The SDA received guidance from its Advisory Board, led by
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer and
Javier Solana. Members included: • Gen.
Stéphane Abrial •
Claude-France Arnould •
Gen. Knud Bartels •
Gilles de Kerchove •
Giampaolo Di Paola • Ambassador
Hüseyin Diriöz •
Bates Gill •
Frederick Kempe • Brig. Gen.
Ilkka Laitinen •
Janusz Onyszkiewicz •
Ioan Mircea Pascu •
Mikhail Remizov •
Walter Stevens •
Leendert van Bochoven •
Geoffrey Van Orden • Lt. Gen.
Ton van Osch •
Alexander Vershbow •
Pierre Vimont •
Veronika Wand-Danielsson The Director of the SDA was Giles Merritt, who is also Secretary-General of the think-tank Friends of Europe and Editor of the policy journal Europe's World. ==References==