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