Commentators

Freelancer political analyst and PR consultant with 15-years experience as a political officer in the EU, UN and ICRC missions in...

Sevki Acuner is Head of Ukraine at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Shaig Adigozalov is the director of the economic analysis department at the Central Bank of Azerbaijan.

Olga Afanasyeva is Executive Director of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Asscoaition (UVCA). She has got PhD...

David Akopyan is a native Armenian who has spent the last 20 years of his career as a development practitioner. He is now Chief...

Sergei Aleinik is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the United Kingdom of Great Britain...

Audrey L. Altstadt is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of three books, most...

Radoslaw Antczak is an Assistant Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. His research interests include well-being of older...

Yury Antoniuk is President of the IT Ukraine Association, which currently has around 40 members — leading Ukrainian IT companies.

Piotr Arak is the director of the Polish Economic Institute, a public think tank in Warsaw.

Erich Arispe is a senior director in Fitch Ratings’ sovereigns group. He is responsible for analysis and ratings of sovereigns in...

Endre Ascsillan is vice president and director of government affairs at GE CEE.

Marta Aserigadu is RPO Manager at Hays Poland, where she is responsible for recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions. She...

Irakli Aslanishvili is executive director of the Business Association of Georgia (BAG). He previously worked for leading Georgian...

Anders Åslund is chairman of the Advisory Council of CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research) in Warsaw.

Vasily Astrov is senior economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW). He's been working as an...

Dr. Wladimir Augustinski is the head of the Representative Office of German Economy in Belarus (RGE), which is a part of the...

Jennifer Austin is co-founder of Risky Business, the first acceleration fund in Romania. In 2013, Jennifer moved from California...

Emil Avdaliani teaches history and international relations at Tbilisi State University and Ilia State University.

Alexander Averyanov is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Poland.

Gabriela Baicu is an associate professor at the Romanian Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest.

Georgina Baker is Vice President for Latin American and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia, for the International Finance...

Eva S. Balogh taught East European history at Yale and published a number of studies on Hungarian foreign policy and party...

László Balogh is Deputy Secretary of State in the Ministry of National Economy, responsible for financial policy affairs. In...

Bruno Balvanera is Director for the Caucasus, Moldova and Belarus at the European bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)...

Arup Banerji is regional director, European Union, World Bank

Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan is associate director of Migration Policy Institute’s international programme and a non-resident fellow...

David Baron is the Washington, D.C. based Chairman of the Belarus-U.S. Business Council and a shareholder in the International...

Andrei Bastunets is a vastly experienced journalist who is currently the chairperson of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

Zoltán Batka is a business and an investigative journalist at Népszava, a Hungarian daily. Prior to that, we worked for...

Balki Bayhan researches authoritarian politics and stability with a focus on Turkey and post-Soviet countries at the Centre for...

Dimitar Bechev is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard, and Director of the European Policy Institute...

Vladimir Beck has been Chairman of the European Business Association IT Committee since its inception and is the founder and a...

Armend Bejak is a Senior Programme Officer with International IDEA’s Democracy Assessment and Political Analysis Unit.

Dr Alon Ben-Meir is a retired professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He taught courses on...

Tim Bennett is a former US trade negotiator and served as director-general/CEO of the TransAtlantic Business Council for over...

Genti Beqiri is Chief Executive Officer of the Albanian Investment Development Agency. He completed Finance and Accounting at the...

Anna Berczyńska is Director of the Rockwool Global Business Service Centre in Poznań, Poland, established in September 2016 and...

Zygmunt Berdychowski is Chairman of the Krynica Economic Forum Programme Council and a co-founder of the Institute of Eastern...

Daniel Berg is a member of the executive board of the Hungarian opposition party Momentum (Renew Europe). He is vice-president of...

Daniel Berg is Country Head of Serbia at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

HE Tamar Beruchashvili has been the Ambassador of Georgia to the UK and Permanent Representative of Georgia to the International...

Punit Bhatia is one of the world's leading privacy experts who has worked with professionals in over 30 countries. Punit guides...

Ambassador Rajiv K. Bhatia is the Director General of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA).

Florian Bieber is a political scientist working on inter-ethnic relations, ethnic conflict and nationalism, focusing on...

Jerzy Bierzyński is a sociologist, entrepreneur, investor, commentator on the media market and social issues, and the CEO at OMD...

John Bills is the author of An Illustrated Guide to Slavic Misery.

Oana Bizgan is a strategy and commercial professional with more than 10 years of experience within a multinational environment...

Anna Bjerde is vice president for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank.

Liridon Blakaj is the Prishtina representative of AICS, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.

Teodor Blidarus is a managing partner at Softelligence Romania and president of the Employers’ Association of the Software and...

