Forum Speakers
Kyrylo Budanov

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Lieutenant General.
Former Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR)

Steven Biegun

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.
Has 30+ years of experience in international relations in both public and private sectors (Ford Motor, Boeing Company)

Benjamin Bobbe

Head of the Central and Eastern Europe Department, Institute for European and Transatlantic Dialogue, Hanns Seidel Foundation

Andrii Vadaturskyi

CEO and owner of NIBULON – one of Ukraine's largest agro-industrial enterprises.
Ukrainian entrepreneur

Fredrik Wesslau

Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS). Former Director of the European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK)

Kurt Volker

Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (2017–2019).
U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2008–2009)

Tetiana Honcharova

Ukrainian journalist, TV and radio host with 17+ years of experience. Formerly worked on Savik Shuster's Freedom of Speech, Rada TV channel, and launched 112 Ukraine as Editor-in-Chief. Host of the Honcharova Argument program on Radio Era

Oleksii Honcharuk

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Aerorozvidka NGO
Chair of the Board of Directors, UFORCE

Andy Hunder

President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Aspen Institute Kyiv, the Business Ombudsman Council, and the Ukrainian Catholic University

Robert Doar

President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Has 20+ years of experience leading social programs at the state and city levels in New York

Anne Applebaum

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic (2024).
Senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Serhii Yevtushenko

Founder, Managing Partner, and CEO, UDP Renewables.
Partner at UNIT.City. Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Association, Ukrainian Wind Energy Association, and Ukrainian Hydrogen Council.

Glenn Corn

Professor, Institute of World Politics.
Former Senior Intelligence Service Officer, CIA
Founder and CEO of Great South Bay LLC

Iulian Chifu

President of the Center for Conflict Prevention and Early Warning.
Advisor to the Prime Minister of Romania for Foreign Relations, Security, and Strategic Affairs (2021-2023)

Natalia Kryvda

PhD, Professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
Academic Director of the Edinburgh Business School

Volodymyr Kudrytskyi

Co-Chair of ACC Distributed Generation Committee, Co-Founder of NEGEN. Chairman of the Management Board, NPC Ukrenergo (2020-2024)

Oleksii Kuleba

Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine — Minister for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine

Nico Lange

Senior Fellow, Munich Security Conference.
Chief of Staff, German Federal Ministry of Defence (2019–2022)

Linas Linkevičius

Ambassador of Lithuania to the Kingdom of Sweden. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania (2012–2020).
Permanent Representative of Lithuania to NATO (2005–2011)

Rena Marutian

Director of the Institute of National Resilience and Security, Doctor of Science in Public Administration, Professor of the Department of Global and National Security, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Matteo Mecacci

Director of the European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK). Scientific Advisor at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome

Olena Pavlenko

PhD, President and co-founder of the Ukrainian DiXi Group think tank and the Ukrainian Energy website

Geoffrey Pyatt

Senior Managing Director for Energy and Critical Minerals, McLarty Associates. Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2013–2016)

Pavlo Palisa

Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. Brigadier General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Andriy Pyshnyy

Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine since 2022.
Named the world's best central bank governor by The Banker magazine (2024)

Peter Pomerantsev

Author and expert on information warfare and disinformation.
Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Mykyta Poturaiev

Chair of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Vadym Prystaiko

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2019–2020)

Vadym Skibitskyi

Deputy Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR), Major General

Maksym Timchenko

CEO of DTEK

Nathalie Tocci

Professor of the Practice, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe.
Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking, Bocconi University

Vygaudas Ušackas

Founder and CEO of V.U. Business Linking LTD.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania (2008–2010)

John Herbst

Senior Director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2003–2006) 30+ years of service in the U.S. Department of State

Taras Chmut

Veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Director of the Come Back Alive Foundation.
Founder of the NGO Ukrainian Military Center

Dmytro Shymkiv

Ukrainian top executive, entrepreneur, and investor in innovation.
Co-founder and Director of Strategic Initiatives at Ukrainian startup AeroDrone.
Independent member of the Supervisory Board of Kyivstar (NASDAQ: KYIV)

Denys Shmyhal

First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Energy of Ukraine.
Prime Minister of Ukraine (2020-2025)

Andrii Yusov

Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR), Deputy Head of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War