Guest Speakers

Andrés Pastrana Arango

Former President of the Republic of Colombia

David Coulthard

Former Formula 1 driver, consultant and commentator

Adrian Vermeule, PhD

Professor of Constitutional Law at the Harvard Law School

Björn Lomborg, PhD

One of the most prominent and influential environmental thinkers, bestselling author

Calum TM. Nicholson, PhD

Social Anthropologist; Lecturer at University of Cambridge

Dominic Burbidge, PhD

Research Director at the University of Oxford and Director of the Canterbury Institute

Eric Hanushek, PhD

Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution of Stanford University

Gad Saad, PhD

Marketing professor, YouTuber

Gladden J. Pappin, PhD

President, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs

James Orr, PhD

Professor, University of Cambridge

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD

American economist, academic, public policy analyst and former Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University

John Fonte, PhD

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Institute

Joshua Katz, PhD

Linguist, classicist and former professor, Princeton University

Kevin Roberts, PhD

President, Heritage Foundation

Mark Khater, PhD

Head of the Centre for Strategy and Performance, University of Cambridge

Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, PhD

Professor at the National University of Singapore

Niall Ferguson, PhD

British historian

Peter Boghossian, PhD

American philosopher; former lecturer, Portland State University

Richard Florida, PhD

American urban studies theorist

Steve Hayward, PhD

Professor, UC Berkeley

Tilo Schabert, PhD

Bestselling author, political scientist

Yoram Hazony, PhD

President, Herzl Institute and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation

Jordan B. Peterson

Canadian Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

Klaus von Dohnanyi

Politician, author

Robert McKee

Hollywood’s most sought-after screenwriting instructor

Rod Dreher

Journalist; Senior Editor of The American Conservative magazine

Tessa McIver

Head of Alumni Development at MIT Enterprise Forum CEE.

Tucker Carlson

Host, FOX News Channel's, conservative political commentator and writer

Yair Netanyahu

Columnist, Radio Show Host, Israeli Political Social Media Influencer

April Foley

Former United States Ambassador to Hungary

Dennis Prager

One of the most influential conservative political commentators in the United States

Anil Markandya, PhD

Professor, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)

Christopher Davis, PhD

Professorial Reseach Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing

Heather Mac Donald, PhD

New York Times bestselling author, fellow at the Manhattan Institute

Justin B. Hollander, PhD

Urban planning and design scholar, professor, Tufts University

Norman Naimark, PhD

Professor at the Stanford University

Patrick Shoaf Gray, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of Liberal Arts, Durham University

Tuomas Malinen, PhD

CEO, GnS Economics

Ulrich Schlie, PhD

German history professor, expert on security policy and political figure

William Ruger, PhD

President, the American Institute for Economic Research

Zbingiew Janowski, Phd

Former Professor, Towson University

John Bruton

Former Prime Minister of Ireland

Kishore Mahbubani

Former President, UN Security Council

Michael A. Reynolds

Associate Professor; Co-Director of the Program on History and the Practice of Diplomacy, Princeton University

Michael Shellenberger

Best-selling author of "Apocalypse Never"

Werner Josef Patzelt, PhD

German professor of political science; Former Professor, Technical University of Dresden

Renée Diresta

Disinformation expert, character in Netflix blockbuster Social Dilemma

Sohrab Ahmari

Founder and Editor, Compact Magazine

William Dalrymple

Historian, art historian, author

Ahmad Piraiee

Director, Startup Grind

Anthony Malcolm Daniels

Author, journalist, cultural critic and psychiatrist

Douglas Murray

Associate Editor, The Spectator

Andy David, PhD

Director, Innovation Task force at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel

Arta Moeini, PhD

Political theorist, Georgetown University

Howard J. Shatz, PhD

Senior Economist and Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND

Jaime Nogueira Pinto, PhD

Historian and political writer

Jonathan Reichental, PhD

IT manager, author

Justin Shubow, PhD

President, National Civic Art Society

Michelle Q. Zang, PhD

Senior lecturer of law, the Victoria University of Wellington; a Borrin Foundation Justice Fellow

