The council is comprised of 14 humanities and social sciences academics from around the world and includes representatives from Australia, Poland, Guatemala, Uganda, Colombia, Turkey, India, the Congo, the Philippines, Brazil, South Africa, Peru, Singapore, and now, Israel. The council advises the Foundation on central strategic issues in the international arena, such as migration, geopolitics, economics, welfare and futurology.
The council's first meeting was held on November 27-29, 2015 at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Academy in Cadenabbia, Italy, the personal summer house of Chancellor Adenauer until 1967.
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is a political foundation, centered in Germany, with 16 regional offices and two conference centers offering a wide variety of civic education conferences and events. Its offices abroad are in charge of over 200 projects in more than 120 countries.
At home as well as abroad, the Foundation’s civic education programs aim at promoting freedom and liberty, peace, and justice. It focuses on consolidating democracy, the unification of Europe and the strengthening of transatlantic relations, as well as on development cooperation.
His research interests focus on the legal/political dimension of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Prof. Pardo also has significant interest in the development of the Euro-Mediterranean region and in European-Israeli relationship. He has published widely on these issues and he is the author of Normative Power Europe Meets Israel: Fundamental on Israeli-European Union Relations (Lexington Books, 2015), and the co-author of the books Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union (Lexington Books, 2010) and Israel and the European Union: A Documentary History (Lexington Books, 2012). Prof. Pardo teaches courses on the European integration process and public international law.
