CEPA Forum October 1, 2015

#CEPAForum w w w . c e p a . o r g Eastern Europe. on strengthening U.S. engagementinCentraland government and businessformeetingsfocused It bringstogether morethan400leaders from Seas andtheirimportance to theUnitedStates. the countriesbetween Baltic andBlack economic, strategicandpolitical potentialof DC. TheForumhighlightsthe transformative transatlantic securityconference inWashington, The CEPA Forumistheleadingannual Europe andU.S. media. Forum iscovered widelyinCentralandEastern overcoming obstacles tocloserengagement. The to discussemergingopportunities andideasfor together executives andseniordecision-makers in strategyandcommerce. Forumpanels bring the expertcommunitytoengage onkey issues kind inWashington forgovernmentleadersand The conferenceprovidestheonlyplatformofits w w w . c e p a . o r g Break 10:45 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Era ofHybridWar Hard andSoftSecurity:Rethinking Defenseinan PANEL I 9:30 a.m.–10:45 Opening Keynotes 8:30 a.m.–9:30 Arrivals andBreakfast 8:00 a.m. 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW The WillardInterContinentalHotel Thursday, October1,2015 October 1 Transatlantic SecurityinaColdClimate Senator ChrisMurphy (Confirmed) Affairs (Confirmed) Richard Stengel,UnderSecretaryofState forPublicDiplomacyand Raimonds Vējonis, PresidentofLatvia (Confirmed) Toomas HendrikIlves,PresidentofEstonia*(Confirmed) MODERATOR: EdwardLucas, SeniorVicePresident,CEPA (Confirmed) (Confirmed) Representative EdRoyce, Chairman,HouseCommitteeonForeignAffairs (Confirmed) Lubomír Zaorálek,MinisterofForeignAffairs oftheCzech Republic Wess Mitchell,President,CEPA (Confirmed) *Member ofCEPA Advisory Council Day 1

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Panel II Europe Whole and Free: Schengen, Security and Solidarity

MODERATOR: Janusz Bugajski, Senior Fellow, CEPA (Confirmed) Jan Hamáček, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (Confirmed) Marieluise Beck, Member of German Bundestag (Confirmed) Radosław Sikorski, former Minister of Foreign A†airs of the Republic of (Confirmed) Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, former President of * (Confirmed)

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PANEL III Empowering Diversification: What’s Next for U.S. Gas and Crude Exports

MODERATOR: Edward Lucas, Senior Vice President, CEPA (Confirmed) Vaclav Bartuška, Ambassador-At-Large for Energy Security of the Czech Re- public (Confirmed) Jason Bordo†, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, (Confirmed) Jan Chadam, President of Polish LNG S.A. (Confirmed) Péter Kaderják, Director of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research, (Confirmed) Rokas Masiulis, Minister of Energy of the Republic of (Confirmed)

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Break w . c e p a o r g *Member of CEPA Advisory Council Day 1

2:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSION 1 ’WILLARD ROOM“ Preparing for the Warsaw NATO Summit Co-Hosted with The Polish Institute of International A—airs (PISM) and The Slovak Atlantic Commission (SAC)

MODERATOR: Marcin Zaborowski, Executive Vice President, CEPA (Confirmed) Lt. General Ben Hodges, Commander of U.S. Army Europe (Confirmed) Gerlinde Niehus, Head of Engagements Section, NATO (Confirmed) Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign A†airs of Latvia (Confirmed) Radosław Sikorski, former Minister of Foreign A†airs of the Republic of Poland (Confirmed)

First Respondents: Marcin Terlikowski, Head of the European Security and Defence Economics Project, Polish Institute of International A†airs and Róbert Vass, Executive Vice-President, Slovak Atlantic Commission*

2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSION 2 ’CRYSTAL ROOM“ Winning the Information War

MODERATOR: Anne Applebaum, Senior Fellow, CEPA* (Confirmed) Konstantin von Eggert, Fellow, Legatum Institute (Confirmed) Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian Journalist (Confirmed) Igor Slobodnik, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European A†airs of the Slovak Republic (Confirmed) Liz Wahl, Journalist (Former RT Journalist) (Confirmed) w . c e p a o r g *Member of CEPA Advisory Council Bringing Central Europe to Washington Speakers

