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2014



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The Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) is Ireland’s leading international affairs think tank. Founded in 1991, its mission is to foster and shape political, policy and public discourse in order to broaden awareness of international and European issues in Ireland and contribute to more informed strategic decisions by political, business and civil society leaders.

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CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

EVENTS LIST

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

FOUNDATION MEMBERS

INTRODUCTION

DIRECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT

HIGH LEVEL LUNCHEONS

DIGITAL ANALYTICS

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IIEA Annual Report 2014

The Institute of International and European Affairs is Ireland’s leading international affairs think tank. It is an independent, not-for-profit organisation with charitable status. Its extensive research and events programmes provide members with high quality reporting and analysis of the challenges on the global and EU policy agendas which impact on Ireland.

The Institute acts as a forum for dialogue, a catalyst for new ideas and a source of new policy options - improving the calibre of public debate while giving a wide range of individual, corporate and foundation members a competitive advantage in their respective fields.

Its working groups, which comprise some of Ireland’s leading policy experts, play a crucial role by bringing together

business leaders, parliamentarians, government officials, diplomats, NGOs, representatives of semi-state bodies and academic experts for regular policy discussions in a neutral and confidential forum. These groups also generate ideas for the IIEA’s events programme, which every year brings leading international intellectuals and policymakers to Dublin to engage with Institute members.

INTRODUCTION

Chairman’s Introduction

BRENDAN HALLIGANChairman, IIEA

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RelevanceThe greatest challenge facing a think tank is to stay relevant. For that to be done, and done well, it has to anticipate megatrends and to be, as the Americans say, ahead of the curve. The Institute itself is an example of anticipating the future, in that the 1986 Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Single European Act turned Ireland into a referendum country when it came to the ratification of EU treaty changes - the only one of its type in Europe - and so put a premium on informed analysis of the European integration process. The creation of the Institute was a direct response to that need. Originally, the focus was exclusively on European affairs but the change of name in 2007 to incorporate ‘international’ into its title was recognition by the Institute of the impact of wider geographies on Ireland’s and the Union’s fortunes, and of the need to adapt its work programme to new realities, such as the reemergence of China as a global power.

The year under review in this Annual Report may well have marked another paradigm shift in the geo-politics of Europe; a number of megatrends, which had been in gestation for some time, took on a more concrete form. First of all, 2014 was the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and produced not only a plethora of scholarly works on the causes of that catastrophe but also a series of TV documentaries which by using the news reels of the day brought the War to life with dramatic effect. The sight of young men dying became commonplace on TV screens. But so too did the sight of soldiers and civilians dying in the world of today, a century later: dying in Ukraine, in Syria, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and across North Africa; and also the sight

of refugees fleeing conflict, as in 1914. The more things change, as the French say, the more they stay the same.

MegatrendsFrom the perspective of Europe there was good reason to believe that 2014 marked the beginning of something new and ominous. Comfortable assumptions about the external and internal political environment were shown to be mistaken. First of all, in the light of events in Ukraine, the European Union had to re-assess its neighbourhood policy and to push security up the agenda, an unexpected and unwelcome development. Secondly, the Member States on the Union’s Mediterranean border had to adjust to the influx of migrants fleeing from war and famine,

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a phenomenon that had every appearance of becoming permanent. Thirdly, within the Union itself, home-grown terrorism raised fundamental questions as to how democracies can protect themselves against forces that reject their values and use violence as an instrument for political change while at the same time respecting human rights and civil liberties.

There was a fourth reason for believing that conventional assumptions were in need of review. Economic depression, whatever its causes, had for nearly a decade proven impervious to initiatives designed to reignite growth. The implications of that failure were sobering: if the experience of the post-World War I period was anything to go by then there were good reasons to fear that economic depression would spawn political extremism, an experience that appeared to repeat itself in 2014 not just in the traditional guises of right and left but in a less easily classified amalgam of populism, nationalism and nihilism.

This particular form of reaction appeared in a number of Member States. In others, the old political order cracked under the stress of economic depression, banking crises and austerity policies. The disquieting feature of this disintegration was the absence of a countervailing vision that would stimulate economic growth and thereby resuscitate the democratic system. In short, within Europe there was no latterday Keynes in sight and, at the global level, no successor to the Marshall Plan. On the contrary,

the concept of secular stagnation, which was revived by Larry Summers, gained force as a credible explanation as to what was happening to the economies of the developed world. But if secular stagnation was the diagnosis there was no prescription on offer. What could be said was that Europe and, to a lesser extent, North America seemed caught in a long-term depression for which there was no obvious way out.

The political effects of the economic depression were to be seen in the European elections in mid-2014. The results testified that few countries are immune to the emergence of a ‘new nationalism’, right wing in some places, left wing in others and, in many, an amalgam of an anti-establishment sentiment. At first sight they seemed to be a disparate group of diverse forces but, on inspection, proved to be a solid bloc united in a common opposition to Europe, as the voting record of the new European Parliament proved in the second half of the year.

Lurking in the background was the spectre of forces that want to break up the European Union or to withdraw their country from membership. Perhaps a more insidious threat came from those parties which portray themselves as super patriots and want to rewrite the rules to their own requirements, or those governments which refuse to play by the rules and repudiate the commitments of their predecessors. The obvious danger here is one of moral contagion. If one country walks away from its obligations, even a small country like Greece, others may follow suit.

“The greatest challenge facing a

think tank is to stay relevant”

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Britain and EuropeFrom an Irish perspective, the most worrying manifestation of this new megatrend was, of course, within British politics. The slow but steady growth of what can only be described as English nationalism has been under scrutiny by the Institute for over twenty years. The UK Project Group continued to monitor developments throughout the year and prepared a major study on Britain and Europe, with particular reference to the prospect of a referendum on UK membership of the European Union.

The group’s working hypothesis was that a referendum was inevitable and, hence, had to be prepared for by way of identifying options and assessing the implications of each option for Ireland and the Union, but also for the UK itself. The study was well under way by the year end and was later published prior to the British general election in May 2015 under the joint editorship of Dáithí O’Ceallaigh and Paul Gillespie with the title Britain and Europe: The Endgame – An Irish Perspective. Its main conclusion was that the long saga of Britain’s long and difficult relationship with Europe was reaching a denouement and needed to be resolved for the indefinite future, that its resolution lay in a general acceptance of British exceptionalism by way of a bespoke solution and that it was manifestly in Ireland’s interest that Britain should remain in the EU, especially in the Single Market. The study concluded with an agenda for Ireland and another for Europe consisting of action points designed to achieve an acceptable solution of reconciling what on the face of it are irreconcilable political objectives; the exceptionalism of Britain and the unicity of the European Union.

The Future of EuropeAnother megatrend, under way for some time be it said, was the emergence of Germany as primus inter pares among the Member States of the Union. This is a fact of life and it is prudent in these new circumstances to deepen our understanding of Germany’s policy priorities, especially in respect of Eurozone governance and Treaty changes designed to reenforce political union, its rationale for fiscal union and tax harmonisation and, as became increasingly obvious, its diplomatic policy in relation to Russia and Ukraine.

For that reason, the German Project Group, so ably led by Katherine Meenan, had an exceptionally busy year. It received a delegation from the Bundestag’s Finance Committee in June, hosted Michael Roth, Minister for European Affairs, in September, received a delegation from the CDU in the same month, organised a three day study visit to Berlin in November, as well as receiving other eminent figures, including Gesine Lotzsch, Chair of the Bundestag’s Budget Committee, and Benjamin Weigert from the Council of Economic Advisers. The group also held a series of events throughout the year at which its members presented papers on a wide range

of topics relating to Germany’s domestic and European policy agenda.

This programme was at the core of the Institute’s project on the Future of Europe, which took account not only of debate on institutional questions but also of shifts in the balance of influence among the Member States.The French Group, for example, tracked the problems associated with French economic reform, shifts in the support for the various political parties, the rise of the Front National and the growth in domestic terrorism. It concluded that France has a particular set of domestic problems which detract from its traditional role as the institutional innovator and thought leader within the Union and have gradually affected the balance of power within the Franco-German alliance, tilting it in favour of Germany; any change in that delicate equilibrium is a cause for concern.

That concern is accentuated by the fact that British influence within the Union has waned. Britain has voluntarily retreated, as it were, into the shadows at the same moment as the influence of Italy and Spain went into decline due to economic circumstances. On the other hand, Poland began to emerge as a major influence on issues as diverse as Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States, energy, climate change and economic growth. In short, a new player had arrived on the block as evidenced by the appointment of Donald Tusk, its Prime Minister, as President of the European Council in succession to Herman Van Rompuy. This new constellation of forces, of a Union led by Germany and flanked by Poland, is a megatrend that will require continuous analysis, particularly in respect of the internal dynamics of the European Council, by now the powerhouse of the Union.

Notwithstanding these troubling developments, there was reason to believe that a more hopeful paradigm shift had occurred in the integration process. This was the positive side of the balance sheet. The appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission led directly to major institutional reforms involving a root and branch re-organisation with teams of Commissioners clustered around Vice-Presidents charged with responsibility for priority policy areas, of which economic growth was one and climate change another. The re-organisation was far reaching, while the programme of the new Commission, with its key theme of Jobs and Growth, was unmatched in terms of ambition since Jacques Delors launched the Single Market thirty years earlier. The net effect, if achieved, will be transformational and gave cause for believing that something new was happening in Europe, as did the initiative of selecting the President of the European Parliament on foot of the overall result of the European elections through the so-called Spitzenkandidaten process. These two innovations, coupled with the earlier initiative of creating a President of the European Council, suggested

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that Europe had retained its capacity to respond creatively to new challenges and that the integration process had undergone qualitative change during the year.

With these developments in mind, the Board invited Michael D. Higgins, the President of Ireland and Patron of the Institute, to deliver a paper on the challenges facing Europe. This was delivered in October in a wide-ranging address on the themes of ethics, economics and their interplay in confronting the European Union’s crisis of legitimation, after which the President then engaged in a unique trilogue with the economic historian, Lord Robert Skidelsky, and his son, the moral philosopher, Dr. Edward Skidelsky.

Ireland in EuropeThis programme of activities needs to be seen within the context of the Ireland in Europe project that was established two years ago and is a composite of six separate projects focused on the interrelated futures of Europe in general and of Ireland in particular. Coordinated by Tony Brown, the project maintained momentum throughout the year, with the Banking Union Group completing a draft of its extensive report, the publication of which took place in October 2014. The UK Group continued its work on Britain’s future in Europe, as recorded above. The project group on the values underlying the European Union completed its report prior to the European Parliament elections in May and is one of the most important studies yet undertaken by the Institute on the philosophic underpinnings of the European Union, particularly in respect of democratic values, human rights and solidarity between the peoples of Europe.

The project on Fiscal Union had been affected by delays at EU level in progressing this policy area and led to a decision to separate Fiscal Union from Corporate Tax, partly driven by the revival of debate on corporate taxation which mainly arose, be it said, from examples of aggressive tax planning by some multi-national companies and which were widely seen as unacceptable. This had the effect of focusing attention on corporate tax rates across the OECD, and especially within the EU. The Irish 12.5% rate again came under fire from certain quarters and the larger question of rate and base harmonisation figured on the agendas of the OECD and the European Commission. The Institute’s response was to organise a major conference in December which analysed the issues and set the framework for further research. The Economic Governance group was particularly active and continued to analyse the new macro-economic framework applying to Member States.

The Ireland in Europe project remains a flagship undertaking and will be shaped by the megatrends identified earlier and by ongoing developments within the Union. Particular attention will be given to the broad theme of The Politics of the European Union. To complete

this review, account has to be taken of three megatrends which have been on the Institute’s agenda for some time: Economy 4.0, Climate Change and the re-emergence of China as a global player.

Economy 4.0The impact of Information and Communications Technology has been so transformational and pervasive that it has given rise to the fourth phase of economic development. While it has been in gestation for some time, this megatrend has now gone well beyond that stage and is now one of the defining features of contemporary society. The role of the web and social media, the emergence of the cyber society, the potential of artificial intelligence and robotics, the power of shared information and distributed knowledge, all add up to an agenda with which a think tank must be engaged if it is to be relevant to its own times, of use to its members and of value to its own society.

Self-evidently, this is a complex policy area comprised of many individual components that are increasingly interconnected in novel and sometimes surprising combinations, such as energy and ICT. The challenge is to stay abreast of these developments, as the Institute has successfully done due to the foresight of the Director of Research, Jill Donoghue, who has pioneered research in this field for the past decade, most notably in collaboration with the ESB which, inter alia, sponsored an annual lecture series that brought many thought leaders from Europe and the US to the Institute. The cumulative effect of this investment in analysing the future had given the Institute the edge in specialist areas such as cyber security, the internet of things and interconnectivity, as well as advanced system technologies, like the smart grid in which Eirgrid has been a pioneer.

The task will be to keep ahead of the curve as Economy 4.0 takes on a more concrete shape. Given that Ireland missed out on Economy 1.0 in Agriculture and Economy 2.0 in Manufacturing, for well-known historical reasons, but succeeded in Economy 3.0 in Services, it is essential that success in the tertiary economy be extended into the the cyber era. The Institute will endeavour to be stay relevant by being at the forefront of policy formation on Economy 4.0.

Climate Change and EnergyRegarding Climate Change, the Project Group is now in its ninth year under the chairmanship of Peter Brennan. Recognition for the research work over that period came from the International Centre for Climate Governance that ranked the Institute as the 24th most influential think tank in the world in the area of climate change. Given the bountiful resources available to many think tanks ranked above us, that is a remarkable tribute to Joe Curtin, the Institute’s Senior Research Fellow in Climate Change policy, who has been central to the project since its

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inception. Particular attention was paid to the reports of the International Panel on Climate Change. One major innovation was the creation of a project on Climate Smart Agriculture on the initiative of Tom Arnold, the Institute’s Director General. Self-evidently, this is a critically important project, not least for Ireland where agriculture counts for a high proportion of carbon emissions. The project attracted financial support from both the public and private sector and provides a model for work in other areas, such as transport.

