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Ian BRZEZINSKI
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Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Atlantic Council, Expertise:
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| Ian Brzezinski is a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program and is on the Council’s Strategic Advisors Group (SAG). He brings to the Council and its International Security Program over two decades of experience in U.S. national security matters having served in senior policy positions in the Department of Defense and the U.S. Congress. Mr. Brzezinski served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy (2001–5). His office formulated, coordinated and executed bilateral and regional engagement strategies and defense guidance with the Joint Staff, Unified Combatant Commands and Department of Defense elements.His lead responsibilities included NATO expansion, Alliance force planning and transformation and NATO operations in the Balkans, the Mediterranean, Afghanistan and Iraq. Key highlights of his tenure include the expansion of NATO membership in 2004, the consolidation and reconfiguration of the Alliance’s command structure, the standing up of the NATO Response Force and the coordination of European military contributions to U.S. and NATO- led operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. | |
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Stephen FLANAGAN
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Senior Vice-President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. Expertise:
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| Stephen J. Flanagan is Senior Vice-President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. Before joining CSIS in June 2007, he served as Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies and Vice President for Research at the National Defense University for seven years. He held several senior positions in the U.S. government between 1989 and 1999, including Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Central and Eastern Europe, National Security Council Staff; Associate Director and Member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff; and National Intelligence Officer for Europe. Earlier in his career, he was a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Dr. Flanagan has also held several academic and research positions, including Senior Fellow and faculty member at the National War College, NDU; Executive Director, Center for Science and International Affairs and faculty member at Harvard’s Kennedy School; and Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has published numerous books and articles on international security and transatlantic affairs, most recently Strategic Challenges: America’s Global Security Agenda (2008) and Turkey’s Evolving Dynamics: Strategic Choices for U.S.-Turkey Relations (2009). | |
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Istvan GYARMATI
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President and CEO International Centre for Democratic Transition, |
| Prof. Dr. István Gyarmati is the President & CEO of the International Centre for Democratic Transition. He has been a Foreign Service officer since he graduated from the Budapest University of Economics, Faculty of Diplomacy. Ha also holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and is a candidate of Strategic Studies. Ambassador Gyarmati is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Euro Atlantic Integration and Democracy in Budapest and Co-Chairman of the International Security Advisory Board for Southeastern Europe of the Geneva-based Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. Between 2008 and 2009, he was the head of the Defense Minister's Task Force to draft the National Military Strategy of the Republic of Hungary. He is also a member of the ISS, European Council for Foreign Relations, European Advisory Group, NATO Defense College and numerous scientific projects, Associate Professor at the Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University. He is fluent in German, Russian and English as well as he is the author of numerous publications on security policy, European security, conflict management and Hungarian defense policy. | |
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Karel KOVANDA
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Former deputy Director General, External Relations and Political Director, Expertise:
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| Amb. Karel Kovanda served as Deputy Director General of External Relations in the European Commission from April 2005 until the end of 2010. His areas of responsibility included the European common foreign and security policy; multilateral relations and human rights; relations with developed countries outside the EU, such as those of North America, East Asia, Australia et al. Amb Kovanda simultaneously served as the European Commission's Political Director, in bilateral as well as G8 contexts. Prior to joining the European Commission, Amb Kovanda was a senior diplomat in the Czech Foreign Service, from 1991 to 2005. He served as ambassador to NATO and to the UN, including leading his country's delegation as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (1994-95). Amb Kovanda holds an undergraduate degree from the Prague School of Agriculture (1969), a PhD in political science from MIT (1975) and an MBA from Pepperdine U., California (1985). He is fluent in Czech, English, Slovak, Spanish and French, and has conversational Russian and German. He was born in 1944 in the United Kingdom. He is married to Noemi, a native of Slovakia, and they have three children. His hobbies include theatre, reading, collecting stamps and languages. | |
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Andrew A. MICHTA
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Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; M. W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College, Washington, D.C. Expertise:
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| Andrew A. Michta is the M. W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. In 2005-2009 he was Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. (1987). Professor Michta is the author of several books on NATO, European politics, security and transatlantic relations. He has contributed articles and book chapters on NATO enlargement, U.S. national security policy, European security, post-communist transition, and civil-military relations. He has lectured at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and is a frequent consultant to the U.S. government and the media. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. In June 2011 he will become a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the director of the GMF Warsaw office. | |
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Wess MITCHELL
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President and Co-Founder, Center for European Policy Analysis, Expertise:
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| Wess Mitchell is President and co-founder of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) – a Washington, DC policy institute dedicated to the study of Central Europe. He has played an active role in CEPA’s development since its inception in 2005. His recent work includes Keeping New Allies, a bipartisan initiative to study U.S. policy in Central Europe; U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum, an annual, eleven-nation seminar producing ten-year regional strategic forecasts; and Global Allies, a multi-region assessment of geopolitically-exposed small and mid-sized U.S. allies. Previously, Mitchell worked as an analyst at the National Center for Policy Analysis. He holds a Master’s Degree from Georgetown University and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at Freie University Berlin. A frequent commentator in international media outlets, he published his first book with Princeton University Press in 2009. | |
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Eugeniusz SMOLAR
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Senior Fellow, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw; Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Brussels Expertise:
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| Eugeniusz Smolar is a senior Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, former President of the Center for International Relations. Political prisoner 1968 - 1969. A political émigré in Sweden – studied Sociology and Political Sciences at Uppsala University. 1975 -1997 – journalist and later director of the Polish Section of the BBC World Service in London. Assisted democracy movements and later “Solidarność” in Poland and in other communist countries, including Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia. Co-publisher of émigré journal Aneks and of Aneks Publishing House as well as of East European Reporter in London. Following return to Poland he became Deputy Chairman of Polish Radio and its Program Director (1998-2005). He is a Chairman of the Polish-Czech Forum and has been involved in the Polish-German, Polish-Russian and Polish-Ukrainian dialogue. Professionally he concentrates on issues related to the European Security, Common Security and Defence Policy, future of NATO, Eastern Policy of Poland and of the European Union and Russia’s internal and foreign policy. E. Smolar resides now in Brussels as the Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Studies. | |
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Damon WILSON
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Vice President and Director of the International Security Program, Atlantic Council of the USA, Washington, D.C. Expertise:
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| Damon Wilson is the Vice President and Director of the International Security Program at the Atlantic Council of the United States. Previously, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council. His other governmental positions have included Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq; Director for Central, Eastern and Northern European Affairs at the National Security Council; Deputy Director of the Private Office of NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson; and various positions at the Department of State dealing with European security and China. Mr. Wilson completed his graduate studies at the Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs during which he worked in the African Affairs Directorate at the National Security Council. Following his undergraduate studies at Duke University and the University of Grenoble, France, Mr. Wilson served in Rwanda with Save the Children’s Children and War Program. | |
autor: Slovak Atlantic Commission
