International Centre For Democratic Transition - International Board

International Board

The International Board of Directors of the Centre consists of prominent personalities from the areas of international politics, economics, the arts and the sciences.

Chairperson

• H.E. Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Vice-President of the European Parliament, former Minister of Defense, Poland

Members

• H.E. Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, Chair, The Albright Group, USA
• Mr. Daniel Bader, President/CEO, Helen Bader Foundation, USA
• H.E. Donald Blinken, former Ambassador of the United States of America to Budapest, USA
• H.E. Nancy Brinker, former White House Chief of Protocol, Former Ambassador to Hungary, USA
• The Right Hon. Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister, Canada
• Mr. Gustavo A. Cisneros, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cisneros Group of Companies, USA
• Prof. Emil Constantinescu, former President of Romania 1996-2000
• Mr. Joel H. Cowan, President of Habersham & Cowan. Inc, USA
• H.E. Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Honorary President of the International Peace Bureau, Sri Lanka
• Ms. Paula J. Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, USA
• H.E. April H. Foley, former Ambassador to Hungary, USA
• H.E. György Habsburg, Archduke Georg of Austria, Ambassador, Hungary
• Ms. Nabila Hamza; President of the Foundation for the Future, Jordan
• Mr. Andrey Illarionov, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, USA
• H.E. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, former President, Sri Lanka
• H.E. President Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President, Poland
• H.E. President Ricardo Lagos, Former President of the Republic of Chile, Chile
• H.E. Ho-Jin Lee, former Ambassador to Hungary, South Korea
• Ms. Sonja Licht, Chair of the ICDT's Executive Committee, President and Founder of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia
• Mr. Markus Meckel, last Minister of Foreign Affairs of the GDR, Deputy Foreign Policy Speaker of the SPD, Germany
• Prof. Anatoli Mikhailov, President of EHU-International, Lithuania
• H.E. Mark Palmer, former Ambassador of the United States of America to Hungary, USA
• Governor George E. Pataki, Former Governor of New York; Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Climate Change Issues, USA
• Mr. Thomas S. Rooney, CEO and Director, Energy Recovery Inc., USA
• Dr. Sima Samar, Chairperson, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Afghanistan
• H.E. Narcís Serra, former Vice-President of the Spanish Government, President of CIDOB Foundation, Spain
• HRH Prince Hassan bin Al Talal, President, Club of Rome, Jordan
• Mr. Borys Tarasyuk, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
• Mr. Maximilian Teleki, President, Hungarian-American Coalition, USA
• Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Former President, Latvia
• Dr. Iván Vitányi, Member of Parliament, Hungary
• H.E. George Herbert Walker III, former Ambassador of the United States of America to Hungary, USA
• Mr. Sundeep Waslekar, President, Strategic Foresight Group, India
• H.E. John C. Whitehead, Former Deputy Secretary of State, USA

Honorary Members

• Iván Bába, Administrative State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
• H.E. Michel Barnier, Former Minister of Agriculture, France, Member of the Barroso Commission, Internal Market and Services
• The Hon. Judge Alexander Boraine, former Member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa
• H.E. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President, Estonia
• H.E. János Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary
• Mr. George Soros, Chairperson of Soros Fund Management, LLC and Founder of The Open Society Institute, USA
• † H.E. Prof. Bronislaw Geremek, MEP, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Solidarity Member, Poland