European Council On Foreign Relations - Board and Council Members

Board and Council Members

The European Council on Foreign Relations meets as a full body once a year to discuss how to advance its objectives through innovative projects with a pan-European focus. The current board of the Council is: Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair), Emma Bonino, Joschka Fischer (co-chair), Karin Forseke, Timothy Garton Ash, Ivan Krastev, Andrew Puddephatt, Aleksander Smolar, Javier Solana and Mabel van Oranje (co-chair).

What Council Members have said about ECFR:

"The European Council on Foreign Relations is essential in creating channels for open debate in Europe. ECFR promotes the need for Europe to become an important, unified, courageous, innovative and coherent actor. I regard ECFR as pivotal in promoting this vision in a globalising world." Martti Ahtisaari

"The time has come for Europe to speak with one voice on key issues in our turbulent neighbourhood and an increasingly multi-polar world. ECFR helps us work out what we should say and how we can most effectively say it." Timothy Garton Ash

"The European Union has been a powerful example for integration, prolonged peace, and prosperity in a complex international environment. The international system of the 21st century needs a strong and united EU and ECFR makes an important contribution to this end." Joschka Fischer

The Council has over one hundred and seventy members, including 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.

List of Council Members (correct as of July 2012)

  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. Gustavo de Aristegui (Spain) - Diplomat; former Member of Parliament
  6. Viveca Ax:son Johnson (Sweden) - Chairman of Nordstjernan AB
  7. Gordon Bajnai (Hungary) - Former Prime Minister
  8. Dora Bakoyannis (Greece) - Member of Parliament; former Foreign Minister
  9. Leszek Balcerowicz (Poland) - Professor, Warsaw School of Economics; former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
  10. Lluís Bassets (Spain) - Deputy Director, El País
  11. Marek Belka (Poland) - Governor, National Bank of Poland; former Prime Minister
  12. Roland Berger (Germany) - Founder and Honorary Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH
  13. Erik Berglöf (Sweden) - Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  14. Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Poland) - Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Council; former Prime Minister
  15. Carl Bildt (Sweden) - Foreign Minister
  16. Henryka Bochniarz (Poland) - President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers - Lewiaton.
  17. Svetoslav Bojilov (Bulgaria) - Founder, Communitas Foundation and President of Venture Equity Bulgaria Ltd
  18. Ingrid Bonde (Sweden) - CFO and Deputy CEO, Vattenfall AB
  19. Emma Bonino (Italy) - Vice President of the Senate; former EU Commissioner
  20. Franziska Brantner (Germany) - Member of the European Parliament
  21. Han ten Broeke (The Netherlands) - Member of Parliament
  22. John Bruton (Ireland) - former European Commission Ambassador to the USA; former Prime Minister (Taoiseach)
  23. Ian Buruma (The Netherlands) - Writer and academic
  24. Erhard Busek (Austria) - Chairman of the Institute for the Danube and Central Europe
  25. Jerzy Buzek (Poland) - Member of the European Parliament; former President of the European Parliament; former Prime Minister
  26. Gunilla Carlsson (Sweden) - Minister for International Development Cooperation
  27. Maria Livanos Cattaui (Greece/Switzerland) - Former Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce
  28. Ipek Cem Taha (Turkey) - Director of Melak Investments; journalist
  29. Carmen Chacón (Spain) - Former Minister of Defence
  30. Charles Clarke (United Kingdom) - Visiting Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia; former Home Secretary
  31. Nicola Clase (Sweden) - Ambassador to the United Kingdom; former State Secretary
  32. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Germany) - Member of European Parliament
  33. Robert Cooper (United Kingdom) - Counsellor of the European External Action Service (EEAS)
  34. Gerhard Cromme (Germany) - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ThyssenKrupp.
  35. Maria Cuffaro (Italy)) - Anchorwoman, TG3 RAI
  36. Daniel Daianu (Romania) - Professor of Economics, National School of Political and Administrative Studies; former Finance Minister
  37. Massimo D'Alema (Italy) - President, Italianieuropei Foundation; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
  38. Marta Dassù (Italy) - Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  39. Ahmet Davutoglu (Turkey) - Foreign Minister
  40. Aleš Debeljak (Slovenia) - Poet and Cultural Critic
  41. Jean-Luc Dehaene (Belgium) - Member of European Parliament; former Prime Minister
  42. Gianfranco Dell'Alba (Italy) - Director, Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) - Brussels office; former Member of European Parliament
  43. Pavol Demeš (Slovakia) - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Bratislava)
  44. Kemal Dervis (Turkey) - Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development
  45. Tibor Dessewffy (Hungary) - President, DEMOS Hungary
  46. Hanzade Doğan Boyner (Turkey) - Chair, Doğan Gazetecilik and Doğan Online
  47. Andrew Duff (United Kingdom) - Member of European Parliament
  48. Mikuláš Dzurinda (Slovakia) - Former Foreign Minister
  49. Hans Eichel (Germany) - Former Finance Minister
  50. Rolf Ekeus (Sweden) - Former Director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq
