BakerJenniferJennifer is IDG New Service's Brussels correspondent and Senior Presenter on Vieuws.eu. She covers allaspectsofE.U.legislationrelatingtoITandthedigitalagenda,fromtradeagreementsfortechproductstoantitrustcasesandinternetprivacyissues.ShealsowritesaweeklyopinioncolumnonthedigitalworldforNewEurope.BorninIreland,Jenniferhasbeenajournalistinprint,radioandtelevisionformorethan12years.Shehasworkedacrossawiderangeofsectors,fromeditinganationaldailypaperinMalta,totelevisionreportingtotheMiddleEastonE.U.affairs.Shehasawealthofexperienceinwritingaboutbusiness,managementandITmattersandspecializesinidentifyingthelinkbetweenthetechindustryandEUpolicy.JenniferfoundedFigure8mediaLtd,acommunicationsbusinessintheUKin2005.ShemovedtoBrusselstoworkasanEUcorrespondentinFebruary2009.
BardiLucianoLucianoBardi(PhD,JohnsHopkinsUniversity)isProfessorofPoliticalScienceandInternationalRelationsattheUniversityofPisaandco-directoroftheObservatoryonPoliticalPartiesandRepresentationformerlyoftheEuropeanUniversityInstitute’sSchumanCentreandnowoftheUniversityofPisa.Hehasbeenvisitingprofessor at numerous universities in Europe and North America. He is also the author of numerouspublications on the subject of institutions , policies and democratic governance of the European Union ,foreignpolicy,Euroscepticismaswellaspoliticalpartiesandpartysystems.HeistheEditorofthePoliticalSciencebookseriesofPisaUniversityPress.Hewasthelocalorganizerofthe2007ECPRGeneralConferenceandofthe2016ECPRJointSessionsofWorkshopsinPisaaswellasMember(2006-2012)andChair(2009-2012)oftheEuropeanConsortiumforPoliticalResearch.
BofingerPeterOntheGermanCouncilofEconomicExpertssinceMarch2004,PeterBofingeristhelongestservingmemberoftheEconomicAdvisoryCouncil.HeisProfessorofEconomicsattheUniversityofWürzburg.HisprimaryfieldsofresearchareEuropean integration,monetarypolicyandenergypolicy.PeterBofingerobtainedhisPhDattheUniversityofSaarlandinSaarbrueckenonthetopicof“MonetaryCompetition”.He is the author of the books “We’re better thanwe think – prosperity for everyone” and “Back to theGermanmark?Germanyneedstheeuro”aswellasthetextbook“BasicEconomics”.
BullmannUdoMEP, a German politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He studied political science, sociology,public law and economy. Since 1999 he has been representing the state of Hesse within the Group ofEuropean Socialists (S&D) at the EuropeanParliament.UdoBullmans politicalwork focuses on economy,thefinancialservicessectorandemploymentpolicies.HeisamemberoftheCommitteeonEconomicandMonetaryAffairs(ECON)anddeputymemberoftheCommitteeonEmploymentandSocialAffairs(EMPL).Inthis legislativeperiodhewasCoordinatorof theECONCommittee (2009-2012)andhasbeenHeadof theGermanSPD-Delegationsince2012.
CerretelliAdrianaMs.AdrianaCerretelliservesasanIndependentDirectorofSarasS.p.A.Ms.Cerretelli iseditorialistforthesame themes in Brussels for the same newspaper. She is a Journalist and has been Chief EuropeanCorrespondentinBrusselsforIlSole24Oreformorethan20years.ShehasbeenresponsibleforEuropeanandNatoaffairs,Wtoandglobalaffairs.
CondijtsJoanJournalist,LesÉchos,Belgium.
D’AlemaMassimoMassimoD’AlemaisthecurrentandfirstPresidentoftheFEPS,electedin2010.In1998Mr.D’AlemabecamePrimeMinisterofItaly.Hewasinofficeuntil2000.Onthesameyear,hewaselectedPresidentoftheDemocratsoftheLeft(DS).In2003,hewaselectedVice-PresidentoftheS.I.In2004MrD'AlemabecameaMemberoftheEuropeanParliament,whereheholdsthepositionofChairoftheEPDelegationforrelationsbetweentheEUandtheMercosur.Mr.D’AlemaiscurrentlyamemberoftheChamberofDeputiesandsinceJanuary2010heistheChairmanof COPASIR (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) which is responsible for theParliamentary control on intelligence services. He has also been the President of a political FoundationFondazionediculturapoliticaItalianieuropeisince2000.MassimoD’Alema’spolitical activitesbegan in 1963. From1975 to1980hewasGeneral Secretaryof theItalianYoungCommunists'Federation(FGCI). In1987hewaselectedmemberofthe ItalianParliament. In1989, he was actively engaged in the process which transformed the Italian Communist Party into theDemocraticPartyoftheLeft(PDS).In1992Mr.D’AlemabecamePresidentofthePDSparliamentarygroupintheChamberofDeputies.Hewasre-elected MP both in 1994 and 1996. In 1994 he was elected General Secretary of the PDS. In 1997MassimoD'AlemawaselectedChairoftheparliamentaryCommitteeonConstitutionalreform.In2006hewaselectedMPforApuliarepresentingtheOliveTreecoalition.In2006hewasappointeddeputyPrime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the Prodi government. In 2008 he was elected MP for ApuliarepresentingtheDemocraticParty(PD).HestudiedPhilosophyat theUniversityofPisa.He isaprofessional journalistandwasChiefEditorof thedailynewspaper"L'Unità"from1988to1990.
DiamantopoulouAnnaTheHon.AnnaDiamantopoulou’spoliticalcareerbegan in1984whenshebecametheyoungestPrefectatever in Local Administration. Two years later, in 1986, shewas appointed as Secretary General for AdultEducationandlaterforYouth.Ms.DiamantopoulouwasappointedPresidentoftheHellenicOrganizationofSmall and Medium-Sized Undertakings and Handicrafts (EOMMEX) in 1993, and went on to begin herparliamentary career in1996whenshewaselectedasaMemberofParliament for thedistrictofKozani.During this time, shewas also appointedDeputyMinister forDevelopment in chargeof privatization andindustrial restructuring, a position she held until 1999. Ms. Diamantopoulou then served as EuropeanCommissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities from 1999-2004, Member ofParliament for Athens in 2007 and 2009, Greek Shadow Minister of Education from 2007-2009, GreekMinister for Education, Lifelong Learning, and Religious Affairs from 2009-2012, and Greek Minister forDevelopment, Competitiveness, and Shipping fromMarch-May 2012. Ms. Diamantopoulou is currently aMemberofParliamentinGreeceforthePanhellenicSocialistMovement(PASOK).Ms. Diamantopoulou undertook her studies at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki where shefocusedoncivilengineering,andlaterwentontoearngraduatehonoursonRegionalDevelopmentatthePanteionUniversity.Shefrequentlylecturesatuniversities,andto-datehaspresentedat:BocconiUniversityin Milan, the University of Frankfurt, the London School of Economics, the Aristotle University ofThessaloniki, theUniversityofAthens, theUniversityofModena,BostonUniversity,Queen’sCollegeNewYork,MIT,andHarvardUniversity.Ms.Diamantopoulouisinvolvedinseveralinternationalactivities,includingherpositionsas:MemberoftheBoardofTrusteesofFriendsofEuropesince2005,Memberof theBoardofNotreEuropesince2006,andChairperson of the Party of European Socialists’ Committee on the European Dimension of New SocialEurope.Shehasalsobeenawardedseveralhonors,includingtheOfficeroftheLegiond’HonneurfromthePresidentof theFrenchRepublicandaspecial recognition fromtheConfederationofDanish IndustrialistsforhercreationofherprogramonCSR.Ms. Diamantopoulou is the author of several publications, including: Intelligent Greece; EuropeanIntegration andGovernance: A Comparisonwith theUSModel in Transatlantic Relations: Cooperation orCompetition;andTheFutureofEurope:ADiscussionforAll-AQuestionofParticipation.
