EJS Speakers

Our speakers bring strategic insight, real-world experience, and a shared commitment to advancing meaningful international collaboration.

The program and speaking roles are currently being finalized.
Session details will be announced soon.

Confirmed Participants

Newly Added

Former French Ambassador to the State of Israel
International Geopolitical Expert

Director, Institute of Studies for Politics and Democracy, Head of the Department of Politics and Governance
University of Nicosia (UNIC)

UK Trade Envoy to Israel, Cross-bench Peer

Senior Researcher, Head of Great Powers Program, Elrom Center for Air and Space Studies

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Federal Police Authorities

Newly Added

Career Diplomat, Deputy Director General, Head of Europe Division at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Member of the National Council of the Republic of Austria; President, Austrian Civil Protection Association

Newly Added

Member of the European Parliament (Latvia) | European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Former Director of Security at Iran International TV

Newly Added

Ambassador of the European Union to the State of Israel

Newly Added

Secretary General Ruth Foundation, Former Member of Parliament and Former Undersecretary of State

President & Founder, French Center for Reflection on Internal Security (CRSI)

International Affairs Analyst at ITV News

Chair, ELNET’s Forum of Strategic Dialogue; former Head, Political-Military Bureau, Israel’s Ministry of Defense; former Director of Intelligence, Mossad

Federal Chairman, Federation of German Detectives (BDK)

Author, Commentator
Managing partner at Freedomfighter

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel

Newly Added

Member of the Hellenic Parliament, New Democracy

Parliamentary Leader, Reformed Political Party (SGP), House of Representatives of the Netherlands

Researcher, German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies (GIDS) and Fellow, ELNET-Germany.

Deputy Director of the Fondation for Strategic Research

Former Prime Minister of France

Former Speakers

At previous ELNET events

European Commission’s Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life

Member of Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Delegation for Relations with the United States and Delegation for Relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Chair of the Delegation for relations with Israel, Member of the Europeans People’s Party

Leader of the opposition,
Former Prime Minister of Israel

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel

Imam of Drancy,
President of the Conference of Imams of France

President and Founder, Emirates Policy Center (EPC)

Former Government Spokesperson, Former Spokesperson for the Bahrain Human Rights Watch, Former President of the Bahrain Journalists Association

Former Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, IDF;
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel

Member of the Chamber of Deputies,
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Vice-President
The Global Imams Council

Senior Defense Analyst and Journalist, Haaretz

Former Minister of Health of Israel,
Former Chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Former Minister of Finance of Israel,
Delegate for National Reconstruction

Former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan

Member of the UK House of Lords; former UK Government Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption

Journalist, Author, and Editorial Director of Gruppo SAE; former Editor-in-Chief of la Repubblica and former Editor-in-Chief of La Stampa

Executive Vice President, Elbit Systems – Strategy & Business Development, Israel, North America, Australia and New Zealand – Former Member of the Israeli Knesset; Former Speaker of the Knesset

Deputy Speaker of the Polish Senate, former MEP

Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Family of Austria; former State Secretary in the Austrian Federal Chancellery

Former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Latvian Parliament

Saudi Political Analyst and Middle East Affairs Expert

Former French President of the Republic

Member of the UK House of Lords; former UK Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism

Barrister; former Attorney General for England and Wales

With the esteemed participation of H.E Isaac Herzog

EJS Speakers

Amb. Eric Danon

Dr. Constantinos Adamides

The Rt Hon. Lord Ian Austin of Dudley

Dr. Sarah-Masha Fainberg

Uli Grotsch (SPD)

Simona Halperin

Andreas Hanger MP (ÖVP)

Omer David Keilaf

MEP Rihards Kols

Roger Macmillan

Amb. Michael Mann.

Giovanna Martelli

Thibault de Montbrial

Rageh Omaar

Zohar Palti

Dirk Peglow

Michael Roth

Gideon Sa’ar

MP Giorgos Stamatis

MP Christiaan Stoffer

Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Marie-Theres Sommerfeld

Bruno Tertrais

Manuel Valls

Former Speakers

Katharina VON SCHNURBEIN MSt, MES

Alexandr Vondra MEP

Hildegard Bentele MEP

MK Yair Lapid

Gideon Sa’ar

Imam Hassen Chalghoumi

Dr. Ebtesam El-Ketbi

Ahdeya Ahmed al-Sayed

Lt. Gen. (Res.) Gabi Ashkenazi

MK Sharren Haskel

MP Jan Lipavský

Imam Mohammad Tawidi

Amos Harel

MK Yuli Edelstein

MK Ze’ev Elkin

Colonel Richard Kemp CBE

Lord Walney

Maurizio Molinari

Michael Edelstein

Senator Michał Kamiński

Minister Claudia Bauer

Rihards Kols MEP

Mzahem Alsaloum

Nicolas Sarkozy

The Rt Hon. Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG

The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Ellis KC

With the esteemed participation of
H.E Isaac Herzog

Lt. Col. (res.)
Dr. Marie-Theres Sommerfeld