Egemen Bağış, Minister for European Union Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey Mario Monti, 54th Prime Minister of Italy (2011 – 2013) Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany (1998 – 2005) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2007 – 2011)
Remarks: Bret Stephens, Deputy Editorial Page Editor (International), Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, YES Annual Meeting 2022 “Ukraine: Defending all Our Freedom”
«Russia is bigger than Ukraine, its GDP is bigger than Ukraine’s and its population is bigger than Ukraine’s. You might therefore assume that Russia will prevail. But history shows that smaller countries fighting for their freedom do win»