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FahmiMohamedAsrepresentativeofcivilsocietyandcommittedcitizen,MohamedFahmiworkedonmobilisingMillennialsand increasing their political awareness through various means for years. Eyes on Europe, the youthorganisationwhichhepresidedfor2016-2017,wasarealassetforpromotingyoungpeople’sinvolvementinpoliticsanddevelopingcriticalthinkingandwritingskills.RecentlyandasprojectcoordinatoratVoteWatchEurope, he also implemented two EU projects to promote European citizenship. M. Fahmi is now aresearcheratULBsinceOctober2016.
FieschiCatherineCatherine Fieschi is Counterpoint’s ExecutiveDirector. In 2011,when she founded the company, her firstobjectivewastodrawattentiontothesocialandculturaldynamicsthatunderpinpoliticalriskbutseldomreceivetheattentiontheydeserve. ApoliticalscientistCatherinebelievesthatrigoroussocialandculturalanalysiscanhelpleadersmakebetterdecisions,inboththepublicandprivatesectors.Prior to founding Counterpoint, Catherine was Director of Research at The British Council, the UK’sinternationalcultural relationsorganisation.She ledtheorganisation’sworkontheusesof ‘softpower’ ininternationalrelations,developeditsworkondigitalcultureasaninstrumentofsocialandpoliticalchange,andsetuptheirprogrammeonIslamandEurope.Between 2005 and 2008 Catherine was the Director of Demos, the leading London-based think tank. AtDemos, sheoversaw thedevelopmentof theorganisation’sprogrammeofworkon radicalisationand theemergence of itswork on European populisms. She also coordinated itswork across theworld on publicservicereform.Catherine advises business andpolitical leaders around theworld. She is a Senior Research Fellowat theInstitute forGlobalProsperity atUniversityCollege London, a Senior Fellowof theCivil ServiceCollege inSingapore; and a Senior Fellow of the London School of Economics. She is also involved in the strategicevaluation of UK universities’ social science research output in her role as assessor and advisor to theResearchExcellenceFramework(REF)oftheHigherEducationFundingCouncil.Catherine is the author of numerous journal articles, as well as essays on extremism, mobilisation andidentitypolitics.In2008shepublishedIntheShadowofDemocracy,anin-depthanalysisofcontemporarypopulism and its impact on institutions. She is currently writing two monographs–one on 21st centurypopulism,andoneonthetrialsanddelightsofbeingaEuropean.She frequently provides expert analysis for both the national and international media including BBCtelevision and radio, SkyNews, andReuters, aswell as other EuropeanandAmericanoutlets. A formercontributingeditorforProspectMagazine,CatherinehasaregularcolumnintheChathamHousemagazine,TheWorldToday. She is alsoa trusteeof EuropeanAlternatives, a transnational civil societyorganisationthatpromotesalternativemeansofcitizenengagementandparticipation.CatherineholdsaPhDinComparativePoliticalSciencefromMcGillUniversity.ShehaslivedinItaly,Senegal,France,Canada,theUnitedStates,andtheUnitedKingdom
FiorilloMicheleMichele Fiorillo, born in Verona, is a PhD candidate in Political Philosophy-History of Political Thought atScuolaNormale Superiore, Pisa. Heworks especially on theories of democracy and critical theory,with aparticularfocusonAntonioGramsci.AlumnusoftheCollegeofEurope,hedevelopedrecentlyaninterestinIRtheory,geopoliticsandEuforeignpolicy.HeismemberoftheCounciloftheWorldFederalistMovement-InstituteforGlobalPolicy,andheisamongthefoundersof"CivicoEuropa",atrasnationalplatformforthe
GeorgeSusanSusanGeorgeisoneofTNI'smostrenownedpeopleforherlong-termandgroundbreakinganalysisofglobalissues. "Shadow Sovereigns: HowGlobal Corporations are Seizing Power”is the newest of her seventeenwidelytranslatedbooks.ShedescribesherworkinacogentwaythathascometodefineTNI:"Thejoboftheresponsible social scientist is first to uncover these forces [ofwealth, power and control], towrite aboutthemclearly,withoutjargon...andfinally..totakeanadvocacypositioninfavourofthedisadvantaged,theunderdogs,thevictimsofinjustice."Honours/Awards:Honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Universidad Nacional deEducacionaDistanciaofMadridaswellasthefirst“OutstandingPublicScholarAward"oftheInternationalPoliticalEconomysectionoftheInternationalStudiesAssociation.Mediaexperience:SusanGeorgeisafrequentintervieweeinprint,radioandtelevisionandregularlycontributesarticlestoLeMondediplomatique,OpenDemocracy,ElPais,NewInternationalistandTheNation.
Griffith-JonesStephanyStephany Griffith-Jones (born June 5, 1947) is an economist specialising in international finance anddevelopment, with emphasis on reform of the international financial system, specifically in relation tofinancial regulation, global governance and international capital flows. She is currently FinancialMarketsDirector at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue,[1] based at Columbia University in New York and AssociateFellow at the Overseas Development Institute. Previously she was Professorial Fellow at the Institute ofDevelopment Studies at Sussex University. She has held the position of Deputy Director of InternationalFinanceattheCommonwealthSecretariatandhasworkedattheUnitedNationsDepartmentofEconomicandSocialAffairsandintheUnitedNationsEconomicCommissionforLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean.Shestartedhercareerin1970attheCentralBankofChile.BeforejoiningtheInstituteofDevelopmentStudies,sheworkedatBarclaysBankInternationalintheUK.ShehasactedasseniorconsultanttogovernmentsinEasternEuropeandLatinAmericaandtomanyinternationalagencies,includingtheWorldBank,theInter-AmericanDevelopmentBank,theEuropeanCommission,UNICEF,UNDPandUnitedNationsConferenceonTrade and Development. She was also a member of theWarwick Commission on international financialreform. She has published over 20 books and writtenmany scholarly and journalistic articles. Her latestbook,editedjointlywithJoséAntonioOcampoandJosephStiglitz,TimefortheVisibleHand,Lessonsfromthe2008crisis,waspublishedin2010.
GuerrieriPaoloHe isaSenatorof the ItalianDemocraticPartyandmemberofboththeEconomicBudgetCommitteeandtheEuropeanPoliciesCommitteeintheItalianSenate.He has been for several year professor of Economics at theUniversity of Rome 'La Sapienza' and visitingprofessorattheCollegeofEurope,Bruges(Belgium)andtheUSD,BusinessSchool,UniversityofSanDiego,California.AsaneconomistinthepastandtodayinhispoliticalrolehasalwaysbeeninterestedinEuropeanissuesandhaspublishednumerousarticlesandbooksontheEUintegrationprocessandtheeuro.
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HeisatirelesssupporteroftheideasofastrongandprogressiveEurope.HebelievesthattheEUisstillahalfway project and its full implementation is the onlyway how European governments can best defendtheirpeopleandtheirinterestinthepresentmultipolarworld,He has served as an advisor to several international organizations including the European Commission,OECD,WorldBank,CEPAL.
GurmaiZitaZitaGurmaiwaselectedasPresidentofPESWomenforthefirsttimeon21October2004.Shehasbeenre-electedPresidenton27September2012.Her ambition is to work with PES Women members to strengthen PES Women’s activities within areinvigoratedPES. ZitaGurmaihasbeenactive inHungarianand internationalwomen’smovements sincetheearly1990s.In1995,shebecameinvolvedinthewomen’ssectionoftheHungarianSocialistParty,afterwhichshewaselectedPresidentoftheorganizationin2001.Oneofherfirstmajor initiativesasPresidentwas to launch the“Women forChange”movement,often referred toas“yellowscarfmovement”,whichwassuccessfulinadvocatingtheintroductionofgenderquotasintheHungarianSocialistParty.