Patrick Deneen, PhD

American conservative political philosopher

Susanne Schröter, PhD

Head of the Global Islamic Research Centre, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt

Mark Krikorian

Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Rafi Nave

Senior Researcher, the Samuel Neaman Institute - Technion

Roger Crowley

Historian, author

Tim Marshall

Author, Journalist, Correspondent to the BBC and Sky News for decades

Abishur Prakash

Futurologist and Geopolitical Expert

Amanda Martinez

Economic Risk Analyst at the UN World Food Programme

Andy Ngo

Freelance journalist, photographer, Editor-in-chief, The Post Millennial

Dan Biran

Senior Policy Fellow, Startup Nation Policy Institute

Amiram Porath, PhD

Innovation Consultant

Andreas Kinneging, PhD

Professor of the Philosophy of Law, University of Leiden

Corrado Macchiarelli, PhD

Research Manager for Global Macroeconomics, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Fritz Söllner, PhD

University Professor at the Ilmenau University of Technology

Georg Zachmann, PhD

Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Heinrich Kreft, PhD

Former Ambassador to Luxembourg

Janne H. Matlary, PhD

Professor and strategic expert, University of Oslo

Kei Hakata, PhD

Professor at the University Seikei, Tokyo

Samir Saran, PhD

President of the Observer Research Foundation

Spencer Jones, PhD

British historian

Eitan Kyiet

CEO, Road2

Ilya Shapiro

Director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute

Jacek Karnowski

Editor-in-Chief, Fratria, Sieci weekly

Julius Krein

Founding Editor, American Affairs

Marion Maréchal

Director of the Institut des Sciences Sociales, Économiques et Politiques (ISSEP) in Lyon

Molly Livingstone

Director, Creative and Communications at Yissum Tech Transfer Company

Patrick Grady

Policy Analist, the Center for Data Innovation

Shaun Riordan

Director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace, European Institute of International Studies

Viv Regan

Managing Editor, Spiked

Zachary Christenson

Editor, The Spectator, US edition

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Columnist, The Telegraph; journalist at UnHerd

April L. Farris

Justice of the First Court of Appeals in Texas

Bruno Macaes

Former Portuguese Europe minister, author

David Webb

Radio and TV Host, FOX Nation and FOX News

David Engels, PhD

Author, historian and philosopher

David Laborde Debucquet, PhD

Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Derek Horstmeyer, PhD

Professor at the George Mason University

Gavin D. J. Harper, PhD

Met4Tech Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham

Grégor Puppinck, PhD

Director, European Center for Law and Justice

Guillaume Vuillemey, PhD

Associate Professor at the HEC, Paris

Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson, PhD

Professor, University Akureyri

Johannes Glückler, PhD

Professor of Economic and Social Geography and Fellow of the Marsilius Center of Advanced Studies at Heidelberg University

Paul Coleman, PhD

Executive Director, ADF International

Peter Schernhardt, Phd

Clinical psychologist, the Social Pediatric Center Traunstein

Russel Ronald Reno, PhD

Editor, First Things magazine

Rüdiger Voigt, PhD

Emeritus Professor, Universität des Bundeswehr München

Thomas Narbeshuber, PhD

Vice President of the Central & South Eastern Europe at the BASF

Miklos Lukacs de Pereny, PhD

Research Professor, Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Lima, Peru

Ed West

British author

Jonathan Leaf

Playwright, screenwriter, author and journalist

Katy Faust

Founder, children's rights organization 'Them Before Us'

Richard Schmitt

Editor-in-Chief and Company Co-owner, Exxpress AT

Rob Long

American writer and television producer

Simon Hankinson

Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation

Victor González

Member of the Congress of Deputies for the Vox party

Antonio O' Mullony

Editor-in- Chieff, La Gaceta de la Iberosfera

Chris Buskirk

Founder and Editor, American Greatness

Christiaan von Geuasau

Rector and Professor of the International Theological Institute at the Trumau University

