2010
Participants list
Indulis Ābelis
Head of the European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Reinis Āboltiņš
Energy Policy Researcher, Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS, Latvia
Tea Akhvlediani
Director of Euro integration Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Georgia
Kenan Aliyev
Azerbaijani Service Director, RFE/RL
Maria Amaryan
Board Member, Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation, Armenia
Gregory Amnuel
Director, Open Club "International Dialogue", Russia
Isakhan Ashurov
Lawyer, Azerbaijan
Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli
Senior Researcher/Lecturer, Department of Diplomacy and Integration Process, Baku State University, Azerbaijan
Anushik Avetyan
Project Assistant, Academic Foundation for Political Sciences
Gennadiy Avrekh
Assistant to Mr. Mikhail Margelov, Expert of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Ayşe Ayhan Asya
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,
Embassy of the Republic of Turkey
Sylvie Bachelot
Counsellor, Embassy of the French Republic
Dace Balode
Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Toms Baumanis
Chairman of the Board, Latvian Transatlantic Organisation
Valdis Birkavs
Club of Madrid, Latvia
Daina Bleiere
Head of the MA Study Programme „International Relations", Riga Stradiņš University
Edijs Bošs
PhD Candidate in International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK
Ilmārs Breidaks
Deputy Head of Foreign Minister's Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Edgar Buckley
Senior Vice-President for EU, NATO and European Cooperation, the Thales Group
Hermann Buenz
Representative and Coordinator Baltic States, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Simon Bull
Attaché, Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Per Carlsen
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark
Anda Catlaka
Counsellor, European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Ineta Celmiņa
Counsellor, EU department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Rinalds Celmiņš
Deputy Executive Director, Latvian IT Cluster
Oldrich Černy
Executive Director, Prague Security Studies Institute
Paul H. Chapin
Member of the Board, Conference of Defence Associations Institute, Canada
Robert Cottrell
Editor of TheBrowser.com
Robert Dalsjö
Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Analytic support from FOI at the
Secretariat for Strategic Planning Ministry of Defence, Sweden
Argita Daudze
Director, Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Pavol Demeš
Director of the Bratislava Office, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Gabriele De Stefano
First Secretary, Embassy of Italy
Roman Dobrokhotov
Chairman, Democratic Movement "We", Russia
Mikhail Doroshevich
Founder, E-Belarus.org
Sergiy Dzherdzh
Chairman of the NATO - Ukraine Civic League
Jan Dziedzic
Robert Eberwein
Charge d'Affaires, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Austria
Kersti Eesmaa
2st Political Department, Director of 2nd Division (Northern Europe and Baltic States), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
Velga Ekure
Head of the Russia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Sarmīte Ēlerte
Chairwoman, Baltic to Black Sea Aliance
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Chairman of Baltic Development Forum
Thomas Eymond-Laritaz
Advisor to the National Security Council and to the President of Georgia
Paulino González Fernández-Corugedo
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain
Mark Fischer
Director, Major Events, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Transatlantic Centre
Michael Foucher
Director of Studies, Institute for Higher National Defence Studies, France
Klaus-Dieter Frankenberg
International Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Troels Frøling
Secretary General, Atlantic Treaty Association
Judith Gail Garber
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the United States of America
Jānis Gardovskis
Dean of the Riga Stradiņš Unviersity
Jānis Garisons
Policy Director, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Charles Gates
Deputy for Attache, Operations/Army Attaché, U.S. Embassy in Riga
Elita Gavele
Director, Information and Public Relations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Artur G. Ghazinyan
Director, Professor of EU Law, Centre for European Studies, Armenia
Marek Gluszko
First Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Tengiz Gogotishvili
Head of the NATO Information Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia
Beata Górka-Winter
Security Program Coordinator, Research Office, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
Jānis Grasis
Associated Professor, BA School of Business and Finances
Raimonds Graube
Commander of the National Armed Forces of the Republic of Latvia
Jan Grevstad
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway
Dalia Grybauskaitė
President of the Republic of Lithuania
Daniel Grzenda
Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Margit Haeberle
Charge d'Affaires, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Kevin Hamilton
Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Canada
Deniss Hanovs
Program Manager, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Kate Hansen Bundt
Secretary General, Norwegian Atlantic Committee
Olexiy Haran
Founding Director, School for Policy Analysis, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Jan Havranek
Advisor to the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic
Scott Heatherington
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Canada
Daiga Holma
Chancery of the President of Latvia
Tonis Idarand
Director of Division of Central and South-Eastern Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia
