roland Freudenstein Deputy Director and Head of Research Wilfred Martens Centre for European Studies Belgium George Friedman Founder and Chairman Geopolitical Futures United States of Amercia Karsten Friis Senior Adviser Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Norway Troels Frøling Senior Advisor Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) Denmark

Thomas Fronek Chief of Staff Directorate for Security Policy Austrian Armed Forces Austria Štefan Füle Special Envoy for the OSCE and the Western Balkans Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Ivan Gabal Member of the Chamber of Deputies Defence Committee Parliament of the Czech Republic Peter Gajdoš Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic Hana Galambošová Director's Assistant BAE Systems Slovakia Andrei Galbur Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova Tomáš Gális Commentator Denník N Slovakia Ján Gallo AML/CTF Specialist TRIDOM Institute Slovakia Boris Gandel Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Copenhagen

Margarita Ganeva Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Bratislava Fei Gao Assistant President and Academic Dean China Foreign Affairs University China Vicente Garrido Rebolledo General Director International Affairs and Foreign Policy Institute Foundation (INCIPE) Spain Andy Garth Ambassador Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Bratislava Alan Garwood Group Business Development Director BAE Systems United Kingdom Tibor Gašpar President of the Police Force of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic Marian Gazdík Managing Director Strartup Grind Europe United Kingdom Kostis Geropoulos Energy & Russian Affairs New Europe Belgium

François Gibelli PhD Candidate Ministry of Energy of the French Republic Ida Girke Business Development The Project Group GmbH Germany Wojciech Gizicki Associate Professor Institute of Political Sciences and Interbational Affairs The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Poland Tim Glaeser Vice President & Business Development Executive IDS/Business Development Raytheon Company United States of America Jakub Godzimirski Research Professor Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Norway Thomas Goetz Ambassador Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bratislava Nik Gowing International Presenter United Kingdom Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović President of the Republic of Croatia Bernarda Gradišnik Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Bratislava

Camille Grand Director Foundation for Strategic Research France Igor Grexa Director Department of Analysis and Policy Planning Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Peter Grk Secretary-General of the Bled Strategic Forum Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia Victoria Grove Student of Public Policy University of Cambridge United Kingdom Małgorzata Grzegrzółka Executive Director National Centre for Strategic Studies Poland Céline Guillermin Production Coordinator EURONEWS France Nataliya Gumenyuk Editor-in-Chief Hromadske Ukraine Igor Hajdušek Ambassador-at-Large Science and Innovation Head of Global Policy Unit Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Aleqa Hammond Member of Parliament of the Kingdom of Denmark; former Prime Minister of Greenland Parliament of the Kingdom of Denmark Pavol Hamžík Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Barbara Hanis Desk officer Cabinet of the Minister Ministry of Defence of Hungary August Hanning Former President of the German Federal Intelligence Agency Germany Michal Hanus Event Manager BMW Group Slovakia Sylvia Hartleif Head of Foreign Affairs Team European Political Strategy Centre European Commission Belgium Ofir Hason CEO CyberGym Israel Boris Haško PR Assistant BMW Group Slovakia Slovakia Peter Hatiar Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Riga

Oleh Havaši Ambassador Embassy of Ukraine in Bratislava Jan Havránek Defence Counsellor Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces of the Czech Republic Rüdiger Heinrich Military Attaché Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bratislava Zsolt Hernádi Chairman and CEO MOL Group Hungary Pascal Heyman Diplomatic Director and Defense Policy Director Cabinet of the Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of Belgium Paul Hitchcock Vice President Europe, Group Business Development BAE Systems plc United Kingdom Katarína Hlatká Economic and Political Affairs Embassy of the State of Israel in Bratislava David Hobbs Secretary General NATO Parliamentary Assembly Belgium Ivan Hodač Vice President Aspen Institute Prague Belgium

Oleksii Hodzenko Correspondent 24 Kanal Ukraine Emma Hogan Europe Correspondent The Economist United Kingdom Ola Hoglund Defence Attaché Swedish Armed Forces Czech Republic Ján Hochmann Director National Security Agency of the Slovak Republic Martina Hollá Project Manager of Tatra Summit GLOBSEC Slovakia Jana Hönschová Consultant UN Information Service (UNIS) Austria Hanna Hopko Chairperson Foreign Affairs Committee Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Enver Hoxhaj Chairman Foreign Affairs Committee Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo* Štefan Hríb Editor-in-Chief .týždeň Slovakia

