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George Soros, die Mitglieder seiner Denkfabrik aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien
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… The Atlantic Council; Anita Orban – Vice President for International Affairs, Tellurian LNG UK; Alexander Soros (Hungary/USA) – Global Board Member, Open Society Foundations; George Soros (Hungary/USA) – Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations; Réka Szemerkényi – former Ambassador of Hungary to the …
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Mar 13, 2014 … I’ve just uploaded the first in a short series (two or three in total) of podcasts with George Soros answering questions from assorted journalists at ECFR’s London office. Mr Soros was in the building for a press conference for his new book, „The tragedy of the European Union: disintegration or revival?
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Mar 27, 2014 … George Soros answers journalists‘ questions on everything from leaving the European single currency to the situation in Ukraine and Crimea and Chinese rebalancing.
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Feb 23, 2009 … The European Union must develop a united policy on a hostile Russia, writes George Soros. This article was published by Project Syndicate. NEW YORK – How should Europe react to the rise of a hostile Russia on its eastern flank? Different countries have reacted differently, influenced by their historical …
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Scroll down for the complete list of ECFR Council Members. Click on the name of a country for a shortcut to its members. Click for a printable version.
Albania – Austria – Belgium – Bulgaria – Croatia – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – Estonia – Finland – France – Germany
Greece – Hungary – Ireland – Italy – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macedonia – Malta – Norway – Poland – Portugal – Romania
Serbia – Slovakia – Slovenia – Spain – Sweden – Switzerland – The Netherlands – Turkey – United Kingdom
- Ditmir Bushati – Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Remzi Lani – Director, Albanian Media Institute, Tirana
- Steven Heinz (Austria/US) – Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Lansdowne Partners Ltd
- Gerald Knaus – Chairman, European Stability Initiative; Carr Center Fellow
- Sebastian Kurz – Chancellor
- Ursula Plassnik – Ambassador of Austria to Switzerland; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria
- Albert Rohan – Ambassador (retired)
- Wolfgang Schüssel – former Chancellor
- Hannes Swoboda – former President, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, European Parliament
- Andreas Treichl – CEO, Erste Bank Group AG
- Claude Kandiyoti – CEO, Krest Real Estate Investments
- Marc Otte – Senior Associate Fellow, Egmont Institute; Vice-President, European Institute for Peace; former EU Special Representative to the Middle East Peace Process
- Didier Reynders – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs
- Françoise Tulkens – Member, Human Rights Advisory Panel to the UN Mission in Kosovo; former Vice President, European Court of Human Rights
- Kristalina Georgieva – CEO, World Bank; former EU Commissioner
- Dzhema Grozdanova – Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, National Assembly of Bulgaria
- Ivailo Kalfin – former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour & Social Policy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Andrey Kovatchev – Member of the European Parliament
- Ivan Krastev – Chair of Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
- Meglena Kuneva – Former Deputy Prime Minister for European Policies Coordination and Institutional Affairs; former EU Commissioner
- Nickolay Mladenov – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Rosen Plevneliev – former President of Bulgaria
- Georgi Pirinski – Member of the European Parliament; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Kamelia Slaveykova – Country Chair Bulgaria and Greece, Shell; External Relations Manager, Central, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, Shell
- Lea Kaspar – Executive Director, Global Partners Digital
- Christos Stylianides – European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management
- Dita Charanzová – Member of the European Parliament
- Jiří Pehe – Director, New York University, Prague
- Karel Schwarzenberg – Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Chamber of Deputies; former Foreign Minister
- Rebecca Adler-Nissen – Professor, PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
- Stine Bosse – Chairman and Non-Executive Board Member; Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School
- Lykke Friis – Prorector, University of Copenhagen; former Minister for Climate, Energy and Gender Equality
- Connie Hedegaard – former European Commissioner for Climate Action
- Martin Lidegaard – Member of Parliament; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Nader Mousavizadeh – Co-founder and Co-CEO, Macro Advisory Partners
