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Members of the Contact Group on Russia-West Relations
Current members of the Group include Members of Parliament, diplomats, and strategic advisers from across wider Europe. The small number of participants is balanced between Russian experts and opinion-makers and a roughly equal mix of leaders from across the rest of Europe.
Contact Group Participants
- Dmitri Androssow (Russia), Member of the Federal Political Council of the People’s Freedom Party (PARNAS)
- Oksana Antonenko (UK/Russia), Director of Global Risk Analysis, Control Risks
- Ilana Bet-El (Belgium), Strategic adviser, writer and historian. Former UN official and senior adviser on the Balkans.
- Irina Busygina (Russia), Director, Center for Comparative Governance Studies, National Research University – Higher School of Economics
- Elena Chernenko (Russia), Head of Foreign Desk, Kommersant
- Mireille Clapot (France), Member of the National Assembly
- Stephen Doughty (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament; Shadow Minister for Europe and the Americas
- Alexey Gromyko (Russia), Director of the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Member of RAS; Member of the Russian International Affairs Council; Member of the Research Council for the Russian Foreign Minister; Member of the Scientific Board of the Security Council of Russia.
- Igor Istomin (Russia), Associate Professor at the Department of Applied International Political Analysis at MGIMO University
- Diana Janse (Sweden), Former Ambassador to Mali; Former Ambassador to Georgia and Armenia
- Riina Kaljurand (Estonia), Ambassador of Estonia to Georgia and Armenia
- Jana Kobzová (Slovakia), Chief Foreign Policy Expert at the Office of the President of the Slovak Republic
- Rihards Kols (Latvia), Member of Parliament; Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
- Lukasz Kulesa (Poland), Research Fellow, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
- Sergii Leshchenko (Ukraine), Journalist; Former Member of Parliament
- Valentina Martínez (Spain), Member of Parliament, International Secretary and Foreign Affairs Spokesperson of Partido Popular
- Andrej Matišák (Slovakia), Deputy Chief of Foreign Desk and Reporter at Pravda Daily
- Mira Milosevich-Juaristi (Spain), Senior Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute
- Nona Mikhelidze, Senior Fellow at Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
- Delphine O (France), Ambassador to the Secretary-General of the Generation Equality Forum 2020; Former Member of the National Assembly
- Victoria Panova (Russia), Vice-President for International Relations of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU)
- Maria Pastukhova (Russia), Senior Policy Advisor at E3G
- Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz (Poland), Director of the Open Europe Programme, Stefan Batory Foundation; Former Ambassador to Russia and Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Dmitry Polikanov (Russia), Member of the Expert Council of the Russian Federation; Former Deputy Head of the Central Executive Committee of United Russia
- Mikhail Rostovskiy (Russia), Journalist and Commentator, Moskovsky Komsomolets
- Laetitia Saint-Paul (France), Vice President of the National Assembly
- Selin Sayek Böke (Turkey), Member of Parliament
- Marietje Schaake (Netherlands), International Policy Director of the Cyber Policy Center and International Policy Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artifical Intelligence; Stanford University; Former Member of the European Parliament
- Ivan Timofeev (Russia), Director of Programs at the Russian International Affairs Council
- Nathalie Tocci (Italy), Director of Istituto Affari Internazionali; Special Adviser to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell
- Sergey Utkin (Russia), Head of the Strategic Assessment Section, IMEMO Russian Academy of Sciences
- Ernest Wyciszkiewicz (Poland), Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding