Participants

An unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers attended the Munich Security Conference 2020, including heads of state and government, ministers of defense and foreign affairs, and leading figures from academia, business and civil society.

Selected confirmed participants

  • Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
  • David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme
  • Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
  • Mark Esper, United States Secretary of Defense
  • Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan
  • Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation
  • Thomas Greminger, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
  • José Ángel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD
  • Mohammed Al-Hadhrami, Foreign Minister of Yemen
  • Mohamed Ali Al-Hakim, Foreign Minister of Iraq
  • Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Defence of Singapore
  • Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of India
  • Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Federal Minister of Defense of Germany
  • Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor of Austria
  • Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia
  • Heiko Maas, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany
  • Emmanuel Macron, President of France
  • Gitanas Nauseda, President of Lithuania
  • Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  • Mike Pompeo, United States Secretary of State
  • Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
  • Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence of Canada
  • Wolfgang Schäuble, President of the German Bundestag
  • Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal President of Germany
  • Jürgen Stock, Secretary General of Interpol
  • Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
  • Hashim Thaçi, President of the Republic of Kosovo
  • Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
  • Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
  • Mohammed Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
  • Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook

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