Brussels Forum 2007 Participant List Morten Aasland Çankaya University, Ankara Special Advisor to the Robert Bennett Ambassador Member (R-Utah) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aslı Aydıntaşbaş U.S. Senate Norway Ankara Bureau Chief Sabah Daily Marcel Bens Arban Abrashi Executive Assistant to Robert Advisor to the Egemen Bağış Liberatore Deputy Prime Minister for Member of Parliament and DaimlerChrysler European Integration Foreign Policy Advisor to the Kosovo Prime Minister Matthias Berninger Turkish Grand National Director for Public Health Valdas Adamkus Assembly and Nutrition President Mars, Inc. Lithuania David Bakradze Chairman of the Committee on Gela Bezhuashvili Bengt Albons European Integration Minister of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Correspondent Parliament of Georgia Georgia Dagens Nyheter Valteris Baliukonis Carl Bildt Mark Allen Head of the Foreign Policy Minister of Foreign Affairs Partner Group Sweden Monitor Group Lithuania Special Advisor Manfred Bischoff BP Group Donald K. Bandler Chairman of the Supervisory Senior Director Board James Appathurai Kissinger McLarty Associates DaimlerChrysler AG Spokesman NATO Katinka Barysch Jim Bittermann Chief Economist Senior European Correspondent Anne Applebaum Centre for European Reform CNN Paris Columnist The Washington Post Toms Baumanis Richard Black Chairman of the Board, Latvian Environmental Correspondent Uzi Arad Transatlantic organization BBC News Interactive Head of the Institute for Policy (LATO) and Strategy Amaya Bloch-Lainé IDC Herzliya Markus Baumanns Director of the Paris Office Chief Executive Officer and The German Marshall Fund Ronald Asmus Member of the Executive Board of the United States Executive Director of the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin & Gerd Brussels Transatlantic Center Bucerius Svetoslav Bojilov The German Marshall Fund of Founder the United States Alan Beattie Tipping Point Foundation World Trade Editor Julian Borger Shlomo Avineri The Financial Times Diplomatic Editor Professor of Political Science Andre Belelieu The Guardian Hebrew University of Jerusalem Associate Director of International Ertan Aydın and Corporate Affairs Marcin Bosacki Assistant Professor AIG Foreign Affairs Commentator 1 Gazeta Wyborcza Sabine Busse Director of the Security and Global Director Governance Program Tzvetelina Borislavova Sector President’s Office Egmont-Royal Institute for Founder Alstom Deutschland International Relations Tipping Point Foundation Reinhard Bütikofer Robert Cooper Dirk Brengelmann Chairman Director General for External and Head of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Political Military Affairs Defense and Security Division Council of the European Union German Foreign Office Ben Butters Director (small business and Christopher Cox Stephen G. Breyer Europe) and Member Chairman Associate Justice The Lisbon Council U.S. Security and Exchange U.S Supreme Court Commission Deb Callahan Esther Brimmer Consultant Hannelore Crolly Director of Research The German Marshall Fund of Correspondent SAIS Center for Transatlantic the United States Die Welt Relations Johns Hopkins University Gökhan Çetinsaya Stanley Crossick Chairman Founding Chairman Elmar Brok Foundation for Political, Economic European Policy Centre Member (Germany) and Societal Research (SETA) European Parliament Ran Curiel Marc Champion Ambassador Alexis Brouhns Reporter and Deputy Bureau Chief Permanent Representative of Israel to Director of Corporate for Northern Europe the European Union Government and Public Affairs The Wall Street Journal Solvay SA Ghislain d’ Hoop Eric Chevallier Head of Foreign Relations Martin Bruncko Maître de conference Cabinet of His Majesty the King of Partner l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris Belgium AJG - Amrop Jenewein Group Eric Chilton Susan Danger Nicholas Burns Managing Director and Managing Director Under Secretary for Head of Corporate and American Chamber of Commerce to Political Affairs Investment Banking the European Union U.S. Department of State Fortis Marta Dassù Ian Buruma Vladimir Chizhov Director General of Author and Henry Luce Ambassador International Programs Professor Permanent Representative of Russia Aspen Institute Italy Bard College, New York to the European Union Etienne Davignon Chairman Societe Generale de Belgique (SGB) Frances Burwell Nicola Clase Ahmet Davutoğlu Director of Transatlantic State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Relations Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey The Atlantic Council of the Sweden United States Karel De Boeck Hendrik (Rik) Coolsaet Chief Risk Officer 2 Fortis Filip Dierckx Ambassador Chief Executive Officer Permanent Representative of Noël De Bruyne Merchant and Private Banking Romania to NATO Advisor to his Royal Highness Fortis Prince Philippe