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Annual Report2013

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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

INTRODUCTIONand 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.

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The IIEA 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 2013, the Institute once again welcomed a wide range of speakers from around the world and hosted over 170 events. The Institute’s programme featured a number of leading international figures such as: Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International

EVENTSMonetary Fund; Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General; Vítor Constâncio, Vice President of the ECB; Pierre Moscovici, then France’s Finance Minister; Ángel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD; Wolfgang Münchau, Associate Editor at the Financial Times; Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation; Joaquin Almunia, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Competition; Catherine Day, Secretary General of the European Commission; Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs; Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade; and former UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.

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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. 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 2013, the Institute’s Director General hosted Foundation lunches with Martin Curley, Vice President, Intel Labs Europe, on Openness to Innovation; Myles Lee, former Chief Executive Officer of CRH plc, on CRH Strategies for the Global Market and the Impact of the Proposed EU/U.S. Free Trade Agreement; and Lord John Kerr, former diplomat and Deputy Chairman of Scottish Power, on Britain and Europe: Present Discontents. The Institute also hosted its annual lunches for the Secretaries General and the foreign Ambassadors to Ireland.

HIGH-LEVEL LUNCHEONS

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In 2013 ESB sponsored the ESB Lecture Series 2013. Ten high-profile international and national speakers delivered keynote addresses to chief executives of major corporations, industry representatives, T.D.s, government officials, diplomats, senior civil servants, members of the business community and civil society at the Institute of International and European Affairs. The series addressed a wide range of topics, which generated fascinating insights into current policy developments, cutting edge projects in Europe, the Middle East, the U.S. and Asia, and projections and analysis of future prospects in the field of energy. Edward C. Chow, Senior Fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Dr. Philip Andrews-Speed, Principal Fellow at the Energy

ESB Sponsored lecture series

Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore; Pawel Olejarnik, Senior Energy Analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA); Peter Altmaier, German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety; Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Buildings; Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist and Chairman Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain Institute; Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Simon Giles, Accenture’s global lead for its Intelligent Cities Strategy; Prof. Robert Gifford, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada; Dario Gil, Director for Energy and Natural Resources at IBM Research, and Director of the Smarter Energy Research Institute.

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In 2013, McCann FitzGerald partnered with the IIEA to establish two seminar series. The first, EU 2013, was a three-event series to mark Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, examining in detail some of the priorities of the Presidency. Following the success of this series, McCann FitzGerald and the IIEA launched a second joint initiative, entitled New Models of Regulation. The aim of this series is to examine trends in regulation, with a particular focus on effective regulation in the digital age, international best practice in sectoral regulation and the economic benefits of regulation. The series continues in 2014.

McCann FitzGeraldLucinda Creighton T.D., then Minister of State for European Affairs; Marne Levine, Global Public Policy Vice President, Facebook; Billy Hawkes, Irish Data Protection Commissioner; Peter Sutherland, Chair of Goldman Sachs International; Philip Stephens, Chief Political Commentator, Financial Times; Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament; Prof. John O’Hagan, Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin; Prof. John McHale, Head of Economics, NUI Galway; Dr. Gavin Barrett, School of Law, University College Dublin; Robert McDowell, recently retired U.S.Federal Communication Commissioner.

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The IIEA and Eirgrid, Ireland’s Transmission Systems Operator, continued their partnership in 2013, hosting two major seminars in February and March 2013. The seminar series offered stimulating discussion on key topics of energy infrastructure and renewables, and brought together a range of thought leaders, industry figures and key policymakers from Ireland and Europe.

EirgridJean-Arnold Vinois, Director, former Director of the Internal Energy Market at the European Commission’s DG Energy; Prof. Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation; and Dr. Leonard Meeus, leader of the THINK Project and Research Fellow at the Florence School of Regulation; Arne Mogren, Director of Power at the European Climate Foundation; Peder Ostermark Andreasen, Chief Executive of the Danish grid, Energinet; Fintan Slye, Chief Executive of EirGrid.


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Now in its third year, the IIEA and the Irish Government’s development assistance programme, Irish Aid, continued its series of development-focused events entitled Development Matters. 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 2013 was on international development and innovation.

Irish AidDr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); Minister Joe Costello T.D., Minister of State for Trade and Development; Evans Wadongo, founder of Sustainable Development For All-Kenya (SDFA-Kenya) and Just One Lamp; Professor Sugata Mitra, educational psychologist and winner of the 2013 TED prize; Ambassador William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).


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In January 2013, the IIEA created a micro-website - www.iiea.com/environmentnexus - to host content for a project on “nexus thinking” which was co-financed by the European Parliament. The Nexus project aimed to promote an integrated approach to water, energy, climate change, agriculture and food security policies and recognise the interlinkages between them.

Between January and June 2013, the Environment Nexus site was updated with dozens of pieces of content, developed by the IIEA Research and Design teams in collaboration with external experts. This content included interactive and static infographics, motion

The Environment Nexus – Your Digital Ecosystem

graphics videos, interviews, citizen polls, FAQs, policy papers and blogs.

Over the six-month period of the project, the micro-site and content reached over 280,000 people, including users from every EU Member State. A single animated video, on fish discards, was viewed over 86,000 times. The project raised the profile of the IIEA across Europe and led to proposals of knowledge partnerships from a number of prestigious organisations. It also resulted in the IIEA being nominated for the two top digital media awards in Ireland - the Eircom Spiders and the Samsung Digital Media Awards.

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On 15 November 2013, the IIEA hosted a major Cybersecurity Conference at the Mansion House. The IIEA would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of EY as sponsors of the event, and of Silicon Republic as media partners.

The conference brought together for the first time in Ireland a unique line-up of policymakers, practitioners and experts from across the globe to discuss emerging cybersecurity challenges. Organised cybercrime, surveillance and data privacy moved to the top of the global agenda in 2013 and this conference addressed these issues from the perspective of the EU, U.S., NATO and in terms of the implications for business.

Over 250 delegates from across the full spectrum of stakeholders and policymakers were in attendance to to witness Minister Pat Rabbitte T.D., Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, deliver the opening address on how Ireland’s unique position in the global digital economy is informing its responses to

IIEA Cybersecurity Conferencecybersecurity challenges. The highlight of the conference was a keynote address by Michael Daniel, Special Assistant to President Obama and U.S. Cybersecurity Coordinator.

Other high-level panellists at the conference included: Olivier Burgersdijk, Head of Strategy and Outreach at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3); Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Cybersecurity Policy Advisor with the European External Action Service (EEAS); Dr. Ian Levy, Technical Director, Communications-Electronics Security Group at GCHQ; Steve Purser, Head of Core Operations Department at the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA); and Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO.

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

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On 2 December 2013, the IIEA hosted a major international conference at the RDS to discuss the post-crisis future of the European banking sector. The conference was kindly supported by McCann FitzGerald and KPMG.

In a series of keynote addresses and panel discussions, high-level European and Irish figures considered the rapidly changing banking environment, and the implications of Europe’s nascent Banking Union, including what it might mean for the future of the euro, the management of financial crises in the Eurozone and the likely impact on businesses and individual consumers.

The conference was attended by over 200 delegates, representing 90 organisations from Ireland and Europe. Keynote speakers included Vítor Constâncio, Vice President of the European Central Bank; Michael Noonan T.D., Minister for Finance; Blanaid Clarke, McCann FitzGerald

IIEA and McCann FitzGerald Conference on the Future of Banking in Europe

Chair of Corporate Law, Trinity College, Dublin; and Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland.

Other participants in the conference included Pat McArdle, Chair of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Banking Federation; John Bruton, Chairman of the IFSC; A.C. Kruizinga, Head of European Banking Supervision, De Nederlandsche Bank; Miguel de la Mano, Head of Financial Markets Issues, DG Markets, European Commission; Alan Ahearne, Head of Economics, Cairnes School of Business and Economics, NUI Galway; Paul Gallagher, S.C., Former Attorney General of Ireland; Robert Priester, Deputy CEO of the European Banking Federation.

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/banking-union-conference

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PUBLICATIONS

“The Constitution, The Courts and the Legislature” by Peter Sutherland

“Untying the Knot? Ireland, the UK and the EU” by Dáithí O’Ceallaigh and James Kilcourse

“EU Economic Policy Surveillance of Member States” by Michael G Tutty

“Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability: The European Semester and the Irish Budget” by Alan Dukes

“Why Does Ireland Have All Those European Referendums?” by Gavin Barrett

“Sovereignty and Globalisation” by Philip Stephens

“Shared Economic Sovereignty: Beneficial or Not and Who Decides?” by John O’Hagan

“Reforming European Economic Governance” by Michael G Tutty

“Living within our Means: Water and Resource Efficiency in the EU” by Ryan Meade

“A New Wave of European Climate and Energy Policy: Towards a 2030 Framework” by Gina Hanrahan

“Shifting the Climate Finance Paradigm: Nine Key Challenges for Developed Countries” by Joseph Curtin

“Greening CAP Payments: A Missed Opportunity?” by Prof. Alan Matthews

“Germany’s Place in the World” by Pádraig Murphy

“The Future of European Integration” by Brendan Halligan

“The Emergence of the 1973 Social Action Programme” by Tony Brown

“Strategies for a Small State in a Large Union” by Brendan Halligan

“The First Presidency” by Tony Brown

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Chairman’s IntroductionBrendan Halligan

The Institute has a dual mandate in terms of evaluating the strategic policy options facing Ireland within the European Union and those confronting the EU within the global community. This is a complex task but, as experience over the past two decades has shown, the Institute’s response in any one year is not only shaped by events already in train, and those in prospect, but also by the political calendar previously determined by the EU itself. These influences were particularly evident in 2013, the subject of this Annual Report.

Events already in train included a range of initiatives to strengthen the governance of the Eurozone, a process which took centre stage throughout the year and dominated the Union’s agenda. That set the context for the Institute’s projects on Banking Union and Economic Governance, which, along with other flanking projects, progressed with great effect throughout the year.

The EU political calendar had laid down that Ireland would take on the Presidency of the Union for the first six months of the year, a task that absorbed a great deal of time and human resources at the

national level and which necessarily occupied the Institute itself by way of the preparation of analysis, the publication of papers and the organisation of briefings, seminars and conferences.

The Presidency has the great merit of putting a public face on what is called “Europe” and for that reason sets a special premium on the effective organisation of events and the communication of achievements not only to specialist audiences but also to the general public and, indeed, the global community as well. In the event, all these tasks were accomplished with great style by Ireland and proved, if proof were needed, that the smaller Member States generally conduct well-run Presidencies. The Irish Presidency of 2013 will stand as a model of its kind and sets a standard for others to emulate.

For its part, the Institute sought to complement the work of the Presidency by providing analytical input and organising a number of events which were intended to feed into the work programme. Of its nature, a Presidency attracts many visitors to the country holding that office and this provided the Institute with numerous opportunities to receive leading international personalities and to engage in dialogue with a wider range of interlocutors than would normally be the case.

A glance at the list of visitors to the Institute and the calendar of events will confirm that, as a consequence, 2013 was an exceptionally busy year, particularly with regard to international organisations, including the IMF, ECB, OECD, WTO, NATO, EBRD, Council of Europe and a range of think tanks, including the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As was to be expected, many of the visitors had come to Ireland to participate in conferences associated with the Presidency and in many cases the theme of their presentations meshed in with the work programme of the Institute, especially in relation to the future of the euro and the creation of a banking union. For many, the highlights of these visits would have included the address by Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the IMF, which was delivered in Saint Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle; that by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB at a major conference on Banking Union; and that by Professor Joachim Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Change Impact.

All in all, it can be recorded that the Irish Presidency lived up to expectations and reflected great honour

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on the country, as had the previous Presidencies. The task was made more onerous than on previous occasions by the increase in the number of Member States, the changed architecture of the decision-making process due to the central role being played by the European Council and its President, the new dynamic in inter-institutional relationships and the fraught nature of the banking crisis, not to mention the challenge of securing agreement on the Multi-Annual Financial Framework, the reform of the CAP and the establishment of the Single Resolution Mechanism, amongst others.

In fulfilling its mandate about the role of the EU within the wider world, the Institute placed particular importance on climate change policy and on the continuing rise of China as a global power. On the climate change front, the highlight of the year was the address by Professor Schellnhuber to members of the Climate Change Project Group and the return visit by group members to his Institute in Potsdam. In relation to China, the Institute was honoured to receive a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for discussions on the evolution of the strategic relationship between China and the European Union. That led to a return visit to the Academy in Beijing by the Project Chairperson, Julie O’Neill, and to a strengthening of what the Institute regards as a key strategic relationship.

The increasing focus on China led the Board to debate the feasibility of creating an institute within the Institute which would be solely dedicated to Chinese affairs. This was a logical follow on from the decision a decade earlier to extend the ambit of the Institute’s agenda from European to International and European Affairs, which, at the time, was understood to be motivated by the need to encompass the study of China as a specific discipline. China is, after all, sui generis, being a civilisation stretching back over three millennia. In the contemporary world, it is equally unique undergoing, as it is, the fastest and most sustained period of economic growth ever recorded. It is destined to become the largest economy in the world and, as such, will require fundamental re-adjustment of the global economic order and in geo-political relations. For these reasons, the Board decided to set up a special committee to consider the proposed institute within an Institute with a request to report back within a year.