Mihai Bogdan is Managing Director of Brand Finance Romania. Brand Finance is a leading independent branded business valuation and...

Marina Borovko is Deputy Chairwoman of the European Business Association in Minsk and an Associate Professor at the Belarusian...

Sarah Bressan is a research associate at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin.

Filip Brokeš is an independent Czech journalist currently oscillating between Berlin and St. Petersburg.

Ian Brown is Head of Office Bosnia and Herzegovina at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and recurrent visiting Professor in...

Cristian Buchiu is the deputy head of the European Commission Representation in Romania, where he coordinates the political...

Piotr Buras is director of the Warsaw office of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank; he is an expert on European...

Luka Burilović is President of the Croatian Chamber of Economy (HGK). Before he served as Chairman of the Board, „SLADORANA“ d.d...

Mike Buryk is a freelance technology writer and the producer and host of the podcast Made in Ukraine Tech Startup Edition.

Ana Catauta is a Romanian political communications consultant. She is founder of New Machiavelli Communications.

Marko Čeperković is a maître de conférences at SciencesPo Paris and director of strategy at Brasidas Group.

Sir Suma Chakrabarti is the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Mariia Chaplia is Communications Associate Intern at Students for Liberty. She studied law at the Taras Shevchenko National...

Alexander Chekan is the CEO of the largest Belarusian online media outlets, TUT.BY.

Iveta Cherneva is a foreign policy author and political commentator.

Stepan Chernovetskyi is the founder and CEO of Chernovetskyi Investment Group, a venture capital firm specialising in funding...

Denis Chetverikov is Director of Research and Advisory Department, Colliers International, Belarus.

Dr Petar Cholakov is a Senior Lecturer in Political Conflicts at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge of the...

Filip Chráska is a member of the Association for International Affairs (AMO), a Prague-based think tank.

Akri Çipa is a researcher and foreign policy expert and consultant from Tirana, Albania.

Ciprian Ciucu is an opposition councillor at Bucharest City Hall. He hopes to become the city's mayor in next year's local...

Matteo Colangeli is Country Head of Albania at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Cristian Colţeanu is GE President & CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Republic of Moldova.

Philip Cox is Vice-President of APEV Romania, the Wine Exporters’ and Producers’ Association of Romania, which groups wine...

Santiago Croci Downes is Acting Manager, Doing Business Unit, World Bank. He joined the Doing Business team in March 2008. Prior...

Claudia Crummenerl is the managing director, people and organisation practice at Capgemini Invent

Zselyke Csaky is a senior researcher for Nations in Transit, Freedom House’s annual survey of democracy from Central Europe to...

Clark Curtis is a former director of communications at the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte.

Dr Marek Dąbrowski is a non-resident scholar at Bruegel in Brussels, a Professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and...

Andrzej Dąbrowski is an analyst of the United States foreign policy at the Polish Institute for International Affairs. His areas...

Professor Daniel Dăianu is an economist and politician, a member of the Board of the National Bank of Romania.

David Dalton is an analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit covering Ukraine, Belarus and Poland.

Michele Daryanani is an award-winning cyber thought-leader that has assisted clients across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa in...

Zhidas Daskalovski is a professor of political science, and one of the most prominent political scientists in the country. He is...

Francis P Delaey manages the operations of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Belarus. He previously...

Magdalena Dembinska is associate professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Montreal. She completed a...

Judy Dempsey is a nonresident Senior Associate at Carnegie Europe and Editor-in-Chief of the Strategic Europe blog. She is also...

Anna Derevyanko is executive director of the European Business Association (EBA).

Gunter Deuber is head of economics, fixed income and FX research at Raiffeisen Bank International in Vienna. In this role he acts...

Marcin Diakonowicz is CE German Desk Leader, Partner, Audit & Assurance at Deloitte. He has has extensive auditing experience...

Peter Dickinson is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines.

Rumen Dobrinsky is Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) and country expert...

Wiktor Doktór is CEO of ProProgressio, a business services consulting and advisory organisation, a CEE partner of the Global...

Anna Donáth is a Hungarian politician. She was elected as an MEP for the Momentum Movement (Reform Europe) in the 2019 European...

Andriy Dovbenko is Managing Partner at N&D Law Firm. He started his career in 2007, when he graduated from the National...

Denis Dovgopoliy is a leading member of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and entrepreneurial community. He is the managing partner...

Gabriela Dragan is General Director of the European Institute of Romania (EIR) and Director of the Romanian Journal of European...

Dr Iulia Dragut is president of the Euro-Est Alternative Cultural Association (ACEEA) and an international culinary judge. She...

Andrei Drosu is a consultant at the research department at JLL Romania.

