Panelists 2026
This year's EFNI panelists
Donald Tusk
Prime Minister of Poland
Paulina Henning-Kloska
Minister of Climate and Environment
Waldemar Żurek
Minister, Attorney General, Ministry of Justice
Grzegorz Ryś
Cardinal, Metropolitan of Kraków
Kerstin Jorna
Dyrektor Generalna ds. Rynku Wewnętrznego, Przemysłu, Przedsiębiorczości i MŚP
Erik Angner
Professor of Economics, Stockholm University
Rasha Al Jundy
Senior fellow, Dubai public policy and Research Centre, UAE
Robin Alexander
Former editor-in-chief, Die Welt
Fredo Arias-King
Prezes zarządu, Casla Institute
Dalia Bankauskaite
University of Vilnius
Tomasz Bardziłowski
Chairman of the Board, Warsaw Stock Exchange
Edwin Bendyk
The Batory Foundation
Marcin Bosacki
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Małgorzata Bonikowska
President, Center for International Relations
Katarzyna Bilewska
Professor, Partner, BLSK Law Firm
Thais Bilenky
A reporter for the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper
Pierre Buhler
A long-time French diplomat who has served in the U.S., Poland, and Russia, among other countries
Adam Burakowski
Professor, former Polish ambassador to South Africa and India, Polish Academy of Sciences
Piotr Buras
Director, ECFR Office in Poland
Andrzej Buła
MEP, EPP
Michał Byliniak
CEO, INFARMA—Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies
Aaro Cantell
Przewodniczący, Konfederacja Fińskich Przedsiębiorstw
Janusz Cichoń
Member of Parliament, Chair of the Public Finance Committee, Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Marta Cienkowska
Minister of Culture and National Heritage
Helen Clark
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Filip Czernicki
CEO, Central Transport Hub Company, Port Polska
Alicja Defratyka
Economist
Jacek Dubois
Attorney, vice-chairman of the State Tribunal
Jurand Drop
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Finance
Joanna Dyduch
Prof. UJ
Rania Ekaterinari
President, SEV – Hellenic Federation of Enterprises
Constantinos Filis
Director, Institute for Global Affairs, American College of Greece
Sven Franck
Chairman, the pan-European VOLT Party
Zygmunt Frankiewicz
Chair of the Committee on Local Government and Public Administration, Member of the Committee on Budget and Public Finance, Senate of the Republic of Poland
Mariusz Frankowski
Provincial Governor, Mazovia Provincial Office
Aleksandra Gajewska
State Secretary, Ministry of Family, Labor, and Social Policy
Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz
Member of the European Parliament
Konstanty Gebert
Journalist, university professor
Juliusz Gojło
Former Polish Ambassador to Iran
Jorge Gimeno Pawłowski
Founder and Director, Atland Consulting
Wojciech Grabowski
Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations, University of Gdańsk
Michał Gramatyka
State Secretary, Ministry of Digital Affairs
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram
Co-founder and Board Member, Free Courts Foundation
Andrzej Grzyb
Member of Parliament, Chair of the National Defense Committee, Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Jerzy Hausner
Professor, former Deputy Prime Minister, Chair of the Program Council of the Open Eyes Economy Summit, GAP Foundation
Krzysztof Hetman
MEP, former Minister for Development and Technology
Ola Hnatiuk
Ukrainian studies scholar, Polish studies scholar
Jacek Jastrzębski
Professor, Chairman of the Financial Supervision Authority
Kang Jeong-Sik
President, Jeju Peace Institute, South Korea
Dariusz Joński
EEP, EPL
Ewa Monika Kaliszuk
Senator, Senate of the Republic of Poland
Grzegorz Kołodko
Professor, former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Finance
Paweł Kowal
Professor, Member of Parliament, Chair of the Council for Cooperation with Ukraine, Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Svitlana Kovalchuk
Director, Yalta European Strategy
Jacek Kunicki
Chief Financial Officer, Orange Polska
Jarosław Kuisz
Editor-in-Chief, Kultura Liberalna, University of Warsaw, LibMod
Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich
Jurnalist
Nico Lange
Former Chief of Staff at the German Federal Ministry of Defense
Karel Lannoo
CEPS, Belgia
Bożena Leśniewska
