Contributors
Yasmine Abou-Mansour
Yasmine Abou-Mansour has been public affairs and political officer on the Middle East at NATO headquarters since 2006. Prior to this she worked in Lebanon with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the Lebanese government and local NGOs on human rights and conflict resolution issues.
Jaroslaw Adamowski
Jaroslaw Adamowski is a freelance writer based in Warsaw, Poland. He haswritten about central and eastern Europe for The Guardian, The Jerusalem Post, openDemocracy, Transitions Online and The Prague Post.
Filippo Addarii
Filippo Addarii is executive director at Euclid, the European network of third-sector leaders. He is also director of international leadership development at the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, ACEVO; and a co-founder of Ecologist Italy magazine and the Feltrinelli Foundation’s Research Centre for Contemporary Social Movements.
Clive Aslet
Clive Aslet is editor at large of Country Life, where he was editor from 1993 to 2006. One of Britain’s foremost writers on the countryside, he contributes regularly to newspapers, radio and television. His latest book is Landmarks of Britain published by Hodder and Stoughton.
Ronald Asmus
Ronald D. Asmus is executive director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center and responsible for strategic planning at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs from 1997-2000 and has been a senior analyst and fellow at Radio Free Europe, RAND and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Florence Autret
Florence Autret is a freelance journalist working in Brussels, where she writes for L’AGEFI and Le Télégramme. She is the author of L’Amérique à Bruxelles (Editions du Seuil). She also teaches European lobbying at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Tony Barber
Tony Barber is a specialist writer on international affairs for the Financial Times. He has served as FT bureau chief in Brussels, Rome and Frankfurt; as Europe editor and East Europe editor of The Independent; and as a Reuters correspondent in New York, Washington, Warsaw, Moscow and Belgrade.
Tyson Barker
Tyson Barker is project manager for transatlantic relations at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington, DC, where his work focuses on the US-EU relationship, transatlantic economic issues and political activism of the millennial generation. He heads the Foundation’s Congressional European Parliament Initiative.
Katinka Barysch
Katinka Barysch is chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, where she focuses on economic reform, energy policy, enlargement and Russia. She previously worked at the European Commission and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Bertrand Benoit
Bertrand Benoit is the Financial Times’ Berlin bureau chief, having previously covered corporate news for the paper in Frankfurt. Prior to joining the FT in 1997, he was Brussels correspondent for The European. He was born in Vichy, France in 1972.
Vernon Bogdanor
Vernon Bogdanor is professor of government at Oxford University and was chairman of the Federal Trust’s working group whose report, Legitimacy, Accountability and Democracy in the European Union, has just been published.
Stefanie Bolzen
Stefani Bolzen is the Brussels-based Europe correspondent for Die Welt Group. Until 2008 she was foreign news reporter for Die Welt in Berlin, covering issues including eastern Europe and energy. She trained at the Axel Springer Journalist School, having studied modern history in Cologne and Seville.
Christopher Boucek
Christopher Boucek is an associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program where his research focuses on regional security challenges. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and lecturer in Politics at the Woodrow WilsonSchool.
Alexandrine Bouilhet
Alexandrine Bouilhet was Brussels correspondent for Le Figaro from 2003 to 2007. She previously worked for the paper in Paris, where she spent six years as a crime reporter and later worked on its foreign affairs desk covering terrorism, diplomacy and Franco-US relations.
Andrew Bounds
Andrew Bounds was part of the Financial Times’ EU reporting team in Brussels until 2007. He arrived in 2004 to edit the paper’s Observer diary column. He joined the FT in 1997 as a sub-editor, having started his career with the Kentish Express in Ashford.
