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Adrian A. Basora is Director of the
Project on Democratic Transitions at the Foreign Policy Research
Institute, and an Independent Director of the Quaker Investment
Trust. He is a trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships and the
International Research and Exchange Board, and is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. He was formerly the National Security
Council Director for Europe and the U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
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BULGARIA
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Ivan Krastev is Chair of
the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and is the Editor in
Chief of the Bulgarian version of Foreign Policy. Since 2004
Mr. Krastev has been the executive director of the International Commission
on the Balkans chaired by the former Italian Premier Minister Giuliano
Amato. He is the Director of the Open Century Project of the Central
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Alexandr Vondra
is the vice-chairmain for European Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Between September 2006 and January 2007 worked as the Foreign Minister
of the Czech Republic. Between 2004 and 2006, he worked as the Managing
Director in Dutko Worldwide, Professor of Euro-American relations at the
New York University in Prague, and the President of the Czech
Euro-Atlantic Council.
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Jiri Zlatuska
is a Senator in the Czech Parliament, Dean of the Informatics Faculty at
Masaryk University and a member of the Council for Research and Development
of the Government of the Czech Republic. Previously he was a Rector at Masaryk University
and the Executive Chairman of
the Czech Nominating Committee for 1999 Eisenhower Exchange Fellow
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GEORGIA
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Vladimer Papava is a Senior
Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, a
Senior Associate Fellow of the Joint Center formed by the Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute (Johns Hopkins University-SAIS) and the Silk Road
Studies Program (Uppsala University), a Member of the Georgian Parliament,
and a member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. From 1994-2000 he was
Minister of Economy of the Republic of Georgia. As a member of the Georgian
government, he was one of the leading participants in negotiations with the
IMF and World Bank.
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HUNGARY
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Béla Greskovits is a Professor of Political
Economy at the Central European University in Budapest. He held the Luigi Einaudi
Chair in European and International Studies with the Institute for European
Studies at Cornell University.
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POLAND
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Jan-Krzysztof Bielecki
is
President of Pekao Bank and the former Prime
Minister of Poland. He was the Chief Delegate of the Polish Parliament
to the European Parliament and was appointed to the Board of Directors
of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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ROMANIA
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Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
is a political scientist and a consultant in the field of state
building. She has consulted for the European Commission, the Berteslmann
Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, World Bank. Alina is currently
consulting for United Nations Development Programme RBEC and country
offices of Albania, Serbia and Kosovo and Freedom House.
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Gabriel Petrescu is Executive
Director
of the Open Society Foundation Romania, and more recently CEO and
President of the Board of Pattern Invest. He also runs his own business
training and consulting company, Business Risc Control SRL.
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SERBIA
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Sonja Licht is President of the Belgrade
Fund for Political Excellence, and President of the Board for the Fund for
an Open Society in Belgrade. She was a long time member of the Yugoslav
democratic opposition, a sociologist by training. From 1991 to 1995 she was
one of the two co-chairs of the International Helsinki Citizens' Assembly.
She is presently also the Chair of the Task Force on the Future of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. More... |
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SLOVAKIA
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Martin Bútora
is Chairman of the Institute for Public Affairs and the
Program Director of the "European Integration
and Transatlantic Relations" program. He was one of the founders of the
political movement Public Against Violence, and was a Human Rights
Advisor to President Václav Havel. More recently he was the
Slovak Ambassador to the United States. More... |
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Pavol Demeš is Director of the German
Marshall Fund's Bratislava office. Prior to this he served as the
Executive Director of the Slovak Academic Information Agency, was
Foreign Policy Advisor to the Slovak President, was Foreign Minister
from 1991-92, and acted as Director of the Department of Foreign
Relations in the Ministry of Education.
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WESTERN EUROPE
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Jonathan Brownell is a retired
lawyer and a former environmental studies professor and activist. He has
taught at Dartmouth University and at Cambridge University teaching in
the CEE Program. He served in Vermont government, on the Environmental
Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences and on the Boards of
the Environmental Law Institute, the Conservation Law Foundation, and
the National Audubon Society. He was instrumental in the creation of the
Environmental Studies program at Dartmouth, one of the first of its
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Katarina Mathernova is a
Director in Directorate General for Regional Policy in the European
Commission in Brussels. Prior to the EC, she worked as a private sector
development specialist at the World Bank in Washington, and previously
she served as Chief Institutional and Policy Advisor to the Slovak
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs. In 2000, she was chosen
Slovakia Woman of the Year.
