Panel 1 – Europe and Reconstruction in Ukraine

Daniel Drezner (moderator)

Daniel W. Drezner is Professor of International Politics, a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the co-Director of Fletcher’s Russia and Eurasia Program. Before joining The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his BA in political economy from Williams College and a MA in economics and PhD in political science from Stanford University.

Jacob Kirkegaard 

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard joined the German Marshall Fund (GMF) as a Senior Fellow in September 2020, while also remaining a Senior Fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Before 2002, Jacob worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is a graduate of the Danish Army’s Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. 

Photini Pazartzis

Professor Photini Pazartzis is the Constantine G. Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies at Fletcher. Professor Pazarzis is a Professor of Public International Law at the Law Faculty of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and Director of the Athens Public International Law Center (AthensPIL). She was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, the supervisory body of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2015-2022), serving as its Vice-Chair (2019-2021) and Chair (2021-2022).

Oxana Shevel

Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor of comparative politics at the Department of Political Science at Tufts University and the Director of Tufts International Relations program. Her research and teaching focus on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues such as nation building and identity politics, citizenship policies, memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization process in the post-Soviet region. Professor Shevel holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, a MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and a BA in English and French from Kyiv State University in Ukraine.

Volodymr Dubovyk

Dr. Volodymyr Dubovyk has been working at the Odessa I. Mechnikov National University since 1992. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations since 1996 and has acted as a Director of the Center for International Studies since 1999. Among his teaching and research interests are U.S. foreign policy, U.S.- Ukraine relations, Black Sea regional security, and foreign policy of Ukraine. Dubovyk was a Fulbright Scholar in 2016/2017.

Panel 2 – Europe and Balancing Sustainability and Tech Innovation

Professor Josephine Wolff (moderator)

Josephine Wolff is an Associate Professor of cybersecurity policy at The Fletcher School since 2019. She focuses on cybersecurity incidents, international internet governance, and cyber-insurance. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Francesca Giovannini

Francesca Giovannini is the Program Director for Global Security and International Affairs at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Adjunct Assistant Professor for international security at The Fletcher School. She is also an Associate to the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and an Affiliate to the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University.

Torben Orla Nielsen

Torben Orla Nielsen is the Science Attaché and consular officer at the Innovation Centre Denmark in Boston. The Innovation Centre supports Danish science and innovation in Boston and facilitates collaboration between research institutions, start-ups, SMEs, and large corporations. His previous experience includes working at the Danish Innovation Centre in Seoul, as well as several roles in consulting. Nielsen holds a degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Philippe Sauvage

Philippe Sauvage is the Global Head of Operations and Access Specialty Care at Sanofi – an international pharmaceutical company. He has previously worked at the French Ministry of Health where he served as the Head of the Health Products Department. He was graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Physics and Economics. 

Phil Budden 

Phil Budden is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, where he focuses on innovation ecosystems and ‘corporate innovation’. Prior to MIT, Budden has served as a British diplomat working at the British Embassy in Washington where he focused on transatlantic economic and business issues, including technology security and later as Consul General to New England. Budden holds an MA in history and government from Cornell University and a PhD in history and international political economy from the University of Oxford.

Panel 3 – Europe and Building a New Cooperation with the Global South

Professor Carlos Alvarado Quesada (moderator)

Carlos Alvarado Quesada is a Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School. He was the 48th President of the Republic of Costa Rica. Prior experience also includes Minister of Labor and Social Security, Minister of Human Development and Social Inclusion, and the Executive President of the Joint Social Welfare Institute. He holds an MA from the University of Costa Rica and was a Chevening Scholar, earning a master’s degree in development studies at the University of Sussex.

Professor Chidi Odinkalu

Chidi Odinkalu is a Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School, and chair of the Truth, Justice, and Peace Commission. Previous experience has also included Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the International Refugee Rights Initiative. His research focuses on contemporary challenges of multilateralism in regional systems in development, human rights and governance. He holds an PhD from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Sonja Kreibich

Dr. Kreibich is the current German Consul General in Boston. Previously, she served at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Head of Division for Pan African Issues, Southern Africa and the Great Lakes and as Head of Unit for European Migration Policy. Kreibich studied law at the University of Bonn and at the University of Edinburgh and obtained a Dr. iur. from the University of Bonn.

Shada Islam 

Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on European Union affairs who now runs her own Brussels-based global strategy and advisory company, New Horizons Project, dealing with questions related to Europe, geopolitics, trade and inclusion. Islam is a member of the European Policy Centre’s Strategic Council and Senior Adviser for its Europe in the World programme. She worked for nine years as Director of Europe and Geopolitics at Friends of Europe and studied Journalism at the Université libre de Bruxelles. 

Symeon Tegos

Symeon Tegos is the Consul General of Greece in Boston. He assumed his duties in Boston on August 1st, 2022. He is a career diplomat with over 21 years of experience on a diverse range of issues, including the UN, Latin America, bilateral relations with Turkey and human rights. Previous assignments include the Embassy of Greece in Chile, the Greek Permanent Mission to the UN in New York and the Embassy of Greece in Turkey. He holds a LLB and a LLM from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law School and a MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Panel 4 – Europe and the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship

Professor Alan Henrikson (moderator)

Alan K. Henrikson is Lee E. Dirks Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus and the founding Director of Diplomatic Studies at The Fletcher School, where he has taught American diplomatic history, contemporary U.S.-European relations, global political geography, and the history, theory, and practice of diplomacy. During the academic year 2010-2011 he was Fulbright Schuman Professor of US-EU Relations at the College of Europe in Bruges. Hendrikson holds a PhD in History from Harvard University.

Federica Mogherini 

Federica Mogherini served as the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission (2014-19). Prior to joining the EU, she was Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2014) and Head of the Italian Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Vice-President of its Political Committee. Currently, Mogherini is the Rector of the College of Europe and Director of the Pilot Programme of the European Diplomatic Academy.

Karen Donfried

Karen Donfried is the former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. She served as president of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States. Dr. Donfried also worked as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council at the White House, where she has written on German foreign and defense policy, European integration, and transatlantic relations. Dr. Donfried has a Ph.D and MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Ian Lesser 

Dr. Ian Lesser is Chairholder of the Chair in Transatlantic Trade and Economy at the College of Europe in Bruges. Currently, Dr. Lesser serves as Vice President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and Executive Director of GMF’s Brussels office. Dr. Lesser was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, the London School of Economics, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and received his D.Phil from Oxford University.