ECFR's Board and Council

Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair), Emma Bonino, Joschka Fischer (co-chair), Timothy Garton Ash, Ivan Krastev, Mabel van Oranje (co-chair), Andrew Puddephatt and Aleksander Smolar.

The ECFR Council

Among the members of the European Council on Foreign Relations are former prime ministers, presidents, European commissioners, current and former parliamentarians and ministers, public intellectuals, business leaders, activists and cultural figures from the EU member states and candidate countries. 

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List of Council Members (last updated May, 2010)

 

1. Asger Aamund (Denmark) - President and CEO, A. J. Aamund A/S and Chairman of Bavarian Nordic A/S

2. Urban Ahlin (Sweden) - Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and foreign policy spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party

3. Martti Ahtisaari (Finland) - Chairman of the Board, Crisis Management Initiative; former President

4. Giuliano Amato (Italy) - former Prime Minister and vice President of the European Convention

5. Hannes Androsch (Austria) - Founder, AIC Androsch International Management Consulting

6. Dora Bakoyannis (Greece) - MP; former Foreign Minister

7. Lluís Bassets (Spain) - Deputy Director, El País

8. Marek Belka (Poland) - Governor, National Bank of Poland; former Prime Minister

9. Roland Berger (Germany) - Founder and Honorary Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH

10. Erik Berglöf (Sweden) - Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

11. Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Poland) - Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Council; former Prime Minister

12. Carl Bildt (Sweden) - Foreign Minister

13. Svetoslav Bojilov (Bulgaria) - Founder, Communitas Foundation and President of Venture Equity Bulgaria Ltd.

14. Emma Bonino (Italy) - Vice President of the Senate; former EU Commissioner

15. John Bruton (Ireland) - former European Commission Ambassador to the USA; former Prime Minister (Taoiseach)

16. Ian Buruma (The Netherlands) - Writer and academic

17. Gunilla Carlsson (Sweden) - Minister for International Development Cooperation

18. Manuel Castells (Spain) - Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of Southern California

19. Charles Clarke (United Kingdom) - former Home Secretary

20. Nicola Clase (Sweden) - Ambassador to the United Kingdom; former State Secretary

21. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Germany) - Member of European Parliament

22. Robert Cooper (United Kingdom) - Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, Council of the EU

23. Massimo D'Alema (Italy) - President, Italianieuropei Foundation; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister

24. Marta Dassù (Italy) - Director General International Activities, Aspen Institute Italia

25. Etienne Davignon (Belgium) - President, Friends of Europe; former Vice President of the European Commission

26. Aleš Debeljak (Slovenia) - Poet and Cultural Critic

27. Jean-Luc Dehaene (Belgium) - Member of European Parliament; former Prime Minister

28. Gianfranco Dell'Alba (Italy) - Director, Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) - Brussels office; former Member of European Parliament

29. Pavol Demeš (Slovakia) - Director, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Bratislava)

30. Tibor Dessewffy (Hungary) - President, DEMOS Hungary

31. Andrew Duff (United Kingdom) - Member of European Parliament

32. Hans Eichel (Germany) - former Finance Minister

33. Sarmite Elerte (Latvia) - Chairperson, Baltic to Black Sea Alliance (BBSA); former Editor-in-chief of daily newspaper Diena

34. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (Denmark) - Chairman, Baltic Development Forum; former Foreign Minister

35. Brian Eno (United Kingdom) - Musician and Producer

36. Steven Everts (The Netherlands) - Adviser to the Vice President of the European Commission/ EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy

37. Gianfranco Fini (Italy) - President, Chamber of Deputies; former Foreign Minister

38. Joschka Fischer (Germany) - former Foreign Minister and vice-Chancellor

39. Jaime Gama (Portugal) - Speaker of the Parliament; former Foreign Minister

40. Timothy Garton Ash (United Kingdom) - Professor of European Studies, Oxford University

41. Anthony Giddens (United Kingdom) - Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics

42. Teresa Patricio Gouveia (Portugal) - Trustee to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; former Foreign Minister

43. Heather Grabbe (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, Open Society Institute - Brussels

44. Jean-Marie Guéhenno (France) - Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and Center on International Cooperation (New York University); former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN

45. Fernando Andresen Guimarães (Portugal) - Deputy Political Director, Directorate General for External Relations, European Commission

46. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (Germany) - Defence Minister

47. István Gyarmati (Hungary) - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition

48. Hans Hækkerup (Denmark) - Chairman, Defence Commission; former Defence Minister

49. Pierre Hassner (France) - Research Director emeritus, CERI (Sciences-PO)

50. Vaclav Havel (Czech Republic) - former President

51. Annette Heuser (Germany) - Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC

52. Diego Hidalgo (Spain) - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; President, FRIDE

53. Michiel van Hulten (The Netherlands) - Managing Director, Government Relations, Burson-Marsteller Brussels; former Member of European Parliament

54. Anna Ibrisagic (Sweden) - Member of European Parliament

55. Jaakko Iloniemi (Finland) - CEO, UNIFIN; former Executive Director, Crisis Management Initiative

56. Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany) - Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head of Government Affairs Allianz SE

