Brig. Gen. (ret.) Jean-Paul Huet

Military Commander

France

Retired Brigadier General Jean-Paul Huet once served as commander of L’Unité française de vérification, the French unit responsible for the implementation of the Conventional Armed Forces Treaty in Europe (CFE) and the 1990 Vienna Document. The CFE Treaty was signed in 1990 by both NATO member states as well as then-Warsaw Pact nations and was intended to facilitate the comprehensive and verifiable reduction of conventional arms. The CFE Treaty marked a significant turning point, as nations from both sides of the Cold War sought to negotiate a downsizing of modern arms. Huet has also served as director of criminal affairs within the French Ministry of Justice.

The Rt Hon. the Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE

Political Leader

United Kingdom

The Right Honorable the Lord Hurd of Westwell is a senior British conservative politician, who served as foreign secretary and home secretary in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He is a former member of the Diplomatic Service and served as a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1997. As foreign secretary, he served during a period of dramatic change at the end of the Cold War and during the early post-Cold War period.

Ms. Lynne Hybels

Civic Leader

United States

Ms. Lynne Hybels is an advocate for global engagement, co-founder of the Willow Creek Community Church and a columnist for Sojourners magazine. She is the author of “Nice Girls Don’t Change the World” and helped produce “Hope and Action,” a DVD and participant guide that introduces churches and small groups to first steps in addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2010, Hybels established Ten for Congo, a fundraising initiative to support the thousands of women and girls who were brutally raped during the last decade of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dr. Michael Ignatieff

Political Leader

Canada

Dr. Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian writer, academic and former politician who currently serves as president of Central European University in Budapest. Previously, he held a joint professorial appointment at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He served as a member of the Canadian Parliament and as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2006 until 2011. Ignatieff is an accomplished author, having written numerous books, articles and a television play. “The Russian Army,” his 1987 memoir about his family’s experience in nineteenth century Russia, won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction and the Heinemann Award. He has also been a regular broadcaster and critic in the media, featured on many programs, including the award-winning series “Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism.”

Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger

Diplomat

Germany

Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger is a seasoned German diplomat and chair of the Munich Security Conference, which brings high-level political and military leaders together to discuss the central security issues of our time. From 1998 to 2000, Ischinger served as deputy foreign minister of Germany. From 2006 to 2008, he was the German ambassador to the United Kingdom and, before that, the German ambassador to the United States for almost five years. His long career in the German Foreign Service gave him specific expertise in international negotiating processes, having been involved with the Bosnia Peace Talks at Dayton, Ohio and negotiations on NATO enlargement and the Kosovo crisis.

Ischinger is co-chair of the Global Zero NATO-Russia Commision and a member of the Nuclear Crisis Group and the Global Zero Commission.

Amb. Jeremy Issacharoff

Diplomat

Israel

Jeremy Issacharoff is currently Israel’s Ambassador to Germany. He was the former deputy director general for strategic affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Where he was responsible for arms control, nonproliferation, regional security, counterterrorism and the authorization of Israeli Defense Exports. He has served in several senior diplomatic posts including deputy mission chief at the Embassy of Israel in the U.S. and member of the UN secretary-general’s Advisory Board for Disarmament Affairs. He is an expert on nuclear power in the Middle East, the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, the Iranian nuclear program and the political and military aspects of international security.

Mr. Takahiko Ito

National Security Expert

Japan

Currently an adviser of Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., president of the Japan Chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Material Management, president of Japan Atomic Energy Relations Organization and director of Energy Strategist Consultancy Limited, Takahiko Ito has extensive experience in the energy field. He served three years as the commissioner of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission. After graduating from the University of Tokyo with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, Ito worked for many years at Chubu Electric Power Co, Inc., first managing nuclear power stations and later as executive vice president. He recently served as chairman of both the Nuclear Development Steering Committee and the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan.

H.E. Igor Ivanov

Diplomat

Russia

His Excellency Igor Ivanov is president of the Russian International Affairs Council and a professor at Moscow State Institute for International Relations. He served as foreign minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004, and secretary of the Security Council of Russia from 2004 to 2007. An experienced diplomat, Ivanov joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and, in 1991, became ambassador to Madrid. Ivanov has written numerous books and articles on international security issues.