
Urban Ahlin
Speaker of the Swedish Riksdag

Irakli Alasania
Defence Minister of Georgia

Anders Åslund
Resident Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council

Graham Avery
Honorary Director General of the European Commission

Thomas Bagger
Ambassador of Germany in Poland

Péter Balás
Deputy Director General, DG Trade, European Commission

Shukria Barakzai
Member of the House of the People (Wolesi Jirga), National Assembly of Afghanistan

Zeyno Baran
Senior Fellow (on leave) with the Hudson Institute’s Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World

Hossein Bastani
Political Analyst, BBC World

Noman Benotman
President Quilliam Foundation

Carl Bildt
Co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations

Matthew Bryza
Chief Executive Officer, Lamor Turkey

Ian Brzezinski
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA

Janusz Bugajski
Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Christopher Coker
Head of Department, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Robert Cooper
Former British Diplomat, Author

Svante Cornell
Research Director, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center

Pavol Demeš
Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the USA

Valdis Dombrovskis
Prime Minister of Latvia

Fernando Teixeira dos Santos
Economist, Former Minister of Finance of the Portuguese Government

Lyse Doucet
Chief International Correspondent and Presenter BBC

Konstantin von Eggert
Commentator and Host, TV Dozhd (TV Rain)

Sandro Gaycken
Senior Researcher, European School of Management and Technology

François Géré
Director, Institut Français d’Analyse Stratégique, Paris

Natalia Gherman
State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Moldova

Paul Goble
Analyst and Columnist, Window on Eurasia, and former Special Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State

Rose Gottemoeller
Deputy Secretary General, NATO

Anton La Guardia
European Union Correspondent, The Economist

Dan Hamilton
Executive Director of the Centre for Transatlantic Relations

Andrei Illarionov
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of Estonia (2006–2016)

Tedo Japaridze
Chairman of the Georgian Parliament’s Committee on International Affairs

Pauli Järvenpää
Senior Research Fellow of the ICDS

Stian Jenssen
Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary General NATO

Eckart von Klaeden
Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and a member of the Bundestag, Germany

Jana Kobzová
Foreign Policy Advisor, Office of the President of Slovakia

Michael Köhler
Director for Neighbourhood South at the Directorate General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission

David J. Kramer
Managing Director, Global Policy, George W. Bush Presidential Center

Andrius Kubilius
Former Prime Minister of Lithuania

Batu Kutelia
Deputy Secretary at the National Security Council of Georgia

Mart Laar
Former Prime Minister of Estonia

François Lafond
Special Adviser to Deputy Prime Minister of European Affairs, Government of Macedonia

Kadri Liik
Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Felix Lindner
Head of Recurity Labs, Germany

Kari Liuhto
Director, Centrum Balticum Foundation, University of Turku

Bobo Lo
Independent International Relations Analyst

John Lough
Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Jüri Luik
Estonian Ambassador to NATO
Jiali Ma
Senior Researcher on South Asian Security and China-India Relations, China Institute of Contemporary

Erik Männik
Senior Fellow, ICDS

Mart Meri
Lennart Meri Foundation, Member of the Board

Federica Mogherini
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the Commission

Henryka Mościcka-Dendys
Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Arkady Moshes
Programme Director, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Alaa Murabit
Founder and President, Voice of Libyan Women

Boris Nemtsov
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia

Hryhoriy Nemyria
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Committee on European Integration, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

Karlis Neretnieks
MG, Former Chief of Operations, Swedish Central Joint Command

Rain Ottis
Associate Professor at Tallinn University of Technology

Juhan Parts
Minister of Economic Affairs and Communication, Estonia

Andrei Piontkovsky
Senior Visiting Fellow

Ahmed Rashid
Journalist, Writer

Alan Riley
Visiting Professor at the College of Europe

Edgars Rinkēvičs
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia

Andrei Sannikov
Coordinator of the civil campaign “European Belarus”.

György Schöpflin
Member of European Parliament

Teri Schultz
Independent Reporter

Harinder Sekhon
Distinguished Fellow, CUTS International, Washington D.C. Centre

Peter Semneby
Special Representative

James Sherr
Senior Fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the ICDS

Hanna Smith
Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute and the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Russian Studies, University of Helsinki

Eugeniusz Smolar
Foreign Policy Analyst, Warsaw

Vladimir Socor
Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, in Washington

Theo Sommer
Editor-at-Large, DIE ZEIT

Veiko Spolitis
Parliamentary Secretary, Latvian Ministry of Defence

Constanze Stelzenmüller
Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations at Brookings Institution

Ivan Sukhov
Head of Caucasian Broadcasting of the Russian Service of Radio Voice of Russia

Boris Tadič
Former President of the Republic of Serbia

Sergey Tsyplyaev
President, Foundation “Respublica”, St. Petersburg

Vygaudas Ušackas
Ambassador of the EU to the Russian Federation

Tomáš Valášek
Director, Carnegie Europe, Brussels

Brandon Valeriano
Lecturer in Politics and Global Security School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

Kurt Volker
Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis

Mike Winnerstig
Security Policy Analyst and Project Manager, FOI, Sweden