Iveta Hricová Director General Directorate General for European Affairs Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Danuta Maria Hübner Chair Constitutional Affairs Committee European Parliament Belgium Vazil Hudák Advisor; former Minister of Economy of Slovakia Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic Michal Hudec CEO Energy analytics, s.r.o. Slovakia Lucia Husenicová Lecturer Department of Security Studies, Faculty of Political Science and International Relations Matej Bel University Banská Bystrica Slovakia Oleksandr Chaliy President Grand Thorton Ukraine Ukraine Martin Chandler Head of Business Development BAE Systems United Kingdom Meryl Chertoff Executive Director The Aspen Institute United States of America

Michael Chertoff Executive Chairman & Co-Founder; former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security The Chertoff Group United States of America Mikheil Chkhikvadze Chargé d'Affaires Embassy of Georgia in Bratislava Juraj Chmiel Ambassador Embassy of the Czech Republic in Budapest Krystian Chmielewski Vice President Kongsberg Defence&Aerospace AS Poland Yordanka Chobanova Advisor to the President Administration of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Andrej Chovan Economic, Energy and Climate Change Officer Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Bratislava Dušan Chrenek Head of Representation Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia Slovakia Anna Ibrisagic Senior Partner ESL&Network Belgium

Kostas Ifantis Professor of International Relations Kadir Has University, Istanbul and University of Athens Greece Masafumi Iida Senior Fellow Regional Study Department National Institute for Defense Studies Japan Masaki Ikegami Director Central and South Eastern Europe Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Tacan Ildem Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy NATO Belgium Anastasija Ilieska State Secretary Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Macedonia** Barbara Illková Director General Directorate General for International Legal and Consular Affairs Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic František Imrecze President Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic

Gianfranco Incarnato Deputy Director General Directorate General for Political Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy Masafumi Ishii Ambassador, Representative of the Government of Japan to NATO & Ambassador in Charge of Public Diplomacy in Europe Embassy of Japan in Brussels Gjorge Ivanov President of the Republic of Macedonia** Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Macedonia** Beata Jaczewska Director International Visegrad Fund Slovakia Szymon Jagiello Journalist Forbes Afrique Belgium Marián Jakubócy Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Skopje Balázs Jarábik Visiting Scholar Carnegie Endowment for International Peace United States of America Peter Javorčík Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the EU Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU Belgium

Radovan Javorčík Director Office of the State Secretary Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic John Jenkins Executive Director The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Bahrain Vuk Jeremić Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Milan Ježovica Senior Fellow M.E.S.A. 10 Slovakia Jan Jireš Deputy Director Defence Policy and Strategy Division Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces of the Czech Republic Srdjan Jovic Student Faculty of Law University of Belgrade Serbia Nasser Judeh Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Benediktas Juodka Chairman Committee on Foreign Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania

Rastislav Káčer Ambassador, Chairman GLOBSEC Hungary Martin Kačo Director Common Foreign and Security Policy Department Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Riina Kaljurand Director of the Lennart Meri Conference RKK ICDS - International Centre for Defence Studies Estonia Arnold Kammel Director Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) Austria Katarina Karan Student Faculty of Political Science University of Belgrade Serbia Jovan Karanovic Student Faculty of Law University of Belgrade Serbia Matthew Karnitschnig Chief Europe Correspondent Politico Germany Laura Kasinof Freelance print journalist Germany

Patrick Keller Coordinator for Foreign and Security Policy Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Germany Alexis Keslinke Communications Director Albright Stonebridge Group United States of America Tinatin Khidasheli Minister of Defence of Georgia Holly Kilroy Co-Founder & Head of Development Security First Ireland Anamarija Kirinić Head of the President's Cabinet Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia Brian Kirk US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer U.S. Department of Defense United States of America Róbert Kirnág Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Chișinău Andrej Kiska President of Slovak Republic Alica Kizeková Adviser to Speaker Jan Hamáček Parliament of the Czech Republic/Chamber of Deputies Livia Klausová Ambassador Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bratislava

Otokar Klein Mayor Nové Zámky City Slovakia Jakub Klepal Executive Director Forum 2000 Czech Republic Pavlo Anatoliyovych Klimkin Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Martin Klus Member of Parliament European Affairs Committee National Council of the Slovak Republic Peter Kmec Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, D.C. Veronika Kňazovická Head of European Affairs Defence Policy Department Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Markus Kneip Lieutenant General and Vice CHOD Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany Jana Kobzová Senior Programme Officer European Endowment for Democracy Belgium Kathleen Koch Author, Journalist and Founder LeadersLink United States of America

