
Omar Al-Shahery
Regional Team Lead in North Africa for Aktis Strategy, Consultant to the US Government

Sergey Aleksashenko
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings

Leila Alieva
Academic Visitor St. Antony’s College University of Oxford, UK

Josh Arnold-Forster
Political Consultant, Former Special Adviser to the UK Minister of Defence

Anna Arutunyan
Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group, Russia

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

Thomas Bagger
Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Germany

David Bakradze
State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

Fabio Belafatti
Lecturer, Coordinator of Centre of Contemporary Central Asian Studies

Noman Benotman
President Quilliam Foundation

Carl Bildt
Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations

Matthew Bryza
Chief Executive Officer, Lamor Turkey

Ian Brzezinski
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA

Vincenzo Camporini
Vice President of IAI

Michael Carpenter
Ambassador, U.S. Mission to the OSCE

Judy Dempsey
Non-Resident Senior Associate, Carnegie Europe

Harlem Désir
Minister of State for European Affairs of the Republic of France

Jill Dougherty
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

Etienne de Durand
Deputy for Defence Policy and Strategic Foresight, Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy, Ministry of Defence, France

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

Steven Erlanger
Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times

Philippe Errera
Director General for Political and Security Affairs, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France

Daniel Fried
Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council

Mark Galeotti
Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI

Masha Gessen
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Richard Giragosian
Director, Regional Studies Center (RSC)

Yalda Hakim
Anchor and Correspondent, BBC

Hannes Hanso
Minister of Defence of Estonia

Fiona Hill
Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre on the United States and Europe, Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institute

Frederick Hodges
Commanding General, US Army in Europe

Peter Hultqvist
Minister of Defence, Sweden

Andrei Illarionov
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Jaakko Iloniemi
Former Ambassador of Finland to the United States

Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of Estonia (2006–2016)

Ieva Ilves
Head of National Cyber Security Policy Section, Latvian Ministry of Defence

Sir Garry Johnson
Chairman of the International Security Advisory Board

Marina Kaljurand
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Vladimir Kara-Murza
Vice Chairman, Open Russia Movement, Russia

Riina Kionka
Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to European Council President Donald Tusk

Einari Kisel
Regional Manager for Europe at World Energy Council

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

Erka Koivunen
Cyber Security Advisor, F-Secure Corporation

Andrey Kortunov
Director General, Russian International Affairs Council

Selim Koru
Analyst, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)

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

Ivan Krastev
Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Alexey Levinson
Head of the Socio-Cultural Research Department, Levada Center

Kadri Liik
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Jarno Limnéll
Professor of Cyber Security, Aalto University

Linas Linkevičius
Ambassador-at-large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania

John Lough
Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Jawed Ludin
CEO, Mithra Associates LLC, Former Chief of Staff of President Karzai

Jüri Luik
Permanent Representative of Estonia to NATO

Oleksii Makeiev
Political Director, Directorate General for Policy and Communications, Ukrainian MFA

Suadad Nabil Najim
Counsellor, Head of the European Organisations and Institutions Division, European

Ben Nimmo
Senior Fellow, the Institute for Statecraft / non-resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the US

Natalie Nougayrède
Editorial Board Member and Columnist, The Guardian, UK

Tom Nuttall
Berlin Bureau Chief, The Economist

Leigh O’Neill
Managing Director of Policy & Legislative Affairs, Truman National Security Project

Artis Pabriks
Deputy Prime Minister for Comprehensive Defence, Minister of Defence of Latvia

Sally Painter
Co-Founder and COO, Blue Star Strategies, LLC

Risto Penttilä
CEO, Finnish Chamber of Commerce

Ruprecht Polenz
President of the German Association for East European Studies

Peter Pomeranzev
Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, Author, TV producer

Jerzy Pomianowski
Executive Director, European Endowment for Democracy

Ilya Ponomarev
Member of Parliament, State Duma – Russian Parliament

Ahmed Rashid
Journalist, Writer

Tomas Ries
Senior Lecturer

Alan Riley
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Edgars Rinkēvičs
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia

Taavi Rõivas
Prime Minister of Estonia

Janis Sārts
Director of NATO StratCom COE, Riga

Robert Scher
Assistant Secretary of Defence for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities, Department of Defence, The United States of America

John R. Schindler
Managing Director, Locarno Group

Harinder Sekhon
Senior Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation

Anton Shekhovtsov
Director, Centre for Democratic Integrity

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

Lilia Shevtsova
Non-resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Chatham House

Radosław Sikorski
Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Vladimir Socor
Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, in Washington

Andrei Soldatov
Editor, Agentura.ru

Constanze Stelzenmüller
Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Sylke Temple
Editor in Chief, Berlin Policy Journal, German Council on Foreign Relations

Frans Timmermans
First Vice President of the EU Commission

Vygaudas Ušackas
Ambassador of the EU to the Russian Federation

Daniel Vajdich
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Alexander Vershbow
Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security

Kurt Volker
Distinguished Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

Witold Waszczykowski
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Michael Weiss
Senior Editor / Editor, The Daily Beast / The Interpreter