Each IYLC features influential and notable speakers from around the world. Previous speakers have included such notable global figures as Morgan Tsvangiari and Benazir Bhutto.    

The 23nd IYLC-Prague had five excellent speakers: 

Lukas Sedlacek

Co-Founder and Executive Director, European Leadership & Academic Institute (ELAI)

Mr. Sedláček is a Co-founder and Executive Director at European Leadership & Academic Institute (ELAI). He also holds a position of the President at Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society (OCAS). He has been a lecturer at New York University and Anglo-American University both located in Prague.

Mr. Sedláček graduated from Otago University of New Zealand, he holds Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge and PhDr. from the Charles University in Prague.

Among his past professional experience, the most remarkable are being the Chief EU Projects Coordinator and Senior Business Development Manager, Senior Project Manager at Telefonica O2, Policy Analyst at Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, Project Manager at Think tank ANO pro Evropu, Editor-in-Chief at Government of the Czech Republic, Organizing and chairing of discussions at Association for International Affairs, Founder and Director of Medical Recruitment Desk at Jobs International, Manager at GRN - Global Recruiters.

Mitchell A. Belfer

 Editor in Chief of the Central European Journal of International & Security Studies

Mitchell A. Belfer is the founder and Head of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic, and Editor in Chief of the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS). He holds a Ph.D. and an MPA in International Relations Theory and his academic interests include: alliance theory, energy security and European approaches to regional and international security. He is the author of Alliances and Third Party Intervention (Saarbrucken, 2010), Dropping the Anchor: An EU Naval Approach to Energy Security (Prague, 2011), and is a frequent commentator in the European and international press.

Ondřrej Ditrych 

 Research fellow at Institute of International Relations in Prague, affiliated with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic.

 He studied political science (M.A.) and international relations (Ph.D.) at Charles University, University of Cambridge (MPhil.) and Uppsala University.

He has also been a research fellow at Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School (2007-2008) on a Fulbright scholarship, and a visiting research fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Berlin (2011).
He has written and co-written several policy studies for Czech government and European parliament and academic papers on politics and security in the Caucasus and various international security issues (e.g. NATO strategic concept and deterrence), including in journals such as Middle East Policy, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies, and Journal of International Relations and Development. 
He is currently serving as executive secretary of Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society Czech Republic.   

Marketa Rulíková

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Williams College

 Marketa Rulikova received her PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Williams College. She has also taught at Bennington College, Keene State College, Metropolitan University Prague, and New York University in Prague. Her research focuses on global migration, social stratification and cultural transformation in post-socialist Europe. Rulikova is working on a book about undocumented Eastern European immigrants in the US.      

Kristýna Andrlová

Coordinator for international issues from Amnesty International

In 2010, Kristýna Andrlová (1984) gratuated from law (MA) at the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague and environmental economics (BA) at the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, University of Economics in Prague. Since her graduation, she works in the nonprofit sector. Nowadays, she works for two organizations – as a lawyer for Oživení, a Czech NGO dealing with issues of good governance and anti-corruption, and as an advocacy officer for the Czech section of Amnesty International. She has been dealing with the topic of migration since 2008, while she started her internship at the Czech Amnesty. She´s also involved in an informal platform called The Initiative for the Rights of the Migrant Workers. Her hobbies are languages, books, traveling, some sports and a lot of good music, mainly jazz.

Lucie Sládková

Head of IOM in the Czech Republic, Intergovernmental organization seated in Geneva

Lucie Sládková is rich of both theory and practice regarding the field of migration.

She studied migration at a Fullbright programmme at the University of Maryland and then gained valuable knowledge from working at the Foreign Police Headquarters, the border police as well as the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic. At the moment, she is the Head of the International Organization for Migration in the Czech Republic, an NGO with a seat in Geneve, Switzerland. IOM works in the four broad areas of migration management: migration and development, facilitating migration, regulating migration, and addressing movements and resettlements, and are also involved in activities such as the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants’ rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration.