Scott A. Nathan

Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation

Scott A. Nathan is the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, (DFC), appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate on February 9th, 2022. He has had extensive experience across the public and private sectors, most recently, serving as the Senior Advisor to the White House Office of Presidential Personnel overseeing appointments for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the General Services Administration (GSA).

Mr. Nathan first entered public service as the Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs at the Department of State, travelling to more than 30 countries supporting the Administration’s economic diplomacy agenda. Prior to public service, Mr. Nathan was for nearly two decades a partner, management committee member, and the Chief Risk Officer of The Baupost Group, a private investment partnership based in Boston.

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President of the Republic of Latvia

H.E. Mr Rumen Radev

President of the Republic of Bulgaria

H.E. Mr Andrej Plenković

Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia

H.E. Mr Miloš Vystrčil

President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

H.E. Mr Alar Karis

President of the Republic of Estonia

H.E. Mr Frank-Walter Steinmeier

President of the Federal Republic of Germany

H.E. Ms Katalin Novák

President of Hungary

H.E. Mr Gitanas Nausėda

President of the Republic of Lithuania

H.E. Mr Andrzej Duda

President of the Republic of Poland

H.E. Mr Klaus Iohannis

President of Romania

H.E. Mr Borut Pahor

President of the Republic of Slovenia

Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

H.E. Mr Krišjānis Kariņš

Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia

Lionel Barber

Journalist, Author, and the Former Financial Times Editor

Valdis Dombrovskis

Executive Vice President of the European Commission

Beata Daszynska-Muzyczka

President of the Polish State Development Bank (BGK) and Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of the Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund

Joe Phillipsz

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Karlis Vasarais

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Gerald Koch

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Alastair Evans

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Jan Klasen

First Vice President of KfW’s Secretariat General and Head of the Department for Strategic Participations and EU Affairs (Germany)

Mikołaj Wild

CEO of Solidarity Transport Hub Poland (Poland)

Mark Boris Andrijanič

Former Minister for Digitalization (Slovenia)

Karan Bhatia

Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google

John Tully

CEO of MikroTik and President of AmCham Latvia (Latvia)

Üllar Jaaksoo

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Linas Dičpetris

Government and Infrastructure Market Leader in CESA Region at EY (Lithuania)

Michal Kanownik

President of the Board of Digital Poland Association (Poland)

Kaspars Rožkalns

Director General of Investment and Development Agency of Latvia

Piret Tõnurist

OECD Lead on Anticipatory Innovation Governance and Missions, Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, Public Governance (Estonia)

Rainer Kattel

Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London (Estonia / UK)

John Abel

Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud Platform (UK)

Yusuke Iseki

Resident Executive Officer, Regional Head for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Japan Bank for International Cooperation

Mārtiņš Kazāks

Governor of the Central Bank of Latvia

Jean-Christophe Laloux

Director General, Head of EU Lending and Advisory Operations

Anna Łukaszewska-Trzeciakowska

CEO of ORLEN Neptun I, CEO of BalticPower (Poland)

Kadri Simson

European Commissioner for Energy

Mathias Cormann

OECD Secretary-General

Edijs Bošs

Moderator of the Three Seas Business Forum

Stefano Maio

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Kaspars Briškens

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Renāte Strazdiņa

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André Küüsvek

President and CEO of the Nordic Investment Bank

Joanna Franzén

Programme Manager at Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency (Sweden)

Neville Reeve

Head of Sector – Missions, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation

Edgars Bondars

Ambassador-at-Large for Preparation of the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Riga

Uldis Bariss

Chairman of the Board of Conexus Baltic Grid (Latvia)

Warwick Lowe

Rail Planning Director of Atkins (UK)

Viktoriia Betina

Transport and Mobility Consultant at Ramboll Deutschland GmbH (Germany / Ukraine)

Tony Housh

President of AmCham Poland

Joshua Volz

Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy (US)

Vilmantas Mažonas

Senior Vice President Flight Operations at Air Baltic

Ian Brown

Head of Baltics at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Patrick Folley

Divisional Director, Aviation at Jacobs (UK)

Evika Siliņa

Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Latvia

Anna Andersone

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