Petr Kolář Ambassador, Senior Advisor Squire Patton Boggs Czech Republic Lukáš Kolibal Aide-de-Camp to the Chairman Office of the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Belgium Oleksiy Kolomiyets President The Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies Ukraine Zbigniew Komański Defence Attaché Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Bratislava Roman Konečný Deputy Director National Security Authority of the Slovak Republic Miroslav Korba Air Chief General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic Manuel Korček Director Security Policy Department (OBEP) Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Ivan Korčok State Secretary and Government Plenipotentiary for the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Michael Kordys Managing Director BMW Group Slovakia Elena Korosteleva Director of Global Europe Centre University of Kent United Kingdom Selim Koru Analyst TEPAV Turkey Thomas Kosik Sales and Marketing Virtual Reality Media, a.s. Slovakia Igor Kosír Professor Faculty of Political Science and International Relations Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica Slovakia Robert Kosla CEE Region Director - Public Safety & National Security Microsoft CEE HQ Germany Deyana Kostadinova Head of Cabinet Administration of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Marina Kostić Specialist in International Politics Institute for Political Studies Serbia Daniel Koštoval Deputy Minister, Head of the Armaments and Acquisition Division Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces of the Czech Republic

Jacek Kotas President National Centre for Strategic Studies Poland Katarína Kováčová Analyst/Diplomat Security Policy Department Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Milan Koza Sales Manager BMW Group Slovakia Vít Koziak Director Foreign Policy Department Office of the President of the Slovak Republic David Král Director Policy Planning Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Andrej Králik Head of Press and Political section Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia Katarína Králiková First Secretary Department of General Affairs and Relations with the EU Institutions Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Mária Krásnohorská Ambassador Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Ivan Krastev Chairman Centre for Liberal Strategies Bulgaria Petr Kratochvíl Director Institute of International Relations Czech Republic Péter Krekó Director Political Capital Institute Hungary Roman Krpelan Advisor to the President of the Slovak Republic Office of the President of the Slovak Republic Michael Krutina Country Leader Raytheon Germany Ján Kubiš Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Iraq United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Iraq Eduard Kukan Member of European Parliament; former Minister of Foreign Affairs Belgium Jakub Kulhánek Deputy Minister Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Rasťo Kulich Country Manager Google Slovakia

Isabelle Kumar Presenter Euronews France Vijay Kumar Singh Minister of State for External Affairs of India India Andrzej Kupich Professor, Director Institute of Management and Economics Humanitas University in Sosnowiec Poland Darja Kuret State Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia Maksym Kyiak Co-founder Global Ukraine Foundation Ukraine Martha Lacrosse Director, Poland, GBD BAE Systems United Kingdom Agnieszka Lafita-Kopeć Head of Public Information Office The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) Poland François Lafond Senior Member Institute of European Democrats France Miroslav Lajčák Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Alba Lamberti Senior Director for Advocacy European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) United Kingdom Filip Lampaert Sales Manager Benelux – Nordics BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Belgium Olivier Landour Director Europe North America & Multilateral Affairs Ministry of Defence of the French Republic Petr Lang Program Director Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) Czech Republic Ephraim Lapid Lecturer; former Senior Intelligence Officer of Israel Defence Forces Bar-Ilan University Israel Rahakundini Laspetrini President Indonesia Institute for Maritime Studies Indonesia Shpetim Latifi Lecturer Contemporary Sciences and Technologies South East European University Macedonia** Iurie Leancă Former Prime Minister of Moldova European People's Party of Moldova

James Leeke Channel Partner Director BAE Systems Applied Intelligence United Kingdom Andrej Lehocký Portfolio Manager J&T Slovakia Myroslava Lendel Director Research and Scientific Institute of Central Europe Ukraine Miriama Letovanec Manager Fiscal & Regulatory Affairs Corporate Affairs Philip Morris Slovakia Slovakia Magnus Lewis Olsson Head of Market Area Europe, Middle East & Africa Saab AB United Kingdom Miriam Lexmann Director EU Office International Republican Institute (IRI) Slovakia Ivan Lidarev Advisor National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria Martin Lidegaard Member; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Parliament of the Kingdom of Denmark

