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 & Secretary-General of Compagnia di San Paolo The Council of the EU; former Secretary General of NATO S @javiersolana
Daniel Sachs (Sweden) Alexander Soros (Hungary/USA) CEO, Proventus Global Board Member, Open Society Foundations @DanielSachs1 @AlexanderSoros
George Soros (Hungary/USA) José Ignacio Torreblanca (Spain) Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations Editorial Director, El País @georgesoros @jitorreblanca
Volker Stanzel (Germany) Erkki Tuomioja (Finland) Former Ambassador of Germany to China and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Japan @StvIL U Sinan Ülgen (Turkey) Andris Strazds (Latvia) Chairman, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Advisor, Bank of Latvia; Faculty Member, Stockholm Studies School of Economics in Riga @sinanulgen1 @Andris_Strazds Vygaudas Ušackas (Lithuania) Sabine Stricker-Kellerer (Germany) Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawyer, SSK Asia @Usackas_V
Alexander Stubb (Finland) V Former Prime Minister of Finland
@alexstubb Justin Vaïsse (France) Director of Policy Planning Staff, Ministry of Foreign Michael Stürmer (Germany) Affairs Chief Correspondent, Die Welt @JustinVaisse
Ion Sturza (Romania) Tomáš Valášek (Slovakia) Founder and Chairman, Fribourg Capital; former Director, Carnegie Europe Prime Minister of Moldova @valasekt
Christos Stylianides (Cyprus) Jordí Vaquer (Spain) European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management Director, Open Society Initiative for Europe @StylianidesEU @JordiVaquer
Hannes Swoboda (Austria) Coen van Oostrom (The Netherlands) Former President of the Progressive Alliance of CEO and Founder, OVG Real Estate Socialists and Democrats, European Parliament @CoenvanOostrom @Hannes_Swoboda Mabel van Oranje (The Netherlands) Co-chair of the Board, ECFR; Chair, Girls Not T Brides Anna Terrón Cusí (Spain) @MabelvanOranje Special Advisor to the European Commissioner for Trade; President, InStrategies Ivan Vejvoda (Serbia) @annaterronc Senior Vice President for Programmes, German Marshall Fund of the United States Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Denmark) @IVejvoda CEO, Save the Children International; former Prime Minister of Denmark Vaira Vīķ e-Freiberga (Latvia) @HelleThorning_S Former President @VairaVF
W Anna Herrhausen CEO, Herrhausen Society Johann Wadephul (Germany) Member of the Bundestag Kirsten Hommelhoff @JoeWadephul Director, Mercator Centre Berlin, Stiftung Mercator
Andre Wilkens (Germany) Jonathan Hoyle Author; Co-Founder, Die Offene Gesellschaft Vice President Europe & Americas, Lockheed Martin
Z Flavia Kleiner Stelios Zavvos (Greece) Co-President, Operation Libero Founder and CEO, Zeus Capital Management Caio Koch-Weser Chairman of the Supervisory Board, European Climate Foundation Observers & Guests Julius Krein Founding Editor, American Affairs Ralf Beste @JuliusKrein Head of Policy Planning, Federal Foreign Office of Germany Carlos López Blanco @ralfrabe Global Head, Public and Regulatory Affairs, Telefónica Julia De Clerck-Sachsse Public Diplomacy Advisor, European External Action Katharina Lumpp Service Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Germany Wolfgang Dierker Director Government Affairs & Policy, GE Germany Alessia Messina & Austria Political Risk & Country Analyst, UniCredit
Ann Dismorr Michael Nowak Head, Middle East and North Africa Deparment, Advisor on Russia, Eurasia and Turkey, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Foreign Office of Germany