Vice President of the Executive Board for the Business Market, Orange Polska
Janusz Lewandowski
MEP, EPP
Katarzyna Leder Salgueiro
Attorney, Leder Law Firm
Peter Leibinger
President, BDI - Federation of German Industries
Fabrice Le Saché
Vice President, MEDEF - French Business Confederation
Katarzyna Anna Lubnauer
Member of Parliament, Secretary of State, Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Elżbieta Łukacjewska
MEP, EPP
AdrianaŁukaszewicz
Professor, Department of Economics, Kozminski University
Radosław Maćkiewicz
Director, Central Information Technology Center
Marek Magierowski
Former Polish Ambassador to the United States and Israel
Piotr Matczuk
Chairman of the Board, Warsaw Stock Exchange
Mateusz Mazzini
Gazeta Wyborcza, Kultura Liberalna
Anna Masłoń-Oracz
School of Management and Finance, Warsaw School of Economics
Agnieszka Majewska
Ombudsman for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Erwan Marteil
Head of Unit ECHO.B3 – Capacity Building for Prevention and Preparedness, European Commission
Marek Matusiak
Coordinator of the “Israel–Europe” Project, OSW
Piotr Mazurek
Konfederacja Lewiatan
Jacek Męcina
Konfederacja Lewiatan
Yascha Mounk
Professor of Political Science
Henryka Mościcka-Dendys
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Katarzyna Michniewska
Chairman of the Board, Eko Cykl Packaging Recovery Organization, S.A.
Szymon Midera
Chairman of the Board, PKO Bank Polski
Barbara Mróz-Gorgoń
Professor and President
Magdalena Namysłowska
M.D., Ph.D. Co-founder of WOPP. Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, supervisor
Maciej Nowicki
President of the Board, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
Radosław Nielek
Director, NASK
Remigiusz Paszkiewicz
Chairman of the Board, KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.
Marta Petka
Director of the Macroeconomic Analysis Office, PKO Bank Polski
Normunds Popens
Deputy Director-General for Education, Youth, Sports, and Culture
Jerney Pikalo
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education of Slovenia
Maciej Piskorski
PharmaNET Association of Pharmacy Employers
Krzysztof Płomiński
Former Polish Ambassador to Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Janusz Reiter
Former Polish Ambassador to Germany, Chairman of the Board of the Center for International Relations Foundation
Andrzej Rzońca
Professor and Vice Chair of the OEES Program Council, Warsaw School of Economics
Patrycja Sasnal
Senior professorial fellow, European Neighbourhood Chair, Kolegium Europejskie, Natolin
Alexander Schallenberg
Former Chancellor of Austria
Grzegorz Schetyna
Senator, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senate of the Republic of Poland
Adrian Schout
Cligendael Institute
Magdalena Skajewska
Polskie Radio
Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
Secretary of State, Ministry of National Defense
Radosław Stępień
Chairman of the Board, Polska Grupa Lotnicza S.A.
Mieczysław Struk
Marszałek, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Eugeniusz Smolar
Expert, Center for International Relations
Dan Şucu
CEO, Mobexpert
Michał Szczerba
Member of the European Parliament
Konrad Szymański
Former Minister for European Union Affairs
Reka Szemerkenyi
Equilibrium Institute, Hungary
Adrianna Śniadowska
CEO, CSM
Jim Tankerslay
The head of The New York Times' Berlin bureau
Eliza Turkiewicz
Konfederacja Lewiatan
Michał Wawrykiewicz
Member of the European Parliament
Alicja Wejdner-Cichy
Konfederacja Lewiatan
Maciej Witucki
Pesident, BusinessEurope
Nadia Winiarska
Konfederacja Lewiatan
Karolina Wigura
Professor of Sociology, Kultura Liberalna, University of Oxford
Jakub Wiśniewski
Director, Wacław Felczak Institute for Polish-Hungarian Cooperation
Beata Wojna
Former Polish Ambassador to Mexico, Tec de Monterrey University
Leszek Wroński
Partner, THINKTANK
Miroslav Wlachovský
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, GLOBSEC, Slovakia
Mariusz Zielonka
Konfederacja Lewiatan
Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski
Member of the European Parliament
Li Zhiqiang
Professor and Director of Sichuan University, China
Vołodymyr Yermolenko
Head of the Ukrainian PEN Club
