The 4th Sarajevo Security Conference
Speakers
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh OBE
Former MP UK House of Commons and member of Council of Europe
Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi
Qatar University
Hamza al-Mustafa
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Syria
María Molina Álvarez de Toledo
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to BIH
Alenka Antloga
Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia
LTC Marjorie Apruzzese
NATO Defense College Discussant
Lieutenant Commander Eva María Ara Montojo
Secretariat General for Defence Policy, Spanish Ministry of Defense
Georges Ataya
professor and Academic Director of th Executive education in Cybersecurity Solvay Brussels School
The Honorable İlker Babüroğlu, Co-founder
TransMed Trading SA, Geneva - Energy & Commodities
Brigadier General Víctor Bados Nieto
Director of Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies
Dr. Wesam Salem Basendowah
Women Solidarity Network
Andrej Baštar
CEO, Co-Founder, Brasidas Group AG
Brian Bauer
Head of Fleet and Airline Development, Radia Inc.
Mitchell Belfer
The Euro-Gulf Information Center
Dr. Benedetta Berti
NATO Parliamentary Assembly Secretary General
Steven Blockmans
CEPS (Brussels) and ICDS (Tallinn)
Ed Bogan
former CIA Senior Operations Officer
Kamran Bokhari
Middle East Policy Council
Christopher D. Booth
Reveal Technology, former CIA Senior Operations Officer
Lieutenant General Winston P. Brooks
Deputy Chair of the Military Committee, NATO
Matthew Bryza
Former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan; Managing Director, Straife; Board Member, Jamestown Foundation (USA)
General (ret.) Erhard Bühler
President of the Clausewitz-Society, Germany
Zachary Burgart
Account Executive, Drones and Counter Drones, Axon
Sean Cantrell
Director of International Engagement, Vantor
Sarah Eti Castellani
Ambassador of Italy to BIH
Ambassador Oleksandr Chalyi
Former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
Cristian Chiscop
Programme Coordinator, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Romania
Ernesto Cortez
VP of Business Development & Growth at AEVEX Aerospace
Admiral Iuri Covaleov
former Deputy Chief of Military Intelligence, Romania
Greta Cristini
Journalist and Geopolitical Analyst
Colonel Arnel P. David
U.S. Army strategist and Director of the Digital Lethality Branch, SHAPE
Carlo De Micheli
CTO at Tropico Security
Dr. Kenneth Dekleva
former physician-diplomat with the U.S. State Dept., Professor of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center
H.E. Hassan Diab
former Prime Minister of Lebanon
Aleksandar Dimitrov
University of National and World Economy, Sofia
Michael Doran
Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute (USA)
Paul Dziatkowiec
Geneva Center for Security Policy
Dr. Daniel Ekwall
Swedish Defence University and University of Boras
Davis Ellison
Hague Center for Security Studies (HCSS)
Brigadier General Edin Fako
Inspector General of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Natividad Fernández Sola
, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Mark J. Finlay
FRICS, International Strategic Advisor on Geopolitics, Peacebuilding & Post-conflict Transformation
Alexandru Flenchea
Director of Initiative 4 Peace Association, former Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration, Moldova
Dr. Peter Forster
Chief Academic Officer of Littoral Dynamics
Christian Forstner
Executive Director, Hanns Seidel Foundation
Brigadier General James Fowler
Commander, NATO HQ Sarajevo
Major General Maurizio Fronda
EUFOR Commander
Giorgio Fruscione
Western Balkans Specialist, ISPI
Nick Fuller
Intellian
Marco Garzia
Bloomsbury Intelligence and Security Institute (BISI)
The Honorable Nusrat Ghani
Deputy Speaker, UK House of Commons
Major General Alessandro Grassano
Ministry of Defense, Republic of Italy
Odd-Harald Hagen
VP Defense and Security market and sales, Space Norway
Lt Col. Travis “Pred” Halleman
USAF Chief, Nuclear Policy, HQ USAFE
Ambassador Kevin Hamilton
NATO SG Special Envoy
Dr. Robert Hamilton
President, Delphi Global Research Center, USA
Jasmin Hasić
Advisor, Federal Ministry of Education, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Col. Jonathan Heist
Strategic Planner, SHAPE
H.E. Zukan Helez
Minister of Defense, BIH
Brigadier General (ret.) Jakob Henius
Royal Danish Defence College
David Hogan-Hern
Global Sector Lead for Defence, CT Group
Hans Horan
Hague Center for Security Studies (HCSS)
Rusif Huseynov
Founding Director, Topchubashov Center (Azerbaijan)
Jean Adrian Iacob
Executive Director for Romania and Northern / Western Balkans, Lockheed Martin
