Munich Security Conference/Young Leaders

Munich Security Conference/Young Leaders
(Deep state recruitment network)
Munich Security Conference/Young Leaders; (Deep state recruitment network)
	Young Leaders with Ursula von der Leyen
Formation	2009
Founder	• Körber Foundation; • MSC
Membership	• Mohamed Abolnaga; • Kemel Aitzhanov; • Alviina Alametsä; • Irakli Alasania; • Abdulaziz Alhies; • Muna A. Ali; • Leyla Aliyeva; • Cyril Almeida; • Sara Almohamadi; • Almutasem Alsyoufi; • Mohammed Khalid Alyahya; • Dmitry Androsov; • Anil K. Antony; • Taku Aramaki; • Ali Aslan; • Abas Aslani; • Jurij Aston; • Emad Ba Matraf; • Yomna El Bakly; • Majed Bamya; • Ivan Bartoš; • Tobias Basuki; • Elena Beganu; • Nisha Begum-Ali; • Mantvydas Bekešius; • Paul Belkin; • Alexandra Bell; • Andrea Berdesinski; • Ronen Bergman; • Frédéric Bernard; • Benedetta Berti; • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari; • Ireneusz Bil; • Andrew Bishop; • Jan Bittner; • Olaf Böhnke; • Ivonne Bollow; • Mbarka Bouaida; • Nasser Bourita; • Mathieu Briens; • Erwin Bruder; • Alton Buland; • Johanna Bussemer; • Lei Cao; • Rohit Chahal; • Vincent Chao; • Sawsan Chebli; • Elena Chernenko; • Ketevan Chumbadze; • Agnes Ciuperca; • Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook; • Ahmet Berat Çonkar; • Linda Curika; • Phumzile Van Damme; • Laura von Daniels; • Arnaud Danjean; • Julia De Clerck-Sachsse; • Milica Delevic; • Márta Demeter; • Laurence Deschamps-Laporte; • Kathrin Deschauer; • Marko Djuric; • Reema Dodin; • Julia Döhrn; • Alexey Dolinskiy; • Anna Maria Dowd; • Aaron T. Dowd; • Alexander Dubnitzki; • Naz Durakoğlu; • Katherine Earle; • Yana Ehm; • Karma Ekmekji; • Zyad El Elaimy; • Salmin Eljawahiri; • Jessica Elledge; • Amy English; • Aykan Erdemir; • Dana Erekat; • Dogan Eskinat; • Nicholas Fang; • Sumayah Fatani; • David Federmann; • Shiri Fein-Grossman; • Beate Freuding; • Christian Freuding; • Julia Friedlander; • Pia Fuhrhop; • Taro Fujii; • Alexander Gabuev; • Jasmine M. El Gamal; • Claudia Gamon; • Vincent Garneau; • Matthias Gebauer; • Gowhar Geelani; • Alyona Getmanchuk; • Fahimeh Ghorbani; • Janet Dyah Ekawati Gibson; • Anatoly Glaz; • Myong-Hyun Go; • James Golby; • Christoph Grams; • Camille Grand; • Sebastian Groth; • Dmitry Gudkov; • Axel Gugel; • Alice Guitton; • Daniela Haarhuis; • Jan Hamáček; • Melissa Hanlon; • Hemin Hawrami; • Martin Heipertz; • Lorenz Hemicker; • Ina Heusgen; • Richard Javad Heydarian; • Mohamed Al Hinai; • Emile Hokayem; • Hanna Hopko; • Peer Horstmann; • Marko Horvat; • Glori Husi; • Hamad Al Ibrahim; • Agnieszka Ignaciuk; • Luukas Ilves; • Adisa Imamovic; • Fariz Ismailzade; • Christoph Israng; • Abhijit Iyer-Mitra; • Ayaka Iyonaga; • Happymon Jacob; • Julian Jakob; • Hosna Jalil; • Dominik P. Jankowski; • Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer; • Lolwa Al Jefairi; • Gyde Jensen; • Aleksandra Jerkov; • Dorothea Jestädt; • Sajad Jiyad; • Noura Al Jizawi; • Derek Johnson; • Besa Kabashi-Ramaj; • Daria Kaleniuk; • Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica; • Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh; • Giorgi Kandelaki; • Michael Kellner; • Ronja Kempin; • Anton V. Khlopkov; • Eunbee Kim; • Christian Klein; • Benjamin Knödler; • Till Knorn; • Linas Kojala; • Zeynep Köksal Yaykiran; • Julie Kolsdorf; • Yosuke Kon; • Konstantin Kosten; • Ayse Hilal Koytak; • Vladislav