Editorial Board

C.J. Polychroniou
Caroline S. Wagner
Juergen Braunstein
Robert Falkner
Professor Ann Florini
Thomas Hale
Gleider Hernández
Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Marion Laboure
Kate Macdonald
Anthony McGrew
Dr Eva-Maria Nag
Lauge Poulsen
Danny Quah
Professor Dani Rodrik
Joel Sandhu
Antonio Savoia
Anmol Saxena
Catherine Turner

Advisory Board

Professor Tim Besley
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati
Professor John Braithwaite
Professor Mick Cox
Professor Geoffrey Garrett
Professor Takatoshi Ito
Professor Mary Kaldor
Professor Robert Keohane
Andreas Klasen
Professor Sebastiano Maffettone
Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern
Professor Joseph Stiglitz
Professor Ngaire Woods
Professor Tianbiao Zhu

Practitioners' Board

Mr Lakhdar Brahimi
Richard Burge
Augustin Carstens Carstens
Howard Davies
Bill Emmott
Pascal Lamy
Chris Miller
Alastair Newton
James Orbinski
Javier Solana
George Soros
Professor Muhammad Yunus

Javier Solana

Javier Solana
Position
Former High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union
Achievements
Former High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union

 

Dr. Solana served for ten years as Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Secretary General of Western European Union, ending in December 2009.

Dr. Solana earned a doctorate in physics and taught solid-state physics at Madrid Complutense University before entering politics. In 1977, he was elected to the Spanish Parliament, and from 1982 onward, he held a number of cabinet posts including minister of culture, government spokesperson, and minister of education and science. In July 1992, he became minister of foreign affairs, a post he held until he became NATO secretary-general in December 1995.

He is currently president of the Centre for Global Economy and Geopolitics at ESADE Business School, as well as President of the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation. He is a member of Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome and a Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George. In 2010 King Carlos I appointed him a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece for his career in diplomacy.