Transatlantic Steering Group

The Transatlantic Steering Group (TSG), a key part of FPRI’s Project on Democratic Transitions, is composed of European and American non-government leaders, scholars and former policy officials experienced in post-authoritarian reform. The TSG bridges the stubborn and unhelpful divides that have slowed the integration of information now available on post-communist transitions and its translation into practical action. The TSG is chaired by Ambassador Adrian A. Basora and is assisted by a research staff based at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and supplemented by a diverse circle of experts from relevant disciplines. The Transatlantic Steering Group launched the Project in a mid-January 2006 conference that yielded significant consensus among practitioners and scholars on the key factors that have led to successful CEE transitions and on their potential transferability.

Transatlantic Steering Group for Project on Democratic Transitions

Chairman
Adrian A. Basora	Director, Project on Democratic Transitions, FPRI; former NSC Director for Europe; former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and to Czech Republic
Members
Bulgaria
Ivan Krastev	Chairman, Center for Liberal Strategies, Sophia
Czech Republic
Alexandr Vondra	Chairman, Program of Atlantic Security Studies, Prague Former advisor to President Havel and former Ambassador to USA
Jiri Zlatuska	Senator in the Czech Parliament; former Rector, Masaryk University, Brno 1998-2004; currently Dean, Informatics Faculty
Georgia
Vladimer Papava	Senior Fellow, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies; Member of Parliament; former Minister of Economy
Hungary
Bela Greskovits	Professor of Political Economy, Central European University, Budapest
Poland
Aleksander Smolar	Chairman, Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw; former senior advisor to Mazowiecki government
Romania
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi	NED Democracy Fellow; Chair, Romanian Academic Society; Professor of Comparative Transformations, National School of Government, Bucharest
Gabriel Petrescu	President, Open Society Foundation, Bucharest
Slovakia
Martin Butora	Chairman, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava Leader of Public Against Violence leaders during Velvet Revolution; recent Slovak Ambassador to the U.S.
Pavol Demes	Former Foreign Minister and NGO leader; currently German Marshall Fund representative for Central Europe, Bratislava
Other European and Eurasian Countries
Identification and recruitment of appropriate Steering Group members from Ukraine, Serbia and other former Soviet or Yugoslav states — as well as from Germany — is currently in process.
Western Europe
Katerina Mathernova	Director for Regional Affairs at the EU Commission, Brussels Former World Bank executive and adviser to Slovak Prime Minister
Jacques Rupnik	Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, with special focus on post-communist transitions
Jonathan Brownell	Retired lawyer; former environmental studies professor and activist; former faculty in Cambridge University CEE Program; residing in United Kingdom
U.S.A
Alene Gelbard	Project Director, Public Health Institute; former Director of International Programs, Population Reference Bureau
Allen Model	Managing Director, Overseas Strategic Consulting
Avis Bohlen	Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria
Charles Gati	Senior Adjunct Professor in European Studies, SAIS; former Senior Adviser, State Department Policy Planning Staff
Harry G. Barnes, Jr.	Senior Advisor, Asia Society; former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, India and Chile
Harvey Sicherman	President, Foreign Policy Research Institute; formerly of State Dept. Policy Planning Staff; speechwriter for Secretary of State
James Kurth	Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College; Editor, Orbis, and Co-Director of FPRI Project on America and the West
Kenneth Yalowitz	Director, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth; former Ambassador to Belarus and to Georgia
Robert Hutchings	Director, U.S. National Intelligence Council, 2003-2005; Lecturer in Public Policy, Princeton University; former Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Central and Eastern Europe
Sharon Wolchik	Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GWU; Director, Master of International Policy and Practice Program
Simon Serfaty	Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, CSIS; Senior Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy, Old Dominion University
Tom Simons	Director, Program on Eurasia in Transition, Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan
Trudy Rubin	Senior International Editorialist, Philadelphia Inquirer
Valerie Bunce	Syndicated Columnist on International Affairs Chair of Government Department, Cornell University
Vladimir Tismaneanu	Director, Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, University of Maryland

(As of 18 May 2006)