The global response to climate change will reach its climax at COP21 in Paris at the end of 2015 and, with that in mind, the Institute held a number of events throughout the year monitoring progress on the Path to Paris, notably through a series of lectures on the respective roles of Europe and China in forging a strategic alliance on emission reductions.

The creation of a low carbon economy is fundamental to any effective climate change programme and invests energy policy with a new significance. The Institute’s flagship lecture series on the future of energy, which is sponsored by ESB, continued throughout the year and addressed a broad agenda with many expert presentations including that from the ESB Chief Executive, Pat O’Doherty.

ChinaThe other megatrend of continuing interest is the re-emergence of China as a global power. Last year’s Annual Report had recounted the deliberations of the Board on how best to deal with the geo-political implications of China’s new role, particularly with regard to its strategic relationship with Europe. It had been decided in principle to establish an Ireland China Institute as a separate but subsidiary body, an institute within the Institute as it were, and to that end a Steering Committee, with Julie O’Neill in the chair, had been set up to explore the legal, financial and organisational steps to be taken in formalising a concrete proposals.

The Committee made considerable progress during the year; eleven major events were held on various aspects of China’s domestic and international policies, a delegation visited Beijing in July at the invitation of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, during which a number of meetings were held with various think tanks and leading scholars. It is expected that further progress in establishing the Ireland China Institute will be recorded in the year ahead. The Board thanks the members of the Steering Committee for their contribution to this project, in particular Flor O’Mahony who volunteered to act as the Committee’s coordinator.

AgendaTen megatrends have been listed above: external security

threats, migration, internal terrorism, secular stagnation, the new nationalism, shifts in the Franco/German alliance, an intensification of the integration process, Economy 4.0, Climate Change and the re-emergence of China as a global power. While not exhaustive as a list of the forces shaping the world - one could have added demographics - urbanisation and globalisation as significant mega trends, they nonetheless provide a framework for analysis that is both comprehensive, coherent and consistent with the Institute’s mission of analysing the strategic implications of European integration for Ireland.

Megatrends cannot be isolated in silos and are best analysed not just for their individual significance but also for their interaction with each other; to join up the dots as it has been called. That is the great challenge for a small state in a large union, as is Ireland within the European Union, and for a small open economy in a globalised world, as is the Irish. The key is to anticipate strategic threats before they become real, a task in which the Institute’s Chief Economist, Dan O’Brien, has been engaged along with others in the broader policy community. In essence, this is the mission the Institute set itself a quarter of a century ago when it was founded. It is the benchmark by which it must constantly assess its relevance to Irish society.

FinancesIf the main task of a think tank is to stay relevant then it is a precondition that it should remain solvent but, as experience teaches, it is easier said than done in a small country with little history of supporting independent think tanks. From the outset, the Institute relied primarily on membership fees from the private sector as its main source of finance but the economic recession had a negative effect on revenue that came to a head in 2014 despite the strong recovery in the economy, a manifestation of the time lag between economic performance and perception. The progressive fall in membership fees was exacerbated by the decision of the European Commission not to award a grant to the Institute that, with only a few exceptions, had been awarded over the previous twenty years. The loss of income was a severe setback, as well as a blow to the morale of those who offer their services to the Institute on a voluntary basis. Suffice it to say that whatever the rationale for the Commission’s decision, it should be noted that a number of think tanks elsewhere in Europe received such grants, some of which were quite generous. Hopefully, the status quo ante will be restored before long.

The financial difficulties were exacerbated by the fact that due to time pressures it proved impossible to organise some major seminars which had been planned for during the year and this had an adverse effect on income. Despite cutbacks in staff and other economies, the financial results for the year show a deficit of €155,000, an unsustainable position that is at variance with the Institute’s express principle of breaking even taking one year with another. Nonetheless, the balance sheet remains strong and the

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Board will redress the situation during the year ahead. Four funding initiatives are underway. The first consists of a major membership drive; the second of a new form of project financing as exemplified by the Climate Smart Agriculture project; the third of an in-depth analysis of the Institute’s finances and organisational structures; and the fourth of a review of its role in society and the effectiveness of its communications strategies. When completed, the various recommendations will be put into effect with the aim of achieving break-even in 2015.

The FutureDespite the financial difficulties encountered during the year, the Board has high ambitions for the future. A change of location to the government quarter adjacent to Leinster House is seen as central to the objective of being relevant and will be progressed notwithstanding the funding challenge it entails. Furthermore, the renewal of the Board itself was initiated at the 2014 Annual General Meeting with the aim of completing the exercise by 2016 and the process is well under way. Thirdly, in a move to preserve institutional memory and make greater use of the great reservoir of talent and experience within the Institute’s membership, the Board had decided to restore the Council to its original role as an advisory body and the first meeting of the new Council was held during the year.

An additional innovation was the creation of a number of Vice-Presidents drawn from those who had held office over the previous twenty years and the appointment of a number of Senior Fellows and Research Fellows to assist the Director General in managing the research programme. It is expected that these initiatives will not alone refresh the organisational vitality of the Institute but also strengthen its capacity to fulfil its mission, while becoming a leading think tank on the global stage. This ambition is not unreasonable. The Global Go To Think Tank Index lists 6,681 think tanks in the world, of which 14 are in Ireland. The Institute was ranked as the 40th most influential think tank in Europe, and the highest in Ireland. Simply expressed, the aim will be to climb higher in the rankings and to be numbered among the top twenty.

ConclusionAs Chairman, I would like to thank my colleagues on the Board and members of the Finance and Administration Committee for their commitment throughout the year, particularly as it fell to them to steer the Institute through a testing twelve months.

My thanks are also due to all those who participated in the various research projects; to our Foundation and Corporate Members who provided the bulk of the finances; to our various sponsors, Individual and Life Members whose support is indispensable to our funding; to the various government departments and state agencies

which engaged so vigorously in the work programme; and, finally, to the institutions of the European Union and the Brussels Branch of the Institute whose expert advice was always readily available and of great value.

On a personal note, I want to thank Tom Arnold, Director General, who in his first full year in office, brought his unique skills, great experience and, above all, his infectious positivity, to the task of leading the Institute in the face of the challenges I have addressed above.

As always, my thanks are due to Jill Donoghue, Director of Research and her small but remarkable team of researchers and interns; to Fionnuala Keane, Director of Administration; to Janice Epstein, Director of Finance; to Cathy Bermingham, Supervisor of the Community Employment Scheme; and to the staff for their individual and collective contribution to the work of the Institute.

Brendan Halligan Chairman Dublin 16 June 2015

Director General’s Report

TOM ARNOLDDirector General, IIEA

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The Institute’s work programme during 2014 focused on the key strategic policy issues facing Ireland at European and international level. In our lecture and seminar series, we worked with valued partners including government departments, the European Commission and European Parliament, ESB, McCann Fitzgerald, Irish Aid and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We are grateful for their support and collaboration.

This report covers the activities of the Institute’s sixteen research groups. I want to thank the chairs and members of these groups. The voluntary commitment of members is one of the Institute’s great strengths. A particular thanks is due to the speakers in our programme, who are central to making the Institute an attractive and intellectually stimulating place to attend. Speakers are invariably well prepared with their formal presentations and are generous and open in the informal ‘Europe House’ discussions following the presentation.

The quality of the programme received independent recognition in that the IIEA has being ranked as Ireland’s leading think tank and as 40th in Western Europe by the Global Go To Think Tank Index, organised by the University of Pennsylvania. In a separate ranking by the International Centre for Climate Governance, the Institute was placed 24th internationally in relation to climate change policy and economics.

2014 was notable for a gathering economic recovery

in Ireland, with the economy growing at 5 per cent. Significant changes occurred in the governing institutions in Europe, including the European Commission and European Parliament, and eurosceptic and populist political movements made gains in both the European Parliament elections and in a number of national elections. At international level, the instability and changes in Crimea, Ukraine and the tension between Russia and the international community were among the most significant threats to the international order. The tragedy of Syria and the wider region continued, increasing the already alarming level of migration from the region.

Our work programme reflects the changing national, EU and international realities. We seek to ensure the Institute continues to be the most vital and informed forum on crucial current issues but we also have a number of projects focusing on issues of longer term strategic importance. Thus, our 2014 programme included work on projects which will generate important output during 2015. These include projects on the implications for Ireland of a

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possible UK exit from the EU; the implications of future changes in EU economic governance and banking union; developments in international corporate taxation; and future policy on climate smart agriculture at national, EU and international level.

Achieving a sustainable financing model to fund the work programme was a key challenge faced by the IIEA during 2014. While there was a substantial deficit registered for 2014, measures are in hand to put the IIEA on a sustainable financial footing from 2015 onwards. The core strategy in this financing model is to increase the foundation and corporate membership base and to build project income through conferences and other activities in sectors where the Institute has particular strengths. These changes are being done in tandem with a renewal of the Board membership and the development of a three year strategic plan for the IIEA.

I will conclude by offering my thanks to a number of people. Thank you to all the foundation, corporate, life and individual members who provide the basis of our support. Thank you to the active and engaged Board members and all the other volunteers who make the IIEA such a vibrant and interesting place in which to work. I have enjoyed greatly working with the Chairman, Brendan Halligan, who continues to provide the inspiration for what we do. And thank you to our staff: It continues to amaze that such a small team can produce a programme

of such consistent quality - and all done with a smile and good humour.

Tom Arnold Director General

“The IIEA has been ranked as Ireland’s leading think tank”

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EVENTS

The Institute annually hosts over one hundred events, affording its members unparalleled access to the highest-level politicians, policymakers, analysts and thought leaders at national, EU and global level. These events include: breakfast briefings, keynote addresses, roundtable discussions, seminars, conferences, luncheons, panel discussions and workshops.

In 2014, the Institute once again welcomed a wide range of speakers from around the world and hosted over 140 events. The event programme featured a number of leading international figures such as: Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration; Dr. Betsy Stevenson, Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors; Joan Burton, Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) of Ireland and Leader of the Labour Party; Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler, President of the European University Institute (EUI); Prof. Andreas Woßkuhle, President of the Federal Constitutional Court

of Germany; Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International; Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times; Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang Wosolsobe, Director General of the EU Military Staff; Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme; Dr. Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; Alex Laskey, President and founder of Opower; Catherine Day, Secretary General of the European Commission; and Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism.

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1.Tom Arnold, Peter Sutherland, Nora Owen and Brendan Halligan2. Pascal Donohoe T.D.3. Niall Greene, Michael D. Higgins and Brendan Halligan4. Philip Moynagh and Jill Donoghue5. Brendan Halligan, Catherine Day and Tom Arnold

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Each year, the Director General hosts a series of private high-level luncheons/dinners, where influential speakers discuss critical issues with the Chief Executive Officers and Managing Directors of Foundation Members.

HIGH LEVELLUNCHEONS

Foundation Members are those organisations which provide the core funding and support for the IIEA. They enjoy exclusive access to some of the most prominent guests as well as the opportunity to contribute to the Institute’s research agenda and to participate in or sponsor its events programme.

In 2014, the Institute’s Director General hosted Foundation lunches with Robert Watt, Secretary General at the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform; Patrick O’Sullivan, Chairman of Old Mutual plc, on The UK and the EU – A Businessman’s Perspective; The Hon. Mr. Justice Nicholas Kearns, President of the High Court, on Court of Appeal – New Challenge to the High Court; Minister Brendan Howlin, T.D.,

Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform. The Institute also hosted its annual lunches for the Secretaries General of Government Departments and the Ambassadors of the EU Member States.

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1. Dáithi O’Ceallaigh, The Hon. Mr. Justice Nicholas Kearns and John Cronin2. Brendan Howlin, T.D., Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform3. Foundation members at a high level lunch

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2014 PUBLICATIONS

“Irish Friends and Friends of Ireland...” London Speeches 2009-2013

Written by Bobby McDonagh 19 December 2014

The Ukrainian Crisis and Geopolitics - An echo from the past or the shape of things to come?

Written by Pat Cox 29 October 2014

A Small State in a Large Union: The Irish Experience

Written by Brendan Halligan 01 September 2014

Europe Is Our Story: Towards a New Narrative for the European Union

Written by IIEA Working Group on Values and Narrative in the European Union 30 April 2014

Scotland’s Vote on Independence – The Implications for Ireland

Written by Paul Gillespie 05 February 2014

Understanding the European Council Conclusions on Climate: A 10-Step Guide

Written by Joseph Curtin 12 November 2014

Banking Union: Progress and Prospects

Written by Pat McArdle 24 October 2014

Germany’s Place in the World

Written by Pádraig Murphy 01 August 2014

Renewing EU Institutions: Timeline – Players – Play

Written by Pat Cox 27 March 2014

Economic Governance with Tight Constraints: Exploring Implications for the Irish economy

Written by John Bradley 28 January 2014

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LECTURE SERIES, CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

IIEA/McCann FitzGerald Series on New Models of Regulation

An IIEA lecture series New Models of Regulation, which analysed the latest challenges facing regulators; was sponsored by McCann FitzGerald. Following a fascinating presentation on telecommunications regulation in November 2013 from Robert McDowell, the former US Federal Communications Commissioner, the series resumed in January 2014. Lord David Currie, Chairman of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, gave an address on Redesigning Regulatory Architecture – The UK Experience. Later in the year, the Chief Business Commentator for the Financial Times, John Gapper, gave a paper on Regulating the New Europe, in which he explored the disruptive effects of rapid technological developments on traditional systems of regulation.

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IIEA and Irish AidDevelopment Matters

Now in its fourth year, the Institute continued its series of development-focused events entitled Development Matters in cooperation with Irish Aid, the Government’s development assistance programme. The goal of the series is to bring the critical issues in development aid to a wider audience in Ireland, as well as to welcome leading figures in the field to Dublin. The focus of the series in 2014 was on nutrition and food security, global inequality and gender equality.

Speakers included: Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP); Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO; Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International; Juergen Voegele, Senior Director of the World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice; Dr. Stuart Gillespie, Senior Research Fellow with (IFPRI) and CEO of the Transform Nutrition Research Programme Consortium; Michael Gaffey, Director General of Irish Aid; Jim Clarken, CEO of Oxfam Ireland; and Dinah Musindarwezo, Executive Director of the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET).


