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ECFR ACM List of Participants 1406 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Erik Berglöf (Sweden) Director, Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Council Members Economics @ErikBerglof A Carl Bildt (Sweden) Martti Ahtisaari (Finland) Co-chair of the Board, ECFR; former PrimeMinister Emeritus Chair, ECFR; former President of Finland of Sweden @carlbildt Yoeri Albrecht (The Netherlands) Director, De Balie Henryka Bochniarz (Poland) @YoeriAlbrecht President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers – Lewiatan Joaquín Almunia (Spain) @HBochniarz Former Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition Emma Bonino (Italy) @AlmuniaJoaquin Co-chair of the Board, ECFR; former Minister of Foreign Affairs Luís Amado (Portugal) @emmabonino Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal Franziska Brantner (Germany) Niels Annen (Germany) Member of the Bundestag Member of the Bundestag @fbrantner @NielsAnnen Maurice Braud (France) B National Secretary for International Affairs, Migration and Co-Development, Parti Socialiste Thomas Bagger (Germany) @BraudMaurice Ambassador, Director-General for Foreign Affairs, Office of the Federal President of Germany Sandra Breka (Germany) Senior Vice President, Robert Bosch Stiftung Gordon Bajnai (Hungary) Former Prime Minister of Hungary Goran Buldioski (Hungary) @Bajnai_Gordon Co-Director, Open Society Initiative for Europe @gbuldioski Kostas Bakoyannis (Greece) Governor of Central Greece Ditmir Bushati (Albania) @KBakoyannis Minister of Foreign Affairs @ditmirbushati Lluís Bassets (Spain) Deputy Director, El País @lbassets C Gunilla Carlsson (Sweden) Juraj Bayer (Slovakia) Former Minister for International Development CFO and Member of the Board, ZSE Energia Cooperation @CarlssonSwe Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta) Mikołaj Dowgielewicz (Poland) Journalist Director General and Permanent Representative, @dcgblog European Investment Bank @DowgielewiczM Maria Cattaui (Switzerland) Former Secretary General, International Chamber Andrew Duff (United Kingdom) of Commerce Former Member of the European Parliament @AndrewDuffEU Ian Clarkson (United Kingdom) Founder, Celerant Consulting E Hans Eichel (Germany) Robert Cooper (United Kingdom) Former Minister of Finance Diplomat; former Counsellor of the European External Action Service Steven Everts (The Netherlands) Senior Advisor, European External Action Service Brendan Cox (United Kingdom) @sbeverts Co-founder, More in Common @MrBrendanCox F Lucinda Creighton (Ireland) Ádám Ficsor (Hungary) CEO, Vulcan Consulting; former Minister for CEO, DatAdat; former Minister of Hungary European Affairs of Ireland @LCreighton Lykke Friis (Denmark) Prorector, University of Copenhagen; former Minister for Climate, Energy and Gender Equality D @lykkefriis Daniel Daianu (Romania) G Professor of Economics, National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) Teresa Gouveia (Portugal) Trustee to the Board, Calouste Gulbenkian Arnaud Danjean (France) Foundation; former Minister of Foreign Affairs Member of the European Parliament @ArnaudDanjean Heather Grabbe (United Kingdom) Executive Director, Open Society Policy Institute Marta Dassù (Italy) @HeatherGrabbe Senior Director European Affairs, The Aspen Institute; Editor-in-Chief, Aspenia Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (Germany) @martadassu Vice President, European Parliament @Lambsdorff Caroline de Gruyter (The Netherlands) Correspondent, European Affairs, NRC Handelsblad Dzhema Grozdanova (Bulgaria) @CarolineGruyter Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, National Assembly Tibor Dessewffy (Hungary) President, DEMOS Hungary H Connie Hedegaard (Denmark) Muriel Domenach (France) Former European Commissioner for Climate General Secretary, Inter-Ministerial Committee for Action the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalisation @CoHedegaard @MurielDomenach Steven Heinz (Austria/US) Roderich Kiesewetter (Germany) Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Lansdowne Partners Member of the Bundestag Ltd @RKiesewetter Annette Heuser (Germany) Suat Kınıklıo ğlu (Turkey) Executive Director, Professor Otto Senior Policy Fellow, Institute for Security & Beisheim Foundation Development Policy @kinikli88_ENG Ina Heusgen (Germany) Deputy Head, Parliament and Cabinet division, Gerald Knaus (Austria) Federal Foreign Office of Germany Chairman, European Stability Initiative @rumeliobserver I Bassma Kodmani (France/Syria) Anna Ibrisagic (Sweden) Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative Senior Partner, ESL & Network @BassmaKodmani Jaakko Iloniemi (Finland) Former Ambassador David Koranyi (Hungary) @JaakkoIloniemi Director, Energy Diplomacy Initiative, The Atlantic Council @DavidKoranyi Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany) Ambassador Chairman, Munich Security Stefan Kornelius (Germany) Conference @ischinger Foreign Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung