The Experts

	Anatoly Adamishin	Former first Deputy of Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Ambassador to Italy and UK.
	Aldo Amati	Italian Ambassador to the Czech Republic
	Alexander Bessmertnykh	Is a Russian diplomat who briefly served as foreign minister of the Soviet Union
	Nils Daniel Carl Bildt	Is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs from October 2006 to October 2014.
	Joachim Bitterlich	Bitterlich held several diplomatic positions in various European countries between 1974 and 2002. He has been director of International Affairs at Véolia Environnement since 2003
	Pilar Bonet	Spanish journalist “El Pais”
	Pascal Boniface	Is the Director and Founder of iris (Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques) a leading French think tank and a private University of geopolitic. He has written more Than 50 Books on nucléar matters, French Policy, globalisation, balance of power ,crisis and conflicts and geopolitic of sport.
	Rodric Braithewaite (Sir)	Is a British diplomat and author. Foreign policy adviser to the UK prime minister John Major, and chairman of the joint intelligence committee. He makes regular contributions to the Financial Times, The Guardian,The Observer,The Sunday Times,The New Statesman,Prospect Magazine,The Evening Standard, and Survival.
	Lord Des Browne	Is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 1997 to 2010. He was a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and served as Defence and Scottish Secretary of State in 2008. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) in Washington DC and a member of the Executive Board for the European Leadership Network (ELN).
	Ján Čarnogurský	Is a Slovak former politician, a former Prime Minister of Slovakia (1991–1992)[1] and the former chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement (1990–2000). Today he is chairman of Slovak-Russian association with headquarters in Bratislava.
	Giulietto Chiesa	Is an Italian journalist and politician, formerly a Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Independent - Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society. Chiesa held a number of important positions in the Italian Communist Party before it was dissolved in 1991. Formerly also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the De...
	Thierry De Gruben	A retired Ambassador (for Belgium); he has been posted in that quality in Warsaw (from 1985 to 1990), in Moscow (from 1990 to 1995), to NATO (from 1997 to 2002) and to London (from 2002 to 2006). Previously, I was posted as Consul-General in Bombay from 1980 to 1982 and was in the Foreign Minister's Private Office from 1982 to 1985, dealing with East-West relations, bilateral relations with Eastern European countries and disarmament. I was also Special Envoy to ex-Yougoslavia from 1995 to 1997, in support of our peace-keeping forces there, together with a Russian contingent, under United Nations flag.
	Manlio Di Stefano	Italian Politician M5S. Member of the Chamber of Deputies XVII
	Yury Fedorov	Is an expert Russian foreign and security policy. Up to January 2006 he was a professor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO ). Since January 2006 he has been Principal Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London; and also Associate fellow of the Czech Association for International Affairs. Since 2008 he has been living in Prague, the Czech Republic. Dr. Fedorov is the author and editor of a number of books and numerous articles and research papers published in Russia, the USA and Europe.
	Dr. Ingo Friedrich	Is a former German (Bavarian) Member of the European Parliament.He was elected on the CSU ticket and sits with the EPP-ED Group. Friedrich holds a University degree in Economics. He was a member of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district council (1972–1996) and was the head of the CSU delegation to the European Parliament between 1992 and 1999. He has been awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit, and the Federal Cross of Merit, first class.
	Hall Gardner	Professor and Chair of Department of International and Comparative Politics – American University of Paris.
	Ruslan Semenovich Grinberg (prof)	Director of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow). Academic focus: economics theory, globalization, economic and political problems in post-Soviet countries, the role of the state in the contemporary economy.
	Paolo Gentiloni	Minister of Foreign Affairs with government Renzi since 31 October 2014.
	Bernard Guetta	French journalist expert in international policy. He makes regular contributions to the Italian weekly "Internazionale" and to the French newspaper "Libération".
	Philippe Herzog	French Politician. President “Confrontations Europe”, think tank european..