Anne Applebaum Vaclav Bartuška Senior Fellow, CEPA Ambassador-At-Large for Anne Applebaum is a fellow of CEPA. Energy Security of the Czech She is also a columnist for the Washing- ton Post and Slate and the Director of Republic the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Vaclav Bartuška assumed the position of Institute. She is the author of several Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security books, including Gulag: A History, which of the Czech Republic in 2006. He works won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fi ction, and Iron on a wide range of issues from oil and gas supplies to en- Curtain, which won the 2013 Cundill Prize for Historical ergy strategy. During the gas dispute between and Literature. She is a former visiting professor at the LSE, a Ukraine in January 2009, when the Czech Republic held former member of editorial board, the EU Presidency, he was involved in negotiations with a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, and Russian, Ukrainian, and EU leadership. In 2010, he was a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist. Her appointed by the Czech Government as the Commission- work has also appeared in the Review of er for expansion at the Temelin nuclear power plant. Since Books, and many other publications 2003, he has taught modern history and security studies in Europe and the US. She is a graduate of Yale and the at New York University, campus. London School of Economics.

Marieluise Beck Jason Bordoff Member of German Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy Bundestag Jason Bordoff joined the Columbia Marieluise Beck is a member of the faculty after serving until January 2013 German Bundestag. She was fi rst elected to the Ger- as Special Assistant to the President and man Bundestag in 1983 as a member of the Greens. In Senior Director for Energy and Climate 2005, Ms. Beck became a member of the Committee Change on the Staff of the National Se- on Foreign Aff airs of the German Bundestag, where she curity Council, and, prior to that, holding senior policy po- is the spokesperson on eastern European aff airs for sitions on the White House’s National Economic Council the Green parliamentary group on matters concerning and Council on Environmental Quality. One of the world’s Russia, Belarus, and the Western Balkan countries. Ms. top energy policy experts, he joined the Administration Beck is a member of the German-Ukrainian group as well in April 2009. At Columbia’s School of International and as the German-South Caucasus Parliamentary Friendship Public Aff airs, Bordoff is a professor of professional Group, and is a Member of the Parliamentary Assemblies practice and serves as founding Director of Columbia’s of the Council of Europe and the OSCE. For her work Center on Global Energy Policy. on human rights issues in Eastern Europe, she has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of . Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Janusz Bugajski Jan Chadam Senior Fellow, CEPA President of Polish LNG S.A. Janusz Bugajski is a Senior Fellow at Jan Chadam is a Doctor of Economics who, the Center for European Policy Analysis in the course of his career, has held a host (CEPA) in Washington, D.C. and host of executive positions, including Financial of “Bugajski Hour” and “Bugajski Director, Vice President and President of Time” television shows broadcast in the Board at Pro Futuro S.A., Warszawa, the Balkans. Bugajski has authored Member of the Board at Elzab S.A., Zabrze, 19 books on Europe, Russia, and transatlantic relations Financial Director at SIPMA Group, Lublin, President of the and is a columnist for several media outlets. His recent Board at SIP-MOT S.A., Zamość, and Director of the Internal books include Confl ict Zones: North Caucasus and Audit Department at Polkomtel S.A. (PLUS GSM cellular Western Balkans Compared (2014), Return of the network operator). He has written several dozen domesti- Balkans: Challenges to European Integration and U.S. cally and internationally recognised publications on fi nance Disengagement (2013), Georgian Lessons: Confl icting and management and has taught at several universities and Russian and Western Interests in the Wider Europe MBA programmes. In February 2009, he was appointed (2010), Dismantling the West: Russia’s Atlantic Agenda Member of the Board at GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. and subsequent- (2009), America’s New European Allies (2009); and ly President of the Management Board of Gas Transmission Expanding Eurasia: Russia’s European Ambitions (2008). Operator GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. as of July 2009.