  51. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (Denmark) - Chairman, Baltic Development Forum; former Foreign Minister
  52. Steven Everts (The Netherlands) - Adviser to the Vice President of the European Commission/EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy
  53. Tanja Fajon (Slovenia) - Member of European Parliament
  54. Gianfranco Fini (Italy) - President, Chamber of Deputies; former Foreign Minister
  55. Joschka Fischer (Germany) - Former Foreign Minister and vice-Chancellor
  56. Karin Forseke (Sweden/USA) - Chairman, Alliance Trust Plc
  57. Lykke Friis (Denmark) - Member of Parliament; former Minister for Climate Change, Energy and Gender Equality
  58. Jaime Gama (Portugal) - Former speaker of the Parliament; former Foreign Minister
  59. Timothy Garton Ash (United Kingdom) - Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
  60. Carlos Gaspar (Portugal) Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI)
  61. Teresa Patricio Gouveia (Portugal) - Trustee to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; former Foreign Minister
  62. Heather Grabbe (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, Open Society Institute, Brussels
  63. Charles Grant (United Kingdom) - Director, Centre for European Reform
  64. Jean-Marie Guéhenno (France) - Deputy Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and Center on International Cooperation (New York University); former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN
  65. Fernando Andresen Guimarães (Portugal) - Head of the US and Canada division, European External Action Service
  66. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (Germany) - Former Defence Minister
  67. István Gyarmati (Hungary) - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition
  68. Hans Hækkerup (Denmark) - Former Chairman, Defence Commission; former Defence Minister
  69. Heidi Hautala (Finland) - Minister for International Development
  70. Sasha Havlicek (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
  71. Steven Heinz (Austria) Co-founder and co-Chair, Lansdowne Partners Ltd
  72. Annette Heuser (Germany) - Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC
  73. Diego Hidalgo (Spain) - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; Founder and Honorary President, FRIDE
  74. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (The Netherlands) - Former NATO Secretary General
  75. Danuta Hubner (Poland) - Member of European Parliament; former Commissioner
  76. Anna Ibrisagic (Sweden) - Member of European Parliament
  77. Jaakko Iloniemi (Finland) - Former Ambassador; former Executive Director, Crisis Management Initiative
  78. Toomas Ilves (Estonia) - President
  79. Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany) - Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head of Government Affairs Allianz SE
  80. Minna Järvenpää (Finland/US) - International Advocacy Director, Open Society Foundation
  81. Mary Kaldor (United Kingdom) - Professor, London School of Economics
  82. Ibrahim Kalin (Turkey) - Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey on foreign policy and public diplomacy
  83. Sylvie Kauffman (France) - Editorial Director, Le Monde
  84. Olli Kivinen (Finland) - Writer and columnist
  85. Ben Knapen (The Netherlands) - Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation
  86. Gerald Knaus (Austria) - Chairman of the European Stability Initiative and Carr Center Fellow
  87. Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary
  88. Bassma Kodmani (France) - Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative
  89. Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands) - Architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
  90. David Koranyi(Hungary) - Deputy Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Centre of the Atlantic Council
  91. Bernard Kouchner (France)- Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
  92. Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) - Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
  93. Aleksander Kwaśniewski (Poland) - Former President
  94. Mart Laar (Estonia) - Minister of Defence; former Prime Minister
  95. Miroslav Lajčák (Slovakia) - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
  96. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff - Member of the European Parliament
  97. Pascal Lamy (France) - Honorary President, Notre Europe and Director-General of WTO; former EU Commissioner
  98. Bruno Le Maire (France) - Former Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fishing
  99. Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) - Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
  100. Jean-David Levitte (France) - Former Senior Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa to the President of the French Republic
  101. Sonia Licht (Serbia) - President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
  102. Juan Fernando López Aguilar ( Spain) - Member of European Parliament; former Minister of Justice
  103. Adam Lury (United Kingdom) - CEO, Menemsha Ltd
  104. Monica Macovei (Romania) - Member of the EuropeanParliament
  105. Emma Marcegaglia (Italy) - Former President, Confindustria
  106. Íñigo Méndez de Vigo (Spain) - Secretary of State for the European Union
  107. David Miliband (United Kingdom) - Member of Parliament; former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  108. Alain Minc (France) - Head of AM Conseil; former chairman, Le Monde
  109. Nickolay Mladenov (Bulgaria) -Foreign Minister; former Defence Minister; former Member of European Parliament
  110. Dominique Moisi (France) - Senior Adviser, IFRI
