The SAB (Senior Advisory Board) has the essential function to assist in the strategic decisions about the future development,
funding and operations of the Foundation. Its first meeting has taken place back to back with the Conference “Afghanistan to 2014 and beyond – Ask and Task” and has been constructive.
Benoit d’Aboville, Vice President, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris
Nabeela Al-Mulla, Former Ambassador of the State of Kuwait
Mohammed Ali Al-Naqbi, Former Head of UAE Mission to NATO
Ghazi Al Bahar Al Rawas, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman, Muscat
Sheikh Ali Bin Jassim Al-Thani, Ambassador of the State of Qatar, Doha
John R. Allen, President, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC
Hafida Benchehida, Former Senator of the Algerian Parliament, Foreign Affairs Committee, Algiers
Zoran Čičak, Member of The Ohrid Group; Foreign Policy Expert and Writer, Belgrade
Mesut Ciceker, President, CICEKER CONSULTING, Brussels
Wesley K. Clark, CEO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates, Little Rock (Arkansas)
Kai Eide, Former UN Envoy to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo; Former Norwegian Ambassador to NATO, OSCE and Sweden, Oslo
Oded Eran, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv
Ahmet O. Evin, Professor, Sabancı University, Tuzla (Turkey)
Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Manama
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Former President of Croatia, Zagreb
Istvan Gyarmati, President, International Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest
Grant Hammond, Former Deputy Director, USAF Center for Strategy and Technology, Air University, Maxwell AFB (Alabama)
Raymond R. Henault, Former Chair and Chief Strategic Advisor, ADGA Group, Ottawa
Robert Hunter, Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Washington DC
George Joffé, Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa (CIRMENA), University of Cambridge, Cambridge; Visiting Professor, King’s College, London
Karl Heinz Kamp, Special Envoy of the Political Director, Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin
Mahmoud Karem, Professor, British University; former Ambassador to NATO and the European Union, Cairo
Jeremy Kinsman, Former Canadian Diplomat; Resident International Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Ian O. Lesser, Vice President and Executive Director, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels
Julian Lindley-French, Senior Fellow, Institute of Statecraft, London; Director, Europa Analytica, Brussels
Joseph Manso, United States Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague
Ahmad Masa’deh, Former Secretary-General, Union for the Mediterranean, Amman
Staffan de Mistura, UN Secretary General’s Personal for Western Sahara, New York
Luigi Piantadosi, Director, Europe and Future Vertical Lift International at Rotary and Mission Systems, Lockheed Martin, London
Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman and Founder, Gulf Research Center, Jeddah
Ferdinando Salleo, Former Ambassador and Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy
Gea Schirò, Former Member of the Italian Parliament and Publisher
Giuseppe Scognamiglio, Chairman, Eastwest European Institute
Fred Tanner, Former Ambassador; Visiting Professor, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Sinan Ulgen, Chairman, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), Istanbul
Chris Whitecross, Former Commandant, NATO Defense College
Damon Wilson, President and CEO, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Washington DC
Federico Yaniz Velasco, Vice President, EURODEFENSE-ESPAÑA, Madrid
Firuz Demir Yaşamış, Professor, Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul
Yannis-Alexis Zepos, Former Ambassador and Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Athens