Special guests

Inaugural holder of the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar, Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida

Lieutenant General (Ret.), Doctor of Economics. Former Polish Military Representative to the NATO and EU Military Committees in Brussels

William P. Ames, Jr. ’41 Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia

Professor in the Department of Environmental Protection at Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Head of the Sustainable Development and Technology Studies in the Department of Environmental Protection.

Co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD), and co-founder of the Polish Energy Efficiency Foundation

Department of Military Foreign Affairs, Polish Ministry of Defense

National Centre for Strategic Studies

Her main areas of focus include Russian-Western relations, Russian domestic and foreign policy, democratization, energy security, and organized crime and security in the Americas.

Institute for East-West Security Studies, New York City, research associate and deputy director of studies, 1984-89; Columbia University, New York City

Stefan Batory Foundation

Health & Environment Alliance

Defense Policy Director, Ministry of Defense, Lithuania

Director, CEPA-Warsaw

Russian activist who was prominent in the Soviet dissident movement, writer, neurophysiologist and activist

The permanent secretary of the Académie Française and a historian specializing in Russian history

Deputy Head of the Department for European Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

American diplomat, former top U.S. diplomat in Europe, National Security Council director for Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs

Armenian expert, scientist. He was a Member of the Armenian Parliament and an Advisor of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia.

Russian Federation Ambassador to Poland