Ilias Iliopoulos
Head of the Department of Political & Strategic Studies, Baltic Defence College
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of the Republic of Estonia
Ivars Indāns
PhD, University of Latvia
Konstantine Ionatamishvili
Chairman of the Economic Development, Investment Policy and International Relations Commission, Tbilisi City Assembly
Bruce Pitcairn Jackson
President, Project on Transitional Democracies
Teimuraz Janjalia
Counsellor, Embassy of Georgia
Eva Jaskovska
Assistant Political Reporter, The European Commission Representation in Latvia
Vaclovas Jonevicius
Head of the Research Centre, Academic Studies and Research Group, The General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Ilze Juhansone
Ambassador/ Director General of European Union Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Anete Jurčika
University of Konstanz
Vytis Jurkonis
Head of Civil Society Development Department, Eastern Europe Studies Centre, Lithuania
Riina Kaljurand
Deputy Director of the International Centre for Defence Studies, Estonia
Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševiča
Adviser on Strategic Planning and Analysis to the President of the Republic of Latvia
Ojārs Kalniņš
Director, Latvian Institute
Rasma Kārkliņa
Professor of political sciene at the University of Latvia , Advisor to the Minister of defence of Latvia
Andres Kasekamp
Director, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, Professor of Baltic Politics, Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu
Mārtiņš Kazāks
Chief Economist in Latvia, Swedbank
Marcin Kaźmierski
Director of Security Policy Department, Political Director, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Poland
Ojārs Kehris
President, Economists Association 2010
Marta Kepe
Senior Desk Officer, Bilateral Relations and International Organisations Division, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Elīza Keterliņa
Deputy Head ,Defence policy and strategy division, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Una Klapkalne
CEO, National News Agency LETA
Andreas Klein
Regional Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Latvia office
Druvis Kleins
Director of the Recruiting and Youth Guard Center, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Bogdan Klich
Minister of Defence of the Republic of Poland
Oleg Kokoshinsky
Acting Vice-President of the Atlantic Council of Ukraine
Oleksii Kolomiiets
Director of the Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies, Ukraine
Bronisław Komorowski
President of the Republic of Poland
Oleg Kondratiev
Military, Air and Naval Attache, Embassy of the Russian Federation
Konstantin Korkelia
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Georgia
Jurriaan Kraak
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Irina Krasovskaya
President, We Remember Foundation, Belarus
Inga Krastiņa
Head of the EU External Relations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Artur Krawczyk
Defence, Military, Naval and Air Attaché, Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Ilga Kreituse
Professor, Dean of Faculty of European Studies, Head of Department of Political Science, Riga Stradiņš Unviersity
Kārlis Krēsliņš
Head of the Defence Scientific Research Centre, National Defence Academy, Latvia
Daiga Krieva
Counsellor, Policy Planning Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Dušan Krištofik
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Slovak Republic
Kazimierz Kuberski
Director of the Office for Foreign Affairs at the President Chancellery, Poland
Danuta Kuczynska
First Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Andis Kudors
Executive Director, Centre for East European Policy Studies
Ieva Kupce
Political Advisor to the EUSR for South Caucasus
Oleksandr Kushnir
Charge d'Affaires, Embassy of Ukraine
Elita Kuzma
Ambassador, Head of Directorate Economic and Bilateral Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Boris Kuznetsov
Director of the Centre of International and Regional Policy, St. Petersburg, Russia
Konrad Kłos
Officer of Minister's Office, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Poland
Agris Labanovskis
The State Border Guard College, Latvia
Ingrīda Lāce
Director for Coomunication and International Affairs, Latvenergo AS
Margus Laidre
Foreign Policy Adviser to the President, Office of the President of the Republic of Estonia
Elīna Lange
Professional Development Programme Manager, NATO
Olof Larsson
Intern, Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden
Atis Lejiņš
Honorary Director, The Latvian Institute of International Affaiirs
Lolita Lenkēviča
East Europe and Central Asia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Mark Leonard
Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, UK
Imants Lieģis
Minister of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Kadri Liik
Director of the International Centre for Defence Studies, Estonia
Koba Liklikadze
RFE/RL
Tod Lindberg
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Editor, Policy Review
Julian Lindley-French
Member of the Strategic Advisors Group, Atlantic Council and Professor at the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands
Leonid Litra
Vice-Director for International Cooperation, Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS) 'Viitorul'
Henryk Litwin
Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Bobo Lo
Independent Scholar and consultant, UK
Edward Lucas
Deputy Editor, Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent, The Economist
Magnus G. Lundgren
Defence Attaché, Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden
Orysia Lutsevych
Head of Development, Europe House -Georgia
Merle Maigre
Policy Planning Unit, Private Office, NATO, IS
