Mikhail Gorbachev

Mohammed El-Baradei

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1997-2009)

Hubert Vedrine

former foreign minister of France

George Shultz

US Secretary of State (1982-1989)

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Director General of UNESCO (1987-1999)

Rudolf Shuster

President of Slovakia (1999-2004)

Mario Soares

President of Portugal (1986-1996)

Alexander Bessmertnykh

former foreign minister of the USSR (1991)

Adam Michnik

historian, political activist, Poland

Mikhail Margelov

member of the Federation Council, Russia

James Matlock

former US Ambassador to the USSR

Ruslan Grinberg

Director of the Institute of Economics, Russia

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Secretary General of the United Nations, 1992-1996

Milos Zeman

Prime-Minister of the Czech Republic, 1998-2002

Robert Skidelsky

economist, political scientist, UK

Alexander Lebedev

Chairman of the National Reserve Corporation, Russia

Martin Lees

Former Secretary General, The Club of Rome, UK

Maitre Rene Steichen

Member of the Luxembourg government (1984-1993), member of the European Commission (1993-1995). Currently SES Chairman of the Board

Andrei Grachev

Professor, Chairman, NPF Academic Advisory Council, Russia

Pilar Bonet

Political commentator, “El Pais”, Spain

Pascal Boniface

Director, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) (Institute for International and Strategic Relations), Paris, France

Giulietto Chiesa

Journalist and politician, former Member of the European Parliament, Italy

Luis Ángel D'Elía

President, Federación de Tierra, Vivienda y Hábitat (FTV) (Federation for Land, Housing, and Habitat), Argentina

Jean-Pierre Foubert

Director, International Relations, Conseil régional du Languedoc-Roussillon (Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon), France

Hall Gardner

Professor and Chair, Department of International Affairs and Politics, American University of Paris, France, USA

Ruslan Grinberg

Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Bernard Guetta

Political commentator, France

Hans-Hermann Hertle

Research associate, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) (Center for Research on Contemporary History), Potsdam, Germany

Vladislav Inozemtsev

Professor of Economics at Moscow State University; Director of Research, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies, Moscow, Russia

Mary Kaldor

Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Jan Kavan

Adviser to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of the Czech Republic; Former foreign minister of the Czech Republic, former President of the United Nations General Assembly, the Czech Republic

Ashok Khosla

Co-President, The Club of Rome; Chairman, Development Alternatives, India; President, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); former Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, India

Martin Lees

Former Secretary General, The Club of Rome, UK

Anatol Lieven

Senior Researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow), The New America Foundation; Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project; Chairman, International Relations and Terrorism Studies, King's College London, London, UK

Flavio Lotti

National Coordinator, Tavola della Pace (Table for Peace), Italy

Fedor Lukianov

Editor-in-Chief, “Russia in Global Affairs”, Russia

Jacques Percebois

Professor at the University Montpellier I, France

Riccardo Petrella

Professor of Political Economy, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Roberto Savio

Chairman, the International Press Service, Italy

Dimitri Simes

President, The Nixon Centre, USA

Henryk Szlajfer

Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Francois Tremeaud

Former Executive Director of the International Labor Office (ILO)

Zakhari Zakhariev

President, Slaviani Foundation, Bulgaria