Dr Christian H. M. Ketels
Dr. Christian Ketels is a member of the Harvard Business School faculty at Professor Michael E. Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. He holds a PhD (Econ) from the London School of Economics and further degrees from the Kiel Institute for World Economics and Cologne University. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics and a Director of The Competitiveness Institute, a not-for-profit global network of cluster practitioners and researchers. Dr. Ketels has led cluster and competitiveness projects in many parts of the world, is a member of economic advisory groups in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, has written widely on economic policy issues, and is a frequent speaker on competitiveness and strategy issues. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Stockholm, Sweden and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Email contact: cketels@hbs.edu
Web sites: www.isc.hbs.edu, www.sse.edu/csc
Detailed CV: http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facEmId=cketels
Sixten Korkman, Managing Director of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum, EVA
Sixten Korkman started his career as economist in the Bank of Finland in 1978. In 1981-1983 he worked in the OECD in France, whereafter he returned as Head of Bureau in the Bank of Finland until 1988, where he became Head of Department of Economics in the Finnish Ministry of Finance.
In 1995 he continued his carrer as Director General of DG G Economic and Social Affairs, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU for ten years, where he returned to become Managing Director of EVA.
Andrzej Olechowski, Chairman and Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland, Central Europe Trust Fund, Poland
Andrzej Olechowski graduated in 1973 with an M.A. in Economics from the Central School of Commerce in Warsaw. From 1974 until 1978, he was employed as an Economist with UNCTAD in Geneva. In 1979, he received his PhD. After four years with the Institute of Foreign Trade and Market Conditions, he was offered a position as an Economist with the World Bank in Washington. In 1987, Andrzej Olechowski moved back to Poland again and worked first as Advisor to the chairman of the National Bank of Poland, second as First Deputy Chairman. In 1992, he was made Minister of Finance. In 1993, he became Foreign Minister, a position which he held until the following year. Today, Andrzej Olechowski is Chairman of Bank Handlowy w Warswawie S.A. and the Central Europe Trust.
Siim Raie, Director of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Estonia
Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy
Paweł Świeboda is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of London. He served as the EU Advisor to the President of Poland in the years 1996-2000. He then headed the Office for European Integration in the Chancellery of the President. In the years 2001-2006 he served as Director of the Department of the European Union in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was responsible for EU accession negotiations and subsequently institutional reform in the Union and negotiations on the Financial Perspective. In July 2006 he became President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy (www.demoseuropa.eu). In addition to his role at the BDF, he is also a Member of the Lisbon Council, Member of the Advisory Board of the European Policy Centre, Co-President of BELA (Broader European Leadership Agenda) Foundation, Member of the Council of the Amicus Europae Foundation. He also serves on the Commission on Europe After 50 set up by Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and chairs the “L’Esprit de Sel” Group of Experts which is preparing recommendation for the EU Agenda 2020 and is the author of numerous articles on issues of European integration and international relations. He has a column on foreign policy in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, Poland’s largest daily newspaper.
Per Unckel, Governor of the County Administrative Board of Stockholm
Per Unckel was born in 1948 and was elected to the Swedish Parliament in 1976. He was appointed secretary of the Moderate Party in 1976, a post he held until 1991 when he was appointed Minister for Education in the Carl Bildt government. From 1994 until 1998, Unckel was party spokesperson on labour market issues, and in 1998 he became chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Constitution. In 1999, he was elected leader of the Moderate parliamentary party. Per Unckel was Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers and based at the Secretariat in Copenhagen until 2007. At present, Per Unckel is the County Administrative Board of Stockholm.
Igor Yurgens, Vice-President of Russian Union of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs
Igor Yurgens is a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council on Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy, First Vice President of Renaissance Group, Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs.
Mr. Yurgens graduated from the Moscow State University. He has a Ph.D. in Economics and is a professor at the Higher School of Economics.
Starting in 1974 he served in various positions with the international departments of the All-Nation Professional Unions Confederation and of the UNESCO Secretariat. His previous positions include Chairman of the Financial Markets Committee, Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2000-2004); head of the All-Russian Insurance Association (1998-2000); Chairman of the Board of MESKO Insurance Company (1996-1997); and First Deputy of the CIS Trade Union Confederation (1992-1997).
Igor Yurgens has received a number of Russian and international awards including Russian Federation State Order of Honor, the French L’Ordre National du Merite, Orders of the Reverend Sergiy of Radonezh and of Daniil of Moscow from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Prof. Dr. Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Activities.
Since 1989 Leader of the Project on Building a Co-operative Security System in and for Europe at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Appointed as Director of SIPRI from 1 July 1991 and re-elected in 1996 for the second term (up to June 2002).
Published and edited more than 20 monographs and over 300 articles. Initially focused on the legal and political aspects of relations between Germany and Central and East European states after World War II (recognition of borders, the Munich Agreement and the right of self-determination) and the multilateral process of security and cooperation in Europe initiated in Helsinki. After the end of the cold war co-edited with Walther Stützle the volume: Germany and Europe in Transition (OUP 1991).
Since then his publications are mainly focused on human rights, cooperative security, CSBMs, multilateral security structures (NATO, EU, OSCE) and political and legal aspects of the security system in Europe. Editor of the SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security since 1991. He has written more than 20 chapters on global and regional security systems and European and transatlantic security structures for the SIPRI Yearbook.
Co-chaired with Professor Daniel Tarschys, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe and Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board, the Independent Working Group on A Future Security Agenda for Europe (1994-1996). With Dr Ian Anthony, SIPRI Project Leader, prepared the The Stockholm Agenda for Arms Control (report based on the Rapporteur's Statement at the SIPRI Nobel Symposium on A Future Arms Control Agenda, 1-2 October 1999) and co-edited the volume: A Future Arms Control Agenda (2001). His most recent report, The New Security Dimensions: Europe after the NATO and EU Enlargements, was published in June 2001.
Professional Appointments.
Between 1961-1989 member of the staff of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), initially as an editor of the monthly International Affairs (Warsaw) and since 1978 Head of the European Security Department.
Since 1989 at SIPRI as Project Leader and Director of the Institute (from 1 July 1991). Participated in many multilateral negotiations on international security issues. In his capacity as Director of SIPRI, appointed in 1992 as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to elaborate the settlement of the conflict in the Trans-Dniester region of Moldova; the recommended basic principles for the political solution of the conflict in his report were approved by the OSCE Council of Ministers and conflicting parties.
June 2002 - Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
June 2003 - Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Education.
Studied international law and diplomacy in Warsaw (1955-1960). Ph. D. dissertation on the right of self-determination of peoples in modern international law at Jagiellonian University, Krakow (1969).
In 1984-85 resident fellow of the Institute of East-West Security Studies (IEWSS), New York. Habilitation on European Security System in Statu Nascendi. Professor at the Warsaw University appointed by the President of Poland in 2001.
Memberships. Member of different academies and boards, for example the Royal Swedish Academy of War Studies (appointed in 1996), the Governing Board of the Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH, appointed in 1995), the Advisory Board to UNESCO Studies on Peace and Conflict (since 1993), Advisory Board of Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF, appointed in 2001), and many other research centers. Since 2001 member of the National Security Council of Poland.
