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Miguel AFÁN DE RIBERA YBARRA • Graduate in Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Seville. • MBA, International Institute San Telmo, Seville. • Farmer from 1977: Olive grove (40 ha), rice (60 ha), corn (25 ha), cereals (90 ha), horticulture (15

ha), cattle (organic, 300 ha) • General Secretary of ASAJA from 1990. • He has been President of the Advisory Committee on Rural Development from 1992 to 2007, and

has participated in the Conferences on Rural Development in Galway (Ireland), Inverness (UK), Cork (Ireland) and Salzburg (Austria).

• He has participated in the WTO Ministerial Conferences in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005. • Member of Doñana's National Patronage from 1990 and

promoter of the LIFE Project ‘Sustainable Doñana’ which included the design and application of a model for the sustainable management of soil in the Doñana National Park.

Giovanni ANANIA is Professor of Economics of Agro-Food Markets and European Economic Integration at the University of Calabria. He has been Chair of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Calabria and a member of the Executive Board of the European Association of Agricultural Economists. He obtained a degree in Economics from the University of Calabria, a Master of Arts in Social Science Data Analysis from the University of Essex (UK), a Master of Sciences and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis (USA). His main fields of interest are EU agricultural and trade policies, WTO negotiations on agriculture, and quantitative methods for the analysis of the effects of agricultural and trade policies. He is the author of many scientific publications.

Joris BAECKE is a native from the South West of the Netherlands and is an arable farmer. Prior to his election as CEJA President in April 2009, Joris was Vice-President of the Young Farmers’ Organisation of the Netherlands, Nederlands Agrarisch Jongeren Kontact (NAJK). CEJA is the European umbrella organisation for young farmers from all over Europe. CEJA represents 26 member organisations from 21 EU member states and is the voice of one million young farmers. CEJA’s main objectives are to help young farmers set themselves up, to inform and train them and to represent their interests within the EU.

David BALDOCK, Executive Director IEEP, studied Economics and Philosophy at Cambridge and has had a career in independent policy institutes. He joined the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) in 1984 and has been its Director since 1998. He has been responsible for a wide range of studies on European environmental, agricultural and related policies and is an experienced observer of EU affairs. As well as independent work he has led policy research studies for the European Commission, OECD, governments, academic funders and NGOs. He has been published widely and regularly gives evidence to parliamentary committees and government agencies. He established the Institute’s agricultural policy work in the mid- 1980s. Since then he has been responsible for a series of research projects on agriculture, rural development and nature conservation policy in Europe as well as wider topics such as climate policy. He led the Institute’s work on the integration of agricultural and environmental policy within the CAP and the development of agri-environment measures. Recent work in this area includes studies on the future of the CAP, the delivery of public goods in rural areas and specific policies such as modulation and cross-compliance.

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Thomas BERTILSSON is an agronomist and a Senior Expert in Agricultural Policy and Rural Development at the Federation of Swedish Farmers (LRF), where he works on the future of agricultural and rural policies. He has over 20 years’ experience in rural development in Sweden and around the world. He is chairman of the rural development working party of Copa-Cogeca. Furthermore, he represents Cogeca in the coordination committee of the European Network for Rural Development. In Sweden, he represents the LRF in the monitoring committee for the rural development programme, in the steering committee for the national rural network and in various reference groups which concern the implementation of the rural development programme. He is a farmer (beef) and forester in southern Sweden.

Andreja BOREC, was born in Maribor, Slovenia in 1965. She studied agriculture and spatial planning at the University in Ljubljana. She has been an associate professor since 2007 and, since 1993, has been working at FALS (Faculty for Agriculture and Life Sciences) at the University in Maribor, Slovenia. She is involved in research on rural development, especially concerning remote and mountain regions, and on the development perspectives for small family farms. Her recent scientific work has focused on quality food products and the analysis of food networks. Since 2009 she has been a board member of Euromontana.

Mercedes BRESSO was born in Italy in 1944 and is the President of the Committee of the Regions. She is also a Member of Piedmont Regional Council. Education Doctorate in economics and commerce Career University lecturer in economic institutions, most recently at Turin Polytechnic University, specialising in environmental economics 1985 - 1995 Member of Piedmont Regional Council 1995 – 2004 President of the Province of Turin 1998 – 2004 Member of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the CoR Bureau 2000 – 2004 President of the World Federation of United Cities (FMCU) 2000 – 2004 President of the Franco-Italian Alps Conference Association (CAFI) 2000 – 2004 President of the Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas (METREX) In 2004 Founding President of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) 2004 - 2005 Member of the European Parliament 2005 – 2008 President of the European Union of Federalists (EUF) 2005 – 2010 President of Piedmont Region Since 2005 Member of the Committee of the Regions President of the Italian Association for the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (IACMER) and Vice-president of the CMER Co-founder of the Alps-Mediterranean Euroregion (Piedmont, Liguria, Aoste Valley, Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) 2006 - 2010 President of the PES Group at the Committee of the Regions 2007 - 2009 President of the Mediterranean Commission of the UCLG President of the Conference of Presidents of Regions with Legislative Powers (REGLEG) President of the Association of Elected Representatives from Mountainous Areas (AEM) Representative of the Mediterranean Commission of the UCLG at the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) Distinctions 1996 Awarded the medal of the Grand Officer of the Italian Republic

