List of Participants Nenad Adžemović Dmytro Andriyevskiy Zoltán Bali Attaché Member of Parliament Head Defence Planning Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of “Batkivshchyna” (“Fatherland”) All-Ukrainian Ministry of Defence of Hungary Serbia Union faction Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Martina Balleková Muafak Ahmad Spokesperson Adviser to the President of Iraq Ian Anthony Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Public relations Programme Director Office of the President of Iraq European Security Programme Csaba Balogh Stockholm International Peace Research Ambassador Noorullah Ahmadzai Institute (SIPRI) Embassy of Hungary in Bratislava Acting Head United Kingdom Cross Practice Unit Matthias Bange United Nations Development Programme James Appathurai Captain Afghanistan Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Federal Defence Forces of Germany Affairs and Security Policy Mahash Al Hameli NATO Andris Banka Director Researcher International Security Cooperation Department Rowinda Appelman University of Birmingham Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab YATA President Latvia Emirates Atlantic Treaty Association Netherlands Shukria Barakzai Riad Al Khouri Member of Parliament Senior Consultant Yasser Atef House of the People Institute for Democracy and Electoral Studies Deputy Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of University of Jordan Relations with EU Countries Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic Mohamed Al Robaiee of Egypt Michal Baranowski Ambassador Senior Program Officer Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Bratislava Richard Atwood The German Marshall Fund of the United States Director of Research Poland Mohammed Al Shamsi International Crisis Group Deputy Director Belgium John Barter International Security Cooperation Department Regional Director Austria, Hungary, Poland & Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Martin Ayrer Slovakia Emirates Spokesperson, Director BAE Systems Communications Department Slovakia Izabela Albrycht Office of the Government of the Czech Chairperson of the Board Republic Dániel Bartha The Kosciuszko Institute Head of Central Europe Program Poland Matej Avbelj Central European Policy Institute (CEPI) Dean Hungary Oľga Algayerová Graduate School of Government and European Ambassador, Permanent Representative Studies Vladimír Bartovic Permanent Mission of the Slovak Republic to the Slovenia Director International Organizations in Vienna EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy Shlomo Avineri Czech Republic Farida Allaghi Professor of Political Science President Hebrew University Václav Bartuška Libyan Forum for Civil Society Israel Ambassador at Large for Libya Energy Security Thomas Bagger Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic John Allen Head of Policy Planning Former Commander Federal Foreign Office of Germany Juraj Bayer ISAF and U.S. Forces Afghanistan Financial Director United States John Baird Západoslovenská energetika, a.s., Member of Vice President E.ON Group Katrīna Allikas Poland IAMD Slovakia Secretary General Raytheon Latvian Transatlantic Organisation United States Peter Bátor Latvia Head of Political Section Erik Baktai Permanent Delegation of the Slovak Republic Kurt Amend Senior Consultant to NATO Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary International Business Development Jozef Bátora Raytheon Péter Balázs Director United States Director Institute of European Studies and International Center for EU Enlargement Studies Relations Pavel Andreev Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary Comenius University in Bratislava Executive Director Slovakia Valdai Discussion Club Václav Bálek Russia Political Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic 56 | Forum Brochure List of Participants Anton Bebler Anouck Boillat Ian Brzezinski President Global HR Director Senior Fellow Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia SpotMe Atlantic Council United States Nicolai Bechfeldt Werner Böhler First Lieutenant Head of Prague and Bratislava Office Lenka Bučková Danish Defence Forces Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Program Manager Denmark Germany International Visegrad Fund Slovakia Michael Beltrani Ian Bond Director Director of Foreign Policy Kathryn Buer Business Development for the Communications Centre for European Reform (CER) Vice President Eastern Europe and Baltics and Controls Solutions (CCS) United Kingdom Raytheon International BAE Systems Poland United States Branislav Borenovic Chairman Janusz Bugajski Kristof Bender Committee for European Integrations and Senior Fellow Deputy Chairman Regional Cooperation Center for Strategic and International Studies European Stability Initiative (ESI) National Assembly of the Republika Srpska (CSIS) Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina United States Mohammed Benhammou Julian Borger Beata Bulawová President Diplomatic Editor CFO & Executive Director The Moroccan Center for Strategic Studies The Guardian Jagello 2000 Morocco United Kingdom Czech Republic Martin Bennett Karel Borůvka Kathy Bunka Managing Director for Europe and the Americas Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Legal and Chargé d’Affaires BAE Systems Consular Affairs Embassy of Canada in Bratislava United Kingdom Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Peter Burian Alexander Ben-Zvi Ferenc Bösenbacher State Secretary Ambassador Director Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Embassy of the State of Israel in Bratislava Center for Security and Defense Studies Slovak Republic Foundation Ronen Bergman Hungary David Burrows Senior Correspondent Managing Director Military and Intelligence Affairs Nenad Bosiljčić EMEA Government Yedioth Ahronoth Program Coordinator Microsoft Corporation Israel Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) United Kingdom Serbia Július Berith Ditmir Bushati Chairman of the Board Davor Božinović Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Virtual Reality Media, a.s. Chairman Albania Slovakia Interparliamentary Cooperation Committee Croatian Parliament Martin Bútora Nuala Bethell Honorary President Youth Delegate Ahron Bregman Institute for Public Affairs Global Voices Professor of War Studies Slovakia Australia King’s College London United Kingdom Roman Bužek Vladimír Bilčík Director General Head of European Studies Markus Breyer International Organisations, Development Slovak Foreign Policy Association Director General Assistance and Humanitarian Aid Division Slovakia Microsoft Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovakia Slovak Republic Carl Bildt Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Ingrid Brocková David Cadier Sweden Ambassador and Permanent Representative Fellow in International Strategy and Diplomacy Permanent Mission of the Slovak Republic to the London School of Economics Maja Bobić OECD United Kingdom Secretary General European Movement in Serbia Anders Brudevoll Anne-Marie Callan Higher Executive Officer Ambassador Daniel Boestad Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries of the Embassy of the Republic of Ireland in Bratislava Vice President for Central and Eastern Europe Kingdom of Norway SAAB Colin Cameron Sweden Matthew Bryza Secretary General Director Interparliamentary European Security & International Centre for Defense Studies Defence Association United States United Kingdom Forum Brochure | 57 List of Participants Vincenzo Camporini Martin J. Coyne Attila Demkó Vice President Director Head of Defence Policy Department Institute of International Affairs Business Development Ministry of Defence of Hungary Italy MEADS International United States Judy Dempsey Céline-Agathe Caro Senior Non-Resident Associate Coordinator Lorne Craner Carnegie Europe European Policy Co-Director Germany European and International Cooperation Transatlantic Renewal Initiative Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung World Affairs Institute James Denton Germany United States Co-Director Transatlantic Renewal Initiative Salvatore Cataldo Martin Čambalík World Affairs Institute Business Development Executive Advisor to the Minister United States MBDA Italia S.p.A. Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Italy Neelam Deo Ľubomír Čaňo Co-Founder and Director Mitat Celikpala Director Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Chair Common Foreign and Security Policy Relations International Relations Department India Kadir Has University Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Turkey Slovak Republic Šani Dermaku Ambassador Richard Celder Martin Čapliar Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Bratislava Head of Department President Bilateral Relations Section Euro-Atlantic Center Glevin Dervishi Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Slovakia Advisor Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania Milan Cerovský Ivana Červenková Former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Director Christopher DeWitt Forces of the Slovak Republic Office of the Minister Regional Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Business Development Marek Cichocki Sikorsky Aircraft Programme Director Ana Maria Ribeiro Da Silva United States Natolin European Centre Chargé d‘Affaires e.p. Poland Embassy of the Portuguese Republic in Marija Djakova Bratislava College of Europe Ján Cingel Macedonia** Project Coordinator Nils Daag Transfer of Know-How Ambassador Ivana Djukanovic Slovak Atlantic Commission Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden in Vienna Minister Counsellor Slovakia Embassy of Montenegro in Vienna Nicholas Davis Armand Clesse Director, Head of Europe Matthias Dornfeldt Director World Economic Forum Assistant Professor