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Brussels Forum Session: Reflecting on 20 Years of Brussels Forum: A Conversation in Honor of Ron Asmus

Carl Bildt is co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, contributing columnist to The Washington Post, and columnist for Project Syndicate. He is also senior adviser to Wallenberg Investments and serves on the board of trustees of the RAND Corporation.

Bildt is a former Swedish prime minister and foreign minister. In 2021, he was appointed World Health Organization special envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator). He subsequently served in international functions with the EU and UN, primarily in positions related to conflicts in the Balkans. He was co-chairman of the Dayton peace talks on Bosnia and became the first EU high representative in the country. He went on to become the special envoy of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the region.

May 29, 2025

Democratic by Design: Implementing and Innovating Democracy-Affirming Technologies

Caitlin Goldenberg, Adrienne Goldstein, Sharinee Jagtiani, Lindsay Gorman

Marshall Plan Governance: A forum on the eve of the Ukraine Recovery Conference

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Philip Bednarczyk is GMF's Warsaw Office Director. He joined the organization after serving as the senior Europe adviser on the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee and staff director for the House Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats for then-Ranking Member Gregory Meeks. Prior to that, he was a Bosch Foundation fellow in Germany. He also worked for an American NGO in Moscow, and for the EU in Brussels and Tallinn.

A dual Polish-American citizen, Bednarczyk studied at Fordham University and received a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

May 27, 2025