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ESB Power to the People series

In 2014, the Institute and ESB continued their joint event programme with a sponsored lecture series entitled Power to the People. High-profile national and international speakers delivered keynote addresses on the rapid changes taking place in the energy industry, with a particular focus on the shifting role of the customer and the evolving convergence between energy and technology.

Speakers included Philip Moynagh, Vice President of the Internet of Things Group at Intel; Alex Laskey, President and Founder of Opower; Pat O’Doherty, Chief Executive of ESB; Steven Collier, Director of Smart Grid Strategies at Milsoft Utility Solutions.

In a new departure, the 2014 ESB programme included the production of three colourful animated motion-graphic videos to introduce key themes in the energy and technology sectors to a wider audience. The first video in the series was on the topic of the seven Regional Electricity Markets, which will form part of a Single European Electricity market. The second video explained the role of the Smart Grid and how it will change customer/utility relations and the final video in the series focused on the impact of the launch of Fibre to the Building Broadband in Ireland.

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The final video in the series considered the impact of the launch of Fibre to the Building Broadband in Ireland. In July 2014, ESB and Vodafone announced a joint venture which would utilise the existing electricity infrastructure to deliver 100 per cent fibre broadband to up to 500,000 homes and businesses throughout Ireland. The delivery of fibre optic cables directly to the building (FTTB) means that many Irish users, particularly outside of Dublin, who had previously lacked high-speed connections will now have access to speeds from 200-1000Mbps. The video likened the transformative effect FTTB broadband will have to the roll-out of electricity in Ireland in the 20th century. With a cartoon hero travelling at the speed of light used to represent FTTB broadband, it highlighted how this plan will use the very same electricity poles to once again bring real benefits to Irish people’s lives and deliver connectivity to the home. 1

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IIEA Project on European Economic Recovery

A three-year project on European Economic Recovery is led by Dan O’Brien, the Institute’s Chief Economist. His main focus during the year was on the preparation of a report on economic growth in Europe which covered a range of macro and microeconomic issues and initiatives, including the proposal by the European Commission for a three year stimulus plan of up to €315 billion, the role of monetary policy and quantitative easing, the scope for additional central bank measures to boost demand, issues around Europe’s low public and private investment levels, the potential of European Capital Markets Union and the further liberalisation of cross border services within the single market. As part of the research process for the report, two seminars were held during the year, with one on long term issues around economic growth and the other on the potential for services sector liberalisation. A range of stakeholders and relevant experts from public and private sectors participated in these events.

The project is kindly sponsored by: ESB, Glen Dimplex, PublicPolicy.ie, Smurfit Kappa, and Intel.

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Joint Seminar hosted by IIEA and EU Commission Representation in Ireland

On 10 June, 2014, the Institute and the European Commission Representation in Ireland hosted a joint seminar entitled Looking to the Future: Recommendations for the Irish Economy, to discuss the implications of the proposed Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) for Ireland, which indicate what is needed to return to sustainable growth and jobs, and to situate them in the context of Irish and European economic recovery.

A panel of high-level speakers chaired by Cliff Taylor, Editor of the Sunday Business Post, led the debate. The members of the panel were; Barbara Nolan, Head of the European Commission Representation in Ireland; John McCarthy, Chief Economist at the Department of Finance; Alan Dukes, Former Minister for Finance; Seamus Coffey, Lecturer in Economics at UCC; and Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist of the IIEA.

The discussion centred on a number of themes, including the importance of the CSRs and the Department of Finance’s response to Ireland’s CSR; areas which may not have been addressed by the European Semester; and an economic analysis of the CSRs at both macro and micro levels.

Video and audio recordings of the event can be accessed on the IIEA website: http://www.iiea.com/events/looking-to-the-future-recommendations-for-the-irish-economy

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IIEA and KPMG Conference on Corporate Taxation The Institute hosted a major international conference on 2 December in the Mansion House, Dublin, on the future of global corporate taxation and its implications for Ireland. The conference was kindly supported by KPMG and McCann FitzGerald.

Attended by over 200 delegates, representing 80 organisations from Ireland and Europe, the conference discussed the OECD’s proposals to tackle Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), and their implications for small states like Ireland, whose tax competitiveness has been a key selling point in attracting large corporations from across the world. It also considered the European dimension of the tax-reform debate, the implications of taxing the digital economy, and the effect of tax practices in the developed world on emerging economies.

Keynote speakers included Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy

and Administration at the OECD; Michael Noonan T.D., Minister for Finance; and Heinz Zourek, Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union of the European Commission.

Other participants in the conference included Josephine Feehily, Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners of Ireland; Conor O’Brien, Head of Tax at KPMG Ireland; Gary Tobin, Assistant Secretary in the Tax Division of the Department of Finance; Manal Corwin, Line Leader for International Tax Policy at KPMG LLP; Mark Redmond, CEO of the Irish American Chamber of Commerce; Mary Walsh, Tax adviser and member of the EU Expert Group on Taxing the Digital Economy; Michael Ryan, Head of Tax Group at McCann FitzGerald; and Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist at the IIEA.

A full list of speakers, as well as video and audio recordings of the conference can be accessed on the conference website: http://www.iiea.com/taxconf/index.html


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Future of Europe Group

Chair: Marie Cross

Institutional Change

2014 was a year of sweeping changes in the EU institutions, with the election of a new European Parliament, led by Martin Schulz, a new European Commission led by Jean-Claude Juncker, a new president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and the nomination of a new EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini.

In January, Catherine Day, Secretary General of the European Commission, gave her annual address in which she shared her perceptions of the most significant challenges that would face the incoming College of Commissioners over their five-year term.

In advance of the May 2014 European Parliament elections, renowned legal scholar, Prof. Joseph Weiler of EUI Florence, addressed the topic What difference, if any, will the next elections to the European Parliament make? Prof. Deirdre Curtin, Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam, also made a valuable contribution on the theme of democracy in the EU in her speech Are national parliaments behind the EU curve? Does it matter?

Just days after the European Parliament elections, the Institute hosted an event in conjunction with the European Parliament Information Office in Ireland and the European Commission Representation in Ireland to explore the results in Ireland and in key Member States such as the UK and France, where eurosceptic parties topped the polls. This half-day event was addressed by the Minister of State for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe, T.D., and experts from academia, the diplomatic corps and the media.

In June, David O’Sullivan, then Chief Operating Officer of the European External Action Service (EEAS),

reflected on the evolution of the EU’s foreign policy since the establishment of the EEAS in a speech entitled: The EU’s External Action – Moving to the frontline.

Perspectives from Member State Governments

Throughout 2014, Ministers of European Affairs from different Member States visited the Institute. In April, the Portuguese State Secretary for European Affairs, Bruno Maçães, spoke just as his country was in the final stages of preparation to exit its EU-IMF economic recovery programme. He shared his vision of Portugal and Europe after the crisis in which he drew extensively on the example set by Ireland in exiting its own programme at the end of 2013.

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In May, Paschal Donohoe, T.D., the Minister of State for European Affairs, gave a speech on the European Semester, the EU fiscal policy surveillance cycle, in which Ireland participated for the first time in 2014.

In September, Dara Murphy T.D., his replacement as Minister for European Affairs and Data Protection, chose the Institute as the venue for his first major address in that role.

His Finnish counterpart, Lenita Toivakka, shared her country’s perspective on the EU in a speech entitled Reinventing Europe – The case for structural economic reform.

Following the appointment of Donald Tusk as President

of the European Council, the Polish State Secretary for European Affairs, Rafał Trzaskowski, gave a Polish perspective on the priorities and challenges for the new EU institutional term.

Thought Leaders

The Institute was delighted to receive a number of leading thinkers on Europe in 2014. Luuk van Middelaar, speechwriter to outgoing European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, gave an address on Europe after the Euro storm: Institutional change, public discontent. His remarks were based on his acclaimed book, Passage to Europe.

Later in the year, Lord Anthony Giddens, eminent sociologist and analyst of global issues, described the high-risk, high-opportunity world of digital, social and economic innovation that now provides the context for developments in the EU. He shared the main ideas from his upcoming book, which has the working title Off the edge of history.

Rotating Presidency

The Institute continued its long-running tradition of inviting experts from the countries holding the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU to present their priorities for the six-month term. In January, H.E. Diana Zagoriaonou-Prifti, Greek Ambassador to Ireland, outlined the key issues for the Greek Presidency (January-June 2014).

Italy took over the rotating Presidency for the second half of 2014. In September, journalist and academic, Gianni Riotta, gave a fascinating insight into Italian politics and policy-making, entitled From Berlusconi to Renzi: Old troubles, new challenges.

Council Briefings

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the Taoiseach for continuing the invaluable practice of providing briefings after each European Council summit. In the first half of the year, they were given by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Second Secretary General in the Department of the Taoiseach, who was later posted as Irish Ambassador to France. From September 2014, they were given by her successor, Rory Montgomery.

Publications

In March 2014, the IIEA published a paper by Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament, was published entitled Renewing EU Institutions: Timeline – Players – Play. It considered the complexities of the 2014 appointments of the new Presidents of the European Parliament, European Commission and European Council.

In April 2014, the Institute’s Working Group on Values and Narrative in the European Union was published as the culmination of more than a year of discussions under the chairmanship of Dermot Scott. The paper, entitled Europe Is Our Story: Towards a New Narrative for the European Union, is available on the website.

TEPSA Policy Network

Throughout the year, relations with the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) were maintained by Tom Arnold, Director General. Luke Devoy, Researcher for the Energy and Climate Groups, attended the Conference on the Priorities and Challenges of the Italian Presidency 2014, held in Rome on 24-25 March 2014. At the TEPSA Conference in Riga prior to the Latvian Presidency on 4-5 December 2014, the Institute was represented by Foreign Policy and European Neighbourhood Policy researcher, Andrew Gilmore.

France, Germany and UK Groups

An important subset of the Future of Europe group are the Institute’s Germany, France and UK groups.

Germany

Chair: Katherine Meenan

The German Group’s programme comprises private meetings as well as front of house events open to the wider membership.

A core element of the Group’s activities involves internal discussions led by members of the Group who are expert on particular topics. In February, the Group met to discuss German economic policymaking, led by Brendan Keenan, former Economics Editor of the Irish Independent.

In April, the Group held an exchange of views with IIEA Energy Fellow, Helen Donoghue, on Germany’s energiewende (energy transition).

In September, Dr. Joachim Fischer, Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Limerick, launched a discussion on Irish perceptions of Germany, based on a research project which he is currently undertaking.

Almut Möller, Head of the Centre for European Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), addressed a joint meeting of the German and UK Groups on German-UK relations in a European context.

Judy Dempsey, Editor in Chief of Strategic Europe, spoke on the topic Germany’s role in European foreign policy and the challenge of Ukraine. with a response from Pádraig Murphy, Chair of the Institute’s Foreign Policy Group.

In September, the German Minister for European Affairs, Michael Roth, delivered a major keynote address on Germany in a changing EU. His speech was followed by a half-day seminar for journalists from print, broadcast and online media which featured sessions on German politics, economic policy and foreign policy. It was addressed by a range of experts including Gesine Lötzsch, Chair of the powerful Budget Committee in the Bundestag, and Benjamin Weigert from the German Council of Economic Advisors.

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A highlight of the year was a study trip undertaken by eleven members of the Group to Berlin in November for a three-day programme of meetings with politicians, officials, experts from political foundations and think tanks, journalists and business people. The Group produced a report of their findings, which covered domestic, European and global issues.

The Group received a number of German delegations over the course of the year. In June, it hosted a cross-party delegation from the Bundestag Finance Committee to discuss German, Irish and European economic recovery. In September, a CDU party delegation visited the Institute to discuss social and labour market policy.

France

Chair: Joe Mulholland

2014 was an eventful year in French politics and the Institute hosted two complementary events to analyse developments. Daniel Vernet, former Editor of Le Monde gave a fascinating speech on The metamorphosis of French Socialism, mapping the economic, political and ideological crises gripping France and their relationship to, and impact on, the Left.

Later in the year, Lara Marlowe, Paris Correspondent for the Irish Times, considered the other side of the spectrum in her remarks on The search of the French Right for a providential leader. Both spoke of their concerns about the rise of the Front National in French society.

UK Group

Chair: Dáithí O’Ceallaigh

Three key issues for the group during the year were the Scottish referendum, the debate on the UK’s membership of the EU and the outcome of the European Parliament elections.

The first event of the 2014 programme was an address by Angus Robertson MP, leader of the Scottish National Party in Westminster and Campaign Director for the referendum on Scottish independence. In an important year for determining Scotland’s place in the world, Mr. Robertson outlined the SNP’s vision for an independent Scotland.

In June, three months ahead of the referendum, the Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, provided a perspective from the British Treasury on Scotland and the Union. He outlined the work of the Treasury in setting out the benefits of the Union and the impact Scottish independence would have on the UK as a whole.

In the aftermath of the referendum, Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for External Relations in the Scottish Government, spoke about the “incredible journey” of the Scottish referendum and the prospects for constitutional reform following the result.

2014 was also a significant year for the debate on the UK’s membership of the European Union. In March, Lord David Hannay, one of the UK’s most distinguished diplomats, spoke on the theme of Britain in Europe: The Way Ahead. Lord Hannay drew on his extensive diplomatic experience and his membership of the House of Lords’ European Select Committee to analyse the challenges facing the UK in its relationship with the EU.

In October, Lord Roger Liddle, Labour Whip and front bench spokesperson on European and Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords, addressed the topic The Risks of Brexit: Does Britain Have a Future in the EU? His address provided a fascinating perspective on the complex politics of the EU debate in Britain.

After the European Parliament elections in May, Professor Tim Bale of Queen Mary University London considered the results and the prospects of the UK’s political parties in the 2015 general election.

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A paper by Paul Gillespie on Scotland’s Vote on Independence: The Implications for Ireland was published as part of the Group’s work programme and generated considerable interest within the EU.

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A collection of speeches, entitled “Irish Friends and Friends of Ireland…” London Speeches 2009-2013, by Bobby McDonagh, Ambassador in London, 2009-2013, was published, and was launched by Niall Burgess, Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Wider Europe Group

The Wider Europe group comprises three subgroups on the Balkans, European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement.

