Warsaw NATO Summit Advisory Panel
In the run-up to the 2016 NATO Summit in Warsaw, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) partnered with the NATO Public Diplomacy Division by bringing together a senior-level panel of officials and experts. The aim of the Advisory Panel was to formulate recommendations around themes that will be high on the agenda of the NATO Summit in 2016. The Panel analyzed and identified policy solutions for pressing issues, including collective defense, defense investment and innovation, enlargement and partnerships, the future of the transatlantic relationship, and the new security environment. Over the course of the fall of 2015, the Panel convened four times in different key allied cities – Berlin, Rome, Washington DC and Warsaw – in order to engage in off-the-record roundtable conversations with local policy makers and opinion shapers. These events typically lasted a half a day or less and welcomed approximately 25 to 35 participants for maximum intellectual exchange. Following the discussions the Advisory Panel meetings contributed to a major publication, which summarized the detailed some of the conversations and formulated recommendations in advance of the NATO Summit in 2016.
Members of the Advisory Panel
- Hans Binnendijk, Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
- Derek Chollet, Counselor and Senior Advisor for Security and Defense Policy, GMF (USA)
- Olaf Osica, Executive Director, Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
- Karl-Heinz Kamp, President, German Federal Academy for Security Policy (Germany)
- Ian Lesser, Senior Director for Foreign and Security Policy & Executive Director, Brussels, GMF (USA)
- Merle Maigre, National Security Advisor to the President of Estonia (Estonia)
- Alesandro Minuto-Rizzo, President, NATO Defense College (Italy)
- Julianne Smith, Senior Fellow and Director of the Strategy and Statecraft Program, CNAS (USA)
- Pierre Vimont, Senior Associate, Carnegie Europe (France)
- Kurt Volker, Executive Director, McCain Institute for International Leadership (USA)
- Ted Whiteside, acting Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO HQ (Canada)
- Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski, Professor, University of Łódź (Poland)
Rapporteurs of the Advisory Panel
- Michal Baranowski, Director, Warsaw Office, GMF (Poland)
- Bruno Lété, Senior Officer for Foreign and Security Policy, GMF (Belgium)