Konstantin Vaira von Eggert Vīķe-Freiberga Ambassador-At-Large for Former President of Latvia Energy Security of the Former President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is President of the Czech Republic Club of Madrid and former President Konstantin von Eggert is a Russian of the Republic of Latvia (1999 – journalist and political commentator. 2007). She was instrumental in achieving membership From 1992-1998 he was the diplomatic correspondent, in the and NATO for her country and and later deputy foreign editor of Izvestia daily. His as- raised the nation’s recognition through her international signments included, among other areas, the Middle East, activities. She was named United Nations Special Envoy , Iran, Tajikistan, and the Balkans. He on UN reform in 2005 and was offi cial candidate for UN was Moscow bureau chief for the BBC Russian Service Secretary General in 2006. in 2002–08, and deputy editor and then editor in chief Since 2007, she has been solicited as a speaker on de- of the radio station Kommersant FM in 2012–13. He is mocracy, social issues, moral values, European historical currently hosting a weekly live current aff airs programme dialogue, security and defence policy. In 2007 she was for the station. Konstantin is also a regular columnist for appointed Vice-chair of the Refl ection group on the Deutsche Welle, writing on Russia and the post-Soviet long-term future of Europe. In 2011-2012 she chaired the space. In 2009–10, he worked as vice president for pub- High-level group on freedom and pluralism of the media lic aff airs of ExxonMobil Russia Inc. In 2008, for services in the EU. Since 2014, she is President of the Club of to the BBC, Queen Elizabeth II named him Honorary Madrid of over 100 democratically elected former Heads Member of the Order of the British Empire. That same of State and Government. year, President Valdas Adamkus awarded him Com- mander’s Cross of the Order of Merits to Lithuania. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Nataliya Gumenyuk Jan Hamáček Ukrainian Journalist Speaker of the Chamber of Nataliya Gumenyuk is an Ukrainian Deputies of the Parliament of journalist and commentator specializing in foreign aff airs. She is co-founder the Czech Republic and currently head of Hromadske.TV Jan Hamáček is the Speaker of the - an initiative of Ukrainian journalist to Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament create public broadcasting in Ukraine, of the Czech Republic. Jan Hamáček and Hromadske International www.en.hromadske. has held this position since 2013, serving as the Deputy tv. Since the start of the revolution and later confl ict in Speaker and Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Aff airs Ukraine she has been reporting from the fi eld: Maidan, Committee from 2010 until 2013. He was fi rst elected Crimea, and Donbas. As an independent, international to be a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2006, correspondent, she has reported on major political serving as the Chairman of the Foreign Aff airs Committee and social events from nearly 50 countries. During the and as a member of the European Aff airs Committee. He last few years, she has focused on post-Arab Spring was re-elected as a member of the Chamber of Deputies developments in the Arab world and is the author of the in 2010 and 2013. He was the International Secretary book “Maidan Tahrir. In Search Of The Lost Revolution”. for the Czech Social Democratic Party from 2004 to Nataliya cooperates with a number of Ukrainian and 2006 and the Caucus Secretary for the Central Bohemia international media. Regional Authority from 2001 to 2004.

