George Soros, Erhard Busek and Johannes Linn become PASOS Advisory Council founding members

The PASOS Advisory Council was launched on 7 May 2009, the day of the summit launching the European Union's Eastern Partnership initiative to deepen EU relations with six neighbouring countries. The three founding members of the Advisory Council were George Soros, the founder and Chairman of the Open Society Institute, Erhard Busek, former Vice-Chancellor of Austria and Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, and Johannes Linn, Executive Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution and former World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia.

George Soros	Erhard Busek	Johannes Linn

The Advisory Council is not a formal governance structure, but comprises a number of outstanding figures of integrity who share the values of PASOS, and have relevant public policy experience and/or a strong connection to the democratic transition process facing countries in the PASOS region of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The individual members of the Advisory Council will support PASOS in a number of ways, including:

• extending their advice to PASOS on major issues of international policymaking of relevance to Europe and Central Asia,
• lending their names to PASOS advocacy initiatives with a regional or international focus,
• from time to time speaking at public events organised by PASOS and PASOS members.

For further details and biographies of the Advisory Council members, click here