HaußnerStefanStefanHaußner(M.A.)isresearchassociateattheJean-Monnet-ChairofEuropeanIntegrationandEuropeanPolitics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is alumnus of the Masters programme ‘MA SurveyMethodology’ at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Previous he successfully completed the Bachelorprogramme‘PoliticsandSociety’attheUniversityofBonn.ThroughhisM.A.degreeprogrammeheacquiredextensiveknowledgeofquantitativeandqualitativemethods,particularlyintheareaofdatacollectionandanalysis. During his studies he worked e.g. on topics like ‘international comparability of surveyquestionnaires’and‘socialdesirabilityinlargescalesurveys’.Inhismasterthesis,heevaluatedtheusabilityofMultiple Imputationon vote choicepreferences in several European countries.His researchdealswithcomplianceofEuropeancorenorms inEUmemberstatesandnon-EUcountries, theanalysisofEuropeanright-wingpopulismandthestructureofnonvotersintheEuropeanUnion.Declining turnout and the social imbalancebetween thosewho vote and thosewhodonot are themaininterestsofhis research.Politicalequalitycomprises theequal right tovote,anequalvoiceandthesameequalcapacityandopportunitytoparticipate.Thus,politicalequalityishighlyassociatedwithsocialequality.In his PhD-project Stefan Haußner investigates the existing imbalances and the arising consequences forparties,societyanddemocracyinEurope.
HemerijckAntonAnton Hemerijck joined the EUI in January 2017, taking leave of absence from the Vrije UniversiteitAmsterdam. Trained an economist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, he took his doctorate fromOxford University. In his capacity of Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, together with JonathanZeitlin,he foundedwiththeUniversityofAmsterdam,theAmsterdamCentre forContemporaryEuropeanStudies(ACCESSEUROPE).HealsodirectedtheScientificCouncilforGovernmentPolicy(WRR),theprinciplethink tank in theNetherlands,whileholdingaprofessorship inComparativeEuropeanSocialPolicyat theErasmus University Rotterdam. Between 1996 and 2000 he was senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for theStudyof Societies inCologne,Hehasheldnumerousvisitingappointments, ranging fromMIT to theUniversity of Lisbon, theUniversity ofAntwerp, theCollegioCarloAlbertoof TurinUniversity.Over the past decade he frequently served as an advisor on social policy and the welfare state for theEuropeanCommission.
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EstherHerreraEstherHerreraisaSpanishjournalistborninBarcelona. She started covering European affairs in 2012 in Barcelona and Brussels. Since 2014 she lives in Brusselswhere shehasworked for International, SpanishandCatalanTV, radio,newspapersandmagazines.Since2015,she’stheEUcorrespondentforRadioFranceInternational(RFIinSpanish). Shehas a degree in Journalism from theUniversitatAutònomaofBarcelona and speciali- zed in EuropenAffairsinBrussels.ShegraduatedCumLaudewithaMasterdegreeinEuropeanIntegrationfromInstitutdesHautesÉtudesdeCommunicationsSociales(IHECS),inBrussels.
JaminJérômeJérôme Jaminholds adegree inphilosophy (1997), in international relations andEuropeanpolitics (1999)and a PhD in political science (2007). He is a professor at the political science department in the Law,PoliticalScienceandCriminologyfacultyoftheUniversityofLiègewhereheholdsthechairoftheresearchcentre Démocratie. His research focuses on democratic dynamics in Europe and the USA; on populism,nationalism and far-rightmovements; ethnic relations and cultural diversity.He (co-)authored a dozen ofpublications on the aforementioned topics including: L’extrême droite en Europe (Bruxelles : Bruylant)FondementsdeSciencePolitique(Bruxelles:deBoeck),LaConcurrencemémorielle(Paris:ArmandColin)etL’imaginaireducomplot(Amsterdam:AmsterdamUniversityPress).Moreover,herecentlypublished«TheIdeologyoftheBritishNationalParty»inthejournalLISA(Rennes:PressesuniversitairesdeRennes)and«Cultural Marxism and the Radical Right » in Paul Jackson et Anton Shekhovtsov, The Post-War Anglo-AmericanFarRight.ASpecialRelationshipofHate(LondresetNewYork:PalgraveMacmillan).
KaminisGeorgiosGeorgiosKaminiswaselectedMayorofAthensinNovember2010andre-electedforasecondterminMay2014.PriortohiselectionasMayorofAthens,Mr.KaminisservedasDeputyOmbudsmanforHumanRightsfrom1998toMay2003.In2003,hewasunanimouslyelectedGreekOmbudsmanbytheGreekParliament,andre-elected fora second term in2007. InAugust2010,Mr.Kaminis resigned fromthisposition inorder tostandasanindependentmayoralcandidatefortheCityofAthens.Mr.KaminisisanAssistantProfessorofconstitutionallawattheUniversityofAthens,FacultyofLawandamember of the scientific staff in the Department of Parliamentary Studies and Research of the GreekParliament.In2016hewasthewinneroftheWorldMayorCommendationforservicestorefugees.HestudiedlawattheUniversityofAthensandholdsadoctoraldegree(Doctoratd’Etat)fromtheUniversityofParisI.HewasborninNewYorkCityandhasalsolivedinOsaka,Paris,MadridandHeidelberg.InadditiontohisnativeGreeklanguage,hespeaksfluentlyEnglish,French,SpanishandGerman.Mr.Kaminisismarriedandhastwochildren.
KrauseLaura-KristinLaura-KristineKrauseisHeadofProgram„FutureofDemocracy“atDasProgressiveZentrum,aBerlin-based,independent think tankwhereshealsoheads thenewly formedDemocracyLab.DasProgressiveZentrumhas a special focus on European integration and transatlantic partnership and facilitates projects ondemocracy, innovation, and sustainability. Previously, Laurawas Senior Associate at a Berlin-based PublicAffairsconsultancyandworkedonnationwideelectioncampaignsinGermanyandtheUnitedStates.Since2016sheisCo-ChairwomanofD64–CenterforDigitalProgress,agrassrootsthinktankondigitalpolicy.She
KrouwelAndréAndré Krouwel teaches comparative political science and communication science at the VU UniversityAmsterdam and is the founder of Kieskompas (Election Compass) – a developer of online Vote AdviceApplications,withwhichdataiscollectedonpartypositionsandvoteropinions.Krouwel'sresearchfocuseson public opinion and politically relevant sentiments, voting behaviour, political parties and socialmovements.Hehaspublishedarticlesandbookchaptersonparliamentaryandpresidentialelections,partycompetition, populism and Euroscepticism. His most recent research has investigated the impact ofinformation on political attitudes and opinions, (negative) political emotions and belief in conspiracytheories.
Kumpula-NatriMiapetraMiapetraKumpula-Natri(born1972inVaasa,Finland)isaMemberoftheEuropeanParliamentrepresentingFinland,S&DGroupandTheSocialDemocraticPartyofFinland.Kumpula-NatriisamemberoftheITRECommitteeonIndustry,ResearchandEnergy,whereshehasfocusedonenergyanddigitalization.She’s also a member of Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee and a substitute of the EMPL Committee on EmploymentandSocialAffairs. Inaddition,Kumpula-Natri is thechairof theParliament’sBioeconomyWorkingGroup,memberoftheInternetForumandmemberoftheboardofEuropeanEnergyForum.
LadrechRobertRobertLadrechisProfessorofEuropeanPoliticsatKeeleUniversityintheUnitedKingdom.Hewasavisitingprofessor at the College of Europe in Bruges for over ten years, supervising theses in the area ofEuropeanizationandmemberstates’politics,policiesandinstitutions.HismainareasofresearchhavebeenpartypoliticsatthenationalandEuropeanlevels,withaparticularfocusonsocialdemocraticparties.Heisthe author of Social Democracy and the Challenge of European Union (2000) and Europeanization andNationalPolitics(2010).Hismostrecentacademicarticle,publishedinthejournalPartyPolitics,dealswithcentre-leftandcentre-rightpartiesmanifestopositionsonclimatechangepolicy.Thisarticleisoneoutputofa2-yearprojectheledonClimatePolicyandPoliticalParties,fundedbytheUnitedKingdom’sEconomicandSocialResearchCouncil.Heispresentlyworkingonaprojectonhowsocialdemocraticpartyleadershipscanturnthepoliticisationof theEuropeanUnion intoanadvantageratherthana liability indomesticpoliticalcompetition.