Kulminski; • Lynn Kuok; • Laura Kupe; • Jeanette Kwek; • Ivy Kwek; • Agnieszka Łada; • Elena Lange-Bratanova; • Jessica J. Lee; • Wentao Li; • Kadri Liik; • Oliver Linz; • Joseph Chinyong Liow; • Matthias Lüttenberg; • Holly Lynch; • Hafsa Maalim; • Merle Maigre; • Alan Mak; • Toe Naing Mann; • Kholoud Mansour; • Aiman Mansour; • Bojan Marichikj; • Hayfa Matar; • Ottilia Anna Maunganidze; • Lindiwe Mazibuko; • Barbara Meincke; • Dzianis Melyantsou; • Alan Mendoza; • Johnny Mercer; • George Messiha; • Markus Meyer; • Lu Miao; • Ana Miguel dos Santos; • Sven Mikser; • Efrat Minivitzki Thein; • Miroslav Mizera; • Imen Ben Mohamed; • Tahereh Mohammadi; • Siemtje Möller; • Rym Momtaz; • Olga Mostinskaya; • Shafqat Munir; • Manuel Muñiz Villa; • Fuad Muradov; • Dominik Mutter; • Samer Naber; • Al-Sharif Nasser Bin Nasser; • Nargis Nehan; • Grace Natalie Louisa Ng; • Parke Thomas Nicholson; • Colin Nippert; • Ippeita Nishida; • Anjoum Noorani; • Lana Nusseibeh; • Delphine O; • Serap Ocak; • Carlos Oliver Cruz; • Vitaly Orekhov; • Lesya Orobets; • Olaf Osica; • Iuliia Osmolovska; • Marius Osswald; • Igal Ostanovsky-Katz; • Mohammed Al Otaiba; • Ann-Kristin Otto; • Nikolai Ovsyanko; • Fulya Özerkan; • Min-Jung Paik; • Shruti Pandalai; • Jinho Park; • Denys Pashchenko; • Gergana Passy; • Şafak Pavey; • Nereo Peñalver; • Christian Pernhorst; • Hartmut Philippe; • Manu S Pillai; • Kati Piri; • Katarzyna Pisarska; • Andrei Popov; • Sergejs Potapkins; • Pamela Preusche; • Ruslan Pukhov; • Fahim Al Qasimi; • Lia Quartapelle; • Péter Rada; • Roya Rahmani; • Kanica Rakhra; • Jovan Ratkovic; • Oleksiy Riabchyn; • Mélanie Rosselet; • Philipp Rotmann; • Peter Rough; • Maksim Ryzhenkov; • Fawaz Meshal Al-Sabah; • Diana Amer Sabha; • Styopa Safaryan; • Cale Salih; • Vigen Sargsyan; • Ali Sarikaya; • Marietje Schaake; • Jamila Schäfer; • Michael Schattenmann; • Olexander Scherba; • Caroline Schmutte; • Jacob Schrot; • Georg Schulze Zumkley; • Rolf Schwarz; • Christoph Schwegmann; • Benedikta von Seherr-Thoß; • Radmila Šekerinska; • Oleksiy Semeniy; • Merve Seren Yeşiltaş; • Dahlia Shaham Brender; • Yamei Shen; • Jaiveer Shergill; • Katsiaryna Shmatsina; • Sam Sasan Shoamanesh; • Rebecca Shrimpton; • Artur Sîrbu; • Alexander Skiba; • Sara Skyttedal; • Amanda Sloat; • Wawrzyniec Smoczynski; • Hanbyeol Sohn; • Olga Sõtnik; • Thomas Speckmann; • Maximilian Spinner; • Olha Stefanishyna; • Victoria Stegniy; • Léa Steinacker; • Marik A. String; • Melody Sucharewicz; • Dmitry Suslov; • Ksenia Svetlova; • Ashraf Swelam; • Tomasz Szatkowski; • Hiromi Takase; • Kiwako Tanaka; • Nawaf Wasfi Tell; • Amadou Thiam; • Hannah Thoburn; • Markus Thomi; • Şafak Timur Otru; • Stefan Tinca; • Eka Tkeshelashvili; • Adel Al Toraifi; • Anton Tsvetov; • Małgorzata Twardowska; • Uzoamaka Ugochukwu; • Ineza Umuhoza Grace; • Sebastian Veit; • Roberto Velasco Álvarez; • Ambika Vishwanath; • Mark V. Vlasic; • Feodor Voitolovsky; • Mustakim Waid; • Maximilian von Waldenfels; • Joshua Walker; • Dong Wang; • Maria Weimer; • Martin Wilk; • Yael Wissner-Levy; • Kelvin Wong; • Catherine Wong; • Ting Xu; • Hamed Yaghoubifar; • Merkeb Yimesel; • Xue (Tiffany) Yuan; • Alexander Zaborovskiy; • Mahdi Zadehali; • Svitlana Zalishchuk; • Mykhailo Zhernakov; • Xizhou Zhou; • Igor Zhovkva; • Yali Zhu; • Sotoudeh Zibakalam
	The Young Leaders cadre selected by the Munich Security Conference

