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

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

Thibault Muzergues is Europe Programme Director at the International Republican Institute and author of The Great Class Shift (Routledge, 2019).

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

Stefan Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on ...

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

Gene Zolotarev is the founder and main shareholder of the Maximus Group. Prior to founding the Maximus Capital, he worked in the investment banking and asset management fields for two decades. He held ...

Radoslaw Antczak is an Assistant Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. His research interests include well-being of older people, survey methods, and analysis of material well-being.

Zsuzsanna Szelényi is a liberal Member of Parliament in Hungary. She covers foreign and security policy, migration, constitutional affairs and gender issues. She started her career as one of the ...

László Balogh is Deputy Secretary of State in the Ministry of National Economy, responsible for financial policy affairs. In addition he chairs the Board of the National Debt Management Agency. Laszlo ...

LPP’s president, Marek Piechocki, tells Shakhil Shah that despite the group’s expansion, it remains very much a proudly Polish company.