The “Ireland in Europe” project, which is a composite of six separate projects, maintained momentum throughout the year with the Economic Governance Group producing a number of important reports, the Banking Union Group publishing a preliminary assessment of progress to date, as well as hosting a major conference on the topic, and the UK Group commencing work on another book on Britain’s future in the EU as well as holding a conference on the theme of Britain Without Europe - Europe Without Britain. The Political Union project started later than the others but by year end had developed a work programme which promised to deliver important insights on the nature and form of further integration. At the same time, a project group on the values underlying the integration process made substantial progress throughout the year with the aim of publishing a paper before the 2014 European Parliament elections, which was achieved as this introduction was being written.

Proposals for a project relating to Fiscal Union were determined mainly by the complexity of the subject matter and the sequencing of Fiscal Union within the overall plan for a ‘Genuine Economic and Monetary Union’ set out by President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. Delays at EU level in progressing this topic, and developments within the OECD on corporate tax reform, led to questions as to whether the optimal response would be to separate Fiscal Union per se from Corporate Taxation and the consensus was heading that way by year-end.

The Annual Report which follows shows that the Institute continued to expand its range of activities and to strengthen its presence in a number of areas in which it has already developed a leadership position, such as in the field of Cybersecurity which led to a major conference during the year addressed amongst others by President Obama’s special adviser in this area, Michael Daniel.

On the organisational front, the most significant innovation was the appointment of Dan O’Brien as Chief Economist on the basis of a business model which has the potential to be extended to other specialist roles. The appointment enhances the Institute’s capacity to analyse economic trends and to contribute to European and international debate on economic reform which, if replicated in other areas, would move the Institute onto a higher plane as a leading think tank.

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The other major development was, of course, the retirement of Dáithí O’Ceallaigh as Director General in July. Having served for the standard term of three years he had agreed to stay on for a further six months to cover the Irish Presidency and the Board is grateful to him for this act of generosity, not least because his extraordinary network of contacts and personal energy enabled the Institute to perform throughout the Presidency at a level that could not otherwise have been achieved. His tenure in office was marked by repeated successes but probably his greatest contribution was to steer the Institute safely through a period of prolonged financial difficulty precipitated by what economists are now calling the Great Recession. For that alone he deserved our thanks. The Board was pleased to ask him to join it as a member on his retirement and was even more pleased that he agreed to accept the invitation, with the special title of Director of Corporate Affairs.

His replacement had necessarily occupied the mind of the Board throughout the early part of the year and it had concluded that Tom Arnold, the outgoing CEO of Concern and the Chairman of the Convention on the Constitution, would be the ideal Director General for the challenges ahead. His CV is testament to an astonishing range of achievements in the Irish public service, the voluntary sector, the international and humanitarian community and Irish civil society, all of which ideally equip him for the post of Director General. He took up office on 1 November for a period of three years and the Board wishes him well in his new post.

The other organisational development of note was the appointment of Jill Donoghue as Vice-President for International Affairs following her re-location to New York in September. The Board had been aware of this impending move for some time, caused by family reasons, and, in view of her central role as Director of Research, asked her to stay on in that capacity, as well as taking on the additional responsibility for developing networks in the U.S. with other think tanks and academic institutions. Due to the great advances in communications technology, notably in the form of Skype, she has been able to stay in daily contact with the research staff and to participate in various meetings, including those of the Board, since establishing herself in New York. The arrangement has worked most satisfactorily and the Board is happy that her unique contribution to the Institute will continue undiminished. It considers itself to be extremely fortunate that the Director of Research

has been able to stay in office and to play a role universally acknowledged as indispensable to the Institute’s success.

Unfortunately, much less success is to be reported on re-locating Europe House to the city’s political and administrative quarter on the south side as had been anticipated. The move is seen as vital in strengthening the relations with the Oireachtas, government and public service but proved more difficult than expected mainly as a result of the depressed market for Georgian properties in the North Inner City and a rising market for similar properties on the South Side. This made a simple equity swap impossible and created the need to raise substantial capital were the move to take place. So far, that has proved impossible to achieve. Nevertheless, the Board is convinced that a move along the lines contemplated is in the long-term interest of the Institute and will try to make some progress towards that end in the year ahead.

In conclusion I would like to thank the Board and the Finance and Administration Committee for their contribution and commitment over the year, particularly as it fell to them to steer the Institute through very troubled financial waters. It is to be remembered that they are all volunteers who receive no payment for their time and that in most cases they have now completed over two decades of continuous service. That brings its own problems, of course, and the Board took a collective decision last year to engage in systematic succession planning and to replace all of the original members by 2016. A rota of retirements was being worked on by year-end. This reorganisation will be complemented by the re-establishment of the Council which will act in an advisory role regarding strategy formulation and allow outgoing Board members to continue to play their part in developing the Institute into a leading global think tank, as is my ambition.

My thanks are also due to those who participated in the various projects throughout the year, 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 and to all those office holders and public servants who participated in our many functions over what was a busy and hugely successful year. A special thanks is due too to the institutions of the European Union and the Brussels Branch for their many invaluable contributions to the work of the Institute. The continuing vitality and success of

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the Branch is especially gratifying and offers a model that could be repeated elsewhere.

On behalf of all those who come to Europe House, the Board wishes to express its heartfelt thanks to the staff for their dedication and professionalism throughout what was a demanding but rewarding year. They made an indispensable input into the work of the Institute, notably in maintaining the highest research standards and levels of creativity in the area of publications and the highly successful website.

Brendan HalliganChairman9 May 2014

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Director General’s ReportTom Arnold

It is an honour to write a brief foreword to the IIEA’s 2013 Annual Report. The 2013 work programme consisted of 170 events, the largest ever programme in the Institute’s history. Meetings and activities, related to Ireland’s EU Presidency during the first half of the year were an important part of the programme. The Presidency advanced a number of EU policies and its stewardship by Irish political leaders and officials was widely and deservedly praised. Ireland thus maintained the tradition of conducting highly effective EU Presidencies, starting with the 1975 Presidency in which Dr. Garret FitzGerald, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, played an outstanding role.

The Annual Report indicates the scope and breadth of the IIEA’s programme during 2013. The programme is based on lectures supported by a number of key sponsors and by the work associated with the IIEA’s twenty different working groups. We are grateful for the support of ESB, McCann FitzGerald, Eirgrid, Shell and Irish Aid for the sponsored lecture series.

In addition, the 2013 programme included an innovative IIEA/European Parliament project on the environment, which leveraged the IIEA’s increasing digital media capacity.

The programme associated with the IIEA’s working groups was impressive in terms of the seniority and expertise of the speakers. The working groups are an important means of facilitating engagement of our corporate and individual members. We are particularly grateful to the highly expert Chairs of the different groups for their commitment. This engagement and commitment is one of the IIEA’s great strengths.

Over the 23 years of its existence the IIEA has made a unique contribution to Irish life. It has provided a space where senior policy-makers, representatives of the corporate sector, trade unions and NGOs can have serious discussions, some in public, others on a confidential basis, about policy options, informed by the best available national and international speakers. Over the coming years, Ireland will face a range of challenges which will require considered and smart strategic policy responses. These challenges include the future course of European integration; the implications for Ireland of the evolving relationship between the UK and the EU; changing geopolitics; climate change and the economic and social implications of the digital revolution.

The IIEA can make a critical contribution to shaping the national discourse on the appropriate policy response to key European and international issues. We are developing a three year strategic plan which will identify the most important issues for our work programme, and the organisations and individuals who can most effectively contribute to the policy debate. We will engage with and seek support from a wider range of organisations than heretofore and explore new partnerships, within Ireland and internationally. This should add up to the IIEA enhancing its role as Ireland’s leading think tank and make it an exciting and vital organisation to be part of.

As a recently appointed Director General I must thank a number of people. We could not exist without the financial support from our foundation, corporate and individual members. Our committees and working groups depend on the commitment and voluntarism of our members. It has been a pleasure for me to work closely with the IIEA Board, led by the Chairman, Brendan Halligan, who has contributed

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so much in terms of vision, strategic guidance and effort since the IIEA was established 23 years ago. It has also been a pleasure to get to know and work with the committed and talented staff of the IIEA and I look forward to working closely with them as the IIEA faces many challenges and opportunities in the years ahead.

I want to conclude by paying a particular tribute to my immediate predecessor as Director General, Dáithí O’Ceallaigh. Dáithí became Director General of the IIEA on retiring from a very distinguished career in the Department of Foreign Affairs, including serving in a number of ambassadorial roles. Over his three and a half years as Director General, he made a huge contribution to the leadership and management of the IIEA. He has been a most generous mentor and guide as I commence my tenure as Director General and I look forward to his continuing friendship and support as we take the IIEA to the next stage in its development.

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Future of Europe GroupChair: Marie Cross

Irish EU Presidency

In January 2013, Ireland assumed the chair of the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU for the seventh time. To prepare for the Irish Presidency, the Institute had hosted its pre-Presidency conference in November 2012 at Dublin Castle, in conjunction with the Trans-European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA). The Institute was a hive of activity throughout the Presidency, hosting one hundred events between January and June 2013.

In February, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton T.D., addressed the Institute on the topic Driving Jobs, Trade and Competitiveness – Priorities for the Irish Presidency of the EU.

In early April, Lucinda Creighton T.D., then Minister of State for European Affairs, provided a mid-term review of the progress achieved and challenges ahead for the remainder of the Presidency. The event was the first in a three seminar series in association with McCann FitzGerald, entitled EU 2013.

In May, Simon Coveney T.D., Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, gave a fascinating insight into the politics of reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), two of the major achievements of the Irish Presidency.

The Institute also hosted a seminar for the Permanent Representatives to the EU from all of the EU Member States during their visit to Dublin with Irish Permanent Representative, H.E. Rory Montgomery. The topic of the seminar was The Irish Economy and the Eurozone: Current Perspectives and was addressed by three prominent Irish economists: Prof. Philip Lane, Dan O’Brien and Dermot O’Leary.

On 14 June, in preparation for the handover of the Presidency from Ireland to Lithuania, the IIEA welcomed Lithuanian Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vytautas Leškevičius to present the priorities of the incoming Lithuanian Presidency.

Rebuilding the EU post-crisis

In January, Catherine Day, Secretary General of the European Commission, gave her annual address to Institute members, providing a Commission perspective on the changes in the EU due to the economic crisis.

John Cronin, former Minister Lucinda Creighton T.D., Brendan Halligan and Dáithí O’Ceallaigh

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This was followed by a presentation by Frans van Daele, the recently retired Chef de Cabinet to European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, who spoke about the rebalancing of power between Member States and the EU institutions.

Prof. Danuta Hübner, Polish MEP and former European Commissioner, shared her analysis of the challenges and opportunities ahead for Europe, pointing to the need for treaty change and enhanced political legitimacy.

Legitimacy was also a central theme of Prof. Mary Kaldor’s speech on Subterranean Politics in Europe in June, when she called for a fundamental overhaul of the way politics works at local, national and European level.

Ireland and the future of Europe

On Europe Day, 9 May, the Institute held the inaugural Garret FitzGerald Lecture, another highlight of the 2013 programme. The topic was Strategies for a Small State in a Large Union and the large crowd gathered in the Gresham Hotel was addressed by IIEA Chairman, Brendan Halligan, with responses from Prof. John FitzGerald, and then Minister of State for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton, T.D.

Other thought-provoking contributions from Irish politicians in 2013 included a speech by Micheál Martin, T.D., Leader of Fianna Fail, entitled Where to now for Europe?

Later in the year, the Institute welcomed the newly-appointed Minister of State for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe T.D., to share his Reflections on the Horizon Ahead.

The Institute continued its practice of organising confidential briefings on the European Council meetings of Heads of State and Government, and would like to thank Geraldine Byrne-Nason, Second Secretary General in the Department of the Taoiseach, for generously giving these insightful briefings.

An authors’ group on Values, Narrative and Communication in the European Union was established in 2013 with a view to producing a report in the spring of 2014. The Group is chaired by Dermot Scott and its members included experts in philosophy, theology, social justice, culture, academia, communications and national and European public service.

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France and Germany GroupsChair: Katherine Meenan (Germany),Joe Mulholland (France)

Franco-German relations

In January 2013, the IIEA commemorated a major milestone in Franco-German relations that had implications for the whole of Europe – the signing of the Élysee Treaty as a framework for political cooperation between the two countries. Thomas Klau, ECFR; Jochen Thies, former speechwriter for Helmut Schmidt; and Prof. Brigid Laffan, UCD, gave French, German and Irish perspectives on the significance of the Treaty and the state of Franco-German relations today.

Germany

In 2013, the IIEA formally relaunched its working group on Germany, comprised of experts from the political, diplomatic, economic, business and academic spheres. The Group met a number of times in 2013, including for a private roundtable with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and, in January a delegation from the Bundestag Committee on European Affairs met with a group of IIEA experts for an exchange of views.

A number of high-profile speakers from Germany also visited the IIEA in the first half of the year to address sectoral issues.

The German federal elections in September were a focal point for the IIEA in 2013. In advance of the elections, David Marsh, OMFIF Chairman, and H.E. Eckhard Lübkemeier, German Ambassador to Ireland, addressed a seminar on On Germany and Europe Before and After the Elections. In November 2013, when the coalition negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD were in their final stages, Financial Times Associate Editor, Quentin Peel,

analysed the outcome and its implications in a speech entitled Merkel’s Pyrrhic Victory: What Will it Mean for Europe?.

