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
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