Senior Network

Bob Ainsworth

Former Defence Secretary

Nicole Ameline

Former Member of Parliament and Vice-Chair, United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Michael Ancram

Former Chairman of the Conservative Party

Pavel Andreev

Founder of the Center for Global Strategies and Communications

Joyce Anelay

Chair of the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, Former Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Niels Annen

Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office

Giancarlo Aragona

Former Italian Ambassador Moscow & London; Former General Director of Political Affairs in the Foreign Affairs Ministry; Former Secretary General of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Alexey Arbatov

Head of the Center for International Security at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

James Arbuthnot

Former Chair of the Parliamentary Defence Select Committee

Catherine Ashton

Former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Mustafa Aydin

President of the International Relations Council of Turkey

Audronius Ažubalis

Former Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ricardo Baptista Leite

Member of Parliament

Espen Barth Eide

Former Foreign Minister, Former Minister of Defence

Sergey Batsanov

Director of the Geneva Office of Pugwash Conferences, Former Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament

Margaret Beckett

Former Foreign Secretary

Fatmir Besimi

Former Defence Minister, Former Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs

Alexander Bessmertnykh

Former Foreign Minister

Hans Blix

Former Foreign Minister and Director-General Emeritus of the IAEA

Jaakko Blomberg

Former Ambassador to Canada and Estonia

Margherita Boniver

Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Michael Boyce

Former Chief of the Defence Staff

Davor Božinovic

Former Minister of Defence

Heinrich Brauss

Former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning

Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

Associate Professor at the University of Oslo

Tony Brenton

Former UK Ambassador to Russia

Des Browne

Chair of the ELN, Vice Chairman of the NTI, Convener of the TLG and former UK Defence Secretary

Karl-Heinz Brunner

Member of the Bundestag Defence Committee and Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control, and Non-Proliferation

Alistair Burt

Former Minister of State at the Department for International Development and Minister of State at Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Evgeny Buzhinskiy

Lieutenant-General (Retired), Chairman of the Executive Board of PIR Center

Francesco Calogero

Former Secretary-General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Menzies Campbell

Honorary President of the ELN; Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats

Vincenzo Camporini

Former Chief of the Joint Defence Staff, Former Chief of Staff of the Air Force

Ingvar Carlsson

Former Prime Minister

Hikmet Çetin

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Turkey

Ünal Çeviköz

Former Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Oleksandr Chalyi

Former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Valeri Chechelashvili

Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Former Minister of Finance

Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz

Former Prime Minister, Former Foreign Minister

Willy Claes

Former Secretary General of NATO, Former Foreign Minister

Charles Clarke

Former Home Secretary

Alain Coldefy

Former General Inspector of the French Armed Forces

Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

Secretary General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Tarja Cronberg

Former Member of the European Parliament, Distinguished Associate Fellow at SIPRI and Member of the Executive Board of the European Leadership Network

Balázs Csuday

Former Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations

Benoit d’Aboville

Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO, Vice President of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique

Massimo D’Alema

Former Prime Minister and former Foreign Minister

Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Former Foreign Minister

Marta Dassù

Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senior Advisor for European Affairs, Aspen Institute Italia.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Former NATO Secretary General, Former Foreign Affairs Minister

Daniela De Ridder

Member of Parliament and Vice-Chair of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee

Klaas de Vries

Former Minister for Interior Affairs and Kingdom Relations

Sławomir Dębski

Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs

Giampaolo Di Paola

Former Minister of Defence of Italy; Former Chairman of NATO Military Committee

Anatoly Diakov

Director, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Nikola Dimitrov

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Jorge Domecq

Former Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency

Alfred Dubs

Member of the House of Lords

Michel Duclos

Former Ambassador to the WEU, Former Ambassador to Syria

Vladimir Dvorkin

Lead scientist at the Center of the International Safety of the Institute of Economic and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Dynkin

President of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Angelien Eijsink

Former Member of Parliament and PvdA spokesperson for Defence

Rolf Ekéus

Former Ambassador to the United States, former High Commissioner on national minorities in Europe

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Former Foreign Minister

Vahit Erdem

Former Head of the Turkish Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Gernot Erler

Germany's Coord­inator for Intersocietal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia, and the Eastern Partnership Countries

Osman Faruk Loğoğlu

Former Turkish Ambassador to the United States and former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Gianfranco Fini

