Security Policy Round Table at PRINZ-CARL-PALAIS

Bundesminister a. D. Christian Schmidt trat 2021 das Amt des Hohen Repräsentanten für Bosnien und Herzegowina an und ist seit 2006 Präsident der Deutschen Atlantischen Gesellschaft. Seit 1990 war er Abgeordneter des Deutschen Bundestages. Von 2002 bis 2005 war er Verteidigungspolitischer Sprecher der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion und im Anschluss bis 2013 Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär beim Bundesminister der Verteidigung. 2014 wurde er zum Bundesminister für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft ernannt; ein Amt, das er bis 2018 bekleidete. Er ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.

State Minister Dr. Florian Herrmann has been a member of the Bavarian State Government since March 21, 2018, initially serving as the head of the Bavarian State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal Affairs. On November 12, 2018, he was reappointed to the cabinet of Minister President Dr. Markus Söder as the head of the Bavarian State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs and Media. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was appointed as the COVID Coordinator of the Bavarian State Government. The responsibility for European Affairs and International Relations has been taken over by State Minister Huml since January 11, 2021. Since 2008, the doctorate in law has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the Freising electoral district. In the Bavarian State Parliament, he was chairman of the Committee on Municipal Affairs, Internal Security, and Sports, as well as the spokesman on internal affairs for the CSU parliamentary group until his initial appointment to Minister President Dr. Markus Söder's cabinet. He also chaired several parliamentary inquiry committees.

Dr. Christoph Heusgen joined the diplomatic service in 1988 and was Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations between 2017 and 2021. In April 2019 and July 2020, he chaired the sessions of the UN Security Council as president on a rotational basis. Prior to this appointment and since 2005, Heusgen was the Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. He served as Director of the Policy Unit for High Representative Javier Solana in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union from 1999 to 2005.
Heusgen is a graduate of the University of Saint Gallen in Switzerland and studied at Georgia Southern College in the United States and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He earned a post-graduate degree from the University of Saint Gallen where he is currently teaching Political Science.
In 2022, he succeeded Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger as the chairman of the Munich Security Conference.

Dr. Florence Gaub is Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College (Rome). She holds a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin, as well as degrees from Sciences Po Paris, the Sorbonne and the University of Munich. She was previously foresight advisor at the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, special advisor to the EU’s Commissioner on Strategic Foresight Maros Sefcovic, as well as deputy director at the EU Institute for Security Studies. She is the author of the EU’s "Global Trends to 2030" report as well as “The Cauldron: NATO’s Libya Operation”.

Brigadegeneral Dotzler wurde am 27. November 2013 bis 2019 zum Kommandeur des Territorialkommandos Bayern in München ernannt. In dieser Funktion war er der oberste militärische Vertreter der deutschen Streitkräfte in Bayern. Nach seinem Eintritt in die Bundeswehr im Jahr 1976 absolvierte er seine Offiziersausbildung bei der Luftwaffe mit Stationen in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Sein Studium an der Akademie der Bundeswehr schloss General Dotzler mit einem Diplom in Betriebswirtschaft ab. Er durchlief zahlreiche Stationen als Generalstabsoffizier im Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (BMVg), im Luftwaffenamt, im Luftwaffenunterstützungskommando und arbeitete als militärischer Referent des Chefs der Luftwaffe. Er war Referatsleiter im Luftwaffenstab des BMVg, stellvertretender Direktor und Projektleiter im NATO-Hauptquartier der Alliierten Mächte in Mons, Belgien, und Kabinettschef des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs Christian Schmidt in Berlin. Vor seinem Kommando in München war Brigadegeneral Dotzler Leiter des deutschen Verbindungsteams zum Hauptquartier des United States Central Command in Tampa. Er ist Leiter der Münchner Sektion der Deutschen Atlantischen Gesellschaft.

Gabrielius Landsbergis has been the Foreign Minister of Lithuania since December 2020. After completing his studies, he worked as an advisor in the Government Chancellery of Lithuania in the Department of Foreign and European Affairs. In 2014, Gabrielius Landsbergis was elected as a member of the conservative TS-LKD to the European Parliament. In 2015, he assumed the chairmanship of his party and resigned from his mandate in the European Parliament in 2016 to run as the lead candidate in the Lithuanian parliamentary elections. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) and until 2019, he served as the opposition leader there.

Since 2022 General Christopher G. Cavoli assumed duties as Commander of the U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. General Cavoli previously served as Commander of the consolidated U.S. Army Europe and Africa October 2020 through June 2022. From January 2018 until the consolidation, General Cavoli served as the commander of U.S. Army Europe. Commissioned into the Infantry in 1987, General Cavoli has served in a wide variety of positions throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He also served as the Deputy Commander of Regional Command West in Herat, Afghanistan, and as the Deputy Commanding General for Operations at the 82nd Airborne Division. General Cavoli’s staff experience includes service as the Director for Russia on the Joint Staff, Deputy Executive Assistant for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Director of the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Coordination Group.

Dr. Jana Puglierin ist Senior Fellow und seit Januar 2020 Leiterin des Berliner Büros des European Council on Foreign Relations. Zuvor war sie Leiterin des Alfred-von-Oppenheim-Zentrums für Europäische Zukunftsfragen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP). Sie ist Alumna des Arbeitskreises „Junge Außenpolitiker“ der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung und Mitglied des Vorstands der Deutschen Atlantischen Gesellschaft und des erweiterten Vorstands von Women in International Security . Sie studierte Politikwissenschaften, öffentliches Recht und Soziologie an der Universität Bonn.