ECFR's Board and Council

The ECFR Board

Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair), Emma Bonino, Joschka Fischer (co-chair), Timothy Garton Ash, Diego Hidalgo, Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard, Alain Minc, Andrew Puddephatt (representing Sigrid Rausing), Aleksander Smolar, Mabel van Oranje (co-chair)

The ECFR Council

Among the members of the European Council on Foreign Relations are former prime ministers, presidents, European commissioners, current and former parliamentarians and ministers, public intellectuals, business leaders, activists and cultural figures from the EU member states and candidate countries. 

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List of Council Members (last updated February, 2009)

1. Asger Aamund (Denmark) - President and CEO, A. J. Aamund A/S and Chairman of Bavarian Nordic A/S
2. Urban Ahlin (Sweden) - Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and foreign policy spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party
3. Martti Ahtisaari (Finland) - Chairman of the Board, Crisis Management Initiative; former President
4. Giuliano Amato (Italy) - former Prime Minister and vice President of the European Convention
5. Hannes Androsch (Austria) - Founder, AIC Androsch International Management Consulting
6. Marek Belka (Poland) - Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund; former Prime Minister
7. Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Poland) - President, Bank Pekao SA; former Prime Minister
8. Svetoslav Bojilov (Bulgaria) - Founder, Communitas Foundation and President of Venture Equity Bulgaria Ltd.
9. Emma Bonino (Italy) - Vice President of the Senate; former EU Commissioner
10. John Bruton (Ireland) - European Commission's Ambassador to the USA; former Prime Minister (Taoiseach)
11. Ian Buruma (The Netherlands) - Writer and academic
12. Gunilla Carlsson (Sweden) - Minister for International Development Cooperation
13. Manuel Castells (Spain) - Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of Southern California
14. Charles Clarke (United Kingdom) - MP; former Home Secretary
15. Nicola Clase (Sweden) - Associate, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University; former State Secretary
16. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Germany) - Member of European Parliament
17. Robert Cooper (United Kingdom) - Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, Council of the EU
18. Massimo D'Alema (Italy) - President, Italianieuropei Foundation; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
19. Marta Dassù (Italy) - Director General International Activities, Aspen Institute Italia
20. Etienne Davignon (Belgium) - President, Friends of Europe; former Vice President of the European Commission
21. Jean-Luc Dehaene (Belgium) - Member of European Parliament; former Prime Minister
22. Gianfranco Dell'Alba (Italy) - Director, Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) - Brussels office; former Member of European Parliament
23. Pavol Demeš (Slovakia) - Director, German Marshall Fund of the United States(Bratislava)
24. Tibor Dessewffy (Hungary) - President, DEMOS Hungary
25. Andrew Duff (United Kingdom) - Member of European Parliament
26. Sarmite Elerte (Latvia) - Chairperson, Baltic to Black Sea Alliance (BBSA); former Editor-in-chief of daily newspaper Diena
27. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (Denmark) - Chairman, Baltic Development Forum; former Foreign Minister
28. Brian Eno (United Kingdom) - Musician and Producer
29. Gianfranco Fini (Italy) - President, Chamber of Deputies; former Foreign Minister
30. Joschka Fischer (Germany) - former Foreign Minister and vice-Chancellor
31. Jaime Gama (Portugal) - Speaker of the Parliament; former Foreign Minister
32. Timothy Garton Ash (United Kingdom) - Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
33. Anthony Giddens (United Kingdom) - Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics
34. Teresa Patricio Gouveia (Portugal) -  Trustee to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; former Foreign Minister 
35. Heather Grabbe (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, Open Society Institute - Brussels
36. Jean-Marie Guéhenno (France) - Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and Center on International Cooperation (New York University); former Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN
37. Fernando Andresen Guimaraes (Portugal) - Adviser to European Commission President José ManuelBarroso
38. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (Germany) - Minister of Economics and Technology
39. István Gyarmati (Hungary) - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition
40. Hans Hækkerup (Denmark) - Chairman, Defence Commission; former Defence Minister
41. Pierre Hassner (France) - Research Director emeritus, CERI (Sciences-PO)
42. Annette Heuser (Germany) - Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC
43. Diego Hidalgo (Spain) - Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; President, FRIDE
44. Michiel van Hulten (The Netherlands) - Managing Director, Burson-Masteller Brussels office; former Member of European Parliament
45. Anna Ibrisagic (Sweden) - Member of European Parliament
46. Jaakko Iloniemi (Finland) - CEO, UNIFIN; former Executive Director, Crisis Management Initiative
47. Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany) - Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head of Government Affairs Allianz SE
48. Lionel Jospin (France) - former Prime Minister