Former President of the Chamber of Deputies, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Former Secretary General of NATO and Former Prime Minister of Denmark

Søren Gade

Former Defence Minister

Stephen Gethins

Former Member of the House of Commons

Anatoliy Grytsenko

Former Defence Minister; Former Chairman of the National Security and Defence Committee in the Ukrainain Parliament

Charles Guthrie

Former Chief of the Defence Staff

Jan Hamácek

Minister of the Interior and Leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party

David Hannay

Former Ambassador of the UK to the EEC, Former Ambassador of the UK to the UN

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Former Prime Minister of Norway, Former Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

Nick Harvey

Former Minister of State for the Armed Forces

François Heisbourg

Senior fellow (Europe), International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS).

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert

Former Defence Minister and Special Representative for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

Gunnar Hökmark

Chairman, Stockholm Free World Forum and former Vice Chairman, European People's Party and Member of the European Parliament

Werner Hoyer

Former Minister of State, Current President of the European Investment Bank

Douglas Hurd

Former Foreign Secretary

Jaakko Iloniemi

Former Ambassador to the United States, former Ambassador to the CSCE and former Deputy Head of Mission to the United Nations

Wolfgang Ischinger

Chairman of the Munich Security Conference

Igor Ivanov

Former Foreign Minister of Russia

Laurens Jan Brinkhorst

Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former Minister of Economic Affairs

Tedo Japaridze

Former Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister of Georgia, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Vice-Chairman, Anaklia Development Consortium

Anna Jardfelt

Ambassador to Kenya, Former Ambassador to the EU's Political and Security Committee

Marina Kaljurand

Member of the European Parliament and Former Foreign Minister

Angela Kane

Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs & Under-Secretary-General

Juhani Kaskeala

Former Chief of Defence

Jan Kavan

Former Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and former President of the UN General Assembly

John Kerr

Former British Ambassador to the United States and the EU

Katja Keul

Member of German Bundestag and Current Member of the Defence Committee

Mustafa Kibaroglu

Chair of the International Relations Department, Okan University

Roderich Kiesewetter

CDU member of the German Bundestag

Tom King

Former Defence Secretary

Bogdan Klich

Minority Leader of the Polish Senate, Former Minister of Defence

Alexander Kmentt

Former Permanent Representative of Austria to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union

Adam Kobieracki

Former Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Center and former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations

Silvana Koch-Mehrin

Founder, Women Political Leaders and former Vice-President of the European Parliament

Bert Koenders

Former Foreign Minister

Walter Kolbow

Former Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defence

Andrey Kortunov

Director-General, Russian International Affairs Council

Jakub Kulhánek

Chief Adviser to the Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies

Giorgio La Malfa

Former Minister for European Affairs

Jaakko Laajava

Former Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Security Policy and Facilitator of the WMDFZ in the Middle East

Mart Laar

Miroslav Lajčák

Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Pierre Lellouche

French MP, former Minister of Foreign Trade, former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Sergii Leshchenko

Member of Parliament

Linas Linkevicius

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former Defence Minister

Nathalie Loiseau

Chair of the European Parliament Security and Defence committee and MEP

Budimir Loncar

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of former Yugoslavia

Jüri Luik

Minister of Defence and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Vladimir Lukin

Russian Federation Council Member, Former Ambassador to the United States, Former Human Rights Commissioner of Russia

Fyodor Lukyanov

Editor in Chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs; Chairman of Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

Mogens Lykketoft

Former Foreign Minister and Former President of the UN General Assembly

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Former Prime Minister

Merle Maigre

Executive Vice President, CybExer Technologies; former Director, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

Klaus Mangold

Director, Mangold Consulting

János Martonyi

Former Foreign Affairs Minister

David McAllister

MEP, Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee

John McColl

Former Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey, Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (Deputy SACEUR)

Tom McKane

Former Director General for Strategy and Security Policy, Ministry of Defence

Fatmir Mediu

Former Minister of Defence

Louis Michel

Former European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid; Former Foreign Minister; Former MEP

Ioan Mircea Paşcu

Vice-President of the European Parliament and Vice Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Federica Mogherini

Former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission

Madeleine Moon

Former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Politician

Hervé Morin

Former Defence Minister, President of the Normandy Region

Eoghan Murphy

Minister of State for Financial Services, Deputy to the Dáil

Klaus Naumann

Former Chief of Staff of the German armed forces, Former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

