1 June 2022 

15.15 – 16.45 (CET)

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The geopolitical implications of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Russia’s war on Ukraine has shattered the fundamental of the post-Cold War European security architecture. But can the rest of the world remain indifferent? Will this war affect other major powers as well? What are its wider geopolitical implications?

 

Speakers

  • Jie Yu, Senior Research Fellow on China, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House
  • Bhaswati Mukherjee, Former Ambassador of India to the Netherlands
  • Nathalie Tocci, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Moderator: Steven Blockmans, Director of Research, CEPS

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Managing Partner, FortyEight Brussels

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MEP, S&D Party, European Parliament

Didier Reynders

Commissioner for Justice, European Commission

Vasileios Rizos

Research Fellow and Head of Sustainable Resources and Circular Economy, CEPS

André Månberger

Associate Senior Lecturer, Lund University

Wouter Ghyoot

Vice President Government Affairs, Umicore

Hildegard Bentele

MEP

Jana Plananska

Member of the Board of Advisors, Norge Mining Ltd

Christian Egenhofer

Associate Senior Research Fellow, CEPS

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Commissioner for Values and Transparency, European Commission

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Director, DG Energy, European Commission

James Matthys-Donnadieu

Chief Officer Customers, Markets, System, Elia Group

Markus Ferber

MEP

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MEP – JURI Committee member, European Parliament

Anand Menon

Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London

Andrea Renda

Senior Research Fellow, CEPS

Rosa Castro

Senior Policy Manager, EPHA

Anders Nordstrom

Swedish Ambassador for Global Health, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Jonas Grimheden

Fundamental Rights Officer, Frontex

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Professor at Radboud University, Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), Nijmegen; Associate Professor at ELTE School of Law, Budapest; Research Affiliate at CEU Democracy Institute

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Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability, European University Institute (EUI)

Edouard Bourcieu

Chief Economist, DG Trade, European Commission

Slavina Spasova

Senior Researcher, European Social Observatory (OSE)

Martin Spolc

Head of Unit, DG FISMA, European Commission

Alicia Garcia Herrero

Chief Economist Asia Pacific, Groupe BPCE – Global Markets Research, Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking

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Deputy Chief Economist, IIF

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Director-General for Communication, European Commission

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Academic Director, Head of the Center for Economic Studies, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER)

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Group CIO, Allianz SE

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Senior Expert, Bertelsmann Stiftung

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Deputy Head of ‘International Value Chains’, DG GROW, European Commission

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Executive Director, wiiw

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Director of Borrowing and Lending, DG Budget, European Commission

Victor Stolzenburg

Research Economist, World Trade Organisation

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Head of the Entrepreneurship, SME and Tourism Division, OECD

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Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

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Head of Government Affairs EU, NXP Semiconductors

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Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Programme, Institut Montaigne

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Executive Director, Cleantech for Europe 

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Policy Manager – Europe, The HALO Trust

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CEO, International Sustainable Finance Centre (ISFC)

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Director of the School of Transnational Governance, EUI

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Professor, University of Antwerp

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Director, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights – FRA

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Associate Professor, Central European University

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Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and an Associate Professor at the Suleyman Demirel University Faculty of Law

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Head of Unit, Europe & Dublin, Asylum Department, DRC

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Head of Policy and Legal Support Unit, Representation for EU Affairs, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and the Netherlands, UNHCR

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Chair in law and politics in international relations & Assistant professor of European human rights law, University of Groningen

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Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission

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European External Action Service Managing Director for CSDP and Crisis Response

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Professor, University of Liverpool

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Senior Advisor, CEPS; Principal Researcher and Adjunct Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

former NATO Secretary General

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US Ambassador to NATO

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Senior Partner, Senior Partner, McKinsey

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Director, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

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Programme Director, European Policy Centre Belgrade

Arancha González Laya

Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs

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Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Council of Europe

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Senior Research Fellow, CEPS

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Europe Correspondent, SCMP

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Research Assistant, CEPS

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Research Assistant, CEPS

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Researcher, CEPS

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Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs unit, CEPS

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Researcher, CEPS

Mikko Huotari

Executive Director, MERICS

Tinatin Akhvlediani

Research Fellow and Head of the Financial Markets and Institutions Unit, CEPS

Sviatlana Tsichanouskaya

Head of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus

Andreas Kopp

Senior Research Fellow, CEPS

Lorenzo Pupillo

Associate Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Cybersecurity@CEPS Initiative

Rosanna Fanni

Researcher & TTD Coordinator, CEPS

Daniel Gros

Distinguished Fellow, CEPS

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Chair in International Affairs, School of Transnational Governance, EUI

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Head of Sustainability, Raiffeisen International

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CTO for IBM Quantum Safe IBM Research Division , Zurich