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt – CEO, Save the Children International; former Prime Minister
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves – former President of Estonia
- Kaja Kallas – Member of the European Parliament
- Riina Kionka – Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the European Council
- Martti Ahtisaari – Emeritus Chair, ECFR; former President of Finland
- Jaakko Iloniemi – former Ambassador of Finland; former Executive Director, Crisis Management Initiative
- Piia-Noora Kauppi – Managing Director, Federation of Finnish Financial Services
- Alexander Stubb – Vice-President, European Investment Bank; former Prime Minister
- Teija Tiilikainen – Director, Finnish Institute for International Relations
- Erkki Tuomioja – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Maurice Braud – National Secretary for International Affairs, Migration and Co-development, Parti Socialiste
- Francois Burgat – Director, French Institute of the Near East; Senior Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research
- Arnaud Danjean – Member of the European Parliament
- Karima Dirèche – Director, Institute for the Research on the Contemporary Maghreb
- Muriel Domenach – Secretary General of the Interministerial Committee on the Prevention of Crime and Radicalisation
- Sylvie Goulard – former Member of the European Parliament; former Minister of Defence
- Camille Grand – Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, NATO
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno – President and CEO, International Crisis Group; former Under-Secretary-General for UN Peacekeeping Operations
- Elisabeth Guigou – President, Anna Lindh Foundation
- Sylvie Kauffmann – Editorial Director, Le Monde
- Bassma Kodmani (France/Syria) – Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative
- Bernard Kouchner – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Pascal Lamy – Honorary President, Notre Europe; former Director-General of the WTO; former EU Commissioner
- Bruno Le Maire – Minister for the Economy
- Jean-David Levitte – former Sherpa to the President of the French Republic; former Ambassador of France to the United States
- Guillaume Liegey – Partner, Liegey Muller Pons
- Pierre Moscovici – European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs: Former Minister of the Economy, Finances and Foreign Trade; former Minister for European Affairs
- Christine Ockrent – Commentator and writer; Presenter of ‚Affaires Internationales‘, France Culture Radio
- Laurence Parisot – former Vice President, IFOP
- Jean Pisani-Ferry – Director, Prime Minister’s Economic Policy Planning Staff
- Olivier Roy – Professor, European University Institute, Florence
- Ghassan Salamé (France/Lebanon) – UN Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya
- Justin Vaisse – Director of Policy Planning Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France
- Pierre Vimont – former Secretary General, European External Action Service; former Ambassador of France to the United States
- Niels Annen – Member of the Bundestag
- Thomas Bagger – Ambassador, Director-General for Foreign Affairs, Office of the Federal President of Germany
- Roland Berger – Founder and Honorary Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH
- Franziska Brantner – Member of the Bundestag
- Harald Braun – Ambassador of Germany; former State Secretary of the German Foreign Office
- Sandra Breka – Senior Vice President, Robert Bosch Stiftung
- Hans Eichel – former Minister of Finance
- Joschka Fischer – Emeritus Chair, ECFR; former Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Vice-Chancellor
- Alexander Graf Lambsdorff – Member of the Bundestag
- Ulrike Guérot – Founder and Director, European Democracy Lab; Professor, Danube University Krems
- Annette Heuser – Executive Director, Professor Otto Beisheim Stiftung
- Ina Heusgen – Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
- Wolfgang Ischinger – Ambassador Chairman, Munich Security Conference
- Roderich Kiesewetter – Member of the Bundestag
- Bärbel Kofler – Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid
- Stefan Kornelius – Foreign Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung
- David McAllister – Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament
- Michelle Müntefering – Member of the Bundestag
- Matthias Nass – Chief International Correspondent, DIE ZEIT
- Dietmar Nietan – Member of the Bundestag
- Cem Özdemir – Leader, Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Green Party)
- Ruprecht Polenz – former Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee
- Norbert Röttgen – Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Bundestag
- Nikolaus Röttger – Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Germany
- Klaus Scharioth – Dean of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs; former Ambassador of Germany to the United States
- Andreas Schwab – Member of the European Parliament
- Michael Schwarz – Executive Director, Stiftung Mercator