LambertzKarl-HeinzKarl-HeinzLambertzisFirstVice-PresidentoftheEuropeanCommitteeoftheRegions(CoR)andalsoservesasmemberoftheBelgianSenaterepresentingtheGerman-SpeakingCommunity.Bornon4June1952inSchoppen,Karl-Heinz'sinterestinpoliticscameearlyinhiscareerhavingservedasPresident of the German-speaking Youth Council (1975-1980). After a number of functions linked to hisacademic background in law, he became Member of Parliament of the German-speaking Community in1981.Between1990-1999heheldnumerousMinisterialposts in theGerman-speakingCommunityGovernmentbefore being elected itsMinister-President (1999-2014). He was then President of Parliament until 2016beforetakingpostasSenator.
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Karl-Heinz has been a CoRmember since 2001 andwas President of the CoR's PES Group (2011- 2015).Since 2000, he has been aMember of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council ofEuropeandiscurrentlyVice-President.HeismarriedtohiswifeSylvie,hastwochildrenandfourgrand-children.
LazzaMatthewMatthewwasappointedDirectorofPolicyNetworkinearly2016.PolicyNetworkisaleadinginternationalprogressive think-tank,whichalsobrings togetherauniqueglobalnetworkofmoderniserson thecentre-left. Matthew is Editor-in-Chief of Policy Network’s ‘State of the Left’, which curates contributions fromaroundtheworldonthestateofprogressivepolitics.In the runup to the2015UKgeneralelectionMatthewwasa senioradviser to the Leaderof the Labourparty on media strategy. Prior to returning to politics Matthew had a successful fifteen-year career intelevision,mostlyat theBBC.Asaseniorcurrentaffairsprogrammemakerheworkedonahuge-rangeofcontentfromthepopular‘OneShow’toacclaimeddocumentariessuchas‘PoshandPosher:WhyDoPublicSchoolBoysrunBritain?’.Hisreturntopoliticsisareturntohisroots.MatthewwasoneoftheleadersofYoungLabourpriortothelandslide1997electionwinwhichsawLabourreturntopowerandhealso ledthemainLabourPartypro-Europeanorganisation,campaigningforBritain'sleadingroleinEurope.
LeinenJoBeforebecominganMEP,JoLeinenwasMinisterfortheEnvironmentintheStateGovernmentofSaarland,Germanyfrom1985-1994.SinceJuly1999Mr.LeinenhasbeenaMemberoftheEuropeanParliament.HetookpartintheConventionfortheElaborationofaCharterofFundamentalRightsfortheEU.From2004to2009hewasPresidentoftheConstitutionalAffairsCommitteeandfrom2009to2011hechairedtheCommitteeontheEnvironment,PublicHealthandFoodSafety.HeistheChairmanoftheDelegationfortherelationswithChina,afullmemberoftheConstitutionalAffairsCommittee,andasubstitutememberoftheCommitteeontheEnvironment,PublicHealthandFoodSafetyCommittee as well as of the Committee for Foreign Affairs. He is also a full Member of the EuropeanParliament'sWorkingGrouponEU-UNrelationsandasubstituteMemberoftheACP-EUJointParliamentaryAssembly.AfterbeingPresidentoftheUnionofEuropeanFederalists(UEF)from1997to2005hewasappointedtheorganization's Honorary President. Leinen also served as Vice President of the European MovementInternational(EMI)from2003to2011,beforebecomingitsPresidentinNovember2011.
LemaireDimitriParticitiz,Belgium
LenarduzziIsabelleSocialentrepreneurandkeyopinionleaderandspeakeringenderequality,andfemaleentrepreneurship.Founder andManagingDirector of JUMP (www.jump.eu.com ) the leading social enterpriseworkingwithorganisations and individuals to close the gap betweenwomen andmen atwork, to achieve sustainablecorporateperformanceandtocreateamorequalsociety.Ashoka Fellow. Ashoka fellows are leading social entrepreneurswho are recognised as having innovativesolutionstosocialproblemsandthepotentialtochangepatternsacrosssociety.
LiebhabergBrunoBrunoLiebhabergisChairmanoftheFEPSScientificCouncilandaVicePresidentofFEPS.HeisalsoDirectorGeneral of theCentre on Regulation in Europe(CERRE), a European think tank founded in 2010 at hisinitiativetocontributethroughitsfullyindependentresearch,disseminationandtrainingactivitiestoamoremature, robust, stable and professional regulation in network industries, such as among others energy,telecommunications and rail transport. CERRE brings together more than forty universities, nationalregulatoryauthorities,operatorsandinfrastructuremanagersactiveinthosecrucialsectorsfortheeconomyandforthecitizens.Professor Liebhaberg teaches at Université Libre de Bruxelles’ Solvay Brussels School of Economics andManagement(SBS-EM,ULB).Authororeditorofvariousarticlesandbooksincluding"RenewingtheLeftinEurope:TowardsaEuropeanReformistLeft",EditionsLucPire(2008)and"Regulation,Citizenship,SocialContract",GRE/PAC(2010),heregularlycontributestoEuropeanmedia.BrunoLiebhabergstartedhiscareerasanacademicattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScienceand at City University London. He then joined the European Commission where he was, among otherpositions,anadviseronindustryinPresidentJacquesDelors’privateoffice.HehasanMAinManagementSciencesfromtheSolvayBrusselsSchoolofEconomicsandManagement,ULBandaPh.DinIndustrialRelationsfromtheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience.
Before joining ECAS in September 2015, Elisa worked as a Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Union ofEuropean Federalists (UEF) and was previously a researcher for the European Institute for Asian Studies(EIAS).Shehasbeenanactivememberofnumerousorganizationsandyouthprojects,especially inraisingawarenessonEUissuesamongcitizens.She holds aMaster’s Degree in European Studieswith a specialization in EU External Relations from theUniversitéCatholiquedeLouvain(UCL)inBelgium.Elisa is fluent in English, Italian and French. She also has a strong knowledge of Spanish and is currentlylearningDutch.
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MartinLeonieLeonie hails from the cross-border region of Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. She has a masterdegree in European public policy and administration fromMaastricht University and in International andEuropeanlawfromtheVrijeUniversiteitBrussel.ShehasalsolivedinBudapest,BerlinandtheWashingtonD.C.area.LeoniehasbeenactiveinJEFsincetheendof2010,whenJEFNetherlandswasre-initiated.Shewasoneoftheco-foundersofJEFMaastricht,hasbeenactiveinmanyboardpositionsinJEFNetherlands,ensuringthatthe organization would become a member section, and she stimulated inter-regional ties as one of thecoordinatorsof the JEFCross-BorderNetwork.Withherpassion for communicatingEuropeanpoliticsandstimulatingthepoliticaldebate,LeoniehasbeenstudyingandworkinginBrusselssince2013.Responsibilities:Responsible for JEF in the European Youth Forum; EB contact point for JEF Azerbaijan, JEF Denmark, JEFIreland,JEFHungary,JEFMalta,andJEFMoldovaaswellasthePoliticalAmbassadorsTaskforce(PAT).
MeyerThomasThomas Mayer ist seit September 2009 leitender Redakteur für Europa/Europäische Union und Nato.Geboren in Baden, aufgewachsen in Tirol und dem Burgenland, Schule und Studium in der Steiermark,Gründungsmitglied des STANDARD, reist gerne zwischen denWelten, beschrieb zwischen 1989 und 1994u.a. die österreichischen Beitrittsverhandlungen mit der EU, zwischen 1994 und 2002 Korrespondent inBrüssel,anschließendChefvomDienstinWien,bauteab2003denNewsroomauf.
MorenoSanchezJavierJavierMorenoSanchez, formermemberoftheEuropeanParliamentandSecretaryGeneraloftheSpanishSocialistdelegation in theEuropeanParliament (2004-2009)andmemberof thePSOEsince1992.Hewasthe leader (2004-2012)of theEuropeanFederationof thePSOE (PSOEEuropa).On1November2014,hewasappointedasSecretaryGeneraloftheGroupoftheProgressiveAllianceofSocialists&DemocratsintheEuropeanParliament.JavierMoreno,borninSwitzerlandtoSpanishparentsnowlivesinBrusselswithhiswifeandthreechildren.In addition to his Spanish mother tongue, he is fluent in several languages, French, Italian, English andGerman.PriortohiselectionasamemberoftheEuropeanParliamentin2004,JavierMorenohadawideexperiencewithintheEuropeanInstitutionswhichcommencedin1991.HeservedasapoliticaladvisortothepartyofEuropeanSocialists(1999-2002)laterbecomingDeputySecretaryGeneral(2002-2004)duringwhichperiodhecoordinatedtheworkof theSocialistmembersof theEuropeanConvention2002-2003 ledbyGiulianoAmato.ElectedfortheSpanishlistoftheSocialistGroupintheEuropeanParliamentin2004,JavierMorenoservedontheCommitteesforInternationalTradeandtheCommitteeforCivilLibertieswhereheconcentratedhisworkonthefightagainstillegalimmigration.Hehaspublishedvariousarticlesonissuesofimmigrationandtrade.DuringhismandateintheEuropeanParliamenthewasalsoamemberofthedelegationforrelationswithMercosurandthedelegationtotheEuro-LatinAmericanParliamentaryAssembly.
