Advisory Council

The MSC Advisory Council, led by its Co-Chairs Chrystia Freeland and Paul Achleitner, helps to maintain and advance the high quality of the MSC's work. It advises the MSC's leadership on strategic decisions, thematic focus and partnership development. The Council consists of distinguished individuals elected by the MSC's Foundation Council on the suggestion of the MSC Foundation's President.

Chairs

Paul Achleitner
Member of the Supervisory Board, Bayer AG; former Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of the Deutsche Bank AG, Leverkusen

Chrystia Freeland
Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, Canada; former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada, Ottawa

Members

Oliver Bäte
Chief Executive Officer, Allianz SE, Munich

Carl Bildt
Special Envoy for the ACT Accelerator, World Health Organization; former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm

Christopher G. Cavoli
General; former Supreme Allied Commander Europe of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Mons

Thomas Enders
President, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin

Fu Ying
Founding Chair, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University; former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Beijing

Arancha González Laya
Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po; former Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, Paris

Jane Harman
Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center; former Chair of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy of the United States of America, Washington, DC

Joe Kaeser
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy AG, Munich

Kaja Kallas
Vice-President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, European Commission; former Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia, Brussels

John F. Kerry
Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the Department of State of the United States of America, Washington, DC

Manfred Knof
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Commerzbank AG, Munich

Gabrielius Landsbergis
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius

David Miliband
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Rescue Committee; former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, New York

Federica Mogherini
Rector, College of Europe; former Vice President of the European Commission and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, Brussels

Louise Mushikiwabo
Secretary General, International Organisation of la Francophonie; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community of the Republic of Rwanda, Paris

Kajsa Ollongren
European Union Special Representative for Human Rights, European External Action Service; former Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Brussels

Raychelle Omamo
Former Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya, Nairobi

Nancy Pelosi
Speaker Emerita of the House of Representatives, United States of America, Washington, DC

Boris Pistorius
Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin

Radosław Sikorski
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland, Warsaw

Ine Eriksen Søreide
Chairwoman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Parliament of the Kingdom of Norway; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway, Oslo

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