Mustafa Nayyem

Member of the Ukrainian Parliament

Renatas Norkus

Lithuanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Bernard Norlain

Former Air Defense Commander and Air Combat Commander of the French Air Force

Volodymyr Ogrysko

Former Foreign Minister

Janusz Onyszkiewicz

Former Defence Minister and Chair, Executive Council, Euro-Atlantic Association (Poland)

David Owen

Former Foreign Secretary

Ana Palacio

Former Foreign Minister

Boris Pankin

Former Foreign Minister of the former USSR

Arturo Parisi

Former Defence Minister

Solomon Passy

Former Chairman of the United Nations Security Council, Former Bulgarian Foreign Minister

Wolfgang Petritsch

Former EU Special Envoy for Kosovo & Former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dmitry Polikanov

Chairman of the Trialogue Club and member of the Expert Council of the Russian Government

Lia Quartapelle

Member of Parliament

Paul Quilès

Former Minister of Defence

David Ramsbotham

Retired General Army, Former Adjutant General, Former ADC General to HM the Queen

Elisabeth Rehn

Former Defence Minister

Alain Richard

Former Defence Minister

David Richards

Former Chief of the Defence Staff

Peter Ricketts

Former Ambassador to France, former National Security Adviser

Malcolm Rifkind

Former Foreign Secretary, Former Defence Secretary

George Robertson

Former NATO Secretary General, Former Secretary of State for Defence

Sergey Rogov

Director of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Science (ISKRAN)

Norbert Röttgen

Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee

Volker Rühe

Former Defence Minister

Henrik Salander

Former Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, Secretary-General of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission

Konstantin Samofalov

Member of Parliament

Özdem Sanberk

Former Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Former Under Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Marietje Schaake

International Director of Policy, Stanford Cyber Policy Center, former Member of the European Parliament

Carlo Schaerf

Former Professor of Physics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Rudolf Scharping

Former Defence Minister

Nils Schmid

Member of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party and spokesperson for Foreign Affairs

Ulf Schneider

Founder and President, SCHNEIDER GROUP

Vladimir Senko

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Narcís Serra

Former Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister

Radosław Sikorski

Former Minister of Defence; Former Foreign Minister

Stefano Silvestri

Former Under Secretary of State for Defence, Former President of the Italian International Affairs Institute

Ivo Slaus

Former Member of Parliament, Former member of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Javier Solana

Former NATO Secretary General, Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and former Foreign Minister of Spain

John Stanley

Former Chairman of the Committees on Arms Export Controls

Stefano Stefanini

Former Permanent Representative to NATO, Former Diplomatic Advisor to the President of Italy

Goran Svilanović

Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council

Elizabeth Symons

Former Minister of State for the Middle East

Boris Tadić

Former President of Serbia

Todor Tagarev

Former Defence Minister, Director of the "Defence Institute", Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria

Borys Tarasyuk

Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (1998-2000, 2005-2007)

Teija Tiilikainen

Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats

Eka Tkeshelashvili

Head of Programmes at the European Anti-Corruption Initiative to Ukraine; Former Vice Prime Minister of Georgia

Nathalie Tocci

Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Dmitri Trenin

Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center

Carlo Trezza

Former Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, Former Chairman of the Missile Technology Control Regime

David Triesman

Former Foreign Office Minister and Chairman of the Football Association

Vyacheslav Trubnikov

Former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

Ahmet Üzümcü

Former Director-General of the OPCW, Former Permanent Representative of Turkey to NATO

Hans van den Broek

Former Foreign Minister

Raimo Väyrynen

Former President of the Academy of Finland and Former Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Hubert Védrine

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Guy Verhofstadt

Former Prime Minister and current MEP

Imants Viesturs Liegis

Ambassador to France, Former Defence Minister

Pierre Vimont

Former Executive Secretary-General of the European External Action Service (EEAS)

Karsten Voigt

Former German-American coordinator in the Federal Foreign Office, Former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

William Wallace

Member of the House of Lords, Former Lord in Waiting

Alan West

First Sea Lord and Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy

Shirley Williams

Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, Former Adviser on Nuclear Proliferation to the Prime Minister

Kåre Willoch

Former Prime Minister

Klaus Wittmann

Former Bundeswehr general, Senior Fellow Aspen Institute Germany

Igor Yurgens

Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute for Contemporary Development

Uta Zapf

Former Chairwoman of the German Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation