Euro-Atlantic Integration and Russia after September 11

Speakers and Panel Chairs

Welcoming Addresses (Welcoming and Keynote trancript available in Russian)

• Evgeny G. Yasin, Dean of the Higher School of Economics, former Russian Minister of the Economy
• Rick Wicks, Board of Directors, Association to Unite the Democracies
• Tiziana Stella, Director of the Euro-Atlantic Institute of International Integration Studies of the Association to Unite the Democracies

Keynote Speakers

• Ambassador Robert Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, now at the RAND Corporation
• Vladimir Lukin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and former Russian Ambassador to Washington

PANEL 1: Jirii Pehe, Chair (transcript available in Russian)

• Carlos Escude', Professor of International Relations, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, and former Advisor to the Foreign Minister of Argentina (1991-92)
• Vytenis P. Andriukaitis, MP, Deputy Chairman of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs
• Ariel Cohen, Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
• Sergei Markov, Director, Institute for Political Studies, Moscow

PANEL 2: Charles Kupchan, Chair (transcript available in Russian)

• Vladimir Baranovsky, Deputy Director, IMEMO (Institute of the World Economy and International Relations), Moscow
• Ivan Rybkin, former Secretary, Russian Security Council
• Lyubomir Ivanov, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria; President of the Manfred Worner Foundation, and Chairman of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria
• Andrei Kortunov, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation, and President, Public Science Foundation, Moscow

VIDEOCONFERENCE

in Washington:

• Strobe Talbott, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, now President of the Brookings Institution, Washington DC
• Dan Hamilton, until January 2001, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, currently Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, Washington DC

in Moscow:

• Sergei Rogov, Director, Institute of the USA and Canada, Moscow

in Philadelphia:

• William Anthony Hay, Executive Director, Center for the Study of America and the West, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia

in Kiev:

• Hryhoriy Nemyria, Chair of European Integration at the Ukrainian Academy for Public Administration and Head, Board of the International Renaissance Foundation (a George Soros foundation)

PANEL 3: Georgi Karasimeonov, Chair (transcript)

• Alexei Podberezkin, former deputy chairman of the State Duma International Affairs Committee
• Jirii Pehe, former advisor to President Vaclav Havel, Czech Republic
• Ira Straus, Fulbright Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and Higher School of Economics, Moscow; and U.S. Coordinator of the Committee for Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO (CEERN)

PANEL 4: Carlos Escude', Chair

• Yuri Markovski, General Secretary, Social Democratic Party of Byelorussia
• Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Professor, Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University;
• Michael Hewitt, NATO Information Office, Moscow;
• Tiziana Stella, Director, Euro-Atlantic Institute of International Integration Studies of the Association to Unite the Democracies

Political Working Group (transcript available in Russian):

• Robert Nurick, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, Chair

Research and Education Working Group:

• Professor Arthur Demchuk, Moscow State University, Chair

PANEL 5: Leonid Ionin, Chair

• Alexei Bogaturov, Deputy Director of the Institute of US and Canada Studies (ISKRAN), Moscow
• Gleb Pavlovski, Director, Effective Policy Foundation, Moscow
• Yuri Borko, President of the Russian Association of European Studies and Director of the European Integration Department at the Institute of Europe, Moscow
• Dmitri Furman, Director, Russia-Europe-CIS Center, Institute of Europe, Moscow