Circle of Friends

­­­­­In addition to the advisory board, Das Progressive Zentrum is gathering eminent intellectuals from around the world to support our progressive objectives and to strengthen our international connections. This board, the Circle of Friends, is designed to continually grow - just like our thinktank. ­

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• Dr. Ron A­smus, Head of the Brussels´ Office of the German Marshall Fund ­
  
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• Norbert Büning, Executive Partner, Accen­ture GmbH­
• Patrick Diam­ond, Director of Policy and Strateg­y at the Eq­uality and Human Rights Commission in London
• ­­Dr. Jörg Forbrig, Senior Program Officer Central and Eastern Europe, The German Marshall Fund of the United States ­­ Berlin
  
• Ralf Fücks, Chairman of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation 
• Hubertus Heil, Vice Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Faction in the German Bundestag
  
• Prof. Dr. ­Jürgen Kocka, Professor and former President Social Science Research Center Berlin
• Jürgen Krönig, UK and Ireland correspondent for the German weekly „Die Zeit“
• Dr. Ernst Hillebrand, Director of the Paris Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
• Dr. Roger Liddle, Guest Lecturer at the London School of Economics, former economic policy advisor to President of the EU-Commission José Manuel Barroso and Prime Minister Tony Blair

• Will Marshall, Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute in the U.S.
• Ann Mettler, Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Lisbon Council­ 
• Robert Misik, Journalist and non-fiction-wirter, curator of the dialogue series "genial dagegen" at the Bruno-Kreisky-Forum, Wien
  
• Pär Nuder, Member of the Swedish Parliament and former Swedish Minister of Finance
• Cem Öz­demir, Chairman of the Party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen­
  
• Prof. Dr. William E. Paterson, Professor at Birmingham University, Chairman of the German-British Forum ­
  
• Christian Rickens, Author of several books and editor at manager magazin­ ­
  
• Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Party Leader of the Danish Social Democratic Party ­­
  
• Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, Professor at the Technical University Berlin, 2008/09 Max Weber Kolleg Erfurt
• Jakob von Weizsäcker, Resident Scholar at the European think tank Bruegel, Brussels
  
• Jakub Wisniewski, Member of the Foreign Ministry of Poland­