Radu George Dumitrescu is the former editor-in-chief of The New Federalist and currently a Ph.D. student in political science at...

Boris Dzhingarov is a marketer and a journalist. He graduated from he the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) in...

Vladimir Đorđević is Lecturer at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Faculty of Social Studies of...

Fatih Kemal Ebiçlioğlu is the president for Durable Goods Group at Koç Holding, Turkey’s leading investment holding company and...

Ruben Elamiryan holds a PhD in Political Science, and is assistant to the Chair of Political Governance and Public Policy at the...

Dorián Elek is the founder and director of Hungary’s Paradigm Institute.

Jadwiga Emilewicz is Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development.

Gregor Famira is partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and founder of the company’s offices in Zagreb (2003) and Ljubljana (2008)...

Fernando Faria is the Founder and CEO of Global Expansion Summit (GES).

Konstantyn Fedorenko is a junior research fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. He was awarded his Master degree...

Tomasz Filipiak is a political scientist, Europeanist and an English philologist. He graduated from the College of Europe in...

Erwan Fouéré is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels; he had a career spanning...

George Friedman is a geopolitical strategist. He is the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, an online publication that...

Iakov Frizis is an economist at the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE), specialising in macroeconomic analyses and...

Alexander Frost is Head of Global Risk Intelligence and Data at Axco Insurance Information Services.

Agnieszka Gajewska is a partner at PwC Poland, global government and public services leader, CEE ESG leader.

Kinga Gajewska is a Polish MP who sits on the parliamentary committees for Education, Science and Youth, as well Justice and...

Alexander Galitsky is founder and a managing partner of Almaz Capital Partners, an international venture fund based in Portola...

Eli Gateva is an assistant professor in comparative politics at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Georgiy Geletukha is Head of the Board at the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (UABio). He has served as director of the...

Stoyan Genov is a senior communications specialist at Raiffeisen Bank Bulgaria.

Mircea Geoana is the founder and president of the Aspen Institute Romania.

Yasen Georgiev is executive director of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) – a Sofia-based think tank that provides economic...

Eleonora Georgieva works in the digital communications department at Raiffeisen Bank Bulgaria.

Michael Gerdts is the former German ambassador to Italy, Kenya and Poland.

Dr Łukasz Gibała is a independent Polish MP, former entrepreneur who had co-founded two successful businesses which he sold when...

Ariana Gic is a political and legal analyst, and director of the Direct Initiative International Centre for Ukraine.

Givi Gigitashvili is a research assistant for the Caucasus at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) based...

Richard Giragosian is the founding director of the Regional Studies Centre (RSC), an independent “think tank” located in Yerevan...

Valbona Gjeka is a research and analysis manager at Raiffeisen Bank Albania.

Borjan Gjuzelov is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University London. He has authored several articles and policy analyses on...

Krzysztof Głowacki is an economist at the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw, Poland, with a specialisation...

Michael Göbbel is completing a Masters in Public Administration at Peking University and has previously worked for the US Senate...

Florin Godean is country manager of Adecco Romania and president of the Romanian Association of Temporary Work Agents (ARAMT). He...

Professor Bogdan Góralczyk is Director at the Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw, and a former Ambassador of Poland to...

Michael Green is Chief Executive Officer of the Social Progress Imperative. An economist by training, he is co-author (with...

Richard Grieveson is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies — wiiw.

Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse is a sociologist, political scientist and historian. He is a professor at Warsaw University and an expert...

Ljiljana Grubic is an economic research specialist at Raiffeisen Banka in Serbia.

Julia Grübler is an economist at the Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies (wiiw).

Jelica Grujić is Director of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA). Before coming to FIPA, she...

Igar Gubarevich is a senior analyst at the Ostrogorski Centre based in Minsk. He grew up in Bielaaziorsk in the Brest region and...

Murray Gunn is head of global research at Elliott Wave International (www.elliottwave.com).

Ilgar Gurbanov is a research fellow at the Azerbaijan Centre for Strategic Studies.

Irina Guruli is the deputy director of the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).

Dimitri Gvindadze is Head of Moldova at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Till Hahndorf is Managing Director of BW Business Bridge, which identifies and certifies high-quality ICT product and service...

Chris Halward is a former director of the Global Sourcing Association’s (GSA), and remains a member of its council. He also runs...

Debi Hamill is the CEO of IAOP, and publisher of PULSE Magazine.

Nicholas Hammond was the first English solicitor to open an office in Romania in 1990. He had started his career in the City of...

Mazen Hamwieh is a project director at RRY Capital. He is responsible for all managerial and operational project tasks associated...

Anca Harasim has been the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania since 2000.

Dr Heike Harmgart is Head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Jordan. She has been working in the...

