Speakers 2024

  Dr. Benjamin Tallis joined DGAP in September 2022. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Future Affairs and leads the project “Aktionswerkstatt Zeitenwende”.     Previously, he served the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and worked as a policy officer at the European Competence Center for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin. He spent five years at the Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR), where he directed the Center for European Security, advised numerous European governments, edited the journal New Perspectives, and organized the 2017 Prague Insecurity Conference. He then worked at the Institute for Peace Research and Security …

Enno Lenze Enno Lenze is a blogger and managing partner of the publisher “Berlin Story”. Born in Bochum, he grew up in Rwanda and later made himself again and again a picture of crisis regions. Enno is also familiar with digital topics and advised companies in IT and marketing matters in an international consulting firm.

Mikuláš Peksa born 1986 in Prague is a Czech biophysicist and politician of Česká pirátská strana. From 2017 to 2019 Peksa was a Member of the Czech House of Commons, since 2019 he is a Member of the Ninth European Parliament as part of the Green/EFA Group. Youth and education Mikuláš Peksa was born and grew up in Prague on 18 June 1986. After his school education at the Christian Doppler Grammar School, he studied biophysics at the Charles University in Prague. In the course of his studies he specialized in nuclear magnetic resonance, afterwards Peksa completed a post-graduate program in the framework of a cooperation between the Charles University …

Alexis Roussel     Alexis Roussel           is a member of the Swiss Pirate Party and has also been active as its president. The lawyer is an entrepreneur and executive in several companies for privacy tech to Bitcoins trading in Neuchâtel. He wants to anchor “digital integrity” in the Swiss constitution with a new initiative, and already succeeded in the Geneva Canton constitution. Alexis Roussel grew up in Holland and has lived in France and Belgium. “When I came back to Switzerland, I noticed how many opportunities are available here,” he says. When Roussel started talking about cryptocurrency, Bitcoins and digital transfers ten years ago – …