European Conference
March 24th and 25th 2023 in Cambridge, MA

Speakers

Roberta Metsola
Roberta Metsola Keynote Speaker

President of the European Parliament

Oleksandra Matviichuk
Oleksandra Matviichuk Keynote Speaker

Chairman of the Center for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize 2022

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Keynote Speaker

Democratic Opposition Leader of Belarus

Oleksiy Honcharuk
Oleksiy Honcharuk Keynote Speaker

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine

Enrico Letta
Enrico Letta Keynote Speaker

President of the Jacques Delors Institute, Member of Parliament and former Prime Minister ofItaly

Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt Keynote Speaker

Former Prime Minister of Belgium, Member of the European Parliament

H.E. Stavros Lambrinidis
H.E. Stavros Lambrinidis Keynote Speaker

Ambassador of the European Union to the United States

Dritan Abazović
Dritan Abazović Keynote Speaker

Prime Minister of Montenegro

Daniela Schwarzer
Daniela Schwarzer Keynote Speaker

Executive Director, Open Society Europe and Central Asia - Special Advisor of the Conference

Alexandre Adam
Alexandre Adam

Former Europe advisor to the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, member of the French Council of State

Alberto Alemanno
Alberto Alemanno

Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law at HEC Paris

Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier

former European Union Chief Negotiator for Brexit, former European Commissioner

Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova

Head of the China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University

Baiba Braže
Baiba Braže

Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy

Ivan Brkljač
Ivan Brkljač

Advisor of the Prime Minister of Serbia on Migration

Nataliya Bugayova
Nataliya Bugayova

Nataliya Bugayova, Institute for the Study of War

Goran Buldioski
Goran Buldioski

Director of Programs, Open Society Foundations

Jordi Calvet-Bademunt
Jordi Calvet-Bademunt

Former OECD Official and Harvard Kennedy School Student

Youssef Chahed
Youssef Chahed

Former Prime Minister of Tunisia (2016-2020)

Athanasios Dagoumas
Athanasios Dagoumas

President, Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE), Greece

Sławomir Dębski
Sławomir Dębski

Director of Polish Institute of International Affairs

George Dellis
George Dellis

Professor of Public Law at the Athens Law Faculty

Anne Dias
Anne Dias

Founder and CEO of Aragon Global Management

H.E. Marko Đurić
H.E. Marko Đurić

Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the US

Sylvie Espinasse
Sylvie Espinasse

Head of the Washington Office, European Space Agency (ESA)

Philippe Etienne
Philippe Etienne

Former Ambassador of France to the United States

Floreta Faber
Floreta Faber

Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the United States

Sandrine Gaudin
Sandrine Gaudin

Vice-Governor, Council of Europe Development Bank

Dmytro Gazda
Dmytro Gazda

Founder and CEO of Esper Bionics

Weila Gong
Weila Gong

Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Jan Havlík
Jan Havlík

Head of Section, Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU

Boris Houenou
Boris Houenou

Former faculty member at Washington State University, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
Dr. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana

Affiliate researcher at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security.

Krisztian Katona
Krisztian Katona

Vice President of Global Competition and Regulatory Policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman

Senior Fellow at Yale’s Tobin Economic Policy Center and the Harvard Kennedy School researching antitrust and competition policy in digital markets

Michael J. Klarman
Michael J. Klarman

The Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School

Kate Klonick
Kate Klonick

Associate Professor at St. John’s University Law School

Alexander Kornezov
Alexander Kornezov

President of the Eighth Chamber of the General Court of the European Union

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet

Senior Partner - Antin Infrastructure Partners

Lenna Koszarny
Lenna Koszarny

Founding Partner and CEO, Horizon Capital

Sergiy Kyslytsya
Sergiy Kyslytsya

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations

Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe
Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe

Deputy Director General of the French Treasury

Klaus Larres
Klaus Larres

Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC)

Christina Markus Lassen
Christina Markus Lassen

Ambassador of Denmark to The United States

Henry Lee
Henry Lee

Director of Environmental and Natural Resource Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Christian Lucas
Christian Lucas

Managing Director, Silver Lake

Gregory Maniatis
Gregory Maniatis

Director, Office of the Vice President for Global Programs, Open Society Foundations

Katarína Mathernová
Katarína Mathernová

Deputy Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (European Commission)

Jacob Mchangama
Jacob Mchangama

CEO of Copenhagen based think tank Justitia

Chris Murray
Chris Murray

Former research fellow in migration at the Institute for Public Policy Research

Anna Novosad
Anna Novosad

Former Minister of education and science of Ukraine

Manuel Oesterschlink
Manuel Oesterschlink

Head of CEO Office and Institutional Relations at Arianespace

Tone Oeyen
Tone Oeyen

Partner - Antitrust, Competition and Trade, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Brussels Office)

Elaine Papoulias
Elaine Papoulias

Executive Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard - Senior Advisor to the Conference

Alessandro Paravano
Alessandro Paravano

PhD candidate and Researcher in the Space Economy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano

Rohan Patel
Rohan Patel

Senior global director of public policy and business development, Tesla

Peace Uwase
Peace Uwase

former Executive Director of Financial Stability, Rwandan Central Bank

Vlad Perju
Vlad Perju

Professor of Law at Boston College Law School

William Phelan
William Phelan

Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at Trinity College Dublin

Serhii Plokhii (Plokhy)
Serhii Plokhii (Plokhy)

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

Vincent Pons
Vincent Pons

Associate Professor at Harvard Business School

H.E. Zoran Popov
H.E. Zoran Popov

Ambassador of the Republic of North Macedonia to the US

Jenny Prevedourou
Jenny Prevedourou

Professor of Public Law at the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Mathias Risse
Mathias Risse

Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Klaus Scharioth
Klaus Scharioth

Professor of Practice at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Dean of the Mercator College for International Affairs in Germany

Alexandra Sdoukou
Alexandra Sdoukou

General Secretary for Energy and Mineral Resources (GSEMR) at the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy

Joe Shear
Joe Shear

Senior Counsel at Google, Content Regulation Legal

William Valasidis
William Valasidis

Judge at the General Court of the European Union

Rita Wezenbeek
Rita Wezenbeek

Director for Platforms, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission

Anna Wieslander
Anna Wieslander

Director, Northern Europe, Atlantic Council

Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram

Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School

Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Mychailo Wynnyckyj

Professor, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”

Lea Zuber
Lea Zuber

Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission, Digital Markets Act