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Participants List Participants SHAIDA MOHAMMAD ABDALI EgEmEn Bağış IRINA BOGDANOVA Deputy National Security Advisor Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Free Belarus Now Campaign Afghanistan Negotiator Turkey WILL BOHLEN ROBERTO ABDENUR Director of Communications President HOLGER BAHLE German Marshall Fund of the United Brazilian Institute for Ethics in Defence Policy and Planning / Smart States Competition Defence NATO JULIAN BOrgER DIRK ACHTEN Diplomatic Editor Secretary General LUKE BAKER The Guardian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Belgium Brussels Bureau Chief Thomson Reuters VICTOR BOrgES PAUL ADAMSON President Editor-in-Chief and Publisher RICHARD BALDWIN Foundation for Development and E! Sharp Professor International Exchanges The Graduate Institute URBAN CHRISTIAN AHLIN TATIANA BOSTEELS Member RUBENS BARBOSA Head of Responsible Property Swedish Parliament President and CEO Investments Rubens Barbosa & Associados Hermes Real Estate MOHAMMED AL ABDALLAH Syrian Political Activist GENERAL KNUND BARTELS ELIZABETH BOSWELL REGA Chairman of the Military Committee Deputy Director of Communications OUMHANI ALAOUI NATO German Marshall Fund of the United Research Director States OCP Foundation MELISSA BEAN President and CEO STEPHEN BOUCHER EMILIANO ALESSANDRI The Executives’ Club of Chicago Brussels Office Director Transatlantic Fellow European Climate Foundation German Marshall Fund of the United MOHAMMED BELMAHI States Chairman RICHARD BOUCHER OCP Foundation Deputy Secretary General ALEXANDER ALVARO Organization for Economic Co-Operation Vice President ANDREA BELTRATTI and Development European Parliament Chairman of the Management Board Intesa Sanpaolo FRANZISKA BRANTNER MAROUANE AMEZIANE Member Chief of Staff LIAM BENHAM European Parliament OCP Group Vice President, Government Programs, Europe CAROLYN BREHM FERNANDO ANDRESEN GUIMARAES IBM Corporation Vice President, Global Government Head of Division US and Canada Relations European External Action Service ROBERT BENNETT Procter & Gamble Director LOUISE ARBOUR The Bennett Consulting Group JEFFRIES BRIGINSHAW President and CEO EU Executive Director International Crisis Group ASSIA BENSALAH ALAOUI TransAtlantic Business Dialouge Ambassador at Large NEYLA ARNAS Kingdom of Morocco ESTHER BRIMMER Senior Research Fellow Assistant Secretary of State for National Defence University, United STEPHEN BIEGUN International Organization Affairs States Vice President, International Department of State, United States Governmental Affairs ZIAD ASALI Ford Motor Company ELMAR BROK President and Founder Chairman of the Foreign Affairs The American Task Force on Palestine CARL BILDT Committee Minister for Foreign Affairs European Parliament CATHERINE ASHTON Sweden High Representative, Foreign Affairs and RACHEL BRONSON Security Policy, VP European Commission LAURA BLUMENFELD Vice President, Studies Senior Transatlantic Fellow Chicago Council on Global Affairs STEFANIE BABST German Marshall Fund of the United Deputy Assistant Secretary General States EDDY BRUYNINCKX NATO CEO KRZYSZTOF BLUSZ Port Authority, Antwerp THOMAS BAGGER Vice President of the Board Head of Policy Planning demosEUROPA-Centre For European Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany Strategy BRUSSELS FORUM 2012 | 1 Participants CHARLES BUCHANAN KEVIN COSGRIFF KOERT DEBEUF Vice President Senior Vice President, International Representative of the Liberal Group in Fundação Luso-Americana Business and Government the Arab World Textron Systems European Parliament REINHARD BÜTIKOFER Member STEVE COVINGTON UTE DECEUNINCK-JOHN European Parliament Strategic/International Affairs Advisor to Manager, Trade and Industrial Policy the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe Daimler AG R. NICHOLAS BURNS SHAPE Professor RAOUL DELCORDE Harvard Kennedy School IVO DAALDER Ambassador to Poland Ambassador Belgium ANDREW CAHN Mission of the United States to NATO Vice Chairman, Public Policy EMEA MILICA DELEVIC Nomura International HERMAN DAEMS Director of European Union Integration Chairman Office CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL BNP Paribas Fortis Republic of Serbia Senior Editor The Weekly Standard FRANÇOIS d’ALANÇON gordana dElıć Senior Foreign Correspondent Director of Balkan Trust for Democracy J. SCOTT CARPENTER La Croix German Marshall Fund of the United Principal States Google Ideas, Google, Inc. CHRISTIAN DANIELSSON Deputy Secretary General PAVOL DEMeš MICHAEL