- Daniela Schwarzer – Director of the Research Institute, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
- Volker Stanzel – former Ambassador of Germany to China and Japan
- Sabine Stricker-Kellerer – Lawyer, SSK Asia
- Michael Stürmer – Chief Correspondent, Die Welt
- Eckart von Klaeden – Head of External Affairs, Daimler AG; Former Minister of State at the Federal Chancellery
- Johann Wadephul – Member of the Bundestag
- Andre Wilkens – Author; Co-Founder; Die Offene Gesellschaft
- Kostas Bakoyannis – Governor of Central Greece
- Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Greece/France) – Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
- George Papandreou – former Prime Minister
- Loukas Tsoukalis – Professor, University of Athens and President, ELIAMEP
- Gordon Bajnai – Chairman, Global Advisory Board, Campbell Lutyens; former Prime Minister
- Tibor Dessewffy – President, DEMOS Hungary
- Ádám Ficsor – CEO, DatAdat; former Minister
- István Gyarmati – President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition
- David Koranyi – Director, Energy Diplomacy Initiative, Global Energy Center, The Atlantic Council
- Anita Orban – Vice President for International Affairs, Tellurian LNG UK
- Alexander Soros (Hungary/USA) – Global Board Member, Open Society Foundations
- George Soros (Hungary/USA) – Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations
- Réka Szemerkényi – former Ambassador of Hungary to the United States
- John Bruton – former Prime Minister (Taoiseach); President, IFSC Ireland
- Lucinda Creighton – CEO, Vulcan Consulting; former European Affairs Minister
- Brigid Laffan – Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Director of the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute
- Louise Richardson – Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
- Giuliano Amato – Judge, Constitutional Court; former Prime Minister
- Vincenzo Amendola – Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
- Giampiero Auletta Armenise – Chairman, Mistralfin SpA
- Emma Bonino – Co-chair of the Board of ECFR; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Massimo D’Alema – President, Italianieuropei Foundation; former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Marta Dassù – Senior Director European Affairs, The Aspen Institute; Editor-in-Chief, Aspenia
- Franco Frattini – Chamber President, Italian Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’Etat); former Foreign Minister and former Vice President of the European Commission
- Sandro Gozi – Undersecretary of State for European Affairs
- Monica Maggioni – President of RAI
- Marco Margheri – Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Edison
- Alessia Mosca – Member of the European Parliament
- Lapo Pistelli – Executive Vice President, International Affairs Department, ENI; former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Romano Prodi – President, Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation; former Prime Minister; former President of the European Commission
- Lia Quartapelle – Member of Parliament
- Nicolò Russo Perez – Head, International Affairs Programme, Compagnia di San Paolo
- Pasquale Salzano – Ambassador of Italy to Qatar
- Stefano Sannino – Ambassador of Italy to Spain
- Giuseppe Scognamiglio – Executive Vice President, Head of Group Institutional & Regulatory Affairs Department, UniCredit; Editor, EastWest
- Nathalie Tocci – Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali
- Luisa Todini – Chair, Todini Finanziaria SpA
- Sandra Kalniete – Member of the European Parliament; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Nils Muiznieks – Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
- Zaneta Ozolina – Professor, University of Latvia; former Director, Latvian Centre for Human Rights
- Andris Strazds – Advisor, Bank of Latvia; part-time faculty member, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
- Vaira Vike-Freiberga – former President of Latvia
- Linas Linkevičius – Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Vygaudas Ušackas – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Goran Buldioski – Program Director, Open Society Think Tank Fund; Co-Director, Open Society Initiative for Europe
- Joseph Mifsud – Director, London Academy of Diplomacy
- Leiv Lunde – Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ine Eriksen Søreide – Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Jonas Gahr Støre – Leader of the Labour Party; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Marek Belka – Non-Executive Director, Echo Polska Properties; former Prime Minister
- Edwin Bendyk – Writer and journalist, Polityka
- Henryka Bochniarz – President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers – Lewiatan
- Mikołaj Dowgielewicz – Director General and Permanent Representative, European Investment Bank
- Danuta Hübner – Member of the European Parliament; former European Commissioner
- Andrzej Olechowski – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz – Head, Open Europe Programme, Stefan Batory Foundation
- Adam D. Rotfeld – former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Co-Chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Commissioner of Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative
- Piotr Serafin – Head of Cabinet, President of the European Council; former Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Radosław Sikorski – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Wawrzyniec Smoczyński – Managing Director, Polityka Insight
- Aleksander Smolar – Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
- Paweł Świeboda – Institutional Team Leader, European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission
- Rafal Trzaskowski – former Secretary of State for European Affairs
- Luís Amado – former Foreign Defense Minister; former Foreign Minister
- Fernando Andresen Guimarães – Head of Division, Russia, European External Action Service
- Jaime Gama – former Speaker of the Parliament; former Foreign Minister
- Carlos Gaspar – Member of the Board of Directors, Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI)
- Teresa Gouveia – Trustee to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; former Foreign Minister
- Miguel Maduro – Professor and Director, Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute; former Minister
- Antonio Vitorino – Lawyer; former EU Commissioner
- Daniel Daianu – Member of the Board, the National Bank of Romania; former Minister of Finance
- Alina Mungiu-Pippidi – Professor of Democracy Studies, Hertie School of Governance
- Ion Sturza – Founder & Chairman, Fribourg Capital; former Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova
- Sonia Licht – President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
- Hedvig Morvai – Executive Director, European Fund for the Balkans
- Ivan Vejvoda – Director, Europe Project, Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences
- Pavol Demeš – Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Bratislava)
- Miroslav Lajčák – Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
- Katarina Mathernova – Deputy Director General, DG NEAR, European Commission
- Karla Wursterova – CFSP Counsellor, Permanent Representation of Slovakia to the European Union
- Tomáš Valášek – Director, Carnegie Europe
- Tanja Fajon – Member of the European Parliament
- Samuel Žbogar – Head of the Delegation of the EU to Macedonia; former Foreign Minister
- Esther Alcocer Koplowitz – President of the Board of Directors, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC)
- Joaquín Almunia – former Vice President of the European Commission & Commissioner for Competition
- José M. de Areilza Carvajal – Secretary-General, Aspen Institute España; Professor, ESADE Law School
- Lluís Bassets – Deputy Director, El País
- Diego Hidalgo – Co-founder of Spanish newspaper El País; Founder of Club de Madrid, CITpax and Founder and Honorary President of FRIDE
- Javi López – Member of the European Parliament
- Irene Lozano – Writer; former member of the Congress of Deputies
- Cristina Manzano – Editor-in-chief, Esglobal
- ĺñigo Méndez de Vigo – Minister of Education, Culture and Sport
- Enrique Mora – Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Marcelino Oreja Aguirre – Member of the Board, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas; former EU Commissioner
- Andrés Ortega – Author & journalist; former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister
- Ana Palacio – Member of the Council of State; former Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group
- Eva Piera – Global Head of Public Affairs, BBVA
- Charles Powell (Spain/UK) – Director, Real Instituto Elcano
- José María Robles Fraga – Director, International Corporate Affairs, Santander
- Toni Roldán Monés – Member of Parliament, Ciudadanos Spokesperson on Economic Affairs; National Secretary for Public Policy
- Narcís Serra – President of IBEI, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals; former Vice-President of the Spanish Government
- Javier Solana – former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy & Secretary-General of the Council of the EU; former Secretary General of NATO
- Anna Terrón Cusí- Special Advisor to the European Commissioner for Trade; President, InStrategies
- José Ignacio Torreblanca – Editorial Director, El País
- Jordi Vaquer – Director, Open Society Initiative for Europe
- Urban Ahlin – Speaker of the Riksdag
- Erik Berglöf – Director, Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics
- Carl Bildt – Co-chair of the Board of ECFR; former Prime Minister; former Foreign Minister
- Ingrid Bonde – CFO & Deputy CEO, Vattenfall AB
- Gunilla Carlsson – former Minister for International Development Cooperation
- Nicola Clase – Ambassador, Coordinator for Migration and Refugees Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
- Karin Enström – Member of Parliament; former Minister of Defence
- Karin Forseke (Sweden/USA) – former Deputy Chairman, Financial Services Authority (FSA)
- Jytte Guteland – Member of the European Parliament
- Anna Ibrisagic – Senior Partner, ESL & Network; former Member of the European Parliament
