Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)

Host of the NatSec Tech podcast and former anchor and correspondent for CNN and ABC News

Talks at Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2025

Welcome and Opening of Day 1
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Gordon Repinski (Moderator)
Tuesday May 13 @ 09:00
Democracy Perception Index – The New World Order in Numbers
Nico Jaspers
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Tuesday May 13 @ 09:50
In Defense of Democracy – A Call to Action
Admiral Rob Bauer
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
David Cameron
Tuesday May 13 @ 10:00
Ukraine at War – Introducing Art of Winning and Saint Javelin
Kateryna Mykhalko
Luke Daschko
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Tuesday May 13 @ 12:20
USA’s Role in a New World Order
Nancy Pelosi*
Walter R. Mead
Paul Lettow
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Tuesday May 13 @ 17:20
Closing Remarks
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Gordon Repinski (Moderator)
Tuesday May 13 @ 18:40
Welcome and Intro to Day 2
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Gordon Repinski (Moderator)
Wednesday May 14 @ 09:00
Leveraging AI for Conversations At Scale
Beth Goldberg
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Wednesday May 14 @ 10:00
Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Program
Viacheslav N. Shvaidak
Danylo Dermenzhy
Laura Klitgaard (Judge)
Nikolaj Nyholm (Judge)
Sviatoslav Hnizdovsky
Anna Khachatryan
Adrian Manole
Mariam Kaulashvili-Southwell
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
George Gogua (Presenter)
Jorn Larsen (Judge)
Wednesday May 14 @ 10:45
Security, Culture, Foreign Policy at the Ukraine House of Denmark
Nataliia Popovych
Olha Zhurba
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Wednesday May 14 @ 12:55
Closing Remarks
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Gordon Repinski (Moderator)
Jeanne Meserve (Host and Moderator)
Wednesday May 14 @ 13:00

Jeanne Meserve is host of the Special Competitive Studies Project’s NatSec Tech podcast which explores the impact of technology innovation on security, economics and democracy. She’s an expert interviewer, sought-after moderator, and award-winning journalist.

During her career as an anchor and correspondent with CNN and ABC News Jeanne earned her profession’s highest honors, including two Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award. She also contributed to two CNN Peabody Awards.

Jeanne interviews top leaders in industry, government and academia, moderating discussions on a wide array of topics. Engagements have included the White House Summit on Democracy, the Copenhagen and Denver Democracy Summits, the Munich Security Conference, the Halifax International Security Forum, AtlanticLIVE and Washington Post LIVE events, and the global conferences of the International Women’s Forum.

At CNN Meserve anchored worldwide coverage of the Yitzhak Rabin assassination and the death of Princess Diana. After the 9/11 terror attacks she created the network’s homeland security beat and was the first to report on the devastating flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She was also a key member of the CNN political team during the 1996 and 2000 elections. While at ABC News she covered the White House and the State Department, reporting from the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

Jeanne has provided communications coaching to leaders in the corporate, government, academic and non-profit world. She is a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group and the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity. She was previously on the board of the non-profit Space Foundation.