Balkans Group

Chair: Tony Brown

Enver Hoxhaj, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo gave a keynote address in January on Smart Power of Small States: Kosovo’s Approach to Foreign Affairs in which he outlined the strategic vision guiding Kosovo’s foreign policy and the role of “smart power” in international affairs.

A seminar on Revitalising Growth in South East Europe as held in March during which Peter Sanfey of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) gave a briefing on recent economic and political reforms in South East Europe. Efka Heder, Director of the South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (SEECEL), spoke about efforts in the region to strengthen human capital and to promote entrepreneurship and innovation.

European Neighborhood Policy Group (ENP)

Chair: Ron Hill

The ENP group was established in 2004 and was active in monitoring developments in what proved to be a critical year for EU neighbourhood policy.

In April, the Group welcomed Stefan Lehne, Visiting Scholar in Carnegie Europe, who outlined proposals to rescue the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy. He shared his views on where the EU went wrong in dealing with its Eastern neighbourhood and how the Union can make a more meaningful contribution to the stability and economic development of neighbouring regions in the future.

In May, the distinguished Finnish diplomat, Jaakko Iloniemi, gave an address on Ukraine: A singular event or the beginning of a new era in East-West relations? He outlined the possible consequences of events in Ukraine for the EU and for Russia’s future in the international community.

Enlargement Group

Chair: Andrew O’Rourke

On the tenth anniversary of the 2004 “Big Bang” enlargement, the IIEA brought together leading policy analysts from new Member States to assess the role that the ten new members have played in shaping the EU and the impact of EU membership on Eastern and Central Europe. The speakers were Annika Uudelepp, Chairperson of Estonia’s Praxis Centre for Policy Studies; Agata Gostynska, Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs; and Vladimir Bartovic, Director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in the Czech Republic.

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Later in the year, enlargement expert Erwan Fouéré, Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, gave an analysis of the annual European Commission Enlargement Package in an address entitled The EU’s Enlargement Agenda – Maintaining Credibility.

Economics and Finance Lecture Series

The Economics and Finance Lecture Series is a front of house programme of high-level lectures and seminars on the major issues relating to the Irish, European and global economies. The aim is to allow Institute members, civil servants, policymakers, academics and the media to engage in discussions with key national and international policy makers and international thoughtleaders on current challenges in economic governance and finance.

Speakers

André Sapir, Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Professor of Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles, addressed the topic Exiting Troika Programmes, on 3 March in which he discussed the challenges that Europe, and in particular countries emerging from Troika programmes, will face in the short, medium and long term in terms of achieving fiscal sustainability and economic growth.

Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), gave a presentation on 4 March, on the topic Ireland and Europe After the Crisis, and reflected on key challenges facing Ireland and Europe and on the measures required to ensure economic competitiveness for future generations after the economic crisis.

On the 10th anniversary of Slovakia’s accession to the EU, Dr. Vazil Hudák, State Secretary at the Slovakian Ministry for Finance, gave a keynote address on 7 April. In his speech entitled: Eurozone: Current Challenges From the Perspective of Slovakia, Dr. Hudák discussed the main challenges facing a small state in the European Union, particularly in the context of the post-crisis stabilisation of the Eurozone.

Later in April, Clemens Fuest, President and Director of Science and Research of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim gave a lecture at the IIEA on the theme of Fiscal Union in Europe. In his address Prof. Fuest shared his views on the long-term potential of a fiscal union in Europe and the potential implications for Member States.

Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and President Barack Obama’s top economic advisor, gave a keynote address on 7 May, entitled Global Lessons on Inclusive Growth. In his speech, Mr Furman outlined the key steps in the U.S. growth strategy and reflected on what he described as “the ultimate test of economic performance” – ensuring that the benefits of growth are broadly shared.

Later that month, Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in Ireland, gave a presentation on the theme Public Sector Reform in the Context of the European Economic Recovery. He discussed what has been achieved over the past three years in the context of the European economic recovery, the lessons that have been learned and the challenges and opportunities arising from the next wave of public sector reforms.

In one of the highlights of the year, Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator and Associate Editor of the Financial Times, gave a keynote address explaining why he believes the Eurozone has survived existential shocks. In his address, entitled The Euro: The Future of a Bad Monetary Marriage, he also reflected on how Member States can return to economic health and outlined the further reforms which he thinks are needed to allow the parties to enjoy a good monetary marriage.

In June 2014, Peter Breuer, Resident Representative of the IMF in Ireland, gave a presentation on the topic of Ireland’s EU-IMF Programme: Preliminary Lessons. Mr Breuer discussed the practical experience of the programme, the economic challenges Ireland has still to face, as well as the lessons that might be learned from the Irish experience.

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Soon afterwards, John B. Taylor, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, addressed the topic of Policy Options to Restore Prosperity. He argued that the depth of the ‘great recession’ and the slow pace of recovery were due to economic policy shifting significantly away from measures which had worked reasonably well in previous decades.

In a presentation in October entitled The Political Economy of the Eurozone Crisis, Carlo Bastasin, a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution, argued that the roots of the Eurozone crisis can be traced back to national opportunism in Member States, not only in Greece but also in Germany.

Shortly after the budget was announced, Joan Burton, T.D., Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, gave a speech at the IIEA on 16 October entitled Ireland in 2015 - Recovery, Shared Prosperity and our Relationship with Europe. In her address the Tánaiste argued for a greater focus on unemployment in Europe and highlighted the efforts of the current Government to get people back to work.

In October, Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank delivered an address on The Structural Roots of the Global Economic Crisis: Analysis and Prospects. Dr. Basu argued that there was need to move away from the polarised debate on fiscal austerity to the more micro-analytic foundations of macroeconomic policy.

Dr. Iulia Siedschlag, Associate Research Professor at the ESRI in Dublin, gave a presentation at a roundtable lunch in November entitled Rethinking Policies for Economic Growth in the European Union, which examined policy options on how to foster productivity and employment growth in the context of increased international economic interconnectedness.

At the final event of the year on 8 December, Eric Lonergan, Macro Fund Manager at M&G Investments, gave a thought-provoking speech entitled Can

Quantitative Easing Rescue the Eurozone?, in which he argued that quantitative easing in the Eurozone could be more effective than elsewhere in the world if it were to take the form of direct transfers to citizens rather than the purchase of government bonds.

Economists Group

Chair: Pat McArdle and David Croughan

The Economists Group is a long-established network of economists, who meet privately each month to discuss issues of current economic interest. The Group comprises leading economists from a variety of financial institutions, banks, government departments, NGOs, trade unions, academia and research institutes and holds private meetings on significant issues for the Irish and European economies.

Speakers

Donal Donovan gave the first address of the year to the group on 27 January with a speech entitled The Crisis: Are We Out Of The Woods Yet?, in which he examined Ireland’s economic prospects and other macro-economic policy issues.

At the subsequent meeting on 28 February, Austin Hughes, Chief Economist of KBC Bank, gave an address to the group entitled The Irish Consumer Sentiment Survey: What Is It and What Does It Tell Us About the Irish Economy?

On 19 March, Seamus Coffey, Lecturer in Economics at UCC, gave a presentation on the theme Corporate Taxation in Ireland. The focus of the presentation was to shed light on the truth behind Ireland’s effective corporate tax rate.

The group welcomed John McCarthy, Chief Economist at the Department of Finance, on 28 April for an Update on the Stability Programme. The address examined the overarching theme of Ireland’s continued economic recovery in the midst of tight fiscal conditions.

On 13 May, Rossa White, Chief Economist of the National Treasury Management Agency, spoke on Ireland and International Markets After the Programme, in which he outlined the NTMA’s critical role in Ireland’s economic stability and detailed the path that Ireland has travelled and its future fiscal prospects.

Kevin Daly, Senior Economist at Goldman Sachs, addressed the group on 13 June, on The long-run consequences of Euro area shocks.

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McCafferty, member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, on the topic Why Forward Guidance has to be an Expectation not a Promise. This event was kindly hosted by the ESRI in their offices on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay.

John FitzGerald, Research Professor at the ESRI, gave his annual post-budget analysis to the group on 16 October, entitled Budget 2015 and Beyond.

On 21 November, Donal de Buitléir, Director of Publicpolicy.ie, gave a presentation on research he had carried out in relation to personal taxation in Ireland. The title of his presentation was The Irish Tax System: How Do We Compare?

At the final meeting of the year on 17 December, the group welcomed David Marsh, Managing Director of the Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, back to the Institute for an address analysing the current state of the European Monetary Union as well as the challenges it faces.

Economic Governance Group

Chair: Dáithí O’Ceallaigh

The Economic Governance Group analyses the continuing reform of Europe’s economic governance architecture and publishes analytical papers detailing the implications for Ireland and Europe.

The group held a seminar on 28 January 2014, entitled Beyond the Programme: European Economic Governance. Panel speakers included Michael McGrath, Assistant Secretary, EU & International Division at the Department of Finance; Alan Dukes, Former Minister for Finance; Michael Tutty, Former Vice-President of the European Investment Bank; Donal de Buitléir, Director of Publicpolicy.ie; Pat McArdle, Chairman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee at the European Banking Federation; and Dr John Bradley, Economic and Development Strategies and Former Research Professor at the ESRI.

There were over 100 delegates in attendance at the seminar. Video and audio recordings of proceedings can be accessed at: http://www.iiea.com/events/beyond-the-programme-european-economic-governance-and-ireland.

This seminar brought to a conclusion the work programme for this group that began in 2013 and culminated in seven publications, which are available to download from www.iiea.com/publications.

Banking Union Group

Chair: Pat McArdle

After a successful programme in 2013, which featured over twenty specialist speakers and which included a major international conference at Dublin’s Convention Centre, the Institute’s year-long Banking Union speaker programme drew to a close in 2014, with a final trio of high-profile speakers.

The first was Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism, in January. He discussed the plans to overhaul the European Union’s system of financial regulation and economic governance in the context of the immediate post-crisis period. In a wide-ranging address, Mr. Regling discussed the region’s near-term prospects and reflected on whether the euro crisis was truly over.

As the Eurozone marked the 15th anniversary of the introduction of the euro as the EU’s accounting currency, the Institute’s Banking Union group hosted Yves Mersch, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. Mr. Mersch noted that though the economic crisis had created considerable uncertainty and hardship across the Eurozone, reform initiatives like Banking Union were assisting in moving the region gradually towards recovery. He argued that financial fragmentation was beginning

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to recede in some euro area financial markets and that the policy discussion was now turning towards creating a climate for sustained recovery.

The final speaker of the 2013-2014 programme was Elke Koenig, President of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), who addressed the Institute on the topic of The Role of National Supervisors in Banking Union. As the ECB was engaged in preparations for the launch of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, the first pillar of the Banking Union, in late 2014, Ms. Koenig dispelled the misconception that national supervisors would become secondary actors under the new regime, noting that the majority of Europe’s 6000 banks would remain under national supervision.

Publications

As the second pillar of the Banking Union, the Single Resolution Mechanism, was agreed in May 2014, the group began work on its final report, an interim version of which was published on 24 October 2014, in advance of the results of the ECB’s stress tests of European banks. The book, entitled Banking Union Progress and Prospects, describes the genesis of the Banking Union proposals in the context of the 2008 financial crisis; examines the progress made on Europe’s system of pan-euro area bank supervision and resolution; and assesses the prospects of the Banking Union as it stands. A final version of the book will be published in 2015.

The Institute is grateful to Bank of Ireland, AIB, Ulster Bank, KPMG and Deloitte for their support of the Banking Union project.

Digital Future Group

Chairs: Eamon Ryan and Joyce O’Connor

The Digital Future events programme in 2014 explored some of the key policy issues on the EU and global agenda, including cybersecurity, data protection, telecoms regulations and e-government. It also focused on some of the emerging technology trends, which are shaping the manner in which citizens, governments and businesses interact.

The events programme began with a keynote address by Paul C. Dwyer, CEO of Cyber Risk International. The event provided an opportunity to follow up on some of the key issues discussed at the Institute’s Cybersecurity Conference in November 2013, including the need for more information-sharing and public-private cooperation.

A European perspective on these issues was provided later in the year by Troels Oerting, Director General of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). Mr. Oerting briefed members on the state-of-play with the EU Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive and explored Europe’s response to an ever-expanding range of cyber threats.

Another significant piece of pending EU legislation was discussed by Jan-Philipp Albrecht MEP, the European Parliament’s Rapporteur for the General Data Protection Regulation. Mr. Albrecht provided a progress report on the Regulation and highlighted its potential implications for businesses, governments and privacy authorities in Ireland and other Member States if adopted.

Prof. Barry Smyth, CEO of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, provided a glimpse of the possibilities offered by big data and the “sensor web” in a range of areas, from healthcare to transport to political science.

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In a private roundtable discussion sponsored by Google, Prof. Betsey Stevenson, a member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, and John Herlihy, Head of Google Ireland, discussed the importance of trust in an economy increasingly being driven by digital technology.

The implications of data and new technology for public administrations were another central theme of the 2014 programme. Prof. Helen Margetts, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Professor of Society and the Internet, explored the manner in which technology is challenging long-held assumptions about political participation and the role of governments. Mike Bracken, Executive Director of Digital for the UK government, shared his experience of developing innovative e-government services within the UK Cabinet Office.

Enterprise Ireland kindly sponsored two events focused on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. Prof. David Audretsch, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, addressed the evolving role of universities in supporting SME growth, while Pekka Soini, Director General of Tekes, shared the Finnish experience of developing a vibrant startup ecosystem.

Addressing the topic of education and technology, Dr. Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD Secretary-General, highlighted the importance of equipping people with the right skills for today’s knowledge economy. Simon Nelson, CEO of FutureLearn, analysed the growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a new way for students to engage with knowledge, and explored how Internet learning is transforming the role of the university.

As a key component of the Digital Single Market, telecommunications was another area of focus for the Group in 2014. Erzsébet Fitori, Director at the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), provided an industry perspective on proposals from the European Commission to reform telecoms regulation in the EU, and updated members on the state-of-play with ongoing negotiations in Brussels.