In December, a paper by Group member and former Irish Ambassador to Germany, Pádraig Murphy, was published on the IIEA website, entitled “Germany’s Place in the World”.

France

The visit of France’s Finance Minister, Pierre Moscovici, to the IIEA was a highlight of the year. He received a warm welcome from a packed house as he delivered an address on Policy Outlook in France and at the European Level.

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Two other senior French political figures spoke at the IIEA in 2013. Senator Simon Sutour, Chair of the Senate Committee on European Affairs, addressed a roundtable on the topic of Democratic Legitimacy: The Role of National Parliaments in the EU. Deputy Pierre Lequiller, Vice-Chair of the National Assembly Committee on European Affairs, participated in a “Franco-Irish Conversation” on French European policy with journalist and academic, Paul Gillespie.

In addition, Chairman of the Institute, Brendan Halligan, welcomed a delegation from Atelier Europe to discuss developments in France’s EU policy.

Economics and Finance Lecture Series The Economics and Finance Series is a programme of high-level lectures and seminars, open to the general membership of the IIEA, on the major issues and themes relating to the Irish, European and global economies. The aim of this series is to engage Institute members, civil servants, policymakers, academics and the media on the key questions and challenges in this area.

One of the highlights of the Institute’s calendar for 2013 was a major speech by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, in Dublin Castle on International Women’s Day. Before an audience of almost three hundred people in St. Patrick’s Hall, Ms. Lagarde delivered a speech entitled Ireland and the European Union – Shared Determination, Shared Destiny.

Algirdas Šemeta, European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud, gave a keynote address in January on the topic of Making Progress on European Tax Policy.

In February, Steffen Kampeter, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany, provided a German perspective on the topic of Economic Adjustment in Divergent EU Economies.

Also in February, John Kay, Visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford, gave a fascinating lecture on The Economic Role of the Financial Sector.

Peter Bofinger, a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, gave a presentation in March on Eurocrisis: Is There Already Light at the End of the Tunnel?

This was followed by an address by Carlos Moedas, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister of Portugal, on The Portuguese Road to Recovery.

In May, Paul De Grauwe, John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy at the LSE, gave a

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keynote address on Dealing with Macroeconomic Imbalances and Design Problems in the EMU.

Tomáš Sedláček, Chief Economist at Československá Obchodní Banka (ČSOB), subsequently delivered a presentation at the Institute entitled The Economics of Good and Evil: The Economy as a Manic Depressed Body, based on his international bestselling book.

In June, Wolfgang Münchau, leading financial journalist and Associate Editor at the Financial Times, gave a major speech on Away from Policy Mistakes: Getting the Response to the Crisis in Europe and Ireland Right.

The Chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum and Former European Editor of the Financial Times, David Marsh, gave an address at the Institute in June on the topic of Europe’s Deadlock: How the Euro Crisis Could be Solved – and Why It Won’t Happen.

In July, the Institute hosted a private roundtable briefing featuring a presentation by Hans Eichel, Former German Minister for Finance, on the topic of How Much Europe Do We Need to Stabilise the Eurozone.

Also in July, Frank Barry, Professor of International Business and Economic Development at Trinity College Dublin, delivered a presentation on The Mechanics of Aggressive Tax Planning by Multinational Corporations.

One of the highlights of the year was an address in September by Ángel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD, on the topic of economic growth and inequality. This stimulating presentation was delivered under the title of Cherishing Everyone Equally: The Imperative for Inclusive Growth.

The theme of a sustainable recovery was again the topic of an address later on in September by Marco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission, under the title of How to Make Recovery Sustainable.

In October, the Institute was honoured to welcome Nobel Laureate Michael Spence, Professor of Economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Prof. Spence spoke on The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth, which is the topic of his acclaimed book published in 2011.

In November, Jonathan Portes, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) in the UK, spoke on Crisis and Recovery in Europe: What Have We Learnt?

The Economics and Finance programme for 2013 culminated with a major address by Eamon Gilmore T.D., Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, in December ahead of Ireland’s exit from the EU/IMF programme. The keynote address was entitled Ireland: Beyond the Troika Programme.

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Economic Governance GroupChair: Daithí O’Ceallaigh The Economic Governance Group is a high-level working group, which analyses the continuing reform of Europe’s economic governance architecture and publishes analytical papers detailing the implications for Ireland and Europe. The Group continues the work undertaken by the Euro Crisis Group, which published several papers in 2012.

In 2013, the Economic Governance Group produced a series of seven publications:

• Reforming European Economic Governance: The European Semester and Other Recent Developments by Michael Tutty

• Shared Economic Sovereignty: Beneficial or Not and Who Decides? by Professor John O’Hagan

• Sovereignty and Globalisation by Philip Stephens

• Why Does Ireland Have All Those Referendums? by Gavin Barrett

• Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability: The European Semester and the Irish Budget by Alan Dukes

• EU Policy Surveillance of Member States by Michael Tutty

• Economic Governance with Tight Constraints: Exploring Implications for the Irish Economy by John Bradley

The first seven papers of the Economic Governance series are outlined above and are available to download from www.iiea.com/publications. The Group intends to publish further work in 2014.

IIEA and McCann FitzGerald Seminar: Economic Sovereignty in an Age of Globalisation and EU Integration

On 31 May, 2013, the Group held a major policy seminar entitled Economic Sovereignty in an Age of Globalisation and EU Integration. The event formed part of the IIEA/McCann FitzGerald EU 2013 seminar series, to mark the Irish Presidency of the EU. The seminar examined the nature of economic sovereignty as an issue with major economic, political and legal implications for Ireland and Europe. The seminar featured two panels focusing on economic sovereignty from an economic and legal point of view. Panel speakers included Philip Stephens, Associate Editor of the Financial Times; John O’Hagan, Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin; John McHale, Chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council; Peter Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International; Gavin Barrett, School of Law at UCD; and Pat Cox, Former President of the European Parliament.

Over 100 delegates attended the seminar. Video and audio recordings of proceedings can be accessed at: http://www.iiea.com/events/economic-sovereignty-in-an-age-of-globalisation-and-eu-integration.

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Economists GroupChairs: Pat McArdle and David Croughan

The Economists Group is a long-established network of economists, who meet on a monthly basis 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. The Group holds private meetings, which are addressed by prominent economists on significant issues for the Irish and European economies.

Lars Frisell, Chief Economist at the Central Bank of Ireland, addressed the first meeting of the Group on Transitioning from a Currency Union to a Banking Union: Fiscal and Monetary Considerations.

This was followed by a presentation by Michael McGrath, Assistant Secretary General at the Department of Finance, on the topic of Changes in European Economic Governance: Issues for the Irish Presidency.

The third meeting of the year featured a presentation by Steven Seelig, Chairperson of the Risk Management Committee and Board Member of the National Asset Management Agency, on Stages of a Banking Crisis and Issues Unique to Recovery in EU Countries.

Andrew McDowell, Special Advisor to the Taoiseach, gave a presentation to the Group’s fourth meeting on Improving Eurozone Economic Governance.

The Group hosted an in-depth session on the medium-term prospects for the Irish economy with ESRI Research Professor, John FitzGerald, who gave a presentation outlining the ESRI’s Medium Term Review, which was published in July 2013.

John Corrigan, Chief Executive of the National Treasury Management Agency, addressed the Group at its sixth meeting under the title Ireland: Rebuilding the Confidence of Debt Capital Markets.

The group was pleased to welcome back John FitzGerald, Research Professor at the ESRI, for a second time in 2013 to give his annual presentation on The Irish Budget.

Shane Enright and Mary Dalton, Assistant Principals at the Department of Finance, presented to the Group on the findings from their working paper on the pharma-chem sector in Ireland. The title of the presentation was The Impact of the Patent Cliff on Pharma-Chem Output in Ireland.

In the final meeting of the year, the group welcomed John McHale, Chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, who presented on the topic of Looking Beyond the Bailout: A View from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council.

Banking Union GroupChairs: Pat Cox and Pat McArdle

In March 2013, the IIEA launched its Banking Union project to analyse the European Commission’s proposals for unifying banking supervision and resolution at European level – a key element of Herman Van Rompuy’s paper Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union. The Group aims to publish a final report in 2014 and, in support of this objective, the Institute initiated a year-long

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speaker programme which shadowed the work-programme of the European Commission. The Group also undertook private meetings with a range of stakeholders and policymakers in Ireland and Brussels.

The IIEA is grateful for the continuing support of Bank of Ireland, AIB, Ulster Bank, KPMG and Deloitte for this project.

The first event in the Banking Union programme was a private briefing by Adam Farkas, the first Executive Director of the European Banking Authority (EBA), to members of the IIEA’s Banking Union Group. Dr. Farkas outlined the role of the EBA in the creation of the ‘single rulebook’ for European banks.

The topic of financial regulation was revisited in July, when Martin Moloney, Head of the Markets Policy Division at the Central Bank of Ireland, gave an overview of the important changes to banking and non-banking regulation during the Irish Presidency of the EU, in a speech entitled Regulatory Reform and the Irish Presidency: Insights from the Central Bank.

In November, shortly after agreement was reached on the Single Supervisory Mechanism, the first pillar of the Banking Union, Frank Smets, Director General of Research at the ECB, delivered a keynote address at the IIEA on the topic of Practical Implications of the Single Supervisory Mechanism.

The European Commission’s proposal for a Single Resolution Mechanism was a key focus of the 2013 programme, and was addressed by three major speakers. First, Sabine Lautenschläger, Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, addressed the Institute in a speech entitled From Supervision to Resolution: A German Perspective.

Next, the role of the Commission’s State aid function in the Single Resolution Mechanism was addressed by Gert-Jan Koopman, Deputy Director General for State Aid, DG Competition, while Joaquin Almunia, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Competition, delivered a major speech on bank resolution as it relates to competition law and the Single Market in Europe.

Two further high-level speakers completed the Banking Union programme in December. The first was Thomas Wieser, President of the Eurogroup

Working Group, who discussed the political and technical challenges in completing the Banking Union.

Finally, Thomas Hoenig, Vice President of the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), delivered a substantial policy speech, entitled A Failure of Structural Integrity. Mr. Hoenig’s presentation contrasted the oversight of banks in Europe and the U.S., and outlined the necessity of the separation of banking activities as part of Europe’s financial reforms.

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Energy Policy GroupChair: Eamon RyanProject Leader: Helen Donoghue

The ESB Lecture Series 2013 addressed a wide range of topics, which generated fascinating insights into the shifting geopolitics of energy, decarbonisation strategies in Europe and the U.S., the energy-ICT interface and the challenges for the European internal energy market associated with moving to low carbon resources.

Geopolitics of energy

In February, Edward C. Chow, Senior Fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the renowned Center for Strategic and International Studies, delivered an address on The New Geopolitics of Energy: A U.S. Perspective.

In March, Dr. Philip Andrews-Speed, Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore, expounded on China’s International Oil and Gas Strategies and the ramifications of its strategies for the global marketplace.

This was followed by an address by Pawel Olejarnik, Senior Energy Analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA), who reflected on the central findings

of the IEA’s flagship publication, the World Energy Outlook and the prospects for all energy sources, regions and sectors to 2035.

Transitions to climate-friendly energy policy

Energy transitions was the theme of three further events in this series.

Peter Altmaier, German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, discussed The German Energiewende in the European Context and Beyond.

Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Buildings, Martin Lidegaard, delivered an address on Leaving the Fossil Behind: How Denmark Turned the Tide from Coal to Sustainable Energy.

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The theme of energy transition was echoed in one of the highlights of the programme - an address in June by Amory Lovins, Founder, Chief Scientist and Chairman Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain Institute, on Reinventing Fire: The Business-Led Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels. Mr. Lovins set out his vision for a world of energy abundance, led by business, supported by civil society and smart policy. This event was organised in conjunction with SEAI.

Energy and climate change was the focus of one of the world’s pre-eminent climate scientists, Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), who gave a major speech on Why Two Degrees Matters. His address drew on an important 2012 report by PIK for the World Bank, Turn Down the Heat, and painted a sobering picture of a world warmed by four degrees.

Smart Energy

Simon Giles, Accenture’s global lead for its Intelligent Cities Strategy, delivered an address on Developing Intelligent Cities: Smart, Sustainable Urban Spaces, in February in which he explored how the latest ICT developments can be harnessed to deliver more efficient and sustainable services and energy infrastructure.

Prof. Robert Gifford, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, provided an alternative perspective on the psychological barriers that prevent individuals from taking action against climate change and reflected on how to motivate consumers to be more energy efficient.

Dario Gil, Director for Energy and Natural Resources at IBM Research, and Director of the Smarter Energy Research Institute, New York, concluded the lecture series with a visionary address on Creating the Utility of the Future.

Two additional roundtable events were held on the theme of Generation Adequacy and Security of Supply.

In March, Tadhg O’Briain of the Internal Energy Market unit of the European Commission’s DG Energy, provided members of the energy group with a briefing on the outcome of a public consultation on generation adequacy and security of supply in the internal electricity market.

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In June Malcolm Keay, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies provided a thought-provoking insight into the lack of co-ordination between the EU’s Energy and Climate policies, in an address entitled Europe’s Energy and Climate Policies – Coming Apart at the Seams?

Eirgrid Seminars

The Institute also hosted two major seminars in February and March, with the kind support of Eirgrid, Ireland’s Transmission Systems Operator. The Institute would like to thank Eirgrid for its support.

