European Council on Foreign Relations

The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals and in the United States. Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy. ECFR has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Warsaw, Washington, and Sofia. ECFR was founded in 2007 by Mark Leonard together with a council of fifty founding members, chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, and Mabel van Oranje, with initial funding from George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Communitas Foundation, Sigrid Rausing, Unicredit, and Fundación Para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE). ECFR's council is currently chaired by Carl Bildt, Lykke Friis and Norbert Röttgen.