	Vladislav Inozemtsev	Vladislav Inozemtsev, Ph. D. (Econ), Director, Center for Post-Industrial Studies (Moscow, Russia); Senior non-resident Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, the author of "One World Divided" (1999), "Catching-Up" (2002) and "Democracy versus Modernization. A Dilemma for Russia and for the World"(2013), all available via Amazon.com.
	Frantisek Janouch	Professor František Janouch, physicist and author of several dozen of books and several hundreds of scientific, polemical and discussion articles in journals and newspapers in Sweden, Czech republic, Russia and other countries. In 1978 he founded in Stockholm The Charta 77 Foundation which was moved to Prague in 1990 and which is until today the largest humanitarian and cultural foundation in the Czech Republic. Janouch is the President of this foundation since its founding in 1978.
	Jan Kavan	Is a former Czech politician and diplomat. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairsof the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002 and one of the deputy prime ministers from 1999 to 2002. He was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly and acted in this office from 2002 to 2003. President, “The Iron Curtain Foundation”
	Mette Kongshem	She was the Norwegian ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1996 to 1999, deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2002, Norwegian ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 2002 to 2006, and Norwegian ambassador to Central Asia from 2006.
	Alexander Konovalov	Is a Russian lawyer and politician. Since May 2008, he is minister of justice.
	Leonid Aleksandrovich Kozhara	Ukrainian politician and diplomat. President of "The Socialists of Ukraine". Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2012-2014), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Sweden (2002-2004), Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE (2013), MP (2006-2012).
	Martin Lees	Adviser to the President of COP20; Rector Emeritus, UN University for Peace; former UNASG for Science and Technology; Moderator Gorbachev Task Force on Climate Change, Special Advisor to the president of the COP, Former Secretary General of the Club of Rome. He was responsible for the design and launching of the OECD “InterFutures” Project on the Future of the Advanced Industrial Societies in Harmony with that of the Developing Countries. Founder of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development.
	Enrico Letta	Prime minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014.
	Anatol Lieven	Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar, visiting professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London, and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. My recent book, Pakistan: A Hard Country, was published in April 2011 by Penguin and was selected by the Daily Telegraph as one of the '2011 Books of Year'. A new edition of , America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, is published in 2012.
	Erkki Liikannen	is a Finnish social democratic politician and the Governor of the Bank of Finland.
	Horst Mahr	Dr.rer.pol., Dr.h.c. Horst MAHR, Chairman “Foreign Affairs Association”; in 1948 in Munich founded semi official organization of the Federal Foreign Ministry Berlin and the Government of Bavaria; organizing 20 lecture and panel evenings a year about developments in International Affairs; Vice President of School of Politics of Munich University until Sept. 2015; lecturer at Diplomatic Academies in Vienna, Moscow, Sofia and at ECPD Belgrade; Before career in International Banking: Executive Vice President of a German Bank, Board Member of Banks in Dublin; New York, Hong Kong.
	Gaidz Minassian	French journalist “Le Monde”
	Federica Mogherini	Is an Italian politician and the current High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission in the Juncker Commission since 1 November 2014.
	Jan Mortier	Director of “Civitatis International”, UK
	Lord David Owen	Lord David Owen, former UK Foreign Secretary 1977-79; EU peace negotiator in the former Yugoslavia 1992-95. Lord Owen campaigned for Britain to leave the EU. He believes the Eurozone's flaws will be globally harmful until it becomes a single country and a wider Europe is formed around the EEA with no 15freedom of movement of labour.
	Sergio Romano	Is an Italian writer, journalist, and historian. He is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Romano is also a former Italian ambassador to Moscow.
	Adam Rotfeld	Is a Polish researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions, with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians. From 1991 up to 2002 he served as Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and in 1989–1991 project leader on Building a Cooperative Security System in and for Europe at SIPRI.
	Bendik Rugaas	Former Minister for Planning and Coordination in Norway, National Librarian of Norway, Director General in the Council of Europe for Education, Culture, Environment, Youth and Sports, Counsellor for Cultural Affairs at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington DC, and Special Adviser for the Norwegian Ministry of Culture for cultural relations with Russia in the North. Presently Managing director for Borealis Productions/Film &TV. I will be preparing a presentation: “Borderology ; How to live in peace with a common border. The example of Norway and Russia in the High North”.