of Belgium Mikuláš Dzurinda Viet Dinh Member of the National François-Xavier de Donnea Professor of Law Council of the Slovak Republic, and Minister of State and Georgetown University Law Center Former Prime Minister Member of the Chamber of People’s Slovak Republic Representatives Daniel Dombey Belgium Diplomatic Correspondent Bill Echikson The Financial Times Brussels Bureau Chief Karel De Gucht Dow Jones Newswires Minister of Foreign Affairs Karen Donfried Belgium Executive Vice President Markus Ederer The German Marshall Fund Head of Policy Planning Staff Gilles de Kerchove of the United States German Foreign Office Director of Justice and Home Affairs General Secretariat of the Council of Mia Doornaert Harriet Edmonds the European Commission Diplomatic Editor Office of the Chairman De Standaard Monitor Group Claudio De Luca Editor and Thanos Dokos Konstantin Eggert European Union Correspondent Director-General Moscow Bureau Editor Capital Magazine ELIAMEP - Hellenic Foundation for BBC Russian Service European & Foreign Policy Gijs de Vries Christoph Eichhorn Senior Fellow Seda Saadet Domaniç Head of Division USA and Canada Netherlands Institute of International Chief of External Relations German Foreign Office Relations Clingendael Doğuş Group Juurd Eijsvoogel Koert Debeuf Xenia Dormandy International Relations Adviser to the Prime Minister of Executive Director for Research Correspondent Belgium Belfer Center for Science and NRC Handelsblad International Affairs Philippe Delva Kennedy School of Government Oded Eran Chief Executive Officer Harvard University Head of the Jerusalem Office Fortis Lease Group World Jewish Congress Daniel Drezner Pavol Demeš Associate Professor of International Fredrik Erixon Director of the Bratislava Office Politics Director The German Marshall Fund The Fletcher School ECIPE – European Centre for of the United States Tufts University International Political Economy Helēna Demakova Steven Erlanger Minister for Culture Jerusalem Bureau Chief Latvia The New York Times Pavol Demeš Dirk Emile Driessens Petra Erler Director of Central and Eastern Chief Executive Officer Head of Cabinet Europe Fortis Commercial European Union Commission The German Marshall Fund Finance Holding N.V. Vice President Gunter Verheugen of the United States Sorin Dumitru Ducaru John Evans 3 General Secretary Ralph Fücks Trade Union Advisory Committee to Member of the Executive Board Simon Godwin the Organization for Security and Heinrich Böll Foundation Manager of Automotive Issues Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) DaimlerChrysler Mark Fuller Steven Everts Chairman and Ana Maria Gomes Special Counselor Chief Executive Officer Member (Portugal) and European Union High Monitor Group Vice Chairwoman of Representative for the Common the Subcommittee on Security Foreign and Security Policy Moshe Garelik and Defense Founder European Parliament Andreas Falke ENPN – European Non Profit Professor of International Studies, Network Ulysse Gosset and Director of the German-American Anchor Institute Nürnberg John Erik Garr France 24 University of Erlangen-Nuernberg Exchange Director and Partner Diamond Management & Technology Nik Gowing Daniel Fata Consultants Lead Anchor Deputy Assistant Secretary for BBC World NATO and Europe Rayna Gavrilova U.S. Department of Defense Executive Director Heather Grabbe Hakan Fidan Trust for Civil Society in CEE Member President Cabinet of European Union Turkish International Cooperation Terri Givens Commissioner Olli Rehn and Development Agency (TIKA) Vice Provost and Professor University of Texas Charles Grant Tina Nelson-Fordham Austin Director Director of Economic and Centre for European Reform Political Strategies Laurette Glasgow Citigroup Ambassador C. Boyden Gray Permanent Representative of Canada Ambassador Luis G. Fortuńo to Belgium and the Permanent Representative of the Member (R-Puerto Rico) Grand Duchy of Luxembourg United States to the European Union U.S. House of Representatives Hanns Glatz Nathan Graham Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger Delegate of the Board of Legislative Assistant Foreign Editor Management Office of U.S. Senator Robert Bennett Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung DaimlerChrysler Marek Grela Albert Frère John K. Glenn Director General President Director of Foreign Policy DG Transatlantic Relations Groupe Bruxelles Lambert The German Marshall Fund of the Council of the European Union United States Daniel Fried Misha Glenny Marc Grossman Assistant Secretary of State for the Writer Vice Chairman Bureau of European and Eurasian The Cohen Group, and Affairs François Godement Board Member U.S. Department of State President The German Marshall Fund Asia Centre of the United States 4 Senior Transatlantic Fellow Estonia Nikola Gruevski The German Marshall Fund Prime Minister of the United States Darrell Issa