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Jacques Rupnik is a Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
in Paris and specializes in post-communist transitions. He was a member
of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, Executive
Director of the International Commission for the Balkans at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and an advisor to Czech President
Vaclav Havel. More... |
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THE UNITED STATES
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Harry
G. Barnes Jr. is currently chairman of the board of the Romanian-
American Enterprise Foundation,
and
is
a
Senior
Advisor
to the Asia Society. He serves on the boards of the Project on Ethnic
Relations, the Center for International Environmental Law, and the
Institute for Sustainable Development. He is also a member of the
advisory committee to Human Rights Watch Asia.
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Avis Bohlen is an Adjunct Professor at
Georgetown University and a member of the Board of Directors of the
International Research Exchange. She was formerly the Assistant
Secretary of State for Arms Control , the US Ambassador to Bulgaria,
Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Paris, and Deputy Assistant
Secretary for European and Canadian affairs for European security
issues. More...
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Valerie Bunce is Chair of the Government Department
at Cornell
University. Her research and teaching address comparative
democratization, the origins and consequences of imperial decline,
inter-ethnic cooperation and conflict, peace-making after internal wars,
and the diffusion of capitalism from the West to the "rest." More... |
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Thomas Carothers is Vice President for
Studies-International Politics and Governance and Director/Founder of
the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. In the past he practiced international and
financial law at Arnold & Porter and served as an attorney-advisor in
the Office of the Legal Advisor of the U.S. Department of State.
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Charles Gati is a Senior Adjunct
Professor in European Studies at the School of Advanced International
Studies at Johns Hopkins. He was formerly a Senior Advisor with the
Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department and was a Professor
at Union College and Columbia University. More... |
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Robert Hutchings is a Lecturer in
Public Policy at Princeton University, Director of the Atlantic Council
of the United States, and Director of the Foundation for a Civil
Society. He serves on the editorial board of International Politics and
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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James Kurth is the Claude Smith Professor of
Political Science at
Swarthmore College , the Editor of the journal Orbis
published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and Co-Director of
the FPRI's Project on America and the West. He was a visiting Professor
of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College, where he was Chairman of the
Strategy and Campaign Department and an advisor to the Chief of Naval
Operations' Strategic Studies Group. More...
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Allen Model is Managing Director and
founder of Overseas Strategic
Consulting, a public relations company in Philadelphia that
specializes in economic and social issues. He is President of the Leo
Model Foundation and sits on the boards of the American Bird
Conservancy, National Audubon Society, Wildlife Trust, the Middlesex
School, and the Jerusalem Foundation.
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Trudy Rubin writes the Worldview
column on international affairs for The Philadelphia Inquirer and is a
member of the paper's editorial board. Her column runs in many US papers
and she is a frequent traveler to Iraq and the Middle East. She has
served as the Middle East correspondent for the Christian Science
Monitor, staff writer at the Economist, an exchange journalist at the
Moscow News, and a radio correspondent in Prague in 1968. She was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001.
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Simon Serfaty is the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and
Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is
a Senior Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at Old Dominion University in
Norfolk, Virginia. He has served as Executive Director of the Johns
Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, Director of the Washington Center of
Foreign Policy Research, and as Director of the Johns Hopkins Center of
European Studies in Bologna, Italy. More...
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Harvey Sicherman is President and
Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was a member of
the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State James Baker, a
consultant to Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of the Navy
John Lehman, and served as Special Assistant to Secretary of State
Alexander Haig. More... |
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Tom
Simons
served as U.S. Ambassador to Poland and to Pakistan and as Coordinator
of U.S. Assistance to the New Independent States of the former Soviet
Union. He is currently a Lecturer in Harvard University’s Government
Department and Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies, where he directed the Program on Eurasia in
Transition from 2002 to 2005. More... |
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Vladimir Tismaneanu is the Chairman of
the
Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship
in Romania,
Director
of the Center for
the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland and
the Editor of East European Politics Politics and Societies. His
research interests include
forms of political participation, democracy building, the dynamics of
political parties in East-Central Europe, and the theoretical
foundations of civil society. More... |
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Sharon Wolchik is a professor of
political science and international relations at George Washington
University and an Adjunct Chair of the Advanced Area Studies Program on
East Central Europe at the US State Department's Foreign Service
Institute. She has previously served as director of the Russian and East
European Studies and Masters in International Policy and Practice
programs. More... |
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Kenneth Yalowitz is currently the
Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International
Understanding, Dartmouth College. He founded the Member Georgia Forum, a
group of private American citizens formed to support Georgia in moving
forward with democratization, economic reforms and development, and the
protection of human rights, including minority rights.
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