sentences:  ECFR builds coalitions for change at the European level and promotes informed debate about Europe's role in the world.ECFR has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Warsaw 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).