The
European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is the first
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. Launched in October 2007, its objective is to conduct research and promote informed debate across Europe on the development of coherent and effective European values based
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ECFR's founding members include former European prime ministers, business leaders, public intellectuals and activists. It has offices in seven European capitals –
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ParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
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WarsawWarsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
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– and is led by its Director, Mark Leonard and CEO Dick Oosting. ECFR’s Council brings together over 140 prominent and influential Europeans from 27 countries.
Awards and recognition
ECFR was named
"Best New Think Tank in the World" for 2009 and 2010 by the University of Pennsylvania in its annual Global "Go-To Think-Tanks" report. In November 2010, ECFR was named
“Best British-based think tank dealing with non-British affairs” at
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’s Think Tank of the Year Award.
In 2011, the academic responsible for compiling the University of Pennsylvania rankings, Dr James G. McGann, wrote in a book on global think tanks: “The fact that ECFR attempts to pursue policy advice and research through a pan-European focus means that it is free from the national restrictions of operating with one particular state framework in mind. In this sense, it is able to prescribe solutions and recommendations that benefit Europe as a whole and perhaps to a much greater extent than if they had done so with only, for example, the interests of Germany or France in mind. A framework that incorporates all the various workings and desires of each of the affected actors is far more likely to be successful from a long-term standpoint than one that attempts to resolve a regional or global issue by pushing for a solution that only benefits or alleviates the concerns of an individual state.”
The Council
ECFR’s Council currently has over 160 members, each serving a renewable three-year term. The membership includes four former presidents of European nations, 12 former prime ministers, seven current and 17 former foreign ministers, five former EU commissioners, three former NATO secretaries general, the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, eight senior UN officials, 33 current or former heads of civil society organisations, 22 current or retired professors, nine current or former heads of banks and 15 current or retired journalists.
The Council meets once a year as a full body. In addition, groups of council members form various geographical and thematic task forces, which provide ECFR staff with advice and feedback on policy ideas and assist with ECFR’s activities within their own countries. The Council is chaired by Martii Ahtisaari,
Joschka FischerJoseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005...
and Mabel van Oranje.
ECFR’s board members are:
Martti AhtisaariMartti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....
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Emma BoninoEmma Bonino is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Senate. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party that supports economic and social libertarianism, and human rights...
, Joschka Fischer,
Timothy Garton AshTimothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is currently serving as Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe...
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Ivan KrastevIvan Krastev is the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Edition of Foreign Policy, and Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 2004 Mr. Krastev has been the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the former Italian Prime Minister...
, Andrew Puddephatt, Aleksander Smolar,
Javier SolanaFrancisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, KOGF is a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González and Secretary General of NATO , he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary...
and Mabel van Oranje.
Programmes, publications and events
The think tank’s research is broadly divided into three programmes. These are China, Wider Europe and Rule of Law, Democracy and Human Rights. As of early 2011, ECFR is developing Middle East and North Africa programme. ECFR’s fellows regularly also publish policy papers and articles on subjects that fall outside of these parameters, for example on the euro crisis. ECFR also has a major ongoing project entitled Germany in Europe.
ECFR publishes individual policy reports, briefs and memos, which are downloadable for free from the
think tank’s website. It also has three regular publications, the annual
European Foreign Policy Scorecard, started in 2011; China Analysis (quarterly) and the annual review of the EU and human rights at the UN.
ECFR’s six national offices hold regular events, including seminars, ginger groups and publication launches, including ECFR London’s invitation-only ‘Black Coffee Mornings,’ at which guest speakers have included Louise Arbour, Joseph Nye and George Robertson.
China
This programme explores how the EU could pursue more effective strategies in its relations with China on global issues like energy and climate change; development and human rights; nuclear proliferation and global governance.
The programme publishes China Analysis, a quarterly analytical survey of foreign policy news and debate within China, in conjunction with Asia Centre.
Wider Europe
The Wider Europe programme examines the EU’s relationships with its eastern neighbours, including Russia and Turkey. It examines what can be done to use the prospect of EU membership and economic, military and political cooperation to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law, resolve frozen conflicts and lessen the threat of energy dependence.
Rule of Law, Democracy and Human Rights
The purpose of this programme is to look at how the EU and its member states can best promote the values of democracy, human rights and justice across the spectrum of Europe's engagement with the world. A central part of the programme’s work is aimed at elaborating a strategy for supporting human rights and democracy in a world where the West no longer enjoys the power and influence that it once did.
The programme publishes an annual review of the EU and human rights at the UN.
Middle East and North Africa
ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme is currently under formation. Its central purpose is to look at how Europe can most constructively respond to the revolutions and protests that began in the MENA region in early 2011. To date, ECFR has published three policy memos – one on each of Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia – under the umbrella of the MENA programme, which are based on research visits to these countries. It has also published a briefing on Libya.
Germany in Europe
ECFR’s Germany in Europe project is intended to promote a broad discussion, in Germany and beyond, about the German role in Europe. It is intended to generate ideas about how to reintegrate Germany into the process of developing a globally assertive and responsible Europe. The project is supported by Stiftung Mercator.
The European Foreign Policy Scorecard
ECFR’s European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2010 was published in March 2011, and is the first in an annual series, representing the first systematic attempt to assess European foreign policy performance. The Scorecard grades Europe’s ability to project its influence abroad across 80 policy issues, grouped into six chapters – relations with China, relations with the US, relations with Russia, relations with Wider Europe, multilateral issues and crisis management. The Scorecard was published as a hard copy report and in online form, housed within
ECFR’s main website.
Funding
ECFR is a private not-for-profit organisation that relies on donations. It was established with the support of Open Society Foundations, Communitas Foundation and Fundación Para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE). Its partners and funders are foundations, corporations, governments and individuals.
Communications
ECFR publishes several comment and analysis pieces per week on foreign policy issues on its
website. The site also houses a blog, ‘
Whose World Order?’, on which ECFR staff and experts write about the organisation’s work, international affairs and Europe’s place in the world. ECFR also publishes regular podcasts in English and occasional podcasts in French, German, Italian and Spanish. ECFR’s Madrid office has its own Spanish-language blog. ECFR has a Facebook page and Twitter feed, which is @ECFRheadlines.
Board and Council Members
The Council on Foreign Relations meets twice a year to discuss how to advance its objectives through innovative projects with a pan-European focus. The current board of the Council is:
Martti AhtisaariMartti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....
(co-chair),
Emma BoninoEmma Bonino is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Senate. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party that supports economic and social libertarianism, and human rights...
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Joschka FischerJoseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005...
(co-chair),
Karin ForsekeKarin Forseke is a Swedish businesswoman and was CEO of the Swedish investment bank D. Carnegie & Co between 2003 and 2006. She became CEO in March 2003, when Lars Bertmar resigned his position as CEO to became Chairman of the company. She resigned in March 2006, being replaced by Stig Vilhelmson...
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Timothy Garton AshTimothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is currently serving as Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe...
, Ivan Krastev, Andrew Puddephatt, Aleksander Smolar,
Javier SolanaFrancisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, KOGF is a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González and Secretary General of NATO , he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary...
and Mabel van Oranje (co-chair).
What Council Members have said about ECFR:
"The European Council on Foreign Relations is essential in creating channels for open debate in Europe. ECFR promotes the need for Europe to become an important, unified, courageous, innovative and coherent actor. I regard ECFR as pivotal in promoting this vision in a globalising world."
Martti AhtisaariMartti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....
"The time has come for Europe to speak with one voice on key issues in our turbulent neighbourhood and an increasingly multi-polar world. ECFR helps us work out what we should say and how we can most effectively say it."
Timothy Garton AshTimothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is currently serving as Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe...
"The European Union has been a powerful example for integration, prolonged peace, and prosperity in a complex international environment. The international system of the 21st century needs a strong and united EU and ECFR makes an important contribution to this end."
Joschka FischerJoseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005...
The Council has over one hundred members, including former prime ministers, presidents, European commissioners, current and former parliamentarians and ministers, public intellectuals, business leaders, activists and cultural figures from the EU member states and candidate countries.
List of Council Members (correct as of July 2011)
- Asger Aamund (Denmark) - President and CEO, A. J. Aamund A/S and Chairman of Bavarian Nordic A/S
- Urban Ahlin
Urban Christian Ahlin is a Swedish Social Democratic Party politician. He has been a member of the Swedish parliament since 1994, representing the Västra Götaland County East constituency...
(Sweden) - Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and foreign policy spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party
- Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....
(Finland) - Chairman of the Board, Crisis Management Initiative; former President
- Giuliano Amato
Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly...
(Italy) - former Prime Minister and vice President of the European Convention
- Gustavo de Aristegui (Spain) - Member of Parliament
- Gordon Bajnai (Hungary) - Former Prime Minister
- Dora Bakoyannis
Dora Bakoyannis , born Theodora Mitsotaki , is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in...
