Voltaire Network | Stockholm (Suède) | 15 June 2025

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Grand Hotel, Stockholm, June 12-15, 2025.

Agenda

• Transatlantic Relationship
• Ukraine
• US Economy
• Europe
• Middle East
• Authoritarian Axis
• Defence Innovation and Resilience
• AI, Deterrence and National Security
• Proliferation
• Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
• Depopulation and Migration

Participants

Abrams, Stacey(USA)CEO, Sage Works Production

Albuquerque, Maria Luís(INT)European Commissioner Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union

Alcázar Benjumea, Diego del(ESP)CEO, IE University

Alverà, Marco(ITA)Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO TES

Andersson, Magdalena(SWE)Leader, Social Democratic Party

Applebaum, Anne(USA)Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Attal, Gabriel(FRA)Former Prime Minister

Auchincloss, Murray(CAN)CEO, BP plc

Baker, James H.(USA)Former Director, Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense

Barbizet, Patricia(FRA)Chair and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS

Barroso, José Manuel(PRT)Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International

Baudson, Valérie(FRA)CEO, Amundi SA

Beleza, Leonor(PRT)President, Champalimaud Foundation

Birol, Fatih(INT)Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Botín, Ana(ESP)Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA

Bourla, Albert(USA)Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc.

Brende, Børge(NOR)President, World Economic Forum

Brzoska, Rafal(POL)CEO, InPost SA

Busch, Ebba(SWE)Minister for Energy, Business and Industry

Caine, Patrice(FRA)Chair & CEO, Thales Group

Calviño, Nadia(INT)President, European Investment Bank

Castries, Henri de(FRA)President, Institut Montaigne

Chambers, Jack(IRL)Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation

Champagne, François-Philippe(CAN)Minister of Finance and National Revenue

Clark, Jack(USA)Co-Founder & Head of Policy, Anthropic PBC

Crawford, Kate(USA)Professor and Senior Principal Researcher, USC and Microsoft Research

Donahue, Christopher(USA)Commander, US Army Europe and Africa

Donohoe, Paschal(INT)President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance

Döpfner, Mathias(DEU)Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE

Eberstadt, Nicholas N.(USA)Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, AEI

Ek, Daniel(SWE)CEO, Spotify SA

Ekholm, Börje(SWE)CEO, Ericsson Group

Eriksen, Øyvind(NOR)President and CEO, Aker ASA

Feltri, Stefano(ITA)Journalist

Fentener van Vlissingen, Annemiek(NLD)Chair, SHV Holdings NV

Fraser, Jane(USA)CEO, Citigroup

Freeland, Chrystia(CAN)Minister of Transport and Internal Trade

Friedman, Thomas L.(USA)Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times

Gabuev, Alexander(INT)Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

Hammer, Kristina(AUT)President, Salzburg Festival

Harrington, Kevin(USA)Senior Director for Strategic Planning, NSC

Hassabis, Demis(GBR)Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

Hedegaard, Connie(DNK)Chair, KR Foundation

Heinrichs, Rebeccah(USA)Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Heraty, Anne(IRL)Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald ana IBEC

Herlin, Jussi(FIN)Vice Chair, KONE Corporation

Hernández de Cos, Pablo(ESP)General Manager Elect, Bank for International Settlements

Hobson, Mellody(USA)Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC

Hoekstra, Wopke(INT)European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth

Hunt, Jeremy(GBR)Member of Parliament

Isla, Pablo(ESP)Vice-Chair, Nestlé SA

Johansson, Micael(SWE)President and CEO, Saab AB

Jonsson, Conni(SWE)Founder and Chair, EQT Group

Karp, Alex(USA)CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Klöckner, Julia(DEU)President Bundestag

Kostrzewa, Wojciech(POL)President, Polish Business Roundtable

Kotkin, Stephen(USA)Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Kratsios, Michael(USA)Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Kravis, Henry R.(USA)Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Kudelski, André(CHE)Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA

Kuleba, Dmytro(UKR)Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po

Leeuwen, Geoffrey van(INT)Director Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO

Lemierre, Jean(FRA)Chair, BNP Paribas

Letta, Enrico(ITA)Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs

Leysen, Thomas(BEL)Chair, dsm-firmenich AG

Lighthizer, Robert(USA)Chair, Center for American Trade

Liikanen, Erkki(FIN)Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees

Lundstedt, Martin(SWE)CEO, Volvo Group

Marin, Sanna(FIN)Strategic Counsellor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

McGrath, Michael(INT)European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law

Mensch, Arthur(FRA)Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI

Micklethwait, John(USA)Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP

Minton Beddoes, Zanny(GBR)Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

Mitsotakis, Kyriakos(GRC)Prime Minister

Monti, Mario(ITA)Senator for life

Nadella, Satya(USA)CEO, Microsoft Corporation

Netherlands, H.M. the King of the(NLD)

O’Leary, Michael(IRL)Group CEO, Ryanair Group

Ollongren, Kajsa(NLD)Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, GLOBSEC

Özyeğin, Murat(TUR)Chair, Fiba Group

Papalexopoulos, Dimitri(GRC)Chair, TITAN S.A.

Paparo, Samuel(USA)Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command

Philippe, Édouard(FRA)Mayor, Le Havre

Pouyanné, Patrick(FRA)Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE

Prokopenko, Alexandra(INT)Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

Rachman, Gideon(GBR)Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times

Rappard, Rolly van(NLD)Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners

Reiche, Katherina(DEU)Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy

Ringstad Vartdal, Birgitte(NOR)CEO, Statkraft AS

Roche, Nicolas(FRA)Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defence and National Security

Rutte, Mark(INT)Secretary General, NATO

Salvi, Diogo(PRT)Co-Founder and CEO, TIMWE

Sawers, John(GBR)Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd.

Scherf, Gundbert(DEU)Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH

Schimpf, Brian(USA)Co-Founder & CEO, Anduril Industries

Schmidt, Eric E.(USA)Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc

Schmidt, Wolfgang(DEU)Former Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Head of the Chancellery

Šefčovič, Maroš(INT)European Commissioner Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency

Sewing, Christian(DEU)CEO, Deutsche Bank AG

Sikorski, Radoslaw(POL)Minister of Foreign Affairs

Şimşek, Mehmet(TUR)Minister of Finance

Smith, Jason(USA)Member of Congress

Stoltenberg, Jens(NOR)Minister of Finance

Streeting, Wes(GBR)Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Stubb, Alexander(FIN)President of the Republic

Suleyman, Mustafa(USA)CEO, Microsoft AI

Summers, Lawrence(USA)Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University

Thiel, Peter(USA)President, Thiel Capital LLC

Toulemon, Laurent(FRA)Senior Researcher, INED

Uggla, Robert(DNK)Chair, A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S

Valentini, Valentino(ITA)Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy

Vassy, Luis(FRA)Director, Sciences Po

Verhoeven, Karel(BEL)Editor-in-Chief, De Standaard

Wallenberg, Jacob(SWE)Chair, Investor AB

Wallenberg, Marcus(SWE)Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

Weder di Mauro, Beatrice(CHE)President, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Weel, David van(NLD)Minister of Justice and Security

Wilmès, Sophie(INT)Vice-President, European Parliament

Zakaria, Fareed(USA)Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS

Zeiler, Gerhard(AUT)President, Warner Bros. Discovery International