ECFR's Board and Council

ECFR's Board members are: Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair), Emma Bonino, Joschka Fischer (co-chair), Karin Forseke, Timothy Garton Ash, Ivan Krastev, Mabel van Oranje (co-chair), Ana Palacio, Andrew Puddephatt, Aleksander Smolar, Javier Solana

• Asger Aamund (Denmark) - President and CEO, A. J. Aamund A/S and Chairman of Bavarian Nordic A/S
• Urban Ahlin (Sweden) - Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and foreign policy spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party
• Martti Ahtisaari (Finland) - Chairman of the Board, Crisis Management Initiative; former President
• Giuliano Amato (Italy) - former Prime Minister and Vice President of the European Convention
• Gustavo de Aristegui (Spain) - Member of Parliament
• Gordon Bajnai (Hungary) - former Prime Minister
• Leszek Balcerowicz (Poland) - Professor, Warsaw School of Economics; former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
• Dora Bakoyannis (Greece) - Member of Parliament; former Foreign Minister
• Lluís Bassets (Spain) - Deputy Director, El País
• Marek Belka (Poland) - Governor, National Bank of Poland; former Prime Minister
• Roland Berger (Germany) - Founder and Honorary Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH
• Erik Berglöf (Sweden) - Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Poland) - Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Council; former Prime Minister
• Carl Bildt (Sweden) - Foreign Minister
• Henryka Bochniarz (Poland) - President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers - LEWIATAN
• Svetoslav Bojilov (Bulgaria) - Founder, Communitas Foundation and President of Venture Equity Bulgaria Ltd
• Emma Bonino (Italy) - Vice President of the Senate; former EU Commissioner
• Han ten Broeke (The Netherlands) - MP; spokesman for foreign affairs and defence
• John Bruton (Ireland) - former European Commission Ambassador to the United States of America; former Prime Minister (Taoiseach)
• Ian Buruma (The Netherlands) - Writer and academic
• Erhard Busek (Austria) - Chairman of the Institute for the Danube and Central Europe
• Jerzy Buzek (Poland) - President of the European Parliament; former Prime Minister
• Gunilla Carlsson (Sweden) - Minister for International Development Cooperation
• Maria Livanos Cattaui (Switzerland) - former Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce
• Ipek Cem Taha (Turkey) - Director of Melak Investments; journalist
• Carmen Chacón (Spain) - former Minister of Defence
• Charles Clarke (United Kingdom) - Visiting Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia; former Home Secretary
• Nicola Clase (Sweden) - Ambassador to the United Kingdom; former State Secretary 
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Germany) - Member of European Parliament
• Robert Cooper (United Kingdom) - Counsellor of the European External Action Service
• Gerhard Cromme (Germany) - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ThyssenKrupp
• Daniel Daianu (Romania) - Professor of Economics, National School of Political and Administrative Studies; former Finance Minister
• Massimo D’Alema (Italy) - President, Italianieuropei Foundation; President, Foundation for European Progressive Studies; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
• Marta Dassù (Italy) - Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Etienne Davignon (Belgium) - President, Friends of Europe; former Vice President of the European Commission
• Ahmet Davutoglu (Turkey) - Foreign Minister 
• Aleš Debeljak (Slovenia) - Poet and Cultural Critic
• Jean-Luc Dehaene (Belgium) - Member of European Parliament; former Prime Minister
• Gianfranco Dell'Alba (Italy) - Director, Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) - Brussels office; former Member of European Parliament 
• Pavol Demeš (Slovakia) - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States(Bratislava)
• Kemal Dervis (Turkey) - Vice-President and Director of Global Economy and Development
• Tibor Dessewffy (Hungary) - President, DEMOS Hungary
• Hanzade Doğan Boyner (Turkey) - Chair, Doğan Gazetecilik and Doğan Online
• Andrew Duff (United Kingdom) - Member of European Parliament
• Mikuláš Dzurinda (Slovakia) - Foreign Minister
• Hans Eichel (Germany) - former Finance Minister
• Rolf Ekeus (Sweden) - former Director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq
• Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (Denmark) - Chairman, Baltic Development Forum; former Foreign Minister
• Steven Everts (The Netherlands) - Adviser to the Vice President of the European Commission/EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy
• Gianfranco Fini (Italy ) - President, Chamber of Deputies; former Foreign Minister
• Tanja Fajon (Slovenia) - Member of European Parliament