(Greece) - MP; former Foreign Minister
- Leszek Balcerowicz (Poland) - Professor, Warsaw School of Economics; former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
- Lluís Bassets (Spain) - Deputy Director, El País
- Marek Belka
Marek Marian Belka is a Polish professor of Economics, a former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, former Director of the International Monetary Fund's European Department and current Head of National Bank of Poland.- Biography :...
(Poland) - Governor, National Bank of Poland; former Prime Minister
- Roland Berger
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(Germany) - Founder and Honorary Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH
- Erik Berglöf (Sweden) - Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki is a Polish centre politician. He served as Prime Minister of Poland for most of 1991. He is a member of Civic Platform. Chairman of the Council of the Polish Institute of International Affairs....
(Poland) - Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Council; former Prime Minister
- Carl Bildt
, Honorary KCMG is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. Formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, Bildt has served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006...
(Sweden) - Foreign Minister
- Henryka Bochniarz (Poland) - President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers - Lewiaton.
- Svetoslav Bojilov (Bulgaria) - Founder, Communitas Foundation and President of Venture Equity Bulgaria Ltd
- Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Senate. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party that supports economic and social libertarianism, and human rights...
(Italy) - Vice President of the Senate; former EU Commissioner
- Han ten Broeke
Johannes Hermanus ten Broeke is a Dutch politician. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy he has been an MP since November 30, 2006...
(The Netherlands) - Member of Parliament
- John Bruton
John Gerard Bruton is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 1994 to 1997. A minister under two taoisigh, Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald, Bruton held a number of the top posts in Irish government, including Minister for Finance , and Minister for Industry, Trade,...
(Ireland) - former European Commission Ambassador to the USA; former Prime Minister (Taoiseach)
- Ian Buruma
Buruma is a nephew of the English film director John Schlesinger, a series of interviews with whom he published in book form.-Works:*The Japanese Tattoo with Donald Richie ISBN 978-0-8348-0228-5...
(The Netherlands) - Writer and academic
- Erhard Busek
Erhard Busek is a politician from the Christian-conservative People's Party . At present he is Coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative and Chairman of the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe among other things.Busek was chief of the party and Vice-Chancellor of Austria...
(Austria) - Chairman of the Institute for the Danube and Central Europe
- Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...
(Poland) - President of the European Parliament; former Prime Minister
- Gunilla Carlsson
Anna Gunilla Carlsson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician, since 2006 Minister for Development Cooperation and a member of the Riksdag and deputy chairman of her party.- Early life :...
(Sweden) - Minister for International Development Cooperation
- Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communication research....
(Spain) - Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of Southern California
- Maria Livanos Cattaui (Greece/Switzerland) - former Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Ipek Cem Taha (Turkey) - Director of Melak Investments; journalist
- Carmen Chacón (Spain) - Minister of Defence
- Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarke is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.-Early life:...
(United Kingdom) - Visiting Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia; former Home Secretary
- Nicola Clase (Sweden) - Ambassador to the United Kingdom; former State Secretary
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a Franco-German politician, active in both countries. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and he was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge...
(Germany) - Member of European Parliament
- Robert Cooper (United Kingdom) - Counsellor of the European External Action Service (EEAS)
- Gerhard Cromme (Germany) - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ThyssenKrupp.
- Daniel Daianu
Daniel Dăianu is a Romanian economist, professor and politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament since end of 2007, when he was elected on the National Liberal Party's lists....
(Romania) - Professor of Economics, National School of Political and Administrative Studies; former Finance Minister
- Massimo D'Alema
Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician. He is also a journalist and a former national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left...
(Italy) - President, Italianieuropei Foundation; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
- Marta Dassù (Italy) - Director General International Activities, Aspen Institute Italia
- Etienne Davignon
Étienne Francois Jacques Davignon, Viscount Davignon is a Belgian politician, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission.-Career:...
(Belgium) - President, Friends of Europe; former Vice President of the European Commission
- Ahmet Davutoglu
Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu is a Turkish political scientist, an academic and an ambassador. On May 1, 2009, he was named Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey after being the chief advisor to the Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey.-Life and career:...
(Turkey) - Foreign Minister
- Aleš Debeljak
Aleš Debeljak , is a Slovenian cultural critic, poet, and essayist.- Biography :Debeljak was born in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana in 1985...