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Paolo BRUNI, was born in Portomaggiore, in Ferrara province, in 1959. The origins of his family date back to an ancient stock of farmers. In his youth, he worked on the family farm, making the most of his agronomy studies. Together with his younger brother, he owns "L’erba del Persico", an agricultural and commercial business working in Italy and Romania in the agricultural and dried products sector. He holds the position of President of Apo Conerpo, a fruit and vegetable producer organisation which, as a leader at national and European level, brings together 10,000 farms through a cooperative system mainly from Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Puglia. He is President of Confcooperative Ferrara. He is President of the C.S.O. (Centro servizi ortofrutticoli), a firm that deals with statistics, logistics and value on international markets. He is Vice-President of Conserve Italia (a business comprising the brands Yoga, Derby, Valfrutta, Cirio-De Rica). He is President of Conserves France, an industrial canned and preserved goods firm based in Nimes, France. He is President of the transnational firm at European level F.I.N.A.F. (First International Associations Fruit). He is a board member of the cooperative Patfrut which has over 1,000 agricultural producers as members. Since November 2005, he has been a Vice-President of Cogeca. Since 1st January 2010, Mr Bruni has been serving a 3-year term as President of Cogeca. Furthermore, since 2007, he has been a member of the professional chamber of the EU's Enterprise Policy Group (EPG) and then a member of the High Level Group on Competitiveness in the Agro-Food Industry. Since April 2006, he has been an adviser to the Banca Popolare di Roma. From 1991, he has been a commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. During recent years, he has been committed to promoting agri-food cooperatives as an eminent representative taking the image of the agri-food sector to uppermost heights, thanks to several interviews during televised programmes on agriculture, appearing, for instance, on Porta a Porta, Uno Mattina and Linea Verde. In September 2006, he was awarded the prestigious prize “Verdicchio D’Oro”. He is married to Paola and is the father of two daughters, Carlotta and Eleonora, aged 16 and 19 respectively.

Based in Brussels, Ariel BRUNNER is Head of EU Policy with the environmental NGO BirdLife International. In recent years he has been leading Birdlife’s work on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, the better implementation of the EU rural development policy and advocating sustainability of biofuels and bioenergy policies. Before moving to Brussels he was following the implementation of EU nature conservation legislation in Italy and has been instrumental in the designation of the country’s Special Protection Areas network (sites protected under the EU Wild Birds Directive). Born in Israel, he holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from Milan University.

Allan BUCKWELL, Emeritus Prof Agricultural Economics, Imperial College London. Policy Director, Country Land and Business Association and Chair of the Policy Group of the European Landowners’ Organisation. Joined the CLA in January 2000. Prior to that, full Prof. Agricultural Economics Wye College 1984-1999 (Wye College merged with Imperial College London in 1999). From 1970 to 1984 Lecturer in Agricultural Economics Newcastle University, with two spells in the USA (U Wisconsin 1973/74 12 mths. and Cornell Univ 1983 6 mths). Worked in European Commission DG Agri 1975/76 when he chaired a Policy Integration Group as a precursor to the Agenda 2000 reforms. Throughout his career he has specialised on the Common Agricultural Policy, but also worked on technology and structural change in agriculture, integration of transition economies in the EU, and for a period, on Chinese grain policy.

Paolo DE CASTRO was born in 1958 in Vernotico, Italy, and completed a degree in agriculture from the University of Bologna in 1980. From 1985 to 2002, he was associate professor at Washington State University, University of Saffari, and University of Bologna. Since 2002, Paolo De Castro has been professor of agricultural policy at the University of Bologna. On top of his academic career, Paolo De Castro has been strongly involved in agricultural policy making in Italy and the EU. From 1996 to 1998 he was economic adviser to the Italian Prime minister, Romano Prodi, and to the Minister of Agriculture, Michele Pinto. During 1998-2000 and 2006-2008, he was Minister of agriculture, food and forestry in the governments of D’Alema and Prodi. Between 2000-2001, Paolo De Castro held the position of Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi. In 2002, he was elected as a Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, where he worked until 2008. From 2008 to 2009, he was vice-chairman of the Committee on agriculture and agri-food production in the Italian Senate. During the period of 2000-2005, he was the president of a number of scientific institutions, including the Elabora Research Centre – Italian Confederation of Cooperatives, the NOMISMA Institute of Economic Studies, and the Qualivita Foundation. He has also been the scientific coordinator for the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies. At present, Paolo De Castro is a Member of the European Parliament representing the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. He is the Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs as well as the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council. Paolo De Castro holds the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, conferred by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

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Dacian CIOLOŞ is the Member of the European Commission responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development. Previously he was Agriculture and Rural Development Minister in Romania during 2007-2008. He also served as Head of the Presidential Commission on Agricultural Development Public Policy of Romania; in 2007, he was Undersecretary of State for European Affairs with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. From 2005-2007, he was Adviser to Romania's Agriculture Minister and Spokesman of Romania in the Special Committee on Agriculture of the EU Council. In the 1998-2003 period, he held a number of managerial positions related to agricultural and rural development projects, including SAPARD. In 1994, he graduated from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Romania with a Degree in Horticultural Engineering. Subsequently he pursued post-graduate studies in France, firstly specialising in Environmental Agronomy in Rennes (1996) at the École nationale supérieure agronomique, and then Agricultural Development Economics (1997), at the École nationale supérieure agronomique, and the University of Montpellier 1. In October 2005, he obtained a Certificate in Agricultural Trade from the World Bank Institute and the University of Rome 3.

After graduating as a microbiologist David CLARKE has worked in the food supply chain for his entire career. For the past 12 years he has worked with the farming sector, managing the UK industry’s farm certification scheme.