The first seminar, entitled The Future of Energy Infrastructure in Europe, focused on the EU Energy Infrastructure Regulation. Speakers included: Jean-Arnold Vinois, Former Director of the Internal Energy Market at the European Commission’s DG Energy; Prof. Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation; and Dr. Leonard Meeus, leader of the THINK Project and Research Fellow at the Florence School of Regulation.

The second seminar, entitled Managing World-Leading Levels of Renewables, explored European, Danish and Irish perspectives and speakers included Arne Mogren, Director of Power at the European Climate Foundation; Peder Ostermark Andreasen, Chief Executive of the Danish grid, Energinet; and Fintan Slye, Chief Executive of EirGrid.

Climate and Environment GroupChair: Peter Brennan

The EU’s role in UN climate negotiations, the worsening predictions of climate science, the EU 2030 climate policy, and water policy were key elements of the IIEA’s Climate and Environment work programme for 2013.

The international scene was set in an excellent and informative briefing in January on the outcome of the Doha UN Climate Talks, delivered by David Walsh, Department of the Environment, and Ciara Gaynor, Oxfam Ireland.

The conversation initiated with Prof. Schellnhuber after his ESB lecture was continued in May 2013, when IIEA Chairman Brendan Halligan led a delegation to Potsdam for an exchange of views between the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change (PIK) the IIEA Climate Group and E3G on climate science and the international climate negotiations.

The theme of international negotiations was taken up again in June at a roundtable discussion on EU Leadership Towards 2015 with the European Climate Foundation and the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. In their addresses, Caio-Koch

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Weser, Chair of the European Climate Foundation, and Mary Robinson, Founder of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, considered pressing matters such as the most appropriate method for the EU to show leadership in climate negotiations, and the negotiation pressure points and opportunities likely to be of importance between now and 2015.

In September 2013, Prof. Joseph Alcamo, Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), gave an address on How to Embed the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals.

In November 2013, Joseph Curtin, Associate Researcher for Climate Policy at the IIEA, discussed The ‘Cost’ of Ambitious Climate Action in Sweden.

Water Policy

Water policy was another key focus in 2013, against the background of the IIEA Environment Nexus Project, which explored the relationships between water, energy and food. In January, the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Fergus O’Dowd T.D., launched The Environment Nexus project with a speech on Irish water sector reform entitled Nexus Thinking – An Integrated Approach to Irish Water Policy. This was followed in May by an address by Prof. Arjen Hoekstra, developer of the ‘water footprint’ concept and Professor of Water Management at the University of Twente, on Virtual Water: The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society.

EU Climate Policy

The key elements of the Irish Presidency agenda with regard to EU climate policy were explored over the course of the year. In February 2013 the IIEA hosted a seminar on Biofuels and Climate: The Indirect Land-Use Change Challenge, with John Rice, Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; David Barissa Ringa, ActionAid Kenya; and Marc Olivier Herman, Oxfam EU. This event was organised in conjunction with ActionAid, Oxfam and Transport and Environment.

In April, to coincide with the informal Energy and Environment Ministerial in Dublin, the IIEA hosted a major seminar on The EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework, which explored key elements of the debate around 2030. Speakers included: Jakub Koniecki, European Commission, Joris den Blanken, Greenpeace Europe; David Hone, Shell; and Andrei Marcu, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). The seminar was kindly supported by Shell.

In May, David Walsh of the Department of the Environment delivered a second in-depth briefing, this time outlining the central points of the EU’s Climate Adaptation Framework.

Irish Climate Policy

The IIEA provided a forum for a discussion on the future of Irish climate policy on two occasions in 2013. First, the Institute hosted a workshop

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affording an opportunity for an exchange of views on the NESC Secretariat’s final report on Irish climate change policy, Ireland’s Climate Change Challenge: Connecting ‘How Much’ with ‘How To’, commissioned by Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan T.D.

This was followed in October by a roundtable discussion on Dr. Stephen Flood’s study Projected Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Irish Agriculture. The study, which was commissioned by Stop Climate Chaos (an umbrella group of NGOs) and written by Dr. Stephen Flood, Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit, NUIM, was launched at the Institute by the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, T.D. and the respondents included Gary Lanigan, Teagasc, and John Brennan, Leitrim Organic Farmers Association.

The final event of the year took place on 19 December, when Owen Ryan, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government delivered an end-of-year update on climate policy at national, international and regional level.

Digital Future GroupChairs: Eamon Ryan and Joyce O’Connor

The Digital Future Group provides a forum for stakeholders in the digital sector to present their insights on emerging trends in the digital arena and their implications for policy and business. In 2013, the Digital Future Group maintained a strong focus on the EU’s Digital Agenda. In the context of Ireland’s prioritisation of digital issues during its EU Presidency from January to June, the Group explored some of the key components of the Digital Agenda and their implications for Ireland and Europe.

Robert Madelin, Director-General of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) in the European Commission, opened the 2013 events programme with an overview of the EU’s progress to date and its priorities for the year ahead.

Copyright and Digital Content were the topics of the next three events in the programme for 2013. First, Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, delivered a keynote address on How Copyright and Patent Reform Can Make Us All Wealthier and Safer.

Copyright was also the subject of a roundtable with Robert Levine, journalist, blogger and former

Simon Coveney, T.D. speaks at the launch of Dr. Stephen Flood’s study Projected Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Irish Agriculture

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Executive Editor of Billboard magazine, who argued that, when applied effectively, copyright remains a valid concept that protects artists’ creative rights and the integrity of their work.

Mark Schaefer, entrepreneur, business consultant and author, took a different angle on the topic and expanded on the theme of digital content and the blurring of the line between creator and consumer.

Telecommunications regulation was another important theme in the digital programme for 2013. Luigi Gambardella, Chairman of the Executive Board of the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO), provided key insight and analysis on what the EU’s proposals for telecommunications reform would mean for telecoms companies.

The Institute complemented the telecommunications series with the creation of a motion-graphic video explaining the EU’s “Connected Continent” proposals and analysing their implications for companies, regulators and consumers.

Digital education was another key theme in the 2013 events programme which was addressed by three digital champions, beginning with Lord David Puttnam, Ireland’s National Digital Champion. Lord Puttnam delivered a keynote address on the first phase of Ireland’s National Digital Strategy, which focuses on enabling schools, education institutions and small businesses to “do more with digital”.

Linda Liukas, Finland’s National Digital Champion, discussed her work to introduce young children (and girls in particular) to coding with Ann O’Dea, CEO of Silicon Republic.

Gilles Babinet, France’s National Digital Champion, came to the IIEA as part of his visit to Dublin to speak on how French ICT policy is “pivoting into the digital era”. Mr. Babinet’s address was kindly sponsored by Realex Payments.

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Bill McCluggage, the Irish Government’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO), delivered a keynote address at the IIEA on his mission to transform Ireland’s eGovernment services. Mr. McCluggage discussed the potential benefits of big data, cloud computing and social media for day-to-day public services, and offered a glimpse of the future interactions between government and citizens in the digital age.

The Institute’s Digital Programme also included two seminars, one on Data Privacy and one on Media Pluralism and concluded the year with a major conference on Cybersecurity.

IIEA and McCann FitzGerald Seminar: Protecting Personal Data in the Digital Age

The relationship between law and policy in Europe and the U.S. was the topic of an IIEA seminar on Protecting Personal Data in the Digital Age. The keynote speakers at this major seminar which was sponsored and hosted by McCann FitzGerald were Marne Levine, Facebook’s Vice-President for Global Public Policy, and Billy Hawkes, Irish Data Protection Commissioner.

Seminar on Media Pluralism and Freedom in a Connected Europe

A seminar on Media Pluralism and Freedom in a Connected Europe convened a high-level panel of ministers, policymakers and practitioners to discuss issues relating to freedom of expression, pluralism and maintaining journalistic standards.

Minister Pat Rabbitte T.D., Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, delivered the opening address, and was joined in the first panel by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, and Lord David Puttnam, Ireland’s National Digital Champion.

The second panel, chaired by Kevin O’Sullivan, Editor of The Irish Times, focused on the role of Member States and the European Union in maintaining media freedom and pluralism. It brought together three distinguished experts in the field: Professor Herta Däubler-Gmelin, a member of the EU High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism; Francine Cunningham, Executive Director, European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA); and Professor Pier Luigi Parcu, Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, European University Institute, Florence.

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IIEA and McCann FitzGerald New Models of Regulation Series: Communications Regulation in the 21st Century

Following the success of the EU 2013 Presidency series, McCann FitzGerald and the IIEA launched a second joint initiative, a series on New Models of Regulation. The aim of this series is to examine trends in regulation, with a particular focus on effective regulation in the digital age, international best practice in sectoral regulation and the economic benefits of regulation. The first event of the series took place in November 2013 in the offices of McCann FitzGerald. Robert McDowell, recently retired U.S. Federal Communication Commissioner, was interviewed by broadcaster John Bowman on the topic of Communications Regulation in the 21st Century.

Justice and Home Affairs GroupChair: Nora OwenProject Leader: Eugene Regan

The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Group analyses developments in police and judicial cooperation at EU and international level. The 2013 work programme monitored ongoing developments in JHA policy,

particularly with regard to the UK’s decision to opt out of EU police and criminal justice measures, the future of EU justice agencies, cybersecurity, migration, and the wider governance and judicial role that EU and international institutions play in JHA policy.

Robert Wainwright, Director of Europol, opened the 2013 event programme. His keynote address on The Future of EU Internal Security after 2014 focused on proposals to reform Europol, the future shape of EU JHA cooperation after the expiry of the Stockholm Programme in 2014, the UK opt-out, and the importance of EU-wide cooperation to strengthen JHA measures post-Lisbon.

Cybersecurity formed an integral part of the JHA Group’s work programme in 2013, reflecting the EU’s enhanced role in this area.

The IIEA welcomed Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, who delivered a keynote address on The Growing Cyber Threat – Are We Up to the Challenge? She examined the implications of cybercrime for European citizens, governments and businesses and addressed the EU’s policy responses to this challenge.

Prof. Udo Helmbrecht, the Executive Director of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), spoke on Digital Evolution: Why, For Europe’s Future, “Cyber” Must Mean “Safer”. Prof. Helmbrecht highlighted ENISA’s increasingly important role in protecting critical infrastructure and securing information flows across Europe.

The UK’s decision to exercise a “block opt-out” of pre-Lisbon police and criminal justice legislation formed a further focal point for the JHA Group. William Hughes, former Director General of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), briefed members of the Group on The Implications of the UK’s JHA Opt-out for Ireland, and for wider judicial cooperation across the Union.

Prof. John Spencer, President of the European Criminal Law Association (UK), also spoke to the Justice Group on this topic. He provided a valuable insight into The Future of the European Arrest Warrant and EU Criminal Justice Cooperation. Prof. Spencer provided analysis of the specific implications for the Union of the UK’s decision.

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On migration and management of the EU’s external borders, Ilkka Laitinen, Executive Director of Frontex, focused on The Role and Responsibilities in EU Border Management. He spoke of the challenges facing Frontex in balancing the management of migration channels with fundamental rights and civil liberties.

The use of ICT and mobile identification technology in immigration services was addressed by Frank Smith, Chair of the EU Mobile Identification Interoperability Group (e-MOBIDIG), and Supt. Cleaven Faulkner, both from the UK Border Agency (UKBA).

Securing the Supply Chain: the Expanding Role of Customs, was the title of an address by Heinz Zourek, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union in the European Commission in which he outlined how customs has evolved from revenue collector to a major player in the field of supply chain security.

Michèle Coninsx, President of Eurojust, briefed members of the Group on The Future of Judicial Cooperation in the EU. Ms. Coninsx stressed the importance of horizontal cooperation, and noted in particular the proposed role of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to tackle crime against EU financial interests.

The Institute was pleased to welcome Judge Lars Bay Larsen, the Danish Judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), who spoke on Criminal Law Cooperation: Future Changes to the ECJ. In this context, he discussed the new competences

conferred on the ECJ post-Lisbon, notably the use of the preliminary reference procedure for police and criminal matters.

Finally, The Council of Europe’s Unique Role in Human Rights Protection and Promotion was the subject of a keynote address by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe. He addressed the organisation’s response to a range of challenges, including reform of the judiciary, freedom of expression, and protection of minority rights across its 47 Member States.

UK GroupChair: Dáithí O’Ceallaigh

The UK Group hosted a range of high-level speakers from the UK over the course of 2013 to provide valuable insights for its work on the UK’s ongoing debate on EU membership.

The Rt. Hon. David Lidington MP, Minister for Europe, outlined the European policy of Prime Minister David Cameron in the wake of his promise to hold an in/out referendum on EU membership by 2017. In his keynote address on Europe Day entitled The European Union – Our Shared Future, Minister Lidington called for a more open, flexible and competitive EU with greater democratic accountability.

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Lord William Wallace, Liberal Democrat Spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence, provided the perspective of the Conservatives’ coalition partner on the EU debate. Lord Wallace also updated the UK Group on the progress of the Balance of Competences Review, which he is tasked with overseeing on behalf of the Liberal Democrats.

In May 2013, Former Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, shared his views on the UK’s relations with the EU.

Later in the year, the Rt. Hon. Carwyn Jones AM, First Minister of Wales, gave a keynote address on The Future of Wales in a Changing UK, which focused on the internal constitutional challenges facing the UK, with particular reference to the forthcoming independence referendum in Scotland.

