Speaker – Joanneke Balfoort
Shariffah Rashidah Syed Othman
Speaker – Clive Finlay
Speaker – Damian Chung
Speaker – Joel Moses
Moderator – Yong Ying–I
Moderator – Stanley Tsang
Moderator – Tobias Feakin
Moderator – Richard Kadlčák
Moderator – Steven Ng
Moderator – Ravi Velloor
Moderator – Marta Pelechová
Moderator – Dr Ming Tan
Moderator – Mihoko Matsubara
Moderator – James Crabtree
Moderator – Mr Charles Ng
Moderator – Leslie Daigle
Speaker – Ursula Owusu–Ekuful
Moderator – Benjamin Ang
Moderator – David Koh
Moderator – Alan Goh
Speaker – Wang Lei
Moderator – Andre Shori
Speaker – Vijay Vaidyanathan
Speaker – Tanel Sepp
Speaker – Viktor Zhora
Speaker – The Honorable Alejandro N Mayorkas
Speaker – Tahata Shinya
Speaker – Ryan Kalember
Speaker – Sithuraj Ponraj
Speaker – Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP
Speaker – Sami Khoury
Speaker – Rob Suárez
Speaker – Piotr Lewandowski
Speaker – Pengiran Dato Shamhary Mustapha
Speaker – Philip Reitinger
Speaker – Raymond Chua
Speaker – Richard Koh
Speaker – Phua Puay Li
Speaker – Pavel Zeman
Speaker – Nathaniel Fick
Speaker – Paul Griswold
Speaker – Nathalie Jaarsma
Speaker – Olaf Kolkman
Speaker – Mr Scott Jarkoff
Speaker – Mihoko Matsubara
Speaker – Michael Karimian
Speaker – Mr Brandon Wales
Speaker – Michael Lagana
Speaker – Mr John Suffolk
Speaker – Michaela Browning
Speaker – Martin Dvořák
Speaker – Lindy Cameron
Speaker – Lee Kian Chong
Speaker – Le Quang Lan
Speaker – Keng Seng Wei
Speaker – Kemba Walden
Speaker – Koneru Kalyan Chakravarthy
Speaker – Lee Fook Sun
Speaker – Lim Thian Chin
Speaker – Marjo Baayen
Speaker – Low Cheng Ooi
Speaker – Lim Soon Chia
Speaker – Lee Dolsen
Speaker – Kevin Mandia
Speaker – Juliette Wilcox CMG
Speaker – Jeff Moss
Speaker – Izumi Nakamitsu
Speaker – Hon Ursula Owusu–Ekuful
Speaker – Henry Tan
Speaker – Hon Ivan John Uy
Speaker – Huang Shaofei
Speaker – James Rosenthal
Speaker – Joanneke Balfoort
Speaker – Joshua Kennedy–White
Speaker – Jeff Blake
Speaker – Irene Tan
Speaker – Hon Tim Watts MP
Speaker – Henri Verdier
Speaker – Gwenda Fong
Speaker – Helena Leurent
Speaker – Guillaume Poupard
Speaker – He Run
Speaker – Gregory Bunghardt
Speaker – Goh Eng Choon
Speaker – Gaby Portnoy
Speaker – Francesco Mancini
Speaker – Gordon Oh
Speaker – Grace Burkard
Speaker – Gerardo Isaac Morales Tenorio
Speaker – Fernando Serto
Speaker – Erika Lewis
Speaker – Dr Regine Maria Grienberger
Speaker – Dr Dorit Dor
Speaker – Dr Artur Lyukmanov
Speaker – Dr Regine Grienberger
Speaker – Emma Raffray
Speaker – Farlina Said
Speaker – Eveline Vreede
Speaker – Ed Soo Hoo
Speaker – Dr Gerhard Schabhüser
Speaker – Doug Kramer
Speaker – David Clark
Speaker – David Koh
Speaker – Deputy Secretary Marc Ablong PSM
Speaker – Col Radek Nezbeda
Speaker – Daren Smith
Speaker – Cui Bao Qiu
Speaker – Clar Rosso
Speaker – Christopher Painter
Speaker – Craig Jones
Speaker – Charmaine Ng
Speaker – Brad Arkin
Speaker – Bryan Palma
Speaker – Choi Eun Young
Speaker – Chris Foo
Speaker – Chang Kai Fan
Speaker – Benjamin Ang
Speaker – Anne Neuberger
Speaker – Assaf Keren
Speaker – Aileen Yap
Speaker – Abigail Bradshaw
Moderator – Peter Stephens
Moderator – Tay Bee Kheng
Moderator – Teo Xiang Zheng
Moderator – Dr Anuradha Rao
Moderator – Dr Steven Wong
Moderator – Paul O'Rourke
Moderator – Daryl Pereira
Ms Joanneke Balfoort
Director, SECDEFPOL DMD - Security and Defence Policy
EEAS European External Action Service
Biography
Joanneke Balfoort is the Director Security and Defence policy at the European External Action Service. Joanneke has been with the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more than 25 years. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a law degree, specializing in international law, and a degree in political science. During her career at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has worked as a project officer for human rights and humanitarian projects, responsible for political affairs at the Netherlands embassy in Moscow, first secretary within the Netherlands NATO delegation in Brussels, coordinator EU affairs within the Ministry and head of the economic section at the embassy in London. In September 2013, she arrived at the embassy in Washington, D.C. as the deputy head of mission. From 2017 till mid 2020 she was the Dutch Ambassador to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union in Brussels. Since June 2020 she is the Director Security and Defence policy at the European External Action Service.