Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger is a German diplomat who served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference from 2008 to 2022.
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world.
Marc Isaiah Grossman is an American former diplomat and government official. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey,Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs,and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was most recently the United States Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and is currently a Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group,a business strategic advisory firm headed by former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen,and a Vice Chair of the German Marshall Fund board of trustees.
Peter Warren Rodman was an American attorney,government official,author,and national security adviser.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who has been serving as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
Alexander Russell "Sandy" Vershbow is an American diplomat and former Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Elliott School of International Affairs is the professional school of international relations,foreign policy,and international development of the George Washington University,in Washington,D.C. It is highly ranked in international affairs and is the largest school of international relations in the United States.
Ivo H. Daalder,is President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and has served since July,2013. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from May 2009 to July 2013. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton,and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
The European Institute is a nonpartisan public policy organization dedicated to Transatlantic relations. The Institute was founded in 1989 and is based in Washington,D.C. It regularly hosts forums,roundtable discussions,and programs with political and business leaders from the U.S. and Europe. Additionally,the Institute publishes the e-journal European Affairs.
Richard L. Kugler is an American thinker and writer on U.S. national security policy and defense strategy.
Hugo Llorens is a retired American diplomat. He is a former U.S. Special Chargéd'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan,(2016–17) and United States Ambassador to Honduras (2008–2011). In his 36-year career he was posted to numerous countries spanning 6 continents. In 2002–2003,he joined the White House staff and served as Director of Andean Affairs advising the President and National Security Advisor on issues pertaining to Colombia,Venezuela,Bolivia,Peru,and Ecuador.
Shahid Kamal is a retired Pakistani career diplomat. Over his career,he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;Prime Minister’s Office,United Nations,Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Pakistani diplomatic missions in Paris,New York,Washington,Stockholm and Berlin.
Vlad Lupan is the former Ambassador,Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations. Between 2010-2011 he was a Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova,Deputy Chairman of the Liberal Party. He is a former diplomat from the Republic of Moldova. He has been the Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Moldova since August 2010. Vlad Lupan served for 12 years in the diplomatic service of his country and in his last posting he was the director of the NATO Department in the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova. Since 2008 he was a civil society expert on EU,NATO,security sector reform issues,as well as an external efficiency evaluator and,at the same time,had his show on Vocea Basarabiei radio station.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University,in Medford,Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations. As of 2017,the student body numbered around 230,of whom 36 percent were international students from 70 countries,and around a quarter were U.S. minorities.
Ronald Dietrich Asmus was a United States diplomat and political analyst. As U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1997–2000),he was instrumental in the expansion of NATO to include former members of the Eastern bloc and acted as a leading policy designer in the U.S.–Europe relations.
Dávid Korányi is a chief advisor of city diplomacy for Gergely Karácsony,the mayor of Budapest. Prior to that he was a director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative and deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. In 2009 he was undersecretary of state,chief foreign policy,and national security advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary,Gordon Bajnai. He was a member of the Hungarian NATO Strategic Concept Special Advisory Group.
Shireen Tahmaaseb Hunter is an independent scholar. Until 2019,she was a Research Professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C.,with which she had been associated since 2005,as Visiting Fellow and then Visiting Professor. She became an honorary fellow of ACMCU in September 2019.
Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan is an American attorney who is serving as the United States National Security Advisor,reporting directly to President Joe Biden. He previously served as Director of Policy to President Barack Obama,National Security Advisor to then Vice President Biden and Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Hillary Clinton at the U.S. Department of State. Sullivan also served as senior advisor to the U.S. federal government at the Iran nuclear negotiations and senior policy advisor to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign,as well as visiting professor at Yale Law School. On November 23,2020,President-elect Biden announced that Sullivan would be appointed the United States National Security Advisor. He took office on January 20,2021.
Julianne Smith is an American foreign policy advisor and diplomat who serves as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO in the Biden administration. She previously served as deputy national security advisor to then-Vice President Biden in the Obama administration.