In June 2014, Paddy Buckenham, researcher for the Digital Group, traveled to the U.S. on a study visit as part of an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on the topic of Data Privacy and Protection in the United States. The visit involved a series of meetings with government bodies, law enforcement agencies, technology companies, industry bodies, civil liberties advocates, academics and other data privacy stakeholders.

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Justice and Home Affairs Group

Chair: Nora Owen

Project Leader: Eugene Regan SC

The Justice and Home Affairs events programme for 2014 opened with a keynote address by Vladimir Nechaev, President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Mr. Nechaev commented on the priorities of Russia’s FATF Presidency in 2013-14 in combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other forms of financial crime.

James Stewart, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), commented on the evolution of the international criminal legal system. His keynote address offered an analysis of current challenges facing the ICC and the Court’s role in the pursuit of peace, justice and human rights. This event was kindly supported by the EU and International Affairs Committee of the Law Society of Ireland.

The rights of victims of crime were the subject of a keynote speech by Sir Keir Starmer QC, who previously served as Director of Public Prosecutions and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service. In his speech, he considered the implications of current efforts to reform the criminal justice system in the UK to better protect victims of violent crime.

Another key figure from the UK criminal justice system, Keith Bristow QPM, Director-General of the National Crime Agency (NCA), visited the Institute to discuss the Agency’s role in combating serious and organised crime. One year after the NCA commenced operations, Mr. Bristow considered its successes to date in countering human trafficking, cybercrime, fraud and other threats, as well as its cooperation with other European law enforcement agencies.

As his term as Data Protection Commissioner drew to a close, Billy Hawkes delivered one of his final public addresses at the Institute. Mr. Hawkes considered the dramatic technological changes of the last decade and their implications for privacy and protection of personal

data. He looked ahead to the likely impact of the still-to-be finalised new European data protection laws and ongoing discussions over flows of data between the EU and the U.S.

Peter Sutherland addressed another of the key JHA priorities of the new European Commission. In his capacity as United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for International Migration, Mr. Sutherland considered the plight of migrants at Europe’s external borders. His speech highlighted the need for practical action to increase the benefits of migration for countries of origin, destination, and migrants alike, while reducing its economic and human costs.

Just over two weeks before the 2014 European Parliament elections, one of Europe’s foremost legal scholars, Professor Deirdre Curtin, analysed the role of national parliaments in European governance. She suggested that, after a period of economic crisis in which the European Council in particular played a pivotal role, national parliaments could make an important contribution to the EU’s democratic accountability.

Key European constitutional questions were also considered by Prof. Andreas Voßkuhle, President of the Federal Constitutional Court, in his keynote speech at the Institute. President Voßkuhle analysed the evolving role of national courts in shaping key questions of European economic governance, and their complex relationship with the European Court of Justice and other EU institutions.

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As the European Court of Justice considered its investigation into the legality of the European Central Bank’s OMT bond-buying programme in the Eurozone – a question that was referred to it by the German Constitutional Court – President Voßkuhle’s address was extremely timely.

Energy Policy Group

Chair: Éamon Ryan

The 2014 ESB series Power to the People, addressed the core issues facing energy policy today with a particular focus on the customer and the evolving convergence between energy and information and communications technologies (ICT).

The opening address of the series was given by Philip Moynagh, Vice President of the Internet of Things Group at Intel, was on the Internet of Things, exploring the implications of this revolutionary development for a range of industries, in particular for energy.

Alex Laskey, President and Founder of Opower, delivered a keynote address on The Power of Information: How Data Can Change Energy Consumption. This address focused on managing behavioural responses from consumers to new technology.

Balancing the ‘trilemma’ of affordability, sustainability and security of supply was at the centre of Pat O’Doherty’s address entitled, Challenges for Energy Policy: European

and Irish Perspectives. In his capacity as Chief Executive of the ESB, he discussed the shift toward distributed generation and the consumer’s more active role in the grid, highlighting what these developments might mean for energy policy.

Building on this theme, Steven Collier, Director of Smart Grid Strategies at Milsoft Utility Solutions, explored The Future of the Smart Grid and how traditional relationship between the utility and the consumer are changing as power is distributed from the centre and moves to the grid ‘edge’.

In addition to this year’s ESB series, the Energy Policy Group hosted a number of events, which provided an in-depth examination of various national energy policies in the EU. At a seminar on Danish Energy Policy, Brendan Halligan (IIEA), Eamon Ryan (IIEA), Matthew Kennedy (SEAI) and Noel Cahill (NESC) presented the findings of a study visit to Denmark in which they investigated the country’s innovative energy policy.

Following this, in July, Fergal McNamara, Head of Capacity Market Design at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, spoke on a major new development in UK energy policy, The New Electricity Capacity Market for Great Britain.

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Climate and Environment Group

Chair: Peter Brennan

In a busy year for climate change policy the group’s work programme focused on the release of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the EU’s Climate and Energy Framework for 2030. Other speakers shared insights from around the world on the politics of climate change and its implications for business and finance.

The Science of Climate Change

In April, the group hosted a round-table discussion on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Global, European and National Implications. Prof. Ray Bates, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology, University College Dublin; Dr. Frank McGovern, Head of Climate Change Research & Science, Environmental Protection Agency; and Dr. Luke Redmond, Carbon Market Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, discussed the latest in the series of the IPCC’s important reports on climate science.

This was followed by a keynote address by Prof. Richard Klein, Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, on the topic of Climate Change Adaptation, drawing on his work as Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group II report, entitled Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerabilities.

In a series of events held in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Institute continued its in-depth discussion of the IPCC report, drawing on insights from leading figures involved in its creation. Prof. Thomas Stocker, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I, spoke on the physical science basis of climate change; Prof. Chris Field, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group II, spoke on the impacts of climate change; and Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III, discussed mitigation options.

Climate Change: Implications for Business and Finance

The insights of these leaders in their field provided firm scientific background for wider policy discussion. In his address on Stranded Assets and Unburnable Carbon, Mark Campanale, founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, drew on a key aspect of climate science, the 2 degrees target, and demonstrated its implications for investors in fossil fuels with a financial argument based on the concept of stranded assets.

Trevor Maynard, Head of Reinsurance and Exposure Management at Lloyd’s of London, delivered a related address on the topic of Climate Change and the Insurance Industry. He noted strong links between climate change and increasing numbers of extreme weather events and highlighted how an insurance approach could illustrate the value of investing in adaptation and mitigation measures.

International Climate Policy

Further events examined the steps being taken by the EU and by national governments to tackle climate change. Marie Donnelly, Director of Renewables, Research and Innovation and Energy Efficiency in DG Energy at the European Commission, provided valuable insight into the Commission’s proposals on the 2030 Framework for Energy and Climate.

In July, Lord Deben, spoke about the UK’s pioneering approach to climate change policy and, in particular, about the UK Committee on Climate Change, of which he is Chair. His address was particularly timely given the Irish Government’s ongoing process of framing national climate change legislation.

New Zealand’s Climate Change Ambassador, Jo Tyndall, gave a speech entitled Climate Change, Agriculture and the Pathway to Paris: a New Zealand perspective on international climate negotiations. This had particular resonance given Ireland and New Zealand’s common position as outliers in the developed world, with a significant section of emissions coming from agriculture. Ambassador Tyndall

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noted the challenge of reducing emissions in agriculture and called for this to be acknowledged in international climate change negotiations.

The Circular Economy

At the final event in the Institute’s environment programme, Jocelyn Blériot, Head of European Affairs at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, delivered an address entitled The Circular Economy: Perspectives for a Regenerative Model of Development. He argued that the timing was right to harness the potential of this alternative economic paradigm, which aims to minimise waste.

Foreign Policy Group

Chair: Pádraig Murphy

The Institute’s Foreign Policy group hosted a variety of speakers throughout 2014, primarily focusing on two key issues of the year: Ukraine and the crisis in Syria.

On the issue of the Ukraine crisis and its implications for the European Union, the 2014 programme first featured Judy Dempsey, Editor in Chief of Strategic Europe and Pádraig Murphy, Chair of the IIEA Foreign Policy Group and Former Irish Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Ms. Dempsey addressed the theme of Germany’s

Role in EU Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Ukraine, while Mr. Murphy acted as respondent. The speakers used the example of Ukraine to discuss the growing challenges facing the EU in the realm of Foreign Policy, and examined the increasingly important role of Germany in driving the EU’s foreign relations.

Later in the year, Pat Cox, Former President of the European Parliament, also addressed the topic of Ukraine. In a comprehensive speech entitled The Ukrainian Crisis and Geopolitics, Mr. Cox reflected on his role as Chair of the European Parliament’s Monitoring Mission to Ukraine; addressed future relations between the EU, Ukraine and Russia; and considered where Ukraine’s post-revolution path would lead it.

The humanitarian crisis in Syria was addressed by two speakers in the 2014 programme. The first, Simon Adams, Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, discussed the response of the international community to the Syrian crisis, as well as its implications for future crisis intervention. Antoine Audo, also addressed the topic in November 2014 in a private meeting in which he discussed his personal experiences of the conflict, and the human cost of the Syrian civil war.

Also in November, Dr Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver, discussed the rise of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, describing it as ‘a turning point in Middle East politics’. In an address entitled The Menace of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS): How Should the World

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Respond? Dr. Hashemi explored some of the background issues which gave rise to the sudden expansion of ISIS in 2014, and asked how the international community should respond.

The final speaker of the 2014 Foreign Policy programme, was Prof. Lawrence Freedman, Vice-Principal for Strategy & Development and Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, who addressed the topic of Strategy In Modern Europe. Prof. Freedman argued that the growing complexity of the political and security challenges facing the modern world necessitated the formulation of long-term strategic plans and highlighted the risks of failing to adapt to this new climate.

Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) Group

Chairs: Prof. Ben Tonra, Marie Cross and Prof. Patrick Keatinge

This group focused on the following themes: new developments in CSDP, the outcomes of the summit on Defence policy, citizens’ perceptions of CSDP, the military perspective of CSDP and the role of non-aligned countries in the EU. The December 2013 European Council meeting on Defence, led to a renewed focus on European Defence within the EU, hence the Security and Defence Policy Group focused heavily on issues relating to defence policy across the EU.

The first event during the year was a keynote address by Daniel Keohane, Research Director at the think-tank FRIDE, who analysed the outcomes of the European Council’s defence summit in December 2013 and reflected on the future of European defence policy.

In March, Olivier de France, Research Director at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, gave an address entitled What EU Citizens Think About Defence, which examined how citizens’ perceptions affect the future of European defence policy.

An exchange of views was held in May between the political directors of the foreign ministries of Sweden, Austria, Ireland, and Finland to discuss their countries’ respective positions on defence as non-aligned nations in the European Union.

The final event was a speech by Lieutenant General Wolfgang Wosolsobe, Director General of the European Union Military Staff, who examined the topic of New Challenges for CSDP – A Military Perspective. He discussed the role of the EU Military Staff in contributing to the EU’s comprehensive approach to conflict management.

China Group

Chairs: Julie O’Neill and Brendan Halligan

The IIEA’s China Group was created to develop an understanding in Ireland of the increasingly important

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role China plays in global affairs and the political, economic and historical forces shaping its development.

In 2014, the China group focused on the Chinese economy and FDI, China/EU relations, China/US relations, cultural and business barriers to understanding China, China’s foreign policy, its maritime policy and security policy.

China and the EU

The first address of the programme was given by Hans Kundnani, Research Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, who examined the political and economic ties between Berlin and Beijing.

Then in May, Dr. Eddie O’Connor, Founder and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power, discussed the ways in which the EU and China could develop a complementary approach on setting an economic price for carbon in pursuit of COP21 in Paris next year.

The Chinese Economy in 2014

In April, Eamonn Fingleton, former editor of Forbes and the Financial Times, explored the possible shift in global leadership from the United States to China. This was in response to the Chinese leadership’s stated goal of doubling its GDP per capita by the year 2030.

Joel Backaler, author of China Goes West: Everything You

Need to Know about Chinese Companies Going Global, assessed the impact of Chinese investment in the EU and analysed the potential impact of this trend on businesses, consumers and host governments.

In June, Gordon Orr, Director and Chairman of McKinsey Asia, examined the likely development of the Chinese economy in 2014. He considered the ‘great change’ in China and President Xi Jinping’s promise to grow the economy and improve the quality of life.

Misunderstanding China – Cultural Barriers and Western Responses

Professors John Blair and Jerusha McCormack, Professors at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, reflected on how the rise of China challenges Western thinking and examined how the radical cultural differences between China and the West can be approached constructively.

Also on this theme, Professor Cathal Brugha, Associate Professor at the Quinn School of Business UCD, led a roundtable discussion, which compared decision-making processes in Europe and China, and proposed a method to facilitate smoother procedures and processes in the engagement between the two cultures.

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China’s Growing Influence in East Asia

Murry McLean, Non-resident Fellow at Australia’s Lowy Institute for International Policy, drew on his forty-two years of experience in the region with the Australian diplomatic service to provide a unique and illuminating perspective on China’s growing regional role.

Dr. Angela Stanzel, Policy Fellow for the Asia and China Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, focused on the factors underpinning the issues in the Asia-Pacific in her address in June, and considered policy options for the parties to adopt to achieve a peaceful resolution to the dispute.

Dr. Alice Ekman, Head of China Research at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), reflected on China’s foreign policy priorities including the New Silk Road project and China’s evolution of relationships with its neighbours.

China’s Hong Kong Crisis

In light of the political crisis that took place in Hong Kong in 2014, Leo F. Goodstadt, former chief policy adviser to the Hong Kong Government, briefed members on the Hong Kong Democracy Protests.

Briefings and Visits

During the year, the Institute hosted keynote speakers and received several delegations from the Chinese government, various Chinese universities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). In June, Chairman, Brendan Halligan, led a study group to Beijing to visit various Chinese think tanks. Meetings were arranged with Ma Hui, the Director for North American, Oceanian and Nordic Affairs at the International Department of the Communist Party of China, and with Long Guoqiang, Senior Research Fellow at the Development Research Centre, which is directly attached to China’s State Council. The delegation also had meetings with Klaus Rohland, the China Country Director for the World Bank, and the China Reform Forum, an organisation focused on analysing the economic and social challenges facing China.

