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Morten von Hanno Aasland Yves Auffret Claudio Bisogniero Senior Advisor Head of Budget Synthesis/ Secretariat General Deputy Secretary General Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, NATO HQ Norway Jochen Bittner Paul Adamson Shlomo Avineri NATO and EU Correspondent Chairman and Co-founder of Political Science Die Zeit The Centre Hebrew University of Jerusalem Julian Borger Asaf Agmon Stefanie Babst Diplomatic Editor Managing Director NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Public Diplomacy Strategic Studies NATO HQ Spencer Boyer Director of International Law and Diplomacy Michael Ahearn Indrani Bagchi Center for American Progress Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Diplomatic Editor First Solar Times of India Elmar Brok Member Urban Ahlin Kurt Bardella Member Press Secretary Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Brooke Buchanan Swedish Parliament House of Representatives Communications Director Office of Senator John McCain Irakli Alasania JosE Manuel Barroso Leader President Philippe De Buck Alliance of Director General Business Simon Allan Vaclav Bartuska Head of Finance Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security Christopher Burghardt Berwin Leighton Paisner Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vice President, Corporate Affairs Western Europe InBev Joaquin Almunia Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Katinka Barysch Guenter Burghardt European Commission Deputy Director Senior Counsel Centre for European Reform Mayer, Brown International LLP Celso Amorim Minister of External Relations Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco Wayne Bush Brazil President and Chief Executive Officer Chargé d’Affaire GE International Embassy of the United States of America Wendy Anderson to Professional Staff Member Gitte Lillelund Bech U.S. Committee on Homeland Security and Member Reinhard BUtikofer Government Affairs Chairman of the Committee Former Co-Chairman Danish Parliament Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Fernando Andresen Guimaraes Diplomatic Advisor of President Barroso Robert Bennett Christopher Caldwell European Commission Member Senior Editor United States Senate The Weekly Standard Member Uday Bhaskar Robert Casey Committee on Foreign Affairs Retired Commodore/Defense Analyst Member German Jawaharlal Nehru University United States Senate Anne Applebaum Stephen Biegun Marc Champion Columnist Vice President, International Governmental Affairs Deputy Bureau Chief, Northern and Ford Motor Company Uzi Arad Carl Bildt Joyce Chang Founder and Head Minister of Foreign Affairs Managing Director, Emerging Markets Strategy Institute for Policy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Sweden JPMorgan Chase & Co. Center Herzliya Hidajet BICEVIC Eric Chevallier Ron Asmus Secretary General Diplomatic Advisor to Bernard Kouchner Executive Director Regional Cooperation Council Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Office France The German Marshall Fund of the United States Sven Biscop Director, Security & Global Governance Vladimir Chizhov Programme Permanent Representative of to the Egmont–Royal Institute for