Lt. General Ben Toomas Hendrik Hodges Ilves Commander of U.S. Army President of Europe President Toomas Hendrik Ilves Ben Hodges is Commanding General of was born on December 26, 1953, in U.S. Army Europe. He graduated from , . He acquired his the Military Academy in education in the United States – he May 1980 and was commissioned in the Infantry. After graduated from Columbia University in his fi rst assignment as an Infantry Lieutenant in Germany, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1984 he moved he commanded Infantry units at the Company, Battalion to Europe, to work at the offi ce of Radio Free Europe and Brigade levels at the 101st Airborne Division and in in , Germany, fi rst as a researcher and foreign Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. His most recent operational policy analyst and later as Head of the Estonian Desk. assignment was as Director of Operations, Regional He served as Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to Command South, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Lt. Gen. the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico from Hodges has also served in a variety of Joint and Army 1993 until 1996. He has been Minister of Foreign Aff airs Staff positions to include Tactics Instructor at the Infantry of the Republic of Estonia, Chairman of the North Atlantic School; Chief of Plans, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea; Institute (1998), Member of the Parliament of the Republic Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander of Estonia and Member of the . Ilves Europe; Army Congressional Liaison Offi cer; Task Force was elected President of the Republic of Estonia in 2006 Senior Observer-Controller at the Joint Readiness and was re-elected for a second term in offi ce in 2011. Training Center, Fort Polk, LA; Coalition/Joint -3 (CJ3) of Multi-National Corps-Iraq in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM; Chief of Staff , XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg; and Director of the Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell on the Joint Staff ; Chief of Legislative Liaison for the United States Army. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Péter Kaderják Edward Lucas Director of the Regional Senior Vice President, CEPA Centre for Energy Policy Edward Lucas is a senior editor at The Economist, the world’s foremost Research, Budapest newsweekly. His expertise includes Péter Kaderják has been the Director of energy, cyber-security, espionage, the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Russian foreign and security policy and Research at the Corvinus University the politics and economics of Eastern of Budapest (www.rekk.eu) since 2004. He received Europe. He is also a senior vice-president at the Center his MSc in economics from the Budapest University of for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). In 2008 he wrote Economic Sciences in 1987. In 1998 he was appointed The New Cold War, a prescient account of Vladimir Putin’s as Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Economic Aff airs Russia. In 2011, he wrote Deception, an investigative and started to work on the liberalisation of the electricity account of east-west espionage. A forthcoming book is and gas sectors in . In January 2000 he became on cyber-security. He has also contributed to books on the President of the Hungarian Energy Offi ce, the religion and media ethics. An experienced broadcaster, national energy regulator. Between 2000 and 2004 he public speaker, moderator and panelist, Edward Lucas also served as the Chairman of the Energy Regulators has given public lectures at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge Regional Association (ERRA), an association of energy and other leading universities. He is a regular contributor regulatory institutions of countries from Central and to the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, and to Eastern Europe, the CIS and South East Europe. He has NPR, CNN and Sky News. He is regularly cited by Foreign directed several recent research eff orts with relevance Policy magazine as one of the top 100 Twitterati. for Central and South East Europe. In 2011 he was appointed as alternate member of ACER’s (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators) Board of Appeal. His major research fi elds are energy economics, energy security, regulation and modelling of network industries and environmental economics. Rokas Masiulis A. Wess Mitchell Minister of Energy of the President, CEPA Republic of Lithuania A. Wess Mitchell is President of the Rokas Masiulis was appointed Center for European Policy Analy- Lithuania’s Minister of Energy on 25 sis (CEPA), a foreign policy institute September 2014. Before, Masiulis dedicated to the study of Central and served as the Managing Director at Eastern Europe with offi ces in Wash- the state-controlled oil terminal operator, Klaipėdos ington, DC and Warsaw Poland. A Nafta, where in September 2010 he became a member co-founder of CEPA, Mitchell has played an active role of the Board of Directors. During his term as the in its growth into a successful 501(c)(3) policy organiza- Managing Director at Klaipėdos Nafta, Masiulis was tion. Mitchell is the author of numerous publications on responsible for the implementation of an LNG import transatlantic security. His commentaries have appeared terminal, which started operation in December 2014. in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, International Prior to joining Klaipėdos Nafta, Masiulis served as a Herald Tribune, Washington Post, American Interest and Managing Director at Lithuania‘s natural gas trading others. During the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, Mitch- company, LITGAS. From 2009 to 2010, Masiulis served ell served on the National Security Transition Team for as a Director of Business Development and Finance the Mitt Romney presidential campaign. He is the Chair at LEO LT, an electricity holding company uniting most of the Europe Working Group for the John Hay Initiative electricity assets in Lithuania. For 14 years Masiulis held and a member of the advisory councils of the Brzez- a number of senior staff positions at Energy practices of inski Institute for Geostrategy and the Richard G. Lugar Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. His regional focus Center for Diplomacy. Mitchell holds a Master’s Degree covered Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Russia, and from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School . Minister Masiulis holds a Master’s Degree in of Foreign Service, where he was awarded the 2004 International Relations and Political Science and received Hopper Award. His second book, an examination of the an undergraduate degree in Economics and Production security dilemmas facing U.S. allies in frontier regions Management from University. Masiulis is fl uent in co-authored with Jakub J. Grygiel, is forthcoming from English and Russian and has basic knowledge of Polish Press. and Chinese. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Senator Christopher Gerlinde Niehus S. Murphy Head of Engagements U.S. Senate Section, NATO Christopher S. Murphy is the junior Dr. Gerlinde Niehus leads the United States Senator for Connecticut. Engagements Section within NATO’s Murphy serves on the Appropriations Public Diplomacy Division. As such, Committee, the Health, Education, she oversees NATO’s Public Diplomacy Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, the Foreign Rela- engagements with audiences in NATO nations and with tions Committee, and the Democratic Steering & Out- partners across the globe, be it peer-to-peer or by digital reach Committee. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, means. Gerlinde Niehus started her professional life as a Murphy served Connecticut’s Fifth Congressional District TV and radio editor for public broadcasters in Germany for three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. (WDR and Deutschlandfunk). She then moved to a Senator Murphy grew up in Wethersfi eld, Connecticut, German think tank, focusing on international relations and and attended Williams College in Massachusetts. In a growing range of education and training programmes 2002, he graduated from UConn Law School in Hartford, with partners in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Connecticut. Independent States (NIS). This work brought her to the in Brussels, where she built up the information and communications programme EU – NIS, and subsequently developed a communications strategy for the European Commission’s Directorate General Information Society. In 1999 she joined NATO, and in 2012 assumed her present position. Gerlinde Niehus holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Muenster University, Germany.