As well as political leaders, the UK Group welcomed a number of distinguished British guests from business, trade unions, academia, think tanks and the media.

Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, gave a keynote address on Revitalising Social Europe, in which she emphasised the importance of the European project’s social dimension for its continued legitimacy and sustainable economic recovery.

In a subsequent address, John Cridland, Director General of the Confederation of British Industries, presented the views of British business on the EU.

In February, Mats Persson, Director of Open Europe, shared his views on the UK’s reform agenda.

The steady rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) was the primary focus of Dr. Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey, in a November presentation on the topic Are Eurosceptics Winning the Argument?

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In November 2013, the UK Group hosted a seminar on Britain Without Europe – Europe Without Britain. Douglas Carswell MP, a leading advocate of UK withdrawal from the EU, and Charles Clarke, Former Home Secretary, were the keynote speakers. The seminar also featured Hugo Brady, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform, who provided the view from Brussels on the UK’s EU debate, and Eric Albert, Journalist for Le Monde, Radio France and Le Temps, who gave a French perspective on the UK demand for wider EU reform.

Charles Moore, the authorised biographer of Margaret Thatcher and a leading British journalist, concluded the UK Group’s event programme in December 2013 with a keynote address on Europe – Is Mrs. Thatcher winning the argument 25 years after losing it?

On the publications side, Dáithí O’Ceallaigh and James Kilcourse published a policy paper entitled Untying the Knot? Ireland, the UK and the EU, which set out a framework for analysing Ireland’s strategic options in the face of changing UK-EU relations.

China GroupChairs: Julie O’Neill and Brendan Halligan

In 2013 the China Group continued its work on developing an understanding in Ireland of the increasingly important role China will play in global affairs, and the political, economic and historical forces that are shaping the country.

To start the year, Prof. Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, examined How China’s Wartime Past is Changing its Present - and Future.

The importance of history in shaping China’s future also came to the fore in the address on Visions of the Future of China by Prof. William Callahan, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Drawing on the writings of what he termed “public intellectuals”, Prof. Callahan

drew parallels between President Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’ policy and previous political ideals from Chinese history.

This topic was further developed by Prof. Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney and Team Leader of the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN), in his speech The ‘China Dream’ Concept: President Xi Jinping’s Vision for China

Given the vital role that China can play in addressing global climate change, the address by Dr. Eddie O’Connor, Founder and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power, on China and Climate Change Policy, was of particular interest in this series.

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The China Group also devoted considerable attention to examining how China will manage its relations with other nations, and with multilateral organisations such as the EU. Prof. Pan Guang, Vice Chairman and Professor of the Shanghai Centre for International Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences considered China’s Role in the Middle East, while Prof. Xin Hua, Visiting Scholar at the College of Europe, examined The Future of EU-China Relations.

Examining China’s relations with the outside world from a different perspective, Prof. Philomena Murray, Jean Monnet Chair, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, considered the question Does Europe Need a Pivot Towards Asia?

Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR, presented ECFR’s Scorecard: Grading Europe’s Relations with China, which examined how successful the EU has been in developing its relationship with China.

Prof. James Curran, 2013 Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History, UCD, examined the strong relationship between Australia and China in his address Australia in the Asian Century: the 2013 Federal Election and implications for Australian Foreign Policy vis-à-vis China.

In 2013, the IIEA developed ties with a number of leading Chinese institutions. In June, a delegation from the Institute of European Studies from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) led by Prof. Zhou Hong visited the Institute. This relationship was strengthened further by a

subsequent visit of the China Group chair Julie O’Neill, to China to address the Beijing Forum at the invitation of CASS in November.

Building on the presentations by Prof. Xin Hua and Prof. Pan Guang, the IIEA also established a relationship with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

U.S. GroupChair: John Travers

Trade was the primary focus of the U.S. Group in 2013, reflecting the ambitious trade agenda of President Obama and the launch of EU-U.S. negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

In April, Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, gave a keynote address in which he outlined the shifting geography and

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dynamics of trade flows and called for a renewed global effort to remove barriers to international trade and investment.

European Commissioner for Trade, Karel De Gucht, responded to concerns that an EU-U.S. trade agreement might undermine the multilateral trading system in a keynote address entitled The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – Global Impacts. Commissioner De Gucht argued that a transatlantic trade agreement would in fact strengthen the multilateral trade system and he praised the success of the Irish EU Presidency in securing agreement on a negotiating mandate for TTIP.

In October 2013, Joseph Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist, Bank of America, provided a U.S. perspective on TTIP. He noted that the importance of the transatlantic relationship is often underestimated

in the U.S. but argued that TTIP, if successful, would be a huge boost to the world economy, with Ireland likely to benefit enormously due to its already strong economic relations with the U.S.

In 2013, the U.S. Group continued its engagement with U.S. government representatives, politicians and senior officials. In July, the Special Representative for Global Partnerships, Andrew O’Brien, briefed the Institute on the U.S. Global Partnership Initiative, a new element of U.S. foreign policy that aims to strengthen diplomatic ties and boost development policy. The U.S. Group also held private meetings in 2013 with members of Congress and officials from the Department of State.

Foreign PolicyChair: Pádraig Murphy

As the 21st Century has progressed, new voices and issues have come to the fore in global discourse, and this trend is reflected in the 2013 programme of the IIEA’s Foreign Policy Group.

The increasing importance of the Arctic region in political, economic and security terms, was the subject of an address by Minister Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, on the topic of The Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities.

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The growing clout of emerging economies in global institutions was highlighted by Dr. Mari Elka Pangestu, former Indonesian Minister for Trade, in her address to the IIEA as Indonesia’s Candidate for Director General of the World Trade Organisation.

Seminar on EU-Japan Relations

The increasing focus of global attention on the Pacific was reflected in the Seminar on EU-Japan Relations. Speakers at this event included Ambassador Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, Managing-Director Asia-Pacific, European External Action Service; Sayuri Ito, Senior Research fellow, NLI Research Institute; Michael Gaffey, Assistant Secretary, Development Cooperation Division, Department of Foreign Affairs; David Hegarty, Principal Officer, Economic Division, Department of Finance; Aiichiro Yamamoto, Principal Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to the European Union.

The relationship between the EU and the wider world received considerable attention from the Group, with a keynote address by Stavros Lambrinidis, who discussed his role as the European Union’s Special Representative for Human Rights.

Examining the wider role of the EU as a diplomatic actor, Sir Robert Cooper, European Diplomat and Thought Leader, provided his Reflections on the EU as a Foreign Policy Actor.

On the Middle East region, Ben-Dror Yemini, Opinion Editor of leading Israeli newspaper Maariv, discussed The Middle East Conflict: A Comparative Analysis, and Reuven Merhav, former Director-General, Israeli Department of Foreign Affairs, provided a presentation on Israel - the Place Where Geopolitics, Economics and Strategic Issues Meet.

The Group also considered a number of other foreign policy questions, including Russia, when Dmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Director, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, considered Eurasian Economic Integration – Perspectives.

The final event in the foreign policy programme was an address by Fiona Forde, journalist and author of An Inconvenient Youth: Julius Malema and the ‘New’ ANC, who examined the question of South Africa Post-Mandela: Business as Usual or Business Unusual?

Wider Europe GroupThe Wider Europe Group encompasses three research programmes that focus on the EU’s relations with its wider region: the Balkans Group, the Enlargement Group and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Group.

Balkans Group

Chair: Tony Brown

The Balkans Group is a long-established working group that monitors political, economic and social developments in the Western Balkans region. In 2013, it played an instrumental role in the IIEA’s cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to organise a high-level conference as part Top: Stavros Lambrinidis and Jill Donoghue

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of Ireland’s EU Presidency. The conference, held on 24 May, marked the tenth anniversary of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Thessaloniki and reflected on the commitment made to the countries of the region in 2003 that ‘the future of the Balkans is within the European Union’.

The conference was hosted in Farmleigh House by then Minister of State for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton, T.D., and opened by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore T.D.. Other speakers included Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy; Vesna Pusic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Croatia; Dr. Miroslav Lajcák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia; and Alexander Pejovic, Chief Negotiator of Montenegro. Other panelists included Reinhold Lopatka, State Secretary of Austria; Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament; Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies; Alexandra Papadopolou, Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs; and Goran Svilanovic, Sec. Gen. of the Regional Cooperation Council. Tony Brown acted as rapporteur on behalf of the IIEA.

The Group maintained its focus on the economic development of the Western Balkans in 2013. Peter Sanfey, Deputy Director of Country Strategy and Policy, EBRD, briefed the Group on the economic and political reforms necessary to bring about sustainable economic growth in the region.

The Group also hosted Fatmir Besimi, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia, who spoke about the challenges and opportunities in the EU integration process of the Western Balkans.

Enlargement Group

Chair: Andy O’Rourke

The 2013 programme of the Enlargement Group commenced with a briefing by Aleksandar Pejovic, State Secretary for European Integration of Montenegro, on the country’s ongoing EU accession negotiations.

In July 2013, the Institute’s Enlargement Group marked the accession of Croatia to the EU by hosting H.E. Jasna Ognjanovac, Croatia’s Ambassador to Ireland, who addressed the Group on the country’s ten-year accession process. Ambassador Ognjanovac, who was directly involved in Croatia’s accession talks, reflected on the process and the lessons it provides for the future of EU enlargement.

In 2013, the Enlargement Group held a seminar on Turkey: A Regional Power with European Ambitions. The seminar assessed Turkey’s past, present and future relations with the EU, the increasingly important role of Turkey in the Middle East and North Africa region, as well as the long-term prospects of the Turkish economy. Distinguished speakers included Prof. Haluk Kabaalioglu, Dean of the School of Law and Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law in Istanbul’s Yeditepe University; Prof. Feroz Ahmad,

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Chair of the Department of International Relations and Political Science, Yeditepe University; Durmus Yilmaz, Former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey; and Dr. John O’Brennan, Director of the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

The Enlargement Group concluded its events programme for 2013 with a briefing by Erwan Fouéré, Associate Senior Research Fellow, CEPS, on key developments over the course of the year in the EU’s enlargement process, including the progress achieved by the Irish EU Presidency.

European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Group

Chair: Prof. Ron Hill

The ENP Group has analysed European Neighbourhood Policy since its inception in 2004. With continuing instability in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood and a crucial Eastern Partnership Summit held in November, 2013 was a particularly important and active year for the ENP Group.

Dr. Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Lecturer in the School of Law and Government, DCU, opened the ENP events programme with a presentation on: Georgia: From Rose Revolution to…? in which he assessed the key challenges facing Georgia’s new government after the country’s first peaceful and democratic transfer of power.

Later in the year, the Caucasus region was again the focus of a presentation by Dennis Sammut, Director of LINKS Analysis, who discussed how Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are juggling the quest for peace, modernisation and democratisation.

In anticipation of the important Eastern Partnership Summit to be held in Vilnius in November 2013, the ENP Group hosted a number of high-level speakers on this topic. They included Titus Corlatean, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, who gave a keynote address on The Eastern Partnership – What’s in it for the EU?

The Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia in the European External Action Service, Luis Felipe Fernández de la Peña, addressed the Institute on the importance of the Eastern Partnership in the context of the EU’s relations with Wider Europe.

Ambassador Beata Peksa, Special Plenipotentiary of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Eastern Partnership, provided a Polish perspective in advance of the summit in Riga.

The ENP Group also maintained its focus on the Southern Neighbourhood in 2013. In April, Bernardino León, EU Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean, briefed the Institute on his role in managing the EU’s relations with this complex and sensitive region.

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The Group hosted the Secretary General of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Nasser Bourita, who provided a perspective from the region on the political turbulence in Morocco’s neighbourhood and the military conflicts in the Sahel.

Morocco was the focus of a seminar in October 2013 on the political, social and economic reforms experienced by the country over the past ten years. The seminar, which was organized in conjunction with the Moroccan embassy, featured leading

political and academic actors from Morocco: Ahmed Reda Chami, Shadow Minister for Trade; Dr. Nizar Messari, Professor of International Studies and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University; and Dr. Angelos Sepos, Professor of European Studies, Al Akhawayn University.

Security and Defence Policy GroupChairs: Prof. Ben Tonra, Marie Cross and Prof. Patrick Keatinge

The future of European defence was the major focus of the Security and Defence Group in 2013. The year started with a flagship event, an address by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, on the topic of NATO and Ireland: Working Together For Peace.

This was followed by a second high-level address, when then Minister Alan Shatter T.D., Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, presented The Green Paper on Defence, which examined the possible

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directions that Irish defence policy might take in the years to come. In October, the Security and Defence Group produced a Submission for the White Paper on Defence, a paper which examined some of the options available in Irish defence policy.

As the European Council meeting in December 2013 had a special focus on defence, a number of speakers provided perspectives on how the EU might respond to developments in security and defence policy:

General Patrick de Rousiers, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, examined Looking Ahead: Longer-Term Goals in European Defence.

Francois Heisbourg, Chairman of the IISS and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, developed this trend further, with his address European Council on

Defence: A French Perspective, while Dr. Sean Kay, Robson Professor of Politics and Government at Ohio Wesleyan University, provided a transatlantic take in his speech America’s Asia Pivot and Implications for European Security and Defense Policy.