The Young Leader Program of the Munich Security Conference, is a forum for "future decision-makers to strengthen their international networks and inspire new thinking in foreign and security policy."^[1] The program is a collaboration between the Körber Foundation and the Munich Security Conference. The program is particularly focused on drilling the leadership cadre in adherence to "multilateralism", which mostly means fealty NATO and similar organizations.

Alumni Sawsan Chebli on multilateralism:

Today, multilateralism seems to be an elite project. We need to change our language when we speak of multilateralism.^[2]

Own words

Ali Aslan and Henry Kissinger at the New York Anniversary Meeting in 2019.^[3]

Today, the Munich Young Leaders (MYL) Alumni Network has over 300 members from more than 70 different countries.^[4] The vast network of the Munich Young Leaders – coming from a wide range of backgrounds including governments, national and regional parliaments, civil society, academia, think tanks, the media and the private sector – represent an invaluable repository, which has provided relevant impulses and inspiration to foreign and security policy debates on countless occasions.^[5]

Activities

In addition to the annual gathering of the new Munich Young Leaders cohort in February, the Munich Security Conference and Körber-Stiftung invite all Munich Young Leaders to the Annual Meetings, which are organised in cooperation with a smaller alumni group from a host country. As of 2023, these gatherings have been held in Washington DC, Moscow, Berlin, Kyiv,Warsaw, Rabat, Madrid and New York. Throughout the year, Munich Young Leaders also participate in various events organized by the Munich Security Conference and Körber Foundation.^[6]

The focus of the program can be deduced from the leaders they interact with. In 2009, the first batch of Munich Young Leaders met with Henry Kissinger.^[5] In 2010, they "discussed the future of Euro-Atlantic security and global disarmament" with Carl Bildt and John McCain At the MSC, the 2011 class of MYL engaged with George Soros and Toomas Hendrik Ilves.^[5]

The participants (listed on the right) are not sorted by year.

Known members

18 of the 334 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Ali Aslan	Spooky journalist, Georgetown University, many deep state ties
Majed Bamya	Munich Security Conference Young Leader Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN
Ronen Bergman	Israeli journalist who published Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s targeted killings - in reality a very flattering limited hangout.
Julia De Clerck-Sachsse	Munich Security Conference Young Leader, multiple BF visits
Milica Delević-Đilas	Serbian economist
Naz Durakoğlu	Turkish-American civil servant, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs under Joe Biden.
Alexander Gabuev	Russian academic in American deep state employ, researching the Sino-Russia relationship. Attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting.
Hanna Hopko	WEF YGL spooky Ukrainian politician
Daria Kaleniuk	Daria Kaleniuk emotionally confronted Boris Johnson on 2 March 2022 when he was visiting Poland and advocated for a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Kadri Liik	Estonian journalist Russia’s Strategy on NATO'S Eastern and Southern Flanks replete with fellow IfS UK inner core members, ECFR
Alan Mendoza	Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society
Johnny Mercer	MSC YL soldier politician
Sven Mikser	Estonian politician. Munich Security Conference Young Leader
Lana Nusseibeh	UAE ambassador to the UN
Şafak Pavey	The first disabled woman in the Turkish parliament. Worked many years with NGOs in Iran and with Shirin Ebadi.
Lia Quartapelle	Italian politician; Friends of Europe 2018
Marietje Schaake	Dutch spooky euro-politician on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, arguing for tighter regulation of big tech to "save democracy"
Eka Tkeshelashvili	Spooky Munich Security Conference Young Leader with a heavy conference habit. Signed the Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19 call for mass injection.

Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.

References

[1] ttps://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/munich-young-leaders/

[2] ttps://securityconference.org/assets/02_Dokumente/01_Publikationen/MYL_Anniversary-Report_2019.pdf

[3] ttps://securityconference.org/mediathek/album/munich-young-leaders-new-york/

[4] ttps://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/munich-young-leaders/munich-young-leaders-alumni/ archived at https://archive.is/31lnE

[rep19-5] ttps://securityconference.org/assets/02_Dokumente/01_Publikationen/MYL_Anniversary-Report_2019.pdf

[6] ttps://securityconference.org/assets/user_upload/MSC2020_MYL_Broschure.PDF

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