MoscoviciPierrePierreMoscoviciwasbornon16September1957inParis.HeobtainedadegreeinEconomicsandPoliticalSciencebeforecompletingDEAs(post-graduatediplomas) inEconomicScienceandPhilosophy.Hestudiedat theParis InstituteofPolitical Studiesand joined theFrenchNational SchoolofAdministration (ENA) in
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1982.TherehefocusedonissuesrelatingtotheEuropeanintegrationprogress,whichhehadbeenfollowingcloselysincethe1970s,andbecameacquaintedwithDominiqueStrauss-Kahn.WhenheleftENAin1984,hejoinedtheSocialistParty(PS). Inthesameyear,hewasappointedtotheCourtofAuditorsandjoinedtheSocialistParty’sgroupofexperts.In 1988, he became Technical Adviser, then Policy Officer, to Lionel Jospin in the Ministry of NationalEducation. Two years later, he becameHeadofDepartment for themodernisationof public services andfinancing at the FrenchNational PlanningBoard. That same year he joined the leadershipof the SocialistPartyasNationalSecretaryforResearchandasTreasurer.Pierre Moscovici first occupied a European post in 1994 when he became a Member of the EuropeanParliament in theparliamentary groupof thePartyof EuropeanSocialists. In1997, following the SocialistParty’s victory in the national elections, he entered the new cohabitation government formed by LionelJospinasMinisterforEuropeanAffairs,apostthathewouldholduntil2002.PierreMoscoviciwasthereforeinvolvedinthemajorEuropeanissuesofthisperiod,inparticularthenegotiationsforthefifthenlargementoftheEuropeanUnion,thefinancialnegotiationsassociatedwithAgenda2000andthedevelopmentoftheLisbonStrategy.During the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2000, PierreMoscovici’smainrolewasthatofcoordinator.Hechairedthe intergovernmentalmeetings that ledto theNice European Council in December 2000 and the signing of the Treaty of Nice in February 2001. Hewitnessed thedifficulties inFranco–German relationsduring thisperiodandsawhispreparatorywork forinstitutionalreformsrevisedduringthefinalnegotiationsinNice.In2002,PierreMoscovicirepresentedtheFrenchGovernmentontheConventionontheFutureofEuropeuntilhewasreplacedbyDominiquedeVillepinfollowingtheformationofanewgovernment.Hewasfullyinsupport of the method of the Convention and the resulting draft Treaty establishing a Constitution forEurope. Despite the subsequent modifications made to the draft Treaty by the Heads of State orGovernment of the 25Member States, PierreMoscovici defended the Constitutional Treaty and activelycampaignedforthe‘Yes’votewithintheSocialistPartyandinFranceintherun-uptothereferendumheldon29May2005.InJune2004,PierreMoscoviciwasonceagainappointedtotheEuropeanParliamentasVice-PresidentuntilJune2007.HewasamemberoftheCommitteeonForeignAffairsandwasParliament’srapporteurontheaccessionof Bulgaria andRomania to the EuropeanUnion.During this timehewas also President of theEuropeanMovementFrancefortwoyears,from2005to2006.In2007,hebecameaMemberoftheFrenchNationalAssemblyinthefourthconstituencyoftheDoubsdépartement.
NowackaBarbaraBarbaraAnnaNowacka(born10May1975)isaPolishpolitician.AleftactivistinLabourUnited,andlaterinYourMovement,inOctober2015shebecameleaderoftheUnitedLeftcoalitionforthePolishparliamentaryelection,2015,bringingtogetherLabourUnited,YourMovement,theDemocraticLeftAlliance,theGreens,andthePolishSocialistParty.PoliticalcareerBorninWarsaw,NowackawaseducatedattheUniversityofWarsaw,whereshewasactiveasafeministintheFederationforWomenandFamilyPlanning.From1997to2006,shewasamemberoftheyouthwingofLabourUnitedandthenofthepartyitself.In 2014 she stood unsuccessfully in the European elections in Lublin for Europa Plus, supported byAleksanderKwaśniewski.ShewentonfromthatdefeattojoinJanuszPalikot'sYourMovement,becomingajointleader,andhelpedtocreatetheUnitedLeft,abroadcoalition.On4October2015shewasnamedasitscandidate for prime minister if it won the election, and on 17 October she presented the coalition's
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programmeataconferenceinKatowice.However,intheelectionson25OctobertheUnitedLeftfailedtoreachthe8percentthresholdforobtainingparliamentaryrepresentationunderPoland'ssystemofelection,whileNowackaherselffailedtobeelectedintheWarsawIparliamentaryconstituency.ThePolishelectionsof2015wereunusual in thatmostof themajorparties contesting themwere ledbywomen.WhileNowackawastheleaderoftheUnitedLeft,EwaKopaczofthegoverningCivicPlatformpartywastheincumbentprimeminister,andBeataSzydłooftheoppositionLawandJusticepartywasthemainchallenger.Intheevent,Szydłowaselectedwithanoverallmajority.In2016,ForeignPolicymagazineincludedNowacka,togetherwithAgnieszkaDziemianowicz-BąkofRazem,onitsannuallistofthe100mostinfluentialglobalthinkersfortheirroleinorganizingprotestsagainstatotalbanonabortioninPoland.
OrtizIsabelIsabelOrtiz is Director of theGlobal Social Justice Programat the Initiative for PolicyDialogue, ColumbiaUniversity.Earlier,shewasAssociateDirectorofPolicyatUNICEF,andsenioradvisorattheUnitedNationsDepartmentofEconomicandSocialAffairs(UNDESA)andattheAsianDevelopmentBank.Shehasworkedinmore than30countries,providingadvisoryservices togovernmentsanddevelopment institutions,amongthem,DFID,theEuropeanCommission,KfW,UNDPandtheWorldBank.ShehasaPh.D.fromtheLondonSchoolofEconomics,andhaswritten50publicationstranslatedinseverallanguages.
PatersonTaraTara Paterson is a Researcherwith the Fabian Society – theUK’s oldest political think tank and foundingmemberoftheBritishLabourParty.Sheholdstwomaster’sdegreesfromtheUniversityofOxfordinPublicPolicy and Environmental Governance where her research focused on transnational women’s health
movementsandcomparativepoliticsinNorthAmerica. PastorGriseldaCorresponsaldelaCadenaSerenBruselasdesdeoctubredel1998,elaño2004obtuvoelPremioSalvadorMadariagadeRadio.Realizó suprimera formaciónen temaseuropeosen la Fondation JournalistesenEurope,enParis,dóndeobtuvounabecaelcurso89-90.NacidaenTarragonael19demarzodel1961,iniciósutrabajoprofesionalenlosEstudiosdelaCadenaSERdeestaciudadytambiénenTarragonatrabajócomocorresponsaldelaAgenciaEFE.
