EU foreign policy – and the quest for leadership.

23-24 October 2008 Pałac Sobańskich

Aleje Ujazdowskie 13, 00-567 Warszawa

Joint conference organized by demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy and the Bertelsmann Stiftung

with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland

List of participants

Blusz Krzysztof, Corporate Relations Director, demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy Borkenhagen Franz Fellow, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh; Former Head, Policy Planning and Advisory Staff, Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin Bouchez Aurélia Deputy Assistant Secretary General NATO Cameron Fraser Director, EU-Russia Centre, Brussels Cooper Robert Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, Brussels Correia Dora, Assistant to the Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Commission, Brussels Crowe Brian Deputy Chairman of Chatham House Czachór Zbigniew, Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Sejm, Warsaw Damoiseaux Joep Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Warsaw Dowgielewicz Mikołaj Secretary of State, Office of the Committee for European Integration, Warsaw

Emmanouilidis Janis Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow, ELIAMEP, Athens Everts Steven Special Counsellor, Cabinet of the EUHR, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, Brussels Fritz-Vannahme Joachim Director Europe's Future, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh Gerdts Michael H. H.E. Ambassador of Germany to Poland, Warsaw Grela Marek Director, Transatlantic Relations, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, Brussels Hinc Agata, Analyst, demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy Ischinger Wolfgang Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Munich Kempe Iris Director Heinrich Boell Foundation, Regional Office South Caucasus, Tiflis Kobieracki Adam Head of Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw Krastev Ivan Chair of the Board of Directors, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia Kratochvíl Petr Deputy Director, Institute of International Relations, Prague Laine Paivi, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Finland, Warsaw Laïdi Zaki Director of Research, Centre for European Studies, Sciences Po, Paris Lamberti Alba, Programs and Advocacy Manager, European Council on Foreign Relations, London Lannon Erwan Professor at the University of Ghent and the College of Europe, Head of the EU ISS office in Brussels Lignières-Counathe Claire Deputy Director for Central Europe, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Paris

Lippert Barbara Deputy Director Institute for European Politics, Berlin Lisek Krzysztof, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Sejm, Warsaw Mikosz Sebastian Director, Deloitte Business Consulting S.A. Missiroli Antonio Director of Studies, European Policy Centre, Brussels Navarro Miguel Angel Secretary General for EU Affairs, Madrid Ochmann Cornelius Project manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Berlin Ponikiewski Wojciech Director of the Department of Foreign Economic Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw Popowski Maciej Director, DG Development, European Commission Rehn Olli EU Commissioner for Enlargement Rybiński Krzysztof Partner, Ernst&Young Sadowska Maria Head of the Programme Europe in the World, demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy Semneby Peter EU Special Representative for the Caucusus, Brussels Sikorski Radosław Minister of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw Smolar Eugeniusz President, Center for International Relations Sobków Witold Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw Świeboda Paweł President, demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy

Vale de Almeida João Head of the Cabinet of the President of the European Commission, Brussels Vondra Alexandr Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs of the Czech Republic Vulic Alexandre Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris Wallace Helen Centennial Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science Witney Nick Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, Paris

Wohlfeld Monika Independent Consultant, Former Deputy Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre and the Head of the Mission Programmes/Policy Support Service Zielonka Jan Professor of European Politics and Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow, University of Oxford, European Studies Centre, St Antony's College