Berlin office: Council members

ECFR has brought together a distinguished Council of over one hundred Members - politicians, decision makers, thinkers and business people from the EU's member states and candidate countries - which meets once a year as a full body. Through geographical and thematic task forces, members provide ECFR staff with advice and feedback on policy ideas and help with ECFR's activities within their own countries. The Council is chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer and Mabel van Oranje.

ECFR's German Council Members include:

Roland Berger - Founder and Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH

Franziska Brantner - Member of the European Parliament

Daniel Cohn-Bendit - Member of the European Parliament

Gerhard Cromme - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp

Hans Eichel - former Finance Minister

Joschka Fischer - former Foreign Minister and vice-Chancellor

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg - former Minister of Defence

Annette Heuser - Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC

Wolfgang Ischinger - Chairman, Munich Security Conference

Gerald Knaus - Chairman, European Stability Initiative and Open Society Fellow

Caio Koch-Weser - Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff - MEP & Vice-Chair, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe

Hildegard Müller - Chairwoman of the Management Board, BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft

Wolfgang Münchau - President, Eurointelligence ASBL

Cem Özdemir - Leader, Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Green Party)

Ruprecht Polenz - MP and Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee

Norbert Roettgen - MP

Klaus Scharioth - Dean of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs; former Ambassador of Germany to the US

Michael Stürmer - Chief Correspondent, Die Welt

Andre Wilkens - Director Mercator Centre Berlin and Director Strategy, Stiftung Mercator