Charting Ahead

The Foundation grew out, two years ago, from a common intuition of the President Minuto-Rizzo and the NATO Defense College top decision makers who understood the value of a non-profit NGO that could work beyond usual and institutional outreach, training, communication and scientific research activities.

While the tradition of stability and well-being is embodied by the still valid principles of the Washington charter, the triple upheavals of the fall of the Soviet Union, the global economic crisis and of the Arab Revolutions require a more focussed, agile and innovative approach.

Apparently the ingredients are the same of many other sister organizations, but where we will concentrate our efforts is to look at relevant issues not just by describing them or recommending decisions, but by catching the sense of events and the essential vectors of future developments. In a word: charting ahead.

The NDCF strives to get hold of this Ariadne’s thread that often seems missing not only in mundane politics, but also in the realm of grand strategy, precisely when this craft is more needed to shape a future.

NDC Foundation

Senior Advisory Board

The SAB (Senior Advisory Board) has the essential function to assist in the strategic decisions about the future development, funding and operations of the Foundation. Its first meeting has taken place back to back with the Conference "Afghanistan to 2014 and beyond – Ask and Task" and has been constructive.

H.E. Ambassador Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar, Chairman of the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies

H.E. Ambassador Nabeela Al-Mulla, Kuwait Ambassador, Brussels

H.E. Ambassador Ghazi Al Bahar Al Rawas, National Defence College, Oman

H.E. Ambassador Mohammed Ali Al-Naqbi, UAE Ambassador to NATO

H.E. Ambassador Sheikh Ali Bin Jassim Al-Thani, Ambassador of Qatar, Brussels

H.E. Ambassador Anders Bjurner, Stockolm

H.E. Ambassador Gabriele Checchia, Italian MFA, Permrep NATO

Mesut Ciceker, Vice President, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Wesley K. Clark, CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates

Staffan de Mistura, former Foreign Affairs vice-Minister, Italy

Ennio Di Nolfo, professor emeritus, History of International Relations, University of Florence

Caroline Kanter, KAS

Amb. Jeremy Kinsman, Resident International Scholar Institute of Governmental Studies University of California, Berkeley

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, ASG Public Diplomacy NATO HQ

Istvan Gyarmati, President, International Centre for Democratic Transition

Kai Eide, Foreign Minister, Norway

Oded Eran, Senior Adviser, Institute for Security Studies, Tel Aviv

Prof. Ahmet O. Evin, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabançi University

Grant Hammond, Professor of International Security at the Air War College Scientific Committee

Raymond R. Henault, President of the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute

H.E. Ambassador Robert Hunter, Director, Center for Transatlantic Security Studies, INSS

H.E. Ambassador Mahmoud Karem, Egyptian Council for Foreign Relations

George Joffé, Global Policy Institute, Deputy Director, London

Ian O. Lesser, Executive Director, Transatlantic Center, German Marshall Fund of the US

Julian Lindley-French, Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy

Joseph Manso, Deputy Permanent Representative, US mission to NATO, Brussels

H.E. Dr. Ahmad Masa'deh, former Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean; former Minister of Public Sector Reform, Jordan

Professor PFiruz Demir Yaşamış, American University, Dubai

General John Rutherford Allen, Washington

Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman of the Gulf Research Center

H.E. Ambassador, Ferdinando Salleo, Trilateral Commission

Giuseppe Scognamiglio, Vicepresident, Unicredit

H.E. Ambassador Dominique Struye de Swielande, Brussels

Fred Tanner, Director, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

Sinan Ulgen, Chairman, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

General Federico Yaniz Velasco, Madrid

Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President, US Atlantic Council

Scientific Board

Emiliano Alessandri, GMFUS

Massimo Ambrosetti, MFA, Italy

Vincenzo Camporini, IAI Vice President, leader of the board

Adriana Cerretelli, Sole 24 Ore, Bruxelles

Alessandro Colombo, University of Milan

Eric Jones, Bologna Institute for Policy Research, Johns Hopkins University

Sir Michael Leigh, Senior Advisor, German Marshall Fund of the US

Karl Heinz Kamp, BAKS

Roberto Menotti, Aspen Institute Italia

Carlo Musso, Finmeccanica

Vincenzo Nigro, La Repubblica

Michele Nones, IAI

Nicolò Russo Perez, Compagna di San Paolo

Analysts - Strategic Trends

China

I. Elenoire Laudieri Di Biase

Mediterranean and Gulf

Fabio Nicolucci

Cinzia Bianco

Umberto Profazio

Eleonora Ardemagni

Balkans

Valerio Cartocci

Matteo Tacconi

Eastern Europe and Russia

Angelantonio Rosato

Emerging Challenges

Matteo Bressan

Directors' Board