- Carin Jämtin – Director General, Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority (SIDA)
- Diana Janse – Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Moderate Party
- Daniel Sachs – CEO, Proventus
- Pierre Schori – Chair of Olof Palme Memorial Fund; former Director General, FRIDE; former SRSG to Cote d´Ivoire
- Annika Söder – State Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Margot Wallström – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister; former Vice-President of the European Commission
- Peter Wolodarski – Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Nyheter
- Maria Livanos Cattaui – former Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce
- Martina Larkin – Head of Europe and Eurasia, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
- Yoeri Albrecht – Director, De Balie
- Dick Benschop – President Director, Shell Netherlands
- Beatrice de Graaf – Professor of the History of International Relations and Global Governance, Utrecht University
- Caroline de Gruyter – Correspondent, European Affairs, NRC Handelsblad; contributor, Carnegie Europe
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer – former NATO Secretary General; former Foreign Minister
- Steven Everts – Senior Advisor, European External Action Service
- Rem Koolhaas – Architect and urbanist; Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
- Dick Oosting – former CEO, European Council on Foreign Relations; former Europe Director, Amnesty International
- Kati Piri – Rapporteur on Turkey; Member of the European Parliament
- Marietje Schaake – Member of the European Parliament
- Petra Stienen – Author; Member of Dutch Senate
- Han ten Broeke – Member of Parliament; Party spokesman on Foreign Affairs
- Coen van Oostrom – CEO and Founder, OVG Real Estate
- Mabel van Oranje – Co-chair of the Board of ECFR, Chair of Girls Not Brides – The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage
- Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau – Special Envoy for Startups; Chairman, Start-up Fest Europe; Director for Digital Diplomacy and Macro Strategy, Macro Advisory Partners
- Ekim Alptekin (Turkey/The Netherlands) – President, Turkish American Business Association (TABA/AmCham)
- Senem Aydin-Düzgit – Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Istanbul Bilgi University
- Fatih Birol – Executive Director, International Energy Agency
- Ahmet Davutoglu – former Prime Minister
- Kemal Dervis – Vice-President and Director of Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
- Hanzade Doğan Boyner – Chair, Doğan Gazetecilik and Doğan Online
- Ece Güner Toprak – Chair, Democratic Constitution Platform
- Ibrahim Kalin – Special Advisor to the President of Turkey, Deputy Secretary-General, Presidency
- Ayşe Kadıoğlu – Acting Rector of Sabancı University
- Suat Kiniklioglu – Senior Policy Fellow, Institute for Security & Development Policy
- Soli Özel – Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Istanbul Kadir Has University
- Behlül Özkan – Assistant Professor, Marmara University
- Safak Pavey – Member of Parliament
- Sinan Ülgen – Chairman, Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)
- Douglas Alexander – former Secretary of State for International Development
- Alexander Betts – Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, University of Oxford
- Charles Clarke – Visiting Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia; former Secretary of State for Home Affairs
- Ian Clarkson – Founder, Celerant Consulting
- Robert Cooper – Diplomat; former Counsellor of the European External Action Service
- Brendan Cox – Co-founder, More in Common
- Flick Drummond – former Member of Parliament
- Andrew Duff – former Member of the European Parliament
- Timothy Garton Ash – Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
- Heather Grabbe – Executive Director, Open Society Policy Institute
- Charles Grant – Director, Centre for European Reform
- Damian Green – First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office
- Jo Johnson – Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation
- Mary Kaldor – Professor, London School of Economics
- Mark Leonard – Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
- Daniel Levy – President, US Middle East Project
- Adam Lury – CEO, Menemsha Ltd
- Kirsty McNeill – Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, Save the Children
- Anand Menon – Professor of European Studies, Kings College London
- David Miliband – President & CEO, International Rescue Committee; former Foreign Secretary
- Andrew Puddephatt – Director, Global Partners & Associated Ltd.
- Nicola Reindorp – Deputy Executive Director, Crisis Action
- Emma Reynolds – Member of Parliament; former Europe Minister
- Janet Royall – Principal, Somerville College, University of Oxford; former leader of the opposition in the House of Lords
- Rory Stewart – Minister for International Development; Minister for Africa
- Chuka Umunna – Member of Parliament
- Robert Wainwright – Executive Director, Europol















































