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Ehsan Ahrari is a Defense Consultant and an Independent Strategic Analyst residing in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Dr. Ahrari's functional expertise includes information warfare, radical Islam, nuclear and missile proliferation in Southern Asia (China, India, and Pakistan), and counterterrorism.
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Mensur Akgün is Director of the Foreign Policy Program of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), an independent think-tank, which forms a bridge between academic research and the policy-making process. (Turkey) |
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Abbas J. Ali.
Abbas J. Ali, Ph.D., is Professor of Management and Director, School of International Management, Eberly college of Business, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
demanding a viable dialogue between religions. (U.S.A.) |
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Franco Apicella is a Lieutenant General (ret) of the Italian Army. His last job in duty was Chief of Staff of the Italian Land Forces Command. As a senior defense editor he provides regular contribution to the webzine Pagine di Difesa. (Italy) |
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Ronald
D. Asmus. Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall
Fund of the United States. He also serves as a senior advisor
to the President of GMF and is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations as well as a consultant for the
Downey McGrath Group. (U.S.A.) |
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Ali Aurakzai. LtGeneral (ret.). Former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Peshawar, Pakistan until January 2008 responsible for the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) as well as Corps Commander in Peshawar. (Pakistan) |
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Klaus Becher. Managing Partner of the London-based consultancy Knowledge & Analysis LLP. Adviser on international security, defence and space to clients in government, international organisations and industry. 1988-2006 in high-profile positions in the international strategic think-tank community, including at DGAP, SWP, IISS and Wilton Park. (United Kingdom)
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Giovanni Bernardi is a Major General (ret) of the Italian Army. (Italy) |
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J.D. Bindenagel. U.S. Ambassador now Vice President for Community, Government, and International Affairs, DePaul University. (U.S.A.) |
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Arif Ali Shah Bukhari. Chairman of Board of Governors and Chancellor of KASBIT (Pakistan) |
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Luigi Caligaris.
BrigGen (Ret.), former Director Political-Military Affairs at the Ministry of Defense in Rome (1978-1981), Professor for Strategy at the State University of Bologna and the Army Staff College, Member of the European Parliament (1994-1999) and author of several books. (Italy) |
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Robert
Dujarric, Visiting Research Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo (Nihon Kokusai Mondai Kenkyusho, JIIA) (France) |
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George Fernandes. Defense Minister of India 1998-2004.Member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. Former Union Minister for Industries and Minister of Railways. (India) |
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Peter
Forster was Editor and Correspondent of "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" in Israel. Former Editor-in-Chief of "Thurgauer Zeitung".Now Head of the Media Department of the foundation "Unternehmerforum
Lilienberg", Switzerland, and Colonel (Res.) of Suiss Army. (Switzerland)
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Ortwin Gebauer.
Monsignore. Dean of the Catholic Church in Lindau at the Lake of Constance in Germany is Chairman of the Comittee for Christian Peace, Tolerance and Reconciliation Policies of the World Security Network Foundation. He is coordinating the dialogue between the Church and the annual meetings of Nobel Price winners at the Lake of Constance. (Germany) |
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Samy Gemayel. Former leader of the Kataeb student group, political activist for a free Lebanon and lawyer. Sheikh Gemayel is the son of former Lebanese President Amine Gemayel (Lebanon) |
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Goetz
Gliemeroth, Lt. General (ret.) of the German Army, was Commander
of the more than 5000 NATO troops in Afghanistan (ISAF) 2003/2004.
(Germany) |
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Christian
Hacke. Professor for Political Science and Director of the
Institute for Political Science of the University of Bonn (Germany) |
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William E. Halal is Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology & Innovation at George Washington University, Washington, D.C, and an authority on emerging technologies, strategy, knowledge, and institutional change. (U.S.A.) |
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Ehsan ul Haq. General (ret.). Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pakistani Military (2004-2007), Director of ISI (2001- 2004), Corps Commander in Peshawar in 2000. (Pakistan) |
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Amin Hashwani. Director of the Hashwani Group of Companies in Karachi. Co-Chairman of the Pakistan-India CEO Business Forum. Former YPO Chapter Chairman 2002/03. Member of the YPO Peace Action Network. (Pakistan) |
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Robert
Hunter. Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO served in many senior
U.S. government posts ie. National Security Council and U.S.