David Lidington Minister of State for Europe Foreign & Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Simona Lightfoot Deputy Director, Business Development Europe Programs Atlantic Council United States of America Kadri Liik Senior Policy Fellow European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) United Kingdom Erika Lindauerova Managing Director HP Inc Slovakia, s.r.o. Slovakia Linas Linkevičius Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania František Lipka Ambassador Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Martina Lisická Director International Relations Department National Security Authority of the Slovak Republic Peter Lizák Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Berlin Fredrik Löjdquist Ambassador Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Sweden to the OSCE

Didier Lopinot Ambassador Embassy of the French Republic in Bratislava Atis Lots Head of Minister's Office Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia Edward Lucas Senior Vice-President Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) United Kingdom Fabrizio Luciolli President Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) Italy Petr Luňák Deputy Head Engagements Section NATO PDD Belgium Marian Lupu Former President of Parliament of Moldova Democratic Party Moldova Richard "Trey“ Lyons Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of the United States of America in Bratislava Slovakia Ewen MacAskill Defence and Intelligence Correspondent The Guardian United Kingdom Pavel Macko 1st Deputy Chief of the General Staff General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic

Ivan Máčovský State Secretary Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Lukáš Madleňák Corporate sales Autopalace Bratislava s.r.o. Slovakia Guido Maene Director General Royal Higher Institute for Defence Belgium Inga Magistad Ambassador Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in Bratislava Jan Macháček Chairman of the Board of Directors Institute for Politics and Society Czech Republic Marian Majer Director Slovak Security Policy Institute Slovakia Martina Maláková President French - Slovak Chamber of Commerce Slovakia Damjan Malbasic Fundraising Coordinator Belgrade Security Forum Serbia Param Mann Ambassador Embassy of India in Bratislava

Antti-Pekka Manninen Research Assistant University of Turku Finland Frantisek Markovic Co-founder EuropeanPublicAffairs.eu Belgium Alexander Marschik Director General International Affairs Section Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria Ivana Martac Student Faculty of Political Science University of Belgrade Serbia Roberto Martini Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Italy in Bratislava Lucia Martišková Project Manager of GLOBSEC Forum 2016 GLOBSEC Slovakia Elena Marzac Director IDC NATO in Moldova Ile Masalkovski Deputy Secretary General and Head of Protocol Cabinet of the President of Macedonia** Andrej Matišák Deputy Head of Foreign Desk Pravda Slovakia

Aylin Matlé Academic Assistant Halle University Germany Ondřej Matoušek Government Executive European Policies Coordination Department Office of the Government of the Czech Republic Marek Matraszek Chairman CEC Government Relations Poland Boris Mattoš Vice-Rector for International Relations University of Economics in Bratislava Slovakia Milan Maxim Chief of the General Staff General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic John McCarthy National President Australian Institute of International Affairs Australia Dana Meager Vice President, Financial Administration Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic Gabriel Merňák Head of State Secretary's Office Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic

Grigorij Mesežnikov President Institute for Public Affairs Slovakia Ayman Mhanna Executive Director Samir Kassir Foundation Lebanon Alexander Micovčin Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU Belgium František Mičánek Director Center for Security and Military Strategic Studies Czech Republic Stanislav Mičev Director General Museum of the Slovak National Uprising Slovakia Tomáš Michálek Science Manager Department of Research and Development Slovak Academy of Sciences Slovakia Sergej Michalič Advisor to the President of the Slovak Republic Office of the President of the Slovak Republic Peter Michalko Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Athens

Martin Michelot Director of Research EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy Czech Republic Ivan Mikloš Chief Advisor to the Minister of Finance; former Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Finance of Ukraine Slovakia Lucia Milanová Corporate Partnerships Director GLOBSEC Slovakia Jelena Milić Director Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) Serbia Daniel Milo Senior Adviser, Coordinator of Counter-Extremism Policies Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic Antonio Missiroli Director EU Institute for Security Studies France Peter Mišík Director General Political Section Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Sebastian Mitrache Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Romania

Miroslav Mizera Adviser to State Secretary Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic Kálmán Mizsei Former Special Representative of the European Union to the Republic of Moldova Zuzana Mjartanová EU Energy Policy Specialist Department of International Relations in Energy Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic Michal Mlynár Director General Division for International Organisations٫ Development Assistance and Humanitarian Aid Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Rastam Mohd Isa Chairman and Chief Executive Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia Rastislav Mojto Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Budapest Miroslav Mojžita Ambassador Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Anton Molnár Head of Communications Slovnaft Slovakia