The growing global interest in cybersecurity and its role in intelligence was the subject of the final two events in this group’s work programme. Sir David Omand, Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, considered Social Media: the Security Challenge, drawing on his considerable experience as Director of the UK’s GCHQ. An EU-level view of these issues was provided by Ilkka Salmi, Director of the EU Intelligence Analysis Centre, who considered The Future of Intelligence Sharing in the European Union.

Also during 2013, the IIEA’s Security and Defence Group provided a submission to the Department of Defence on the Green Paper on Defence, with Prof. Ben Tonra, Marie Cross, Prof. Patrick Keatinge, Jill Donoghue, Brendan Halligan and China Group researcher Eoin McDonnell contributing.

Eoin McDonnell also attended a meeting hosted by NATO in Brussels, with academics and policy analysts from Western nations involved in the Partnership for Peace.

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IIEA/Irish Aid Development Matters seriesIn 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 focus of the series in 2013 was on international development and innovation. Since its launch in 2011, the Development Matters series has resonated with a wide range of IIEA members, including representatives from the corporate, legal and financial services sectors, as well as the media.

The IIEA would like to gratefully acknowledge the support and assistance of Irish Aid in organising the 2013 Development Matters series.

The 2013 series was launched by Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations’ specialised agency for information and communications technology (ICT). Dr. Touré addressed a high-level audience comprising representatives from the development and technology sectors on ICTs for Development: the Roadmap towards Sustainable Social and Economic Progress for All.

This was followed by a keynote address by Minister Joe Costello T.D., Minister of State for Trade and Development, on Building on Ireland’s EU Presidency: Challenges for the Future of Global Development. Minister Costello briefed members on Ireland’s new One World, One Future development policy.

The third lecture in the series was delivered by Evans Wadongo, founder of Sustainable Development For All-Kenya (SDFA-Kenya) and Just One Lamp. Mr. Wadongo, who was named by Forbes as one of Africa’s Top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 in 2013, provided a fascinating insight into his invention of a solar lamp that has been instrumental in addressing education, health, poverty and climate change challenges in rural areas of Kenya.

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One of the highlights of the series was a lecture by Professor Sugata Mitra, educational psychologist and winner of the 2013 TED prize, who delivered the penultimate lecture on The Future of Learning. Professor Mitra’s gave an overview of the role of new technologies in improving education in the developing world, including autonomous learning and the intriguing concept of “The School in the Cloud”.

The year’s final lecture was delivered by Ambassador William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Ambassador Swing visited the IIEA on the International Day of Migrants, and used the occasion to highlight the need for increased focus on migration as part of the post-2015 global development agenda.

Young Professionals’ Network (YPN)Chair: Paddy Buckenham

In the autumn of 2013, the Young Professionals’ Network (YPN) was relaunched by Paddy Buckenham and it continues to provide a unique networking forum for young, dynamic and talented professionals from the Institute’s member organisations; the members, aged between 22 and 35 years of age, represent a range of sectors, including business and finance, the legal profession, government, NGOs, junior diplomats and foreign Embassy officials, academics and entrepreneurs.

Following a speech on “The Gathering” initiative by Tim O’Connor, Chairman of the Gathering Advisory Board and former Secretary General to the Government, Stephen Donnelly T.D., Independent T.D. for Wicklow and East Carlow, gave a keynote address on Making Sense of Eurozone Economics: the Perspective of a First-time Parliamentarian.

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In December, the YPN hosted its annual Review of The Year. Some of Ireland’s best young journalists reflected on the major news events of the year in domestic and European politics, economics and sport, and cast an eye to what lies ahead in 2014. The panel consisted of Gavan Reilly, Senior Political Correspondent with Today FM; Jason O’Mahony, Winner, Best Political Blog, Blog Awards Ireland 2013; Sarah McCabe, Business Reporter, Irish Independent; and Ken Early, Irish Times Second Captains podcast.

IIEA Brussels BranchChair: Kevin KearyVice-Chair: Erwan Fouéré

The IIEA Brussels Branch is a forum for debate and discussion of the IIEA’s research priorities from the Brussels perspective. With over 100 members, comprising Irish officials across the EU institutions and private sector in Brussels, the branch holds monthly meetings with high-level keynote speakers.

The 2013 programme began with an address by Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Mission to the EU, Thomas White, and Irish Trade Counsellor, Lorraine Benson, on the topic of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), one of the priorities of the Irish Presidency of the EU.

In February the Branch hosted former EU Commissioner Peter Sutherland on: Britain and the European Union; where is Britain going in the work and what are the implications for Ireland.

CAP Reform was the topic of an event in April featuring key negotiator Mairead McGuinness MEP and Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General of COPA-COGECA, the European farm umbrella organisation.

Marking the conclusion of the Irish Presidency in July, the Branch held a reception in honour of Ambassador Rory Montgomery, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the EU and Ambassador Tom Hanney, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland to the EU.

Dr. Donal Donovan, Member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and former Deputy Director of the IMF, and Professor Antoin Murphy of Trinity College Dublin addressed the Brussels Branch in October, on the subject of their book The Fall of the Celtic Tiger and provided an analysis of the so-called “Celtic Comeback”.

The Branch held two further events in 2013. In November, the new European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, addressed members, outlining her priorities in her new role. The Branch concluded its

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The EU in 2013Catherine Day, Secretary-General, European Commission

NATO and Ireland: Working Together For PeaceAnders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary-General, NATO

Morocco: A country on the move in a region of turbulenceNasser Bourita, Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco

The Council of Europe’s Unique Role in Human Rights Protection and PromotionThorbjørn Jagland, Secretary-General, Council of Europe

ICTs for Development: The Roadmap towards Sustainable Social and Economic Progress for AllDr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Cherishing Everyone Equally: The Imperative for Inclusive GrowthÁngel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

The Euro Crisis and its Effects on the European UnionFrans van Daele, Former Chef de Cabinet to European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy

The Environment NexusFergus O’Dowd T.D., Minister of State across the Departments of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

Driving Jobs, Trade and Competitiveness - Priorities for the Irish Presidency of the EURichard Bruton T.D., Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Ireland’s EU Presidency - A Mid-Term ReviewLucinda Creighton T.D., Minister of State for European Affairs

CAP Reform Under the Irish PresidencySimon Coveney T.D., Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Building on Ireland’s EU Presidency: Challenges for the Future of Global DevelopmentJoe Costello T.D., Minister of State for Trade and Development

The Green Paper on DefenceMinister Alan Shatter T.D., Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence

Roundtable Discussion on the Projected Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Irish AgricultureSimon Coveney T.D., Minister for Agriculture; Dr. Stephen Flood, Research Fellow National University of Ireland Maynooth

Reflections on the Horizon AheadPaschal Donohoe T.D., Minister of State for European Affairs

EVENTS LIST 2013Secretaries General Irish Ministers

European Council

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13/12/13 Ireland: Beyond the Troika ProgrammeEamon Gilmore T.D., An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

11/1/13

15/1/13

13/3/13

22/3/13

25/3/13

19/4/13

14/6/13

23/9/13

Making Progress on European Tax PolicyAlgirdas Šemeta, European Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Anti-Fraud and Audit

The Digital Agenda for Europe: Looking AheadRobert Madelin, Director-General, DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), European Commission

Internal Electricity Market: Generation Adequacy and Security of Supply ConsultationTadhg O’Briain, Internal Energy Market Unit, DG Energy, European Commission

Media Pluralism and Freedom in a Connected Europe (Seminar)Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda

Securing the Supply Chain: the Expanding Role of CustomsHeinz Zourek, Director-General, DG Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission

EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment PartnershipKarel de Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade

The Growing Cyber Threat: Are We Up to the Challenge?Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs

How to Make Recovery SustainableMarco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission

European Commission

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The Role of State Aid in Banking UnionGert-Jan Koopman, Deputy DG State Aid, European Commission

The Single Resolution Mechanism and Competition LawJoaquín Almunia, Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for Competition

The Future of EU Internal Security after 2014Rob Wainwright, Director, Europol

European Union’s Special Representative for Human RightsStavros Lambrinidis, EU Special Representative for Human Rights

Digital Evolution: Why, for Europe’s Future, “Cyber” Must Mean “Safer”Prof. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of the European Network and Information Security Agency

Mobile Futures: the Development of Police and Immigration Services in the EUFrank Smith, Chair, European Union Mobile Identification Interoperability Group and Supt. Cleaven Faulkner, UK Border Agency

The Future of Judicial Cooperation in the EUMichele Coninsx, President, Eurojust

Implementing Financial Regulation at a European Level Adam Farkas, Executive Director, European Banking Authority

The Future of EU Border ManagementIlkka Laitinen, Executive Director of Frontex

Looking Ahead: Longer-Term Goals in European DefenceGeneral Patrick de Rousiers, Chairman, European Union Military Committee

Other EU Institutions & Agencies

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The EU and its Southern NeighbourhoodBernardino Léon, EU Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean

The Future of Intelligence Sharing in the European UnionIlkka Salmi, Director, EU Intelligence Analysis Centre

Spanning Two Continents: The Eastern Partnership and the Wider EuropeLuis Felipe Fernández de la Peña, Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service

Emerging from the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for EuropeDanuta Hübner MEP, Chair, European Parliament Regional Affairs Committee

Criminal Law Cooperation: Future Changes to the European Court of JusticeJudge Lars Bay Larsen, Member of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Completing the Banking Union: The Challenges AheadDr. Thomas Wieser, President, Eurogroup Working Group

7/1/13

18/1/13

22/1/13

The Arctic: Challenges and OpportunitiesEspen Barth Eide, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Policy Outlook in France and at the European LevelPierre Moscovici, Minister of the Economy and Finance, France

Montenegro and the EUAleksandar Pejovic, State Secretary of European Integration, Montenegro

EU & Non-EU Government Ministries

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Economic Adjustment in Divergent EU EconomiesSteffen Kampeter, Parliamentary State Secretary, German Finance Ministry

The Eastern Partnership: What’s in it for the EU?Titus Corlatean, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Romania

The Portuguese Road to RecoveryCarlos Moedas, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister of Portugal

Eurasian Economic Integration – PerspectivesDmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Director, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The German Energiewende in the European Context and BeyondPeter Altmaier, Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Leaving the Fossil Behind: How Denmark Turned the Tide from Coal to Sustainable EnergyMartin Lidegaard, Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Denmark

The European Union: Our Shared FutureDavid Lidington, Minister for Europe, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EU Integration of the Western Balkans: Challenges and OpportunitiesFatmir Besimi, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Macedonia

Priorities of the Incoming Lithuanian EU Presidency: Focus on a Credible, Growing and Open EuropeVytautas Leškevičius, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

The Future of Wales in a Changing UKRt. Hon. Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales

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Transitioning from a Currency Union to a Banking Union: Fiscal and Monetary ConsiderationsLars Frisell, Chief Economist, Central Bank of Ireland

From Supervision to Resolution: A German PerspectiveSabine Lautenschläger, Vice-President, Deutsche Bundesbank

Regulatory Reform during the Irish Presidency: Insights from the Central BankMartin Moloney, Head of Markets Policy Division, Central Bank of Ireland

11/2/13

18/2/13

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19/3/13

8/5/1310/1/13

After the Speech: What next for Britain in Europe?Mats Persson, Director, Open Europe

Why Two Degrees MattersProf. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

New Energy GeopoliticsDr. Edward Chow, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security, Centre for Strategic and International Studies

China’s International Oil and Gas StrategiesDr. Philip Andrews-Speed, Principal Fellow, National University of Singapore, Energy Studies Institute

Eurocrisis: Is there already light at the end of tunnel?Dr. Peter Bofinger, Member, German Council of Economic Experts

European Council on Foreign Relation’s Scorecard: Grading Europe’s Relations with ChinaJonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

How China’s Wartime Past is Changing its Present - and FutureProf. Rana Mitter, Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford

Think Tanks

Keynote Addresses

8/5/13

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28/6/13

9/9/13

7/11/13

20/11/13

Juggling Priorities: The quest for peace, modernisation and democratisation in the South CaucasusDennis Sammut, Director, London Information Network on Conflicts and State-Building

Reinventing Fire: The Business-Led Transition Beyond Fossil FuelsAmory Lovins, Energy Thought Leader and Founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute

The “China Dream” Concept: President Xi Jinping’s Vision for ChinaProf. Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney and Team Leader of the Europe China Research and Advice Network

Europe’s Deadlock: How the Euro Crisis Could Be Solved - And Why it Won’t HappenDavid Marsh, Chairman, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum

Europe’s Energy and Climate Policies: Coming Apart at the Seams?Malcolm Keay, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Briefing on EnlargementErwan Fouéré, Senior Associate Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies

Crisis and Recovery in Europe: What Have We Learnt?Jonathan Portes, Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Central Banks

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15/4/13

Copyright, Content and the Digital Economy Robert Levine, Journalist, Blogger and Digital Copyright Expert

The Rise of the Citizen InfluencerMark Schaefer, Entrepreneur, Business Consultant and Author

The Economic Role of the Financial SectorProf. John Kay, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Fellow, St. John’s College Oxford

Developing Intelligent Cities: Smart, Sustainable Urban SpacesSimon Giles, Director of Intelligent Cities Strategy, Accenture

The Middle East Conflict: A Comparative AnalysisBen-Dror Yemini, Opinion Editor of Leading Israeli Newspaper Maariv

Ireland and the European Union - Shared Determination, Shared DestinyChristine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Social Media: the Security ChallengeSir David Omand, Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London