(Slovenia) - Poet and Cultural Critic
- Jean-Luc Dehaene
-Early life and political career:He was born in Montpellier, France, when his parents were fleeing German troops. He got into politics through the Algemeen Christelijk Werknemersverbond , a trade union which was closely linked to the Christelijke Volkspartij .In 1981, he became Minister of Social...
(Belgium) - Member of European Parliament; former Prime Minister
- Gianfranco Dell'Alba (Italy) - Director, Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) - Brussels office; former Member of European Parliament
- Pavol Demeš (Slovakia) - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Bratislava)
- Kemal Dervis
Kemal Derviş is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...
(Turkey) - Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development
- Tibor Dessewffy (Hungary) - President, DEMOS Hungary
- Hanzade Doğan Boyner (Turkey) - Chair, Doğan Gazetecilik and Doğan Online
- Andrew Duff
Andrew Duff OBE is a Liberal Democrat politician, president of the Union of European Federalists, and a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region of the UK....
(United Kingdom) - Member of European Parliament
- Mikuláš Dzurinda
Mikuláš Dzurinda is a Slovak politician who was Prime Minister of Slovakia from 30 October 1998 to 4 July 2006. He was a founder and leader of the Slovak Democratic Coalition and the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union...
(Slovakia) - Foreign Minister
- Hans Eichel
Hans Eichel , German politician , was Minister of Finance from 1999-2005.-Background:He was brought up in Kassel where he did his Abitur in 1961. He then completed a degree in German, philosophy, political science, history and education at the universities of Marburg and Berlin, graduating in 1970...
(Germany) - former Finance Minister
- Rolf Ekeus
Carl Rolf Ekéus is a Swedish diplomat. From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions....
(Sweden) - former Director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq
- Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in the Conservative led Poul Schlüter Administration 1982–1993. He was leader of the Danish Liberal Party, Venstre 1984–1998 and President of the European Liberals 1995–2000...
(Denmark) - Chairman, Baltic Development Forum; former Foreign Minister
- Steven Everts (The Netherlands) - Adviser to the Vice President of the European Commission/EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy
- Tanja Fajon
Tanja Fajon is a Slovenian politician and journalist, currently serving as Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats....
(Slovenia) - Member of European Parliament
- Gianfranco Fini
Gianfranco Fini is an Italian politician, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, leader of the center-right Future and Freedom party, and the former leader of the conservative National Alliance and the post-fascist Italian Social Movement...
(Italy) - President, Chamber of Deputies; former Foreign Minister
- Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005...
(Germany) - former Foreign Minister and vice-Chancellor
- Karin Forseke
Karin Forseke is a Swedish businesswoman and was CEO of the Swedish investment bank D. Carnegie & Co between 2003 and 2006. She became CEO in March 2003, when Lars Bertmar resigned his position as CEO to became Chairman of the company. She resigned in March 2006, being replaced by Stig Vilhelmson...
(Sweden/USA) - Business leader; former CEO Carnegie Investment Bank
- Lykke Friis
Lykke Friis is a Danish politician for the party Venstre and former Minister for Climate and Energy and equal rights. Prior to this she was prorector at the University of Copenhagen, to which she was appointed for a five-year period starting March 1, 2006...
(Denmark) - Minister for Climate and Energy
- Jaime Gama
Jaime José de Matos da Gama, GCC, GCIH, GCL, GCMG , is a Portuguese politician.-Background:...
(Portugal) - Speaker of the Parliament; former Foreign Minister
- Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is currently serving as Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe...
(United Kingdom) - Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
- Carlos Gaspar (Portugal) Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI)
- Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...
(United Kingdom) - Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics
- Teresa Patricio Gouveia (Portugal) - Trustee to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; former Foreign Minister
- Heather Grabbe (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, Open Society Institute, Brussels
- Charles Grant (United Kingdom) - Director, Centre for European Reform
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Jean-Marie Guéhenno is a former French diplomat. He served as the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. Guéhenno was appointed to the position in 2000 and retired in August 2008. He is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the NYU Center on International...
(France) - Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and Center on International CooperationThe Center on International Cooperation is a foreign policy think tank based at New York University that works to enhance multilateral responses to global problems, including: conflict, humanitarian crises, and recovery; international security challenges, including weapons proliferation and the...
(New York University); former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN
- Fernando Andresen Guimarães (Portugal) - Advisor Multilateral Relations, European External Action Service
- Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg is a German politician of the Christian Social Union ....
