• A core group of approximately seventy-five leading figures in the EU institutions and member states. Up to a third will be Portuguese while the remainder will be drawn from the rest of the European Union and beyond. Members in this category will be nominated for three years renewable.

        • Founding members, including the Bank of Portugal, the Gulbenkian Foundation and up to 12 major companies that are prepared to commit themselves to support the Forum for at least three years.

Guests will be invited on an ad hoc basis to every plenary meeting of the European Strategy Forum according to the subject matter. In the case of the thematic meetings, the Forum expects to invite twenty or more leading figures from the regions concerned.

Other categories of membership may be created in the light of experience and demand.

Participation in the study programme between Forum meetings will be restricted to members and specially invited guests.

Public meetings and press conferences will be arranged as and when appropriate in conjunction with the six-monthly conferences and/or the presentation of the books.

Representatives of Founding Members

• António Mexia

EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A.António
• Horta Osório

Banco Santander Totta S.A.
• António Rui de Lacerda Carrapatoso

Chairman of the Board Vodafone Portugal, Comunicações Pessoais, S.A.
• Artur Santos Silva

Chairman of the Board Banco BPI, S.A.
• Emílio Rui Vilar

Chairman of the Board Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
• Filipe Pinhal

President Banco Comercial Português, S.A.
• Pedro Seixas Vale

Chairman of the Board Companhia de Seguros Allianz Portugal, S.A.
• Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado

Chairman of the Board Banco Espírito Santo, S.A
• Vasco de Mello

Chairman of the Board BRISA Auto-Estradas de Portugal, S.A.
• Vítor Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio

Governor Banco de Portugal


• Diogo Vaz Guedes

Administrador Somague Engenharia
• António Pires de Lima

CEO Unicer Bebidas
• Helder

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Members

• Adrian Severin

former Foreign Affairs Minister of Romania, Observer in the European Parliament
• Alberto Navarro

Secretary of State for European Affairs, Madrid
• Alexis Lautenberg

Swiss Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Álvaro Mendonça e Moura

Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union
• Andrew Duff

Member of the European Parliament Member of the Convention
• Anne Mette Vestergaard

Chief Adviser on European Affairs, Danish Institute for International Studies
• Andris Piebalgs

European Union Commissioner for Energy
• Arian Starova

former Foreign Minister of Albania
• Bronislaw Geremek

Member of the European Parliament; former Foreign Minister of Poland
• Chris Patten

Chancellor of University of Oxford; former European Commissioner
• Christine Roger

French Permanent Representative on the Political and Security Committee of the European Union
• Constatinos Simitis

Former Prime Minister of Greece
• Danuta Hübner

European Commissioner for Regional Policy
• Dimitrij Rupel

Foreign Minister of Slovenia
• Domingos Fezas Vital

Assessor Diplomático do Presidente da República Gabinete do Presidente da República
• Fernando Andresen Guimarães

Portuguese Ambassador to the U.K.
• Gareth Evans

former Foreign Minister of Australia President of International Crisis Group
• Gijs de Vries

Counter-Terrorism Coordinator for the European Union Council of the European Union
• Gilles de Kerchove

Council of Ministers
• Goran Svilanovic

former Foreign minister of Yugoslavia and Serbia-Montenegro
• Guy Milton

Council of Ministers
• Hannes Swoboda

Member of the European Parliament
• Iain Begg

Professor, London School of Economics
• Isabel Mota

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
• Jaakko Iloniemi

President of UNIFIN and former Finnish Ambassador to the US
• Jacques Keller-Noelet

Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers
• Javier Solana

Secretary General of the Council of Ministers and High Representative
• Jean François-Poncet

Member of French Senate; former Foreign Minister of France
• João de Deus Pinheiro

Associação Empresarial de Portugal
• João Marques de Almeida

Director do Instituto de Defesa Nacional; member of the Cabinet of President Barroso
• Jonathan Faull

Director General of Justice and Home Affairs in the European Commission
• Jorge Roza de Oliveira

Assessor Diplomático do Gabinete do Primeiro-Ministro Gabinete do Primeiro-Ministro (Portugal)
• Jorge Vasconcelos

ERSE - Entidade Reguladora de Serviços Energéticos - Portugal
• José Daniel Rosas Campelo da Rocha

Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Ponte de Lima Câmara Municipal de Ponte de Lima
• Julian Priestley

Secretary General of the European Parliament
• Kim Darroch

Adviser to the British Prime Minister on the European Union
• Manuel Lobo Antunes

Secretário de Estado dos Assuntos Europeus Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros
• Margarida Marques

Directora do Gabinete em Lisboa para a Comissão Europeia
• Maria João Rodrigues

ISCTE - Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
• Maria Lúcia Amaral

UNL - Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informática
• Maros Sefcovic

Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the European Union
• Martine Schommer

Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the European Union
• Meglena Kuneva

Bulgarian Minister for European Affairs
• Olli Rehn

European Union Commisioner for Enlargement
• Osman Topcagic

Director of the Directorate for European Integration Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Paavo Lipponen

former Prime Minister of Finland
• Pierre Vimont

Chef de cabinet of French Foreign Minister
• Prince Nikolaus von Liechtenstein

Ambassador to the European Union
• Radmila Sekerniska

deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia
• Robert Cooper

Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs in the Council of Ministers
• Stuart Eizenstat

Former Official in the Carter and Clinton Administrations, including U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. and Treasury and Undersecretary of state; Member of the International Advisory Board of GML and a Vice Chairman of Freedom House
• Teresa Gouveia

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
• Tom de Bruijn

Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the European Union
• Vítor Ângelo Martins

Gabinete do Presidente (Portugal)
• Vladimir Drbonjak

Ambassador; Chief Negotiator of Croatia in Accession Negotiations
• Wolfgang Munchau

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