Defining a New Reform Agenda for South-Eastern EuropeDr. Peter Sanfey, Deputy Director, Country Strategy and Policy, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

How Copyright and Patent Reform Can Make Us All Wealthier and SaferRick Falkvinge, Founder, Swedish Pirate Party

Connected, Inclusive and Creative: Towards Ireland’s Digital FutureLord David Puttnam, Ireland’s National Digital Champion

17/4/13

25/4/13

1/5/13

7/5/13

7/5/13

9/5/13

13/5/13

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23/5/13

Shifting Economic Landscape: A World in Need of a CompassPascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organisation

Israel - the Place Where Geopolitics, Economics and Strategic Issues MeetReuven Merhav, Former Director-General, Israeli Department of Foreign Affairs

Virtual Water: The Water Footprint of Modern SocietyProf. Arjen Hoekstra, Creator of the Water Footprint Concept

Dealing with Macroeconomic Imbalances and Design Problems in the EMU Prof. Paul De Grauwe, John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy and Head of the European Institute, London School of Economics

South Africa Post-Mandela: Business as Usual or Business Unusual?Fiona Forde, Author of An Inconvenient Youth: Julius Malema and the ‘New’ ANC

Dr. Garret FitzGerald Lecture: Strategies for a Small State in a Large UnionBrendan Halligan, Chairman, IIEA; Prof. John FitzGerald, Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute; and Lucinda Creighton T.D., Minister of State for European Affairs

The Economics of Good and Evil: The Economy as a Manic Depressed BodyTomáš Sedláček, Author and Chief Macroeconomic Strategist, Československá Obchodní Banka

Protecting Personal Data in the Digital AgeMarne Levine, Vice-President for Global Public Policy, Facebook and Billy Hawkes, Irish Data Protection Commissioner

Where to Now for Europe?Micheál Martin T.D., Leader, Fianna Fáil

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9/7/13

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22/7/13

Britain, Ireland and EuropeDavid Miliband, Former British Foreign Secretary

Climate Adaptation BriefingDavid Walsh, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

Away from Policy Mistakes: Getting the Response to the Crisis in Europe and Ireland RightWolfgang Münchau, Associate Editor, Financial Times

Hello World—What Everyone Should Know About CodeLinda Liukas, Finland’s National Digital Champion

France’s ICT Policy: Pivoting into the Digital EraGille Babinet, France’s National Digital Champion

Subterranean Politics in EuropeProf. Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, London School of Economics

Visions of the Future of ChinaProf. William Callahan, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics

Does Europe Need a Pivot Towards Asia?Prof. Philomena Murray, Jean Monnet Chair, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

How Much Europe Do We Need to Stabilise the Eurozone?Hans Eichel, Former German Minister of Finance

Mechanics of Aggressive Tax Planning by Multinational CorporationsProf. Frank Barry, Professor of International Business and Economic Development, Trinity College Dublin

5/9/13

17/9/13

18/9/13

19/9/13

24/9/13

3/10/13

10/10/13

14/10/13

15/10/13

Shining a Light: Innovation and Socio-Economic Development in AfricaEvans Wadongo, Founder of Sustainable Development For All-Kenya (SDFA-Kenya) and Just One Lamp

How to Embed the Environment into the Sustainable Development GoalsJoe Alcamo, Chief Scientist, UN Environmental Programme

Australia in the Asian Century: The 2013 Federal Election and Implications for Australian Foreign Policy vis-à-vis ChinaProf. James Curran, Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History, UCD

On Germany and Europe Before and After the ElectionDavid Marsh, Chairman, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum and H.E. Eckhard Lübkemeier, German Ambassador to Ireland

Doing More with Digital: Transforming eGovernment in IrelandBill McCluggage, Irish Government Chief Information Officer

TTIP and the Future of Transatlantic RelationsJoseph Quinlan, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, Bank of America Capital Management

Reflections on the EU as a Foreign Policy ActorSir Robert Cooper, European Diplomat and Thought Leader

The Psychology of Climate Change Action and InactionProf. Robert Gifford, Department of Psychology and School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Canada

The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World Prof. Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor, New York University Stern School of Business

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21/10/13

24/10/13

25/10/13

30/10/13

4/11/13

6/11/13

8/11/13

11/11/13

Britain in EuropeLord William Wallace, Government Whip and Spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office

The Future of LearningProf. Sugata Mitra, Educational Psychologist and Winner of the 2013 TED Prize

China and Climate Change PolicyDr. Eddie O’Connor, Founder and CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power

Revitalising Social EuropeFrances O’Grady, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress (TUC)

America’s Asia Pivot and Implications for European Security and Defense PolicyProf. Sean Kay, Robson Professor of Politics and Government, Ohio Wesleyan University

Communications Regulation in the 21st

CenturyRobert McDowell, Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

European Council on Defence: A French PerspectiveFrancois Heisbourg, Chairman, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

China’s Role in the Middle EastProf. Pan Guang, Vice Chairman and Professor of the Shanghai Centre for International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

EU Telecoms Sector: Regulatory Developments, Threats and OpportunitiesLuigi Gambardella, Executive Board Chairman, European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association

13/11/13

21/11/13

22/11/13

27/11/13

29/11/13

9/12/13

11/12/13

13/12/13

16/12/13

Merkel’s Pyrrhic Victory: What Will it Mean for Europe?Quentin Peel, Chief Germany Correspondent and Associate Editor, Financial Times

British Business in EuropeJohn Cridland, Director-General, Confederation of British Industry

Are Eurosceptics Winning the Argument?Dr. Simon Usherwood, Senior Lecturer, School of Politics, University of Surrey

Is Everything We Assume Wrong? The “Cost” of Ambitious Climate Action in SwedenJoe Curtin, Research Associate, IIEA and Climate and Energy Policy Consultant

The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2013Pawel Olejarnik, Senior Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency

Europe: Is Mrs. Thatcher winning the argument 25 years after losing it?Charles Moore, Columnist, The Daily Telegraph and the Spectator

The Future of EU-China RelationsProf. Xin Hua, Visiting Scholar, College of Europe

Crisis Lessons: The necessity of financial restructuringThomas Hoenig, Vice Chairman, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Update on French European Policy: A Franco-Irish ConversationDeputy Pierre Lequiller, Vice-Chair, French National Assembly Committee on European Affairs and Paul Gillespie, Journalist and Academic

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16/1/13

25/1/13

13/2/13

13/3/13

20/3/13

21/3/13

26/3/13

9/4/13

UN Climate Talks - A Post-Doha BriefingDavid Walsh, Principal Officer, Department of the Environment and Ciara Gaynor, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam Ireland

Georgia From Rose Revolution to…?Dr. Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Lecturer, School of Law and Government, DCU

Democratic Legitimacy: The Role of National Parliaments in the EUSenator Simon Sutour, Chair, French Senate Committee on European Affairs Private Post-European Council BriefingGeraldine Byrne-Nason, Second Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach

Changes in European Economic Governance: Issues for the Irish PresidencyMichael McGrath, Assistant Secretary General, Department of Finance

Indonesia’s Candidate for Director General of the World Trade OrganizationDr. Mari Elka Pangestu, Former Minister of Trade of Indonesia

Private Post-European Council BriefingGeraldine Byrne-Nason, Second Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach

Managing RenewablesArne Mogren, Director of Power at the European Climate Foundation; Peder Østermark Andreasen, Chief Executive of the Danish Grid; and Fintan Slye, Chief Executive of EirGrid

Stages of a Banking Crisis and Issues Unique to Recovery in EU CountriesSteven Seelig, Chairperson, Risk Management Committee and Board Member, National Asset Management Agency

28/5/13

21/6/13

3/7/13

5/7/13

11/7/13

16/7/13

25/7/13

11/9/13

2/10/13

The Implications of the UK’s JHA Opt-outWilliam Hughes, Former Director General, UK Serious Organised Crime Agency

Improving Eurozone Economic GovernanceAndrew McDowell, Special Advisor to the Taoiseach

Renewable Trade in the EU: Where to from Here?Helen Donoghue, IIEA Energy Fellow; Brendan Ryan, IIEA Energy Group Chair


The ESRI July 2013 Medium Term ForecastsProf. John FitzGerald, Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute

Building Strategic Alliances and Boosting Development Policy: the U.S. Global Partnership InitiativeAndrew O’Brien, Special Representative for Global Partnerships, U.S. Department of State

Croatia’s EU AccessionH.E. Jasna Ognjanovac, Ambassador of Croatia to Ireland

Ireland: Rebuilding the Confidence of Debt Capital MarketsJohn Corrigan, Chief Executive, National Treasury Management Agency

Looking Ahead to the Eastern Partnership Summit: A Polish PerspectiveBeata Peksa, Plenipotentiary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland for the Eastern Partnership

Roundtables and Lunches

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16/10/13

16/10/13

5/11/13

12/11/13

4/12/13

12/12/13

19/12/13

Chinese Academy for Social Sciences Delegation BriefingProf. Zhou Hong, Director of the Institute of European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

The Future of the European Arrest Warrant and EU Criminal Justice CooperationProf. John Spencer, resident of the European Criminal Law Association (UK)

Annual Presentation on the Irish BudgetProf. John FitzGerald, Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute

Creating the Utility of the FutureDr. Dario Gil, Director for Energy and Natural Resources at IBM Research.


The Impact of the Patent Cliff on Pharma-Chem Output in IrelandShane Enright, Assistant Principal, Department of Finance; Mary Dalton, Assistant Principal, Department of Finance

Germany in the Wider WorldKlaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Looking Beyond the Bailout: A View from the Irish Fiscal Advisory CouncilJohn McHale, Chair, Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

End of Year Update on Climate Policy at National, International and EU LevelOwen Ryan, Principal Officer, Climate Policy at the Department of Environment, Community & Local Government

Seminars

21/1/13

13/2/13

25/2/13

26/2/13

25/3/13

50th Anniversary of the Élysée Treaty: Continuity and ChangeThomas Klau, Head of Paris Office, European Council on Foreign Relations; Jochen Thies, Journalist and Former Speechwriter for Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; and Prof. Brigid Laffan, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University College Dublin

Biofuels and Climate: The Indirect Land Use ChallengeJohn Rice, Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; David Barissa, Policy Coordinator, Action Aid Kenya and Senior Fellow, IEEP, and Marc-Olivier Herman, Biofuels Lead at Oxfam

EU-Japan RelationsH.E. Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, Managing Director Asia-Pacific, European External Action Service; Sayuri Ito, Senior Research fellow, NLI Research Institute; and Michael Gaffey, Assistant Secretary, Development Cooperation Division, Department of Foreign Affairs

The Future of Energy Infrastructure Development in EuropeJean-Arnold Vinois, Former European Commission Director, Internal Energy Market and Chair, EU Smart Grids Task Force; Jean-Michel Giachant, Director, Florence School of Regulation; Dr. Leo Meuss, Research Fellow, Florence School of Regulation; and Fintan Slye, Chief Executive, EirGrid

Turkey - A Regional Power with European AmbitionsProf. Haluk Kabaalioglu, Dean of the School of Law and Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Yeditepe University, Istanbul; Prof. Feroz Ahmad, Chair of the Department of International Relations and Political

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29/1/13

29/5/13

10/7/13

27/6/13

Science, Yeditepe University, Istanbul; Durmus Yilmaz, Former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey; Dr. John O’Brennan, Director, Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework SeminarAndrei Marcu, Senior Advisor and Head of the Carbon Market Forum, Centre for European Policy Studies; Joris den Blanken, Greenpeace Europe’s Climate Policy Director; Jakub Koniecki, Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Hedegaard; and David Hone, Climate Advisor at Shell

Seminar for COREPER and ANTICHI Ambassadors: The Irish Economy and the Eurozone - Current PerspectivesProf. Philip Lane, Whatley Professor of Political Economy, Trinity College Dublin; Dan O’Brien, Economics Editor, The Irish Times; and Dermot O’Leary, Chief Economist, Goodbody Stockbrokers

Economic Sovereignty in an Age of Globalisation and EU IntegrationPhilip Stephens, Associate Editor and Chief Political Commentator, Financial Times; Prof. John O’Hagan, Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin; John McHale, Chair, Irish Fiscal Advisory Council; Peter Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Gavin Barrett, Senior Lecturer, School of Law University College Dublin; Pat Cox, Former President of the European Parliament

EU Leadership Towards 2015Caio Koch-Weser, Chair of the European Climate Foundation; Mary Robinson, Founder of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice.

Understanding the Water-Energy-Food NexusKarl Falkenberg, Director General for Environment, European Commission;

David Norman, Senior Manager for Sustainable Development Policy, SAB Miller; and Prof. Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, Trinity College Dublin

Morocco’s Decade of ReformsAhmed Reda Chami, Shadow Minister for Trade; Prof. Nizar Messari, Professor of International Studies, Al Akhawayn University; and Dr. Angelos Sepos, Professor of European Studies, Al Akhawayn University

Britain Without Europe – Europe Without BritainDouglas Carswell, Conservative MP for Clacton; Charles Clarke, Former UK Home Secretary; Hugo Brady, Senior Research Fellow and Brussels Representative of the Centre for European Reform; Eric Albert, Journalist for Le Monde, Radio France and Le Temps

Annual Lunch for the Secretaries General at the IIEA

Annual Lunch for Non-EU Ambassadors at the IIEA

Annual Lunch for EU Ambassadors at the IIEA

Openness to InnovationProf. Martin Curley, Vice President at Intel Corporation and Director of Intel Labs Europe

CRH Strategies for the Global Market and the Impact of the Proposed EU/US Free Trade AgreementMyles Lee, former Chief Executive, CRH

Britain and Europe: Present DiscontentsLord John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG, former Diplomat and Deputy Chairman of Scottish Power

High-Level Luncheons

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10/12/13

YPN Review of 2013Tim O’Connor, Chairman of the Gathering Advisory Board

Making Sense of Eurozone Economics: the Perspective of a First-time ParliamentarianStephen Donnelly T.D., Independent T.D. for Wicklow and East Carlow

YPN Christmas Review of 2013Gavan Reilly, Senior Political Correspondent, Today FM; Jason O’Mahony, Irish Political Blogger; Sarah McCabe, Business Reporter, Irish Independent; and Ken Early, Irish Times Second Captains podcast.