Andrey Kovatchev (Bulgaria) J Member of the European Parliament Diana Janse (Sweden) @andreykovatchev Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Moderate Party @sigriddiana L Remzi Lani (Albania) K Director, Albanian Media Institute Ayse Kadioğlu (Turkey) President, Sabancı University Martina Larkin (Switzerland) @AyseGKadioglu Head of Europe and Eurasia, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Ivailo Kalfin (Bulgaria) @martinagmur Former Deputy Prime Minister; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) @IvailoKalfin Director, European Council on Foreign Relations @markhleonard Claude Kandiyoti (Belgium) CEO, Krest Real Estate Investments Daniel Levy (United Kingdom) President, US Middle East Project Lea Kaspar (Croatia) Executive Director, Global Partners Digital Sonia Licht (Serbia) @leakaspar President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Sylvie Kauffmann (France) Javi López (Spain) Editorial Director, Le Monde Member of the European Parliament @SylvieKauffmann @fjavilopez M O Monica Maggioni (Italy) Christine Ockrent (France) President, RAI Commentator and writer; Presenter of 'Affaires Internationales', France Culture Radio Cristina Manzano (Spain) @Ockrent Editor-in-chief, Esglobal @ManzanoCr Andrzej Olechowski (Poland) Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Marco Margheri (Italy) Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Edison Dick Oosting (The Netherlands) @marcomargheri Former CEO, European Council on Foreign Relations Katarína Mathernová (Slovakia) Anita Orban (Hungary) Deputy Director General, DG NEAR, European Vice President for International Affairs, Commission Tellurian LNG UK @kmathernova Andrés Ortega (Spain) Kirsty McNeill (United Kingdom) Author & journalist; former Director of Policy Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, Save Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister the Children @andresortegak @kirstyjmcneill Marc Otte (Belgium) Joseph Mifsud (Malta) Director General, Egmont Institute Director, London Academy of Diplomacy Soli Özel (Turkey) Hedvig Morvai (Serbia) Professor of International Relations and Political Executive Director, European Fund for the Balkans Science, Istanbul Kadir Has University @jadviga @soliozel2 Nader Mousavizadeh (Denmark) Behlül Özkan (Turkey) Co-founder and Co-CEO, Macro Advisory Partners Assistant Professor, Marmara University @MousavizadehN @BehlulOzkan Nils Muižnieks (Latvia) Žaneta Ozolina Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe Professor, University of Latvia @CommissionerHR P N Laurence Parisot (France) Matthias Nass (Germany) Former Vice President, IFOP Chief International Correspondent, DIE ZEIT @LaurenceParisot Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Greece/France) Safak Pavey (Turkey) Professor of International Relations, University of Member of Parliament Oxford @safakpavey Dietmar Nietan (Germany) Eva Piera (Spain) Member of the Bundestag Director of Institutional Relations, BBVA @EvaPiera_Madrid Kati Piri (The Netherlands) Marietje Schaake (The Netherlands) Rapporteur on Turkey; Member of the European Member of the European Parliament Parliament @MarietjeSchaake @KatiPiri Klaus Scharioth (Germany) Lapo Pistelli (Italy) Dean,Mercator Fellowship on International Executive Vice President, ENI Affairs @lapopistelli Pierre Schori (Sweden) Rosen Plevneliev (Bulgaria) Chair, Olof Palme Memorial Fund Former President of Bulgaria Andreas Schwab (Germany) Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) Member of the European Parliament Executive Chair of the Advisory Board, Global @Andreas_Schwab Partners & Associated Ltd. @AndrewPuddephat Michael Schwarz (Germany) Executive Director, Stiftung Mercator Q Lia Quartapelle (Italy) Daniela Schwarzer (Germany) Member of Parliament Senior Director for Research and Director of Europe @LiaQuartapelle programme, German Marshall Fund of the United States @D_Schwarzer R Nicola Reindorp (United Kingdom) Giuseppe Scognamiglio (Italy) Deputy Director, Crisis Action Executive Vice President, Head of Group @nicolareindorp Institutional & Regulatory Affairs Department, UniCredit; Editor, EastWest José María Robles Fraga (Spain) Director, International Corporate Affairs, Santander Kamelia Slaveykova (Bulgaria) Country Chair Bulgaria and Greece and External Albert Rohan (Austria) Relations Manager, Central, Eastern Europe and Ambassador (retired) Mediterranean, Shell Nikolaus Röttger (Germany) Wawrzyniec Smoczynski (Poland) Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Germany Managing Director, Polityka Insight @nikolausr @WSmoczynski Norbert Röttgen (Germany) Annika Söder (Sweden) Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; State Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Member of the Bundestag Javier Solana (Spain) Nicolò Russo Perez (Italy) Former EU High Representative for the Common Coordinator, International Affairs Programme, Foreign and Security Policy &
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