ECFR's Board and Council

The ECFR Board

Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair), Emma Bonino, Joschka Fischer (co-chair), Timothy Garton Ash, Diego Hidalgo, Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard, Mabel van Oranje (co-chair), Andrew Puddephatt, Aleksander Smolar, George Soros.

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 February, 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) - Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund; former Prime Minister
9. Roland Berger (Germany) - Founder and Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH
10. Erik Berglöf (Sweden) - Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
11. Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Poland) - 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) - MP; former Home Secretary
20. Nicola Clase (Sweden) - Associate, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University; 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) - Adviser to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso
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. Annette Heuser (Germany) - Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC
51. Diego Hidalgo (Spain) - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; President, FRIDE
52. Michiel van Hulten (The Netherlands) - Managing Director, Government Relations, Burson-Marsteller Brussels; former Member of European Parliament
53. Anna Ibrisagic (Sweden) - Member of European Parliament
54. Jaakko Iloniemi (Finland) - CEO, UNIFIN; former Executive Director, Crisis Management Initiative
55. Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany) - Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head of Government Affairs Allianz SE
56. Lionel Jospin (France) - former Prime Minister
57. Mary Kaldor (United Kingdom) - Professor, London School of Economics
58. Glenys Kinnock (United Kingdom) - Minister for Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the UN; former Member of European Parliament
59. Olli Kivinen (Finland) - Writer and columnist
60. Gerald Knaus (Austria) - Chairman of the European Stability Initiative and Carr Center Fellow
61. Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary
62. Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands) - Architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
63. Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) - Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
64. Mart Laar (Estonia) - MP; former Prime Minister
65. Miroslav Lajčák (Slovakia) - Foreign Minister; former High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia Herzegovina
66. Pascal Lamy (France) - Honorary President, Notre Europe and Director-General of WTO; former EU Commissioner
67. Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
68. Juan Fernando López Aguilar ( Spain) - Member of European Parliament; former Minister of Justice
69. Helena Luczywo (Poland) - Deputy Editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza 
70. Adam Lury (United Kingdom) - CEO, Menemsha Ltd
71. Alain Minc (France) - Head of AM Conseil; former chairman, Le Monde
72. Nickolay Mladenov (Bulgaria) -Foreign Minister; former Defence Minister; former Member of European Parliament
73. Dominique Moisi (France) - Senior Adviser, IFRI
74. Pierre Moscovici (France) - MP; former Minister for European Affairs
75. Nils Muiznieks (Latvia) - Director, Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia
76. Hildegard Müller (Germany) - Chairwoman, BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft
77. Wolfgang Münchau (Germany) - President, Eurointelligence ASBL
78. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Greece/France) - Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
79. Christine Ockrent (Belgium) - CEO, Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France
80. Andrzej Olechowski (Poland) - former Foreign Minister
81. Dick Oosting (The Netherlands) - Human Rights Consultant; former Europe Director, Amnesty International
82. Mabel van Oranje (The Netherlands) - CEO, The Elders
83. Marcelino Oreja Aguirre (Spain) - Member of the Board, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas; former EU Commissioner
84. Leoluca Orlando (Italy) - MP and President, Sicilian Renaissance Institute
85. Cem Özdemir (Germany) - Leader, Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Green Party)
86. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (Italy) - President, Notre Europe; former chairman of IMF and former Minister of Economy and Finance
87. Ana Palacio (Spain) - Senior Vice President for International Affairs and Marketing, AREVA; former Foreign Minister
88. Simon Panek (Czech Republic) - Chairman, People in Need Foundation
89. Chris Patten (United Kingdom) - Chancellor of Oxford University and co-chair of the International Crisis Group; former EU Commissioner
90. Diana Pinto (France) - Historian and author
91. Jean Pisani-Ferry (France) - Director, Bruegel and Professor at Universite Paris-Dauphine
92. Andrei Pleşu (Romania) - Rector, New Europe College; former Foreign Minister
93. Ruprecht Polenz (Germany) - MP and Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
94. Lydie Polfer (Luxembourg) - MP; former Foreign Minister
95. Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) - Director, Global Partners & Associated Ltd.
96. Vesna Pusić (Croatia) - MP, President of the National Committee for Monitoring the EU Accession Negotiations and Professor of Sociology, University of Zagreb
97. Sigrid Rausing (United Kingdom) - Founder, Sigrid Rausing Trust
98. George Robertson (United Kingdom) - former Secretary General of NATO
99. Albert Rohan (Austria) - former Secretary General for Foreign Affairs
100. Dariusz Rosati (Poland) - former Foreign Minister 
101. Adam D. Rotfeld (Poland) - Chairman of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters; former Foreign Minister
102. Daniel Sachs (Sweden) - CEO, Proventus 
103. Pierre Schori (Sweden) - Chair of Olof Palme Memorial Fund; former Director General, FRIDE; former SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire
104. Wolfgang Schüssel (Austria) - MP; former Chancellor
105. Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech Republic) - MP; former Minister of Foreign Affairs 
106. Giuseppe Scognamiglio (Italy) - Head of Institutional and International Relations, UniCredit
107. Narcís Serra (Spain) - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President
108. Elif Shafak (Turkey) - Writer
109. Aleksander Smolar (Poland) - Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
110. George Soros (Hungary/USA) - Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute
111. Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia) - Playwright and Academic
112. Dominique Strauss-Kahn (France) - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; former Finance Minister
113. Alexander Stubb (Finland) - Foreign Minister
114. Michael Stürmer (Germany) - Chief Correspondent, Die Welt
115. Helle Thorning Schmidt (Denmark) - Leader of the Social Democratic Party
116. Loukas Tsoukalis (Greece) - Professor, University of Athens and President, ELIAMEP
117. Erkki Tuomioja (Finland) - MP; former Foreign Minister
118. Vaira Vike- Freiberga (Latvia) - former President
119. Antonio Vitorino (Portugal) - Lawyer; former EU Commissioner
120. Gijs de Vries (The Netherlands) - Member of the Board, Netherlands Court of Audit; former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator
121. Stephen Wall (United Kingdom) - Chair of the Federal Trust; Vice Chair of  Business for New Europe; former EU adviser to Tony Blair 
122. Andre Wilkens (Germany) - Director for International Relations, Stiftung Mercator
123. Shirley Williams (United Kingdom) - Professor Emeritus, Kennedy School of Government; former Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
124. Carlos Alonso Zaldívar (Spain) - Ambassador to Brazil