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JUrgen Chrobog RAOUL DELCORDE Markus Ederer Chairman of the Board Deputy Director General for Multilateral Affairs Head of Policy Planning Staff BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt Ministry of Foreign Affairs German Foreign Ministry Belgium Jim Cloos Christoph Eichhorn Director General policy Questions Pavol DemES Minister of Political Affairs Council of the European Union Director German Embassy, Washington, DC Office Nuri Colakoglu The German Marshall Fund of the United States Juurd Eijsvoogel Board Member Senior Editor for International Relations Dogan Yayin Holding Filip Dierckx NRC Handelsblad Chief Executive Officer Mary Jane Collipriest Fortis Bank Stewart Eldon Chief of Staff Permanent Representative of the Office of Senator Robert Bennett Thanos Dokos to NATO Director General Lorne Cook Hellenic Foundation for European and James Elles Journalist Foreign Policy Member Agence France Press European Parliament Karen Donfried Robert Cooper Executive Vice President MAtyAs EOrsi Director General for External and The German Marshall Fund of the United States Member Politico-Military Affairs Chairman, EU Affairs Committee Council of the European Union FranCois-Xavier de Donnea Hungarian Parliament Minister of State Steve Covington House of Representatives Oded Eran International Affairs Advisor to SACEUR Belgium Director SHAPE Institute for National Strategic Studies Jeroen Doomernik Gregory craig Fellow Steven Erlanger White House Counsel Transatlantic Academy Bureau Chief Executive Office of the United States Mia Doornaert Diplomatic Editor Mark Esper Minister for Defense De Standaard Executive Vice President Belgium Global Intellectual Property Center Xenia Dormandy Vice President, Europe & Eurasia Department Ran Curiel Senior Associate U.S. Chamber of Commerce Permanent Representative of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to the European Union Harvard University Steven Everts Personal Representative of the SG/HR for Energy FranCois d’AlanCon Lyse Doucet and Foreign Policy Senior Foreign Correspondent Presenter and Correspondent Council of the European Union La Croix BBC World Thomas Eymond-Laritaz Massimo D’Alema Dan Drezner President Member Professor of International Politics Victor Pinchuk Foundation Tufts University Daniel Fata Marta Dassu William Drozdiak Vice President Director General, International Activities President The Cohen Group Aspen Instittue Italia The American Council on Ulrik Federspiel Etienne Davignon Sorin Ducaru Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Chairman Permanent Representative of to NATO Ministry of Foreign Affairs Societe Generale de Belgique (SGB) Denmark Edmund Duckwitz Marc Perrin de Brichambaut Permanent Representative of Germany to the Maria JosE Fialho Secretary General European Union Head of Unit - SA Transatlantic Relations Organization for Security and Co-operation in European Parliament Europe Ryan Dwyer NATO Policy Advisor Mark Fischer Koert Debeuf Office of Congressman Michael Turner Senior Program Officer Director The German Marshall Fund of the United States Open VLD Bill Echikson Senior Manager, Communications Thomas Fischer Milica Delevic Google Executive Director Director of European Union Integration Office Brussels Office Government of Serbia Stiftung

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Daniel Fisk Heather Grabbe BRAD HOAGLUn Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Executive Director, OSI-Brussels Director of Communications and Office of Senator Mel R. Martinez Open Society Institute Senior Policy Advisor Office of Senator James Risch Helga Flores Trejo Charles Grant Chief of Constituencies Director Richard Holbrooke Inter-American Development Bank Centre for European Reform Special Representative for and Richard Fontaine Marc Grossman United States Department of State Deputy Minority Staff Director Vice Chairman U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services The Cohen Group Chris Hoornaert Permanent Representative of Belgium to the OECD Tina Fordham Fredy Gsteiger Managing Director Diplomatic Correspondent Matthew Mark Horn Economic and Political Strategies Swiss Radio DRS Co-Executive Director Citigroup American Jewish Congress Ignasi Guardans CambO Simon Fraser Member Jerry Hultin Director General, Europe and Globalization European Parliament President, Polytechnic Institute Foreign & Commonweatlh Office New York University United Kingdom Minister for Foreign Affairs Albert Husniaux Roland Freudenstein Belgium Director General Head of Research Royal High Institute for Defence Centre for European Studies Ulrike GuErot Senior Policy Fellow and Head of Berlin Office Jana HYBASKOVA Federico Fubini on Foreign Relations Member Journalist European Parliament Il Corriere della Sera Shekhar Gupta Editor-in-Chief TEMUR IAKOBASHVILI Mircea Dan Geoana The Indian Express State Minister for Reintegration Issues President Georgia Romanian Senate Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg Alina Inayeh Reuel Gerecht Minister for and Technology Director Senior Fellow Germany Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation Foundation for Defense of Democracies The German Marshall Fund of the United States Vivien Haig Mario Gioannini Director General William Inboden Head, Education–Economic and Juridical Research Transatlantic Policy Network Senior Vice President Compagnia di San Paolo Legatum Bernd Halling Peter Gitmark Head of EU Liaison Office Nike Irvin Member Bayer Board Member Norwegian Parliament The German Marshall Fund of the United States Hironori Hamanaka Hanns Glatz Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Darrell Issa Delegate of the Board of Management Keio University Member External Affairs & Public Policy United States House of Representatives Daimler AG James Harding Editor Oliver Ivanovic Nigar GOksel The Times State Secretary for Kosovo and Metohija Senior Analyst Serbia European Stability Initiative Alcee Hastings Member Bruce Jackson Ana Maria Gomes United States House of Representatives President Member Project on Transitional Democracies European Parliament Soeren Hermansen Vice Chairwoman Director Martin JAger EP Subcommittee on Security and Defense Samso Energy Agency Head, Global External Affairs and Public Policy Daimler AG Ulysse Gosset Annette Heuser Journalist and Anchor Executive Director Jackson Janes France Television Group Bertelsmann Foundation Executive Director American Institute for Contemporary German Nik Gowing Lindsey Hilsum Studies Lead Anchor International Editor BBC World Channel 4 News