  111. Pierre Moscovici (France) - Finance Minister; former Minister for European Affairs
  112. Nils Muižnieks (Latvia) - Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
  113. Hildegard Müller (Germany) - Chairwoman, BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft
  114. Wolfgang Münchau (Germany) - President, Eurointelligence ASBL
  115. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Romania) - Professor of Democracy Studies, Hertie School of Governance
  116. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Greece/France) - Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
  117. Daithi O'Ceallaigh (Ireland) - Director-General, Institute of International and European Affairs
  118. Christine Ockrent (Belgium) - Editorialist
  119. Andrzej Olechowski (Poland) - Former Foreign Minister
  120. Dick Oosting (The Netherlands) - CEO, European Council on Foreign Relation; former Europe Director, Amnesty International
  121. Mabel van Oranje (The Netherlands) - CEO, The Elders
  122. Marcelino Oreja Aguirre (Spain) - Member of the Board, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas; former EU Commissioner
  123. Monica Oriol (Spain) - CEO, Segruiber
  124. Cem Özdemir (Germany) - Leader, Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Green Party)
  125. Ana Palacio (Spain) - former Foreign Minister; former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group
  126. Simon Panek (Czech Republic) - Chairman, People in Need Foundation
  127. Chris Patten (United Kingdom) - Chancellor of Oxford University and co-chair of the International Crisis Group; former EU Commissioner
  128. Diana Pinto (France) - Historian and author
  129. Jean Pisani-Ferry (France) - Director, Bruegel and Professor at Universite Paris-Dauphine
  130. Ruprecht Polenz (Germany) - Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
  131. Lydie Polfer (Luxembourg) - Member of Parliament; former Foreign Minister
  132. Charles Powell (Spain/UK) - Director, Real Instituto Elcano
  133. Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) - Director, Global Partners & Associated Ltd.
  134. Vesna Pusić (Croatia) - Foreign Minister
  135. Robert Reibestein (The Netherlands) - Director, McKinsey & Company
  136. George Robertson (United Kingdom) - Former Secretary General of NATO
  137. Albert Rohan (Austria) - Former Secretary General for Foreign Affairs
  138. Adam D. Rotfeld (Poland) - Chairman of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters; former Foreign Minister
  139. Norbert Röttgen (Germany) - Former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  140. Olivier Roy - Professor, European University Institute, Florence
  141. Daniel Sachs (Sweden) - CEO, Proventus
  142. Pasquale Salzano (Italy) - Vice President for International Governmental Affairs, ENI
  143. Stefano Sannino (Italy) - Director General for Enlargement, European Commission
  144. Marietje Schaake (The Netherlands) - Member of the European Parliament
  145. Klaus Scharioth (Germany) - Dean of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs; former Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the US
  146. Pierre Schori (Sweden) - Chair of Olof Palme Memorial Fund; former Director General, FRIDE; former SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire
  147. Wolfgang Schüssel (Austria) - Member of Parliament; former Chancellor
  148. Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech Republic) - Member of Parliament; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
  149. Giuseppe Scognamiglio (Italy) - Executive Vice President, Head of Public Affairs Department, UniCredit S.p.A
  150. Narcís Serra (Spain) - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President
  151. Radoslaw Sikorski (Poland) - Foreign Minister
  152. Aleksander Smolar (Poland) - Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
  153. Javier Solana (Spain) - former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy & Secretary-General of the Council of the EU; former Secretary General of NATO
  154. George Soros (Hungary/USA) - Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations
  155. Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia) - Playwright and Academic
  156. Rory Stewart (United Kingdom) - Member of Parliament
  157. Alexander Stubb (Finland) - Minister for Foreign Trade and European Affairs; former Foreign Minister
  158. Michael Stürmer (Germany) - Chief Correspondent, Die Welt
  159. Ion Sturza (Romania) - President, Fribourg Investments Ltd.; former Prime Minister
  160. Paweł Świeboda (Poland) - President, Demos-EUROPA, Centre for European Strategy
  161. Vesella Tcherneva (Bulgaria) - Spokesperson and advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  162. Teija Tiilikainen (Finland) - Director at the Finnish Institute for International Relations
  163. Luisa Todini (Italy) - Chair, Todini Finanziaria S.p.A
  164. Loukas Tsoukalis (Greece) - Professor, University of Athens and President, ELIAMEP
  165. Erkki Tuomioja (Finland) - Foreign Minister
  166. Daniel Valtchev (Bulgaria) - Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education
  167. Vaira Vike-Freiberga (Latvia) - Former President
  168. Antonio Vitorino (Portugal) - Lawyer; former EU Commissioner
  169. Andre Wilkens (Germany) - Director Mercator Centre Berlin and Director Strategy, Mercator Haus
  170. Carlos Alonso Zaldívar (Spain) - Ambassador of Spain
  171. Stelios Zavvos (Greece) - CEO, Zeus Capital Managers Ltd
  172. Samuel Žbogar (Slovenia) - EU Representative to Kosovo; former Foreign Minister

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