During the last five years, GLOBSEC has become the meeting place of key figures of international community that have substantial influence on security and foreign policy agenda in Europe and North America. GLOBSEC gathers people of great ideas, influence and vision. The conference is attended by several ministers of foreign affairs and defence each year, representatives of international organisations, important European and US diplomats, academics and experts from the most influential think-tanks from Berlin, Brussels, London, Paris or Washington, as well as important journalists from international media. The historic track of the GLOBSEC conference includes also:
HIGH-LEVEL POLITICIANS AND DIPLOMATS | Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of the OSCE,Mikuláš Dzurinda, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Alexander Vershbow, U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Karel Schwarzenberg, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Francesc Vendrell, Former UN and EU Special Envoy for Afghanistan; Visiting Professor at John Hopkins University, János Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, Ivo Daalder, U. S. Permanent Representative to NATO, Eimert van Middelkoop, Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Jaak Aaviksoo, Minister of Defence of Estonia, Victoria Nuland, Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, U.S. Department of State, Miroslav Lajčák, Former High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Former Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nickolay Mladenov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, Eduard Kukan, Member of the European Parliament and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Oleksandr Horin, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Chairman of the Board, Euro-Atlantic Association of Poland and Former Minister of Defence of the Republic of Poland, Iurie Leanca, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova, Espen Barth Eide, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway, Ljubica Jelušič, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia, Imants Liegis, Minister of Defence of Latvia, Borys Tarasyuk, Chairman of the European Integration Committee, Ukrainian Parliament a.o.
RENOWNED EXPERTS FROM LEADING THINK-TANKS AND ACADEMICS | Tomáš Valášek, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London, Camille Grand, Director, Foundation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris, Stephen Flanagan, Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., Damon Wilson, Vice President and Director International Security Program, Atlantic Council of the USA, Washignton, D.C., Andrew Wilson, Senior Policy Fellow, The European Council on Foreign Relations, London, Ivan Vejvoda, Executive Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the US, Belgrade, Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., James Sherr, Chatham House, London, Pavol Demeš, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the US, Bratislava, Julian Lindley-French, Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy, Netherlands Defence Academy, Alphen, Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Management Board and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Institute of Contemporary Development and President of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Robin Shepherd, Chatham House, Senior Research Fellow for Europe, London, Bruno Tertrais, Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris, Karl Heinz-Kamp, Director of the Research Division, NATO Defence College, Rome, John C. Hulsman, German Council on Foreign Relations, Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow (Russia and Eurasia) at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, a.o.
JOURNALISTS FROM LEADING INTERNATIONAL MEDIA| Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times, London, Edward Lucas, Foreign Policy Correspondent, The Economist, London, Quentin Peel, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times, London, a.o.INFLUENTIAL BUSINESS LEADERS| From Microsoft, Siemens, BAE Systems, BMW, Raytheon, Enel, E-on, a.o.
