Andrej Babiš
Keynote speaker
Czech Republic
Andrej Babiš has been the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic since December 2017. He served from 2014 to 2017 as Czech Deputy Prime Minister and...
Timmy Dooley
Keynote Speaker
Ireland
Timmy Dooley has been a Fianna Fáil TD for Clare constituency since 2007. Since May 2016, he is the Spokesperson on Communications, The Environment & Natural...
Panelists
Chris Boyer
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships - Economic Dimension
USA
Chris Boyer is Vice President of Strategic Research and Communications at AT&T Services, Inc., where he is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic policy-based...
Jamie Fly
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Political Dimension
USA
Jamie Fly was appointed RFE/RL President and Chief Executive Officer by the RFE/RL Board of Directors on July 10, 2019, effective August 1, 2019. Prior to...
H.E. Roland Galharague
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Political Dimension
French Republic
Roland Galharague is currently Ambassador of the French Republic to the Czech Republic. Roland Galharague was Special Advisor to the Director General for political and security affairs...
Karel Havlíček
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Economic Dimension
Czech Republic
Mr. Havlíček graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague and from the PIBS at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He...
Josef Janning
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Political Dimension
Germany
Josef Janning is a senior policy fellow and head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. His topics of focus include European integration,...
Tinatin Khidasheli
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Security Dimension
Georgia
Tinatin Khidasheli heads a Georgian think-thank Civic — IDEA, fighting soviet legacy in Georgia, confronting Russian propaganda and advocating for sound defense and security policy for...
Marcela Konrádová
Moderator of VIP TALK II
Czech Republic
Marcela Konrádová is a graduate of Political Science at Masaryk University, Brno. During her studies, Marcela specialised in election studies and political marketing. In 2017 she...
Naďa Kovalčíková
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Security Dimension
Slovakia
Dr. Naďa Kovalčíková is a program manager and fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy in GMF’s Brussels office. While working on ASD’s European outreach, she...
John Lloyd
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Economic Dimension
United Kingdom
John Lloyd is a British journalist and contributing editor for the Financial Times. He co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University...
Jan Macháček
Moderator of the Panel Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Economic Dimension
Czech Republic
Jan Macháček is a Czech columnist, musician and university lecturer. He covers political, economic, European and geopolitical issues. Currently he publishes his columns in the Czech...
Tomáš Petříček
VIP TALK II
Czech Republic
Tomáš Petříček was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 16, 2018. Tomáš Petříček was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, in charge of setting the...
Jacques Rupnik
VIP TALK I
French Republic
Jacques Rupnik was educated at the University of Paris and at Harvard, is currently Research Professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting professor...
Olle Schmidt
Moderator of the Panel Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Political Dimension
Sweden
Olle Schmidt was a Member of European Parliament between the years 1999-2004 and 2006-2014. He was also a delegation leader in the European Parliament for the...
Vladimir Socor
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Security Dimension
USA
Vladimir Socor is a Senior Fellow of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation and its flagship publication, Eurasia Daily Monitor (1995 to date). An internationally recognized expert on...
Weston Stacey
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Economic Dimension
USA
Weston Stacey has been the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic since 1996. In that time, he helped initiate the...
Tomáš Szunyog
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Political Dimension
Czech Republic
Ambassador Tomáš Szunyog is a Permanent Representative to PSC. He took up the post of the Czech Permanent Representative to the Political and Security Committee of...
Sebastian Vagt
Moderator of the Panel Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Security Dimension
Germany
Sebastian Vagt is a defence analyst at the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom. Being based in Brussels, his focus is on the security and defence politics of NATO...
Miroslav Zámečník
Multiple Challenges for Transatlantic Partnerships – Economic Dimension
Czech Republic
Miroslav Zámečník is a Czech economist and publicist. He graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and later studied at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C....