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P!"#$%$&!'#( MORTEN VON HANNO AASLAND ANTONELLA BATTAGLINI MARCIN BOSACKI Special Advisor and Coordinator for North Program Manager Spokesman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs American and Transatlantic Affairs Smart Energy for Europe Platform Poland Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway CORNELL BELCHER RUPRECHT BRANDIS MUHAMMAD ABUSHAQRA President Director External Affairs Specialist Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies BP Germany Institute for Peace Studies, Bibilotheca Alexandrina MOHAMMED BELMAHI FRANZISKA BRANTNER Chairman Member PAUL ADAMSON OCP Foundation European Parliament Founder and Publisher E! Sharp ROBERT BENNETT JEFFRIES BRIGINSHAW Director EU Executive Director HO-YOUNG AHN The Bennett Consulting Group TransAtlantic Business Dialogue Ambassador to the European Union Republic of Korea ASSIA BENSALAH ALAOUI GORDON BROWN Ambassador at Large Former Prime Minister OUMHANI ALAOUI Kingdom of Morocco United Kingdom Research Director OCP Foundation RUTH BERSCHENS JASON BRUDER Correspondent Professional Staff, Foreign Relations IRAKLI ALASANIA Handelsblatt Committee Chairman United States Senate Political Party - Free Democrats C. UDAY BHASKAR Director CHARLES BUCHANAN EMILIANO ALESSANDRI National Maritime Foundation Member of the Executive Council Transatlantic Fellow Fundação Luso Americana German Marshall Fund STEPHEN BIEGUN of the United States Vice President, International REINHARD BUTIKOFER Governmental Affairs Member ANNE APPLEBAUM Ford Motor Company European Parliament Columnist Washington Post HANS BINNENDIJK JERZY BUZEK Director of the Center for Technology and President UZI ARAD National Security Policy European Parliament 3ULPH0LQLVWHU·V2IÀFH National Defense University Israel CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL SANOUSSI BILAL Senior Editor CATHERINE ASHTON Programme Coordinator for Economic and Weekly Standard High Representative for Foreign Affairs Trade Cooperation and Security Policy, Vice President European Centre for Development Policy MARGARET CARLSON European Commission Management Columnist Bloomberg News BOGDAN AURESCU CARL BILDT State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Minister of Foreign Affairs JOYCE CHANG Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania Sweden Managing Director, Global Head Emerging Markets and Credit Research SHLOMO AVINERI ALLISON BLAKELY JP Morgan Chase and Co. Professor of Political Science George and Joyce Wein Chair of African Hebrew University of Jerusalem American Studies SAMUEL CHARAP Boston University Fellow, National Security and International ALYSSA AYRES Policy Deputy Assistant Secretary of State IRINA BOGDANOVA Center for American Progress Department of State, United States “Free Belarus Now” Campaigner Belarus HOWARD CHASE EGEMEN BAGIS Director, European Government Affairs Minister of State, Chief Negotiator JULIAN BORGER BP to the European Union Diplomatic Editor Turkey The Guardian PETER CHASE Nonresident Fellow JOSE MANUEL BARROSO VICTOR BORGES German Marshall Fund President Independent Consultant and Trainer of the United States European Commission Cape Verde VLADIMIR CHIZHOV KATINKA BARYSCH JOSEP BORRELL FONTELLES Ambassador to the European Union Deputy Director President Russian Federation Centre for European Reform European University Institute BRUSSELS FORUM 2011 | 1 P!"#$%$&!'#( DIMITRIA CLAYTON RAOUL DELCORDE OLOF EHRENKRONA 3ROLF\2IÀFHU'HSDUWPHQW Ambassador to Poland Senior Adviser to the Minister of International Relations Belgium Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden State Chancellery, Nordrhein-Westfalen GORDANA DELIC BARRY EICHENGREEN IAIN CONN Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee &KLHI([HFXWLYHRI5HÀQLQJDQG0DUNHWLQJ German Marshall Fund Professor of Economics and Professor BP of the United States of Political Science University of California - Berkeley CHARLES COOK PAVOL DEMES Political Analyst and Columnist Senior Transatlantic Fellow CHRISTOPH EICHHORN National Journal German Marshall Fund Minister (Political Affairs) of the United States Embassy to the United States, Germany ROBERT COOPER Counsellor HENDRIK DESCHEEMAEKER ARI EPSTEIN European External Action Service Managing Director, 'HSXW\&KLHI([HFXWLYH2IÀFHU European Regulatory Affairs Antwerp World Diamond Centre SVANTE CORNELL Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. Director STEWART ELDON Institute for Security GHISLAIN D’HOOP Senior Advisor, Defence and Security and Development Policy Diplomatic Advisor to H.M. the King Transparency International Belgium THOMAS COTTIER ALEXANDER ELLIS Managing Director FILIP DIERCKX Director for Strategy World Trade Institute Vice-Chairman, Executive Board )RUHLJQDQG&RPPRQZHDOWK2IÀFH BNP Paribas Fortis United Kingdom FRANCOIS D’ALANCON Senior Foreign Correspondent PAULA DOBRIANSKY PATRICIA ELLIS La Croix Senior Vice President and Global Head of President