57. Lionel Jospin (France) - former Prime Minister

58. Mary Kaldor (United Kingdom) - Professor, London School of Economics

59. Glenys Kinnock (United Kingdom) - Member of the House of Lords; former Member of European Parliament

60. Olli Kivinen (Finland) - Writer and columnist

61. Gerald Knaus (Austria) - Chairman of the European Stability Initiative and Carr Center Fellow

62. Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary

63. Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands) - Architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

64. Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) - Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies

65. Mart Laar (Estonia) - MP; former Prime Minister

66. Miroslav Lajčák (Slovakia) - former Foreign Minister and former High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia Herzegovina

67. Pascal Lamy (France) - Honorary President, Notre Europe and Director-General of WTO; former EU Commissioner

68. Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) - Director, European Council on Foreign Relations

69. Juan Fernando López Aguilar ( Spain) - Member of European Parliament; former Minister of Justice

70. Helena Luczywo (Poland) - Deputy Editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza

71. Adam Lury (United Kingdom) - CEO, Menemsha Ltd

72. Alain Minc (France) - Head of AM Conseil; former chairman, Le Monde

73. Nickolay Mladenov (Bulgaria) -Foreign Minister; former Defence Minister; former Member of European Parliament

74. Dominique Moisi (France) - Senior Adviser, IFRI

75. Pierre Moscovici (France) - MP; former Minister for European Affairs

76. Nils Muiznieks (Latvia) - Director, Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia

77. Hildegard Müller (Germany) - Chairwoman, BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft

78. Wolfgang Münchau (Germany) - President, Eurointelligence ASBL

79. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Greece/France) - Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

80. Christine Ockrent (Belgium) - CEO, Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France

81. Andrzej Olechowski (Poland) - former Foreign Minister

82. Dick Oosting (The Netherlands) - CEO, European Council on Foreign Relation; former Europe Director, Amnesty International

83. Mabel van Oranje (The Netherlands) - CEO, The Elders

84. Marcelino Oreja Aguirre (Spain) - Member of the Board, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas; former EU Commissioner

85. Leoluca Orlando (Italy) - MP and President, Sicilian Renaissance Institute

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

87. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (Italy) - President, Notre Europe; former chairman of IMF and former Minister of Economy and Finance

88. Ana Palacio (Spain) - former Foreign Minister; former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group

89. Simon Panek (Czech Republic) - Chairman, People in Need Foundation

90. Chris Patten (United Kingdom) - Chancellor of Oxford University and co-chair of the International Crisis Group; former EU Commissioner

91. Diana Pinto (France) - Historian and author

92. Jean Pisani-Ferry (France) - Director, Bruegel and Professor at Universite Paris-Dauphine

93. Andrei Pleşu (Romania) - Rector, New Europe College; former Foreign Minister

94. Ruprecht Polenz (Germany) - MP and Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee

95. Lydie Polfer (Luxembourg) - MP; former Foreign Minister

96. Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) - Director, Global Partners & Associated Ltd.

97. Vesna Pusić (Croatia) - MP, President of the National Committee for Monitoring the EU Accession Negotiations and Professor of Sociology, University of Zagreb

98. Sigrid Rausing (United Kingdom) - Founder, Sigrid Rausing Trust

99. George Robertson (United Kingdom) - former Secretary General of NATO

100. Albert Rohan (Austria) - former Secretary General for Foreign Affairs

101. Dariusz Rosati (Poland) - former Foreign Minister

102. Adam D. Rotfeld (Poland) - Chairman of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters; former Foreign Minister

103. Daniel Sachs (Sweden) - CEO, Proventus

104. Pierre Schori (Sweden) - Chair of Olof Palme Memorial Fund; former Director General, FRIDE; former SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire

105. Wolfgang Schüssel (Austria) - MP; former Chancellor

106. Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech Republic) - Minister of Foreign Affairs

107. Giuseppe Scognamiglio (Italy) - Head of Institutional and International Relations, UniCredit

108. Narcís Serra (Spain) - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President

109. Elif Shafak (Turkey) - Writer

110. Aleksander Smolar (Poland) - Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation

111. George Soros (Hungary/USA) - Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute

112. Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia) - Playwright and Academic

113. Dominique Strauss-Kahn (France) - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; former Finance Minister

114. Alexander Stubb (Finland) - Foreign Minister

115. Michael Stürmer (Germany) - Chief Correspondent, Die Welt

116. Ion Sturza (Romania) - President, GreenLight Invest.; former Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova

117. Helle Thorning Schmidt (Denmark) - Leader of the Social Democratic Party

118. Loukas Tsoukalis (Greece) - Professor, University of Athens and President, ELIAMEP

119. Erkki Tuomioja (Finland) - MP; former Foreign Minister

120. Vaira Vike- Freiberga (Latvia) - former President

121. Antonio Vitorino (Portugal) - Lawyer; former EU Commissioner

122. Gijs de Vries (The Netherlands) - Member of the Board, Netherlands Court of Audit; former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

123. Stephen Wall (United Kingdom) - Chair of the Federal Trust; Vice Chair of Business for New Europe; former EU adviser to Tony Blair

124. Andre Wilkens (Germany) - Director for International Relations, Stiftung Mercator

125. Shirley Williams (United Kingdom) - Professor Emeritus, Kennedy School of Government; former Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords

126. Carlos Alonso Zaldívar (Spain) - Ambassador to Brazil