Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces: International Advisory Board

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces: International Advisory Board

• Pierre Aepli - Lecturer, University of Lausanne; former Chief of Cantonal Police (canton Vaud, Switzerland); former Chairman of the Conference of Swiss Cantonal Police Commanders
• Alexey Arbatov - Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation; Director of the Center for International Security at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations
• Bernardo Arevalo de Leon - Director of the UNDP / Interpeace Joint Program Unit for Participatory Strategies for Peacebuilding and Development; former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala; Member of the Steering Committee of the Latin American Security Network, RESDAL
• Alyson J. K. Bailes - Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
• Nicole Ball - Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy, Washington DC
• Sergey Batsanov - Director, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Geneva Office
• Carl Bildt - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (Membership on Advisory Board currently suspended during tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs)
• Vlado Buckovski - Member of Parliament, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
• Erhard Busek - Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
• Christian Catrina - Deputy Head, Directorate for Security and Defence Policy, Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports
• Umit Cizre - Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara
• Michael Clarke - Executive Director, Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London
• Anthony H. Cordesman - Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC
• Peter J. Croll - Director, Bonn International Center for Conversion
• Erwin Dahinden - Head of Multilateral Treaties and Armed Forces International Relations, Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports
• Jean-Jacques de Dardel - Swiss Ambassador to Belgium and NATO
• Jayantha Dhanapala - Senior Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka; former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs
• Chris Donnelly - Senior Fellow, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham
• Jonah I. Elaigwu - President, Institute of Governance and Social Research, Jos, Nigeria
• Michael Emerson - Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels
• Pieter Feith - Deputy Director-General for Political and Military Affairs, Council of the European Union
• Hans-Peter Furrer - Former Director General of Political Affairs of the Council of Europe
• Nicole Gnesotto - Former Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
• Owen Greene - Research Director, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
• Miroslav Hadzic - President of the Managing Board, Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade; Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
• Karl Haltiner - Professor of Military Sociology, Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Au-Zurich
• Aleya Hammad - Secretary General, Women Defending Peace, Geneva
• François Heisbourg - Special Advisor, Foundation for Strategic Research, Paris; Chairman, Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Chairman, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
• Eboe Hutchful - Executive Director, African Security Dialogue and Research, Accra
• Pauli Jarvenpaa - Director-General, Department of Defence Policy, Finnish Ministry of Defence
• Ljubica Jelusic - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
• Soren Jessen-Petersen - former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
• Hansrudolf Kamer - Deputy Editor-In-Chief, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• Mukesh Kapila - Director, Emergency Response and Operations, Department for Health Action in Crises, World Health Organisation, Geneva
• Andrzej Karkoszka - Former Director of the Strategic Defence Review, Polish Ministry of National Defence
• George Katsirdakis - Deputy Director, Defence Partnership & Co-Operation Directorate, NATO
• Catherine M. Kelleher - Senior Fellow, The Watson Institute, Brown University, Rhode Island
• Girts Valdis Kristovskis - Vice Chairman of Security and Defence Committee of the European Parliament; Former Minister of Defence of Latvia
• Sonja Licht - President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
• Simon Lunn - Secretary-General, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• John J. Maresca - President, Business-Humanitarian Forum, Geneva
• Salim Nasr - Senior Advisor, UNDP Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (POGAR), Beirut
• Klaus Naumann - Former Bundeswehr’s Generalinspekteur; former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
• Boubacar N'Diaye - Political Science Department, the College of Wooster
• Karlis Neretnieks - Researcher and former Rector, Swedish National Defence College; former Advisor on Security Sector Reform, Swedish Ministry of Defence
• Michael Noone - Professor of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
• Renatas Norkus - Undersecretary for Policy and International Relations, Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania
• Jaromír Novotny - Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Japan
• Funmi Olonisakin - Director, Conflict, Security and Development Group, International Policy Institute, King's College, London
• Sergei Ordzhonikidze - Under-Secretary-General, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva
• Ioan Mircea Pascu - Member of Romanian Parliament, former Minister of National Defence of Romania
• Wolfgang Petritsch - Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations Office at Geneva
• Johann Pucher - Director-General for Security Policy, Directorate-General for Security Policy, Austrian Ministry of Defence
• Zarko Puhovski - Professor, University of Zagreb; Scientific Director, European Peace University, Stadtschlaining, Austria; Chairperson, Helsinki Committee For Human Rights – Croatia (CHC)
• Elisabeth Reusse-Decrey - Executive President, Geneva Call
• Tomas Ries - Director, Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm
• Sergey Rogov - Director, Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Adam Daniel Rotfeld - Polish Institute of International Affairs; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland; former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
• Abdulaziz Sager - Chairman, Gulf Research Center, Dubai
• Herbert Salber - Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre of the OSCE, Vienna
• Stefano Sannino - Diplomatic Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister
• Velizar M. Shalamanov - Chairman, George C. Marshall Association – Bulgaria; former Deputy Minister of Defence of Bulgaria
• Clare Short - Member of Parliament, United Kingdom; former Secretary of State for International Development
• Jeffrey Simon - Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defence University, Washington DC
• Walter Slocombe - Partner, Caplin Drysdale, Chartered, Washington DC; former Senior Advisor and Director for Security Affairs (National Security and Defense) in the Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq; former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Department of Defense
• Fred Tanner - Director, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
• James A. Thomson - President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND
• Willem F. van Eekelen - Chairman, European Movement in the Netherlands; former Minister of Defence of the Netherlands, former Secretary General of the Western European Union
• Alfred van Staden Chairman, Netherlands' Society for International Affairs; Professor of International Relations, Leiden University
• Pieter Verbeek - Director, Working Table III (Security, Defence, Justice and Home Affairs), Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
• Nancy J. Walker - President, AfricaNet, Washington DC
• Jusuf Wanandi - Member of the Board of Directors, Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta
• Daniel Warner - Deputy to the Director, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
• Bruce Weinrod - Managing Director & General Counsel, International Technology and Trade Associates, Inc., Washington DC; former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy
• Andreas Wenger - Director, Centre for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
• Andrei Zagorski - Associate Professor, Moscow State Institute for International Relations