September 22 – 23, 2006
List of Participants
Status: September 19, 2006, 08:30 hrs
Weltsaal
Auswärtiges Amt / Federal Foreign Office
Werderscher Markt 1
10117 Berlin
----Bertelsmann
Unter den Linden 1
10117 Berlin
Conference languages: German, English
Dr. Ilham Aliyev
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku
Peter Altmaier
Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior of the
Federal Republic of Germany; Member of the German
Bundestag, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Franz Lothar
Altmann
Head, Balkan Research Section, Stiftung Wissenschaft und
Politik, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs; Director of the Board, German Association for
Eastern European Studies, Berlin
Anne Applebaum
George H.W. Bush/Axel Springer Fellow at the American
Academy, Berlin
Elisabeth Ardaillon-Poirier Director of Communications, European Central Bank,
Frankfurt on the Main
Dr. Ronald D. Asmus
Executive Director, Transatlantic Center, The German
Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels
Audrius Ažubalis
Member of Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius
Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Ba ci
Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara
José Manuel Durão
Barroso
President of the European Commission, Brussels
Traian B sescu
President of Romania, Bucharest
Prof. Dr. Anton Bebler
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubiljana
Prof. Dr. Iain Begg
Visiting Professor, European Institute, London School of
Economics and Political Science, London
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
President and Chief Executive Officer, Pekao Bank SA;
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Carl Bildt
Chairman, Kreab Group; Member, International Commission
on the Balkans; Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of
Sweden, Stockholm
Anca Daniela Boagiu
Minister of European Integration of Romania, Bucharest
Jasmine Borhan
Head, Corporate Communications, Bertelsmann AG,
Guetersloh
Franz H.U. Borkenhagen
Former Head, Policy Planning Staff, Ministry of Defence of
the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
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Dr. Harald Braun
Corporate Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs,
Siemens AG, Munich
Elmar Brok
Member of the European Parliamant, Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Brussels
Prof. Dr. Nino Burjanadze
Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, Tbilissi
Dr. Erhard Busek
Special Coordinator for the Stability Pact for Southeast
Europe; Former Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria,
Vienna
Dr. Hugo Bütler
Head Journalism, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich
Ronnie C. Chan
Chairman, Hang Lung Group Ltd., Hong Kong
Dr. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Former President of the Republic of Italy, Rome
Catherine Colonna
Minister Delegate for European Affairs of the French
Republic, Paris
Dr. Uwe Corsepius
Head, European Directorate General, Foreign Office of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Vesna
Cvjetkovi Kurelec
Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Dr. Pavol Demeš
Director, Transatlantic Center for Central and Eastern
Europe, The German Marshall Fund of the United States;
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic,
Bratislava
Judy Dempsey
European Correspondent, International Herald Tribune,
Berlin
Milo Djukanovi
Prime Minister of the Republic of Montenegro, Podgorica
Andrew Nicholas Duff
Member of the European Parliament, Member of the
Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Brussels
Markus Ederer
Head, Policy Planning Staff, Foreign Office of the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Dr. Hubertus Erlen
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Bayer Schering
Pharma AG; Member of the Board of Trustees, Bertelsmann
Stiftung, Berlin
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Gernot Erler
Minister of State, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of
Germany; Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Silvio Fagiolo
Professor for International Relations, Libera Università
Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli; Former
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Italy to the
European Union, Rome
Prince Dr. Mohammed Bin
Faisal bin Turki
Director, European Union Department, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia, Riad
Dr. Peter Frey
Director, Berlin Office, ZDF German Television, Berlin
Rüdiger Freiherr von
Fritsch-Seerhausen
Vice-President, Intelligence Service of the Federal Republic
of Germany, Berlin
Joachim Fritz-Vannahme
European Editor, Die Zeit, Brussels
Prof. Dr. Curt Gasteyger
Director, Association for the Promotion of International
Security (APESI), Geneva
Ferenc Gémesi
State Secretary, Head of Cabinet of the Prime Minister of the
Republic of Hungary, Budapest