• Joschka Fischer (Germany) - former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor
• Karin Forseke (Sweden/USA) - Business Leader; former CEO Carnegie Investment Bank
• Lykke Friis (Denmark) - Member of Parliament; former Minister for Climate and Energy
• Jaime Gama (Portugal) - former Speaker of the Portuguese Parliament; former Foreign Minister 
• Timothy Garton Ash (United Kingdom) - Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
• Carlos Gaspar (Portugal) - Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI)
• Anthony Giddens (United Kingdom) - Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics
• Teresa Patricio Gouveia (Portugal) - Trustee to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; former Foreign Minister  
• Heather Grabbe (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, Open Society Institute – Brussels
• Charles Grant (United Kingdom) - Director, Centre for European Reform
• Jean-Marie Guéhenno (France) - Director of the Centre on International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University (New York); Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN
• Fernando Andresen Guimarães (Portugal) - Head of Division - US and Canada, European External Action Service
• Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (Germany) - former Defence Minister
• István Gyarmati (Hungary) - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition
• Hans Hækkerup (Denmark) - Chairman, Defence Commission; former Defence Minister
• Heidi Hautala (Finland) - Minister for International Development
• Steven Heinz (Austria) - Co-founder & Co-Chairman, Lansdowne Partners Ltd
• Annette Heuser (Germany) - Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC
• Diego Hidalgo (Spain) - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; President, FRIDE
• Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (The Netherlands) - former NATO Secretary General
• Danuta Hübner (Poland) - Member of the European Parliament; former European Commissioner
• Anna Ibrisagic (Sweden) - Member of European Parliament
• Jaakko Iloniemi (Finland) - former Ambassador and former Executive Director, Crisis Management Initiative
• Toomas Ilves (Estonia) - President
• Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany) - Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head of Government Affairs Allianz SE
• Minna Järvenpää (Finland) - International Advocacy Director, Open Society Foundation
• Mary Kaldor (United Kingdom) - Professor, London School of Economics
• Ibrahim Kalin (Turkey) - Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey on foreign policy and public diplomacy
• Sylvie Kauffmann (France) - Executive Editor of Le Monde
• Glenys Kinnock (United Kingdom) - former Member of European Parliament; Shadow Lords Spokesperson on International Development
• Olli Kivinen (Finland) - Writer and columnist
• Ben Knapen (The Netherlands) - Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation
• Gerald Knaus (Austria) - Chairman of the European Stability Initiative and Carr Center Fellow
• Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary
• Bassma Kodmani (France/Syria) - Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative
• Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands) - Architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
• Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) - Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
• Aleksander Kwaśniewski (Poland) - former President
• Mart Laar (Estonia) - Member of Parliament; former Prime Minister
• Miroslav Lajčák (Slovakia) - Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister
• Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (Germany) - Member of European Parliament
• Pascal Lamy (France) - Honorary President, Notre Europe and Director-General of WTO; former EU Commissioner
• Bruno Le Maire (France) - Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fishing
• Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) - Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
• Juan Fernando López Aguilar (Spain) - Member of European Parliament; former Minister of Justice
• Helena Luczywo (Poland) - Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
• Adam Lury (United Kingdom) - CEO, Menemsha Ltd
• Emma Marcegaglia (Italy) - President, Confindustria
• David Miliband (United Kingdom) - Member of Parliament; former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Alain Minc (France) - Head of AM Conseil; former chairman, Le Monde
• Nickolay Mladenov (Bulgaria) - Foreign Minister; former Defence Minister; former Member of European Parliament
• Dominique Moisi (France) - Senior Adviser, IFRI
• Pierre Moscovici (France) - Minister of the Economy, Finances and Foreign Trade, MP ; former MEP and former Minister for European Affairs