Viktors Makarovs
Director, EuroCivitas, Latvia
Juris Maklakovs
Advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Nerijus Maliukevicius
Director of the European Integration Studies Centre, Lithuania
Maria Mälksoo
University of Tartu, Estonia
István Manyi
Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary
Claude-Gérard Marcus
President, Association Française pour la Communauté
Atlantique
Vasileios Margaris
Managing Partner of Emerging Markets Experts Consulting Ltd. Greece/Cyprus
Mikhail Margelov
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Hagen D. Maroney
Deputy Chief of the Political and Economic Section, Embassy of the United States of America
Mikhail Marynich
Chairman, Association "European Dimension", Belarus
Tatyana Marynich
Head of the Association BELBIZ, Belarus
Iivi Masso
Researcher, Estonia
Tomasz Mathea
Admiral of the Fleet, Commander of Navy
of the Republic of Poland
Vineta Mēkone
Counsellor, Policy Planning Unit Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Leopold Merckx
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium
Grigol Mgaloblishvili
Ambassador of Georgia to NATO
Einārs Miķelsons
First Secretary, Policy Planning Unit Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Vladimir Milov
President of the Institute for Energy Policy, Russia
Arūnas Molis
Researcher, Lithuania
Maira Mora
Ambassador, Policy Planning Unit Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
François Moreau de Balasy
Honorary Chairman, Association Française pour la Communauté
Atlantique
Alicija Mosiej
Division of the Management Service in the President's Chancellery of the Republic of Poland
Nils Muižnieks
Director of the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia
Mārtiņš Mūrnieks
Program “Wider Europe” director, Soros Foundation - Latvia
Aoife Ni Fhearghail
Charge d'Affaires, Embassy of Ireland
Janusz Niesyto
Titular Ambassador, Director of the Diplomatic Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Dmitrijs Nikolajevs
Board Member, Latvian Transatlantic Organisation
Daniel Novotny
Deputy Director of the Research Centre, Association for International Affairs, Czech Republic
Jerzy Marek Nowakowski
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Alar Olljum
Head of Unit for Forward Studies, European Commission
Takashi Osanai
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Japan
Juris Ozoliņš
Energy Expert, Freelance consultant
Artis Pabriks
Ambassador At-Large, Member of Parliament, Latvia
Chryssanthie Panayotopoulou
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Hellenic Republic
George Paniashvili
First Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Georgia
Daniels Pavluts
Head of Public Affairs, Swedbank AS
Alain-Michel Pellerin
Executive Director, Conference of Defence Associations
Zane Petre
Head of International Operations and Crisis Management Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Irina Pigozne
Advisor of CEO, Swedbank Latvia
João Luís Niza Pinheiro
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Portuguese Republic
Alexander Pivovarsky
Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Tengiz Pkhaladze
Chairman, International Centre for Geopolitical Studies, Georgia
Tevan Poghosyan
Executive Director, Armenian Atlantic Association
Jurijs Pogrebņaks
Advisor on Foreign Affairs to the Chairman of the Riga City Council
Chantal Poiret
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the French Republic
Francesco Puccio
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Italian Republic
Ivars Pundurs
Under-Secretary of State - Administrative Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Victoria Punga
Secretary General, Estonian Atlantic Treaty Association
Agnieszka Ragin
Office for Foreign Affairs at the President's Chancerry of the Republic of Poland
Filips Rajevskis
Executive Director, Board Member, PR Agency "Mediju tilts"
Ilze Rassa
President's Advisor, Press Secretary
Andris Razāns
Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Trygve Refvem
Senior Advisor in Energy Issues, Norwegian Atlantic Committee
Jānis Reķis
Sustainable Development Program Director, Soros Foundation - Latvia
Māris Riekstiņš
Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Latvia
Airis Rikveilis
Head of Minister's Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Alan Riley
The City Law School, City University London
Bruce Rogers
Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the of United States of America
Tatiana Romanova
Associate Professor, St. Petersburg State University, School of International Relations, Department of European Studies
Jacque Rosiers
President of the Belgium Euro-Atlantic Association
Toms Rostoks
Assistant professor, University of Latvia
Anatoly Rozanov
Research Director, Foreign Policy and Security Research Centre, Belarus
Juris Rozenvalds
Dean, Professor, University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Science
Svein Ruderaas
Defence Attache, Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway
Kristīne Rudzīte
Ministry of Defence Representative to NATO (Resource Policy), Permanent Representation of the Republic of Latvia to NATO
Andrey Ryabov
Scholar-in-Residence, The East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program, The Carnegie Moscow Centre
Andrei Sannikov
Coordinator of the civil campaign "European Belarus"
Robertas Šapronas
Director, International Relations and Operation Department, Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania
Jānis Sārts
State Secretary, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Maria Serenius
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Finland
Simon Serfaty
Brzezinski Chair in Global Security & Geostrategy, Senior Advisor, Europe Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, U.S.
