CELIS Thought Leaders

A Rountable Series Where Investment Screening Experts Connect 

Thought Leaders’ roundtables form part of CELIS’s broader role as the leading non-profit, non-partisan institution for expertise, dialogue, and exchange on investment screening in a high-trust environment. The roundtables are a series of intimate exchanges held across Europe among attorneys-at-law, government officials, investors, in-house counsels, and academia, designed to: 

  • Stay ahead of the curve and deepen practical expertise in national investment screening regimes and their application in complex multijurisdictional transactions. 
  • Bridge policy design and legal implementation of investment security law through public-private exchange. 
  • Build durable and trusted professional networks with public authorities, lawyers, and industry leaders.  
  • Become part of the CELIS high-trust, small-room, invitation-only investment screening community. 

The Thought Leaders roundtables operate as a governance-neutral, non-advocacy platform for technical exchange, not owned or controlled by any single stakeholder group. 

Become part of the CELIS Thought Leaders Community

Ministries & Government Authorities
  • Cabinet Office (UK)
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ireland)
  • Chamber of Deputies (Italy)
  • Department for Business and Trade (UK)
  • General Secretariat for Defence and National Security (France)
  • Economic Resilience Unit, Ministry of Industry and Trade (Czech Republic)
  • European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)
  • EU Commission, DG FISMA
  • EU Commission, DG TRADE
  • EU Parliament
  • Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (Austria)
  • Homeland Security (USA)
  • Inspectorate for Strategic Products (Sweden)
  • Interfederal Screening Commission (Belgium)
  • Ministry of Economy (Luxembourg)
  • Ministère des Armées (France)
  • Ministry of Economic Affairs (The Netherlands)
  • Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (Finland)
  • Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Germany)
  • Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business (Spain)
  • Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty (France)
  • Office for the Protection of Competition and Consumers (Poland)
  • Permanent Representation of Hungary to the European Union (Hungary)
  • Prime Minister (France)
  • Secretariat of the Romanian FDI Screening Commission (CEISD) (Romania)
Private Sector
  • Airbus
  • Anduril
  • Axon
  • Econergy Renewable Energy Ltd.
  • European Investment Bank
  • HENRO – Hydrogen and New Energy Romanian Association
  • Kostal Group
  • Public Investment Fund
  • RTX
  • Telenet Group
Academia
  • Uppsala University
  • University of Antwerp
  • Indiana University
  • Sciences Po
  • University of Southern Denmark
  • King’s College London
  • Liverpool University
  • KU Leuven
Law Firms
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Skadden
  • Blomstein
  • Schoenherr
  • Wolf Theiss
  • Kinstellar
  • And many others.

Join a growing network of leaders at CELIS

Feel free to get in touch for more information!

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Joanna Kirstine Thomsen

Head of Event and Sponsor Relations
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Floor Doppen

Managing Programme Associate

Editions

Edition 6

London (08.04.26)

Focus on investment screening in the UK and Ireland.

With an additional session on investment screening in the financial markets.

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Edition 5

Bucharest (06-07.10.25)

Focus on investment screenig in Romania, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.

With an additional session on investment screening in battery production & energy technologies.

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Edition 4

Paris (03-04.04.25)

Focus on investment screenig in France, Spain, and Italy.

With an additional session on the financial markets.


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Edition 1

Berlin (31.5.-01.6.24)

Focus on the investment screening in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

With additional sessions on EU and int'l legal framework, and US regime (CFIUS) .


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Stockholm
Edition 2

Stockholm (19-20.9.24)

Focus on investment screening in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

With additional session on the defense sector.


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Edition 3

Brussels (20-21.02.25)

Focus on the investment screening in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.

With an additional session on the European sea port sector.


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