Government and Regulatory Affairs Women’s Foreign Policy Group ETIENNE DAVIGNON Thomson Reuters President ULF EMANUELLI Friends of Europe RICHARD DOHERTY Advisor to the Minister Lead Partner European Services Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden MARTA DASSU Deloitte Belgium Director General, International Activities GAYE ERBATUR Aspen Institute THANOS DOKOS Member Director General Grand National Assembly of Turkey PIETER DE CREM Hellenic Foundation for European Minister of Defense and Foreign Policy FREDRIK ERIXON Belgium Director KAREN DONFRIED European Centre for International Political KAREL DE GUCHT United States Economy Commissioner for Trade European Commission MIA DOORNAERT STEVEN ERLANGER $GYLVRU3ULPH0LQLVWHU·V2IÀFH Paris Bureau Chief ALAIN DEHAZE Belgium The New York Times Regional Head of Northern Europe, Member of the Group Executive Board XENIA DORMANDY STEVEN EVERTS Adecco Senior Fellow Member of Cabinet Chatham House European External Action Service CHARLES-HENRI DELCOUR Chief of Defense MIKOLAJ DOWGIELEWICZ NABIL FAHMY Ministry of Defense, Belgium Secretary of State for European Affairs Dean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland American University, Cairo GILLES DE KERCHOVE Counter-Terrorism Coordinator PETER DRAPER DANIEL FATA European Union Council Senior Research Fellow Vice President South African Institute The Cohen Group JEAN DE RUYT of International Affairs Ambassador to the European Union CATHLEEN FISHER Belgium RYAN DWYER President Deputy Chief of Staff and NATO Policy American Friends of the Alexander von NICOLA DE SANTIS Advisor for Congressman Michael Turner Humboldt Foundation Head Mediterranean Dialogue and United States House of Representatives Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Countries RICHARD FISHER Section MIKULAS DZURINDA 3UHVLGHQWDQG&KLHI([HFXWLYH2IÀFHU NATO Minister of Foreign Affairs Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Slovakia 2 | BRUSSELS FORUM 2011 P!"#$%$&!'#( MARK FISCHER MIRCEA GEOANA AHMET GURSEL Director of Major Conferences President Columnist German Marshall Fund Romanian Senate Dogan Gazetecilik A.S. of the United States MARIO GIOANNINI HOWARD GUTMAN LORNA FITZSIMONS Head, Operating Area Economic Ambassador to Belgium CEO and Legal Research United States Britain Israel Communications Compagnia di San Paolo and Research Centre VIVIEN HAIG TERRI GIVENS Director General GLYN FORD Associate Professor Transatlantic Policy Network Director University of Texas Pol.Int BERND HALLING NIGAR GOKSEL +HDGRI(8/LDLVRQ2IÀFH RANA FOROOHAR Senior Analyst Bayer Assistant Managing Editor European Stability Initiative Time MICHAEL HANSEN JAMES GOLDGEIER CEO IULIAN FOTA Senior Fellow Sventska LantChips AG Presidential Advisor for National Security Transatlantic Academy Romania SUSANNE HARTIG PHILIP GORDON Executive Director LIAM FOX Assistant Secretary of State for European European Liberal Forum Secretary of State for Defence and Eurasian Affairs United Kingdom Department of State, United States KATHRYN HAUSER Executive Director SIMON FRASER NIK GOWING TransAtlantic Business Dialogue Permanent Undersecretary Main Presenter )RUHLJQDQG&RPPRQZHDOWK2IÀFH BBC World SASHA HAVLICEK United Kingdom Executive Director HEATHER GRABBE Institute for Strategic Dialogue ROLAND FREUDENSTEIN Director Head of Research Open Society Institute, Brussels TEIJI HAYASHI Centre for European Studies Director, Public Diplomacy Planning DOMINIQUE GRABER Division, Public Diplomacy Department DAVID FROST Head of European Public Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan Director for Europe, Trade, BNP Paribas Fortis and International Affairs CHARLES HEETER Department for Business, Innovation, and ALEXANDER GRAF LAMBSDORFF Managing Director, Global Public Policy Skills Member, European Parliament Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. President, European Liberal Forum FU YING FIONA HILL Vice Foreign Minister CHARLES GRANT Director, Center on U.S. and Europe; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China Director Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Centre for European Reform Program STEFAN FUELE Brookings Institution Commissioner for Enlargement and ETTORE GRECO European Neighbourhood Policy Director TORGNY HOLMGREN European Commission Istituto Affari Internazionali Ambassador Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden AKIKO FUKUSHIMA MARC GROSSMAN Senior Fellow Special Representative to Afghanistan CHRIS HOORNAERT Japan Foundation and Pakistan Permanent Representative to the OECD Department of State, United States Belgium VESKO GARCEVIC Ambassador to NATO MARC GRYNBERG ROBERT HORMATS Montenegro CEO Under Secretary, Economic, Energy, and Umicore Agricultural Affairs TIMOTHY GARTON ASH Department of State, United States Professor of European Studies KOSTYANTYN GRYSHCHENKO Oxford University Minister of Foreign Affairs MATTHEW MARK HORN Ukraine
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