Dr Florian Hartleb is a German political scientist currently working in Tallinn, Estonia as a political consultant dealing with...

Christopher A. Hartwell is Professor of Financial Systems Resilience at Bournemouth University (UK), Professor of International...

Peter Havlik is former Deputy Director of The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and co-author of the...

Professor Oleh Havrylyshyn is a former Deputy Minister of Finance and International Affairs in the first Ukrainian government...

Janet Heckman is Managing Director for the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region at the European bank for...

Annika Hedberg is the head of a Sustainable Prosperity for Europe Programme at the European Policy Centre.

Stefan Hedlund is professor and research director at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Finn Heinrich is Director of Research at Transparency International. He joined TI’s Policy and Research Department in August 2008...

Michael Heller, CFA, is Real Estate Investment Analyst at Raiffeisen Bank International in Vienna.

Mike Herrington is Executive Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) which is part of the Global Entrepreneurship...

Tale Heydarov is a leading Azerbaijani businessman, passionate about sport, education and culture. He has helped to promote...

Michael Hindley is an adviser on trade relations to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), including reports on...

Shanu Hinduja is chair of Hinduja Bank and co-chair of the United Nations Global Accelerator.

Cecilia Hjertzell is a Swedish entrepreneur within the tech industry. She serves as board member and senior business advisor to a...

Lukáš Hlaváč is the Founder of Whoolala, an online marketplace that enables its users to discover and share their fashion sense...

Lieutenant General Frederick Benjamin "Ben" Hodges III is a retired United States Army officer who served as commanding general...

Glen Hodgson is the CEO of the think tank Free Trade Europa and Secretary General of Freelance Movement.

Jonathan Hollis is the Managing Partner of Mountside Ventures, whose mission is to optimise the fundraising process for European...

Mario Holzner is the deputy director of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).

Kateřina Hošková is a student of International Economic Relations at the University of Economics, Prague. Her research interests...

Tony Housh is a senior counsellor for the international strategic advisory firm APCO Worldwide and the principal of CGC Advisors...

Danuta Hübner MEP is the chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

Gabor Hunya is a Senior Economist at wiiw and country expert for Romania and Bulgaria, focusing on macroeconomic analysis and...

Martin Hurt is Deputy Director and Member of the Executive Board at the International Centre for Defence and Security in Estonia...

Fatmir Hyseni is Marketing & Business Development Manager for Kosbit – a leading IT outsourcing company in SE Europe. As an...

Matti Hyyrynen is Head of the Baltics at the European bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He joined the Bank in 2001...

Aida Ibisevic is a marketing strategist and writer by day, food photographer and recipe developer by night. Her time is divided...

Professor Krystyna Iglicka-Okólska is Rector of Łazarski University in Warsaw; she is an economist and demographer; between 1996...

Ivars Ījabs, a Latvian political scientist and publicist and an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the...

Angelo Ilardi is the president of the Italy-Belarus Chamber of Commerce. He is also the president of the In-world Special...

Kirill Ilinski is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Asset Management, specialising in Portfolio Management and Advisory...

Bozhidar Ivanov is associate professor at the Institute of Agricultural Economics Sofia (IAE)..

Edgars Ivanovs is the developer of the Urban Powerhouse concept. He has 12 years’ experience in urban innovation and the real...

Tadeusz Iwański is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Eastern Studies.

Professor Andrzej Jajszczyk is Director of the National Science Centre and a professor at AGH University of Science and...

Nikola Janković is Director of the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA) and Chairman of the Working Group on...

Jyri Jäntii is a Finn currently completing his studies in International Relations at Tallinn University, while working as a...

Balázs Jarábik is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on Eastern...

Bryan Wilson Jardine is the managing partner of Wolf Theiss' office in Romania.

Leszek Jażdżewski is editor-in-chief and a co-founder of Polish liberal quarterly magazine Liberté! He is also one of the...

Tomáš Jelínek is a member and a former Chairman of the Institute for Social and Economic Analyses (ISEA) and Executive Director...

Vedrana Jelušić Kašić is EBRD Director, Croatia. She joined the EBRD in London in 1998 and was transferred to the Zagreb office...

Vladimir Jokić was elected president of Kotor Municipality in February 2017. He is the youngest president of the municipality in...

Irena Joveva, 30, is a newly elected member of the European Parliament representing Slovenia.

Alexander Kaffka, a native Georgian, is Executive Editor of Review of Business and Economics Studies and Publisher of Georgian...

Marina Kaljurand has been chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) since March 2017. She served as...

Iga Kamocka is a project manager at the Polish Robert Schuman Foundation. Her projects are related to urban development, civil...

Artis Kampars is a Latvian entrepreneur and politician, a former MP and former minister of economy. He is secretary general of...