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Vincent Jauvert Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff Miroslav LAJCAK Journalist Senior Director, Policy Programs Foreign Minister Nouvel Observateur The German Marshall Fund of the United States Slovak Republic

Jin Canrong Rachel Kleinfeld Alexander Lambsdorff Professor and Associate Dean Executive Director Member School of International Studies Truman National Security Project European Parliament Renmin University of Gerald Knaus Remzi Lani Jofi Joseph Chairman Director Legislative Assistant European Stability Initiative Albanian Media Institute Office of Senator Robert Casey Jim Kolbe Karel Lannoo Barbara Judge Senior Transatlantic Fellow Chief Executive Officer Chairman The German Marshall Fund of the United States Centre for European Policy Studies United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Kemal KOprUlU F. Stephen Larrabee Adela Kadlecova Chairman of Advisory Board Distinguished Chair in European Security Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister ARI Movement RAND Corporation Czech Republic John C. KornblUM Noel Lateef Robert Kagan Chairman President Senior Associate Lazard & Co. Foreign Policy Association, New York Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Rey Koslowski Jonathan Laurence GyOrgy Kakuk Fellow Fellow Chief of Press Office, UNMIK Transatlantic Academy Transatlantic Academy Karolina Kottova Sergei Lavrov Udo van Kampen Director Foreign Affairs Minister Director European Policy Coordination Department Russian Zweites Deursches Fernsehen Department of Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs Jean-Pierre Lehmann Jonathan Katz Czech Republic Professor of International Political Economy Staff Director Founding Director European Subcommittee Irina Krasovskaya Evian Group U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs President We Remember Foundation Peter-Carlo Lehrell Atul Kaushik International Chairman Director Heinrich Kreft FIPRA CUTS Geneva Resource Centre Senior Foreign Policy Advisor CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group Marc Leland Peter-Hans Keilbach President Senior Representative, Europe Chad Kreikemeier Marc Leland and Associates U.S. Chamber of Commerce Legislative Assistant Office of Senator Jeanne Shaheen Mark Leonard Craig Kennedy Executive Director, London Office President Veronika Kuchynova-Smigolova European Council on Foreign Relations The German Marshall Fund of the United States Director, Security Policy Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ian Lesser Richard Kiessler Czech Republic Senior Transatlantic Fellow Senior Editor Foreign Affairs The German Marshall Fund of the United States WAZ Media Group Ieva Kupce Representative of Latvian Ministry of Defence to Pierre LEvy Stephen Kimmel NATO Director, Policy Planning Department Advisor to the Chairman Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France Koç Holding A.S. Francois Lafond Director Robert Liberatore Ron Kind Paris Office Senior Transatlantic Fellow Member The German Marshall Fund of the United States The German Marshall Fund of the United States United States House of Representatives Joseph Lai Kadri Liik Suat Kınıklıoglu Foreign and Defense Legislative Assistant Director Member Office of Senator George Voinovich International Centre for Defence Studies AK Party Deputy Chairman of External Affairs Justice and Development Party Johannes Laitenberger Simon Limage Turkey Commission Spokesman Chief of Staff European Commission Office of Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher

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Tod Lindberg Maurizio Massari CHRISTOPHER W. MURRAY Research Fellow Head of the Policy Planning and Analysis Unit Chargé Hoover Institution Ministry of Foreign Affairs U.S. Mission to the European Union Stanford University Italy Editor Geert Muylle Policy Review Michael Matthiessen Permanent Representative of Belgium to the Personal Representative of the SG/HR for Political and Security Committee of the European Edward Llewellyn Parliamentary Affairs (CFSP) Union Chief of Staff for Council of the European Union United Kingdom Penny Naas JAN MATTHYSEN Vice President, Global Government Affairs Clare Lockhart Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Citigroup Chief Executive Officer States Institute for State Effectiveness Elena Nemirovskaya Mattox Founder and Director Bernhard Lorentz Professor of Political Science Moscow School of Political Studies Chairman of the Management Board U.S. Naval Academy Stiftung Mercator GmbH Hryhoriy Nemyria John McCain Vice Prime Minister David Lustig Member Vice President, Global External Affairs United States Senate U.S. Government Relations and Public Affairs James Neuger Unilever United States Raffaella Menichini Correspondent Deputy Foreign Editor Bloomberg News Orysia Lutsevych La Repubblica Executive Director Pauline Neville Jones Open Ukraine Foundation Cesare Merlini Shadow Security Minister and National Security Vice Executive Chaiman Adviser Peter MacKay Council for the United States and Italy U.K. House of Lords Minister for Defence Canada Giles Merritt Robin Niblett Secretary General Director Heike MacKerron Friends of Europe Chatham House Senior Director for Europe The German Marshall Fund of the United States Patrick Messerlin Nathalie Nougayrede Director Journalist, International Affairs Beate Maeder-Metcalf Groupe d’Economie Mondiale Le Monde Head of Division, USA & Canada Affairs German Foreign Ministry Tatiana Mitrova Nobutake Odano Head Permanent Representative of to the Mark Malloch-Brown Center for International Energy Studies European Union Minister of State for Africa, Asia and UN United Kingdom Liz Mohn Amir Oren Vice Chairwoman of the Executive Board Correspondent Bertelsmann Stiftung Ha’aretz Member European Parliament Kenjiro Monji Andres Ortega Director-General of Public Diplomacy Director of Department of Analysis Jonathan Marcus Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of the President Diplomatic Correspondent Japan BBC Marek Mora MARC OTTE Hans Martens Deputy Minister of Vice Prime Minister of EU Special Representative for the Middle East Chief Executive European Affairs Council of the European Union European Policy Center Czech Republic Cem Ozdemir Mel R. Martinez Edward Mortimer Member Member Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer European Parliament United States Senate Salzburg Global Seminar Emre Ozdemir Margarita Mathiopoulos Virginia Mucchi Foreign Relations Coordinator Chief Executive Officer and Chairwoman Director of Media KARLAND European Advisory Group GmbH Burson Marsteller Shavit Matias sean mulvaney Deputy Attorney General Director, Economic Policy Program Ministry of Justice The German Marshall Fund of the United States Israel