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Professor of Quantum Information, Computing and Logic, University of Helsinki

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Executive Director, Eurofound

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MEP

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Executive Vice President/Senior Adviser, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Kathrine Fog

SVP Head of Energy Strategy & Policy, Hydro

Roberto García Martínez

CEO, Eurobattery Minerals

Marc Sadler

Program Leader, Sustainable Development, World Bank

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Head of European Government Affairs, Eni

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Sarah Holton

Head of Prices and Costs Division, ECB

Don Graves

United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce

Dora Xia

Senior Economist, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Jan Zielonka

Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Venice, Cá Foscari

Hien Vu

Associate Researcher, at the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy Unit (GRID), CEPS

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Senior Programme Officer, Global Health Security & Pandemic Preparedness Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Assaad Saab

Senior Advisor, Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie (OME)

Anna Osypchuk

Director for Research, School for Policy Analysis, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Leonardo Meeus

Director, Florence School of Regulation (FSR) and the Loyola de Palacio Chair on European Energy Regulation and Policy in the Robert Schuman Centre

Dora Blanchet

Head of the sustainable finance unit, ESMA

Dennis Snower

President of the Global Solutions Initiative and Professor of Macroeconomics and Sustainability at the Hertie School

David O'Sullivan

International Special Envoy for the Implementation of EU Sanctions

Jeff Swartz

Vice President, Low Carbon Solutions, bp trading & shipping

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Head of Unit for MFF and economic budgetary analysis, DG Budget, European Commission

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Head of unit of CBAM and green taxation at DG TAXUD, European Commission

Florian Dorn

Director EconPol Europe, ifo Institute

Irina Orssich

Head of Sector, AI Policy Development and Coordination, European Commission

Caterina Rodelli

EU Policy Analyst, Access Now

Jan Rempala

Adviser, BusinessEurope

Karine Perset

Head of the AI Unit, OECD

Stephanie Pope

EU Migration Policy Advisor, Oxfam International

Emily O’Reilly

European Ombudsman

Suzana Carp

Deputy Executive Director, Cleantech for Europe

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Acting Director, Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure, DG Connect, European Commission

Christian Kastrop

Honorary Professor of Public Finance, Fiscal Rules and International Institutions, Freie Universität Berlin

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Deputy Director General, DG TRADE, European Commission

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Senior Research Fellow, Jacques Delors Institute

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Senior Legal and Policy Officer, Fair Trials (FTE)

Joanna Apap

Member of the Strategy and Coordination Unit, DG EPRS, European Parliament

Michele LeVoy

Director, PICUM

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Associate Senior Research Fellow, CEPS

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EIB Chair, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence

Nigel Howorth

Partner and Head of Clifford Chance’s Global Environment Group and Environment & Climatic Trading Group

Lieve Van Woensel

Former Foresight Adviser, European Parliament

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Security & Privacy legal director, Delloitte

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Director, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies

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Managing Director, Deputy Head of the Blackrock Investment Institute (BII)

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Director of Research, CEPS

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Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG CNECT, European Commission

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MEP – ITRE Committee member

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Former European Commissioner for Trade

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Director, DG NEAR, European Commission

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Head of Unit – Civic space, Rule of law advocacy, Open Society Foundations

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Senior Project Manager, Program Europe’s Future, Bertelsmann Stiftung

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Co-founder and Policy Director, ZOE – Institut für zukunftsfähige ökonomien

Milan Elkerbout

Research Fellow and Head of the climate policy programme, CEPS

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Director General, DG TAXUD, European Commission

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Director of Mistra Carbon Exit, IVL

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Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

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Acting Deputy Director-General, DG SANTE, European Commission

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Senior Adviser, Open Society Foundations

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Visiting Professor – Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London

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Advisor to the acting Managing Director – EIB Global

Jiří Švarc

Head of Unit, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission

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Deputy Head, European Commission and Visiting Professor, College of Europe

Aaron Rosa

Foresight Researcher, Fraunhofer ISI

Giulio di Blasi

Member of the Cabinet, Commissioner Ylva Johannson, European Commission

Anjum Shabbir

 Associate Researcher, CEPS

Anna Buchta

Head of Policy & Consultation Unit, EDPS

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Research Fellow, CEPS

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Digital Leader for EU institutions, EY

Ignazio Angeloni

Part-time Professor, Robert Schuman Center, European University Institute

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Head of Unit Far East, DG Trade, European Commission

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Head of the Swiss Permanent Mission, WTO and EFTA

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DG Trade, European Commission

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Ambassador, Permament Representation of Lithuania to the European Union

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Vice President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China

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Co-founder, Pandemic Action Network

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Director, OSEPI

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Europe Regional Advocacy Coordinator, Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

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