Stefánia Kapronczay is executive director of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. She graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Law...

Dr Svyatoslav Kaspe (Moscow) is a professor at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Faculty of Social...

Avtandil Kasradze is the deputy chairman of Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA).

Daphne Kasriel-Alexander works as Consumer Trends Consultant with Euromonitor International. She commissions analysis on consumer...

Claudia Kemfert is head of the energy, transportation and environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research...

John Keppel is a Partner and President at the ISG Executive Board and leads ISG EMEA and Asia. John's nine years at ISG have...

James Ker-Lindsay is Senior Visiting Fellow at LSEE-Research on South East Europe, London School of Economics and Political...

Ofer Kerzner is an Israeli businessman, philanthropist and the honorary consul of Ukraine in Jerusalem

Inna Kharchenko is General Manager at Adecco Ukraine/Avanta HR Solutions. She has worked for the company since January 2015...

Oleg Khusaenov is CEO, the founding partner and sponsor of ZubrCapital. He has over 20 years of business experience in Russia...

Anthony Kim is research manager and the editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, the Heritage Foundation.

Valeriya Klymenko is a foreign policy analyst and English editor of the National Security and Defence Journal at the Razumkov...

Jonathan Knott is Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Hungary. He had previously held a variety of diplomatic posts at home and abroad...

Just 26, Tomáš Koláčný has been active in Czech politics for more than eight years. He is currently the deputy mayor of Brno.

István Kollai is an assistant professor of the Institute of World Economy at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and the former...

Wojciech Konończuk is a senior fellow at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) in Warsaw, where he heads the department for...

Dmytro Korbut is a counsel at Sayenko Kharenko. He has more than 15-years’ experience of practicing law, specialising in M&A...

Andrey Kortunov is the director general of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Valeria Kostyugova is a political analyst and strategist. She is the head of the Agency of Policy Expertise at the Belarusian...

Jan Kovář is a senior research fellow at the Institutive of International Relations in Prague.

Pawel Kowal, Phd, is a Polish politician, political scientist and historian. A former secretary of state in Poland’s Ministry of...

Krzysztof Kowaluk is a political scientist interested in the Balkans and Central Europe. He received a PhD from Warsaw University...

Alenka Krašovec is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ljubljana.

Péter Krekó is a social psychologist and political scientist. He has been the executive director of Political Capital since 2011.

Libor Krkoška has been Head of EBRD Resident Office in Nicosia, Cyprus, since August 2014. He joined the EBRD in 1997, initially...

Dzmitry Kruk is a researcher at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Centre (BEROC). His main research interests are...

Angelina Krutova is leading officer PR department at Raiffeisen Bank Russia.

Karel Kučera is CEO of CzechInvest, the Czech Investment and Business Development Agency. Prior to that he held managerial...

Piotr Kuczyński is Chief Analyst of Xelion Financial Advisors. He has been an active investor since 1993. Since 2000, he has been...

Professor Ludger Kühnhardt is Director of the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI) and professor of political science at...

Davor Kunc works in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement as Programme Manager for...

Olexandr Kyrychenko is the Head of the Russian department at IMD Solicitors LLP. Specialising in corporate matters and commercial...

Maximilien Lambertson is an analyst in the Europe team at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). He covers economic and political...

Joseph Larsen is a policy analyst with the Georgian Institute of Politics in Tbilisi. His research interests are security and...

Pavel A Laschenko is EY Country Managing Partner for Belarus, Assurance with 22 year working experience in auditing and banking...

Kanstantsin Lashkevich is editor-in-chief at dev.by, a leading tech news website in Belarus. He has 12 years of experience with...

Mark Le Gros Allen is a CASE Fellow based in Warsaw. He is a former Director of Policy at the IMF and a former IMF Regional...

Bartosz Lech is the co-founder of the Polish Green party. A consultant in the field of elections and human rights, he works with...

Christopher Lehmann is the Executive Director of the CEELI Institute, an independent not-for-profit organization based in Prague...

Stefan Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty...

Sir Michael Leigh is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States and adjunct professor at the Paul H...

Vedrana Likan is Managing Partner at Colliers for Croatia, BiH and Slovenia. She is also President of the Board of the British...

Igor Likhogrud is Chairman of the Board Moscow-Minsk Bank. He has been working in banking since 1995. Started career as fx...

Eric Livny is founder and president at Tbilinomics Policy Advisors, and chair of the Economic Policy Committee at the...

Jeremy Luedi is the Web Editor and frequent contributor at Global Risk Insights (GRI), and has worked for NGOs and political...

Adrian Lupuşor is Executive Director of Expert-Grup, a leading think tank in the Republic of Moldova. He is a PhD candidate at...

