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Biographic Summaries
Andrea de Guttry
Andrea de Guttry is the director of the International Training
Program for Conflict Management and a professor of public
international law at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari
e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.
Dr. de Guttry graduated with a law degree at the University
of Pisa in 1980. He has served as a consultant to the World
Health Organization (WHO) for training staff in the area of
human rights. Earlier, he was the head of the legal office
in the Ministry of European Affairs in Rome and previously
had been the director of a cooperation project in Guatemala
aimed at training public servants in the field of regional
integration.
He has continued to serve as an election observer for various
missions with the European Union, the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe, and the United Nations.
Ulrich Fischer
Ulrich Fischer is an advisor on human rights and humanitarian
aid politics for the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/The
Greens in the German Federal Parliament in Bonn (now Berlin).
He received his degree in political science from the Free
University in Berlin, 1973. He has since served as project
director for the German Afghanistan Foundation, a humanitarian
organization in the field of rural rehabilitation in Afghanistan,
based in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mr. Fischer also was a public
relations manager for the humanitarian organization, HELP
(based in Bonn, Germany), then directing most of its publicly
and privately funded assistance to the Afghan refugee population
in Pakistan.
Mr. Fischer previously had been in charge of foreigners policies
with The Greens. He was a member of parliament (MP), member
of the Foreign Affairs as well as the Human Rights Committees,
and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe.
Jan Hoekema
Since 1994, Jan Hoekema has been an MP with the Democrats
66 Party in the Netherlands. He studied sociology and political
science at Leiden University and received his degree in 1975.
After serving in the air force as an officer-conscript, he
started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977
where he was director of political U.N. affairs until 1994
and was responsible for political questions in the U.N. system,
U.N. peacekeeping operations, arms control, disarmament and
export control matters. He also served in other functions,
i.e. in the NATO department and the Policy Planning department.
During his diplomatic career, Mr. Hoekema held office for
14 years in the Municipal Council of Leiden, the Netherlands.
Since 1997, he has been the chairman of the Netherlands Atlantic
Commission. He acted as general rapporteur for the Defense
and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he was elected president of the
Defense and Security Committee of the Assembly.
Mr. Hoekema is a member of the Board of Parliamentarians
for Global Action (PGA), a New York-based worldwide network
of action-oriented MPs. He has published numerous articles
and book chapters on international issues -- mainly related
to the United Nations, international cooperation, security,
and Europe.
Andreas Körner
Andreas Körner studied political science in Berlin and
Amsterdam. He currently advises the Alliance 90/The Greens
in the German Bundestag. He also works with MP Winfried Nachtwei,
who is a member of the Defense Committee in the German parliament.
He previously held positions at the international
magazine Disarmament Campaigns in The Hague. Mr. Körner
also edited the peace movement journal Ami (antimilitarus
information).
Alessandro Politi
Alessandro Politi is a strategic and Open Source Intelligence
(OSINT) independent analyst. Dr. Politi graduated with a degree
in military history from the University of Pisa in 1983. He
is the author of seven books and several essays and twice
has received the Golden Candle Award (1993 and 1999) for his
contribution to the development of OSINT.
His main fields of interest are: political-military
and strategic analysis, European defense industry policy,
new risks, multilateral security cooperation, intelligence
policy, OSINT and knowledge management. He also is interested
in the conceptual definition of a European intelligence sharing
mechanism.
Dr. Politi has served as a special advisor to
three defense ministers in the Italian government since 1997.
He most recently directed the drafting and publication of
the "Italian Strategic Defense Review" (2001 New Forces
for a New Century). He is a strategic columnist for three
main Italian print media.
Anibal Villalba
Anibal Villalba is a major in the Spanish Army, General Staff
Graduated. He has field experience related to crisis management
beginning in 1991 when he served as a military observer in
the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM I)
to validate the withdrawal of Cuban troops.
In 1996, he was appointed as a deputy military
advisor to the European Union Administration of Mostar (EUAM)
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The same year he was nominated
as the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) liaison officer
to the EUAM.
In 1999 he served as NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR)
liaison officer to the United Nations Interim Administration
Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). From 1998 to 2001 he worked as
a staff officer for NATO Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH),
Naples, Italy - in the Crisis Planning Branch, for Balkan
issues. In September 2000, he attended the Crisis Management
Course at NATO headquarters and the International Crisis Management
Course at the Swedish National Defense College.
He was a High International Studies graduate
from the SEI, Madrid. He is about to defend a doctoral thesis
in political science, which is related to the role of civilian
institutions in the Balkans crises. He currently teaches strategy
to the Joint General Staff Course in the Armed Forces School
(ESFAS), National Defense Studies Center (CESEDEN) in Madrid.
Julianne Smith (moderator)
Julianne Smith is a program officer with The German Marshall
Fund (GMF) of the United States.
Before working with The GMF, Ms. Smith worked at the Association
of the U.S. Army on a project called the Role of American
Military Power. Prior to this position, she was a senior analyst
at the British American Security Information Council on its
European Security Desk. She also worked for the Conflict Prevention
Network at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in
Ebenhausen, Germany where she conducted policy studies for
the European Commission and Parliament.
Ms. Smith has received a number of fellowships and scholarships,
including the Public Policy Fellowship at the American Academy
in Berlin, the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship for work
in Germany, and the Fredin Memorial Scholarship for study
at the Sorbonne in Paris. She holds a Master of Arts in International
Relations from the School of International Service at American
University.
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