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Professor Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers serves as the Chairman of the Program on Democratic Resilience & Developmenmt program.
Prof. Dr. Rüttgers was the German Federal Minister for Education, Science, Research and Technology from 1994 to 1998 and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia and CDU party chairman of the state from 2005 to 2010. For more than 30 years, he has stood for a policy of economic renewal and the social market economic model. As chairman of the Independent High Level Strategy Group on Industrial Technologies and as special adviser to the European Commission, he continued his pro-European engagement from 2017 to 2019.
Prof. Dr. Rüttgers currently works as an attorney and lectures as a professor of Political Science at the University of Bonn. He is a council member of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, board member of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Chairman of the Board of the Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation, and Honorary Fellow of Reichman University.
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Professor Irwin Cotler
Professor Irwin Cotler is a Professor Emeritus of Law at McGill University, former Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada and longtime Member of Parliament. While in government service, Professor Cotler initiated the first-ever law on human trafficking; crafted the first marriage equality legislation; headed the Canadian delegation to the Stockholm Conference on the Prevention and Combating of Genocide and made the pursuit of international justice a priority for Canada, including initiating the first ever prosecutions for incitement to genocide and the commission of mass atrocity crimes in Rwanda. He is also the founder and chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Among his recent honors, he was the first recipient of the Roméo Dallaire Award for Human Rights Leadership; was elected 2014 Canadian Parliamentarian of the Year by his colleagues; and received the Law Society of Upper Canada’s inaugural Human Rights Award.
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Professor Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. For more than six years, he directed FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), where he now leads its Arab Reform and Democracy program and its Global Digital Policy Incubator. He is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world, as well as on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. His latest book, China's Influence and American Interests was published by Hoover Press in 2019. Diamond’s other books include Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (Penguin Press, 2019), In Search of Democracy (2016), The Spirit of Democracy (2008), Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999). He has also edited or co edited more than forty books on democratic development around the world.
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Professor João Carlos Espada
Professor João Carlos Espada is a professor of Political Studies and director of the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal. He earned his D.Phil from the University of Oxford and has taught at Brown, Stanford and Georgetown universities in the US. He is the editor of the quarterly journal Nova Cidadania and president of the Portuguese section of the International Churchill Society. He has co-founded and is a board member of the European Partnership for Democracy, as well as of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and of the executive committee of the Michael Oakeshott Association. Since March 2006, he has been a political adviser to the President of Portugal. João has authored nine books and edited another ten books in political theory. His latest book, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A View from Europe, was published by Routledge in 2016.
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Professsor Karen Horn
Karen Horn is an honorary professor at the University of Erfurt. In addition to Erfurt, she also taught the history of economic ideas and economic journalism at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU), the University of Witten/Herdecke (UWH), the University of Siegen (US) and the University of Zurich (UZH). Karen Horn is a regular contributor to publications such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the New Zurich Times, Capital and more. She is also the co-editor and editor-in-chief of the Perspectives of Economic Policy (PWP), a scientific journal of the Association for Social Policy (VfS), the traditional professional association of economists in the German-speaking world.
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Ivan Krastev
Ivan Krastev is the Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing writer for the international New York Times. His latest book, co-authored with Stephen Holmes is The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy (2020) and he is the author of the acclaimed books Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest” (2014) and After Europe (2017), both published by the University of Pennsylvania University Press.
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Professor Catherine Marshall
Professor Catherine Marshall is the Director of the MA Program Political Ideas in a Digital Age and professor of history of 19th century political theory at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise in France. She has also been director of the AGORA research centre since June 2019. She is currently working on a book entitled Political Deference in a Democratic Age, which is due to be published by Palgrave in 2021.
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Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard in the 1960s as an economist, she has written twenty books and edited seven more, and has published some four hundred articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. Between 1968 and 1980 she was a member of the University of Chicago Economics Department. Her latest books include the massive economic, historical, and literary trilogy The Bourgeois Era (2006, 2010, 2016) and Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All which was published by Yale University Press in 2019.
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State Secretary (ret.) Michael Mertes
Michael Mertes is a renowned author, journalist, politician, and diplomat. A lawyer by education, Mertes held various positions in the German Federal Administration (Ministry of Defense, Federal Chancellery, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety) before becoming Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Chief Speechwriter and Policy Advisor in 1987. In 1993 he was appointed Director of Policy Planning, and in 1995 Director-General for Policy Planning and Cultural Affairs at the Federal Chancellery. In August 2006, Mertes was appointed State Secretary for Federal, European and International Affairs in the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia. In that capacity, he was Plenipotentiary of North Rhine-Westphalia to the German Federation and the State’s representative to the European Union. From 2011 to 2014, Michael Mertes served as Resident Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) to Israel. Now based in Bonn, Michael Mertes continues to nurture German-Israel ties and to publish commentary on German, European, and international politics.
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Professor Dr. Beate Neuss Professor Dr. Beate Neuss is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Chemnitz Technological University and vice chairperson of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. She heads the foundation’s Ph.D.-Program “International Center for International Security and Development in the 21th century”. The research covers challenges for the resilience of democratic and liberal governance e.g. by radicalisation, terrorism, cyber threats, hybrid warfare, arms trade. She is vice president of the interdisciplinary “Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration” (Roundtable European Integration) assembling German scholars on the EU and is on the Advisory Board of the Journal “Politics in Central Europe”. She publishes on European and German Foreign Policy. |