IIEA China Researcher, Eoin McDonnell gave a presentation on the role of think-tanks in China’s development process at the 2014 China Think Tank Summit in Shanghai. This event was hosted by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the University of Pennsylvania, the IIEA was one of the few Western institutions selected to participate alongside Chatham House, IFRI, the Carnegie Institute and the Brookings Institute

U.S. Group

Chair: John Travers

In April 2014, Julieta Valls Noyes provided a U.S. perspective on American ties with Ireland and the transatlantic relationship. Ms. Noyes is the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Her keynote address was delivered in the context of a changing geopolitical environment and the ongoing negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

The U.S. Group also welcomed Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, who spoke on the topic of American Statecraft in an Era of Domestic Polarisation. He outlined how increasingly polarised domestic politics in the U.S. could affect foreign policy calculations and the role of the U.S. in the world.

IIEA/Irish Aid Development Matters series

In 2011, the IIEA launched a series of development-focused events entitled Development Matters in conjunction with Irish Aid, the Irish Government’s programme for overseas development. The Institute is grateful to Irish Aid for its continued support for the 2014-15 series.

The purpose of the 2014-15 series is to provide a public forum for discussion in the lead-up to the UN General Assembly in September 2015, which marks the target date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the transition to the post-2015 development agenda. Speakers welcomed to the Institute in 2014 reflected some of Ireland’s current policy priorities, including nutrition and food security, global inequality and gender equality. The series provided an opportunity for Irish stakeholders to engage with global thought-leaders in these fields.

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The series was launched by Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Ms. Cousin focused on the continued challenges posed by chronic malnutrition in the developing world, and highlighted the critical role the WFP plays in meeting urgent food needs in Africa, the Middle East and other regions. She underlined that hunger was not an issue that can be addressed in isolation; malnutrition has clear long-term effects on public health, economic productivity and security. Equity must be “hard-wired” into efforts to meet these challenges, Ms. Cousin argued, as income inequality and hunger are closely intertwined.

Juergen Voegele, Senior Director of the World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice, addressed some of the same issues from the agricultural perspective in his keynote speech. He noted that the challenges of alleviating poverty, meeting global food needs and lowering carbon emissions are critically interlinked. In light of recent dramatic technological advances, agriculture needs to become more “climate-smart”, as that had the potential to increase productivity, improve resilience and reduce the global carbon footprint.

In his keynote speech, Dr. Stuart Gillespie, Senior Research Fellow with (IFPRI) and CEO of the Transform Nutrition Research Programme Consortium, explored ways to generate the political will necessary to tackle under-nutrition. He highlighted the importance of reliable data on the positive impact of nutrition programmes, and the need for thought leadership, strong governance structures and evidence-based narratives to support sustained action against chronic malnutrition.

The theme of nutrition continued in November, as the Institute hosted a Seminar on Nutrition and Resilience with a panel of five speakers including Shenggen Fan, Director General of IFPRI; Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head of 2020 Vision Initiative; Earnán O’Cleirigh, Irish Aid; Connell

Foley, Director of Strategy, Advocacy and Learning at Concern Worldwide; and Dr. Nick Chisholm, Senior Lecturer in Food Business & Development at UCC. The seminar explored how building resilience to economic, environmental and political shocks in the developing world is intrinsically connected to investment in nutrition and food security. Dr. Fan and the panelists discussed the links between these twin challenges and explored the concrete policy measures that can be taken to combat chronic malnutrition in post-crisis settings.

The seminar explored how building resilience to economic, environmental and political shocks in the developing world is intrinsically connected to investment in nutrition and food security. Dr. Fan and the panelists discussed the links between these twin challenges and explored concrete policy measures, which can be taken to combat chronic malnutrition in post-crisis settings.

One of the highlights of this series was a keynote address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, who argued that education should be at the heart of the new post-2015 global framework, and highlighted the transformative effects of education on economic growth, climate-change awareness, gender equality and other areas.

In late November, the IIEA and Oxfam hosted a major seminar on the issue of global inequality, with keynote speaker Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International. The seminar explored the central

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paradox of global inequality: that income and wealth are becoming increasingly concentrated, while extreme poverty continues to affect many in the developing world.

Other speakers at the seminar included, Michael Gaffey, Director General, Irish Aid; Jim Clarken, CEO of Oxfam Ireland; Dr Colm O’Reardon, Economist and Former Government Advisor; Cormac Lucey, Chartered

Accountant and Lecturer in Finance at UCD, IMI and Chartered Accountants Ireland; and Alison O’Connor, Journalist at the Irish Examiner. The event was chaired by Dearbhail McDonald, Associate Editor and Legal Editor of the Irish Independent.

The year’s final lecture was delivered by Dinah Musindarwezo, Executive Director of the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), who gave a fascinating presentation on the role of grass-roots advocacy in promoting gender equality in Africa. In her address, entitled African Women Impacting Change, Ms. Musindarwezo discussed how FEMNET has mobilised African women from across the continent and empowered them to engage with, and to influence, policymaking at national, regional and global levels.

Young Professionals’ Network (YPN)

Chair: Fionn Jenkinson

The YPN brings young professionals together in an informal after-work setting at the Institute, providing a unique opportunity for them to network with their peers and interact with thought leaders, business and political figures and leading broadcasters and commentators on a range of current issues. The YPN is drawn from young professionals, aged between 22 and 35 years of age, who are just beginning their careers in a range of sectors including business and finance, the legal profession, government, NGOs, junior diplomats and foreign Embassy officials, academics and entrepreneurs.

At the year’s first event on Tuesday, 18 February 2014, Pat Phelan, CEO and Co-founder of Trustev, gave a frontline perspective on Ireland’s thriving tech start-up scene.

This was followed on Wednesday, 11 June 2014, with an address by Stuart Dwyer, the United States’ Chargé d’Affaires in Dublin, who spoke to the YPN about the future of U.S. foreign policy.

In July 2014, Tony Connelly, Europe Editor with RTÉ, shared his views with the YPN on the recent period of major upheaval for the European Union.

On 21 October 2014, Mary Lawlor, the Founder and Executive Director of Front Line Defenders spoke to the YPN about the work Front Line Defenders are doing to protect men and women striving to advance human rights across the globe, and shared her experiences since 2001 in setting up and expanding a new NGO.

Mary Moloney, Global CEO of the CoderDojo Foundation, addressed the YPN on 18 November 2014 about the successes of the global CoderDojo movement, as well as giving some very thoughtful insights on how to achieve success in one’s professional career.

The final event of 2014, the YPN’s Annual Review of the Year, was held on 10 December. The panel included Dan

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O’Brien, Chief Economist at the IIEA; Hugh O’Connell, Political Editor of the Journal.ie; Ben Tonra, Head of the UCD School of Politics and International Relations ; and Elaine Burke, Journalist for Siliconrepublic.com. The panel discussed the major developments of 2014 in economics, politics, international relations and technology with a number of panelists also making bold predictions for possible developments in 2015.

IIEA Brussels Branch

Chair: Kevin Keary

Vice Chair: Sarah Shiels

The Institute for International and European Affairs Brussels (AISBL) is a voluntary, independent forum where members of the Irish community in Brussels get together on a monthly basis to hear and exchange views with high-level speakers in relation to Ireland and the EU. It is an affiliated subsidiary of the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin. The management committee is composed of volunteer members.

During the year it was constituted as an International Non-Profit Organisation under Belgian law, which aligns and normalises it with the best practice in Brussels. This initiative was led by Kevin Leydon and Benoit Keane.

The 2014 programme began in March with a debate about the main issues in the 2014 election of the Commission President. The debate was framed through the perspective of the three largest political Groups, the EPP, the Social Democrats, and ALDE, which were represented by Mairead McGuinness MEP, Emer Costello MEP, Pat the Cope Gallagher MEP, respectively. In April, a panel discussion entitled What Energy Policy for the Coming Years? featured the following speakers: Tara Connolly, Energy Officer with GreenPeace; Dr. Claire Dupont, Post-doctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Studies and the Political Science department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel; and Neil Walker, Head of Energy and Environment Policy at Ibec.

In May, Dr. Steven Blockmans, Head of the EU Foreign Policy Unit at CEPS, and Erwan Fouéré, Associate Senior Fellow at CEPS, discussed the crisis in Ukraine and the broader security situation in Europe. The Brussels Branch invited Declan Kelleher, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union, and Dr. Eddie O’Connor, founder and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power, to speak in June on climate change and the challenge of achieving a significant outcome to COP21 in Paris in 2015. The final AGM of the Brussels branch was held on 9 July 2014. Subsequently, Sir Stephen Wall, former UK Permanent Representative to the EU from 1995 to 2000 addressed the members on the crucial year ahead for British relations with the EU. In September 2014, the IIEA convened a Irish Networking Event in the Irish Permanent Representation to the EU, hosted by Ambassador Declan Kelleher. EU Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly spoke to a packed attendance of approximately 150 on the evening in question, with a good proportion of the Irish and friends of Ireland across all EU institutions and the private sector in attendance. In October an MEP debate featuring Brian Hayes MEP, Marian Harkin MEP and Matt Carthy MEP was held on the topic of Ireland’s Economic Future in Juncker’s Europe. A lively political debate was moderated by Irish Examiner Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill. In December 2014, the Irish Ambassador to Belgium, H.E. Eamonn Mac Aodha, addressed members on the subject of activities to commemorate the centenary of World War I. The year drew to a close with a Christmas reception for members. The Brussels Branch extends its sincerest thanks to the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU and the Office of the Northern Executive to the EU in Brussels, for kindly hosting its events. A sincere thanks also to IIEA in Dublin for the continued support and of course to the members, trustees and management committee, without which the IIEA in Brussels would not be such a successful forum.

The year also saw the retirement of Brussels branch founder, and founding member of the Institute, Frank Wall. The Institute would like to express its sincere gratitude to Frank for the significant contributions he has made during his long association with the Institute.

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Patron

15/10/2014 Towards a Europe of the Citizens – An Ethical Context for the Future of Europe

Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland

Irish Ministers and State Representatives

15/05/2014 Ireland and the European Semester

Paschal Donohoe, Minister of State for European Affairs

15/05/2014 Public Sector Reform in the Context of the European Economic Recovery

Robert Watt, Secretary General at the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform

21/07/2014 Data Protection and the State, Technology and other Challenges

Billy Hawkes, then Data Protection Commissioner

30/09/2014 Ireland in the 21st Century: Our Role in Europe and Data Protection in an Evolving World

Dara Murphy T.D., Minister of State at the Departments of the Taoiseach and Foreign Affairs with Special Responsibility for European Affairs and Data Protection 16/10/2014 Ireland in 2015 - Recovery, Shared Prosperity and our Relationship with Europe

Joan Burton T.D., An Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection

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H.E. Bobby McDonagh, Irish Ambassador to Italy

European Commission

24/01/2014 Institutional Changeover and the Priorities of the New Commission

Catherine Day, Secretary General of the European Commission

12/03/2014 Europe’s 2030 climate & energy framework

Marie Donnelly, Director for Renewables, Research & Innovation, and Energy Efficiency, European Commission Directorate General for Energy

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Other EU Institutions and Agencies

17/01/2014 Is the Euro Crisis Over?

Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism 04/03/2014 Europe After the Crisis

Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank

24/04/2014 Progress on EU Data Protection Reform - Status Quo and Next Steps

Jan Philipp Albrecht, European Parliament Rapporteur for the EU Data Protection Regulation

18/06/2014 The EU’s External Action: Moving to the Frontline

David O’Sullivan, Chief Operating Officer of the EU’s External Action Service (EEAS)

22/10/2014 The Growing Cyber Threat: What is Europe’s Response?

Troels Oerting, Head of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)

31/10/2014 New Challenges for CSDP - A Military Perspective

Lieutenant General Wolfgang Wosolsobe, Director General of the EU Military Staff

Ministers and State Representatives

14/01/2014 Smart Power of Small States: Kosovo’s Approach to Foreign Affairs

Enver Hoxhaj, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo

30/01/2014 Priorities of the Greek EU Presidency

H.E. Diana Zagorianou-Prifti, Greek Ambassador to Ireland 01/04/2014 Portugal and Europe After the Crisis

Bruno Maçães, Portuguese Minister for European Affairs

07/04/2014 Slovakia’s 10 years in the EU - Successes and Challenges

Vazil Hudak, State Secretary of the Slovakian Ministry of Finance 25/04/2014 U.S. Perspective on the Transatlantic Relationship and TTIP

Julieta Valls Noyes, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the US Department of State

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07/05/2014 Global Lessons on Inclusive Growth

Jason Furman, Chair of the US Council of Economic Advisors

19/06/2014 Scotland and the Union: A Perspective from the British Treasury

Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury, United Kingdom 22/09/2014 Germany in a changing EU: Outlining Germany’s European Union policy

Michael Roth, German Minister of State for Europe

01/10/2014 Reinventing Europe - The Case for Structural Economic Reform

Lenita Toivakka, Finnish Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade 30/10/2014 The Scottish Referendum and Prospects for Constitutional Reform

Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs

27/11/2014 A Polish Perspective on the Upcoming Term of the European Institutions - New Challenges, New Directions?

Rafal Trzaskowski, Polish Secretary of State for EU Affairs

Parliamentarians

20/01/2014 Independent Scotland: A Positive, Proactive International Partner

Angus Robertson, SNP Leader in Westminster and Campaign Director for the referendum on Scottish independence

16/07/2014 UK Climate Policy Since the 2008 Climate Change Act

Lord Deben, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change

10/10/2014 The Risks of Brexit: Does Britain Have a Future in the EU?

