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Graham Avery
Honorary Director General of the European Commission
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Alyson Bailes
Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland
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Péter Balás
Deputy Director General, DG Trade, European Commission
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Espen Barth Eide
Member of the Parliament, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
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Václav Bartuška
Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
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James Henry Bergeron
Chief Political Advisor, Allied Maritime Command, NATO
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Carl Bildt
Co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations
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Matthew Bryza
Chief Executive Officer, Lamor Turkey
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Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
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Heather Conley
Director and Senior Fellow, Europe Program, Center for Strategic and Internationfal Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC
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Ann-Sofie Dahl
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military Studies, Denmark
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Judy Dempsey
Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe
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Jackson Diehl
Deputy Editorial Page Editor/Columnist, The Washington Post
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Konstantin von Eggert
Commentator and Host, TV Dozhd (TV Rain)
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Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark
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Daniel Fata
Vice President, The Cohen Group, Washington, DC
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Kristian Fischer
Deputy Permanent Secretary of State for Defence, Ministry of Defence, Denmark
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Mark Galeotti
Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI
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François Géré
Director, Institut Français d’Analyse Stratégique, Paris
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Luigi Sergio Germani
Director of Gino Germani Institute for Social Sciences and Strategic Studies
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Justyna Gotkowska
Programme Coordinator, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
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Nik Gowing
Co-author, Thinking the Unthinkable, UK
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Niklas Granholm
Deputy director of studies at FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Division for Defence Analysis
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Iulian Groza
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Moldova
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Anton La Guardia
European Union Correspondent, The Economist
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Tommi Haapala
LTC, Former Finnish Military Contingent Commander to Afghanistan
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Carl Haglund
Minister of Defence, Finland
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Michael Haltzel
Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
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François Heisbourg
Senior Advisor, International Institute for Strategic Studies
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Ben Hodges
Former Commander of US Army Europe, FBH Geostrat Consulting GmbH
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Mikko Hyppönen
Chief Research Officer, F-Secure, Finland
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Jaakko Iloniemi
Former Ambassador of Finland to the United States
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of Estonia (2006–2016)
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Bruce Jackson
President of the Project on Transitional Democracies
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Mats Johansson
Member of Parliament, Sweden and Chairman, Stockholm Free World Forum
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Mindaugas Jurkynas
Professor, University of Kaunas
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Matthew Kaminski
Member, Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal
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Juhani Kaskeala
ADM, Former Chief of Defence, Finland
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Jānis Kažociņš
Former Head of the Constitutional Protection Bureau, Latvia
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François Lafond
Special Adviser to Deputy Prime Minister of European Affairs, Government of Macedonia
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Johan Lagerlöf
Deputy Director General, Defense Policy, Ministry of Defence, Sweden
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Lauri Lepik
Ambassador, Estonian Permanent Representative to NATO
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Bobo Lo
Independent International Relations Analyst
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John Lough
Associate Fellow, Chatham House
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Jüri Luik
Estonian Ambassador to NATO
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Douglas Lute
U.S. Ambassador to NATO
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Erik Männik
Senior Fellow, ICDS
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Franz-Michael Mellbin
EU Special Representative and Head of the EU Delegation to Afghanistan
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Mart Meri
Lennart Meri Foundation, Member of the Board
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Marko Mihkelson
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee at Riigikogu
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Sven Mikser
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
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Karlis Neretnieks
MG, Former Chief of Operations, Swedish Central Joint Command
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Jaroslav Neverovic
Minister of Energy, Lithuania
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Ekke Nõmm
Director, Estonian School of Diplomacy, Tallinn
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Robert Nurick
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
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John-Andres Olsen
Head of Defence Policy Department, Ministry of Defence, Norway
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Olaf Osica
Director, Center for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland
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Urmas Paet
Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
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Petr Pelz
Director, Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI), Former Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Afghanistan
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Esa Pulkkinen
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence of Finland
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Mariam Rakviashvili
Deputy State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
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Väino Reinart
Ambassador of Estonia to Afghanistan
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Tomas Ries
Senior Lecturer at the National Defence College
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Alan Riley
Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
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Taavi Rõivas
Prime Minister of Estonia
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Oleh Rybachuk
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European Integration
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Sven Sakkov
Director of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)
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Charly Salonius-Pasternak
Leading Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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David Satter
Senior Fellow, The Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, also Adviser to Radio Liberty
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Alexei Sekarev
Director of Research Projects, Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership
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Peter Semneby
Special Representative
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James Sherr
Senior Fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the ICDS
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Kyllike Sillaste-Elling
Director General of the Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
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Eugeniusz Smolar
Foreign Policy Analyst, Warsaw
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Vladimir Socor
Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, in Washington
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Dietmar Stüdemann
Ambassador (ret.), Germany
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Riho Terras
MG, Chief of Defence, Estonia
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Sergey Tsyplyaev
President, Foundation “Respublica”, St. Petersburg
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Celeste Wallander
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy
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Michael Weiss
Editor of The Insider