Madrid office: Council members

ECFR has brought together a distinguished Council of over one hundred Members - politicians, decision makers, thinkers and business people from the EU's member states and candidate countries - which meets once a year as a full body. Through geographical and thematic task forces, members provide ECFR staff with advice and feedback on policy ideas and help with ECFR's activities within their own countries. The Council is chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer and Mabel van Oranje.

ECFR's Spanish Council members are:

Lluís Bassets - Deputy Director, El País

Manuel Castells - Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of Southern California

Diego Hidalgo - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; President, FRIDE

Juan Fernando López Aguilar - Member of European Parliament; former Minister of Justice

Marcelino Oreja Aguirre - President of the European Studies Institute at San Pablo CEU University. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ana Palacio - Former Foreign Minister; former Senior President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group

Narcís Serra - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President of the Spanish Government

Javier Solana - former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy & Secretary-General of the Council of the EU; former Secretary General of NATO

Carlos Alonso Zaldívar - Ambassador to Brazil