Alex Lutskiy is a co-founder and CEO at Innovecs, a global software development company.

Aleksander Łaszek is Chief Economist and Vice President of the Civil Development Forum.

Peter M. Tase is the author of five books on Azerbaijan’s archaeology, foreign policy and ancient history

Violetta Małek is the managing partner of Gekko advisoryNOW, and the academic director of the Business Service Centre...

David R. Marples is Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta.

Anne-Marie Martin is the director for global business networks at the British Chambers of Commerce.

Marek Materek is mayor of Starachowice, Poland, and the youngest mayor in the country. He was recently re-elected for a second...

Tamas Matura is an assistant professor of the Corvinus University of Budapest and the founder of the Central and Eastern European...

Anita McKinna has been researching issues related to Kosovo and the Balkans since the late 1990s. She completed her PhD on the...

Saahil Menon is an investment analyst with a background in business economics and finance.

Iva Merhautová is the Czech deputy minister for social insurance systems.

Giles Merritt founded Friends of Europe in 1999, and its policy journal Europe’s World in 2005. His latest book is Slippery...

Michael Mesquita is a Senior Analyst (CIS) at West Sands Advisory Limited. Michael is involved in a longstanding project focused...

Sebastian Metz is the general manager of the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK Romania), the official...

Dan Mihalache is Ambassador of Romania to the Court of St. James’s.

Velimir Mijušković is President of the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro and Vice President of the Forum Ionian Adriatic Chamber...

Ivan Mikloš is a former deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Slovakia.

Jelena Milić is the director of the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies in Belgrade.

Ambassador Hugues Mingarelli is Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine. Earlier he worked as a Senior Adviser on Global Strategy...

Piotr Misiło is a Polish MP and a member of the Civic Platform.

Lincoln Mitchell is a writer, pundit and specialist in political development based in New York City and San Francisco. He has...

Rudradeb Mitra is a serial entrepreneur who has been living in Europe for past 14 years. As a graduate of the University of...

Witold Modzelewski is President of the Institute of Tax Studies, Professor of Law and Administration at Warsaw University and a...

Martin Mojžiš is an associate professor of physics at the Comenius University in Bratislava and also an editor of .týždeň...

Dr Richard Mole is a Political Sociologist at University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He...

Mateusz Morawiecki is the deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development and Finance for Poland. He was a member of the task...

Giulio Moreno is Head of Montenegro at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Earlier he serves as the...

Veronika Movchan is Academic Director at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting - IER (Kyiv, Ukraine) and a...

Morten Munk is Honorary Consul of Ukraine to Denmark and CEO of Mafcon, an international consultancy firm specialising in...

Dr Igor Munteanu is a Moldovan MP and managing director of the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives, one of the...

Ayaz Museyibov is a financial analyst at the Centre for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication of Azerbaijan Republic

Thibault Muzergues is Europe Programme Director at the International Republican Institute and author of The Great Class Shift...

Alisa Muzergues is a specialist in EU neighbourhood policy at the think tank GLOBSEC.

Martin Mycielski is a pro-democracy activist, political commentator and former Brussels correspondent for leading Polish daily...

Nemanja Naunović is deputy head of marketing and PR at Raiffeisen banka in Serbia.

Zuzana Nehajova is InnovEYtion Hub leader at EY Czech Republic and much more besides. She manages smart projects across the CESA...

Bill Nicholov is president of the Macedonian Human Rights Movement International.

Arne Niemann is Professor of International Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration Studies at the Department...

Natallia Nikandrova is Director of the National Agency of Investment and Privatisation of the Republic of Belarus. Earlier she...

Alexander Nosachenko has been Managing Director of Colliers International in Ukraine since 2006.

Jurica Novak is managing partner at McKinsey & Company's Central European Office.

Damir Novinić is Managing Director of the Agency for Investments and Competitiveness and has more than 15 years of experience in...

Alina Cristina Nuţă is an associate professor in the Department of Finance and Business Administration at Danubius University...

Alina Nychyk is a journalist, political scientist and economist.

Tim Ogden is a British journalist currently based in Tbilisi.

Kateryna Oliinyk is the head of Intellectual Property Practice at Arzinger Law office and the head of the IP Committee of the...

Dr Josef Olmert is a former director of the Government Press Office and advisor to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In 1999...

Roman Opimakh is Executive Director of Association of Gas Producers of Ukraine. He was the advisor to the Minister of Energy and...

Sergiu Oprescu is executive president of Alpha Bank Romania and president of the board of directors, at the Romanian Association...

Freddy Opsomer is chairman of the board at the Free Economic Zone in Kaunas, Lithuania.He has been working the Belgian National...