Anna Elfving-Gomes Janka Oertel Adviser, Office of President Martti Ahtisaari, Crisis Programme Director, International Affairs, Körber Management Initiative Foundation @oertel_janka Filippo Grandi Monika Panayotova United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees General Manager, INNO Advisers @RefugeesChief Philippos Savvides Sebastian Groth Cabinet Member to the European Commissioner Deputy Head of Policy Planning, Federal Foreign for Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management Office of Germany @PhSavvides
Emily Haber Tamiko Soros State Secretary, Federal Ministry of the Interior of Spouse of George Soros Germany
Lauri Tierala Joia Buning Manager, Market Access and Aeropolitics, Finnair Intern, Berlin Office
Jorge Toledo Piotr Buras Secretary of State for the European Union, Ministry Head, Warsaw Office of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain Ruth Citrin Shahin Vallée Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme Economic Adviser, SFM UK Management @Shahinvallee Francisco de Borja Lasheras Head, Madrid Office; Policy Fellow Rossitsa Vrabevska @LasherasBorja Director, Comac Medical Susi Dennison Milen Vrabevski Director, European Power Programme CEO, Comac Medical @sd270
Volkan Vural Mathieu Duchâtel Advisor to the Chairman of the Board, Dogan Deputy Director and Senior Policy Fellow, Asia and Holding China Programme @mtdtl Geir Westgaard Vice President and Head of EU Affairs Office, Statoil Sebastian Dullien @westgeir Senior Policy Fellow, European Power Programme @SDullien Martin Wiesmann Managing Director/Vice Chairman, Investment Anthony Dworkin Banking EMEA, JP Morgan Securities Senior Policy Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme Rear Admiral (lower half) Jürgen zur Mühlen @AnthonyDworkin Head of the Directorate Politics I, Federal Ministry of Defence of Germany Wiebke Ewering Communications Officer
ECFR Staff Marisa Figueroa Advocacy Manager Asli Aydıntasbas @MFigueroaGomez Senior Policy Fellow, Wider Europe programme
@asliaydintasbas Silvia Francescon Julien Barnes-Dacey Head, Rome Office @silviafrance Senior Policy Fellow, Middle East and North Africa programme @jbdacey Ulrike Franke Research Assistant to the Director Pauline Goeminne @RikeFranke
Communications Assistant @pgoemin Ellie Geranmayeh Senior Policy Fellow, Middle East and North Africa
Programme Jennie Bradley @EllieGeranmayeh Executive Assistant, Management Team
@jennierbradley
François Godement Conor Quinn Director and Senior Policy Fellow, Asia and China Communications Manager Programme @conorquinn85 @FGodement Jeremy Shapiro Alexia Gouttebroze Research Director Events Manager @JyShapiro @agouttebroze Angela Stanzel Swantje Green Policy Fellow, Asia and China Programme Council Coordinator @angela_stanzel @swaninlondon Vessela Tcherneva Gustav Gressel Senior Director for Programmes; Head, Sofia Office Senior Policy Fellow, Wider Europe Programme @vtcherneva @GresselGustav Mattia Toaldo Josef Janning Senior Policy Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Head, Berlin Office; Senior Policy Fellow Programme @JJ52 @mattiatoaldo
Thorsten Klaßen Abigaël Vasselier Senior Director for Development Programme Coordinator, Asia and China Programme Christoph Klavehn @v_abigael Project Coordinator Alison Wallace Joanna Knowles CEO Senior Director for Finance & Operations @alisonw_ECFR
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil Fredrik Wesslau Head, Paris Office; Senior Policy Fellow Director, Wider Europe Programme @mlafontrapnouil @FWesslau
Alba Lamberti Nick Witney Senior Director for Advocacy Senior Policy Fellow, European Power Programme @alba_lamberti Denica Yotova Kadri Liik Programmes Coordinator Senior Policy Fellow, Wider Europe Programme @DenicaYotova @KadriLiik Steffen Zorn Felix Mengel Development Manager Programme Manager, Berlin Office Christel Zunneberg Almut Möller Project Assistant, European Power Programme Head, Berlin Office; Senior Policy Fellow @almutmoeller