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Soli Ozel Joseph P. Quinlan Artur Runge-Metzger Professor, Department of International Relations Chief Market Strategist and Managing Director Head of Unit and Political Science Bank of America Climate Strategy, International Negotiation and Bilgi University Monitoring of EU Action Columnist, Gideon Rachman European Commission Sabah Chief Foreign Policy Columnist Jacques Rupnik Ana Palacio Senior Research Fellow Senior Executive Vice President for International Zalmai Rasoul CERI - Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Affairs and Marketing National Security Advisor Internationales Areva Afghanistan Jean De Ruyt Marilisa Palumbo Olli Rehn Permanent Representative of Belgium to the Editor EU Commissioner for Enlargement European Union Europa European Commission Sanjay Parekh David Rennie President Serial Entrepreneur and Technology Strategist Correspondent Georgia Phil Park Gerard Salole Chief of Staff Alex Reyn Chief Executive Office of Senator George Voinovich Director, Diplomats and Young Professionals European Foundation Centre Training Program Gerhard Pfanzelter Egmont–Royal Institute for International Relations Ozdem Sanberk Alternate Secretary General Ambassador Central European Initiative IRMTRAUD Richardson Former Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Brussels Correspondent Turkey Jean Pisani-Ferry German Public Broadcasting Director Andrei Sannikov Bruegel John B. Richardson Coordinator Director Brussels Forum European Gunter Pleuger The German Marshall Fund of the United States President AndrE Sapir Viadrina University John Richardson Senior Fellow Development Advisor Bruegel Tomas Pojar Madariaga European Foundation First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mary Elise Sarotte Czech Republic Edgars RINKEVICS Professor of International Relations Head University of Southern California President’s Chancery Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Republic of Janis Sarts German Bundestag State Secretary James Risch Ministry of Defence Alice Poole Member Republic of Latvia Transatlantic Fellow United States Senate The German Marshall Fund of the United States Wolfgang SchAuble Milan Rocen Minister of the Interior Valentina Pop Foreign Affairs Minister Germany Reporter Montenegro EUObserver.com Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Alexandros Rondos Secretary General Andrei Popov Advisor NATO HQ Executive Director Government of Greece Asociatia Pentru Politica Externa Former Ambassador at Large Randall Scheunemann Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Owner and President Wolfgang Pordzik Orion Strategies Exec. Vice President for Corporate Public Policy Pierre Rousselin DHL North America Head of the Foreign News Desk Helga Schmid Le Figaro Director, Policy Unit Richard Powers Council of the European Union Managing Director Daniel Runde Goldman Sachs Head, Partnership Development Gary Schmitt International Finance Corporation Resident Scholar and Director of Advanced VESNA PUSIC Strategic Studies Vice President American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research Croatian Parliament

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Wolfgang Schmitt Vladimir Socor Reka Szemerkenyi Managing Director Senior Fellow President Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Jamestown Foundation Hungarian New Atlantic Initiative Zusammenarbeit Tomohiko Taniguchi Jiri Schneider High Representative for the CFSP of the Senior Advisor Program Director European Union Board of Central Japan Railway (JR Tokai) Prague Security Studies Institute Council of the European Union Pirkka Tapiola Stephen Schneider Song Xinning Senior Advisor, Policy Unit Executive Director Senior Research Fellow and Council of the European Union Global Leadership Institute for Public Affairs Professor Renmin University of China paul taylor Karel Schwarzenberg European Affairs Editor Minister of Foreign Affairs Thomas Spiller Czech Republic Senior Director, International Programs SAS Institute Ellen Tauscher Tim Searchinger Member Transatlantic Fellow Volker Stanzel United States House of Representatives The German Marshall Fund of the United States Political Director German Foreign Ministry Stefan Theil Amber Sechrist European Economics Editor Senior Policy Advisor Tommy Steiner Newsweek Office of Senator Robert Bennett Senior Research Fellow Institute for Policy and Strategy Gunter Thielen Peter Semneby Chairman and Chief Executive Officer EU Special Representative for the South Constanze StelzenmUller Bertelsmann Stiftung Council of the European Union Director Berlin Office Mischa Thompson Jeanne Shaheen The German Marshall Fund of the United States Policy Advisor Member Commission on Security and Cooperation in United States Senate Angela Stent Europe Professor and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Kamalesh Sharma Russian, and East European Studies Arve Thorvik Secretary General Vice President, EU Affairs Commonwealth Secretariat StatoilHydro Philip Stephens Jamie Shea Associate Editor and Senior Commentator Dietrich ThrAnhardt Director of Policy Planning, Private Office of the Financial Times Fellow Secretary General Transatlantic Academy NATO HQ Petra Stienen Deputy Head DWH-NM Ansgar Tietmeyer Radoslaw Sikorski Ministry of Foreign Affairs Delegate of the Management Board for EU Affairs Minister of Foreign Affairs The Deutsche Bank AG Bruce Stokes Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili Stefano Silvestri International Economics Columnist National Security Advisor President National Journal National Security Council of Georgia Istituto Affari Internazionali Kati Suominen Mirek Topolanek anne-marie slaughter Trade Economist Prime Minister Director of Policy Planning Inter-American Development Bank Czech Republic U.S. Department of State Transantlantic Fellow The German Marshall Fund of the United States Ian Traynor Amanda Sloat Europe Editor Professional Staff Member Roger Svensson The Guardian Foreign Affairs Committee Executive Director United States House of Representatives Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation Michito Tsuruoka in Research and Higher Education Resident Fellow Andrew Small The German Marshall Fund of the United States Transatlantic Fellow Pawel Swieboda The German Marshall Fund of the United States Director Fred Turner demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy Chief of Staff Eugeniusz Smolar Commission on Security and Cooperation in President Stephen Szabo Europe Centrum Stosunków Miedzynarodowych Executive Director Transatlantic Academy Michael Turner Member United States House of Representatives

