Programme

Subject Speaker Title Time
Introductory remarks Mats Johansson Chairman and Founder of the Stockholm Free World Forum 09.30
Security around the Baltic, 2013 Artis Pabriks Defence Minister, Latvia 09.35
Pause 10.30
The Baltic as a security complex Edward Lucas

Mike Winnerstig


Anna Jardfelt


Moderator:
Katarina Tracz
Editor of the International section, The Economist, London

Fellow at The Royal Swedish Academy of the War Sciences, Stockholm

Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm


Deputy Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum
11.00
Lunch 12.15
Regional security in the North Karlis Neretnieks


Charly Salonius-
Pasternak

Ståle Ulriksen

Moderator:
Svante Cornell
Fellow at The Royal Swedish Academy of the War Sciences, Stockholm

Security policy analyst, FIIA, Helsinki


Security policy analyst, NUPI, Oslo


Director of the Institute for Security and Development Studies, Stockholm
13.30
Pause 14.30
The Importance of Gazprom for the Baltic Region Anders Åslund

Thomas Malmlöf

Rolandas Krisciunas


Moderator:
Maria Eriksson
Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, Washington DC

Security policy analyst, FOI, Stockholm

Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania


Editor-in-chief of Svensk Tidskrift and author of “Dubbelspelet”, a book on energy prices and politics in Sweden
14.45
Pause 15.45
Russia in the Baltic Jānis Kažociņš

Boris Nemtsov

Moderator:
Stig Fredrikson
Former (2013) director of the Latvian Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB),Riga

Russian opposition leader, Moscow


Journalist, foreign correspondent and author of the book Oligarken mot presidenten: tvekampen mellan Chodorkovskij och Putin
16.00
Security cooperation around the Baltic Kurt Volker


Matthew Bryza

Bruce Acker

Moderator:
Stefan Olsson
Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership, Washington DC

Head of the International Centre for Defence Studies, Tallinn

Former US Defense Attaché to Sweden, Stockholm


Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum
16.45
Dinner Scandic Hotel Hasselbacken
Invited guests only
19.00