The Globalist

Leonid Grigoryev is Chief Adviser to the Head of the Analytical Center for the Government of GF and Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow.

Deputy Director of Area Studies and Coordinator for European Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. State Department Carl Lankowski serves as Deputy Director of Area Studies and Coordinator for European Area Studies at the U.S. State Department’s diplomatic academy, the Foreign Service Institute. Previously, from September 1995 through August 2000, Mr. Lankowski was […]

Member of the German Bundestag Cem Oezdemir is a member of the German Bundestag. When first elected to the Bundestag in 1994, he became the first son of Turkish emigrants ever to hold office in Germany’s lower house of Parliament. Mr. Oezdemir joined the German Green Party in 1981, the same year he became a […]

EU Commissioner for External Relations Trained as a historian, Chris Patten started his political career in 1966 with the Conservative Party’s Research Department. He entered parliament in 1979, the year Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister. Subsequently, he climbed up the ranks of the British Conservative Party — and made it to the position of […]

Director of the International Economics Program at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies Charles Pearson has served as Director of the International Economics Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) since 1987. In addition, he has worked as Senior Staff Economist on the Commission on International Trade and Investment, as […]

Former representative for the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees Kaiser Zaman has been involved in humanitarian projects — as the deputy or head of operations for various United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) missions and non-governmental organizations around the world — for over 25 years. Mr. Zaman worked with UNHCR from 1988 to 1997 […]

Professor for Eastern European History at the European University Karl Schlögel is Professor for Eastern European History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder. Mr. Schlögel studied Philosophy, Sociology, Eastern European History and Slavic Studies in Berlin, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Attorney, U.S. District Court of Arizona Ken Sanders is an attorney and freelance writer living in Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Sanders is currently employed by the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and writes in his free time. Mr. Sanders received his B.S. in English and his Juris Doctor from the University of […]

Research Associate of German Marshall Fund and Assistant Director of the Trade and Poverty Forum Kareem Saleh serves both as a German Marshall Fund research associate and as Assistant Director of the Trade and Poverty Forum — a north-south coalition of imminent persons from the key democracies working to mobilize political will and economic resources […]

Former German Executive Director at the World Bank Fritz Fischer served as German Executive Director at the World Bank from 1991 to 1996. Prior to working at the World Bank, he served as Executive Secretary of the Joint Bank-Fund Development Committee from 1984 to 1987. In addition to his work in the field of development […]