
Photo: Marc Darchinger
Selected Speakers 2011-2018
Every year, the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum brings together an international circle of over 200 high-ranking politicians, government officials, journalists and experts from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States.
On this page, you will find a selection of previous speakers at the Berlin Forum.
Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court Photo: Marc Darchinger Rose Gottemoeller, Deputy Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Photo: Marc Darchinger Ursula von der Leyen, Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany Photo: Marc Darchinger
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Photo: Marc Darchinger Cem Özdemir, MP, Co-Chair, Alliance 90/The Greens Photo: Marc Darchinger Nathalie Tocci, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali; Special Advisor to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini Photo: Marc Darchinger Fu Ying, Chairperson, Foreign Affairs Committee, National People’s Congress Photo: Marc Darchinger
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Photo: Marc Darchinger Paolo Gentiloni, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Italy Photo: Marc Darchinger Wolfgang Schäuble, Federal Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany Photo: Marc Darchinger Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India Photo: Marc Darchinger
Prof. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President, Latvia Photo: Marc Darchinger Ayman Safadi, fmr. Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan; Chief Executive Officer, Path Arabia, Abu Dhabi Photo: Marc Darchinger
Federica Mogherini, The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Photo: Marc Darchinger Najib Mikati, former Prime Minister of the Lebanese Republic Photo: Marc Darchinger Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference Photo: Marc Darchinger
Thomas de Maizière, Federal Minister of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany Photo: Marc Darchinger Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); former National Security Advisor to the US President Photo: Marc Darchinger
William Hague, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom Photo: Marc Darchinger Alexander Stubb, MP, Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Finland Photo: Marc Darchinger Kevin Rudd, MP, former Prime Minister of Australia Photo: Marc Darchinger
Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland Photo: Thomas Waßmann Stavros Dimas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece Photo: Thomas Waßmann Jürgen Trittin, MdB, Chairman of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Parliamentary Group Photo: Thomas Waßmann