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Specialist of criminal finance. Independent Consultant and Director of C3COM, a consultancy firm addressing non-military threats. She has worked as an investment banker before joining the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime. She also teaches criminal finance at the Research Department on Contemporary Criminal Threats (Institute of Criminology – Paris-II).

Member of the Center for Higher European Studies (National Institute for Public Service, former ENA) and senior counsel on studies at MEDEF (Network of French entrepreneurs). He was French Ambassador to Latvia (2002-2006), after having served as an Advisor on politico-strategic affairs to the French Foreign Minister (1997-2002), Special Envoy to the Balkans and the Caucasus (1999) and Ambassador at large on European affairs (2006-2007). He also served as Director of the Policy planning staff of the French Foreign Ministry (1999-2002). From 2010 to 2013, he was Director of Studies and Research of the Institute of Higher National Defence Studies (IHEDN). He is a regular contributor to Ramses Report and the quarterly Politique Etrangère (IFRI).

Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). Former Secretary General of CARE International, one of the world’s largest humanitarian NGOs, with over 15,000 employees operating in over 60 countries. He was previously Chief Executive of CARE Australia, Assistant Director General of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and a Research Fellow at the University of California.

Expert on the economy of the former Soviet Union. Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus at Wellesley College. Senior Scholar at the Davis Centre for Russian Studies at Harvard University where he was the Associate Director. He has been a consultant to the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Council on Environmental Quality and numerous corporations.

French diplomat. Member of the United Nation’s Secretary-Generals Advisory Board on disarmament matters and high-ranking adviser at the French Audit Office. Former Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN. High functions at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the French Embassy in the US. Ambassador to the Western European Union.

Greek economist. Professor at the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece. Chief economist at the Eurobank EFG and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He was Director of the Economic Office of the Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis and Research Adviser and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA.

American political scientist. Distinguished Scholar at the CSIS after beeing Director of the “Islam” Programme. Visiting professor of Islamic Studies at the Georgetown University. She was Head of the Mediterranean program at the Centre For European Policy Studies, Brussels (1994-1998).

German diplomat. Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (Wehrkunde). Also Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE. He was German Ambassador to the Court of St. James’ (United Kingdom) and to the USA. He was the EU’s Representative in the Troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo and State Secretary at the German Foreign Office.

President of the Russian International Affairs Council since 2011. Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) since 2007. Previously he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 1998 to 2004, and as Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, from 2004 to 2007. Minister Ivanov holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He represented the USSR and then Russia as Ambassador to Spain. He has also worked as a researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Academy of Sciences of USSR. He graduated from the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, has a Ph.D. in history, and is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the non-governmental Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Russian foreign and economic affairs specialist. He is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Founder and former Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe of the Academy of Sciences of USSR/Russia (1989-2010). He has been Dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) since 2006. He was a Member of High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) (2014-2015). He graduated from the Department of Economics of the Moscow State University.

Co-founder and Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative since 2005. She served as senior adviser on international cooperation at the French National Research Council (2007-2009). She was Senior Program Officer for Governance and International Cooperation at the Ford Foundation office for the Middle East and North Africa in Cairo (1998-2005). In 2011, she was Head of Foreign Relations and spokesperson with the Syrian National Council. In 2016, she joined the delegation of the democratic opposition in the Geneva peace talks on Syria. She serves on the advisory Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences-Po, Paris.

Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University. He was Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and Chair of the Government Department. He was the founding editor of “The China Quarterly”, and has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In previous personae, he has been a journalist, a TV commentator, and a Member of Parliament. His most recent books are Mao’s Last Revolution (jointly-authored; Harvard, 2006) and The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China (editor; Cambridge, 2011).

Chairman of the High Level Group on Own Resources, European Commission. Former Prime Minister of Italy and President of Bocconi University, Milan. He was also for ten years a member of the European Commission, in charge of the Internal market, Financial services and Tax policy (1995-1999), then of Competition (1999-2004). In addition to a number of high-profile cases (e.g. GE/Honeywell, Microsoft, the German Landesbanken), he introduced radical modernization reforms of EU antitrust and merger control and led, with the US authorities, the creation of the International Competition Network (ICN). Prior to joining the European Commission, he had been professor of economics and rector at Bocconi. He graduated from Bocconi University and pursued graduate studies at Yale University.

Palestinian academic. Professor of Islamic Philosophy, President, Al-Quds University. Chair in “Freedom of Expression” at the UNESCO. Former Co-Chairman, Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization (IPSO) and PLO representative in Jerusalem. Previously, Fellow at Harvard University, and Assistant Professor, Philosophy Cultural Studies, at Birzeit University.

Senior Distinguished Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). He is a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (January 2021 to March 2024), serving as Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) from 2021 to 2023. Prior to this, from October 2005 to September 2020, Volker Perthes was Executive Chairman and Director of SWP (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. In 2015-2016, he also served as UN Assistant Secretary-General and Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria; from 2016 to 2018 he chaired the Ceasefire Task Force (CTF) for Syria on behalf of the UN. Volker Perthes earned his doctoral degree in 1990 from the University of Duisburg. He was an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut from 1991 to 1993 and has been teaching International Relations at Humboldt University Berlin and other schools.

Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair at the European University Institute. He is also Professor at Hertie School of Governance (Berlin) and at Sciences Po Paris. Previously, he served as French Commissioner General for Policy Planning (2013-2016), Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank (2005-2013), Deputy Chairman of the French Economic Analysis Council (2001-2002), Senior Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Finance (1997-2000), Director of CEPII, the French institute for international economics (1992-1997). He is an engineer from the École supérieure d’électricité, Paris. He also holds a Master’s degree in mathematics and an advanced degree in economics from the Centre d’études des programmes économiques (CEPE, Paris). In the first half of 2017, he contributed to the campaign of Emmanuel Macron as Director of the Program and Ideas Division.

French political scientist. CNRS Senior Fellow at the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS), at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS Paris). He works on the internal dynamics of change in India and India-Pakistan relations. Professor at the EHESS and at the French Institute of Geopolitics of Paris-VIII. Founder of the French journal Transcontinentales.

German political scientist, specialist of China and of International Relations in Asia-Pacific. Otto-Wolff-Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). He held a position as Professor for International Relations in Mainz, and at Free University Berlin. He served as Dean of the Faculty for Political and Social Sciences at Free University.

Japanese politician and diplomat. President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. Member of the National Public Safety Commission. Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations. Ambassador of Japan to the Netherlands and to Australia. He was Private Secretary to Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda and Research Associate at the IISS.

American nonfiction writer and a journalist specializing in the Middle East policy towards Israel. President of the “U.S./Middle East Project” (USMEP), established by the think tank Council on Foreign Relations. Research Professor at the “Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East” program of the University of London. Former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress.

Russian scholar and diplomat, expert on Russian foreign policy and Asia-Pacific region. Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor Torkunov holds positions of the Chairman of the UN Association of Russia, President of the Russian International Studies Association, Member of the Academic Council of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, co-Chairman of the Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters (2007-2016). He is Chairman of Moscow Region Civic Chamber, co-President of the Russian Historical Society, co-Chairman of the Committee on difficult issues in the history of Russian-Japanese relations, co-President of the Russian-French Civil Societies Forum “Trianon Dialogue”.

Senior Fellow and co-founder of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CSIS Foundation, Jakarta. He is Vice Chair of the Indonesian National Committee for the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (INCPEC), Co-Chair of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) from 2009-2015, and Co-Chair of the Council of Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP), Indonesia. Publisher of The Jakarta Post Daily as well as Chairman of the Board of the Prasetiya Mulya University, Jakarta.

American professor, expert in international relations, Africa and Middle East. Professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, where he was before Director of Conflict Management and African Studies programs. He was consultant to the U.S. Department of State, President of the Middle East Studies Association and of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies.

Director of the Ifri Sub-Saharan Africa Center. He works on Mauritania and security issues in the Sahel. He teaches at the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Lille and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He holds a PhD in political geography from the University of Rouen.

Senior Fellow for North Africa/Middle East at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and consultant in international relations. He was formerly President of the Arab World Institute located in Paris (2002-2004). He was Ambassador of France to Canada (1998-2001) and to Jordan (1989-1993). He also served as Financial Counselor at the French Mission to the United Nations (1978-1981). He published or edited several books – La démocratie est-elle soluble dans l’Islam ? – and writes regularly in Le Monde, Politique Etrangère, Questions internationales, Ramsès. He graduated from Paris Institute of Political Studies. He also attended the École nationale d’administration (National School of Administration).

Director of the Centre for Migrations and Citizenship at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (UK) between 2001 and 2003, and a visiting fellow at the New York University (2009), the Institute for Advanced Studies-Collegium in Lyon (2010), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity (2015).  He gained his PhD in Political Sciences in 2000 at the Institute of Political Studies in Aix-en-Provence (France) and his Habilitation (HDR) at Sciences Po Paris in 2013. He is one of the editors of the book European States and their Muslim Citizens (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and the author of La citoyenneté à la française (Editions du CNRS, 2016).

Director of Ifri’s Security Studies Center, and an analyst of strategic and military affairs. He is also Assistant Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP-Sciences Po). He has taught International Relations and Security Studies at the Université Jean Moulin – Lyon-III, at the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan and at the Collège Interarmées de Défense.

Program Manager of the “Energy” program at Ifri from 2006 to 2014. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre Français sur les Etats-Unis (CFE/IFRI) while working at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, focusing on space policy issues within the Homeland Security program.

Head of the program “Health and Environment: from Security and Safety Issues to New Governance Options” and researcher at the Defense Research Unit (LRD) at Ifri. She contributes to Ifri’s foresight projects on future conflicts and investigates the issues of stabilization and post-conflict resolution in the African continent.

Fellow at Ifri, specialist in European Security issues. Her research on the European Union and its neighbours is funded by a Fellowship from the European Commission. She is also Senior Lecturer in European Security at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has written and contributed to numerous academic and practitioner publications.