International guests

Andrés Pastrana Arango

Former President of the Republic of Colombia

David Coulthard

Former Formula 1 driver, consultant and commentator

Zoltán Ács, PhD

Economist, Professor at George Mason University, The London School of Economics

Visiting Lecturers

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

Gad Saad, PhD

Marketing professor, YouTuber

Gadi Taub, PhD

Israeli historian, author, screenwriter and political commentator

Gladden J. Pappin, PhD

Associate Professor of Politics, University of Dallas

Holm Putzke, PhD

German jurist, university professor and politician; Professor, University of Passau; Adjunct Professor, EBS University of Economics and Law in Oestrich-Winkel

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

K. Zsolt Lengyel, PhD

Hungarian-German historian; political scientist

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

Sergei Andreyev, PhD

Orientalist, Former Lecturer, University of Oxford; Former Chief of the Analysis Unit, United Nations

Tilo Schabert, PhD

Bestselling author, political scientist

Yoram Hazony, PhD

President, Herzl Institute and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation

Klaus von Dohnanyi

Politician, author

Lee John Strang

Professor, University of Toledo College of Law

Robert McKee

Hollywood’s most sought-after screenwriting instructor

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

Gábor Csepregi, PhD

Professor in Philosophical Anthropology; previously head of the Université de Saint-Boniface and the Dominican University College

Leadership Academy

Dr. habil. Edouard Husson

Historian, university professor; former director-general of ESCP Europe; vice-president, PSL University

Huub Ruël, PhD

Senior researcher on international business and diplomacy

Leadership Academy

Justin B. Hollander, PhD

Urban planning and design scholar, professor, Tufts University

Klaus-Rüdiger Mai, PhD

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

Marc-Michael Blum, PhD

Chemist, biochemist

Mark Milosch, PhD

Historian, lawyer and expert in international relations; former Chief of Staff, U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Patrick Shoaf Gray, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of Liberal Arts, Durham University

Simon P. Kennedy, PhD

Research Fellow, University of Queensland

Steve Hayward, PhD

Professor, UC Berkeley

Tuomas Malinen, PhD

CEO, GnS Economics

Ulrich Schlie, PhD

German history professor, expert on security policy and political figure

John Bruton

Former Prime Minister of Ireland

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

Adam J. MacLeod

Professor of Law at Faulkner University; former Thomas Edison Fellow, George Mason University

Visiting Lecturers

Douglas Murray

Associate Editor, The Spectator

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

Patrick Deneen, PhD

American conservative political philosopher

Paul Peter Gilfillan, PhD

Professor of Sociology, Appointed Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

Vsevolod Rozanov, PhD

Physician, mental health promotion and suicide prevention specialist; Professor, St. Petersburg State University

Julius Strauss

British war correspondent, journalist

Kristoffer Josef Mousten Hansen

Research Assistant, Institute for Economic Policy, Leipzig University

Mark Krikorian

Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Radek Sikorski

Member of the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)

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

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

Diego Muro, PhD

Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of International Relations, University of St Andrews; former lecturer, King's College London

Eric Hendriks, PhD

Dutch sociologist; China researcher; Professor, University of Bonn and Peking University

Frank-Lothar Kroll, PhD

Professor of 19th and 20th Century European History, TU Chemnitz

Fritz Söllner, PhD

University Professor at the Ilmenau University of Technology

Georg Zachmann, PhD

Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Heinz Theisen, PhD

Professor of Political Science, Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia

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

Song Lilei, PhD

Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai

Spencer Jones, PhD

British historian

Francesco Giubilei

Italian author and professor; president, Fondazione Tatarella; founder, Nazione Futura; journalist, Il Giornale; professor, University G. Fortunato in Benevento

Dr. Helmuts Azacis

Associate Professor, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University; associate editor, International Journal of Economic Theory

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

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

Norman Naimark, PhD

Professor at the Stanford 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'

Rafael Quintero Godínez

Jurist, PhD Candidate, Warwick Law School

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

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

Manuel Goyanes Martinez, PhD

Assistant professor, Carlos III University; former visiting fellow, London School of Economics, University of Vienna

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

Ilan Wurman

Associate professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

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

David R. Hodge, PhD

Professor at Arizona State University

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

Stephen Travis Sholl

Member of the Center for Architecture

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

Frank Füredi, PhD

Professor, University of Kent, sociologist

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

Tessa McIver

Head of Alumni Development at MIT Enterprise Forum CEE.

Yann Vallerie

Editor-in-Chief, Breizh-Info.com

Ylenia Swierk

Strategist, Piano Software Inc.

Dmitry Rudenkin, PhD

Associate Professor, Ural Federal University

Guillaume de Thieulloy, PhD

Director of the Salon Beige blog and Les 4 Vérités weekly

Henri de Montety, PhD

French historian; art historian; lecturer, Catholic Institute of Higher Studies, Vendée, France

Olga Pindyuk

Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Richard Schenk

PhD Candidate, TUM School of Governance

Alexander Marguier

Editor-in-chief, magazine Cicero

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

Birgit Kelle

Author, journalist

Colin Morrison

Founder-Publisher, Flashes & Flames Media Ltd

Conor Lenihan

Founder, Global Tax Institute

David Jones

A Danube Institute kutatási igazgatója

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"

Aurelien Portuese, PhD

Director, the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, ITIF

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

Dominic Burbidge, PhD

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

Heather Mac Donald, PhD

New York Times bestselling author, fellow at the Manhattan Institute

Hélène de Lauzun, PhD

Historian and columnist, The European Conservative

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

Norman Lewis, PhD

Managing Director, Futures-Diagnosis Ltd

Stephen Nagy, PhD

Senior associate professor, the International Christian University in Tokyo

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

Josh Hammer

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

Kevin Anderson

Consulting Director, PugPig

Marcial Cuquerella

Founder, 7NN Television

Matthew Tyrmand

Investigative journalist, board member, Project Veritas

Matyáš Zrno

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

Michael Mosbacher

Head of the Liveable London project, Policy Exchange

Michał Karnowski

Co-editor, Sieci weekly

Paul Maritz

South African Researcher

Peter Coe

Associate Professor, University of Birmingham

Peter Kurti

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

Michael Sommer, PhD

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

Prof. James C. Cooper

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

Rod Dreher

Journalist; Senior Editor of The American Conservative magazine

Ruslan Bortnik

Director of Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Sam Leith

Literary editor, The Spectator

Tihomir Katulić

Professor, University of Zagreb

Uta Kohl

University of Southampton

Vagelis Papakonstantinou

Professor, VUB-LSTS