Senate with Senator Ted Kennedy, now a Senior Advisor at RAND
(U.S.A.) |
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Michael
Inacker. Deputy Editor in Chief Wirtschaftswoche magazine in Berlin. Former Director for Policy and Foreign Affairs of Daimler
Chrysler in Stuttgart/Germany. Dr. Inacker was a former Editor
of Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Berlin and holds
a PhD. in Political Science. He is a well known defense journalist.
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Lord Peter Inge. Former Field Marshall, Constable HM Tower of London, Chief of Staff United Kingdom Defense Staff (1994-1997), Chief of the General Staff 1992-1994 was ADC General HM The Queen 1991-1994 and Commander, Northern Army Group
and C-in-C BAOR 1989-1992; Life Baron since 1997;KG,GCB,DL (United Kingdom) |
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Jackson Janes is Executive Director of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. (U.S.A.) |
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Anneli Jäätteenmäki. Member of the European Parliament was born in 1955 in Lapua in Western Finland and is a member of the Suomen Keskusta (the Finnish Centre Party), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament. (Finland) |
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Géza
Jeszenszky. Former Hungarian Foreign Minister (1990 to 1994)
and Ambassodor to the U.S. (1998 to 2002) , a founding member of
the Hungarian Democratic Forum, now a Professor for History and
International Relations at the Budapest University. (Hungary)
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Tunne
Kelam is the Freedom Hero of Estonia, founder and chairman of
the Congress of Estonia, leading his small Baltic nation - a former
republic of the USSR - to independence from Russia in the 80th and
90th.
Since 2004 he is Member of the European Parliament.
(Estonia)
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Francis J. Kelly Frank is Managing Director and Head of Government Affairs - Americas of the Deutsche Bank AG
(U.S.A.)
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Judith Apter Klinghoffer is an affiliate professor at Haifa University, Member of the International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom of Bar-Ilan University and was the 1996 Fulbright professor at Aarhus, Denmark. She writes a blog called Deja vu for History News Network. (Israel)
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Joachim
Krause. Joachim Krause is professor for International Relations
at the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel (Germany) since October
2001. He also is Director of the Institute for Security Policy at
the University of Kiel (ISUK) and member of the Scientific Council
of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations
(DGAP). (Germany) |
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Herbert
Kremp is a well known Commentator of Springer Publishing
House in Berlin and former Editor-in-Chief DIE WELT (Germany)
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Jens Krüger is head of press and public relations at the German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI). (Germany)
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Ludger
Kühnhardt is Director at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn.(Germany)
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Walter Laqueur.
American historian and political commentator (U.S.A.) |
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Thomas H. Lipscomb.
Senior Fellow Annnenberg Center for the Digital Future in New York. Founder and President of Times Book- the New York Times book division. The author of many articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Sun, Founder and CEO of four high tech companies, ICG- named one the Fortune's "25 Cool Companies"-, Wave Systems and CardiACT Inc. (U.S.A.) |
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Steve McIntosh. Steve McIntosh is the author of the acclaimed book: Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Paragon House 2007). (U.S.A.) |
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Holger
Mey. Prof. Mey is Vice President Defense and Security Systems EADS AG in Munich. (Germany) |
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Mark Minevich. The Chairman of the Global Knowledge and Leadership Council and Chief Strategy Officer of Enamics is an international strategic advisor and globally recognized technology visionary. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer and Senior Strategist of the IBM Next Generation Group. (U.S.A.) |
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Mike Munson. Extensive senior leadership experience in the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Expertise includes general management, planning, programming and budgeting, Congressional relations, and intelligence collection. Broad knowledge of intelligence agencies and operations. (U.S.A.) |
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Klaus
Naumann General (Ret.). Former Chairman NATOs Military Committee and Chief
of Staff German Federal Armed Forces. (Germany)
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Muhammad Aslam Khan Niazi,
BrigGen (Ret). Has military experience of about 32 years and is from the Regiment of Artillery. Recipient of sitara-e-imtiaz (military), he served on various command, staff, instructional, administration, operational, research and evaluation appointments during his career. Holds first class Masters’ degree in International Relations as well as doctorate from University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Frequently writes in national and international media. IR and Eurasia are his specialty. (Pakistan)
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John M. Nomikos,
Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), based in Athens. (Greece)
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Habib Malik Orakzai. Chairman of the Tribal Youth Organization in FATA and Pakistan International Human Rights Organization (PIHRO) and member Afghan-Pak Joint Jirga. (Pakistan)
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Ivo Paparela is Professor at the University of Dubrovnik, Chair of Finance, and Professor of Shipping Finance at the Maritime Faculty Kotor. Has degrees in both Economics & Law from Paris University. Published articles, on the geopolitical issues in French , English , Italian & German reviews. (France)
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Dr. Friedbert Pflueger.