David Brog

Former President, Edmund Burke Foundation

Joshua Mitchell, PhD

Professor, Georgetown University

Klaus Wolf, PhD

Professor, University of Augsburg

Mihai Sebe, PhD

Head of the European Studies Unit at the European Institute of Romania

Ofir Haivry, PhD

Political philosopher, historian and Vice President of the Herzl Institute

Simon Cottee, PhD

Criminologist, senior lecturer at the University of Kent

Emmet Penney

Editor-in-Chief at the Grid Brief

François Gemenne

FNRS senior research associate and Director of the Hugo Observatory at the University of Liège

Hugo Meijer

Research Fellow CNRS at Sciences Po at the Center for International Studies (CERI)

Ilan Greenfield

CEO and Owner, Gefen Publishing House Ltd.

Ilan Kelman

University professor

Kevin Oswald

Leading energy expert at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Michel Berthelemy

Nuclear Energy Analyst at the OECD

Philip Hammond

University professor

Philip Plickert

Author, journalist

Rev. Fr. Mario Alexis Portella

Chancellor at the Archdiocese of Florence

Stefan Sipka

Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre

Andrew Cooper

Co-founder and host of CPAC Australia, president of LibertyWorks

Antonio Martino

Former Minister of Defense of Italy

Anne Coffinier, PhD

Founder, Fondation Kairos pour l'innovation éducative, diplomat, and activist

Mariusz Orion Jędrysek, PhD

Former State Secretary of the Polish Ministry of the Environment

Roman Joch

Executive Director, Civic Institute in Prague

Eduardo Fernández Luiña

Head of International Relations at Disenso

Eugénie Bastié

French journalist and essayist, Le Figaro

Florian Nehm

Head of EU Affairs at the Axel Springer SE

Igor Janke

President of the Freedom Institute in Warsaw

Jaime Mayor Oreja

Former Minister of Interior of Spain

Javier Villamor

Journalist, 7NN

Jean Sébastien Ferjou

Founder and Publisher, Atlantico.Fr

Jorge González-Gallarza

Researcher, publicist

Maria Keffler

Educator, speaker, co-founder of several child protection non-profit organizations

Peter Whittle

Author, producer, director

Ralf Schuler

Former chief correspondent for Bild's Berlin parliamentary bureau

Robin Oldenstam

Chair of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), member of the board of the Finnish Arbitration Institute (FAI)

Roland Tichy

Journalist, founder of the “TICHYS EINBLICK“ magazine

Tamir Wertzberger

International Director, Action and Protection League

Thibaud Gibelin

French historian; political scientist

Toby Young

General Secretary, the Free Speech Union

Ugo Celestino

Policy officer for space research, innovation and start-ups at the European Commission

Alvino Mario Fantini

Editor-in-Chief, the European Conservative

Andreas Glarner

Member of the Swiss Parliament (National Council)

Antonio Vezzani

Associate Professor at the Roma Tre University, and Research Associate at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

Arnaud Dassier

Cofounder, Avisa Partners

Carlos Moreno

French-Columbian scientist, university professor

Angela Vidal Gandra da Silva Martins, PhD

National Secretary of the Family of the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights of Brazil

Catherine Horel, PhD

French historian, President of the International Committee for Historical Sciences

George Chirita, PhD

Executive Director of the Romanian Association of Audiovisual Communications

Luca Volontè, PhD

Chair of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute

Peter Hefele, PhD

German economist and economic historian

Saskia Ludwig, Phd

German politician, member of the Brandenburg State Parliament

Harlan Hill

Managing Partner at the Logan Circle Group and Advisory Board Member, Donald J. Trump for President Campaign Team

Jano García

Writer

Patrick Bishop

Writer, Military Historian

Stefano Magni

Editor, The New Daily Compass

Yann Vallerie

Editor-in-Chief, Breizh-Info.com

Ylenia Swierk

Strategist, Piano Software Inc.

