by Ian Harman | May 4, 2026 | Speakers
Theo Francken is Belgium’s minister of Defense and Foreign Trade since February 2025. He is praised for rebuilding the armed forces in his country, granting it the biggest increase of its budget of all NATO members (+60%). While Europe is witnessing increasing...
by Ian Harman | May 4, 2026 | Speakers
Michael Froman is President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He previously served as Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth, at Mastercard; Chairman of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth; and as a Distinguished Fellow at CFR. From June 2013 to...
by Ian Harman | May 4, 2026 | Speakers
Dr. Michael Fullilove is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute. A Rhodes Scholar and Boyer Lecturer, he has worked as a lawyer, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and an adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating. He writes on Australian and US foreign...
by Ian Harman | May 4, 2026 | Speakers
Mircea Geoană served as NATO’s Deputy Secretary General from 2019 to 2024. As the Alliance’s “innovation champion” and Chair of NATO’s Innovation Board, he contributed to the creation of the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) and the NATO...
by Ian Harman | May 3, 2026 | Speakers
Kim Ghattas is a Middle East expert, author and Emmy-award winning journalist. She’s a contributor to The Atlantic and the Financial Times. She was a visiting professor at Dartmouth College for Spring 2026 and a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Global...