Dr. Csaba CSAKI is a native of Hungary. He received a PhD in agricultural economics in Hungary and was a post doctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Csaki is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Budapest Corvinus University, as well as being the former rector of Budapest University of Economic Sciences. Currently, he is also Head of department and member of the Monetary Board of the Hungarian National Bank. He was a Senior Advisor for Strategy and Policy in the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank, and the principal author of the Bank’s current rural development strategy. Dr. Csaki has been working intensively on rural development and agricultural policy issues in both developed and developing countries. Dr. Csaki has edited, authored or co-authored numerous books and more than 200 articles. Jean-Luc DEMARTY is the Director-General of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission Education Ingénieur du Génie Rural (ENGREF 1976, Paris) 1971 – 1974 Ecole Polytechnique Paris Professional experience within the European Institutions 2006 Director-General of Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development 2000-2005 Deputy Director-General of Directorate-General for Agriculture 1998-2000 Director of Budgetary and Financial Matters relating to Agriculture within Directorate-

General for Agriculture 1996-1998 Chief Adviser on nuclear affairs and specific issues. Directorate-General for Science,

Research and Development 1995-1996 Chief Adviser on the Nuclear Fusion programme. Directorate-General for Science,

Research and Development 1988-1995 Member of President Delors' cabinet Professional experience prior to joining the European Institutions 1985-1988 Head of the agriculture division, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Budget.

Forecasting Directorate. Paris 1981-1984 Technical adviser to the cabinet of J. Delors. French Ministry of the Economy, Finance

and Budget 1977-1981 Official representative, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Budget. Forecasting

Directorate. Paris

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Michael DOWER is a member of the Core Group of ARC, the Agriculture and Rural Convention. ARC speaks for civil society organisations, at European or national level, which represent rural communities, rural enterprises and environmental and heritage interests and which cooperate through ARC to advocate a sustainable reform of the Common Agricultural and Rural Development policies of the EU. Michael is a Professor of European Rural Development at the University of Gloucestershire, England; a former Coordinator of the PREPARE Partnership for Rural Europe; and a former President of ECOVAST, the European Council for the Village and Small Town. He has recently served as lead expert for a Thematic Working Group of the European Network for Rural Development and as adviser to the Ministries of Agriculture in Romania and in Croatia on the formation of National Rural Networks in those countries.

Miroslaw DRYGAS is currently a Deputy Director of the Institute of Rural and Agriculture Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He is conducting scientific research on agriculture and rural development issues and the impact of EU integration on rural and agricultural development in Poland. He is deputy editor-in-chief of Village and Agriculture published by the Institute. He obtained his master degree in Agricultural Economics from the High School of Commerce in Warsaw in 1979. He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW) in 1989. He started his scientific work in 1978 at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In the nineties he started to work for the Polish Government (Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy, Agency for Agricultural Markets and Foundation of Assistance Programmes for Agriculture). In the years 2000-2003 he was Director of the Department of Pre-accession Aid and Structural Funds at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. This Department was responsible for SAPARD preparation and implementation. In the years 2003-2007 he was Vice President and President of the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture (the Polish paying agency) responsible for direct payments, Sectoral Operational Program 2004-2006 and Rural Development Plan 2004-2006 implementation.

Marc DUFUMIER est professeur d’agriculture comparée et développement agricole à AgroParisTech (Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l’environnement) depuis 1977, membre du conseil stratégique de l’agriculture et de l’agro-industrie durables du Ministère de l’agriculture français, Membre du Comité de veille écologique de la Fondation Nicolas Hulot. Ces domaines de prédilection sont les politiques et programmes de développement agricole durable en PVD, le suivi-évaluation de projets de développement agricole et rural, l'analyse-diagnostic des systèmes agraires, les réformes agraires et la sécurité alimentaire. Il réalise de nombreuses missions d’expertise dans plusieurs pays en voie de développement sur tous les continents.

Maira DZELZKALĒJA is one of the leading experts in agriculture with more than 15 years’ experience combining both theory and practice. Her professional competences focus on issues related to sustainable farming, investments in farming industry and agricultural and rural development policies within the EU. She has been closely involved in developing her family farm, expanding it from 14 ha in the 1990s to 500 ha today. Ms Dzelzkaleja has a Bachelor degree in Agronomy and a Master degree of Economics from the University of Agriculture, Latvia. Maira has also actively participated in various international and national conferences and training courses. She has been project leader for many international and local projects that focus on rural development, sustainable farming and awareness-raising about farming. Additionally, Maira Dzelzkalēja consistently develops and represents the interests of farmers in Latvia with regard to politics and legislation as well as building society’s view on agricultural issues. She is the vice-chairperson of Latvia’s leading farmers’ organisation – “Zemnieku Saeima” (the Farmers’ Parliament) as well as a member of the agriculture-environment coordination council.

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Antonio FERNÁNDEZ TORAÑO is the Chairman of Agroseguro (Since February 1997). VOCATIONAL TRAINING:

• 1972 Bachelor of Arts. Complutense University of Madrid. • 1972 Bachelor of Law. Complutense University of Madrid. • 1977 Inspector of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (Treasury and Economy Secretary). • 1983 Financial Tax Inspector. (Secretary of the Treasury and Economy).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • 1972-1976 Assistant Professor of Private International Law. Complutense University of Madrid. • 1977-1982 Supervisor of the Insurance Supervisory Authority. Treasury and Economy

Secretary. • 1983-1985 Financial Tax Inspector. Secretary of the Treasury and Economy. • 1995-1996 Commissioner of the Spanish Insurance Supervisory Authority. • 2005-2008 Chairman of the CEA’s Agricultural Risks Committee. • Since 2003 Vice President of the International Association of Agricultural Production Insurers

(AIAG – IAHI).

Professor Xavier GELLYNCK graduated as a Master of Science in Industrial Economics at Ghent University, Belgium in 1987. In 1989 he obtained an MBA degree in Marketing Management of Service Industries from the Business School IAAE at the University of Aix-Marseille in France. Since 1991, he has worked at Ghent University, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department Agricultural Economics and Division Agro-Food Marketing. His main fields of research interest are situated in the domain of agro-food marketing and chain management. He is the author of about 300 scientific publications of which several have been published in peer reviewed scientific journals and books.