Milan Mrázik Sales and Marketing Virtual Reality Media, a.s. Slovakia Jakša Muljačić Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Bratislava Christopher Murphy Senator Committee on Foreign Relations U.S. Senate United States of America Ratko Mutavdžić CEE PS Cloud Lead Microsoft Corporation Croatia Yoji Muto State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Jaroslav Naď Director for Defence and Security Slovak Security Policy Institute Slovakia Evgeny Nadorshin Chief Economist PF Capital Russia Anna Nádudvari International Officer Hungarian Youth Atlantic Council Hungary Mustafa Nayyem Member of the Verkhovna Rada Ukraine

Magda Nemkyová Government Executive European Policies Coordination Department Office of the Government of the Czech Republic Martin Nesirky Director United Nations Information Service (Vienna) Austria Ivo Nesrovnal Mayor Bratislava City Slovakia Adrian Neumann Project Director Institute for Security Policy Kiel University Germany Mario Nicolini Executive Director Parliament of the World's Religions – Slovakia Slovakia Milan Nič Research Director GLOBSEC Policy Institute Slovakia Gerlinde Niehus Head of Engagements Section NATO Germany Alexander Nikitin Director Center for Euro-Atlantic Security MGIMO Moscow State Institute of International Relations Russia

Peter Nilsson Head of Business Development MA EMEA Saab AB United Kingdom Renatas Norkus Director Transatlantic Cooperation and Security Policy Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Andrej Nosko Unit Manager Governance and Policy Debates Units Open Society Initiative for Europe Hungary Ewa Nowaczewska General Manager – Poland BAE Systems Poland Tom Nuttall Charlemagne Columnist The Economist United Kingdom Rastislav Ňukovič General Director Eustream Slovakia Francis O'Donnell Life Member Institute of International and European Affairs Ireland Osama Odwan Director Minister's Office Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Bonji Ohara Research Fellow The Tokyo Foundation Japan Rein Oidekivi Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Vienna Manal Omar Acting Vice – President Center for Middle East and Africa United States Institute of Peace United States of America Ján Orlovský Director Open Society Foundation Slovakia Lukasz Osinski Journalist PAP Poland Farid Osmanov Third Secretary Regional Security Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Peter Osuský Member of Parliament European Affairs Committee & Foreign Affairs Committee National Council of the Slovak Republic Mazlan Othman Former Director UN Office for Outer Space Affairs Malaysia Ann-Kristin Otto Desk Officer Political Section Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany

Zaneta Ozolina Vice Chair Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) Latvia Kalle Palling Chairman European Union Affairs Committee The Parliament of the Republic Estonia Thomas Panayotopoulos Research Fellow Center for European Integration, University of Bonn Germany Jonathan Paris Senior Advisor The Chertoff Group United Kingdom Lukáš Parízek State Secretary Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Jan Parys Director Minister's Political Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland Petr Pavel Chairman NATO Military Committee Belgium Zbyněk Pavlačík CEO & Co-Founder Jagello 2000 Czech Republic Steen Pedersen Senior Political Affairs Officer Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark in Vienna

Emilio Pérez de Uriguen Muinelo Member Spanish Atlantic Association Spain Tamás Pesuth Secretary General Hungarian Foreign Affairs Society Hungary Marcel Peško Director Conflict Prevention Centre Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Austria Agáta Pešková Deputy Director Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Slovakia Ján Petrovič Director General Energy Section Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic Attila Péterfalvi President Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Hungary Natasha Pheiffer VP Corporate Events and BW Capability BAE Systems United Kingdom Nicholas Pisani Executive Producer W11 media/BBC World News United Kingdom Tengiz Pkhaladze Advisor Office of the President of Georgia

Ladislav Plánka Business Director Lynx s.r.o. Slovakia Henry Plater-Zyberk Senior Research Fellow Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) United Kingdom Rosen Plevneliev President of the Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Johannes Pollak Head of Political Department Institute for Advanced Studies Austria Eva Ponomarenková Director 2nd Territorial European Department Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Vasilka Poposka Trenevska Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Vienna** Andrei Popov Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Vienna Rodger Potocki Senior Director Europe Section National Endowment for Democracy United States of America

Grzegorz Poznański Director Security Policy Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland Juraj Priputen Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Zagreb Arkadiusz Protas Director Propublic Poland Tomáš Prouza State Secretary for European Affairs Office of the Government of the Czech Republic Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu Cosmonaut; President Association of Space Explores – Europe France Wojciech Przybylski Chairman Res Publica Poland Djumantoro Purbo Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Bratislava Denisa Pussová Project Coordinator International Visegrad Fund Slovakia Walter Quattrociocchi Head of the Laboratory of Computational Social Science Institute for Advanced Studies Italy

