Terry DAVIS

Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Walter SCHWIMMER

Secretary General of the Council of Europe (1999-2004)

Daniel TARSCHYS

Secretary General of the Council of Europe (1994-1999)

Catherine LALUMIERE

Secretary General of the Council of Europe (1989-1994)

Jean Louis LAURENS

General director of the Council of Europe on political questions

Alvaro GIL ROBLES

Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (1999-2006)

Anne PRINGLE
Ambassador of the UK to the

Russian Federation (from 2008)  

Anthony BRENTON 

Ambassador of the UK

to the Russian Federation (2004-2008)     

Sir Roderic LYNE  
Ambassador of the UK to the

Russian Federation (2000 – 2004)

Sir Andrew WOOD  
Ambassador of the UK

to the Russian Federation (1995-2000)

Sir Rodric BRAITHWAITE 

Ambassador of the UK

to the USSR and Russia

(1988-1992)

Peter MANDELSON
UK First Secretary of State,

Secretary of State for Business,

Innovation and Skills and

Lord President of the Council

Sir Bernard INGHAM
Chairman, “Bernard Ingham

Communications”;
Margaret Thatcher’s Chief Press

Secretary (1979-1990)

Robert DUDLEY
President and CEO

JSC “TNK-BP Management”

Robert, lord SKIDELSKI
MP, House of Lords;

Professor, Warvick University

Shirley, baroness of WILLIAMS 
MP, House of Lords  Professor,

Harvard University

Christopher COKER

Professor, London School of Economics and Law

Jacek ROSTOWSKI

Professor, Central European University

John LLOYD

Contributing editor, Financial Times

Quentin PEEL  
International Affairs Editor,

“Financial Times”

William BURNS

Ambassador of the USA to the Russian Federation (2005-2008)

Alexander VERSHBOW

Ambassador of the USA to the Russian Federation (2001-2005)

James COLLINS

Ambassador of the USA to the Russian Federation (1996-2001)

Thomas PICKERING

Senior Executive vice-President, The Boeing Company;

Ambassador of the USA to the Russian Federation (1993-1996)

Toby GATI

Senior International Advisor; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP;

Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs, National Security Council

Michael McFAUL

Special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs, US National Security Council

Thomas GRAHAM

Senior Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc;

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs (2004-2007)

Richard PERLE

Senior Associate, American Enterprise Institute;

Former Chairman, Council of Defence Policy

Richard PIPES

Professor, Harvard University
 

Anne APPLEBAUM

Editorial Page, “The Washington Post”

Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize 

Alexander VOLOSHIN 
Chairman of the Board, “Norilsky Nikel” corporation;

Head of the Presidential Administration (1999-2004)

Alexander ZHUKOV

First Vice-prime-minister of the Russian Federation

Egor GAYDAR

Director, Institute of the Economy in Transition;

Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation (1992)

Sergei STEPASHIN

Chairman of the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation;

Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation (1999)

Konstantin KOSACHEV

Chairman, Committee on International Affairs, Russian State Duma

Mikhail MARGELOV  
Chairman, Committee on International Affairs, Council of Federation
 

Igor YURGENS

Chairman, Institute for Modern Development

Evgeny YASIN

Member of Public Chamber;

Minister of Economics of the Russian Federation (1994-1998)

Michael  ZADORNOV

President – Chairman of the Board, “VTB 24”;

Minister of Finances of the Russian Federation (1997-1999)