Christopher GILBERT is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Trento, Italy, where he is Academic Director of the Doctoral Program in Economics and Management. Prior to moving to Italy in 2003, Gilbert was Professor of Finance at the Free University, Amsterdam. He studied at Oxford (from where he obtained his doctorate) and LSE. His previous university positions were at London (Queen Mary and Birkbeck), Oxford and Bristol. He has consulted extensively for the EC, FAO, IADB, IMF, UNCTAD and the World Bank. He works on commodity futures markets, agricultural, energy and metals markets, financial econometrics, food security issues, African rural development and the history and methodology of econometrics.

As Director General of BEUC Monique GOYENS represents 41 independent national consumer associations in 30 European countries, acting as a strong consumer voice in Brussels, ensuring that consumer interests are given weight in the development of policies and raising the visibility and effectiveness of the consumer movement through lobbying the EU institutions and media contacts. Having a background in law she has published numerous articles in scientific journals on consumer and European law. Prior to joining BEUC, Monique led the Belgian Commission Universitaire pour le Développement with international and national donors and partners in developing countries. She had been BEUC’s Senior Legal Adviser and contributed to the promotion of consumer interests through research as Project leader for European Affairs at Centre de droit de la consommation–UCL.

Juan Andrés GUTIERREZ, Vice-President of EUROMONTANA. Geographer, studied at the University of Barcelona, DEA in Geography, ecology and development of mountain areas at the University of Grenoble and Interuniversity Degree in cartography and teledetection at the Universities of Louvaine-La-Neuve, Liège and the Free University of Brussels. Professional experience in spatial remote sensing at the laboratory "Surfaces" of the University of Liège. Working in IKT since 1989 (company owned by the Basque Government - Department of Environment, Land Management, Agriculture and Fisheries). Presently, he is head of the Department for Consultancy and Analysis at IKT. Juan Andrés has collaborated in the analysis carried out by the Basque Government about the future situation of Basque agriculture, strongly influenced by its mountainous characteristics . As a Vice-President of Euromontana (representing Basque Government) he has taken part in the design of the organisation's position concerning the future of mountain agriculture in Europe from 2013.

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Hervé GUYOMARD, Scientific Director of Agriculture Department at INRA (National Institute for Agricultural Research). Agricultural engineer and statistician - economist, Hervé Guyomard is Director of Research (DR) at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). His works concern the analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its evolution in the context of the new challenges to take up, in particular at the environmental level, the new expectations of the society and the involvement of the European Union in international trade. He is Scientific Director in charge of research in the domain of agriculture.

Bertrand HERVIEU est Docteur en sociologie, diplômé de l'institut de sciences politiques de Paris. Il est actuellement membre de l'Académie d'Agriculture de France et membre du Club Saint Germain. De 2003 à 2009, il était Secrétaire Général du Centre International des Hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM). Il a été auparavant Président de l'INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) et Directeur de recherche au CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).

Christiane LAMBERT, 49 ans, mariée, 3 enfants, agricultrice avec Thierry, son mari, sur une ferme de polyculture – élevage de porc naisseur-engraisseur où elle a le statut de cogérante de l’EARL (Exploitation Agricole à Responsabilité Limitée). L’exploitation est certifié officiellement « Agriculture raisonnée » depuis juin 2004. Une femme engagée avec de nombreuses responsabilités locales et nationales : Présidente de la FDSEA (Fédération départementale des Syndicats d’Exploitants Agricoles) du Maine-et-Loire, Vice-présidente de la FNSEA (Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d’Exploitants Agricole), Présidente de VIVEA (Fonds pour la formation des entrepreneurs du vivant) Vice-Présidente de la Chambre d'Agriculture du Maine et Loire, Vice-Présidente de l’IFOCAP et Membre du CESE. Christiane LAMBERT est Officier du Mérite Agricole, Chevalier dans l'Ordre national du Mérite et Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Nov 2007

Susanne LANGGUTH has been working with Südzucker since 1992. She is Director and head of the Central Department of Food Quality and General Consumer Policy and is also responsible for International Relations. She has further responsibilities in the food sector, such as the German Federation of Food Law and Food Science (BLL), the Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU (CIAA) and serves on the national Platform Diet and Physical Activity as Vice Chairman. Before joining Südzucker she had been Scientific Director with the German Federation of Food Law and Food Science. She has a degree from the University of Hamburg as a food chemist. In her career she has received scholarships from Youth For Understanding, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, German Marshall Fund of the United States and Atlantik Brücke.

Sabine LARUELLE is the Belgian Minister for SMEs, the Self-employed, Agriculture and Science Policy. She studied to become an agricultural engineer and completed her studies with an MBA and training as an environmental advisor. She then worked as a volunteer in the Congo for a year. Upon her return she joined the cabinet of the regional Agriculture minister and stayed there for 7 years. In 2001, after a period at Fevia (the Federation of the Food Industry), she became the general director of Alliance agricole and led the negotiations to bring two Belgian agricultural unions closer together (Alliance agricole and Union professionnelle Agricole), resulting in the creation of the Fédération Wallonne de l’Agriculture (Walloon Federation of Agriculture), of which she would become general director for 2.5 years. In 2003 Sabine Laruelle was appointed Minister of Middle-Class and Agriculture within the federal government. In 2007 the AFSCA/FAVV (the federal agency for the security of the food chain) and Science Policy were placed under her responsibility.