(Germany) - former Defence Minister
- István Gyarmati (Hungary) - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition
- Hans Hækkerup (Denmark) - Chairman, Defence Commission; former Defence Minister
- Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...
(Czech Republic) - former President
- Steven Heinz (Austria) Co-founder and co-Chair, Lansdowne Partners Ltd
- Annette Heuser (Germany) - Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC
- Diego Hidalgo
Diego Hidalgo Schnur is a Spanish philanthropist, intellectual and businessman. He is the son of Diego Hidalgo y Durán , who was a prominent jurist, author, intellectual and Minister of War under the Second Republic of Spain , and of Gerda Schnur de Hidalgo , also an intellectual who lived in Paris...
(Spain) - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; President, FRIDE
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as the 11th Secretary General of NATO from January 5, 2004 until August 1, 2009....
(The Netherlands) - former NATO Secretary General
- Danuta Hubner
Danuta Hübner is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker. She served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009, when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform....
(Poland) - Member of European Parliament; former Commissioner
- Michiel van Hulten (The Netherlands) - Managing Director, Government Relations, Burson-Marsteller Brussels; former Member of European Parliament
- Anna Ibrisagic
Anna Ibrisagic, born 23 May 1967 in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Moderate Party, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.She is also...
(Sweden) - Member of European Parliament
- Jaakko Iloniemi (Finland) - former Ambassador; former Executive Director, Crisis Management Initiative
- Toomas Ilves (Estonia) - President
- Wolfgang Ischinger
Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger is a German diplomat. He was Germany's ambassador to the Court of St. James's from 2006 to May, 2008...
(Germany) - Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head of Government Affairs Allianz SE
- Minna Järvenpää (Finland/US) - International Advocacy Director, Open Society Foundation
- Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995...
(France) - former Prime Minister
- Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of its Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy...
(United Kingdom) - Professor, London School of Economics
- Ibrahim Kalin (Turkey) - Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey on foreign policy and public diplomacy
- Sylvie Kauffman (France) - Executive Editor of Le Monde
- Glenys Kinnock
Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock and Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead is a British politician....
(United Kingdom) - Member of the House of Lords; former Member of European Parliament
- Olli Kivinen (Finland) - Writer and columnist
- Gerald Knaus (Austria) - Chairman of the European Stability Initiative and Carr Center Fellow
- Caio Koch-Weser
Caio Koch-Weser is a German politician, economist, civil servant and business executive. He was Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry of Finance 1999–2005...
(Germany) - Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary
- Rem Koolhaas
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(The Netherlands) - Architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
- Ivan Krastev
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(Bulgaria) - Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
- Aleksander Kwaśniewski
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(Poland) - former President
- Mart Laar
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(Estonia) - MP; former Prime Minister
- Miroslav Lajčák
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(Slovakia) - Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service; former Foreign Minister
- Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
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- Member of the European Parliament
- Pascal Lamy
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(France) - Honorary President, Notre Europe and Director-General of WTO; former EU Commissioner
- Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) - Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
- Juan Fernando López Aguilar
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( Spain) - Member of European Parliament; former Minister of Justice
- Helena Luczywo (Poland) - Deputy Editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
- Adam Lury (United Kingdom) - CEO, Menemsha Ltd
- Emma Marcegaglia (Italy) - President, Confindustria
- David Miliband
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(United Kingdom) - Member of Parliament; former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Alain Minc (France) - Head of AM Conseil; former chairman, Le Monde
- Nickolay Mladenov (Bulgaria) -Foreign Minister; former Defence Minister; former Member of European Parliament
- Dominique Moisi (France) - Senior Adviser, IFRI
- Pierre Moscovici
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(France) - Member of Parliament; former Minister for European Affairs
- Nils Muiznieks (Latvia) - Director, Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia
- Hildegard Müller (Germany) - Chairwoman, BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft
- Wolfgang Münchau (Germany) - President, Eurointelligence ASBL
- Kalypso Nicolaïdis
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(Greece/France) - Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
- Daithi O'Ceallaigh (Ireland) - Director-General, Institute of International and European Affairs
- Christine Ockrent
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(Belgium) - CEO, Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France
- Andrzej Olechowski
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(Poland) - former Foreign Minister
- Dick Oosting (The Netherlands) - CEO, European Council on Foreign Relation; former Europe Director, Amnesty International
- Mabel van Oranje (The Netherlands) - CEO, The Elders
- Marcelino Oreja Aguirre
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(Spain) - Member of the Board, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas; former EU Commissioner
- Cem Özdemir
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(Germany) - Leader, Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Green Party)
- Ana Palacio
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(Spain) - former Foreign Minister; former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group
- Simon Panek (Czech Republic) - Chairman, People in Need Foundation
- Chris Patten
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(United Kingdom) - Chancellor of Oxford University and co-chair of the International Crisis Group; former EU Commissioner
- Diana Pinto
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(France) - Historian and author
- Jean Pisani-Ferry
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(France) - Director, Bruegel and Professor at Universite Paris-Dauphine
- Ruprecht Polenz
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(Germany) - Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
- Lydie Polfer
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(Luxembourg) - Member of Parliament; former Foreign Minister
- Charles Powell
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(Spain/UK) - Deputy Director, Real Instituto Elcano
- Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) - Director, Global Partners & Associated Ltd.