F. CAVANAUGH European Commission Senior Fellow Special Assistant, Office of the Under German Marshall Fund of the United Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, MARTA DASSU States and the Environment Undersecretary of State U.S. Department of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy GHISlain d’HOOP Diplomatic Advisor to H.M. the King VALERYI CHALY ROBIN DAVIES Belgian Royal Household Deputy Director General Head of External Relations Razumkov Centre British Council, Brussels THANOS DOKOS Director General PETER CHASE PHILIPPE DE BUCK Hellenic Foundation for European and Senior European Representative Director General Foreign Policy U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Europe MIA DOORNAERT HOWARD CHASE KAREL DE GUCHT Columnist Director, European Government Affairs Commissioner for Trade De Standaard BP European Commission XENIA DORMANDY IULIAN CHIFU ALEXANDRA DE HOOP SCHEFFER Senior Fellow Presidential Advisor for Strategic Affairs, Paris Office Director Chatham House Security and Foreign Policy German Marshall Fund of the United Romania States LYSE DOUCET Senior Presenter and Correspondent MAIA COMEAU GILLES DE KERCHOVE BBC World Director of Congressional Affairs Counter-Terrorism Coordinator German Marshall Fund of the United General Secretariat of the Council of the KATE DOURIAN States European Union Middle East Bureau Chief Platts HEATHER CONLEY PETER DE KEYZER Director and Senior Fellow Chief Economist SORIN DUCARU Center for Strategic and International BNP Paribas Fortis Permanent Representative to NATO Studies Romania NICOLA DE SANTIS IAIN CONN Head Mediterranean Dialogue & Istanbul OLOF EHRENKRONA Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing Cooperation Initiative Countries Section Senior Adviser to the Minister for Foreign BP NATO Affairs Sweden ROBERT COOPER MASSIMO DEANDREIS Counselor Director General, Studi e Ricerche CHRISTOPH EICHHORN European External Action Service Mezzogiorno (SRM) Ambassador, Deputy Federal Intesa Sanpaolo Government Commissioner for CHRISTINE CORTEZ Disarmament&Arms Control European Coordinator Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany BP 2 | BRUSSELS FORUM 2012 Participants MATYAS EÖRSI STEFAN FÜLE MARC GROSSMAN Leader Commissioner for Enlargement and Special Envoy to Afghanistan and ALDE at PACE European Neighbourhood Policy Pakistan European Commission Department of State, United States ODED ERAN Director VESKO GARCEVIC KOSTYANTYN GRYSHCHENKO Institute for National Strategic Studies Ambassador to NATO Minister of Foreign Affairs Montenegro Ukraine FREDRIK ERIXON Director PIERO GASTALDO MARIA ELENA GUTIERREZ European Centre for International Secretary General Director/Non Resident Senior Fellow Political Economy Compagnia di San Paolo German Marshall Fund of the United States STEVEN ERLANGER MAHMOUD GEBRIL Paris Bureau Chief Former Prime Minister HOWARD GUTMAN The New York Times Libya Ambassador to Belgium United States PHILIPPE ERRERA AMINE GEMAYEL Permanent Representative to NATO Former President of Lebanon BERND HALLING France Head of EU Liaison Office KRISTALINA GEOrgIEVA Bayer STEVEN EVERTS Commissioner for International Advisor to High Representative Catherine Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis MARJUT HANNONEN Ashton Response Member of the Cabinet for Commissioner European External Action Service European Commission De Gucht European Commission DANIEL FATA THOMAS GIETZEN Vice President Brussels Forum Young Writer’s Award SUSANNE HARTIG The Cohen Group Winner 2012 Executive Director University of St. Gallen, Switzerland European Liberal Forum STEPHEN FIDLER Brussels Editor MARIO GIOANNINI ALCEE HASTINGS Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Head, Operating Area Economic and Member Newswires Legal Research United States House of Representatives Compagnia di San Paolo MARK FISCHER PATRICK HERMAN Director of Major Conferences TERRI GIVENS Minister-Counselor German Marshall Fund of the United Associate Professor Economic Embassy of Belgium States University of Texas ISAAC HERZOG CATHLEEN FISHER MISHA GLENNY Member President Broadcaster and Author Parliament of Israel American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation JAMES GOLDGEIER ARIK HESSELDAHL Dean, School of International Service Senior Editor and Enterprise Dude NORA FISHER ONAR American University AllThingsD.com Ron Asmus Fellow German Marshall Fund of the United SILVIO GONZATO JENNIFER HILLMAN States Head of Secretariat - 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