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Jose Manuel LIMA SANTOS, degree in Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1987. PhD, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 1997. Habilitation degree, Technical University of Lisbon, 2008. Currently is Professor, Environmental Economics, Institute of Agronomy and Technical University of Lisbon. Lecturing at different graduate and post-graduate levels. Member of Scientific Commission of two inter-university PhD Programmes (“Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies”; “Landscape, Biodiversity and Society”). Main research and lecturing areas are the Economic Valuation of the Environment, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Public Policy, and Agri-environmental policy design and evaluation. Was Director General of the Agri-Food Planning and Policy Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, in charge of policy design and evaluation, as well as European and external affairs, between 2000 and 2003. As such, participated in the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. Is currently a member of the National Council on the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS); the Consultative Scientific Committee of the Gulbenkian Environmental Program; and the Board of the Technical University of Lisbon.

Francesco MANTINO is research director at the National Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA), where he is leading the research area on “Rural Development”. He has worked on research projects in the broad field of rural and regional development: structural changes, policy design and delivery, local development strategies and plans, lagging regions and development of mountain areas, evaluation of EU programmes, etc. He has carried out research funded by several international organisations including the European Commission, OCDE and FAO. At national level he has led INEA’s work on the reform of the EU Rural Development Policy and its implementation in Italy since 1994. He was responsible of the team of the Italian Networks for Leader II and Leader+. He has worked as consultant to a broad range of Italian institutions: the Ministries for Agricultural and Forestry Policies, Budget and Economic Planning, Department of Tourism, and finally many Regional Authorities. He is currently leading several research projects in the field of rural development policies, both at national and European level. He is the author of many scientific publications.

Alan MATTHEWS is Professor of European Agricultural Policy and Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His major research interests are agricultural policy analysis, the impact of EU policies on developing countries, and the design of WTO trade rules for agriculture. He has worked as a consultant to the OECD, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Commission, and has been a panel member in a number of WTO Dispute Settlement cases. He recently served on the Irish Government’s Agriculture 2020 Strategy group charged with formulating the agri-food sector’s response to the economic crisis. He is currently Vice-President and President-Elect of the European Association of Agricultural Economists.

Andris MIGLAVS, Economist, Dr.Oec. Head of department, Latvian State Institute of Agrarian Economics. Has worked on privatisation and restructuring issues of agribusiness sector since 1990. From 1995 main focus on policy analysis; from 1998 particular emphasis on harmonisation of national policies toward CAP. More recently, focus on CAP reform process and its foreseeable impact on agri-sector, also elaboration of development programmes for particular agribusiness sectors. Fields of practical work cover also elaboration of development strategies for businesses and policy reforming, co-operation and business management. In 2008-2009 has worked on national economy stabilisation and recovery plan as advisor to Minister of Finance.

Adrian NEAL is currently the Team Leader of the Contact Point of the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD), based in Brussels, working closely with DG AGRI on a range of rural development issues. He has a first degree in Management Science (Marketing) from Lancaster University and a Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics from Wye College, University of London (now Imperial College). He is a policy analyst, who has specialised in international agriculture and rural development policy in various Member States. He has also worked extensively in EU pre-accession and candidate countries on a range of institutional and policy issues on agriculture and rural development over the last seventeen years.

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Dr. Hermann-Josef NIENHOFF, Dr. Hermann-Josef Nienhoff, born in 1955, is Managing Director of QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH (QS scheme) in Bonn since November 2002. Dr. Nienhoff was born and brought up on a farm in Kirchhellen, Westphalia. At the Institute for Agricultural Business Operations in Kiel he received his PhD as an agricultural economist. He started his career at the Deutscher Bauernverband e.V., Bonn, Division livestock and meat markets in 1983. From 1991 until 2002 he was employed at SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance), Hamburg, Division food and feed, testing and inspection services and was involved in several leading positions regarding quality assurance and certification. He was also General Manager of the NATEC Institut für naturwissenschaftliche Dienste GmbH in Hamburg from 1998 to 2002. Between 2004 and 2009 he chaired the Advisory Group "Quality in Agricultural Production" of the European Commission. All his working life he has been concerned with quality assurance and cooperation throughout the whole food supply chain.

Urs NIGGLI was appointed director of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Switzerland in 1990. Furthermore, he is the president of FiBL International which is a cooperation of six research institutes in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Luxemburg. He is one of the initiators of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research (ISOFAR), founded in 2003. He is member of various advisory committees of scientific institutes and universities such as: the scientific Board of the German Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute; the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS), the Advisory Board of the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL), and the Senate Commission on Substances and Resources in Agriculture of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2009 he was appointed honorary professor for Research Management in International Organic Agriculture at the University of Kassel in Germany.

Peter NOWICKI (MRP, MPhil) has degrees from Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Imperial College at Wye. He is a senior researcher at LEI (Agricultural Economic Research Institute, The Hague, NL) responsible for investigations regarding the impact of the evolution of agriculture on rural land use, including aspects related to regional development and biodiversity, as well as the bio-based economy. Mr Nowicki’s work involves his leadership of the Scenar 2020 and the Impact of Modulation studies, both of them for DG AGRI. In addition, he has led a three-year study on the impact of bio-based materials for the agricultural sector, and specifically agricultural land use, in the Netherlands. He was also the Coordinator of ‘LIFESCAPE-YOUR LANDSCAPE’, an Interreg III-B project focused on the potential synergy between landscape identity and rural economic development (2005-2007).

Rainer OPPERMANN was born in 1959. He grew up in Reutlingen, Germany where he gained practical farming experience. • Education: Diploma and PhD at the universities of Munich – Weihenstephan and Freiburg i.Br.,

specialisation in interaction between land use and biodiversity of plant and animal communities • Professional work: 1987 -1994 in governmental institutions at community level (Radolfzell) and at

regional level (district Freiburg); development and implementation of agri-environment schemes and nature management plans; management in cooperation with farmers, foresters and NGOs.

• 1995 – 2010: head of Institute, presently Institute for Agro-ecology and Biodiversity (IFAB) in Mannheim, Germany; Focus of work: evaluation of agri-environment schemes, strategic environment assessments (SEA) of Rural Development plans, research and investigations on biodiversity, National and European work on High Nature Value (HNV) farmland and on nature indicators in agriculture.

