Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller has been a Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin since 2009. From 1998 onwards, she was defence and international security editor; previously, she covered human rights issues, humanitarian crises in Africa and the Balkans, as well as international criminal tribunals. Ms. Stelzenmüller chairs the academic advisory board of the German Foundation on Peace Research (DSF). She is chairwoman of the German section of Women in International Security, WIIS.de

 

A. Wess Mitchell
President and Co-Founder, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C.

Wess Mitchell is President and co-founder of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) – a Washington, D.C. based policy institute dedicated to the study of Central Europe. Previously, Mr. 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.

 

Jeremy Shapiro
Secial Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

Jeremy Shapiro joined the Bureau of European and Eurasian affairs as a Senior Advisor in December 2009.  His work in the bureau focuses on providing strategic guidance to the Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Shapiro was research director of the Center of the United States and Europe (CUSE) at the Brookings Institution and a fellow in foreign policy studies. He also served from June to July 2009, on General Stanley McChrystal’s Initial Assessment Team that recommended a new strategy for the NATO efforts in Afghanistan. He is author of numerous articles on European and strategic affairs in various newspapers and journals including the New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Washington Post.

Marcin Zaborowski
Director, Polish Institute for International Affairs, Warsaw

Doctor Zaborowski has become director of PISM in July 2010. Prior assuming this position, he served as Director of Transatlantic Programme at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, focusing on transatlantic relations, US foreign policy, EU enlargement and East Asia. He previously worked as a NATO Research Fellow (1999 – 2000) and EUISS Visiting Fellow (2004). He has a doctorate in European Politics and MA in International Studies from the University of Birmingham.

 

 

Tomáš Valášek
Member of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission; Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London

Mr. Valášek is the Director of Foreign Policy & Defence at the Centre for European Reform. He is also a senior advisor to the Brussels Office of the World Security Institute. Previously, he served as the Policy Director and head of the Security and Defence Policy Division at the Slovak Ministry of Defence. Before joining the Ministry of Defence, Tomáš Valášek founded and directed the Brussels Office of the World Security Institute (formerly the Center for Defence Information, CDI, an independent defence and security think-tank (2002 – 2006). Mr. Valášek is the editor and co-author of "The 'Easternization' of Europe's Security Policy" and has written numerous articles appearing in newspapers and journals including Wall Street Journal, Jane's Defence Weekly, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.