PittellaGianniGianni Pitella is the President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EuropeanParliament
Hehasbeen theMunicipal Councillor of Lauria (1979) andaMemberof theRegional Council andof theRegional Executive responsible for training, culture and productive activities (1980). He was RegionalSecretaryoftheYoungSocialists;aMemberoftheDS(DemocraticidiSinistra)national leadershipandtheDSnationalofficialresponsibleforItaliansintheworld.In1996,hewaselectedMemberoftheChamberofDeputiesoftheXIIILegislatureoftheItalianRepublic.HegaveuphisseatasMemberofParliamenttopursuehispoliticalactivityinaninternationalenvironmentandwaselectedMemberoftheEuropeanParliament in1999.Hismandatewasthenreconductedforthe6thand7thlegislaturein2004and2009.In2006,hewaselectedunanimouslyasPresidentof the ItalianDelegation in thePESgroupaswell as in2009. In 2009, he became First Vice-President of the European parliament, after being re-elected for the
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thirdtimeastheDemocraticPartyrepresentativeoftheSouthernItalyelectoraldistrict. He has been member of the European Parliament Bureau as well as of the Committee on Culture and
EducationandtheDelegation for relationswithAlbania,BosniaandHerzegovina,Serbia,MontenegroandKosovo.HehasalsobeenasubstitutememberintheCommitteeonEconomicandMonetaryAffairsandintheDelegationtotheParliamentaryAssemblyoftheUnionfortheMediterranean.
GianniPitellagraduatedfromtheFacultyofMedicineandSurgery,specialisinginlegalandforensicmedicineat the University of Naples in Italy. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia's LondonAcademyofDiplomacy.
He is the author of "Rosso Antico" (1996), "Diario di Bordo" (1997), "Sparlare, parlare, pensare" (1998),"Eurodiario"(1999-2000),"Iltriangolodellaricchezza"(2003),"Europ@"(2004),"DalSudinEuropaconTe"(2004),"Partitieuropeiegruppipoliticinelnuovoeuroparlamentodell'Unionea25"(2004),"Un'Europapericittadini" (2006), "L'Europa indispensabile" (2009), "Domani a Mezzogiorno" (2010), "Federalismoavvelenato"(2011).
PoliEleonoraEleonoraPoliisaresearchfellowattheIstitutoAffariInternazionali(IAI)andtheLondonCityPerc,wheresheis working on the political and institutional implications of the Eurozone crisis, European economicgovernanceandtheEUexternalrelations.EleonoraholdsaPhDinInternationalPoliticalEconomyfromtheDepartmentofInternationalPoliticsatCityUniversityLondon.Shehasworkedasconsultantforanumberofprominentinternationalorganisationandpublicinstitutions,suchIDSThomsonReuters,theItalianMinistryofForeignAffairsandOSIFE.Dr.PolihaswrittenseveralopinionpiecesonthecurrentEuropeanpoliticalandinstitutional crisis on OpenDemocrary, Aspenia, London School of Economics Europp blog and DGAP,GermanCouncilonForeignRelations.Shehasrecentlypublishedabook,AntitrustInstitutionsandPoliciesintheGlobalisingEconomy(PalgraveMacMillan,IPEseries,October2015).
PulkkinenTuijaI amcurrentlyworkingasProfessorofGender Studiesat theDepartmentofPhilosophy,History,CultureandArtStudiesattheUniversityofHelsinki(2008–).During2011-2015IactedasAcademyProfessoroftheAcademy of Finland leading the academy professor project Philosophy and Politics in Feminist Theory.Previously,IhaveworkedforfiveyearsasProfessorofGenderStudiesattheUniversityofJyväskyläwhereIalsohadapermanentpositionasaprofessorofPoliticalTheory.My current research continues and develops further the work I conducted in my academy professor’sproject Philosophy and Politics in Feminist Theory (2011-2015) concentrating on contemporary feministtheory.InmyownworkIstudythemainfiguresofcurrentfeministtheory,suchasLuceIrigaray,ElizabethGrosz, Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, and Adriana Cavarero with an approach that I call ‘politics ofphilosophy’. Ipayattentiontothescholars’attachmentstodifferentphilosophical traditions, theensuingconceptual conflicts, and how these conflicts are textually played out. In addition to my own work theprojectfundstheworkofsevenPPhiGteammembersfordifferentperiodsoftime.I strongly value international contacts inmy area of study. In the early 1990s I spent four years at theUniversityofCaliforniaSantaCruztoworkonmybookThePostmodernandPoliticalAgency(1996).IthenworkedforayearatthephilosophydepartmentatUniversityofGreifswald,Germanyin1998–1999,visitedMinnesota AFS in 2002, and spent two years 2007–2009 at the University ofManchester, CRESC.Mostrecently I visited in 2012 for half a year University of Paris 8 Gender Studies. The PPhiG team currentlyentertainscloseconnectionstomanyinstitutionsabroad, includingParis8(GenderStudies),UniversityofLondonBirkbeckCollege(BIGS),andtoKingstonUniversity(CREPH).
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I aman advisoryboardmemberof journals such asNora and thenewComment S’en Sortir. I have alsoworkedformanyyearsasaco-editorofthejournalRedescriptions–PoliticalThought,ConceptualChangeandFeministTheory,whichstartedasaFinnishpublication,yethassteadilygainedininternationalweight.RedescriptionswillbepublishedasaManchesterUniversityPressJournalbeginningin2014.IamalsoaboardmemberofInternationalAssociationofWomeninPhilosophy(IAPh)andthepresidentoftheFinnishGenderStudiesAssociation(SUNS).
RodriguesMariaJoãoMariaJoãoRodrigues,waselectedMemberoftheEuropeanParliamentin2014,becomingamemberoftheS&DGroup,thesecondmostimportantEPGroup,with190memberscomingfromthe28MemberStates.Shewas then electedby thisGroup as its Vice-President, in chargeof general coordination and interfacewiththeotherEUinstitutionsandworkingwiththeCommitteesofEconomicandSocialAffairs.AfterbeingaMinisterofEmploymentinPortugal,shemovedsince2000todifferentrolesofpolicymakerintheEuropeanInstitutions,particularlyasmemberofEUPresidenciesleadingteamsandasspecialadivisortotheEuropeanCommission.Themainoutcomesshehasbeenworkingforare:·TheEconomicPolicyforRecovery·TheEuropeanPillarofSocialRights·TheEUStrategyforgrowthandjobs,theLisbonStrategyfollowedbytheEU2020Strategy·TheEUagendaforglobalizationandthestrategicpartnershipswiththeUSA,China,Russia,IndiaandBrazilforanewgrowthmodel· The development of several policy areas: employment, education, innovation, research, regional andindustrialpolicies·SpecialEUinitiatives:thenewErasmusformobility,NewSkillsforNewJobs·ThefinalnegotiationoftheLisbonTreaty·Theresponsestotheeuro-zonecrisisandthereformoftheEconomicandMonetaryUnionIn academic terms, she was professor of European economic policies in the European Studies Institute -UniversitéLibredeBruxellesandintheLisbonUniversity Institute.ShewasalsothechairoftheEuropeanCommissionAdvisoryBoardforsocio-economicsciencesandshewasalsochairormemberofseveralotherHigh-LevelGroupsintheEuropeanCommission.Sheisauthorofmorethanonehundredpublications,notablythebooks:- The New Knowledge Economy in Europe – A Strategy for International Competitiveness and SocialCohesion,EdwardElgar:Cheltenham,UKandNorthampton,MA,2002.-EuropeanPoliciesforaKnowledgeEconomy,EdwardElgar:Cheltenham,UKandNorthampton,MA,2003.-Europe,GlobalizationandtheLisbonAgenda,EdwardElgar:Cheltenham,UKandNorthampton,MA,2009.-EuropeisStillPossible,Xlibris-PenguinGroup,UKandUSA,2013.- Eurozone Crisis and the Transformation of the EUGovernance, editedwith Eleni Xiarchogiannopoulou ,Ashgate,2014.
S.GoodmanPeterPeterS.GoodmanistheEuropeaneconomiccorrespondentfortheNewYorkTimes,basedinLondon.Goodman began his journalism career in Southeast Asia, where he covered the war in Cambodia andVietnam'smarket-embracingreformsforseveralAmericanpublications,includingtheLosAngelesTimesandthe Miami Herald. He spent a decade at the Washington Post covering politics, technology and theenvironment -- the latterhalfas thepaper'sAsianEconomicCorrespondent,based inShanghai.He joinedtheNewYorkTimes inthefallof2007,coveringthefinancialcrisisandtheGreatRecessionasthepaper'snational economic correspondent. After three years running business and international news at the
S.PereiraPedroPedroSilvaPereiraisVice-ChairoftheConstitutionalAffairsCommitteeandaMemberoftheInternationalTradeCommitteeandChairmanoftheINTAMonitoringGroupforJapan.He is also a Member of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Japan and a StandingRapporteur for the EU-Japan Free TradeAgreement.He is also formerMinister of the Presidency (of theCouncilofMinisters,2005-2011),StateSecretaryforLandUsePlanningandNatureConservation(MinistryoftheEnvironment,1999-2002)andMP(oftheSocialistParty,2002-2015).He is a former Assistant Professor at the AutónomaUniversity of Lisbon, a lawyer and aMember of theCommitteeofExpertsofTheCouncilofEuropeoncompensationfordamagecausedtotheEnvironmentandoftheEuropeanNationalExpertsGrouponEnvironmentalLiability.