Professor Witold Orłowski is Chief Economic Adviser for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Poland, Director of the Warsaw University of...

Richard Overy is professor of history at the University of Exeter. His books include The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's...

Martin Oxley is Strategy Adviser of UK Trade and Investment in Central and Eastern Europe. He has spent the last 20 years working...

Andris Ozols is Director of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA). His dynamic leadership style has revitalised...

Professor Anders Paalzow is Rector of Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is also Chairman of the Board for the Baltic...

Khrystyna Parandii is the Clara Marina O’Donnell fellow (2019-20) at the Centre for European Reform. Her research focuses on EU...

Mihai Patrulescu is head of Strategic Analysis at Colliers International in Romania. Prior to this position, he coordinated the...

Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan is an Assistant Professor of the Political Science at the American University of Armenia and an Assistant...

Amanda Paul is a Policy Analyst and Programme Executive at the European Policy Centre in Brussels; she is also Associate Senior...

Levan Pavlenishvili is a senior researcher at the Energy and Environment Policy Research Centre.

Marta Pawlak is an attorney, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw as well as the...

Sebastian Petric is an emerging market strategist at Raiffeisen Research and recently published a book on fundamental, policy...

Christina Carter (nee Petru) is an economist and market analyst who has advised governments, national banks and international...

Margeir Petursson is an independent banking professional and a member of the Supervisory Board at Bank Lviv. Margeir is also a...

Dr Marcin Piatkowski is a Senior Economist at the World Bank office in Beijing, China, and an Assistant Professor at Kozminski...

Jan Piekło is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine. Earlier, he was director of the...

Rosen Plevneliev is a former president of Bulgaria and honorary chairman of the Emerging Europe Alliance for Business Services...

Iztok Podbregar, Msc, Ph.D. is a full professor for crisis and strategic management at the faculty of organisational sciences...

Leon Podkaminer is Senior Economist (Emeritus) at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). He is focused...

Dr Benyamin Poghosyan is Vice-President for Research, Head of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defence...

Przemysław (Prem) Polaczek is Managing Partner and Director at the International Business Centre, Grant Thornton Poland, where he...

Aleksandra Polak works at the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw.

Genc Pollo is an Albanian MP and former chairman of the parliamentary committee on European Integration. He is also an ex-deputy...

Grzegorz Poniatowski is Director of Fiscal Policy Studies at the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE). As a CASE expert...

Denisa Popa is a screenwriter and translator based in London.

Tanja Porčnik is president of the Visio Institute and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

Dr Agris Preimanis is Country Head at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Kazakhstan.

Lana Prlić is vice-president of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Andrian Prokip is a senior associate at the Kennan Institute and an energy analyst at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future.

Tom Quigley is director of outsourcing at Emerging Europe and the owner and chief marketing officer at QUIGLEYMEDIA. He has 29...

Dr Florian Rabitz is a senior researcher at Kaunas University of Technology’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities...

Andras Radnoti is managing director of Millennium Emerging Europe, a London-based political risk intelligence firm.

Beata Radomska is the President of the Executive Club and a Managing Partner at Cigno Consulting, in Warsaw, Poland.

Albert Rakipi is Director of the Tirana-based Albanian Institute for International Studies.

Jacek Ratajczak if the founder of PLUGin and Polish Tech Day, as well as director business development at YND.co.

Mykhailo Rebyryk PhD, is chief macroeconomic analyst at Raiffeisen Bank Aval in Ukraine.

Oliver Regner is managing director of the German Business Association (DWV) in Georgia.

Graeme Reid is the director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Programme at Human Rights Watch. He has...

Ambassador Professor Dr Blerim Reka is pro-rector for international relations, South East European University, SEEU.

Nicholas Richardson is a Partner at Richardson & Wspólnicy and vice-Chairman at British-Polish Chamber of Commerce.

James Roaf is Senior Regional Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund for Central and Eastern Europe.

Michał Romanowski is a professor at the University of Warsaw, and a partner in the law firm Romanowski and Partners.

John Roseman is the director of Functional AI, a software engineering company based in Minsk.

Neil Ross is techUK's lead on Brexit policy and no deal preparedness. He also supporting techUK’s work on the UK’s future...

Philippe Rouvrais is SVP, Global Head of Delivery, Solutions and Pre-sales at Modis and General Manager of Modis Bulgaria.

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Rafal Rudzki is a Senior Manager, Sustainability Consulting Central Europe, Deloitte. He is a sustainability expert. He advises...

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Petery Ryan is principal at Ryan Strategic Advisory.

Vitalli Rybak is an analyst at Internews Ukraine and Ukraineworld.org.

Professor Krzysztof Rybiński is Rector of the New Economic University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and a former Deputy Governor of the...