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Nathaniel PAGE is a Zoology graduate, a former British diplomat and a farmer in the UK (60 ha organic livestock). He has been working in rural conservation and development in Romania for over 10 years. He is a founder of the ADEPT Foundation (www.fundatia-adept.org), which is dedicated to promoting the survival of Romania’s small-scale farming communities, and of the High Nature Value farmed landscapes in which they live. The ADEPT Foundation offers some success stories in linking landscape conservation with community prosperity. Practical village-level delivery to farmers of a range of RDP and other EU programmes, proper valuation of ecosystem services, and innovative marketing all play a role. ADEPT feeds practical experiences into policy in Romania, works closely with Romania’s Ministry of Agriculture and is a member of Romania’s RDP Monitoring Committee. ADEPT also works closely with the European Forum for Nature Conservation and Pastoralism, thus allowing the interplay between Romanian and wider European experiences and policy-making.

Robert PEDERSON, Manager, European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium. He manages the European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium (EPHAC). EPHAC is a Brussels-based alliance of public health organisations advocating a healthier, more sustainable Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Robert holds degrees in Business (USA), Nutrition (Denmark) and more recently a MSc in Food Policy from City University in London, England. Before coming to Brussels, Robert worked for a public health NGO in Denmark, engaged in advocacy and policy development on healthier food environments at national, EU and international levels.

Born in Bra, Italy, in 1949, Carlo PETRINI studied sociology at Trento University and then became involved in local politics and association work. In the early 1980s Petrini laid the foundations for Arcigola, an association which eventually developed into the Slow Food movement in 1989. Among his many achievements is the creation of the University of Gastronomic Sciences; he is also the mastermind behind Terra Madre. His latest work, entitled Buono, pulito e giusto. Principi di nuova gastronomia (Good, Clean and Fair: Principles of a New Gastronomy) was published in Italy by Einaudi in 2005 and has been translated into many languages. In 2004 he was named a 'European Hero' by Time magazine, and in January 2008 he was the only Italian to appear in the list of ‘50 People Who Could Save the World’ drawn up by the prestigious British newspaper, The Guardian. His latest work is Terra Madre, published in 2009 by Giunti – Slow Food Editore, a sequel to Buono, pulito e giusto in which Petrini updates his theories, starting from the global economic crisis and the models of thinking and development that were its primary cause.

Maria Teresa PINTO CORREIA was born in Lisbon in 1962. Graduate in Geography in Lisbon (1984), Masters in Environmental Sciences, Belgium (1988) and PhD in Geography, Denmark (1993). Since 1999 in the University of Évora, Portugal: Associate Professor at the Department of Landscape Environment and Planning and Head of the Research Group Mediterranean Ecosystems and Landscapes, at the Institute for Mediterranean Agrarian and Environmental Sciences. President of the Portuguese Society of Landscape Ecology and Member of the Executive Board of the European Landscape Ecology Association. Coordination and participation in several research projects, both national and European. More than 100 scientific papers and book chapters published. Research on rural landscapes analysis, change and management, multi-functionality and transition processes, decision-making from the farm to the European level, specificity of Mediterranean landscapes and European comparisons.

Eric POETSCH is head of the department of Grassland Management and Cultural Landscape at the Agricultural Research and Education Centre (AREC) Raumberg-Gumpenstein, Austria. His research activities cover aspects of grassland renewal, manuring, weed control and forage conservation. A special focus is given to multi-functionality, biodiversity and alternative utilisation and management of grassland. He is also head of the OEAG (Austrian association for grassland and fodder crops) working group ”Fertilisation” and head of the working group for manure management within the national expert commission for soil fertility and soil protection. Responsible evaluator of the chapter “Biodiversity” within the national commission for the evaluation of the Austrian agri-environmental programme ÖPUL. Lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences at Vienna since 1997 in the domain of grassland fertilisation and nutrient fluxes in Alpine grassland.

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Ken RUNDLE, head of Communications SAC (Scottish Agricultural College). He is an award-winning journalist who began as a producer/presenter on BBC Scotland’s farming radio programme before becoming Rural Affairs Correspondent and presenter of a weekly TV rural affairs programme. Starting with Chernobyl, Ken has covered major events such as BSE, Foot and Mouth, and Blue Tongue. His EEC/EU memories are pre-MacSharry. As a trusted interpreter of EU policy for BBC staff, listeners and viewers he has reported from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy and Poland, as well as from Australia, New Zealand, USA and Argentina. Ken is Head of Communications with SAC (Scottish Agricultural Colleges) which offers teaching to PhD level while SAC consultants serve rural communities. SAC research is respected by policy makers in the EU, UK and worldwide.

Véronique SCHMIT is Executive Officer Policy, coordinating policy work for Eurogroup for Animals, the Brussels-based Federation of Animal Protection Organisations in the European Union. She joined Eurogroup in 1998, and has been involved in animal welfare and in the Common Agricultural Policy since the 2003 mid-term review. She is an agricultural engineer and holds a PhD in plant genetic resources from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Gembloux, Belgium. Before joining Eurogroup, she worked abroad in various agricultural research centres.

Lutz RIBBE est le directeur d'Euronatur, Fondation du patrimoine naturel européen. Après trois mandats quatriennaux comme membre allemand du Comité économique et social européen (toujours dans le groupe III "Activités diverses", qui regroupe les organisations non gouvernementales, les associations pour la protection de l'environnement, les agriculteurs... et, en définitive, tous ces membres qui ne font pas partie des groupes I "Employeurs" ou II "Salariés"), en octobre 2010 il initiera un nouveau mandat quinquennal tel que prévu par le Traité de Lisbonne. Membre très actif, il a été rapporteur de 31 avis, parmi lesquels " Le futur de la PAC" (CESE 362/2002), "Les règles en matière d'hygiène alimentaire et les petites entreprises artisanales" (CESE 1489/2005), "Changement climatique et agriculture en Europe" (CESE 1200/2008) et, finalement, "Réforme de la PAC en 2013" (CESE 452/2010), qui représente, en ce moment liminaire, le consensus dégagé au sein du CESE par l'ensemble des représentants de la société civile européenne.

