Wroclaw Global Forum

Shaping the Policy and Business Agenda for a New Europe

June 11-13, 2015 in Wroclaw, Poland

FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015

Welcome | Auditorium

• Rafał Dutkiewicz, Mayor of Wrocław
• Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council
• Marcin Zaborowski, Director, Polish Institute of International Affairs

Presidential Keynote | Auditorium

• President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski

  Introduced by: Rafał Dutkiewicz, Mayor of Wrocław

Keynote | Auditorium

• H.E. Grzegorz Schetyna, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

  Introduced by: Marcin Zaborowski, Director, Polish Institute of International Affairs

Conversation with Ministers: The Road to Europe? | Auditorium

• H.E. Tamar Beruchashvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
• H.E. Natalia Gherman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova
• H.E. Zoran Jolevski, Minister of Defense of the Republic of Macedonia

Keynote| Auditorium

• H.E. Tomasz Siemoniak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Poland

  Introduced by: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council

Plenary Panel 1 – The Return of Geopolitics and the Challenge of Russia | Auditorium

• Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Senator of the Republic of Poland
• John Herbst, Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
• Garry Kasparov, Chairman, Human Rights Foundation
• Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament

  Moderator: Matthew Kaminski, Executive Editor, POLITICO

Plenary Panel 2 – Energy in the New Environment: Balancing Security, Cost, and Climate Impact | Auditorium

• Pierre Buhler, Ambassador of France to the Republic of Poland
• Ralf Fücks, President, Heinrich Böll Stiftung
• Richard Morningstar, Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
• Alan Riley, Professor of Law, City Law School, City University London

Café Conversations

The Fight Against Authoritarianism: The Civil Society Toolbox | Restaurant 

• Leila Alieva, Academic Visitor, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (Egypt)
• Oleg Kozlovsky, Director, Vision of Tomorrow (Russia)
• Maria Leissner, Secretary-General, Community of Democracies
• Jerzy Pomianowski, Executive Director, European Endowment for Democracy

  Moderator: Maria Stephan, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, Atlantic Council

After the Riga Summit: The Future of the Eastern Partnership | Auditorium

• Tengiz Pkhaladze, Advisor to the President of Georgia
• Juris Poikāns, Ambassador-at-Large for the Eastern Partnership, Government of Latvia
• Bart Szewczyk, Member, Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State
• Eka Tkeshelashvili, President, Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies
• Olena Tregub, Director, International Aid Coordination, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine

  Moderator: Jan Cienski, Energy and Security Editor, POLITICO

Keynote| Auditorium

• Radosław Sikorski, Marshal of the Polish Sejm

  Introduced by: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council

Plenary Panel 3 – From Wales to Warsaw: Transatlantic Defense between the Summits | Auditorium

• Jorge Domecq, Chief Executive, European Defence Agency
• Guillaume Faury, CEO, Airbus Helicopters
• LTG Frederick “Ben” Hodges, Commanding General, US Army Europe
• Bogdan Klich, former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Poland
• Olaf Osica, Executive Director, Center for Eastern Studies

  Moderator: Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, Harvard University JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Special Press Event – European Launch of the Atlantic Council Report “Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine” and Boris Nemtsov’s “Putin.War.” (optional) | Auditorium

• John Herbst, Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
• Eliot Higgins, Founder, Bellingcat and Brown Moses Blog
• Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council
• Geoffrey Pyatt, US Ambassador to Ukraine
• Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council
• Ilya Yashin, Member of the Federal Bureau, Republican Party of Russia—People’s Freedom Party (RPR-Parnas)
• Maks Czuperski, Special Assistant to the President, Atlantic Council
• Alina Polyakova, Associate Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Counci

  Moderator: Olena Tregub, Director, International Aid Coordination, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine

Atlantic Council Freedom Awards – Part 1

Atlantic Council Freedom Awards – Part 2

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015

Plenary Conversation – The War of Ideas: Does It Exist and Can It be Won? | Auditorium

• Marieluise Beck, Member, German Bundestag
• Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
• Ilmar Raag, Advisor on Strategic Communication, Government of Estonia
• Jacek Vincent-Rostowski, Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Council, MP

  Moderator: Stephan Richter, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Globalist

Plenary Panel 4 – A Transatlantic Digital Marketplace: Future Reality or Unattainable Dream? | Auditorium

• Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
• Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
• Michał Boni, Member of the European Parliament
• Erika Mann, Managing Director for Public Policy, Facebook
• Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, UK Department of Business, Innovation, and Skills, and Minister for Intellectual Property
• Agata Waclawik-Wejman, Head of Public Policy, Central and Eastern Europe, Google

  Moderator: Wawrzyniec Smoczyński, Managing Director, Polityka Insight

America’s Role in Europe: A Conversation with US Senator Jeanne Shaheen and The Hon. Stephen J. Hadley | Auditorium

Moderator: Jan Cienski, Energy and Security Editor, POLITICO

Plenary Panel 5 – Trade and Investment: Engine for Transatlantic Growth or Fading Illusion? | Auditorium

• Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Poland
• Aart de Geus, Chairman, Bertelsmann Stiftung
• Danuta Hübner, Member of the European Parliament
• Sorin Moisã, Member of the European Parliament

  Moderator: Frances G. Burwell, Vice President, Atlantic Council

Plenary Panel 6 – Ukraine: Reform in a Time of War? | Auditorium

• Aivaras Abromavičius, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Government of Ukraine
• Eugene Czolij, President, Ukrainian World Congress
• Andriy Sadovyi, Mayor of Lviv, Ukraine
• Pavlo Sheremeta, Chair, Advisory Board, Lviv Business School
• Oksana Syroyid, Deputy Chairman, Vekhovna Rada of Ukraine

  Moderator: Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council

Closing Remarks and Conclusion of Fourm | Auditorium

Associated Event: Is European Education Fit for Purpose? (Optional)

• Norman Davies, Fellow, The British Academy
• Chris Husbands, Director, UCL Institute of Education and UCL Vice-Provost, Academic Development
• John Martin, Professor of Medicine, University College London and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Yale University
• Mateusz Mazzini, Editor, Polityka Insight