On The Brink?

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director, Protestant Academy Loccum

Ulrich KÜHN, Head, “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies”, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Hamburg

John MECKLIN, Editor-in-Chief, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Washington D.C.

Andrey BAKLITSKIY, Senior Researcher, Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research), Geneva

Tong ZHAO, Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Washington D.C./Beijing

Moderation: Carmen WUNDERLICH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at University of Duisburg-Essen and Research Fellow at the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP)

François HEISBOURG, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Paris

Eirini LEMOS-MANIATI, Head, Arms Control, Disarmament, and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Nonproliferation Centre (ACDC), HQ NATO, Brussels

Tom MCKANE, Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute and former Director General for Strategy and Security Policy in the UK Ministry of Defence, London

* invited

** preliminary confirmed

Ian ANTHONY, Department for Defence Analysis, Strategy and Policy Section at FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency) and Member of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, Stockholm

Michael RÜHLE, former Head of Section, “Climate, Energy Security and Hybrid Threats“ at the Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO Headquarter, Brussel

Susi SNYDER, Programme Coordinator, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Geneva

Tytti ERÄSTÖ, Senior Researcher, Weapons of Mass Destruction Program, SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Solna

Oliver MEIER, Policy & Research Director, European Leadership Network, Berlin/London

Moderation: Tong ZHAO, Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Washington D.C./Beijing

Alice SALTINI, AI-Nuclear Policy Advisor, Institute for Security and Technology; Non-Resident Expert on Artificial Intelligence, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Paul VAN HOOFT, Research Leader, Defence and Security, RAND Europe, The Hague

Moderation: Max SCHALZ, Physicist and Researcher at the Nuclear Verification and Disarmament Research Group, RWTH Aachen University

Stephan KLEMENT, Special Envoy Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Special Adviser on Iran Nuclear Issues, EEAS, Brussels

Mailys MANGIN, Senior Researcher, Centre Interdisciplinaire Sur Les Enjeux Stratégiques (CIENS), Paris

Farzan SABET, Managing Researcher of the Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva

Jana BALDUS, Policy Fellow at the European Leadership Network (ELN) and Associated Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), London

Carmen WUNDERLICH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at University of Duisburg-Essen and Research Fellow at the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP)

Moderation: Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

Frank KUHN, Doctoral Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt a.M.

Etienne MARCUZ, Associate Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Paris

Moderation: Alexander SORG, Eisenhower Fellow, NATO Defense College, Rom

Michael HASPEL, Research Fellow, Martin-Luther Institute and Professor for Systematic Theology at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Thomas HAJNOCZI, Advisor to Mayors for Peace, Board Member of BASIC and Former Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the Austrian Foreign Office, Vienna

Lauren SUKIN, John G. Winant Associate Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford

* invited

** preliminary confirmed

Artur KACPRZYK, Senior Analyst, International Security Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Warsaw

Iryna MAKSYMENKO, Senior Researcher at the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP), Odesa

Moderation: Tytti ERÄSTÖ, Senior Researcher, Weapons of Mass Destruction Program, SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Solna

Matthias MADER, Visiting Professor of International Political Studies, University Witten/Herdecke

Alexander SORG, Eisenhower Fellow, NATO Defense College, Rom

Moderation: Jana Baldus, Policy Fellow at the European Leadership Network (ELN) and Associated Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), London

Klaus DE RIJK, Senior Strategic Advisor, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

Marian LOSSE, Board Member, ICAN Germany (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), Berlin

Katrin SHIMIZU, Deputy Head of Division, Nuclear Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, German Foreign Office, Berlin

* invited

** preliminary confirmed