ANNEX 051010_bepro131_eng__anh1 105 24.10.2005, 13:50 Uhr Participants MinDir Ulrich Brandenburg Rt. Hon. Stephen Byers, MP Born 1950 Born 1953 Deputy Political Director, Federal House of Commons, London; fmr. Foreign Office, Berlin; fmr. Ambas- Secretary of State for Transport, Lo- sador and Commissioner for Russia, cal Government and the Regions; the Caucasus and Central Asia, Fed- fmr. Secretary of State for Trade eral Foreign Office, Berlin; fmr. and Industry; fmr. Chief Secretary Head of Defence and Security Policy (NATO) Divi- to the Treasury; fmr. Minister of State for School sion, fmr. Head of OSCE and Council of Europe Divi- Standards; fmr. senior lecturer in law; member of sion, Federal Foreign Office, Bonn/Berlin; fmr. Head Her Majesty the Queen’s Privy Council; Chairman of of Partnership and Cooperation Section, Political the Yalta European Strategy (Y. E. S.). Affairs Division, NATO-IS, Brussels; fmr. Fellow, Pages: 26, 29, 33, 35, 38, 55, 58, 65, 88, 102 Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA); various positions at Germany’s Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov Moscow and Baghdad embassies and at Germany’s Born 1953 Leningrad/St. Petersburg Consulate General. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pages: 26, 33, 62, 67, 77, 91, 97, 102 of the Russian Federation, Mos- cow; Ambassador Extraordinary Elmar Brok, MdEP and Plenipotentiary; fmr. Director, Born 1946 European Multilateral Cooperation Chairman of the Committee on Dept., Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow; fmr. Foreign Affairs, European Parlia- Director, Third European Dept., Ministry of Foreign ment, Brussels; Member of the Bu- Affairs, Moscow; fmr. activities in the diplomatic reau, Group of the European Peo- service in Moscow, Athens, Nicosia, Vienna, and ple’s Party (Christian Democrats) Sarajevo, in the latter case as Deputy High Repre- and European Democrats (EPP Group); European sentative for Peace Implementation in Bosnia and Parliament representative, Intergovernmental Con- Herzegowina; Permanent Representative of the Rus- ference on the EU Constitution 2003–2004; EPP sian Federation to the European Communities since Group Chairman at the EU Constitutional Conven- September 2005. tion; fmr. European Parliament representative, Inter- Pages: 25, 27, 31, 36, 43, 49, 55, 60, 61, 65, 68, 71, 76, governmental Conference for the Treaties of Am- 79, 80, 82, 83, 94, 98, 101, 102 sterdam and Nice 1996 and 2004; member of the governing council of the CDU Germany; chairman, European policy commission of the CDU; Federal Order of Merit. Pages: 27, 29, 35, 37, 44, 73, 75, 78, 88, 90, 100, 101 106 051010_bepro131_eng__anh1 106 24.10.2005, 13:51 Uhr Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eichwede Sergey Generalov Born 1942 Born 1963 Director, Research Center Eastern President, “Industrial Investors” In- Europe, University of Bremen; vestment Group, Moscow; Chair- Chair of Contemporary History and man of the Board of Directors, The Eastern European Politics, Univer- Investor Protection Association, Mos- sity of Bremen; Vice-President, Ger- cow; Chairman, Investment Policy man Association for East European Studies; laureate Committee, Russian Chamber of Commerce and In- of the Federal Cross of Merit; laureate of the Hun- dustry; member of the National Council on Corpo- garian State Award “Pro Cultura Hungarica” (2002); rate Governance; fmr. Minister of Fuel and Energy of Erich-Brost-Laureate of the town of Gdansk (1999). the Russian Federation; fmr. Chairman, Supervision Selected writings: Samizdat. Alternative Kultur in Commission on Investors Rights, State Duma; fmr. Zentral- und Osteuropa, die 60er bis 80er Jahre Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rosprom-Menatep- (2000); Das neue Russland in Politik und Kultur YUKOS Group; fmr. Senior Vice President, YUKOS (1998); “Betr.: Sicherstellung”: NS-Kunstraub in der Oil Company. Sowjetunion (1998). Pages: 42, 51, 53, 54, 56, 60 Pages: 23, 24, 25, 34, 37, 39, 40, 42, 44, 47, 49, 51, 52, 54, 57, 59, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 75, 76, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, Dr. Thomas Gomart 86, 90, 93, 94, 95, 99, 103 Head of Russia/CIS Program, Insti- tut français des relations interna- Dr. Judith Gebetsroithner tionales (Ifri), Paris; Lecturer, Mili- Member of Cabinet of the Commis- tary School of Saint-Cyr; fmr. sioner for External Relations and Lavoisier Fellow, Mgimo, Moscow; European Neighborhood Policy, fmr. Visiting Fellow, EU Institute Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European for Security Studies (ISS), Paris; fmr. Marie Curie Fel- Commission, Brussels; fmr. Deputy low, Department of War Studies, King’s College, Permanent Representative of Aus- London. tria to the EU, Brussels; fmr. Cabinet of State Sec- Selected writings: Double détente. Les relations retariat for European Integration and Development franco-soviétiques de 1958 –1964 (2003); Les Rap- Cooperation, Federal Chancellery, Vienna; fmr. ports russo-français vus de Moscou, Ifri (2002). diplomat at Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Pages: 34, 36, 43, 50, 53, 55, 62, 83, 93, 95, 102 Affairs, Vienna (positions at Austrian Embassies in Manila, Bonn, Tel Aviv). Pages: 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 52, 53, 56, 61, 62, 67, 71, 75, 78, 91, 92 107 051010_bepro131_eng__anh1 107 24.10.2005, 13:51 Uhr Prof. Dr. Ruslan Grinberg Selected writings: Energy Empire. Oil, Gas and Rus- Born 1946 sia’s Revival (2004); The Siberian Curse. How Com- Director, Institute for International munist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (co-au- Economic and Political Studies, thor) (2003). Russian Academy of Sciences, Mos- Pages: 28, 57, 69, 72, 81,97 cow; Vice-Chairman ECAAR Russia (Economists Allied for Arms Reduc- Dr. Jörg Himmelreich tion); member of the Russian-American Economic Born 1959 Transition Group (ETG); Editor-in-Chief, “The World Transatlantic Fellow, German Mar- of Transformations”; Consultant to the Gorbachev- shall Fund of the United States, Foundation; Chairman, Committee of the CIS, Na- Washington D. C.; fmr. Senior Ad- tional Investment Council. visor to the Policy Planning Depart- Selected writings: Ordnung und wirtschaftlicher Er- ment, German Federal Foreign Of- folg ohne Entwicklung zur Demokratie ?, in: Erich fice, Berlin; fmr. Assistant to the DaimlerChrysler G. Fritz (ed.): Russland unter Putin (2005); Rational Board of Management; fmr. Director of Investment Behavior of the State (2003); Trade Within the Com- Banking for Media and Communications, WestLB, monwealth of Independent States, in: Lawrence London; fmr. Director, WestLB, Moscow; fmr. Head Klein / Marshall Pomer (eds.): The New Russia. Tran- of Privatization of the Construction Industry, Fed- sition Gone Awry (2001). eral German Trust Agency; fmr. Junior Professor, Pages: 40, 49, 50, 61, 63, 69, 71, 74, 96, 98 Institute for Public Law, Free University of Berlin; newspaper articles about Russia, the Caucasus and Dr. Fiona Hill transatlantic relations. Born 1965 Pages: 28, 32, 56, 68, 69, 96 Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Stud- ies Program, The Brookings Institu- Prof. Dr. Sergei Karaganov tion, Washington, D. C.; Advisor to Born 1952 the president, Eurasia Foundation; Deputy Director, Institute of Eu- fmr. Director of Strategic Planning, rope, Russian Academy of Sciences, Eurasia Foundation, Washington, D. C.; fmr. Associ- Moscow; member of the Scientific ate Director, Strengthening Democratic Institutions Advisory Council of the MFA; For- Project (SDI), and fmr. Director, Ethnic Conflict in eign Policy Advisor to the Russian the former Soviet Union project, Harvard University; Presidential Administration; member of three Advi- member of the Council on Foreign Relations; fmr. sory Committees, Security Council of the Russian Consultant to The Hague Initiative; Board Member Federation; member of the Council for Assisting the of Institute of War & Peace Reporting and the Open Development of Civil Society and Human Rights In- Society Institute’s Central Eurasia Project; member stitutions under the President of Russia; Chairman, of editorial boards of Demokratizatsiya and Journal of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Moscow; fmr. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. member of the Presidential Council of the Russian 108 051010_bepro131_eng__anh1 108 24.10.2005, 13:51 Uhr Federation; fmr. lecturer and Head of Department at Embassies of the fmr. USSR in Austria, GDR, West- various Russian and foreign universities. Berlin; fmr. activities at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Selected writings: Strategy for Russia: Ten Years of of the fmr. USSR. CFDP (ed.) (in Russian) (2002); Geopolitics Change in Pages: 77, 87, 94, 95, 101 Europe. Policies of the West and Russia’s Alterna- tives (ed.) (1995); Russia’s Economic Role in Europe. Sergey Kulik Report of the Commission for the Greater Europe, Head of Department of Relations Vol. II (co-author) (1995). with the European Union, Ad- Pages: 32, 39, 49, 52, 54, 57, 60, 62, 72, 93, 95 ministration of the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow; Dr. Irina Kobrinskaya fmr. Deputy Head of Department Executive Director, Foundation for of Information, Administration of Prospective Studies and Initiatives, the President of the Russian Federation; fmr. Head Moscow; Senior Research Fellow, of Staff of the Assistant of the Russian President; IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sci- fmr. Deputy Head of Department of Foreign Policy, ences, Moscow; fmr. Director, Mos- Administration of the President of the Russian Fed- cow Center, New York East-West eration; fmr. Head of Arms Control Center, Institute Institute; fmr. Researcher and Program Coordinator, of the USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sci- “Russia and its Neighbors”,