Edgars Rinkēvičs Representatave Ed Foreign Minister of Latvia Royce Edgars Rinkēvičs is Minister of Foreign Chairman, House Aff airs since October 25, 2011. He was Committee on Foreign Head of the Chancery of the President of Latvia from October 2008 till October Aff airs 2011. He also served as State Secretary Ed Royce (R), U.S. Representative in the Ministry of Defence of the serves California’s 39th Congressional Republic of Latvia from August 1997 till October 2008. District, based in Orange, Los Angeles, and San He also worked as Chief of the Offi ce for organising the Bernardino Counties. Royce was selected to be NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government, which Chairman of the House Foreign Aff airs Committee. took place in Riga, 2006. Mr. Rinkēvičs graduated from Prior to becoming Chairman of the Committee, Royce the University of Latvia and received his Master’s degree served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, in Political Science in 1997. From 1999-2000 he also Nonproliferation, and Trade and a member of the studied at the U.S. National Defence University, Industrial Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacifi c. A California College of the Armed Forces and has a graduate degree native, he is a graduate of California State University, in National Resource Strategy. Fullerton, School of Business Administration. Prior to entering public service, Royce was a small business owner, a capital projects manager, and a corporate tax manager for a Southern California company. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Radosław Sikorski Igor Slobodnik Former Minister of Foreign State Secretary of the Aff airs of the Republic of Ministry of Foreign and Poland European Aff airs of the Radosław Sikorski is the former Polish minister of foreign aff airs. Born and Slovak Republic raised in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Mr. Igor Slobodník is the State Secretary Sikorski embarked on his political path in Ministry of Foreign and European in 1981, when he led a student strike committee as part Aff airs of the Slovak Republic. Mr Igor Slobodník started of the Solidarity movement. Afterward, he fl ed Poland his diplomatic career in 1992 in Prague, at the Federal and was granted political asylum in Great Britain, where Ministry of Foreign Aff airs of Czechoslovakia as Private he graduated from Oxford University with a B.A. and an Secretary to the Minister. He occupied several positions M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). He at the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs of , as well as at then served as a war reporter in Afghanistan and Angola. the Ministry of Defence of Slovakia. In 1993, he became In 1988, he was awarded the World Press Photo. Mr. Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Slovakia in Sikorski returned to his home country in 1989, where . In 1997, he was appointed Ambassador of he enjoyed a long and successful tenure in the Polish Slovakia to the , later serving as Political government, starting as a member of parliament and Director at the Ministry of Defence. In 2004, he became later serving as the minister of defense, the minister the Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the North of foreign aff airs, and the marshal of the Sejm. As the . In 2008, he took the position of the minister of foreign aff airs, Mr. Sikorski was the Polish Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs. From signatory of the Treaty of Lisbon, in 2007, and a key 2010 to 2015, Mr Slobodník served as Ambassador of contributor to several international agreements, including Slovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany. In his current the Poland-US missile defense agreement and the capacity as State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and accord between the pro-EU opposition and Ukrainian European Aff airs of Slovakia, Mr Slobodník is responsible President Yanukovych, in 2013. In 2012, Foreign Policy for the security policy, external economic relations, named him one of its 100 global thinkers for “telling the development assistance, international organizations, and truth even when it’s not diplomatic.” the countries of the Eastern Partnership, Africa, Asia and Pacifi c as well as Americas. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Richard Stengel Marcin Terlikowski Under Secretary of State for Head of the European Security Public Diplomacy and Public and Defence Economics Aff airs Project, PISM Richard Stengel was sworn in as Under Marcin Terlikowski is head of European Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Security and Defence Economics and Public Aff airs on February 14, 2014. project in the Polish Institute of As Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public International Aff airs (PISM). Since 2007 he has been a Aff airs, he provides global strategic leadership of all research fellow in PISM, and between 2013 and 2014 Department of State public diplomacy and public aff airs served as acting coordinator of International Security engagement and oversees the bureaus of Educational Program. In his research he focuses on European and Cultural Aff airs, International Information Programs, defence industry and defence equipment market, and Public Aff airs, and the Center for Strategic Counter- European Union’s Common Security and Defence terrorism Communications. Policy, defence and military cooperation in Europe. He Prior to assuming this position, Richard Stengel was the is the author of numerous policy reports and academic Managing Editor of TIME from 2006 to 2013, which in- papers on European defence, defence economics, Polish cludes print and digital, domestic and international. From security policy and crisis management operations. He 2004 to 2006, he was the President and Chief Executive co-led a number of collaborative research programs, Offi cer of the National Constitution Center