SampereRoçioAgraduateinEconomicsfromthePompeuFabraUniversitywithaMastersinEconomicsandaMastersinGovernmentandPublicPolicyfromtheLondonSchoolofEconomics,sheworkedasananalystintheCityofLondonandsubsequentlywiththeFabianSociety,afoundationassociatedwiththeUnitedKingdomLabourPartyofwhichshewasamember. Later, she joined theRafaelCampalansFoundationwhereshe is still amemberof its trust.Sheservedaschiefofcabinet forNarcísSerraandadvisertoPasqualMaragall inthefirstprogressivegovernmentofCatalonia.SheisamemberofthePSCsince2003andin2006waselectedaparliamentarydeputy forCataloniawhereshewaseconomicandbudgetaryspokesperson.Shestoodasacandidateandlost intheprimariesforthemayoraltyofBarcelona.Sheresignedherseataweekafterthemunicipalelectionsin2015.
SchmitNicolas(*10December1953)Twitter:@nicolasschmit2Nicolas Schmit is the current Minister of Labour Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy ofLuxembourg. He chairs of the PES Social and EmploymentMinisters Network. Before Nicolas SchmitwasappointedMinisterofLabourEmploymentandtheSocialandSolidarityEconomyin2013,hewasMinisterofLabour, Employment and Immigration in 2009 andMinister Delegate for Foreign Affairs and Immigrationfrom2004.Minister Schmitheldotherpoliticalposts including secretaryof the LSAPparliamentarygroupandmemberoftheCouncilofState.HealsoheldvariouspostswithintheMinistryofforeignAffairsandwasAmbassadorandPermanentRepresentativetotheEuropeanUnionforLuxembourgbetween1998to2004.HewasinvolvedintheIntergovernmentalConferencepreparationsthatledtotheMaastrichtTreaty..From2000 to 2001, he was also the personal representative of the Luxembourg Prime Minister at theIntergovernmental Conference preparing the Treaty of Nice. From 2002 to 2003, he furthermorerepresented the government as a deputy member at the meetings of the European Convention on theFutureofEurope.
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Nicolas Schmit obtained amaster of arts degree fromAix-en-Provence, a DEA (post-graduate diploma ofadvancedstudies) in international relationsandwasalsoawardedadoctorate ineconomics fromtheAix-MarseilleUniversity.
SchratzenstallerMargitMargit Schratzenstaller, born in 1968 in Landshut/Germany, studied Economics at the University ofGiessen/GermanyandtheUniversityofWisconsinMilwaukee/USAandholdsaPhDfromtheUniversityofGiessen. Since2003 shehasbeenworkingat theAustrian Instituteof EconomicResearchWIFOas seniorresearcherspecializinginPublicFinance;since2016sheisdeputydirectoratWIFO.MargitSchratzenstallerteachesattheUniversityofVienna,sheisanexpertintheAustrianFiscalCouncilandmemberoftheBoardof Trustees of the European ForumAlpbach. FromApril 2012 toMarch 2016Margit SchratzenstallerwasdeputycoordinatoroftheFP7EUprojectWWWforEurope;currentlysheisamemberoftheconsortiumoftheEUH2020projectFairTax(2015-2019).MargitSchratzenstaller,AustrianInstituteofEconomicResearch,Bibliography
SierakowskiSławomirSociologist and political commentator. Founder and leader of Krytyka Polityczna, a Polish movement ofliberal intellectuals, artists andactivists,withbranches inUkraineandRussia.Directorof the Institute forAdvancedStudyinWarsawandpresidentoftheStanislawBrzozowskiAssociation,overseeingitspublishinghouse, website and cultural centres in Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz and Cieszyn and Kiev. Graduate of theUniversityofWarsaw;previously fellowat Yale, Princeton,Harvardand the Institute forHumanSciences,Vienna. Columnist for The International New York Times and now for Project Syndicate; has publishedarticlesinTheGuardian,ElPaís,Haaretz,DieTageszeitungandGazetaWyborcza.
SodhaSoniaI’m chief leader writer and a columnist at the Observer, and afreelance public policy and strategyconsultant.I’malsoaprimaryschoolgovernor,andatrusteeoftheyouthcharityCityYearUK,offoundationtheTrustforLondonandoftheeducationcharityAmbitionSchoolLeadership.Previously, IwasHeadof Public Services andConsumerRights at the consumer championWhich?BeforethatIwasaseniorpolicyadvisertoEdMiliband,runningLabour’sSmallBusinessTaskforce(youcanreadthereporthere).I’vealsoworkedasHeadofPolicyandStrategyattheDartingtonSocialResearchUnit,andfortwoleadingcentre-leftthinktanks:IwasHeadoftheCapabilitiesprogrammeatDemosfrom2008-2010,whereIranitsprogrammeof researchoneducation,children,youngpeopleand families.Prior to that, IwasaResearchFellowat theInstitute forPublicPolicyResearch,where I led severalmajor researchprojectson children,educationandsocialpolicy.
StanishevSergeiSergei Stanishevwas born on the 5thMay 1966. He studied history, inwhich he holds a PhD. Hewas avisitingfellowinInternationalRelationsattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience.Priortohispoliticalcareerheworkedasajournalist.HewasavisitingfellowinInternationalRelationsattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience.Priortohispoliticalcareerheworkedasajournalist.In 1996 he became Head of the foreign policy and international relations department of the BulgarianSocialistParty. In2001hewaselectedMemberof theBulgarianParliament.SinceDecember2001hehasbeenChairmanoftheNationalCounciloftheBulgarianSocialistParty.Hewasre-electedasPartyChair in
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2002, 2005 and2009. From2002 to 2009hewas amemberof the PES Presidency. Sergei StanishevwasPrimeMinisterofBulgariafrom2005to2009.DuringhistermasPrimeMinisterBulgariabecameamemberoftheEuropeanUnion.CurrentlyheisaMemberofParliamentandChairmanoftheParliamentaryGroupoftheCoalitionforBulgaria.Hehaswrittenmorethan50publicationsonforeignpolicyissuesinBulgarianandinternationalperiodicals.In2009hepublishedthebook“Becausewearesocialists”.On the 24th November 2011, he became interim PES President and during the 9th PES Congress inSeptember2012hewaselectedPESPresident.Hewasre-electedPresidentbythePESCongressin2013and2015. His priorities for the PES include promoting and developing the PES alternative to austerity onlypolicies, based on creating jobs and investing in sustainable projects that can ensure a return to growth,fightingyouthunemployment,protectingdemocracywhereitisunderthreatacrossEurope,andcontinuingthePESrenewalprocessunderway‘OurVisionforProgressiveSocietiesinthe21stCentury’.
StetterErnstErnst Stetter is the current and first Secretary General of the FEPS since 2008. He is also a regularcommentatoronEUaffairsinthemedia.In1976ErnstStetterbeganhisprofessionalcareerasalecturerineconomicsattheDGBTradeUnionCentreforVocationalTraininginHeidelberg.From1980to2008heworkedfortheFriedrichEbertStiftung(FES)invariouspositions.HespentthefirstfouryearsattheFESasaConsultantinDakar,Senegal.In1988,ErnstStetterwasappointedasHeadoftheAfricaDepartment.In1994hestartedworkingasHeadoftheCentralEuropeUnit.In1997hemovedtoParisandbecametheDirectoroftheFESOfficeinFrancewhilein2003hewasappointedasDirectoroftheEU-OfficeofFriedrich-Ebert-Stiftung(FES)inBrussels.Ernst Stetter is an economist and political scientist. He studied in Tübingen and Heidelberg (Germany)focusingoninternationaltrade,finance,economicandsocialpolicyaswellasdevelopmentissues.In1980heobtainedhisPhDinpoliticalscienceforhisdissertationentitledTheAssociationofACP-Countries(LoméIandII)totheEuropeanCommunityandtheSTABEX-System.In2003hereceivedtheFrenchdecorationofChevalierdel'OrdrenationalduMérite.
