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XXX International Security Conference in Cracow
“NATO-U.S.-European Union – New Opening, New Challenges”
A New Transatlantic Order – Rebuilding Alliances – Strengthening NATO
15.00 – Welcome speeches:
- Anna Szymańska-Klich, President of the Board - Institute for Strategic Studies
- David Gregosz, Director of the Foreign Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Poland
15.10 – Keynote speech:
- Camille Grand, Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment, NATO
Moderator: Amb. Piotr Łukasiewicz, Polityka Insight, Colonel of the Polish Armed Forces, former Ambassador to Afghanistan
15.15 – Session I
"Next NATO summit – political unity as a guarantee of NATO's cohesion and effectiveness"
- Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic and Director, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program in Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Roland Freudenstein, Vice President and Head of GLOBSEC Brussels, previously and since 2008, Policy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the think tank of the European People’s Party in Brussels
- Sir Adam Thompson, Director of the European Leadership Network, former British High Commissioner to Pakistan, former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to NATO
- Prof. Roman Kuźniar, Former Member of the Polish delegation to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, former Advisor of the Minister of National Defence, former Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland
Moderator: Michał Baranowski, Director of GMF's Warsaw office
16.15 – Session II
"New threats and challenges – Russia and China"
- Amb. Rolf Nikel, DGAP’s Vice-President, former federal government commissioner for disarmament and arms control, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Poland 2014-2020
- Dominique David, Advisor to the Executive Chairman of IFRI, Editor-in-chief of Politique étrangère and Codirector of RAMSES
- Bogdan Klich, Member of the Senate, former Minister of Defence, former Member of European Parliament
- Prof. Andris Spruds, Director of Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Professor at the RSU Faculty of European Studies, Department of Political Science, Dean at the RSU Faculty of European Studies
Moderator: Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska, President of Centre for International Relations, EU expert, government consultant and academic fellow
17.15 – Session III
"US-EU relations-effects of Joe Biden administration's ‘new opening’ towards the European Union in the area of security?"
- Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering, Former President of the European Parliament, former Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
- Erik Brattberg, Director of the Europe Program and a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, former Director for Special Projects & Senior Fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership
- Dr. Werner Fasslabend, President of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES), former Minister of Defense, former Member of the National Council, former President of the National Council
- Radosław Sikorski, Member of European Parliament, former Minister of National Defence, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Marshal of the Sejm
- Robert Pszczel, Senior Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Warsaw, Member of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) editorial board of the Polish Diplomatic Review, former Polish diplomat and NATO official; Director of NATO Information Office in Moscow (2010-2015)
Moderator: Prof. Artur Gruszczak, Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of National Security at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow
The event is organized by the Institute for Strategic Studies in cooperation with NATO Headquarters, and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Poland
Online transmission starts LIVE on 13 December at 15:00 (CET) and will be provided via facebook and youtube!
We would be grateful, if you could confirm your attendance by e-mail: biuro@iss.krakow.pl