Evgeny Sergejev
Counsellor, Embassy of the Russian Federation
Jeremy Shapiro
Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia Affairs, State Department, U.S.
Stanislaw Shushkevich
Former President of Belarus
Abubakar Siddique
Senior Correspondent covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom
Vitali Silitski
Director, Belarus Institute of Strategic Studies
Solveiga Silkalna
Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Latvia
Andrey Skachkov
Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of the Russian Federation
Gunta Sloga
Media Program director, Soros Foundation - Latvia
Ivars Slokenbergs
President, American Chamner of Commerce in Latvia
Colin D. Smith
Defence Attache, Embassy of the United States of America
Vladimir Socor
Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
Jaromir Sokolowski
Secretary of State in Poland's President Chancellery
Una Spēlmane-Baumane
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Latvia office
Veiko Spolītis
Lecturer, Riga Stradins University
Andris Sprūds
Acting Director, The Latvian Institute of International Affaiirs
Jānis Stafeckis
The State Border Guard College
Juris Štālmeistars
Director of the Economic Relations and Development Cooperation Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Andris Strazds
Senior Economist, Nordea Bank Finland plc
Janusz Struzyna
Director of the Division of the Management Service in the President's Chancellery, Poland
Dagnija Stuķēna
Head of Public Relations, Nordea Bank Latvia
Michael Stürmer
Chief Correspondent, Welt-Gruppe
Inga Šūršune
NATO and European Security Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Pavel Šuštak
First Secretary, Embassy of the Czech Republic
Pekka Sutela
Principal Adviser, Bank of Finland
Michael Taylor
Senior Editor, Eastern Europe, Oxford Analytica
Andris Teikmanis
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Ulla Terkelsen
journalist, TV2, Denmark
Dawid Tomaszewski
Economic Expert, Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Jānis Tomels
Head of the study Programme „International Relations – European Studies”, Riga Stradins University
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou
Co-convener and co-rapporteur, Commission on the Black Sea
Greta Monika Tučkutė
Director, Centre for Geopolitical Studies, Lithuania
Uldis Umulis
Board member, Latvian Transatlantic Organisation
Mati Vaarmann
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Estonia
Kristina Vaiciunaite
Director, Eastern Europe Studies Centre, Lithuania
Inese Vaidere
Member of the European Parliament
Tomas Valasek
Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, UK
Antanas Valionis
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania
Evita Vanaga
PhD, University of Latvia
Jana Vanaveski
Head of the Foreign Policy Department Office of the President of the Repeblic of Estonia
Grigol Vashadze
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Georgia
Ivan Vejvoda
Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Āris Vīgants
Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Vice-Chair Reflection Group on the Future of Europe in 2020-2030 Time Horizon, Former President of Latvia (1999-2007)
Konstantin von Eggert
Carnegie Moscow Center, Member of the Advisory Board of ,,Pro et Contra’’ Journal
Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz
German Representative in the Group of Experts for Drafting NATO's New Strategic Concept
Evgeny Vorobev
Senior Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Belarus
Nadezhda Vozdigan
Embassy of Ukraine
Radu Vrabie
Programs Director, Foreign Policy Association of Moldova
Ian Watts
Defence Attaché, Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Liat Wexelman
Charge d'Affaires, Embassy of Israel
Jolanta Wisnioch
Political Expert, Poland
Klaus Wittmann
Brigadier General (ret.), German Armed Forces
Hu Yeshun
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the People's Republic of China
Valdis Zatlers
President of the Republic of Latvia
Jānis Zlamets
Director, First Bilateral Relations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Petr Zlatohlávek
Executive director, Jagello 2000 - NATO Information Centre, Czech Republic