Alessandro SORRENTINO obtained his degrees in Agricultural Economics at University of Perugia and at Centre for Advanced Training and Research in Agricultural Economics (University of Naples, Portici). He is full professor of European Economic Policies and Member of the Board of Directors at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo (Italy). He has held research and teaching positions at University of Arizona (USA) and University of Bari (Italy). He is also consultant for independent bodies involved in the evaluation of several EU programmes regarding the Common Agricultural Policy. He has published extensively in the field of agricultural markets and income policies concerning both the market effects of income support measures and the institutional features affecting EU agricultural policy making. He also maintains an active interest in consumer demand issues relating to food quality promotion and in the economics of agricultural research and innovation.

Goran ŠOSTER, 1961, graduated in 1986 from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Maribor in Slovenia. From 1986 to 1989 he worked at the Municipality of Ljutomer in analytical economic research. At the time of the radical political changes in Eastern Europe in the late 80s, he was one of the leaders of the alternative movement of civil society in Slovenia. From 1989 to 1998, director of the Mikrokozmos Ltd, well known as the pioneering group of organic agriculture in Slovenia. Since 1998 to present, director of the Prlekija Development Agency, manager of LAG Prlekija. In 2003 he was one of the initiators of the Slovenian Rural Development Network. For the last three years he has been the chairman of that association, representing it in the European initiatives PREPARE, ELARD, ERA and ERCA. Since 2009 he has been working as Co-ordinator of the Pan-European network PREPARE – Partnership for rural Europe, member of ENRD Coordination Committee and RD Advisory group.

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Jean-François SOUSSANA, Scientific Director (Environment), INRA (French National Institute for Agronomic Research). Since 1998, Dr. Soussana is member of the Working Group II of IPCC on Impacts and Adaptation and Vulnerability. He was Lead Author of the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports and shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. He has contributed to GCTE, Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems; GCP, Global Carbon Project and is member of the “Guiding group on greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture” of the FAO. He coordinated the ‘GreenGrass’ (FP5) project on greenhouse gas emissions from European grasslands and leads activities and components in EC-FP6 and FP7 projects: CarboEurope, NitroEurope, CarboExtreme and GHGEurope. He leads the scientific committee ‘Ecosystems and Sustainable Development’ of the French national research agency (ANR) and has coordinated a foresight study on adaptation to climate change for this agency. He has recently been elected as president of the scientific advisory board of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE JPI). Dr. Soussana has published over 90 refereed research papers in leading international journals (including Nature and PNAS) as well as two books and a dozen book chapters. He has been guest editor of special issues, e.g. of ‘Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment’. He is reviewer for a number of scientific journals and was, until recently, a member of the board of the European Journal of Agronomy. He has developed novel experimental and mathematical modelling approaches to the impacts of climate change on agro-ecosystems and food supply and to the role of agricultural management and biodiversity for the carbon and nitrogen cycles and for greenhouse gas emissions. He has presented a number of keynote seminars around the world.

Kostas G. STAMOULIS is currently Director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division in FAO Headquarters and Secretary of the Committee on World Food Security. Before joining FAO in 1989, he was Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. From 1985 to 1987 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. His work includes issues related to the role of agriculture in rural development and rural poverty reduction in developing countries; the impact of changes in food systems on smallholder farmers and on rural poverty; the linkages between the agricultural sector and the rural non-farm economy. Stamoulis has also carried out work on the assessment of the role of macroeconomic and exchange-rate policies on agriculture and the rural sector and the interdependence between exchange rate, financial and commodity markets. He has published a large number of papers, articles, books and monographs on a variety of subjects. Stamoulis holds a degree in Economics from the Economics University of Athens (Greece), a Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia (USA) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Born in 1954 in Greece.

Paul STAMPER, Deputy Managing Director, TNS Opinion. Paul has 20 years’ experience in survey and marketing research, across qualitative and quantitative disciplines and social, political and commercial research. He joined TNS opinion (the Brussels international research centre) in 2009 to develop qualitative and reporting expertise and is manager of the Qualitative Eurobarometer. Prior to joining TNS opinion he was head of qualitative research for TNS in the UK and account director for one of its major financial services clients. His experience covers research in Europe, Africa, North America and Asia and he is an expert in motivational and behavioural research. He has participated in many fora and has presented Eurobarometer data at a number of conferences and seminars. He delivered a paper at the 2008 ESOMAR congress in Montreal. He has a degree in Environmental Biology from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and is a full member of both the Market Research Society and the Association of Qualitative Researchers (AQR, UK)

Johannes Nicolaas Stet. Born in 1942, son of a farmer 1960/73 export manager at J. den Hartich B.V. a potato export company. 1973/2001 General manager and owner (until 1997) of Stet Holland. Board functions: NIVAP 1967-1994 Nevexop 1976-1995 NAO 1995-2201. President: Europatat 2003/2009 and Celcaa 2005.