Young Professionals’ Network

Conferences

15/11/14 Cybersecurity Conference Opening addressPat Rabbitte T.D., Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Session I: Cybersecurity: Implications for global business

Panel Dr. Richard Horne, Cybersecurity Partner, PwC; David Francis, Chief Security Officer, Huawei UK; Dave Merkel, Chief Technology Officer, Mandiant

Session II: Cybercrime: Protecting the individual and small businesses online

Panel Olivier Burgersdijk, Head of Strategy and Outreach, European Cybercrime Centre (EC3); Steve Purser, Head of Core Operations Department, European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA); Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament (video message); Brian

2/12/13

Honan, Founder and CEO, Irish Reporting and Information Security Service (IRISS-CERT)

Session III: Cyberdefence: Global responses to emerging threats

Panel Michael Daniel, Special Assistant to President Obama and U.S. Cybersecurity Coordinator; Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Cybersecurity Policy Advisor, European External Action Service (EEAS); Dr. Ian Levy, Technical Director, Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ); Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO

Closing address: The global implications of cybersecurity

Eamon Gilmore T.D., Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

Conference ChairsAnn O’Dea, CEO and Editor-at-Large, Silicon Republic; Richard Downes, Broadcaster and Journalist; Eamon Ryan, Co-Chair, IIEA Digital Future Group; Tom Arnold, Director General, IIEA; Brendan Halligan, Chairman, IIEA

The Future of Banking in Europe Conference

Introductory RemarksTom Arnold, Director General, IIEA

Session I: Towards the Banking Union

Keynote Address by Michael Noonan T.D., Minister for Finance

Keynote Address by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President, European Central Bank

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Session II: IIEA Banking Union Interim Report

Panel Pat McArdle, Chair, Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, European Banking Federation and co-Chair of the IIEA Banking Union Group; Alan Ahearne, Head of Economics at NUIG and Non-Resident Research Fellow, Bruegel; Alan Dukes, Former Finance Minister; Paul Gallagher S.C., Former Attorney General of Ireland

Session III: Corporate Governance in the Era of CRD IV

Keynote Address by Blanaid Clarke, McCann FitzGerald Chair of Corporate Law, Trinity College Dublin

Session III: The Future of European Banking: A Central Bank Perspective

Panel Anthony Kruizinga, Head of European Banking Supervision, De Nederlandsche Bank; Jens Lundager, Head of Financial Markets, Danmarks Nationalbank; Ramón Quintana, Director General for Banking

Supervision, Banco de España; Phillip Reading, Head of Financial Markets, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Session IV: Recovery and Resolution: Implications for European banking

Address by Miguel de la Mano, Head of Analysis of Financial Market Issues, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission

Respondent: Robert Priester, Deputy Chief Executive, European Banking Federation

Session V: The Future Shape of Banking in Ireland and Europe

Keynote Address by Patrick Honohan, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland

Closing RemarksBrendan Halligan, Chairman, IIEA

Conference chairsJohn Cronin, Chairman, McCann FitzGerald; Paul O’Connor, Head of Regulatory Advisory Services, KPMG; John Bruton, Chairman, IFSC Ireland and Former Taoiseach; Brendan Halligan, Chairman, IIEA.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

The accounts for the year 2013 were audited by RSM Farrell Grant Sparks and, having held two profitable conferences and successfully completed the acclaimed Nexus project, report a minimal deficit of € 1,058 which was an improvement on the previous year.

The Institute participates in the Community Employment Scheme, now 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, together with members of the Board, actively continue to pursue alternative revenue streams.

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2013

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2013

IncomeSubscriptionsGrants and ProjectsOther

Total

ExpenditureSalariesProjectsAdministrationDepreciation

Total

Surplus/(Deficit)

Fixed AssetsNet Current Assets/(Liabilities)

Total Assets less Current Liabilities

Year ended31-Dec-13

€

506,059274,217175,674

955,950

557,653215,876144,65518,824

957,008

(1,058)

451,996(26,331)

425,665

460,435(29,501)

430,934

468,030(5,048)

462,982

505,975124,075147,86521,927

799,842

(20,730)

654,210184,917128,76425,806

993,697

3,481

484,870155,255138,987

779,112

548,755295,133153,290

997,178

31-Dec-13€

Year ended31-Dec-12

€

31-Dec-12€

Year ended31-Dec-11

€

31-Dec-11€

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ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT

Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland

Brendan Halligan

Tom Arnold

Jill Donoghue

Fionnuala Keane - Georgina Thompson

Janice Epstein

Tom Arnold, Billy Attley, Joe Brosnan, Anthony Brown, Adrian Burke, Andrew Clarke, Jill Donoghue, Janice Epstein, Niall Greene, Brendan Halligan, Tom Haughey, John Hume, Michael Meagher, Katherine Meenan, Dáithí O’Ceallaigh, Terence O’Rourke.

Andrew Clarke

Tom Haughey

Adrian Burke, Tom Haughey, Michael Meagher

Róisín Brennan, Adrian Burke, Andrew Clarke, Janice Epstein, Brendan Halligan, Tom Haughey, Georgina Thompson, Dáithí O’Ceallaigh

Joe Brosnan, Adrian Burke, Niall Greene, Noreen Kearney, Dáithí O’Ceallaigh

Billy Attley, Joe Brosnan, Tom Haughey, Katherine Meenan, Georgina Thompson

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D., Richard Burke, John Bruton, David Byrne, Brian Cowen, Pat Cox, Ray McSharry, Charles McCreevy, Michael O’Kennedy, Mary Robinson, Peter Sutherland

Adrian Burke, Prof. Patrick Keatinge, Dr. Tomás O’Cofaigh, Derry O’Hegarty, Dr. Con Power, Albert Reynolds, Dr. David Williamson

Kevin Keary

Erwan Fouéré

Eileen Kelly

Kevin Leydon

Liam Breslin, Killian Kehoe, Aidan O’Sullivan, Aingeal O’Donoghue, Seán De Búrca, Frank Wall

Patron

Chairman

Director General

Director of Research

Administrator

Financial Controller

Officer Board

Secretary

Treasurer

Audit Committee

Finance Committee

Nominations Committee

Remuneration and Employment

Committee

Comité d’Honneur

Honorary Life Members

Brussels Branch

Chairperson

Vice Chairperson

Secretary

Treasurer

Committee

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FOUNDATION MEMBERSAIB GROUPBANK OF IRELANDBORD NA MÓNACENTRAL BANK OF IRELANDCOILLTE TEORANTACRHDELOITTE & TOUCHEDIGICELDUBLIN AIRPORT AUTHORITYENTERPRISE IRELANDESBRSM FARRELL GRANT SPARKS

FORFÁSGOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONALGOOGLEIBECIDAIRISH FARMERS’ ASSOCIATIONIRISH FARMERS JOURNALMATHESONNTMAPIONEER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENTSHELL E&P IRELANDULSTER BANK IRELAND

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CORPORATE MEMBERSACCENTUREAMERICAN EMBASSYARGENTINIAN EMBASSYARTHUR COXAUSTRALIAN EMBASSYAUSTRIAN EMBASSYAVIARETOBELGIAN EMBASSYBORD GÁIS ÉIREANNBRAZILIAN EMBASSYBRITISH EMBASSY BROADCASTING AUTHORITY OF IRELANDBULGARIAN EMBASSYCANADIAN EMBASSYCENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICECHESTER BEATTY LIBRARYCHILEAN EMBASSYCHINESE EMBASSYCHURCH OF IRELAND WORKING GROUP ON EUROPECODEMACOMMISSION FOR ENERGY REGULATIONCOMMITTEE OF THE IRISH HIERARCHYCOMPETITION AUTHORITYCOMREGCONCERNCROATIAN EMBASSYCUBAN EMBASSYCYPRIOT EMBASSYCZECH EMBASSYDANISH EMBASSYDEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINEDEPARTMENT OF ARTS, HERITAGE AND THE GAELTACHTDEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCESDEPARTMENT OF DEFENCEDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SKILLSDEPARTMENT OF FINANCEDEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADEDEPARTMENT OF JOBS, ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATIONDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITYDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND REFORM

DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENT OF THE TAOISEACHDEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT, TOURISM AND SPORTDIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONSDUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYDUBLIN CITY COUNCILDUTCH EMBASSYEGYPTIAN EMBASSYEIRGRIDENERGY ACTION IRELANDENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYESTONIAN EMBASSYESRIETHIOPIAN EMBASSYEUROFOUNDEUROPEAN COMMISSION REPRESENTATION IN IRELANDEUROPEAN PARLIAMENT INFORMATION OFFICE IN IRELANDFINNISH EMBASSYFOOD SAFTEY AUTHORITY OF IRELANDFRENCH EMBASSYFRIENDS OF THE EARTHGERMAN EMBASSYGOODBODY STOCKBROKERSGREEK EMBASSYHIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITYHUNGARIAN EMBASSYICS SKILLSIFIA IMPACT INDIAN EMBASSYINTOIRANIAN EMBASSYIRISH BANK RESOLUTION CORPORATIONIRISH TAX INSTITUTEISRAELI EMBASSYITALIAN EMBASSYJAPANESE EMBASSYKENYAN EMBASSYKPMGLATVIAN EMBASSYLESOTHO EMBASSYLOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES BOARD

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LUXEMBOURG EMBASSYMACEDONIAN EMBASSYMALTESE EMABASSYMASON HAYES & CURRANMCCANN FITZGERALD SOLICITORS MEXICAN EMBASSYMICROSOFT IRELANDMOROCCAN EMBASSYNIGERIAN EMBASSYNORWEGIAN EMBASSYNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCILOFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALOFFICE OF THE HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTASOFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMANOFFICE OF THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERSPAKISTANI EMBASSYPERMANENT TSB GROUPPHILIPPINE EMBASSYPOLISH EMBASSYPORTUGUESE EMBASSYPRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERSPUBLICPOLICY.IE

ROMANIA EMBASSYRUSSIAN EMBASSYSAUDI ARABIAN EMBASSYSLOVAK EMBASSYSLOVENIAN EMBASSYSMURFIT KAPPA GROUPSOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSYSOUTH KOREAN EMBASSYSPANISH EMBASSYSUSTAINABLE ENERGY AUTHORITY OF IRELANDSWISS EMBASSYTAIPEI REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN IRELANDTESCO IRELANDTRINITY COLLEGE DUBLINTRÓCAIRETURKISH EMBASSYUKRAINIAN EMBASSYUNHCR REPRESENTATION IN IRELANDUNITED ARAB EMIRATES EMBASSYUNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINUNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORKVIRIDIAN ENERGYWILLIAM FRY SOLICITORS

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LIFE MEMBERSMartin AliothBilly AttleyRuth BarringtonPeter BarryLorcan BlakeJoe BrosnanTony BrownAdrian BurkeRichard BurkePaul CarneyGerard CashinBrian CawleyAndrew ClarkeDenis CorboySeán CromienDavid CroughanHans De BelderDonal De BuitléirBarry DesmondJim DevineJohn DonnellyDonal DonovanNoel DorrEugene Downes Etain DoylePeter Doyle

Dorcha LeePhilip LeeMark LochrinCon LuceyBrendan LynchRay MacSharryDermot McAleesePat McArdleJim McCaffreyPatrick McCaffreyPatrick McCannSeán McCrumÚna McGurkÉamonn McKeonMichael MeagherKatherine MeenanFrank MullenPádraig MurphyAlice MurphyCormac NeillTerry NeillNicki O’ConnorMartin O’DonoghueÚna O’DwyerDerry O’HegartyLucy O’Kelly

Brian FarrellPat FarrellTom FerrisMary FinanJim FitzpatrickFinola FlanaganPaul GallagherNiall GreeneDavid GriffinBrendan HalliganJohn HandollEmer HaugheyNiamh HaugheyTom HaugheyMiriam Hederman O’Brien Joseph HickeyRon HillPatrick Honohan Beatrice HughesFaye IoannouBrendan KearneyNoreen KearneyPatrick KeatingeLiam KelleherColm Larkin

Flor O’MahonyNora OwenKevin P. O’KellyGerard O’NeillManus O’RiordanAndrew O’RourkeCon Power Odran ReidAlan T. RyanJohnny RyanRoderick RyanWilliam ScallyDermot ScottThomas StehlingDon ThornhillPaul TigheJohn TraversPaul TurpinMichael TuttyFrank WallC.J. WalshÉamonn Thomas WalshPádraic WhitePatrick White

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