Camille Grand
Secretary General, European Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association (ASD)
Camille Grand
Secretary General, European Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association (ASD)
Camille Grand is the Secretary General of the Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe. He previously served as a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, where he led work on defence and technology in European security and advised EU institutions, European governments, and NATO. Mr Grand was NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, overseeing capability delivery, aviation, missile defence, and technology cooperation. Before joining NATO, he directed the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, France’s leading defence and security think tank. Mr Grand is an Associate Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po Paris) and has taught at the École nationale d’administration and the French Army Academy.
Andrii Kostin
Ambassador of Ukraine to the Netherlands
Andrii Kostin
Ambassador of Ukraine to the Netherlands
His Excellency Andrii Kostin was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on 7 April 2025. From 2022 to 2024, he served as Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
Fernande van Tets
Independent journalist and former Middle East correspondent
Fernande van Tets
Independent journalist and former Middle East correspondent
Fernande van Tets (1985) is a journalist based in Amsterdam. She has spent more than 15 years covering the Middle East, and worked as a correspondent for the Independent, France 24 and the newspaper Trouw. Fernande van Tets is a freelance journalist, who has spent almost a decade covering the Middle East. She currently covers Dutch politics for various international outlets, including Euronews and France 24. She still returns to the Middle East regularly to cover stories. In the Netherlands, she writes for publications including Trouw, De Groene Amsterdammer and De Correspondent, focusing primarily on refugees, migration and international law. She is a regular guest on radio programmes such as Bureau Buitenland and Spraakmakers.
Sander Tordoir
Chief Economist, Centre for European Reform
Sander Tordoir
Chief Economist, Centre for European Reform
Sander works on eurozone monetary and fiscal policy, the institutional architecture of EMU, European integration as well as Germany’s role in the EU. Prior to joining the CER, Sander worked as an advisor to the ECB Representative at the International Monetary Fund, covering the IMF’s surveillance of euro area policies and sovereign debt issues. Before his posting in Washington, he was an economist in the ECB’s EU Institutions and Fora Division, where he focused on the EU’s policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic, economic and fiscal governance, Banking Union, ESM reform and the ECB’s relations with other EU institutions.