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The Task Force has the following confirmed membership:

  • Des Browne, Former Defence Secretary (UK) (Co-Chair);
  • Igor S. Ivanov, Former Foreign Minister, President, Russian International Affairs Council, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) (Co-Chair);
  • Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Former Foreign Minister, (Poland) (Co-Chair);
  • Anatoliy Adamishin, President of the Non-Governmental Organization “Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation”, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation;
  • Tarja Cronberg, former Member of the European Parliament (Finland);
  • Ruslan S. Grinberg, Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, (Russia);
  • Alexei Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), (Russia);
  • Pierre Lellouche, former Secretary of State for European Affairs and Foreign Trade (France);
  • Ana Palacio, former Foreign Minister (Spain);
  • Paul Quilès, former Defence Minister (France);
  • Malcolm Rifkind, former Foreign and Defence Secretary (UK);
  • Volker Ruehe, former Defence Minister, (Germany);
  • Özdem Sanberk, Former Permanent Undersecretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and former Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, (Turkey) (Co-Chair);
  • Anatoliy Torkunov, Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (Russia);
  • Vyacheslav I. Trubnikov, Former Director, Russian Foreign Intelligence, General of the Army (Rtd), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (Russia);
  • Igor Yu. Yurgens, Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development, Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Russia);
  • Vitaly V. Zhurkin, Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member (Russia);
  • Sir Tony Brenton, former UK Ambassador to Russia (UK);
  • Georgy Mamedov, former Russian Ambassador to Canada, and former adviser to President Putin (Russia);
  • Mikhail Margelov, former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation Council (Russia);
  • Herve Morin, Leader of the New Centre party and former Minister of Defence (France).
  • Hikmet Cetin, former Foreign Minister (Turkey)
  • Borys Tarasyuk, former Foreign Minister (Ukraine)
  • Klaus Wittmann, former General; Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute (Germany)
  • Angela Kane, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs & Under Secretary General (Germany)