Catherine Margaret Ashton,Baroness Ashton of Upholland,is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP) is the chief co-ordinator and representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) within the European Union (EU). The position is currently held by Josep Borrell Fontelles.
The Munich Security Conference is an annual conference on international security policy that has been held in Munich,Bavaria,Germany since 1963. Formerly named the Munich Conference on Security Policy,the motto is:Peace through Dialogue.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is a German politician who became the president of Germany on 19 March 2017. He was previously federal minister for foreign affairs from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2017,as well as vice chancellor of Germany from 2007 to 2009. Steinmeier was chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2016.
Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak politician and diplomat,former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In addition,Lajčák also served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session from 2017 until 2018.
The European External Action Service (EEAS) is the diplomatic service in charge of executing all international relations of the European Union. The EEAS is led by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP),who is also President of the Foreign Affairs Council and vice-president of the European Commission,and carries out the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP),including the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
Alain Le Roy is a French diplomat who served as Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) between 1 March 2015 and 31 August 2016. In this capacity,he was in charge of around 3,400 staff and around 140 delegations in non-EU countries. On 16 June 2016 he announced he would be resigning effective 1 September 2016,being replaced by Helga Schmid,who has been political director of the EEAS and as such,been involved in the Iran nuclear negotiations.
Ali Akbar Salehi is an Iranian academic,diplomat and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,who served in this position from 2009 to 2010 and also from 2013 to 2021. He served for the first time as head of the AEOI from 2009 to 2010 and was appointed to the post for a second time on 16 August 2013. Before the appointment of his latter position,he was foreign affairs minister from 2010 to 2013. He was also the Iranian representative in the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1998 to 2003.
Angelina Julietta Francisca Eichhorst is a Dutch diplomat and European civil servant,currently the managing director for Europe and Central Asia at the European External Action Service in Brussels,Belgium.
Federica Mogherini is an Italian politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party (PD),which is part of the Party of European Socialists,a political faction made up of centre-left national political parties in the European Union,the United Kingdom,and Norway. She previously served as Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from February to October 2014 in the Renzi government. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2008 to 2014. In 2020,she was appointed rector of the College of Europe,a post-graduate university for European studies in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland).
Michael Georg Link is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 and again since 2017. In addition to his parliamentary mandate,he has been serving as the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.
The European Institute of Peace (EIP) is an independent,non-profit public foundation that contributes to shaping conflict resolution. It is a philanthropic,non-profit organisation. It provides support to negotiators,mediators and policy makers within Europe. Since its creation in 2014,the Institute has operated in more than ten countries in the Middle East,Central Asia,Africa,Latin America and Europe providing policy advice on conflict resolution.
Michael Helmut Roth is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 27 September 1998.
Thomas Greminger is a Swiss diplomat. He served as Secretary-General for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from July 2017 to July 2020. Since May 2021,he has been the Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He is a general staff officer in the Swiss army.
The 51st Munich Security Conference was held from 6 to 8 February 2015. Among the more than 400 participants from nearly 80 countries were 20 heads of state,70 foreign and defence ministers and 30 CEOs of large companies. The German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen delivered the opening speech.
The Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) is a joint project of the University of Haifa and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The Center was founded in 2007 and opened in June 2008 by the Federal Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier. It is part of the [ Research Authority of the University of Haifa cooperating with the faculties of humanities,social sciences and law. The founding idea of the Center is to provide students,research,academics and the general public with information about modern Germany and Europe. Therefore the Center is holding public events as well as academic conferences and workshops. It also conducts its own interdisciplinary research with a focus on social,political,legal,economic and cultural developments in Germany and Europe after 1945. The HCGES is part of the global network of DAAD Centers for German and European Studies.
Stefano Sannino is an Italian diplomat and European civil servant.
The European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management e.V. (CoE) is based in Berlin. Its task is to enhance civilian crisis management within the framework of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). It is a service provider for its 22 members,the European External Action Service (EEAS) as well as civilian crisis management missions. Currently it has a staff of 20,among them Senior Advisors from Finland,Lithuania,the Netherlands and Sweden.
Michael R. Carpenter is an American diplomat who served as United States ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Biden administration.
Germany–Niger relations focus primarily on cooperation in development,security,and migration policy. Since 2016,bilateral relations have been significantly intensified,with several state visits at the highest level.