StiglitzJosephJosephE.StiglitzisanAmericaneconomistandaprofessoratColumbiaUniversity.Heisalsotheco-chairofthe High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at theOECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize inEconomicSciences(2001)andtheJohnBatesClarkMedal(1979),he isaformerseniorvicepresidentandchiefeconomistof theWorldBankanda formermemberandchairmanof the (USpresident's)CouncilofEconomicAdvisers. In2000,StiglitzfoundedtheInitiativeforPolicyDialogue,athinktankoninternationaldevelopmentbasedatColumbiaUniversity.HehasbeenamemberoftheColumbiafacultysince2001andreceivedthatuniversity'shighestacademicrank(universityprofessor)in2003.Basedonacademiccitations,Stiglitz is the 4th most influential economist in the world today, and in 2011 he was named by Timemagazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work onasymmetric information, Stiglitz'swork focuses on incomedistribution, asset riskmanagement, corporategovernance,andinternationaltrade.Heistheauthorofnumerousbooks,andseveralbestsellers.HismostrecenttitlesareTheEuro:HowaCommonCurrencyThreatenstheFutureofEurope,RewritingtheRulesofthe American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity and The Great Divide: UnequalSocietiesandWhatWeCanDoAboutThem.
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StøstadJan-ErikJan-ErikStøstadisSecretaryGeneralofSAMAK,thecooperationcommitteeoftheNordicSocialdemocraticparties and tradeunion LO’s.He is a politician andeconomist, andwas State Secretary in theNorwegianMinistry of Labour 2005-2012 for the Labour party. He initiated the SAMAK/FEPS Nordic Model 2030researchproject,andhaswrittenbooksonhowtocombatsocialdumpingandtheprogressiveroadaheadforthewelfareservices.Recentlyhewrotethepamphlet“TheNordicModelforDummies–AllYouNeedtoKnowin6Minutes”.#nordicmodelfordummies
TimmermansFransMr Timmermans is the First Vice-President of the European Commission, in charge of Better Regulation,Inter-InstitutionalRelations,theRuleofLawandtheCharterofFundamentalrights,since2014.HewastheMinister of Foreign Affairs for theDutchGovernment between 2012 and 2014 andMinister of EuropeanAffairsfrom2007to2010.AffiliatedtotheDutchLabourPartysince1998,Mr.TimmermansgraduatedfromtheRadboundUniversityinNijmegenandholdsapostgraduateinEuropeanLawandFrenchLiteraturefromtheNancyUniversity.
TrigoPereiraPauloPauloTrigoPereira(PhDEconomics,1994),isFullProfessorofPublicandWelfareEconomicsatISEG,LisbonSchool of Economics andMangament (University of Lisbon). On leave from theUniversity (2015-…) he iscurrently aMemberof thePortugueseParliament, elected in Socialist Party lists.HehisVice-Chairof theBudget, Finance and Administrative Modernization Committee, a member of the European AffairsCommitteeandoftheTemporaryCommitteefortheStrengtheningofTransparencyintheExerciseofPublicFunctions . He has been chairing the Master of Public Policy, and teaching Public Finance, InstitutionalEconomics and Law and Economics at ISEG. Author of several books on Portuguese Public Finance andInstitutionalEconomicsandresearchpapersinsocialchoice,publicchoiceandelectoralstudies.Hehasbeenvisiting researcheror scholarat severaluniversities:UvA (Netherlands), LondonSchoolofEconomicsandLeicesterUniversity(UK),Turku(Finland)NewYorkandYaleUniversities(USA).ApartfromacademiahedidsomeconsultancyforportuguesegovernmentsonregionalandpublicfinanceaswellasthereformoftheState. He has been leading civil society projects on Budget Transparency in Portugal (the “Open BudgetSurvey” and “Budget Watch”), and has a regular presence in the Portuguese media (TV channels andnewspapersPublicoandObservador).Heisalsotheco-founderandPresidentoftheStrategicandScientificBoardoftheInstituteofPublicPolicyThomasJefferson-CorreiadaSerra,aportuguesethinktankonpublicpolicy.
VanParijsPhilippePhilippeVanParijsisaguestprofessorattheUniversitiesofLouvainandLeuven,aRobertSchumanFellowat the European University Institute and an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was thefoundingdirectorofLouvain’sHooverChairofEconomicandSocialEthicsfrom1991to2016,andaregularavisiting professor at HarvardUniversity from 2004 to 2010 and at theUniversity of Oxford from 2011 to2015.HeisamemberofBelgium’sRoyalAcademyofSciencesandaFellowoftheBritishAcademy.HeisoneofthefoundersoftheBasicIncomeEarthNetworkandchairsitsInternationalBoard.HismostrecentbooksareJustDemocracy.TheRawls-MachivelliProgramme(ECPR2011),LinguisticJusticeforEuropeandfortheWorld(OxfordU.P.2011),AftertheStorm.HowtoSaveDemocracyinEurope(Lannoo2015,ed.withL.vanMiddelaar)andBasicIncome.Aradicalproposalforafreesocietyandasaneeconomy(HarvardU.P.2017,withY.Vanderborght).
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VincentiDanielaAseditor-in-chiefatEurActiv.com,Danielaleadsateamof10journalistscoveringEUpoliticsandpoliciesandcoordinatesreportingwithEurActivmediapartnersin15Europeancountries.She joinedEurActiv in2008,when she supervised33professionals acrossEurope toprovide relevantandtimelycontentonthe2009EuropeanParliamentelections.Previously, she helped NGOs and think tanks carve effective communication strategies to boost theirvisibilityandinfluencepolicy-makersthroughoutEurope.Danielahasworkedasajournalistformorethan20yearsinItaly,theUnitedStatesandGermany,whereshewas the financial correspondent for IlMessaggero. Shehaswritten formanymediaoutlets, including theFrankfurterAllgemeineZeitung,L’Indipendente,IlGiornaleandtheChristianScienceMonitor.EducatedattheSorbonneinParisandColumbiaUniversityinNewYork,sheisadualnationalofFranceandItaly,atrueEuropean,andaproudmother.Specialties: European politics and economics; BRICS; Transatlantic relations; deliberative democracy;employmentandsocialaffairs;climatechange.
VonWeizsäckerJakobJakob von Weizsäcker is a Member of the European Parliament, representing Thuringia, hisregioninGermany.Heis a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and of theDelegationfortheRelationswithIndia.Bornin1970,hewaseducatedinGermany, the UK and France, graduating with degreesinphysics andeconomics. Also,hedid his social serviceinPoland instead of military service.After holding a number ofresearch positions and briefly working for a venture capital fund,hejoined the Federal EconomicsMinistryinBerlinas private secretary to a junior minister. 2002-2005heworked for the WorldBankinWashingtonDC,includingascountryeconomistforTajikistan.2005-2010,hewasaresidentfellowatBruegelinBrussels. In2010hewasappointedheadofdepartmentattheThuringianMinistryforEconomicAffairswhereheworkeduntilhewaselectedtotheEuropeanParliamentforthesocialdemocrats.
Yves-CamusJeanYves-CamusJeanservesastheDirectoroftheObservatoryofpoliticalextremism.HeisalsoaresearcheratIRIS (Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques). He graduated from the Institut d’EtudesPolitiquesdeParis.AuthorofnumerousresearchstudiesonEuropeanfar-rightmovementsandtheological-political movements, he has namely published: together with René Monzat : Les droites nationales etradicalesenFrance (PUL,1992) ; LeFrontnational,histoireetanalyse (O.Laurens,1996) ; LesNationaux-populismesenEurope(Seuil,2014);avecNicolasLebourgLesdroitesextrêmesenEurope(Seuil,2015).