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Former Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and ViceChancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Bronisław Geremek
Member of the European Parliament; Former Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Brussels
Salpi Ghazarian
Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Armenia, Yerewan
Günter Gloser
Minister of State, Foreign Office of the Federal Repbulic of
Germany; Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Nik Gowing
Main Presenter, BBC World TV, London
Dr. Charles Grant
Director, Centre for European Reform, London
Wilfried Grolig
Head, Culture and Education Directorate General, Foreign
Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Xuewu Gu
Chair, East Asian Politics; Director, Institute of East Asian
Politics, Ruhr University, Bochum
Dr. Thomas Gutschker
Foreign Editor, Rheinischer Merkur, Bonn
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Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu
Guttenberg
Member of the German Bundestag, Member of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Berlin
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, Budapest
Bernhard Hänel
Political Correspondent, Neue Westfälische, Bielefeld
Annette Heuser
Vice President International Relations
Corporate Communications, Bertelsmann AG, Gütersloh
Dr. Christoph Heusgen
Foreign Policy and Security Advisor, Chancellery of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Evaldas Ignatavavi ius
Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Dr. Michael J. Inacker
Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Head of Office,
Wirtschaftswoche, Berlin
Prof. Dr. András Inotai
General Director, Institute for World Economics, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik
Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Josef Janning
Head, International Relations Program, Bertelsmann
Stiftung, Guetersloh; Director, Bertelsmann Group for Policy
Research, Center for Applied Policy Research, LudwigMaximilians-University, Munich
Hans-Ulrich Jörges
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, stern, Berlin
Dr. Franz Josef Jung
Federal Minister of Defence of the Federal Republic of
Germany, Berlin
J rat Juozaitiené
Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania,
Vilnius
Prof. Dr. Karl Kaiser
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard
University, Cambridge
Aigars Kalvitis
Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia, Riga
Udo van Kampen
Head of Office, Brussels Office, ZDF German Television,
Brussels
Franz H. Kaps
Representative for Southeast Europe, The World Bank
Group, Brussels
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Dr. Andrei Karaslavov
Head of Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria,
Sofia
Garry Kimovich Kasparov
Chairman, "Committee 2008", Moscow
Shigeo Katsu
Vice-President, The World Bank Group,
Washington
Karine Kazinian
Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Frederick Kempe
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Atlantic Council
of the United States, Washington
Dr. Klaus Kinkel
Chairman, Deutsche Telekom Stiftung; Former Federal
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Sankt Augustin
Gediminas Kirkilas
Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius
Dr. Wolf Kischlat
Head, Foreign Affairs Directorate General, Office of the
President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Former Secretary of State of the United States of America,
Washington
Eckart von Klaeden
Member of the German Bundestag, Member of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy Spokesman of
the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, Berlin
Hans-Ulrich Klose
Member of the German Bundestag, Vice Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Berlin
Stefan Kornelius
Foreign Affairs Editor, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
Dr. Ivan Krastev
Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
Dr. Heinrich Kreft
Foreign Affairs Advisor, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group,
German Bundestag, Berlin
Dr. Clyde Kull
Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Irina Kurdaze
Advisor on Foreign Affairs to the Speaker of the Parliament
of Georgia, Tbilissi
Aleksander Kwa niewski
Former President of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Mart Laar
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia, Tallinn
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Dr. Sergey Lagodinsky
Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
Johannes Laitenberger
Speaker of the European Commission, Brussels
Alexander Graf
Lambsdorff
Member of the European Parliament, Member of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Brussels
Boris Lazar
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Federal Republic
of Germany, Berlin
Jo Leinen
Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the
Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Brussels
Paavo Lipponen
Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Finland, Former
Prime Minister of the Republic of Finland, Helsinki
Dr. Hans-Dieter Lucas
Ambassador, Special Envoy Eastern Europe, Central Asia
and Caucasus, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of
Germany, Berlin
Fedor Lukiyanov
Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs, Moscow
Matti Maasikas
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Estonia, Tallinn
Elmar Mammadjarow
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan,
Baku
Hans Ulrich Märki
Chairman of the Board, IBM Europe/Middle East,
Courbevoie
Claude Pierre Marcel
Martin
Ambassador of the French Republic to the Federal Republic
of Germany, Berlin
Matthias Maus
Chief Editor, Abendzeitung, Munich
Bogdan Mazuru
Ambassador of Romania to the Federal Republic of
Germany, Berlin
Dr. Johannes Meier
Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung,
Guetersloh
Dr. Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Dr. Nikolaus
Meyer-Landrut
Deputy Director General for European Affairs, Basic Issues,
Coordination with EU-Member States on European Union
Policy, Chancellery of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Berlin
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Milomir Mihaljevic
Advisor on Foreign Policy to the Prime Minister of the
Republic of Montenegro, Podgorica
Ivan Mikloš
Former Minister of Finance and Vice Prime Minister of the
Slovak Republic, Bratislava
Slavica Milacic
Chief Advisor for European Integration to the Prime Minister
of the Republic of Montenegro, Podgorica
Dr. Antonio Missiroli
Chief Policy Analyst, The European Policy Centre, Brussels
Prof. C. Raja Mohan
Strategic Affairs Editor, The Indian Express, New Delhi
Liz Mohn
Vice CEO of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Vice Chairwoman of
the Board of Trustees of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and
Chairwoman of the Board of Bertelsmann
Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Guetersloh
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jörg Monar
Chair d'Excellence Marie Curie, Robert Schuman University,
Strasbourg
Dr. Richard Morningstar
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, Cambridge
Dr. Liviu Muresan
President, Eurisc Foundation, Bucharest
Wolfgang Nowak
Managing Director, The Alfred Herrhausen Society, Berlin
Ernst René Anselm
Nyberg
Ambassador of the Republic of Finland to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Vartan Oskanian
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia,
Yerevan
Hartmut Ostrowski
Chairman of the Executive Board, Arvato AG; Member of the
Executive Board, Bertelsmann AG, Guetersloh
Cem Özdemir
Member of the European Parliamant, Member of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Brussels
Ana Palacio Vallelersundi
Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General
Counsel; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom
of Spain, Washington
Algirdas Paleckis
Member of Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius
Dr. Maja Pandshikidse
Ambassador of Georgia to the Federal Republic of Germany,
Berlin
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Dr. Guillaume Parmentier
Founding Director, French Center on the United States, The
French Institute of International Relations, Paris
Dr. Georgi Parvanov
President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia
Quentin Peel
Editor, Financial Times, London
Sándor Peisch
Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Marija Pej inovi Buri
State Secretary, Ministry of Forgein Affairs of the Republic of
Croatia, Zagreb
Marc
Perrin de Brichambaut
Secretary-General, The Organisation for Security and CoOperation in Europe (OSCE), Vienna
Alojz Peterle
Member of the European Parliament, Member of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs; Former Prime Minister and
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia,
Brussels
Dr. Meglena Plugtschieva- Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Federal
Alexandrova
Republic of Germany, Berlin
Dr. Charles Powell
Deputy Director, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid
Antoinette Primatarova
Programme Director, Center for Liberal Strategies; Former
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Bulgaria; Former Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to
the European Communities, Sofia
Michael Radix
Editor-in-Chief Television, Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
Cologne
Dr. Klaus Radke
Chief Executive Officer, Phoenix, Bonn
Milan Rocen
Chief Political and Defence Advisor to the Prime Minister of
the Republic of Montenegro, Podgorica
Prof. Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Polish Institute for International Affairs; Former Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Michael Roth
Member of the German Bundestag, Member of the
Commitee on European Union's Affairs, Berlin
Thomas Roth
Editor-in-Chief and Head of Office, ARD German Television,
Berlin
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Vladimir Ryshkov
Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation,
Moscow
Dr. Gerhard Sabathil
Head, Representation of the European Commission to the
Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Klaus-Peter Schöppner
Chief Executive Officer, TNS Emnid GmbH & Co. KG,
Bielefeld
Dr. Jacques Schuster
Director, Foreign Affairs, Die Welt, Berlin
Dr. Angelica SchwallDüren
Member of the German Bundestag, Vice Chair of the SPD
Parliamentary Group, Berlin
Louis Schweitzer
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Former Chief
Executive Officer, Renault S.A., Paris
Ioan-Codru
Minister of Economy and Commerce of Romania, Bucharest
eres
Klaus-Peter Siegloch
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, ZDF German Television, Mainz
Radosław Sikorski
Minister of Defence of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Reinhard Silberberg
State Secretary, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of
Germany, Berlin
Shimon Stein
Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Federal Republic of
Germany, Berlin
Gabor Steingart
Head of Office, Berlin Office, Der Spiegel, Berlin
Dr. Constanze
Stelzenmüller
Director, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jürgen F. Strube
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, BASF AG; Vice
Chairman, Supervisory Board, Bertelsmann AG;
Shareholder, Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH,
Ludwigshafen
Veton Surroi
Publisher, KOHA Ditore, Priština
Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth
Member of the Board of Trustees, Bertelsmann Stiftung;
Former President of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Paweł wieboda
Director, demosEUROPA, Centre for European Strategy;
Former Head, European Directorate General, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
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László Sz ke
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Hungary, Budapest
Simon Taylor
Senior Political Correspondent, The European Voice,
Brussels
Dr. Pawel Telicka
Partner and Director, BXL Consulting; Advisor, European
Policy Centre; Former Member of the European
Commission, Brussels
Peter Tempel
Head, European Directorate General, Foreign Office of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Dr. Gunter Thielen
Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive
Officer, Bertelsmann AG, Guetersloh
Zlatin Trapkov
Advisor on Foreign Affairs to the President of the Republic of
Bulgaria, Sofia
Dr. Jean-Claude Trichet
President, European Central Bank, Frankfurt on the Main
Prof. Dr. Loukas Tsoukalis
President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign
Policy (ELIAMEP); Special Advisor to the President of the
European Commission, Athens/Brussels
Jürgen Turek
Managing Director, Center for Applied Policiy Research,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Peteris Ustubs
Advisor on Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister of the
Republic of Latvia, Riga
Guy Verhofstadt
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium, Brussels
Daniel Vernet
Editor-in-Chief Foreign Policy, Le Monde, Paris
Dominique de Villepin
Prime Minister of the French Republic, Paris
Dr. M rti š Virsis
Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Deutschland
Dieter Vogel
Chairman, Supervisory Board, Bertelsmann AG;
Shareholder Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH and
Managing Partner of the LGB & Vogel GmbH; Board of
Trustees, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Düsseldorf
Stefan Wagstyl
Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times, London
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Dr. Ewald Walgenbach
Chairman, DirectGroup Bertelsmann; Member of the
Executive Board, Bertelsmann AG, Guetersloh
Roger de Weck
Publicist; Chairman of the Board, Graduate Institute of
International Studies, Geneva
Prof. Dr. Werner
Weidenfeld
Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung,
Guetersloh; Director, Center for Applied Policy Research,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Lord George
Weidenfeld of Chelsea
Chairman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
Dr. Klaus Wenger
Chief Executive Officer, ARTE Germany TV GmbH, BadenBaden
Dr. Hans-Georg Wieck
Former Ambassador; Fromer President, Intelligence Service
of the Federal Republic of Germany; Chairman, GermanBelarussian-Society, Berlin
Oliver Wieck
Head, Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations,
The Federation of German Industries (BDI), Berlin
Matthias Wissmann
Member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the
Committee on European Union's Affairs, Berlin
Dr. Monika Johanna
Wohlfeld
Deputy Director, Conflict Prevention Centre, Organization for
Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE), Vienna
Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky
Director, Center for Economic and Political Research;
Chairman, Yabloko Party, Moscow
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