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Johan SWINNEN is Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, a Centre of Excellence at the University of Leuven (KUL). He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, where he directs the programme on EU agricultural and rural policy. He was previously Lead Economist at the World Bank and Economic Advisor at the European Commission. He consults for the OECD, FAO, EBRD, UNDP, IFAD, and to several Governments and was coordinator of several international research networks on food policy, institutional reforms and economic development. He is President—Elect of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and a Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists. He holds a Ph.D from Cornell University. His latest books are “The Perfect Storm: The Political Economy of the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy” (CEPS), “Global Supply Chains, Standards, and the Poor” (CABI), “Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in the Transition Economies of Europe and Central Asia” (World Bank Publications), and “From Marx and Mao to the Market” (Oxford University Press -- and Chinese translation by Beijing University Press) and “Political Power and Economic Policy” (Cambridge Univ Press).

Ludwig THEUVSEN was born in 1963 in Issum (Germany). He is currently a full professor of management in agribusiness in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Goettingen University, Germany. He received a Ph.D. in organisation science from University of Cologne, Germany, in 1993. His research interests include quality management and certification systems in the agro-food sector, the organisational design of food supply chains, strategic management in agriculture and the food industry, and human resource management in agriculture. Much of his research addresses the meat and dairy industries and the production of bio-energy. Professor Theuvsen is editor-in-chief of the German Journal of Agricultural Economics and member of the International Advisory and Editorial Board of Journal on Chain and Network Science.

Aurélie TROUVE est maître de conférences en France au laboratoire du CESAER (INRA-AgroSupDijon), où elle enseigne l'économie agricole. Elle travaille sur les politiques agricoles européennes, leur diversité et leur redéfinition. Elle participe à plusieurs programmes de recherche nationaux (notamment, sur l'évolution du 2nd pilier de la PAC ainsi que sur les conséquences de la sortie des quotas laitiers). Elle publie régulièrement dans des revues académiques internationales ou françaises. Elle participe aux réflexions de plusieurs organisations agricoles et environnementales et think tanks. Par ailleurs, elle est présidente de l'association Attac France. Elle vient de coordonner un texte soutenu par de nombreux chercheurs européens, “For a New European Agriculture and Food policy that meets the challenges of this century”, http://www2.dijon.inra.fr/esr/pagesperso/trouve/index.htm

Arie VAN DEN BRAND Son of a farmer, studied at Agricultural University of Wageningen, followed by several leading jobs in development of farmers’ unions and cooperatives till 1997, creating new farmers’ cooperatives for nature and landscape Member of the Dutch Parliament/GreenLeft Party from 2002 to 2004. President of the independent European-wide think tank for the CAP, Groupe de Bruges, President of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Centre for Agriculture and Environment CLM, President of the board of IATP, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, USA, from 1987 to 2010, now board member. President of the national umbrella organisation for organic agriculture Biologica,) from 2004 to 2010, now senior advisor to the board. President of the Jury of the Sicco Mansholtprize. Part-time farmer (fruit).

Hilkka VIHINEN is Professor of Rural Policy with the MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Economic Research (2003) in Helsinki. She has over 20 years’ professional experience in the analysis of rural, agricultural and regional policies in Finland, in the Nordic countries and in the EU. Her main research interests are politics, policy design and policy formation of rural policy as well as forms of rural governance. Hilkka Vihinen has been an advisor on rural policy to the OECD, the EU, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Finnish government. She has coordinated both international and national research projects on rural development issues. Professor Vihinen has published widely in several languages.

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Heino VON MEYER is the Head of the OECD Berlin Centre. He has worked for various directorates at OECD headquarters in Paris; initially as Head of the Rural Data and Indicators Unit, subsequently as principal administrator in charge of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews. Prior to this, Mr. von Meyer was head of the consulting agency ProRural Europe in Hamburg, working for local, national and international administrations and NGO networks. He participated in many EU research projects and worked as a consultant for various European Commission Directorates General, mainly on agricultural, regional and environmental policies. He was also involved in setting up the EU Community Initiative LEADER. Mr. von Meyer graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg in 1978. He began his career as a researcher on public finance and European policy issues at the University of Frankfurt. In 1981 he became deputy head at the Institute for Rural Structural Research.

Padraig WALSHE Full-time dairy and beef farmer. Farms with his wife Ella. Education: Warrenstown Agricultural College, Co. Meath St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny First Irish Nuffield Scholar in 1996 Positions: President of Copa Previous Positions: 2005-2009 President, Irish Farmers’ Association 2004-2006 Chairman, Irish Nuffield Scholars’ Association 2002-2005 Treasurer, IFA 1999-2006 Board Member, Irish Cattle Breeding Federation 1989-2006 Member of the Milk Quota Appeals Tribunal 1998-2002 Chairman, National Dairy Committee, IFA Member of the COPA Dairy Committee, Member of the Irish Dairy Board 1997-1998 Chairman, Laois IFA County Executive Vice-Chairman, National Dairy Committee, IFA 1996-1997 President, Irish Grassland Association 1989-1994 Board Member, Teagasc 1987-1989 President, Macra na Feirme

Jerzy WILKIN is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw. He is also Head of Section for European Integration at the Institute of Rural and Agriculture Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Wilkin works on institutional economics, public choice theory, agricultural policy and rural and agricultural development. From 1990-1999 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Agricultural Economists. He is founder and editor of a series of reports on rural areas in Poland published periodically by FDPA in Polish and English (the last report was published in 2010). Professor Wilkin is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Katarzyna ZAWALINSKA, PhD is a Deputy Director of the Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences (IRWiR PAN) and a senior researcher at the University of Warsaw in EUROREG Institute. She holds her PhD from Faculty of Economic Sciences (University of Warsaw) and MPhil in Development from the University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College). Her main fields of professional interest include CGE modelling of the regional impact of agricultural and rural development policies and evaluation of European Union programmes. She mastered her skills at Centre of Policy Studies (Monash University, Australia), University of Helsinki (Finland), Joint Vienna Institute (Austria), and University of Glasgow (Scotland). She is the author of numerous publications, including articles in such journals as Applied Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Comparative Economic Studies.