	Jacques Rupnik	is a political scientist and historian. He is Directeur de recherche at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, and Visiting Professor at the Collège d'Europe, Brügge. His publications include: "Die Dilemmata der Europäischen Union. Anatomie einer Krise", in: Transit -- Europäische Revue (2006); International Perspectives on the Balkans (2003); The Road to the European Union: The Czech and the Slovak Republik (Ed., 2003); Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned (2000).
	Roberto Savio	President Emeritus, IPS. He is a journalist, communications expert, political commentator, activist for social and climate justice and advocate of global governance. He has spent most of his career with Inter Press Service (IPS), the news agency which he founded in 1964 along with Argentine journalist Pablo Piacentini.
	Angelo Schiano	President, Fondazione Italiani. The Foundation was created under the initiative of Dr. Angelo Schiano and is a "not for profit" organisation aiming to contribute to freedom of expression and the civil debate by promoting the right to discuss ideas and positions without constraints.
	Stefano Stefanini	Ambassador Stefano Stefanini is a nonresident senior fellow with the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security.He has been diplomatic adviser to the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, Italian permanent representative at NATO and deputy chief of mission at the Italian Embassy in Washington. He had previously served at the United Nations in New York and Moscow. He began his diplomatic career as consul in Perth, Western Australia.
	Peter Steiner	Professor Steiner studied history of art, German literature, philosophy and archaeology in Munich and Vienna with periods of study in Paris, Rome and London. He completed his doctoral degree in 1969. During the course of his career he has worked in the fields of publishing, conservation of historic listed buildings and museums. For over 20 years Professor Steiner has conducted study trips throughout Europe. He has also had teaching assignments at LMU Munich and the University of Eichstätt.
	Caba Tabajdi	Is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliamentfor the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. He is member of the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Petitions, as well as the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a substitute member of the Committee on Environment and Public Health and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
	Francois Tremeaud	Former Assistant Director General of the International Labour Office (ILO,Geneva). Beyond,if need be, I am a member of the Scientific Committee of the New Policy Forum and was,until recently,member of the Advisory Board of the European Policy Center(Bruxelles)as well as President of the Scientific Committee of the World Political Forum (Turin,Italy)
	Dmitry Trenin	Is the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a think tank and regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
	Angelo Tofalo	Engineer Angelo Tofalo, member of the Italian Parliament, member of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic.
	Janis Urbanovics	Is a Latvian politician and a member of the Saeima since 1994. He was the chairman of Harmony from 2010–2014. From 2005–2010 he was chairman of the National Harmony Party.
	Hubert Vedrine	is a French Socialist politician. He is an advisor at Moelis & Company.
	Risto Volanen	Dr. Risto Volanen has been State Secretary in the Finnish Prime Ministers Office in 2003-2010, among other things chairing the production of the government white paper on defence and security policy. He has worked for government and he was in 1997-2003 in Brussels Secretary General in COPA-COGECA, the European farmers lobby. He is Associate Professor in the University of Tampere and former student in the French ENA in Paris.
	Igor Yurievich Yurgens	Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute for Contemporary Development Since 2001 has been vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
	Zakhari Zakhariev	Prof. D-r Zahari Zahariev is a prominent Bulgarian academic, political and public figure. Member of different academies of science, lecturer at many universities around the world, he also has significant contributions in international academic and cultural exchange. Active in the civil sphere, since 1990 he is President of “Slaviani” Foundation.
	Federico MAYOR Zaragoza	Prof. Federico Mayor. Former Rector of Granada University (Spain, 1968-1972); Minister of Education and Science (1981-1982); Chair of the Isyk-Khul Forum (1986-1993); Director General of UNESCO (1987-1999); co-Chair of the Commission for the Alliance of Civilizations (2005). At present, is President of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace and of the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICPD).