Leader or Dreamer?
Europe’s Role in a Fragmented World Order
January 31 - February 1, 2025
The 2025 edition marks the 11th consecutive year of the conference. Throughout these years, we are proud to have hosted distinguished global leaders, including Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, and others. The 2024 edition notably featured Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič, Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, and Commissioner Elisa Ferreira, as well as former Prime Minister of Italy Enrico Letta.
Under the theme Leader or Dreamer? Europe’s Role in a Fragmented World Order, the 2025 edition will bring together over 750 academics, students, and future leaders from around the world. Across 10 panels, 4 keynote speeches and several working groups, the European Conference will address pivotal topics shaping Europe's future, such as defense, energy security, economic resilience, and transatlantic relations.
Speakers
Flagship Session Speakers
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Former Prime Minister of Poland
Panelists
- Helge Berger, Deputy Director, IMF European Department
- Helena Malikova, EU Civil Servant with Directorate General for Competition
- Ludovic Subran, Group Chief Investment Officer, Allianz
- Margrethe Vestager, Former EU Executive Vice President and Commissioner
- Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium
- Madeleine de Cock Buning, Part-time Professor Digital Politics, Economy and Societies at the School of Transnational Governance (STG)
- Kristina Hammer, President, Salzburg Festival
- Florian Idenburg, Award-winning Architect and Founder, SO-IL
- Octavia Marginean-Tahiroglu, General Manager of The St. Regis New York
- Demetri Tsolakis, CEO, Xenia Greek Hospitality
- Ellie Gerenmayeh, Deputy Director of MENA Program, European Council on Foreign Relations
- Costantinos Kombos, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cyprus
- Alexandre Stutzmann, EU Representative to West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNRWA
- Natalie Tocci, Political Scientist and Director, Instituto Affari Internazionali
- Alberto Alemanno, Professor, HEC Paris
- Věra Jourová, Former Vice President for Values and Transparency, European Commission
- Adrian Vazquez Lazara, Spanish Member of the European Parliament
- Yascha Mounk, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University
- Amaryllis Verhoeven, European Commission / KU Leuven
- Ylva Johansson, Former European Commissioner for Home Affairs
- Michele Klein, Former Regional Director for Central and North America and the Caribbean, IOM
- Ioannis Ktistakis, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and President of Third Section
- Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director General for Energy, European Commission
- Ewa Krukowska, Senior Energy Correspondent, Bloomberg
- Riad Meddeb, Director of the UNDP Sustainable Energy Hub
- Manfred Schuckert, Vice President, Head of Regulatory & International Hydrogen Strategy, Daimler Truck AG
- Tanja Miščević, Serbian Minister of European Integration
- Timčo Mucunski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, North Macedonia
- John Shattuck, Former US Ambassador to Czech Republic and US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
- Ilva Tare, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center
- David M. Herszenhorn, Journalist at The Washington Post
- Mohammed Chahim, Member of the European Parliament for GroenLinks-PvdA
- Carolyn Fischer, Research Manager, Sustainability and Infrastructure Team, Development Research Group, World Bank
- Carrie Jenks, Executive Director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program, Harvard Law School
- Todd Stern, Former Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Department of State
- Tommaso Calarco, Leading Quantum Physicist and Professor, University of Cologne and University of Bologna
- Jean Michel Dalle, Professor, Oxford University and Managing Director, Agoranov