Guillaume de Thieulloy, PhD

Director of the Salon Beige blog and Les 4 Vérités weekly

Olga Pindyuk

Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Abdolrasool Divsallar

Professor, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Alejandro Peña Esclusa

Author of the book, writer, analyst, political consultant

Alexander Marguier

Editor-in-chief, magazine Cicero

Amiad Cohen

A Tikvah Fund Israel főigazgatója

Andrej Školkay

Head of the School of Communication and Media in Bratislava

Anton Bendarzsevszkij

Technical Director at the Oeconomus Gazdaságkutató Alapítvány

Assimakis Komninos

Partner, White&Case, Brussels; Visiting fellow of the Centre for Law and Governance in Europe at University College London

Axelle Girard

Executive Director of the Créer son école-Educ'France (Create your own education), Strategy and Public Affairs Consultant

Bajer Daniel

Director of Business Development Poland

Benjamin Friedman

Policy Director, Defense Priorities

Betul Dogan-Akkas

Researcher, Durham University; Qatar University

Birgit Kelle

Author, journalist

Caroline Galacteros

Chairwoman, GEOPRAGMA

Carsten Uwe Rentzing

Representative, United Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Germany for Central and Eastern Europe

Colin Morrison

Founder-Publisher, Flashes & Flames Media Ltd

Damjan Krnjevic Miskovic

Professor of Practice, ADA University

David Jones

A Danube Institute kutatási igazgatója

David Wolpe

Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple

Dr. Vlad Marinescu

Director General of the International Judo Federation

Aaron Rhodes, PhD

President, Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe, Senior Fellow, the Common Sense Society

Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, PhD

Co-editor of "What Should Schools Teach? Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth"

Dr. Anat Lea Bonshtien

VP Business Development, City Transformer

Dr. Ashley Frawley

Associate Professor of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy at University of Swansea

Aurelien Portuese, PhD

Director, the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, ITIF

Dr. Avraham Weber

Adjunct Assistant Professor at CUNY Brooklyn College

Dr. Barbara Zollmann

Executive Board Member of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DUIHK) in Budapest

Bonnie Snyder, PhD

Author of "The New College Reality" and "Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools—And What We Can Do About It"

Claude Chollet, PhD

President, Observatoire du journalisme

Dr. Dean Karalekas

Affiliated research fellow, Centre of Austronesian Studies, University of Central Lancashire

Dr. Ernst Hillebrand

Political scientist and head of the European Economies of the East project at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Budapest

Dr. Florian Hartleb

German political scientist

Dr. Gerhard Papke

President of the German-Hungarian Society in the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. Gudrun Kugler

Austrian Roman Catholic theologian and lawyer, as well as a member of the National Council of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)

Hélène de Lauzun, PhD

Historian and columnist, The European Conservative

Dr. Jay Wesley Richards

Director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion and Family and William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation

Joanna Williams, PhD

Author of "Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity" and "Women vs Feminism"

John Laughland, PhD

Academic author; journalist and historian, lecturer, Catholic Institute of Higher Studies, Vendée, France

Jorge Soley, PhD

Contributor, El Debate

Dr. Matthias Rößler

German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)

Dr. Michael Borchard

Head of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Academic Services and the Archive of Christian Democratic Politics, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Kohl-Stiftung

Dr. Michael Doran

Senior Fellow, Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, Hudson Institute

Dr. Nina Power

Senior Editor of Compact Magazine

Norman Lewis, PhD

Managing Director, Futures-Diagnosis Ltd

Dr. Piotr Kocyba

Research assistant at the Chair for Cultural and Country Studies of East Central Europe at Chemnitz University of Technology

Dr. Ralph Schoellhammer

Assistant Professor in Political Science, Webster University Vienna

Dr. Rebeka Vital

Senior Lecturer at Shenkar School of Design

Stephen Nagy, PhD

Senior associate professor, the International Christian University in Tokyo

Dr. Vincent Harinam

Director of Studies in Crime Data Science, Cambridge Centre of Evidence-Based Policing

