Vladimir SocorSenior Fellow, Eurasia Programme, Jamestown Foundation, Berlin
Vladimir Socor is a Senior Fellow of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation and its flagship publication, Eurasia Daily Monitor (1995 to date), where he writes analytical articles on a daily basis. An internationally recognized expert on the former Soviet-ruled countries in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, he covers Russian and Western policies, focusing on energy, regional security issues, Russian foreign affairs, secessionist conflicts, and NATO policies and programs. Mr. Socor is a frequent speaker at U.S. and European policy conferences and think-tank institutions; as well as a regular guest lecturer at the NATO Defense College and at Harvard University's National Security Program's Black Sea Program.
Karel HirmanAdviser to the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on Energy Security, Bratislava
From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Hirman worked as a reporter for the economic weekly Trend. He focused mainly on issues related to energy, general government finance and business issues. In recent years he wrote mainly to the topic of the energy security. He is author or co-author of numerous publications such as ‘Oil and Gas Factor in Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy’, ‘Russia at the End of the Yeltsin Era’, ‘Central Europe and Russian Pipelines’. He worked in several managerial positions.
Monika Eordoghne Zsigri
Directorate B – Security of Supply, Energy Markets & Networks, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission, Brussels
Ms. Zsigri is working in the European Commission's Directorate General for Energy in Security of Supply & Networks. Her current activities focus on the energy security aspects of Central-Eastern Europe, and specifically on the North-South interconnections initiative launched by the Commission, as well as the EU's Strategy for the Danube region. Her previous activities included similar initiatives in the Baltic Sea region such as the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan. Before joining the European Commission, she worked as strategy and management consultant for several years in Hungary, Germany and the United Kingdom in the energy and telecommunications sectors.
Directorate B – Security of Supply, Energy Markets & Networks, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission, Brussels
Ms. Zsigri is working in the European Commission's Directorate General for Energy in Security of Supply & Networks. Her current activities focus on the energy security aspects of Central-Eastern Europe, and specifically on the North-South interconnections initiative launched by the Commission, as well as the EU's Strategy for the Danube region. Her previous activities included similar initiatives in the Baltic Sea region such as the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan. Before joining the European Commission, she worked as strategy and management consultant for several years in Hungary, Germany and the United Kingdom in the energy and telecommunications sectors.