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
NewLines Institute
Ruxandra Ivan
Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Katja Lindskov Jacobsen
University of Copenhagen
Dr. Arnold Kammel
Secretary General, Austrian Ministry of Defense
Øistein Knudsen
Chief of Civil Defence of Norway
Aaron Korewa
Director, Atlantic Council Europe Center
Ioannis Koskinas
Hoplite Group
Tine Kračun
Director of the Institute for Strategic Solutions (ISR), Slovenia
Col. Michael Kreuzer
Director, Air & Space Power, Irregular Warfare Initiative
Damjan Krnjević Mišković
Director for Policy Research, Analysis, and Publications at the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD) (Azerbaijan)
Prof. Charles Kupchan
Georgetown University & Council on Foreign Relations
Denisa Kurtagić
Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)
Prof. Klaus W. Larres
Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill
William Liffick
CEO, Littoral Dynamics
Eva-Maria Liimets
former Foreign Minister of Estonia
Ann Linde
former Swedish Foreign Minister
JC Lintzenich
German Marshall Fund
Shorena Lortkipanidze
Founder, Board Member, Civil Council on Defense and Security, Georgia
Ibrahim Mammadov
Head of the Turkic-Western Engagement Initiative (TWEI), Danube Institute (Hungary)
Tucker Mansager
LANDCOM
Robbie McAnnally
Account Director/Intelligence Community at Janes & former CIA senior officer
Amy McFadden
Senior VP and Head of Strategic Intelligence Group, Arcanum
Rick Meessen
Principal advisor at TNO
Johnny Melikyan
Head of Department, Public Relations, Orbeli Center, Armenia
Major General Duane R. Miller
US Army & former Deputy Commanding General of Security Assistance Group-Ukraine
Dr. Mira Milosevich
IE University Spain
Dr. Robert Mogielnicki
Arab Gulf States Institute
Dr. Jasmin Mujanović
Sarajevo Security Conference
Congressman Greg Murphy
Olga Myrovych
CEO of Lviv Media Forum
Colonel Stevan Naumovski
Acting Head of J-5, General Staff, Army of the Republic of North Macedonia
Brooks Newmark
Chairman, Trypillian
Major General Sami Nurmi
Finnish Defense Forces
Sirpa Oksanen
Ambassador of Finland to BIH
Ambassador Thomas Ossowski
German Permanent Representative to the EU
Maia Otarashvili
Vice President, Delphi Global Research Center
Matija Otašević
strategic communications expert
Matthew Palmer
Director, International Strategic Engagement, Shield AI
Gulshan Pashayeva
Member of Milli Majlis (Parliament); Board Member, Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center), Azerbaijan
Prof. Robert Person
United States Military Academy at West Point
Dame Karen Pierce
UK Special Representative to Western Balkans
Dave Pitts
President of the Information Professionals Association (IPA) and former CIA Senior Executive
Dr. David Preisendanz
Member of the Bundestag
Miguel Roán
Galician Institute of International Analysis and Documentation (IGADI)
Michael Robbins
Arab Barometer
Marcus Roberts MBE
Director of Operations, IoT Tribe
Dr. Tom Rondeau
Principal Director for FutureG, US Department of Defense
Maj. Robert Rose
Chief Research Officer, Modern War Institute at West Point
Jakob Rousøe
Senior Vice President, Strategic Account, Terma A/S
Matthew Salvetti
VP and Head of Analysis, Arcanum & former National Intelligence Officer for Europe, NIC
Manuel Sarrazin
President, Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft
Fuad Šehić
CEO, Pretis
Amb. Vasil (Dato) Sikharulidze
former Minister of Defense, Georgia
Ambassador Luigi Soreca
Head of the Delegation of the EU to BIH
Major General Karsten Stoye
Head of Civil-Military Cooperation, Eurocontrol
Phil Taneborne
Key Account Director European Defence, Dataminr
Amanda Thorpe
Atlantic Council
Paul Tingey
EMEA Defence Industry Lead, Google Cloud
Jussi Toivonen
Head of Communications, Finnish National Cyber Security Centre (Traficom/NCSC-FI)
Elisabetta Trenta
former Italian Minister of Defence
Mirza Ustamujić
CEO Energoinvest
Major General (ret) Matthew Van Wagenen
former DCOS, SHAPE
Rear Admiral Jeroen van Zanten
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations/Commander Surface Forces, MARCOM
Congressman Marc Veasey
Vedrana Vujović
House of Representatives, FBIH
Dan White
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Parker Wise
Senior Principal, ClearSpeed
Alexander With
Military Analyst, Forsvarsakademiet (Royal Danish Defence College)
Ambassador Hossam Zaki
Egyptian diplomat and former Assistant Secretary General of the League of Arab States
LT COL Paweł Zdziarek
Polish Special Operations Forces/Nato School Oberammergau
Dr. Bojana Zorić
Policy Analyst at European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS, Paris)