in Philadel- including Defence Austerity: a New Paradigm for phia. Mr. Stengel was the Ferris Professor of Journalism Defence and Security Cooperation in the Visegrad at Princeton University in 1999. Region (2011-2013) (DAV4); Weimar Defence Cooperation From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Stengel worked with Nelson – Projects to Respond to the European Imperative Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, (2011); Restructuring Europe’s Armed Forces in Times of and later served as an associate producer of the 1996 Austerity: A Dialog on Challenges and Opportunities for Oscar-nominated documentary, Mandela. Mr. Stengel re- Government and Industry (2010). ceived an Emmy award in 2012 for his work as executive producer on TIME’s documentary, “Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience.” Richard Stengel has written for many publications and is the author of several books, including Mandela’s Way and January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, A South African Town. During his career at TIME he also served as the magazine’s national and culture editor as well as editor of TIME.com. Mr. Stengel received a B.A. from Princeton University and studied English and History as a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Róbert Vass Raimonds Vējonis Executive Vice-President, President of Latvia Slovak Atlantic Commission His Excellency Mr Raimonds Vējonis is Róbert Vass is the Executive Vice- the current President of the Republic President and CEO of Central of Latvia. He assumed offi ce on 8 July European Strategy Council and 2015 and is a member of the Latvian Founder of the GLOBSEC Forum. He Green Party. He previously served as began his started his professional the Minister of Defense (2014-2015), the career as President of non-governmental organisation Minister of the Environment (2002-2011) and was a mem- Euro-Atlantic Center in 2002. He had remained in this ber of the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia (2011-2014). position for the next four years. In 2006, he was elected He also worked as the European Union Associated States Chairman of the Slovak Atlantic Commission (SAC) and Environmental Legislation Control and Implementation in 2008 its Secretary General. Under his leadership, Branch National Coordinator (1998-2002), and was the SAC has achieved substantial development, opened two Director of Lielrīgas Regional Environmental board (1996- new offi ces in Banská Bystrica and Bratislava, extended 2002). Raimonds Vējonis has been awarded the Order of its programme and activities and became the exclusive Three Stars (second grade) for his distinguished career in member of Atlantic Treaty Association for Slovakia. In public service. He holds a Masters Degree in Biology from 2005, he founded the tradition of Bratislava Global the University of Latvia. Security Forum and since then he has been the patron of this initiative. He also organised the accompanying conference of NATO Defence Ministers Meeting and Marcin Zaborowski established the successful magazine on foreign policy and international security Euro-Atlantic Quarterly. In Executive Vice President, connection with the sixtieth anniversary of the United CEPA Nations, the UN Information Service in Vienna chose him Marcin Zaborowski is the executive as its temporary representative for Slovakia. Robert has a vice-president and head of the Warsaw Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy Offi ce for the Center for European from the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. Policy Analysis (CEPA) since July 2015. Previously, from 2010 to 2015, Mr. Zaborowski served as the director of the Polish Institute Liz Wahl of International Aff airs (PISM), in Warsaw. Prior to that, Mr. Zaborowski directed the Transatlantic Programme at Journalist the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EU- (Former RT Journalist) ISS), in Paris, where he dealt with transatlantic relations, Liz Wahl is an American journalist based U.S. foreign policy, EU Common Security and Defence in Washington, D.C. She has appeared Policy, and EU enlargement. He was a lecturer in inter- on CNN, MSNBC, , The national relations at the University of Birmingham and View, , and several Aston University, in the UK, from 2001 to 2005, and a international news outlets. From 2011 coordinator and director of the Transatlantic Programme to 2014, she was a correspondent and anchor for the at the Centre for International Relations, in Warsaw, from U.S. branch of RT TV and made international headlines 2002 to 2004. Mr. Zaborowski holds a Ph.D. in Euro- following her resignation from the channel, publicly de- pean Politics and an M.A. in International Studies from nouncing its distorted coverage of the confl ict in Ukraine the University of Birmingham. He is also a graduate of and Russian intervention in Crimea. Wahl has spoken the Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznan, Poland. Mr. widely about Russian tactics, journalistic Zaborowski is a member of the Council of the Slovak ethics, and current challenges and responsibilities in new Atlantic Commission (SAC) and a consultant for the Stra- media on panel discussions and journalism conferences tegic Security Review of Poland. He is a member of the throughout Europe. Previously, she had worked as a prestigious international expert policy group under the producer in her home state of Connecticut and reporter NATO secretary general that formulated a report on the and anchor overseas in the U.S. Commonwealth of the most important challenges facing NATO before its 2014 Mariana Islands and was a regional correspondent for Wales summit. the NBC affi liate in the territory of Guam. She graduated from Fairfi eld University with a major in English/Journal- ism. She was born on a U.S. Naval base in the Philippines and is of Filipino and Hungarian descent. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