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Daniel Twining Gunter Verheugen Shirin Wheeler Senior Fellow for Asia Commissioner for Enterprises and Industry Presenter The German Marshall Fund of the United States European Commission BBC News

Sinan Ulgen James Villeneuve Serge Wibaut Chairman Vice President Corporate Affairs, North Member Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies American Zone Board of Directors InBev Fortis Bank OzgUr UnlUhisarcıklı Director Leslie Vinjamuri Robert Wielaard Ankara Office Department of Politics Chief of Bureau, Brussels The German Marshall Fund of the United States and International Studies Associated Press Convenor of General Diplomatic Studies Vygaudas Usackas and Practice Lodewijk Willems Minister of Foreign Affairs University of London Director, External and Governmental Affairs Fortis Bank George Voinovich Peteris Ustubs Member Martin Winter Political Director United States Senate Correspondent Ministry of Foreign Affairs Süddeutsche Zeitung Republic of Latvia Kurt Volker Permanent Representative of the United States to Joseph Wood Tomas Valasek NATO Senior Resident Fellow Director of Foreign Policy and Defense The German Marshall Fund of the United States Centre for European Reform Suzanne Woolsey Jef Van den Put Member Board Member Head of the Royal Military Household German Bundestag The German Marshall Fund of the United States Royal Palace Foreign Policy Spokesperson of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group Dirk Wouters Tangui Van der Elst Diplomatic Advisor of the Prime Minister Director Corporate Affairs BeLux Alexandr Vondra Belgium InBev Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs Czech Republic Rob Wrigley Raf Van Hellemont Director, Government Relations Director-General William Wallace Airbus Americas Egmont–Royal Institute for International Relations Deputy Leader of Liberal Democrats House of Lords Group, Spokesperson for Foreign and John Wyles Mabel van Oranje Commonwealth Affairs Partner Chief Executive Officer House of Lords GPlus Europe The Elders Axel Weber Tadamichi Yamamoto Andris Pelss President Permanent Delegate of Japan to UNESCO Foreign Policy Advisor to the President Deutsche Bundesbank Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Latvia Japan Peter Weilemann Peter Van Praagh Director of the European Office Arsenyi Yatseniuk Senior Director, Wider Europe Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Member The German Marshall Fund of the United States Ukrainian Parliament Member Former Speaker of the Rada Herman Van Rompuy German Bundestag Prime Minister Foreign Policy Spokesperson of the SPD Amberin Zaman Belgium Parliamentary Group Turkey Correspondent The Economist Marc Vanheukelen Jeff Werner Head of Unit, Transatlantic Relations General Manager, International Valdis Zatlers European Commission External Affairs & Public Policy–Americas President Daimler Republic of Latvia John Vassallo Vice President, EU Affairs Maja Wessels SamueL ZBOGAR Microsoft Corporation Vice President Government Affairs EMEA Minister of Foreign Affairs First Solar Ivan Vejvoda Executive Director Geir Westgaard Diane Zeleny Balkan Trust for Democracy Vice President, EU Affairs Director of Communications The German Marshall Fund of the United States StatoilHydro Radio Free Europe

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Emanuelis Zingeris Member Lithuanian Parliament Robert Zoellick President World Bank Salome Zourabichvili Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgia

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