Professor Andrei Victor Sandu is President of Romanian Inventors Forum and Coordinator of EuroInvent.

Kirill Savrasov is a seasoned international market practitioner. He is CEO of Phoenix CRetro, a Bermudian reinsurer & ILS...

Nate Schenkkan is Project Director for Nations in Transit, Freedom House’s annual report on democracy in Eastern Europe and...

Paul Schmidt has been Secretary General of the Austrian Society for European Politics since 2009.

Ryszard Schnepf is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the United States of America. He was...

Frank Schuhholz is a logistics expert and the founder of FMS Advisers. He holds a double degree in International Management. He...

Andreas Schwabe, CFA, MBA, is Senior Economist for Central and Eastern Europe in the Economics Department at Raiffeisen Bank...

Vaiva Šečkutė is a senior economist at IHS Markit, responsible for macroeconomic analysis and forecasting for Estonia, Latvia...

Erlet Shaqe is Chairman of the Albanian Energy Association (AEA) in Tirana, Albania. His goal is to implement high work...

Olga Sherbina is Head of Belarus Office at the International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group). She has been...

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Robert Šimončič is General Director of the Slovak Investment and Trade Agency SARIO; he has over 30 years of professional...

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Daniel Smilov is programme director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia.

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Dmytro Sologub is the deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

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Dorin Sterie is country manager for Romania at Aforti Exchange.

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Peter Stracar is Chief Executive Officer, GE CEE. Prior to joining GE, he spent 18 years at Hilti Corporation, based in Hong...

Dr Johann Strobl has been Chairman of Management Board and Chief Executive Officer at Raiffeisen Bank International AG since...

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Maria Suchcitz is currently completing a masters degree in Central European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Bartosz Świderek is CEO of Pol-inowex, a provider of dismantling, relocation and re-assembly services.

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Ewa Synowiec is Principal Adviser at the Trade Directorate, the European Commission. Prior to taking the position she was...

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Aleks Szczerbiak is Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex.

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Katarzyna Szczypska is a classical liberal, advocating for the rule of law and democracy at the Brussels-based Open Dialogue...

Zsuzsanna Szelényi is a liberal Member of Parliament in Hungary. She covers foreign and security policy, migration...

Aleksander Szpor is the head of energy and climate unit at the Polish Economic Institute.

Alex Tanase is an independent consultant and former associate director, senior banker at the EBRD, and a former IMF advisor.

Alice Taylor is a freelance journalist and writer. She runs the Balkanista blog.

Mark Temnycky is an accredited freelance journalist covering Eastern Europe and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s...

Aram Terzyan, PhD, is research director of the Los Angeles-based Centre for East European and Russian Studies.

David Thomas is the chairman of the Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe (COBCOE).

Dr Dragoljub Todić is a professorial fellow at the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade.

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Vastly experienced journalist Elza Tsiklauri is editor-in-chief of bpn.ge, an online portal covering business, economy...

Galina Tsvintarnaya is senior internal communications manager at Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Ukraine

Isla Turner is a political analyst based in Melbourne, Australia, specialising in Australasian and European affairs.

Andreas Umland is a senior expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and researcher with the Swedish Institute of...

Peter Ungar is an MP for the Hungarian Green Party. He is the first MP born after the fall of communism in 1989.

Tomáš Valášek is the director of Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on security and defence, transatlantic relations...

Jeroen van der Toolen is an acknowledged expert in the field of commercial and residential real estate. He is the head of...

Stefan van Dijk is an entrepreneur and digital communication specialist.

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Fabio Wolkenstein is assistant professor at Aarhus University and affiliated researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

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Andrei Yeliseyeu is an analytical journalist at the Belarusian business portal BEL.BIZ.

Iglika Yordanova is the managing director of Colliers International Bulgaria.

Richard Youngs is a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, based at Carnegie Europe. He works on EU foreign...

Ding Yuan is Vice President and Dean, as well as Cathay Capital Chair Professor in Accounting, at China Europe International...

Mohammad Zahoor is founder of the ISTIL Group and publisher of the Kyiv Post.

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Paweł Zalewski is a former Member of the European Parliament, where he served as Chairman of the Committee on International Trade...

Ivona Zametica is chief economist/head of research and advisory at Raiffeisen Bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo.

Epidamn Zeqo is the executive director of the Moikom Zeqo Institute for guiding courageous young talents in Albania and beyond.

Paweł Zerka is Director of Research at demosEUROPA-Centre for European Strategy: a Warsaw-based independent think-tank...

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Dariusz Żuk is President and Co-founder of Entrepreneurial Poland (EP) — a think tank operating in the area of entrepreneurship;...

Dr Fabian Zuleeg is Chief Executive of the European Policy Centre.

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