Lubomír Zaorálek Minister of Foreign Aff airs of the Czech Republic Lubomír Zaorálek was appointed Minister of Foreign Aff airs of the Czech Republic on 29 January 2014. Prior to his appointment as the Minister of Foreign Aff airs, Lubomír Zaorálek was a leading fi gure in the Czech Parliament. From 2002 – 2006 he was the Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies and later the Deputy Chairman. In 1998 he was elected the Deputy Chair of the Czech Social Democratic Party, and since 2002 he was the Party´s Shadow Minister of Foreign Aff airs. In 1996, Lubomír Zaorálek was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic for the fi rst time. In 1990 he was elected to the Municipal Assembly of the City of Ostrava on the ballot of the Civic Forum (Obanské fórum), as one of its founders and representatives appointed to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly. At that time he joined the staff of the Philosophy Department of the Ostrava University teaching political philosophy, contemporary philosophy, ethics and Czech political thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. Bringing Central Europe to Washington

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Maksutbek Aitmaganbet Brian Armstrong International Exchange Center Kazakhstan OSD Policy

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Yonah Alexander Nigel Ashford Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies Institute for Humane Studies

Aadu Allpere Melissa Aten Estonian HC, Atlanta GA National Endowment for Democracy

Kristi Allpere Frank Babetski Estonian American National Council Central Intelligence Agency

Karl Altau Bart Bachman Joint Baltic American National Committee Georgetown University

Bernhard Altersberger Stan Backaitis Embassy of Germany Central and East European Coalition

Kurt Amend Asta Banionis Raytheon Company Lithuanian-American Community, Inc.

Daniel Anýž Neil Barnett Czech Edition Newsweek Istok Associates Ltd

Anne Applebaum Kristýna Bartošová CEPA Embassy of the Czech Republic

Bartosz Arabik Vaclav Bartuška Embassy of Poland Ambassador-At-Large for Energy Security of the Czech Republic David Armitage Marieluise Beck U.S. Department of State German Bundestag w . c e p a o r g PARTICIPANTS

Sarah Bedenbaugh Martin Boubin The Atlantic Council Czech TV

Philip Bednarczyk Milda Boyce U.S. House of Representatives CEPA

Jacob Bell Erik Brattberg American University McCain Institute

Zdenek Beranek Ilmars Breidaks Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Embassy of Latvia

Gatis Bergmanis Joanne M. Brignolo Embassy of Latvia JMB Associates

Janis Berzins Matthew Brown Latvian National Defence Academy CEPA

Rita Berzins Girard Bucello IV Latvian Newspaper Laiks University of Mary Washington

Stephen Blank Janusz Bugajski American Foreign Policy Council CEPA

Olga Blatakova Frances Burwell Missouri State University The Atlantic Council

Ruediger Bohn Dainis Butners Embassy of Germany HQ USACE

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