Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University

Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School

Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School

Karen Donfried – President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States; Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University

Daniela Schwarzer – Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Chair Mary Elise Sarotte – Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Associate, CES, Harvard University

Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University

John Shattuck – Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Harvard Kennedy School; President Emeritus, Central European University

Monica Macovei – Member of the European Parliament, European Conservatives and Reformists, Romania

Chair Ayşe Kadıoğlu – Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University; Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University

Sigmar Gabriel – Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; Member of the Bundestag & Vice Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018), Federal Republic of Germany; Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University ; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, CES, Harvard University

Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University

John Dalhuisen – Senior Fellow, European Stability Initiative (ESI)

Kyriakos Pierrakakis – Director of Research, diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute

Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Chair José María Beneyto – Professor of International Public Law and International Relations and Director, Institute for European Studies

Steven Erlanger – Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe, The New York Times

Stefan Kornelius – Foreign Policy Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Eleni Varvitsiotis – EU Correspondent, Kathimerini

Chair James Geary – Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University

Julian Bourg – Associate Professor of History, Boston College & CES Visiting Scholar 2018-2019 and Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Riva Kastoryano – Visiting Professor of Sociology and Government & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University (Fall, 2018); Senior Research Fellow, CNRS; Professor, Sciences, Po, Paris

Chair Laura Levine Frader – Professor of History, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; CES Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Peter Hayes – Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus, Northwestern University

Respondent Alex Sagan – Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Jews in Modern Europe, CES, Harvard University

Adam Bodnar – Ombudsman for Human Rights, Republic of Poland

Respondent Vlad Perju – Professor of Law, Boston College Law School; Director, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College

Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University

Cas Mudde – Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor, University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs

Louis Gerdelan – PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Dimitris Tsarouhas – Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University; Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service

Respondent Dimitri Sotiropoulos – Professor of Political Science, University of Athens; Visiting Scholar 2018-2019, CES, Harvard University