• Nils Muiznieks (Latvia) - Director, Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia
• Hildegard Müller (Germany) - Chairwoman, BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft
• Wolfgang Münchau (Germany) - President, Eurointelligence ASBL
• Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Greece/France) - Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
• Daithi O'Ceallaigh (Ireland) - Director-General, Institute of International and European Affairs
• Christine Ockrent (Belgium) - Editorialist
• Andrzej Olechowski (Poland) - former Foreign Minister
• Dick Oosting (The Netherlands) - CEO, European Council on Foreign Relations; former Europe Director, Amnesty International
• Mabel van Oranje (The Netherlands) - CEO, The Elders
• Marcelino Oreja Aguirre (Spain) - President, Instituto de Estudios Europeos, Universidad San Pablo CEU; former Foreign Minister; former EU Commissioner
• Cem Özdemir (Germany) - Leader, Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Green Party)
• Ana Palacio (Spain) - former Foreign Minister; former Senior President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group
• Simon Panek (Czech Republic) - Chairman, People in Need Foundation
• Chris Patten (United Kingdom) - Chancellor of Oxford University and co-chair of the International Crisis Group; former EU Commissioner
• Diana Pinto (France) - Historian and author
• Jean Pisani-Ferry (France) - Director, Bruegel and Professor at Universite Paris-Dauphine
• Ruprecht Polenz (Germany) - Member of Parliament; Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
• Lydie Polfer (Luxembourg) - Member of Parliament; former Foreign Minister
• Charles Powell (Spain/UK) - Deputy Director, Real Instituto Elcano
• Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) - Director, Global Partners & Associated Ltd.
• Vesna Pusić (Croatia) - Foreign Minister
• Robert Reibestein (The Netherlands) - Director, McKinsey & Company
• George Robertson (United Kingdom) - former Secretary General of NATO
• Albert Rohan (Austria) - former Secretary General for Foreign Affairs
• Dariusz Rosati (Poland) - former Foreign Minister 
• Adam D. Rotfeld (Poland) - former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Co-Chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Commissioner of Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative
• Norbert Röttgen (Germany) - Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• Daniel Sachs (Sweden) - CEO, Proventus
• Pasquale Salzano (Italy) - Vice President for International Governmental Affairs, ENI
• Stefano Sannino (Italy) - Director General for Enlargement, European Commission
• Marietje Schaake (The Netherlands) - Member of European Parliament
• Pierre Schori (Sweden) - Chair of Olof Palme Memorial Fund; former Director General, FRIDE; former SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire
• Wolfgang Schüssel (Austria) - Former Chancellor
• Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech Republic) - Foreign Minister 
• Giuseppe Scognamiglio (Italy) - Head of Public Affairs - Executive Vice President - Unicredit SpA
• Narcís Serra (Spain) - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President of the Spanish Government
• Radosław Sikorski (Poland) - Foreign Minister
• Aleksander Smolar (Poland) - Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
• 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
• George Soros (Hungary/USA) - Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute
• Teresa de Sousa (Portugal) - Journalist
• Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia) - Playwright and academic
• Rory Stewart (United Kingdom) - Member of Parliament
• Alexander Stubb (Finland) - Minister for Foreign Trade and European Affairs; former Foreign Minister
• Michael Stürmer (Germany) - Chief Correspondent, Die Welt
• Paweł Świeboda (Poland) - President, Demos-EUROPA, Centre for European Strategy
• Ion Sturza (Romania) - President, GreenLight Invest.; former Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova
• Teija Tiilikainen (Finland) - Director, Finnish Institute for International Relations
• Loukas Tsoukalis (Greece) - Professor, University of Athens and President, ELIAMEP
• Erkki Tuomioja (Finland) -  Foreign Minister
• Daniel Valtchev (Bulgaria) - former deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education
• Vaira Vike-Freiberga (Latvia) - former President
• Antonio Vitorino (Portugal) - Lawyer; former EU Commissioner
• Andre Wilkens (Germany) - Director Mercator Centre Berlin and Director Strategy, Mercator Haus
• Carlos Alonso Zaldívar (Spain) - Ambassador to Brazil
• Stelios Zavvos (Greece) - CEO, Zeus Capital Managers Ltd
• Samuel Žbogar (Slovenia) - Foreign Minister