Lord Roger Liddle, Labour Frontbench Spokesperson on Europe

23/10/2014 The Ukraine Crisis and Geopolitics

Pat Cox, Former President of the European Parliament

Central Banks

07/02/2014 Reviving Growth in the Euro Area

Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank

International Organisations

11/03/2014 Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Developing World

Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme

21/03/2014 UNESCO’s Soft Power in a Globalising World

Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO

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04/04/2014 International Criminal Prosecution and Global Human Rights Law

James Stewart, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

14/05/2014 Equity and Excellence in Learning in Schools: Lessons from the OECD

Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD Secretary-General

23/06/2014 Ireland’s EU-IMF Programme: Preliminary Lessons

Peter Breuer, Resident Representative of the IMF in Ireland

11/09/2014 Global Food Security and Climate Change

Juergen Voegele, Senior Director of the World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice

12/09/2014 International Migration at a Time of Crisis

Peter Sutherland, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for International Migration

31/10/2014 The Role of Social Norms in Driving Economic Development

Dr. Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank

Think Tanks

13/02/2014 The Future of EU Defence Policy

Daniel Keohane, Research Director at the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE)

18/02/2014 What Difference, If Any, Will the Next Elections to the Parliament Make?

Prof. Joseph Weiler, President of the European University Institute 24/02/2014 Getting to Know Each Other? Digital Governments and Digital Citizens in the Era of Social Media and Big Data

Helen Margetts, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Professor of Society and the Internet

25/02/2014 Setting and Implementing Global Standards against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Vladimir Nechaev, President of the Financial Action Task (FATF) 03/03/2014 Exiting Troika Programmes

André Sapir, Visiting Fellow at Bruegel and Professor of Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

05/03/2014 Germany and China

Hans Kundnani, Research Director, European Council on Foreign Relations

06/03/2014 U.S. Government International Media in a Changing Global Media Landscape

Kenneth Weinstein, President and CEO of the Hudson Institute

20/03/2014 What EU Citizens Think About Defence

Olivier de France, Research Director at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs 28/03/2014 Britain in Europe: The Way Ahead

Lord David Hannay, Member of the House of Lords European Select Committee

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16/04/2014 Time to Reset the European Neighbourhood Policy

Stefan Lehne, Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe

25/04/2014 Fiscal Union in Europe

Clemens Fuest, President and Director of Science and Research at the Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim 08/05/2014 Are National Parliaments Behind the EU Curve? Does it Matter?

Deirdre Curtin, Director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam 20/05/2014 Germany’s Role in EU Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Ukraine

Judy Dempsey, Editor in Chief of Strategic Europe; Pádraig Murphy, Chair of the IIEA Foreign Policy Group

23/05/2014 Confronting the Climate Adaptation Challenge

Prof. Richard Klein, Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Working Group II & Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute

28/05/2014 Ukraine: A singular event or the beginning of a new era in East-West relations?

Jaakko Iloniemi, Member of the European Council of Foreign Relations

06/06/2014 Maritime Security: China’s Dream – Asia’s Nightmare?

Dr. Angela Stanzel, Policy Fellow at the Asia & China Programme of the European Council on Foreign Relations

20/06/2014 Perspectives on China’s Growing Influence in the East Asia region

Murray McLean, Non-Resident Fellow, Lowy Institute for International Policy 29/09/2014 The Politics of Reducing Malnutrition: From Commitment to Impact

Stuart Gillespie, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 03/10/2014 The Political Economy of the Eurozone Crisis

Carlo Bastasin, Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution, Washington 28/10/2014 Innovation, Public Policy and Entrepreneurship

Prof. David Audretsch, Director of the Institute for Development Strategies and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at the University of Indiana

04/11/2014 Asia-Pacific: The Priority of China’s Foreign Policy

Alice Ekman, Head of China Research at the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI)

26/11/2014 The EU’s Enlargement Agenda - Maintaining Credibility

Erwan Fouéré, Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies

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Keynote Addresses

22/01/2014 Redesigning Regulatory Architecture - The UK Experience

Lord David Currie, Chairman of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) 23/01/2014 Europe After the Euro Storm: Institutional Change, Public Discontent?

Luuk van Middelaar, Speechwriter and Advisor to Herman Van Rompuy

03/02/2014 Cyber Governance - A Necessary Evil to Deal with Evil

Paul Dwyer, Director of Strategic Solutions at Mandiant

12/03/2014 Revitalising Growth in South East Europe

Peter Sanfey, Deputy Director of Country Strategy and Policy at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Efka Heder, Director of the South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning 15/04/2014 The Role of National Supervisors in Banking Union

Elke Koenig, President of BaFin 30/04/2014 A Voice for the Victims of Crime

Sir Keir Starmer QC, Former UK Director of Public Prosecutions

02/05/2014 American Statecraft in an Era of Domestic Polarisation

Prof. Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics 21/05/2014 The Euro: The Future of a Bad Monetary Marriage

Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times 22/05/2014 Revolution not Evolution: The UK’s Government Digital Service

Mike Bracken, Executive Director of Digital in the UK Cabinet Office

26/05/2014 The Internet of Things. What is it? Why is it Important? Where does Quark fit in?

Philip Moynagh, Vice President of the Internet of Things Group at Intel Corporation 27/05/2014 Après Nigel, le Déluge? Prospects for UK Politics in the Long Run up to the 2015 Election

Prof. Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London 30/05/2014 The EU and China: Working Together at COP21

Dr. Eddie O’Connor, Founder and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power

09/06/2014 Strategy in Modern Europe

Prof. Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice-Principal (Strategy & Development) and Professor of War Studies at Kings College London

18/06/2014 The Power of Information: How Data Can Change Energy Consumption

Alex Laskey, President and Founder of Opower 26/06/2014 Policy Options to Restore Prosperity

Prof. John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University

26/06/2014 The Chinese Economy in 2014

Gordon Orr, Director and Chairman of McKinsey Asia

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27/06/2014 Challenges for Energy Policy: European and Irish Perspective

Pat O’Doherty, Chief Executive of ESB

08/07/2014 From Small Sensors to Big Data: How the Sensor Web is Changing our World

Prof. Barry Smyth, CEO of Insight Centre for Data Analytics

11/07/2014 The Responsibility to Protect after Syria

Dr. Simon Adams, Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

09/09/2014 From Berlusconi to Renzi: Old Troubles, New Challenges

Prof. Gianni Riotta, Journalist and Professor at Princeton University

18/09/2014 Reforming the EU’s Telecommunications Market

Erzsébet Fitori, Director at the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA)

23/09/2014 Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?

Lord Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics

24/09/2014 The Circular Economy: Perspectives for a Regenerative Model of Development

Jocelyn Blériot, Head of Editorial & European Affairs at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation 02/10/2014 Corruption, Public Confidence, and the Need for Openness

Keith Bristow, Director-General of the UK National Crime Agency (NCA)

07/10/2014 Education’s Digital Future

Simon Nelson, CEO of FutureLearn 08/10/2014 Chinese Outbound Investment in the EU

Joel Backaler, Associate Vice-President at Frontier Strategy Group 09/10/2014 Regulating the New Europe

John Gapper, Chief Business Commentator at the Financial Times 17/10/2014 Stranded Assets and Unburnable Carbon Risk

Mark Campanale, Founder and Executive Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative 17/10/2014 Climate Change, Agriculture and the Pathway to Paris: A New Zealand Perspective on International Climate Negotiations

Jo Tyndall, Climate Change Ambassador for New Zealand 30/10/2014 The Role of the Federal German Constitutional Court in Internal and European Affairs

Prof. Dr. Andreas Voßkuhle, President of the German Constitutional Court

03/11/2014 Making New from Old; the Search of the French Right for a Providential Leader

Lara Marlowe, Paris Correspondent with the Irish Times

20/11/2014 The Menace of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS): How Should the World Respond?

Dr. Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver

25/11/2014 Start-Ups and Funding Innovation: the Finnish Case Study

Pekka Soini, Director General of Tekes

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04/12/2014 The Future of the Smart Grid: Moving to the Grid Edge

Steven Collier, Director of Smart Grid Strategies at Milsoft Utility Solutions 09/12/2014 Climate Change and the Insurance Industry

Trevor Maynard, Head of Reinsurance and Exposure Management at Lloyd’s of London

Roundtables & Briefings

14/01/2014 Post-European Council Briefing

Geraldine Byrne Nason, Second Secretary General at the Department of the Taoiseach

24/03/2014 UK-Germany Relations

Almut Moeller, Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies at DGAP



28/04/2014 Economists Group meeting

John FitzGerald, Research Professor at the ESRI

27/05/2014 Climate Change: An Update on the Physical Science Basis

Prof. Thomas Stocker, Co-Chair, IPCC Working Group I and Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern

11/06/2014 Taking the Euro Seriously: A Different Approach to Regional Imbalances

Stefan Collignon, Professor of Political Economy at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

01/07/2014 The New Electricity Capacity Market for Great Britain

Dr. Fergal McNamara, Head of Capacity Market Design at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change 02/07/2014 Smarter Regulation: A Driver of Irish Economic Recovery

Peter Brennan, Managing Director of EPS Consulting



25/09/2014 Misunderstanding China: Cultural Barriers, Western Responses

Prof. John Blair and Prof. Jerusha McCormack, former lecturers at Beijing Foreign Studies University and authors of ‘Comparing Civilizations: China and the West.’

06/10/2014 Climate Change Mitigation

Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair, IPCC Working Group III and Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research


Rory Montgomery, Second Secretary General at the Department of the Taoiseach

05/11/2014 Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Prof. Chris Field, Co-Chair, IPCC Working Group II and Founding Director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology

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07/11/2014 Rethinking Policies for Economic Growth in the European Union

Prof. Iulia Siedschlag, Associate Research Professor and Head of the Centre for Internationalisation and Competitiveness at the ESRI 25/11/2014 The Human Cost of the Syrian Crisis

Antoine Audo, Bishop of Aleppo, Syria 05/12/2014 African Women Impacting Change

Dinah Musindarwezo, Executive Director of FEMNET

08/12/2014 Separating Fiscal from Monetary Policy: Can QE Rescue the Eurozone?

Eric Lonergan, Macro fund manager at M&G Investments in London

15/12/2014 Building Successful Business Relationships with China

Dr. Cathal M. Brugha, Professor and former Director of the Centre for Business Analytics in the School of Business, University College Dublin (UCD) 16/12/2014 Berlin Trip Briefing from Members of IIEA Germany Group

Katherine Meenan, Chair of the IIEA Germany Group; Pádraig Murphy, Chair of the IIEA Foreign Policy Group; Brendan Keenan, Former Economics Editor at Independent Newspapers; Donal O’Brolcháin, Member of the IIEA 17/12/2014 Economists Group Meeting

David Marsh, Director of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum

High level lunches

09/01/2014 Annual Luncheon for the Secretaries General at the IIEA

15/01/2014 Annual Luncheon for EU Ambassadors at the IIEA

21/01/2014 Annual Luncheon for Non -EU Ambassadors at the IIEA

26/02/2015 Foundation lunch

Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

26/03/2014 Foundation lunch: The UK and the EU - A Businessman’s Perspective

Patrick O’Sullivan, Chairman of Old Mutual plc

07/05/2014 Foundation lunch: Court of Appeal – New Challenge to the High Court

The Hon. Mr. Justice Nicholas Kearnes

10/07/2015 Foundation Lunch: Ireland’s Economic Recovery, Lessons for the Future

Brendan Howlin T.D., Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

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Young Professionals

18/02/2014 Innovating for Growth in Europe’s Start-up Economy

Pat Phelan, CEO and Co-founder of Trustev

11/06/2014 The Future of US Foreign Policy

Stuart Dwyer, then Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of the United States of America in Dublin

14/07/2014 Europe After the Earthquake

Tony Connelly, Europe Editor at RTE

21/10/2014 Protecting Human Rights Defenders across the World

Mary Lawlor, Founder and Executive Director of Front Line Defenders

18/11/2014 The Joy and Beauty of Business and Technology!

Mary Moloney, Global CEO of CoderDojo Foundation 10/12/2014 Christmas Review of the Year

Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist at the IIEA; Elaine Burke, Journalist at Siliconrepublic.com; Hugh O’Connell, Political Editor for thejournal.ie; Ben Tonra, Head of the UCD School of Politics and International Relations

Conferences

2/12/2014 IIEA Corporate Taxation Conference

Opening Address

Tom Arnold, Director General of the IIEA

Session I: Addressing The Global Taxation Challenge

Keynote speaker: Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of the OECD

Session II: Reshaping the Global Tax Landscape: International Perspectives (Part I)

Keynote address by Heinz Zourek, Director General, DG Taxation and Customs Union of the European Commission

Session III: Reshaping the Global Tax Landscape: International Perspectives (Part II)

Panel Manal Corwin, National Service Line Leader for International Tax & Principal in Charge of International Tax Policy at KPMG LLP; Sorley McCaughey, Head of Advocacy and Policy at Christian Aid

Session IV: Taxing the Digital Economy: What Does the Future Hold?

