Board of Trustees
Heinz Fischer, President
Former Austrian President
Timothy Garton Ash
Historian; Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
Ira Katznelson
Interim Provost; Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History; Deputy Director, Columbia University
Margaret MacMillan
Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto and Emeritus Professor of International History at Oxford University
Mark Medish
Senior Policy Consultant; Director and Vice Chair of Project Associates
Wolfgang Petritsch
President of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs
Vesna Pusić
Former First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia
Dariusz Stola, Vice President
Historian; Professor at the Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Board of Patrons
Giuliano Amato
Professor em. of Law at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the European University Institute, Florence; former Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Italy
Joschka Fischer
Senior Strategic Counsel to The Albright Stonebridge Group LLC; former Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor of Germany
Peter Mitterbauer
Former President and CEO of Miba AG, Laakirchen; former Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Austrian Industry-Holding Stock Corporation (ÖIAG), Vienna
Christopher Schönberger
Partner of Peters, Schönberger & Partner GbR, Munich
Karel Schwarzenberg, Chair †
Former First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Prague/Vienna
George Soros
Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, New York