- Vesna Pusić
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(Croatia) - Member of Parliament, President of the National Committee for Monitoring the EU Accession Negotiations and Professor of Sociology, University of Zagreb
- Robert Reibestein (The Netherlands) - Director, McKinsey & Company
- George Robertson
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(United Kingdom) - former Secretary General of NATO
- Albert Rohan (Austria) - former Secretary General for Foreign Affairs
- Dariusz Rosati
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(Poland) - former Foreign Minister
- Adam D. Rotfeld (Poland) - Chairman of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters; former Foreign Minister
- Norbert Röttgen (Germany) - Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- Daniel Sachs (Sweden) - CEO, Proventus
- Pasquale Salzano (Italy) - Vice President for International Governmental Affairs, ENI
- Stefano Sannino (Italy) - Deputy Director General for Enlargement, European Commission
- Marietje Schaake
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(The Netherlands) - Member of the European Parliament
- Pierre Schori
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(Sweden) - Chair of Olof Palme Memorial Fund; former Director General, FRIDE; former SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire
- Wolfgang Schüssel
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(Austria) - Member of Parliament; former Chancellor
- Karel Schwarzenberg
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(Czech Republic) - Member of Parliament; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Giuseppe Scognamiglio (Italy) - Head of Institutional and International Relations, UniCredit
- Narcís Serra (Spain) - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President
- Radoslaw Sikorski
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(Poland) - Foreign Minister
- Aleksander Smolar (Poland) - Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
- Javier Solana
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(Spain) - former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy & Secretary-General of the Council of the EU; former Secretary General of NATO
- George Soros
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(Hungary/USA) - Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute
- Goran Stefanovski
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(Macedonia) - Playwright and Academic
- Rory Stewart
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(United Kingdom) - Member of Parliament
- Alexander Stubb
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(Finland) - Minister for Foreign Trade and European Affairs; former Foreign Minister
- Michael Stürmer
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(Germany) - Chief Correspondent, Die Welt
- Paweł Świeboda (Poland) - President, Demos-EUROPA, Centre for European Strategy
- Ion Sturza
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(Romania) - President, Fribourg Investments Ltd.; former Prime Minister
- Teija Tiilikainen (Finland) - Director at the Finnish Institute for International Relations
- Loukas Tsoukalis (Greece) - Professor, University of Athens and President, ELIAMEP
- Erkki Tuomioja
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(Finland) - Foreign Minister
- Daniel Valtchev (Bulgaria) - former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education
- Vaira Vike-Freiberga
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(Latvia) - former President
- Antonio Vitorino
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(Portugal) - Lawyer; former EU Commissioner
- Andre Wilkens (Germany) - Director Mercator Centre Berlin and Director Strategy, Mercator Haus
- Shirley Williams (United Kingdom) - Professor Emeritus, Kennedy School of Government; former Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
- Carlos Alonso Zaldívar (Spain) - Ambassador to Brazil
- Samuel Žbogar
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(Slovenia) - Foreign Minister |
See also
- List of think tanks
- List of think tanks in the United Kingdom
- Common Foreign and Security Policy
The Common Foreign and Security Policy is the organised, agreed foreign policy of the European Union for mainly security and defence diplomacy and actions. CFSP deals only with a specific part of the EU's external relations, which domains include mainly Trade and Commercial Policy and other areas...
- Enlargement of the European Union
The Enlargement of the European Union is the process of expanding the European Union through the accession of new member states. This process began with the Inner Six, who founded the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952...
- European Neighbourhood Policy
The European Neighbourhood Policy is a foreign relations instrument of the European Union which seeks to tie those countries to the east and south of the EU into the EU...
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