PanelMark Redmond, CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland; Mary Walsh, Chartered Accountant and Member of the EU Expert Group on Taxing the Digital Economy; Michael Ryan, Head of Tax Group at McCann FitzGerald

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Session V: Competitiveness in the Changing Tax Environment: Implications for Ireland

PanelJosephine Feehily, Chairman of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners of Ireland; Gary Tobin, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the Department of Finance; Conor O’Brien, Head of Tax & Legal Services at KPMG Ireland; Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist of the IIEA

Session VI: Closing Address by Minister Michael Noonan

Michael Noonan, T.D., Irish Minister for Finance

Closing Remarks

Brendan Halligan, Chairman of the IIEA

Conference Chairs

Tom Arnold, Director General of the IIEA; Ruairi Quinn, T.D., Former Minister for Finance; Anna Scally, Partner at KPMG Ireland; John Cronin, Chairman of McCann FitzGerald; Shaun Murphy, Managing Partner of KPMG Ireland

Seminars

28/01/2014 Beyond the Programme: European Economic Governance and Ireland

Michael McGrath, Assistant Secretary, of the EU & International Division at the Department of Finance; Alan Dukes, Former Minister for Finance; Michael Tutty, Former Vice-President of the European Investment Bank; Donal de Buitléir, Director of Publicpolicy.ie; Pat McArdle, Chairman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee at the European Banking Federation; Dr John Bradley, Economic Modelling and Development Strategies and Former Research Professor at the ESRI

31/03/2014 Danish Energy Policy

Brendan Halligan, Chairman of the IIEA; Éamon Ryan, Chair of the IIEA Energy Policy Group and Leader of the Green Party; Matthew Kennedy, Low Carbon Technologies Manager at the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; Noel Cahill, Economist at NESC

14/04/2014 The IPCC 5th Assessment Report: Global, European and National Implications

Prof. Ray Bates, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology at University College Dublin; Dr. Frank McGovern, Head of Climate Change Research & Science at the Environmental Protection Agency; Dr. Luke Redmond, Carbon Market Research Fellow at the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy in University College Dublin

12/05/2014 2004-2014: Ten Years at the Table for the EU’s New Member States

Annika Uudelepp, Chairperson of Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Estonia; Vladimir Bartovic, Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Czech Republic; Agata Gostynska, Researcher at the Polish Institute of International Affairs

19/5/2014 EU Common Security and Defence Policy Present and Future - A Perspective from Like- Minded Member States

Torbjörn Sohlström, Poltical Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden; Jan Kickert, Political Director of the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Kirsti Kauppi, Political Director of Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Barrie Robinson, Political Director of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs

10/06/2014 CSR seminar - Looking to the Future: Recommendations for the Irish Economy

Barbara Nolan, Head of European Commission Representation in Ireland; John McCarthy, Chief Economist of the Department of Finance; Alan Dukes, former Minister for Finance; Seamus Coffey, Lecturer in Economics at University College Cork; Dan O’ Brien, Chief Economist of the IIEA; Suzanne Kelly, Tax Consultant; Cliff Taylor (Event Chair), then Editor of the Sunday Business Post

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19/09/2014 Earning Trust and Building Reputation - Media Seminar

Betsey Stevenson, Member of the Council of Economic Advisors for the Obama Administration; John Herlihy, Vice President of Google Ireland

22/09/2014 Media seminar on Germany

Michael Roth, German Minister of State for Europe; Dr. Benjamin Weigert, Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Experts; Dominic Hannigan, T.D., Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs; Katherine Meenan, Vice-Chair of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) and Chair of the IIEA Germany Group; Matthias Höpfner, then German Ambassador-Designate to Ireland; Thomas Molloy, Group Business Editor of Independent News and Media; Dr. Gesine Lötzsch MP, Chairwoman of the Budget Committee, Deutscher Bundestag; Bernard Durkan, T.D., Member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs; Denis Staunton, Deputy Editor of the Irish Times; Pádraig Murphy, Former Irish Ambassador to Germany; Eileen Dunne, President of the Association of European Journalists, RTE Television; Peter Trautmann, Head of the External Communications Division at Deutsche Bundesbank; Eckart D. Stratenschulte, Director of the European Academy Berlin

03/11/2014 Europe’s New Fiscal Rules: Are they Working, Can they Work?

Sean Whelan, Economics Correspondent at RTE; Prof. Alan Ahearne, Head of the NUI Galway School of Economics and Bruegel fellow; Tom Nuttall, Charlemagne Columnist for The Economist; Michael Tutty, Department of Finance (retired); John McCarthy, Chief Economist of the Department of Finance; Vincent Boland, FT Ireland correspondent; Arthur Beasley, Economics Editor at the Irish Times; Alan Dukes, Former Finance Minister; Prof. Niamh Hardiman, University College Dublin; Prof. Alan Barrett, Irish Fiscal Advisory Council; Dr. Jane Suiter, Dublin City University and former Economics Editor at the Irish Times; Shane Coleman, Irish Independent/Newstalk 106; Carmel Crimmens, Reuters; Mary Reagan, then Political Editor at the Irish Examiner.

17/11/2014 Seminar on Resilience and Nutrition: Strengthening the Links

Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative; Connell Foley, Director of Strategy, Advocacy and Learning, Concern Worldwide

27/11/2014 Seminar on Inequality: the Defining Challenge of Our Time

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International

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Patron: Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland

Comité d’Honneur: Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D., Mary McAleese, Mary Robinson, Pat Cox, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, John Bruton, Máire Geoghegan Quinn, Charles McCreevy, David Byrne, Ray MacSharry, Richard Burke, Michael O’Kennedy, Peter Sutherland

Honorary Life members: Adrian Burke, Geraldine Byrne Nason, Prof. Patrick Keatinge, Dr Tomás O’Cofaigh, Derry O’Hegarty, Noreen Kearney, Dr. Con Power, Dr. David Williamson

Vice Presidents: Adrian Burke, Tom Haughey, Una O’Dwyer, Nora Owen

Chairman: Brendan Halligan

Secretary: John Redmond

Treasurer: Brendan Butler

Director General: Tom Arnold

Board of Directors: Brendan Halligan (Chair), Joe Brosnan, Adrian Burke, Brendan Butler, Tony Brown, Marie Cross, Niall Greene, Tom Haughey, John Hume, Katherine Meenan, Peter McLoone, Dáithí O’Ceallaigh, John Redmond, Terence O’Rourke

Finance Committee: Terence O’Rourke, Tom Arnold, Brendan Butler, Adrian Burke, Brendan Halligan, Tom Haughey, Janice Epstein, Fionnuala Keane

Nominations Committee: Dáithí O’Ceallaigh, Adrian Burke, Brendan Halligan, Niall Greene

Remuneration and Employment Committee: Joe Brosnan, Tom Haughey, Katherine Meenan, Fionnuala Keane

Audit Committee: Adrian Burke, Tom Haughey

Director of Research: Jill Donoghue

Director of Administration: Fionnuala Keane

Director of Finance: Janice Epstein

Senior Fellows: Tony Brown, Pat Cox, Marie Cross, Paul Gallagher, Katherine Meenan

Senior Research Fellows: Joseph Curtin (Climate Change), Helen Donoghue (Energy)

2014 ORGANISATION & MANAGEMENT

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Council: Tom Arnold, Gavin Barrett, Ritchie Boucher, Peter Brennan, Joe Brosnan, Tony Brown, John Bruton, Niall Burgess, Richard Burke, Adrian Burke, Brendan Butler, David Byrne, Niall Cody, Pat Cox, Marie Cross, Gino Del Sesto, Eddie Downey, Jill Donoghue, Josephine Feehily, Martin Fraser, Paul Gallagher, Peter Glennon, Jack Golden, Edmond Grace, Niall Greene, Mark Griffin, Brendan Halligan, Tom Haughey, John Hume, Kevin Keary, Derek Moran, Hugo MacNeill, Katherine Meenan, Pat McArdle, David McGarry, Andrew McDowell, Danny McCoy, Peter McLoone, Rory Montgomery, Joe Mulholland, Pádraig Murphy, Dáithí O’Ceallaigh, Pat O’Doherty, Rory O’Donnell, Sean O’Foghlu, Tom O’Mahony, Andy O’Rourke, Terence O’Rourke, Nora Owen, Una O’Dwyer, Art O’Leary, Julie O’Neill, John Redmond, Odran Reid, Frances Ruane, Dermot Scott, Julie Sinnamon, Pat Smith, Kevin Toland, Ben Tonra, Maurice Quinn, Liam Quirke, Robert Watt

The members of the Comité d’Honneur , Vice-Presidents, the Board and Senior Fellows are ex officio members of the Council.

Brussels Branch

Chairperson: Kevin Keary

Vice Chairperson: Sarah Sheil

Secretary: Laura Real

Treasurer: Brian Ward

Committee: Richard Bates, Joana Betson, Fergal Donnelly, Niamh O’Donnellan, Fergal O’Regan, Jim Murray, Erik O’Donovan

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2014 FINANCIALSTATEMENT

The accounts for the year 2014 were audited by RSM Farrell Grant Sparks and reflect an overall deficit of €155,029, the result of a very challenging year during which memberships decreased and plans for a further conference did not come to fruition.

The Institute continues to participate in the Community Employment Scheme currently under the supervision of the Department of Social Protection, the grant for which is netted off against an equivalent amount of expenditure.

Management continue to employ strict expense rationalisation in the face of income reductions and with the approval of the Board, have developed a business plan that encompasses a targeted members drive and actively continues to pursue alternative revenue streams.

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2014

IncomeSubscriptionsGrants and ProjectsOtherTotal

ExpenditureSalariesProjectsAdministrationDepreciationTotal

Surplus/(Deficit)

Fixed AssetsNet Current Assets/(Liabilities)Total Assets less Current Liabilities

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2014

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2014 FOUNDATION MEMBERS

AIB GroupBank of IrelandBord na MonaCentral Bank of IrelandCoillte TeorantaCRH plcDeloitteDigicelDublin Airport AuthorityEnterprise IrelandESBRSM - Farrell Grant SparksForfás

Goldman Sachs InternationalGoogleIbecIDAIFAIrish Farmers JournalMathesonMetLifeNTMAPioneer Investment ManagementShell E&P IrelandUlster Bank Ireland

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AccentureAgriculture, Food and Marine, Department ofAmerican Chamber of Commerce in IrelandAmerican EmbassyAn Taoiseach, Department ofArgentinian EmbassyArthur CoxArts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Affairs, Department of Australian EmbassyAustrian EmbassyAviareto LimitedBar CouncilBord Gais EnergyBrazilian EmbassyBritish EmbassyBroadcasting Authority of IrelandBulgarian EmbassyCanadian EmbassyCentral Statistics OfficeChester Beatty LibraryChilean EmbassyChinese EmbassyChurch of Ireland Working Group on Europe

CODEMACommission for Energy RegulationCommittee of the Irish HierarchyCommunications, Energy and Natural Resources, Department of Competition AuthorityComRegConcernCroatian EmbassyCuban EmbassyCypriot EmbassyCzech Republic EmbassyDefence, Department of Education & Skills, Department of Egyptian EmbassyEirGrid plcEmbassy of Georgia in IrelandEnergy Action IrelandEnvironment, Community & Local Government, Department of the Environmental Protection AgencyESRIEstonian EmbassyEthiopian EmbassyEuroFoundFinance, Department of

2014 CORPORATE MEMBERS

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Finnish EmbassyFood Safety Authority of IrelandForeign Affairs & Trade, Department of French EmbassyGerman EmbassyGoodbodyGreek EmbassyHigher Education AuthorityICS SkillsIFIAIMPACTINTOIranian EmbassyIrish Council for Civil LibertiesIrish Taxation InstituteItalian EmbassyJapanese EmbassyJobs, Enterprise & Innovation, Department of Justice & Equality, Department of Kenyan EmbassyKPMGLatvian EmbassyLesotho EmbassyLithuanian EmbassyMaltese EmbassyMcCann FitzGerald SolicitorsMexican EmbassyMoroccan EmbassyNational Economic & Social CouncilNigerian EmbassyOffice of the Attorney GeneralOffice of the Director of Public Prosecutions

Office of the Houses of the OireachtasOffice of the OmbudsmanOffice of the Revenue CommissionersPolish EmbassyPortuguese EmbassyPublic Expenditure & Reform, Department of PublicPolicy.iePwCRomanian EmbassyRoyal Danish EmbassyRoyal Netherlands EmbassyRoyal Norwegian EmbassySaudi Arabian EmbassySmurfit Kappa GroupSouth Korean EmbassySpanish EmbassySustainable Energy Association of IrelandSwiss EmbassyTaipei Representative Office in IrelandTransport, Tourism and Sport, Department of Trinity College DublinTrócaireTurkish EmbassyUkrainian EmbassyUNHCR Representation in IrelandUnited Arab Emirates EmbassyUniversity College CorkUniversity College DublinViridian Energy LimitedWilliam Fry Solicitors

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Dr. Martin AliothMr. Billy AttleyDr. Ruth BarringtonMr. Peter BarryMr. Lorcan BlakeMr. Joe BrosnanMr. Tony BrownMr. Adrian BurkeMr. Richard BurkeMs Geraldine Byrne NasonThe Hon. Mr. Justice Paul CarneyMr. Gerard CashinMr. Brian CawleyMr. Andrew ClarkeMr. Denis CorboyMr. Sean CromienMr. David CroughanMr. Hans De BelderDr. Donal De BuitleirMr. Barry DesmondMr. Jim DevineMr. John DonnellyMr. Donal DonovanMr. Noel DorrMr. Eugene DownesMs. Etain DoyleMr. Peter Doyle

Mr. Pat FarrellDr. Tom FerrisMs. Mary FinanMr. Jim FitzpatrickMs. Finola FlanaganMr. Paul GallagherMr. Niall GreeneMr. David GriffinMr. Brendan HalliganMr. John HandollMr. Tom HaugheyMs. Emer HaugheyMs. Niamh HaugheyDr. Miriam Hederman O’BrienMr. Joseph HickeyProf. Ron HillProf.Patrick HonohanMs. Beatrice HughesMs. Faye IoannouMr. Brendan KearneyMs. Noreen KearneyProf. Patrick KeatingeMr. Liam KelleherMr. Colm LarkinCol. Dorcha LeeMr. Philip LeeMr. Mark Lochrin

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Mr. Con LuceyMr. Brendan LynchMr. Ray MacSharryProf. Dermot McAleeseMr. Pat McArdleMr. Jim McCaffreyMr. Patrick McCaffreyMr. Patrick McCannMr. Sean McCrumMs. Una McGurkMr. Eamonn McKeonDr. John McKeonMr. Michael MeagherMs. Katherine MeenanMr. Frank MullenMr. Pádraig MurphyMs. Alice MurphyMr. Cormac NeillMr. Terry NeillMr. Dáithi O’CeallaighProf. Martin O’DonoghueDr. Una O’DwyerMs. Lucy O’KellyMr. Flor O’MahonyMs. Nora OwenMr. Kevin P. O’KellyMr. Gerard O’NeillMr. Manus O’RiordanMr. Andy O’RourkeDr. Con PowerMr. Ruairi QuinnMr. Odran ReidMr. Johnny RyanMr. Alan T. RyanMr. Roderick RyanMr. William Scally

Mr. Dermot ScottMr. Thomas StehlingMr. Don ThornhillMr. Paul TigheMr. Paul TurpinMr. Michael TuttyMr. Frank WallMr. C.J. WalshMr. Eamonn Thomas WalshMr. Pádraic WhiteMr. Patrick White

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