CEPA’s International Leadership Council (ILC) is a high-level group of global thought leaders and decision-makers who share CEPA’s core mission of strengthening the transatlantic alliance and advise on CEPA’s strategic vision.
Co-Chair
H.R. McMaster, Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Lieutenant General (Ret.), United States Army; US National Security Advisor (2017-2018)
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany (2019-2021)
Members
John Allen, Strategic Advisor, Microsoft; Four-Star General (Ret.), United States Marine Corps; Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and US Forces in Afghanistan (2011-2013); Special Presidential Envoy, Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State (2014-2015)
Karan Bhatia, Global Head, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google; US Deputy Trade Representative (2005-2007)
Stephen Biegun, Deputy Secretary of State, US Department of State (2019-2021); Visiting Policy Practitioner, Weiser Diplomacy Center, University of Michigan
Carl Bildt, Prime Minister, Kingdom of Sweden (1991-1994); Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Sweden (2006-2014); Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, World Health Organization
Wesley Clark, Commander, US European Command (1997-2000); Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, NATO (1997-2000)
Francis Fukuyama, Political Scientist; Author of “The End of History and the Last Man”; Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Timothy Garton Ash, Historian; Political Author; Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
William Hurd, US Representative (TX-23), US House of Representatives (2015-2021)
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President, Republic of Estonia (2006-2016); Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Estonia (1996-1998, 1999-2002); Member of the European Parliament (2004-2006)
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2019-2022)
Matthew Kaminski, Editor-at-Large, POLITICO
David J. Kramer, Executive Director, The George W. Bush Institute; US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2008-2009)
Ivan Krastev, Political Scientist; Author; Chair, Centre for Liberal Strategies
Linas Linkevičius, Lithuanian Ambassador to Sweden, Republic of Lithuania; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Lithuania (2012-2020); Minister of National Defence, Republic of Lithuania (1993-1996, 2000-2004)
Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum; Co-Founder and Partner, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Zhanna Nemtsova, Co-Founder, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom
Daniel Petrescu, Chief of the Defence Staff, Romanian Ministry of Defence (2019-2023); General (Ret.), Romanian Armed Forces
Ine Eriksen Søreide, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Norway (2017-2021); Minister of National Defense, Kingdom of Norway (2013-2017); Member of Parliament, Kingdom of Norway
Stephen Twitty, Lieutenant General (Ret.), Deputy Commander, US European Command (2018-2020); Founder, Twitty and Associates LLC
Eckart von Klaeden, Vice President and Head of External Affairs, Mercedes-Benz Group AG; Member of Parliament, Federal Republic of Germany (1994-2013)
Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Minister of Defence, Ukraine (2019-2020); Co-founder and Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies
ILC members serve in a voluntary and advisory capacity and do not have a role in institutional governance, which is the purview of CEPA’s Board of Directors.