Emin Emrah Danis

Founder, MOBEN Consulting

Erik Bootsma

Architect

Evans Ogada

Evans Ogada

Frank Lübberding

Freelance publicist, journalist and author of political columns in national German newspapers

George Beebe

Director of Grand Strategy, Quincy Institute

Johan Wennström

Svéd oktatáspolitikai szakember

John M. Yun

Deputy Director, Global Antitrust Institute at GMU, professor, former Acting Deputy Assistant Director in the Bureau of Economics, Antitrust Division, at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

John O’Sullivan, CBE

Journalist, author, lecturer and broadcaster

Joon Hyung Kim

Professor, Handong Global University

Josh Hammer

Opinion Editor, Newsweek, Research Fellow, the Edmund Burke Foundation

Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

Provost, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Julia Gross

The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Hungary

Karsten Köhler

Kevin Anderson

Consulting Director, PugPig

Lisa Ezell

Vice President, The Federalist Society

Marcel Luthe

German politician, trade unionist and economist

Marcial Cuquerella

Founder, 7NN Television

Maria Engstrom

az Uppsala University professzora

Matthew Schmitz

Founder and Editor, Compact Magazine

Matthew Tyrmand

Investigative journalist, board member, Project Veritas

Matyáš Zrno

Editor-in chief, Conservative News website, and Foreign Desk head of CNN Prima News

Max Abrahms

Professor, Northeastern University

Meghan Murphy

Writer/podcaster, Feminist Current

Michael Knowles

Host of “The Michael Knowles Show” and “The Book Club”

Michael Mosbacher

Head of the Liveable London project, Policy Exchange

Michael von der Schulenburg,

Former Senior German Diplomat, United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Michael Winzer

Head of the Hungary Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)

Michał Karnowski

Co-editor, Sieci weekly

Miguel Ayuso-Torres,

Professor, Comillas Pontificial University

Mohammed Ahmed Gain

President, African Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

Monika Maron

German writer and journalist

Omar Ashour

Professor, Doha Institue for Graduate Studies

Peter Coe

Associate Professor, University of Birmingham

Peter Kurti

Director, Centre for Independent Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Notre Dame Australia

Petr Drulak

Professor, University of West Bohemia; Founding Chairman, Svatopluk

Professor Ramon Lopez de Mantaras

Research Professor, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council)

Prof. Chad Pecknold

Professor, The Catholic University of America

Michael Sommer, PhD

Professor of Ancient History at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg

Prof. Dr. Oliver Lembcke

Professor of political science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Prof. James C. Cooper

Associate Professor of Law and Director, Program on Economics & Privacy, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Prof. Karl Wöber

Rector of Modul University Vienna

Professor Mark Regnerus

Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas

Professor William John Louis Victor Durodie

Chair of Risk and Security in International Relations, The University of Bath

Raffaella Antonia Tenconi

Vezető közgazdász és az ADA Economics alapítója

Richard Werner

Professor, University of Winchester

Riva Ganguly

Former Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India

Roger Köppel

Swiss media entrepreneur and publicist, editor-in-chief and publisher of the weekly Die Weltwoche and a member of the Swiss parliament for the Swiss People's Party (SVP)

Sam Leith

Literary editor, The Spectator

Sanjay Kumar Pandey

Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Sebastian Kurz

Former Chancellor of Austria

Steffen Bilger

German politician

Stephen Ezell

Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Stephen Mouzon

Architect, urbanist, author

Suay Nilhan Acikalin

Vice Director of Graduate School, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University

Thomas Petersen

German communication scientist and opinion researcher

Tihomir Katulić

Professor, University of Zagreb

Uta Kohl

University of Southampton

Vagelis Papakonstantinou

Professor, VUB-LSTS

Volker Resing

German journalist and book author

Volkmar Klein MdB

German Member of the Bundestag for the constituency 148 Siegen-Wittgenstein for the CDU party

Wolf Illner

Senior Military Adviser of the Hungarian Armed Forces

Yacov-David Hadas Handelsman

Ambassador of the State of Israel to Hungary

Zhou Bo

Senior Fellow, Tsinghua University