49. Mary Kaldor (United Kingdom) - Professor, London School of Economics
50. Glenys Kinnock (United Kingdom) - Member of European Parliament
51. Olli Kivinen (Finland) - Writer and columnist
52. Gerald Knaus (Austria) - Chairman, European Stability Initiative and Open Society Fellow
53. Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; former State Secretary
54. Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands) - Architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
55. Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) - Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
56. Mart Laar (Estonia) - MP; former Prime Minister
57. Miroslav Lajčák (Slovakia) - Foreign Minister; former High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia Herzegovina
58. Pascal Lamy (France) - Honorary President, Notre Europe and Director-General of WTO; former EU Commissioner
59. Mark Leonard (United Kingdom) - Executive Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
60. Juan Fernando López Aguilar ( Spain) - Head of the Spanish delegation to the PACE; former Minister of Justice
61. Helena Luczywo (Poland) - Deputy Editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
62. Adam Lury (United Kingdom) - CEO, Menemsha Ltd
63. Alain Minc (France) - Head of AM Conseil; former chairman, Le Monde
64. Nickolay Mladenov (Bulgaria) - Member of European Parliament
65. Dominique Moisi (France) - Senior Adviser, IFRI
66. Pierre Moscovici (France) - MP; former Minister for European Affairs
67. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Greece/France) - Professor of International Relations and Director of European Studies Centre, University of Oxford
68. Christine Ockrent (Belgium) - CEO, Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France
69. Andrzej Olechowski (Poland) - former Foreign Minister
70. Dick Oosting (The Netherlands) - Europe Director, International Centre for Transitional Justice
71. Mabel van Oranje (The Netherlands) - CEO, The Elders
72. Marcelino Oreja Aguirre (Spain) - Member of the Board, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas; former EU Commissioner
73. Leoluca Orlando (Italy) - MP and President, Sicilian Renaissance Institute
74. Cem Özdemir (Germany) - Leader, Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Green Party)
75. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (Italy) - President, Notre Europe; former chairman of IMF and former Minister of Economy and Finance
76. Ana Palacio (Spain) - Senior Vice President for International Affairs and Marketing, AREVA; former Foreign Minister
77. Simon Panek (Czech Republic) - Chairman, People in Need Foundation
78. Chris Patten (United Kingdom) - Chancellor of Oxford University and co-chair of the International Crisis Group; former EU Commissioner
79. Diana Pinto (France) - Historian and author
80. Jean Pisani-Ferry (France) - Director, Bruegel and Professor at Universite Paris-Dauphine
81. Ruprecht Polenz (Germany) - MP and Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
82. Lydie Polfer (Luxembourg) - Member of European Parliament; former Foreign Minister
83. Andrew Puddephatt (United Kingdom) - Director, Global Partners & Associated Ltd.
84. Vesna Pusić (Croatia) - MP and Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Professor of Sociology, University of Zagreb
85. Sigrid Rausing (United Kingdom) - Founder, Sigrid Rausing Trust
86. George Robertson (United Kingdom) - former Secretary General of NATO
87. Albert Rohan (Austria) - former Secretary General for Foreign Affairs
88. Dariusz Rosati (Poland) - Member of European Parliament; former Foreign Minister
89. Adam D. Rotfeld (Poland) - Chairman of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters; former Foreign Minister
90. Daniel Sachs (Sweden) - CEO, Proventus
91. Pierre Schori (Sweden) - Director General, FRIDE; former SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire
92. Giuseppe Scognamiglio (Italy) - Head of Institutional and International Relations, UniCredit
93. Narcís Serra (Spain) - Chair of CIDOB Foundation; former Vice President
94. Elif Shafak (Turkey) - Writer
95. Wolfgang Schüssel (Austria) - Chairman, Parliamentary Group of the Austrian People's Party; former Chancellor
96. Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech Republic) - former Foreign Minister
97. Aleksander Smolar (Poland) - Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
98. George Soros (Hungary/USA) - Chairman, Open Society Institute
99. Dominique Strauss-Kahn (France) - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; former Finance Minister
100. Alexander Stubb (Finland) - Foreign Minister
101. Michael Stürmer (Germany) - Chief Correspondent, Die Welt
102. Helle Thorning Schmidt (Denmark) - Leader of the Social Democratic Party
103. Loukas Tsoukalis (Greece) - Professor, University of Athens and President, ELIAMEP
104. Erkki Tuomioja (Finland) - MP; former Foreign Minister
105. Vaira Vike- Freiberga (Latvia) - former President
106. Antonio Vitorino (Portugal) - Lawyer; former EU Commissioner
107. Gijs de Vries (The Netherlands) - Member of the Board, Netherlands Court of Audit; former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator
108. Sir Stephen Wall (United Kingdom) - Chairman, Hill and Knowlton (Public Affairs EMEA); former advisor to Tony Blair
109. Andre Wilkens (Germany) - Head of Strategic Communications, UNHCR 
110. Shirley Williams (United Kingdom) - Professor Emeritus, Kennedy School of Government and former Leader of the Liberal Democrats
111. Carlos Alonso Zaldivar (Spain) - Ambassador to Brazil