Martin Quencez Program Officer German Marshall Fund of the US France András Rácz Senior Research Fellow Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland Iveta Radičová University Lecturer, former Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts Slovakia Ivana Radova Ministerial Councillor Defense Policy and Strategy Division, International Relations Unit Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces of the Czech Republic Mubariz Rahimli Member of Majlis (Legislative Assembly) Republican Alternative Political Movement Azerbaijan Mariam Rakviashvili Deputy State Minister Office of the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Georgia Ivana Rapava Advisor Office of the State Secretary Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Alon Redlich President International Technology Sourcing, Inc. United States of America Ľubomír Rehák Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in London John Reid Senior Advisor; former Secretary of Defence and Home Secretary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Chertoff Group United Kingdom Andrew Rettman Star reporter EU Observer Belgium Matthew Rhodes Director of Programs in Central and Southeast Europe George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Germany Ana Maria Ribeiro da Silva Ambassador Embassy of the Portuguese Republic in Bratislava Daniela Richterová Doctoral Researcher GLOBSEC Europe Security Initiative University of Warwick United Kingdom Alan Riley Professor of Law City University of London United Kingdom

Edgars Rinkevičs Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia Irina Rizmal Senior Project Manager The Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies Serbia Ivan Rohaľ Deputy Director for Slovakia BAE Systems Slovakia Vladimír Rohel Director National Cyber Security Centre of the Czech Republic Jim Rolfe Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Studies Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand Štefan Rozkopál Head of the Office of the President of the Slovak Republic Marian Rusko Member of the Board of Directors Západoslovenská energetika,a.s. Slovakia Dana Rusnáková Business Development Manager/Project Coordinator BAE Systems Slovakia Aldo Russo Senior Sales Account Manager BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Germany

Alex Saklambanakis Europe Executive Raytheon Missile Systems United Kingdom Besim Salihu President Kosovo Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Kosovo* Piotr Samerek Minister Counsellor and Head of Political and Economic Section Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Bratislava Bailey Sargent International Stragegy and Communications Marketing and Communications Raytheon United States of America Pierre Sautreuil Freelance Correspondent France Danka Savić Ambassador Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Prague Marc Semaan Journalist EuroNews France Jacob Shapiro Director of Analysis Geopolitical Futures United States of America Anton Shekhovtsov Visiting Fellow Institute for Human Sciences Austria

Robin Shepherd Publisher, The Commentator United Kingdom Jun Shimmi Ambassador Embassy of Japan in Bratislava Simon Shiu Director Security Lab HP Labs United Kingdom Anna Shkurko Advisory Associate PwC United States of America Shlomo Shpiro Director Bar-Ilan University Israel Dmytro Shymkiv Deputy Head Presidential Administration of Ukraine Ukraine William Schmieder President, Europe Raytheon Poland Gary Schmitt Director Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies American Enterprise Institute United States of America Kai-Uwe Schrogl Head of Policies Department European Space Agency France

Dirk Schuebel Head of Division for bilateral relations with the Eastern Partnership countries Division for bilateral relations with the Eastern Partnership countries European External Action Service Belgium Karl-Peter Schwarz Foreign Correspondent Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany Christoph Schwegmann Senior Defence Advisor Policy Planing Staff Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany Germany Markus Schwertel Lead Government Relations CEE/MEMA HP Deutschlland GmbH Péter Siklósi Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy and Planning Ministry of Defence of Hungary István Simicskó Minister of Defence Michal Skala Advisor Department of International Affairs Air Navigation Services Provider of the Slovak Republic Edgars Skuja Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Vienna

Martina Slabejova GOV Industry BDM Public Sector CEE Microsoft Slovakia Roman Sládek Business Development Manager BSP Softwaredistribution Slovakia Marek Slobodník Member GLOBSEC Alumni Czech Republic Igor Slobodník Ambassador-at-Large for Migration Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Juraj Smatana Teacher, Aktivist Slovakia Bohuslav Sobotka Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Leszek Soczewica Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Bratislava Milan Solár Vice-President & CEO GLOBSEC Slovakia Frank Spengler Head of the Office KAS Hungary Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Hungary

Peter Spišiak Director Cabinet of the State Secretary Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Flemming Splidsboel Hansen Research Coordinator Danish Institute of International Studies Denmark Maxim Starchak Fellow Centre for International and Defence Policy Russia Stefano Stefanini Nonresident Senior Fellow Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Italy Svetlana Stefanovic Executive Director Belgrade Security Forum Serbia Philip Stephens Chief Political Commentator The Financial Times United Kingdom Jack Stevens Director, Communications & Navigation Solutions BAE Systems Inc United States of America Eduards Stiprais Under-Secretary of State & Political Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia

Martin Stoklasa Second Mechanized Brigade Commander Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic Krasimira Stoyanova Vice President Head of Country Unit Central Europe Saab AB Czech Republic Mário Straka Head of Mission Relief and DevelopmenPeople In Need Slovakia Martin Stropnický Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic Milan Stupka Corporate Communiactions Manager BMW Group Slovakia Ferenc Suba Vice-Chairman; Consultant for Nuclear Computer Security Information Sharing Management Board of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Hungary Jan Sudek Sales Manager HP Inc Slovakia, s.r.o. Slovakia Dovile Sukyte Policy Analyst Eastern Europe Studies Centre Lithuania

Terhi Suominen Secretary General The Atlantic Council of Finland Finland Martin Sura Managing Director Hewlett Packard Enteprise Slovakia Ivan Surkos Director of Protocol Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Lenka Surotchak Director PONTIS Foundation Slovakia Maciej Surowiec EU Government Affairs Manager Microsoft Belgium Eva Svobodova Public Affairs and Strategic Communications Advisor to the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and the International Military Staff Belgium Jiří Sýkora Strategic Relations Coordinator International Visegrad Fund Slovakia Pavol Sýkorčin Secretary General Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Tomas Szatkowski Undersecretary of State Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland

Zsuzsanna Szelenyi Member of Parliament National Assembly of Hungary Péter Szijjártó Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Tomas Szunyog Director Security Policy Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Daniel Šagath PhD Candidate VU University of Amsterdam Netherlands Lenka Šarmírová Coordinator Office of the State Secretary Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic František Šebej Chairman Foreign Affairs Committee National Council of the Slovak Republic Jiří Šedivý General Manager General s.r.o. Czech Republic Maroš Šefčovič Vice-President for the Energy Union European Commission Belgium Šimon Šicko CEO Pixel Federation Slovakia

Vladimír Šimanský General Director Virtual Reality Media, a.s. Slovakia Vladimír Šimko Chief of the Military Office of the President of the Slovak Republic Martina Šinková President Euro-Atlantic Center Slovakia Roman Šipoš Director of Prime Minister's Cabinet Government Office of the Czech Republic Tomáš Šipoš Head of Regulatory Affairs Západoslovenská distribučná, a.s. Slovakia Katarína Škrabáková Associate Professor Department of Political Science Comenius University in Bratislava Slovakia Tomáš Špavelko Adviser on International Affairs Department of International Affairs Letové prevádzkové služby Slovenskej republiky Slovakia Ivan Šramko Chairman Council for Budget Responsibility Slovakia Ivan Štefanec Member of the European Parliament Belgium

Lukáš Štefánik Deputy Mayor The City of Nové Zámky Slovakia Jana Štefániková Chief Finance Officer GLOBSEC Slovakia Stanislav Štefanov Regional Sales Manager Central & Eastern Europe Bell Helicopter Czech Republic Milan Šuplata Senior Fellow for Security and Defence GLOBSEC Policy Institute Slovakia Martin Šuplata Event Specialist Profesia, s.r.o. Slovakia Andrew Tabler Senior Fellow The Washington Institute United States of America Szabolcs Takács State Secretary for European Union Affairs Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary Kristián Takáč Public Affairs Officer RWE Slovakia Nikola Tasic Student Faculty of Law University of Belgrade Serbia

Sylke Tempel Editor in Chief of Berlin Policy Journal The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Germany Peter Terem Vice Dean for Science and Research Faculty of Political Science and International Relations Matej Bel University Banská Bystrica Slovakia Kris Teutsch Managing Director Defense and National Security Microsoft United States of America Rhian Thomas Group Business Development Graduate BAE Systems plc United Kingdom Mark Thum Vice President for International Requirements BAE Systems United States of America Vessela Tcherneva Senior Director for Programmes European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Bulgaria Róbert Tibenský Director General Defence Policy Department Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic

Ivan Timofeev Director of Programs Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Russia Mehmet Tiraş Vice-President International Strategic Research Organisation Turkey Eka Tkeshelashvili President Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies Georgia Asle Toje Research Director The Norwegian Nobel Institute Norway Janusz Tomaszewski Head of International Cooperation Division Department of Strategic Analyses National Security Bureau of the Republic of Poland James Townsend Deputy Assistant Secretary General of Defence for European and NATO Policy U.S. Department of Defense United States of America Martin Tršo General Director ZVS holding a.s. Slovakia Irina Tsertsvadze Head International Relations and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department Ministry of Defence of Georgia

