Fireside chat with Permanent Representatives to NATO: NATO on the road to the 2023 Vilnius Summit

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Fireside chat with Permanent Representatives to NATO: NATO on the road to the 2023 Vilnius Summit

Fireside chat with Permanent representatives to NATO: NATO on the road to the 2023 Vilnius Summit

Fireside chat with Permanent representatives to NATO at Polish House Davos 2023

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The 2022 NATO Madrid Summit took crucial decisions in response to the Russian full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Allies decided to considerably enhance NATO’s deterrence and defense posture, including by ensuring deterrence by denial and the ability to defend forward. As Allies prepare to the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius, one needs to assess the pace of the implementation of the Madrid decisions and reflect on the additional elements that should be considered in the coming months. How should we deliver on the concept of forward defense? What should be the successor of the 2014 Defense Investment Pledge? How can we boost our industrial capacity to respond both to the Ukrainian and Allied needs? Do we need a new NATO Military Strategy which would implement NATO Strategic Concept?

Keynote: President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda

Moderator: Henry Foy (Financial Times)

Speakers: Tomasz Szatkowski (Poland), Jüri Luik (Estonia), Peter Bátor (Slovakia)

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Henry Foy

Financial Times

 

Henry Foy is the FT’s European Diplomatic Correspondent, based in Brussels. He reports on the EU’s foreign policy, relations between Brussels and other world powers, and the diplomatic intrigues between member states. Previously he was Moscow Bureau Chief, where he interviewed president Vladimir Putin and charted his regime’s descent into repression. He has also been posted in Warsaw and London. Henry joined the FT in 2013 from Reuters, where he was a correspondent in India.

 

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Tomasz Szatkowski

 

Tomasz Szatkowski

Permanent Representative of Poland to NATO

 

Ambassador Tomasz Szatkowski (born 10 May 1978) is a graduate in law, with additional postgraduate degrees in national security studies (University of Warsaw) and war studies (King’s College London). He also completed a postgraduate course in intelligence policy (King’s College London), a training course for staff officers (US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey), as well as a course in defence policy programming and strategic management (Defence Academy of the United Kingdom – Shrivenham). He is a recipient of scholarships from the UK Ministry of Defence (2004), US Department of State (2007), Asmus Policy Entrepreneurs Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2013) and participant in the program of the Munich Security Conference Munich Young Leaders (2019). Having held senior positions in the Polish administration (the Parliament of the Republic of Poland, Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Ministry of National Defence), defence industry, public media and the European Parliament he has extensive experience in the national security domain, in particular defence and armaments policy, oversight of the special services and public media. Before taking up the position of the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to NATO, in 2015-2019, he was the deputy minister of national defence responsible among others for international affairs, organization of the NATO Summit in Warsaw in 2016, Strategic Defence Review and negotiations on enhancing the American military presence in Poland. He is an author of numerous publications on the aforementioned issues, published both in Poland and abroad. His interests are in the classic military strategy, in particular the relationship between technology and strategy, intelligence strategy, defence economics, as well as problems of coordinating national security policy.

 

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Jüri Luik

Permanent Representative of Estonia to NATO

 

Jüri Luik is an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as the Minister of Defence in the government of Prime Minister Jüri Ratas. In addition, he chaired the EPP Defense Ministers Meeting, which gathers the center-right EPP ministers ahead of meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC).

 

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Peter Bátor

 

Peter Bátor

Permanent Representative of Slovakia to NATO

 

Peter Bátor has worked as diplomat, analyst, policy adviser and speechwriter for two Presidents of Slovakia, ministers, deputy ministers and ambassadors. His diplomatic experience include posting to the Permanent Delegation of Slovakia to NATO in Brussels, where he served as Deputy Permanent Representative and later as Chief Political Adviser to the Slovak Permanent Representative. Before his posting to NATO he had served as Director of Cabinet and advisor to Deputy Minister of foreign affairs. He had held different positions at the Slovak Ministry of Defence, including the position of Director of International Crisis Management and Arms Control Division, NATO analyst, and legal adviser (international law). Throughout his career, Peter Bátor has focused on foreign and security policy, with special emphasis on NATO, Eastern Flank, Western Balkans and international conflicts. In the recent years, he has also focused on cyber security, and its impacts on security of states and international organizations. He has a short-term field experience from Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo. In 20 years, he has extensively cooperated with governmental and non-governmental organizations, and academia. He is founder of the first Slovak cyber security web portal and former President of the Slovak George C. Marshall Centre Alumni Association. He holds MA and PhD. in international affairs and diplomacy from Matej Bel University in Slovakia, and graduated a program in Security Studies at George C. Marshall Centre for Security Studies in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. He speaks English, some German and has passive knowledge of French.

 

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