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EPP Enlarged Group Bureau Meeting EIN SUMMER UNIVERSITY Growth EPP Enlarged Group Bureau Meeting EIN SUMMER UNIVERSITY Growth and Stability for Europe and the Euro 04 - 06 October 2012 BERLIN Service Documentation - Publications Recherche VADE-MECUM of the Speakers EPP Group Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) in the European Parliament EN European Ideas Network 2 Vademecum of the speakers VADEMECUM of the Speakers European Ideas Network 3 European Ideas Network 4 Vademecum of the speakers Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRIA MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Member of the EP Committee on ‘Internal Market and Consumer Protection’ Position: Member of the EPP group in the European Parliament Background: Born on 30 June 1970 in Madrid. Member: Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Delegation to the Eu-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee Substitute: Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee on Petitions Delegation for relations with the People’s Republic of China Curriculum vitae: Diploma in Marketing (ESEM, Escuela Internacional de Dirección Empresarial) (Madrid, 1991-1993). Master’s degree in Business Administration and Management (ESEM) (Madrid, 1993). Public Management Leadership Program (PLGP) at the IESE Business School (Madrid, 2008-2009). Deputy Executive Secretary of the CDI (Centrist Democrat International) (Brussels, 2000-February 2002). Assistant to the Prime Minister (2002-2004). Executive Adviser to former Prime Minister José María Aznar López (his Head of Office) (since 2004). Burkhard BALZ MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Member of the EP Committee on ‘Economic and Monetary Affairs’ Trained as a banker, Commerzbank AG, Hanover (1989-1991). Studied law and political science at the Georg-August University, Göttingen (1991-2000). Commerz Securities (Japan) Co. Ltd. Tokyo (Aug.-Dec. 1993); Commerzbank AG, London branch (Feb.- March 1999); wholesale client trainee programme, Commerzbank AG, in Hanover and Frankfurt/Main (2000-2001); desk officer in Commerzbank AG’s office in Brussels for liaison with the European Union (2001-2002); relations with wholesale clients of Commerzbank AG in Hanover (2002-2004); relations with institutional clients of Commerzbank AG in Hanover, most recently as head of department (2004-2009). Local chair, CDU/CSU Schaumburg Youth Section (1990-1992); district chair, CDU/CSU Hanover Youth Section (1990- 1996); member of the CDU Hanover district Executive Committee (1989-2003); press spokesman for the CDU Group in Schaumburg (1998-2002); local chair, Schaumburg CDU (2002-2006); deputy district chair of the CDU in Hanover (since 2003); member of the Lower Saxony Land Executive of the Economic Council of the CDU (since 2008). Municipal councillor, Stadthagen (since 1991); member of the Schaumburg district council (since 1991); member of the Lower Saxony CDU Land Executive Committee (since 2010). Member of Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis and Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). European Ideas Network 5 Jacques BARROT, Former Vice President, European Commission Jacques BARROT was born in 1937 at Yssingeaux (France). After obtaining his degree from the Insti- tut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, he became Member for Haute-Loire from 1967 to 2004, representing the 1st district of Le Puy-Yssingeaux. In 1974 Jacques Barrot was nominated State Secretary for Housing until 1978, and in 1976 he became Member of the Auvergne Regional Council until 1986. Jacques Barrot is Chairman of the Haute-Loire Departmental Council from 1976 to 2004. From 1978 to 1979, Barrot was Minister for Trade and Craft Industries, and from 1979 to 1981 Minister for Health and Social Secu- rity. His political carreer led Barrot to become General Secretary of the Centre des Démocrates Sociaux from 1983 to 1991. Jacques Barrot became Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Cultural, Family and Social Affairs from 1986 to 1988. At the local elections of 1989 Jacques Barrot became Mayor of Yssingeaux until 2001. From 1991 to 1993, he was Chairman of the Centre Union Group in the National Assembly. From 1993 to 1995, Barrot was Chairman of the Finance Committee and First Vice-Chairman of the UDF Group in the National Assembly. In 1995, Barrot was Minister for Labour, the Social Dialogue and Participation and then Minister for Labour and Social Affairs until 1997. From 2002 to 2004, Barrot was Chairman of the UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire) Group in the National Assembly. At the European level, Jacques Barrot became Member of the European Commission for Regional Policy in 2004 than Vice-president of the European Commission in charge of Transport until 2008. Jacques Barrot has been Vice-president of the European Commission in charge of Justice Freedom and Security since May 2008. Prof. B. B. BHATTACHARYA, Professor of Business Environment, Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow (Noida Campus) Former Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Former Director, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi Professor B.B.Bhattacharya is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Prior to that he was Director (2001-2005) and Professor (1981 onwards) at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He passed M.A. in Economics from the University of Allahabad in 1966 with first position in the order of Merit and obtained Ph.D. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in 1971. He was UNESCO Fellow at Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw in 1974 and Ford Foundation post doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in 1980-81. He specializes in macro economics, monetary economics, public finance, planning and development and international finance. He is India’s leading expert on economic modelling and forecasting and his forecasting on the Indian economy are frequently quoted by print and electronic media as well as used by Government of India, Planning Commission, Reserve Bank of India and World Bank. He has published so far 10 books and more than 100 technical papers in various national and international journals. Professor Bhattacharya has held many important positions in learned societies and institutions. He is currently President of the Indian Economic Association (2007-2008) and also President of the Indian Association for Research on National Income and Wealth (2002 – 2010; two terms). Earlier he was the President of the Indian Econometric Society (2003 – 2004). He is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Income and Wealth and member of the Editorial Boards of many other technical journals in Economics. He is currently adjunct professor in the Centre for International Trade and Development in JNU. Dr. Bhattacharya has served as Chairman / Member of many important Government committees and commissions. At present he is Chairman of the International Comparison Project of the Government of India and also National Sample Survey 62nd Round of the Central Statistical Organisation, Govt. of India. He is the Member of the Supervisory Board of Foundation for Innovation Politique in Paris. He is a recipient of Amity Life Time Academic Achievement Award in 2007 and also awarded Ambassador of Peace by Universal Peace Foundation. European Ideas Network 6 Vademecum of the speakers Marc Olivier BETTZUEGE, Institute of Energy Economics, Cologne Professor Dr. Marc Oliver Bettzüge has been full professor of economics, in particular energy economics, and Head of the Chair of Energy Economics - Department of Economics - at the University of Cologne since 2007. He is also Managing Director and Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of Energy. Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI). Besides his obligations as director, Professor Bettzüge deals primarily with basic institutional and economic issues in energy economics and energy policy. Professor Bettzüge is a member of the German Bundestag’s [German parliament] Study Commission on Growth, Wellbeing and Quality of since 2011. In addition he plays an active role in various committees and advisory boards. After studying mathematics and economics at the Universities of Bonn, Cambridge and Berkeley, he received his doctorate in economics with a thesis on “Financial Innovation from a General Equilibrium Perspective.” Following that, Professor Bettzüge worked as a researcher at the Universities of Bonn and Zurich, and also as a management consultant with interna- tionally renowned consulting firms. Prior to his appointment to the University of Cologne, he held the position of partner and CEO with the strategy consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Dr. Tassos BISOPOULOS, Senior Policy Analyst at the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission Dr. Tassos BISOPOULOS is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. He now coordinates research on New Skills for Employment and in the past he has established and managed for many years the mutual learning program for labour market policies (http://www.mutual-learning-employment.net/). He has been an Adviser to Ministries, an associate of the Massachusetts Mediation Service and he has published and taught at several Universities. He received his PhD in economics from the LSE and his Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
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