Michito Tsuruoka Senior Research Fellow National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) Japan Emmet Tuohy Senior Research Fellow Estonian Center for Eastern Partnership Estonia Kamil Turecki Journalist News ONET Poland Anna Tureničová Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Anakara Oleksandr Tytarchuk Member of the Board East European Security Research Initiative Foundation Ukraine Lebibe Gülhan Ulutekin Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Bratislava Alon Ushpiz Political Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel Juraj Vaculik Co-Founder, CEO AeroMobil Slovakia Tomáš Valášek Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to NATO Permanent Delegation of the Slovak Republic to NATO

Felix Valdés Ambassador Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Bratislava Martin Vaľovský CEO Fleming Slovakia Richard Van Rijssen Ambassador Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bratislava Aleksandar Vanchoski Researcher & Member Institute for Human Rights Macedonia** Vladimír Vaňo Chief Analyst SBERBANK Europe AG Slovakia Zvi A.Vapni Ambassador Embassy of the State of Israel in Bratislava Giorgi Vardishvili National Expert - Political and Legal Analyst Office of EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Crisis in Georgia Róbert Vass President; Founder of the GLOBSEC Forum GLOBSEC Slovakia Martina Vass Institutional Affairs Specialist Slovenské elektrárne Slovakia

Lívia Vašáková Economic Counsellor Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia Alexander Vershbow Deputy Secretary General NATO Belgium Oszkár Világi CEO SLOVNAFT, a.s. Slovakia Lukáš Vilím Director of the Department of Defence and Security Office of the Government of the Czech Republic Joel Villa Business Development Central & Eastern EurSikorsky/Lockheed Martin Germany Justin Vogt Deputy Managing Editor Foreign Affairs United States of America Kurt Volker Executive Director The McCain Institute for International Leadership United States of America Ursula Von der Leyen Minister of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany Konstantin von Eggert Former Editor-in-Chief Kommersant FM Radio Russia

Andreas Von Geyr Political Director Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany Sebastian Von Münchow Lecturer George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Germany Alexandr Vondra Director CEVRO Institut Czech Republic Miodrag Vuković Chairman Committee on International Relations and Emigrants Parliament of Montenegro Ales Vyborny Director - Czech Republic & Baltics BAE Systems Czech Republic Liam Wasley Chargé d'Affaires Embassy of the United States of America in Bratislava Witold Waszczykowski Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland Peter Weiss Ambassador Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Prague Karl-GeorgWellmann Member of Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee German Bundestag Germany

Frederik Wesslau Director Wider Europe ProgrammEuropean Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Belgium Richard G.Whitman Director Global Europe Centre United Kingdom Anna Wieslander International Affairs Director Saab Sweden Damon Wilson Executive Vice President for Programs and Strategy Atlantic Council United States of America Jason Wiseman Secretary General Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) Belgium Jakub Wisniewski Permanent Representative Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to OECD Miroslav Wlachovský Ambassador, Advisor on Global Affairs Directorate General for International Organisations and Development and Humanitarian Aid Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Jakob Wöllenstein Desk Officer Central and Eastern EKonrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Germany

Karla Wursterová Advisor Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU Evan Xenakis Program Manager BAE Systems United States of America Vanni Xuereb Head Malta-EU Steering and Action Committee Malta Yaşar Yakiş Chair; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey European Union HarmonGrand National Assembly of Turkey Jiaoli Yang Junior Research Fellow NATO Association of Canada Canada Marcin Zaborowski Executive Vice-President Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) Poland Rodica Zadnipru Public Servant State Chancellery of Moldova Loreta Zakarevičienė Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Vienna Shorena Zakariadze Deputy Head of NATO Integration Division Ministry of Defence of Georgia

Lubomír Zaorálek Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Kim Zetter Author, Senior Staff Writer Wired United States ofAmerica Michael Žantovský Ambassador; Executive Director Václav Havel Library Czech Republic Peter Žiga Minister of Economy of the Slovak Republic Jana Žilková Research Fellow European Neighbourhood Program GLOBSEC Policy Institute Slovakia

*This designation is without prejudice to positions and status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/99 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of indepence. ** The Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, following the EU and UN practice, always uses the provisional reference: The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.