Former State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defence, Member of the Berlin House of Representatives and Member of the National Executive Committee of the CDU. (Germany)
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Wolfgang Plasche
is a Major General (ret) of the Austrian Army. Former Director Defence Policy in the Austrian Ministry of Defence and Defence Attache at the embassy in London.
(Austria)
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Andreas D. Pruefert,
Partner European Consulting Munich. Former Secretary General, European Organisation of Military Associations
(EUROMIL) and Plenipotentiary for European Affairs, German
Federal Armed Forces Association. (Germany)
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Arben Qirezi. Executive Director Transition Analysis and Support Center in Prishtina/Kosovo.
Former Spokesperson of the Prime Minister. (Kosovo)
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Kastuv Ray
is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA), and a member of both the Gerson Lehrman Business and Financial Services Council and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. (United Kingdom)
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Peter Regli Major General (Ret.), former Director of the Swiss Intelligence Service. (Switzerland)
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Klaus Reinhardt General (Ret.), Former Commander of Allied Land Forces Central Europe
LANDCENT in Heidelberg and the International Peace Forces (KFOR) in Kosovo. President Clausewitz Society. (Germany)
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Sir Sebastian
Roberts, Major-General. Senior Army Representative at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. 2003-2007 Commander of the Household Division and London. (United Kingdom)
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Sergey
Rogov is Director of the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN) and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(Russia)
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Edward Rowny LtGeneral U.S. Army (Ret.). Former Ambassador SALT II in the Reagan Administration. (U.S.A.)
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Chuck Saffell President of Nortel Federal Network Solutions. As a former Rear Admiral in the U.S. Nayy
he helped to develop the concept of network-centric warfare and C 4 (U.S.A.) |
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Ruben Safrastyan, Ph.D. is the Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences and Professor of History and Turkish Studies at the Yerevan State University. (Armenia) |
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Przemyslaw Aleksander Schmidt. Polish entrepreneur as founder of the Trigon Group and international laywer. Founder of the "Przychodnia" political club, Vice Chairman of the non-profit United Way and Chairman of YPO Europe (Poland) |
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Joseph E. Schmitz Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel of the Prince Group. Mr. Schmitz served as Inspector General of the Department of Defense from 2002 to 2005. (U.S.A.) |
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Thomas Schneider is WSN European Policy Advisor. He gave lectures on international political systems at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida. (Germany) |
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Rainer Schuwirth, General(ret), served in various national and NATO staff assignments as intelligence and operations officer, as Military Assistant to the German Minister of Defence, as Branch Chief and later as Head of the Military-Politico Division in the Federal Armed Forces Staff, MoD Bonn, and as Defence Advisor in the German Permanent Representation to NATO. From 2001 to 2004 he was the first Director General of the EU Military Staff. His last assignment was Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). (Germany) |
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Mohammad K. Shiyyab. Major General (ret)
is the Director General of the Cooperative Monitoring Center-Amman (CMC-A). (Jordan) |
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Henning
von Steuben is the President of the von Steuben Family Association
and editor of BILD newspaper (Germany) |
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Nigel P. Williams. Managing Partner of Royalton Partners, co-founded the firm in 1996. Prior to forming Royalton Partners, Mr. Williams spent five years as Chief Executive Officer and was a founding shareholder of the Creditanstalt Investment Company a.s. (United Kingdom) |
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Peter
Kurt Wuerzbach. Served for 27 years as Member of the German
Bundestag and Parl. State Secretary of Defense under Manfred
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