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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).

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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.

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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, thanks to generous scholarships from the Saunders Trust and the Fulbright programme. He started his career as a Civil and Surveyor Engineer.

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7 Joachim BITTERLICH, former Ambassador, Executive Vice President International Affairs, Veolia Environment Paris

Born July 10, 1948, at Saarbrücken-Dudweiler, Germany. Studies of law, Economics and Politics at the University of Saarbrücken, research assistant at the same university. Studies at the French National School of Administration (ENA) in Paris (1974-75). Second state examination in law (1976). 1976: Entry into the Federal Foreign Office, posted to Algiers (1978-81) and Brussels (Per- manent Representation to the European Communities –1981-85). Advisor in the private of- fice of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1985-87). Head of the European Policy Department at the Federal Chancellor’s Office (1987-93); For- eign and Security Policy Advisor to Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1993-98). Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany on the North Atlantic Council Brussels (1998- 99), Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of Spain and the Principality of Andorra (1999-2002) Member of the Board of Administration of Veolia Environmental Services and Veolia Transport, Paris, of the Presidential Board of DEKRA e.V., Stuttgart - Germany. Member of the Board of Administration of HESAM Paris (Pôle de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur “Hautes Etudes- Sorbonne-Arts et Métiers”), of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration ENA, Paris/Strasbourg, of MEDEF International, Paris, of the Commission “Europe” of MEDEF; Vice-President of the Committee France-China. Vice-President of the Association “Notre Europe”, Paris; member of the Board of Trustees of « Friends of Europe » Brussels, of the Advisory Board of the Franco-German Business Club (CEFA), Paris. Professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP Europe. Member of Rotary (RC Paris Concorde) and of different German, French and International Associations (among them DGAP, IISS, Euro 50, Bretton Woods C’tee). Numerous publications, in particular in the field of European Policy (among others “Europa – mission impossible?” Düs- seldorf and Paris 2005; Co-author of “EU- and EC Treaty – Commentary”, edited by Prof. Dr. Carl-Otto Lenz, and Prof. Dr Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - 2nd , 3rd and 4th edition Cologne 2006, 5th ed. March 2010).

Paul BLUSTEIN, the Brookings Institution, Journalist in Residence, Former Washington Post Editor

Paul Blustein is Journalist in Residence in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. His primary fi elds of expertise are international trade and international economic policy. Prior to joining Brookings in 2006, Blustein was a staff writer at the Washington Post, where he mostly covered economic policy and related issues. He started at the Post in 1987 and served in its Tokyo bureau as Asian economics correspondent from 1990 to 1995. As the Post’s international economics correspondent, a position he assumed in September 1995, he reported stories from countries all over the world including Pakistan, Egypt, Argentina, Honduras, Indonesia, China, Qatar, Greece, Mali and Ethiopia. He took two book leaves from the Post, during which he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (in 1999 and 2000) and a Guest Scholar at Brookings (in 2003 and 2004). Before working at the Post he was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal from 1979 to 1987, the last four years of which he was the paper’s chief economics correspondent, covering the Federal Reserve, budget and tax policy; he came to the Journal after working at Forbes Magazine as a writer from 1976 to 1979. Among the prizes he has received for his reporting is the Gerald Loeb Award, generally regarded as the most prestigious prize in the field of business and economic journalism. In his books, Blustein specializes in writing about complex economic issues and institutions using dramatic narratives and behind-the scenes reporting, with the aim of making the subjects appealing for expert and non-expert readers alike. He is the author of The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF (Public Affairs, 2001), and And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (Public Affairs, 2005). His current focus is a book about the World Trade Organization and the Doha Round, which will recount how hopes once rose high for creating a global trading system that would signifi cantly benefit the world’s poor—and how those hopes have been dashed. His work has received support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Pew Fellowships in International Journalism, and the United States-Japan Foundation. Born in 1951 in Washington, D.C., Blustein received his B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in 1975. European Ideas Network

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Elmar BROK, MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the Committe on Foreign Affairs of the EP

He was born on 14th May 1946 (in Verl, North Rhine-Westphalia). Foreign Policy Spokesman of the EPP Group Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Substitute Member of the Constitutional Committee Chairman of the Parliamentary Delegation to the U.S. Congress and the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue Substitute Member of the European committee of the German Bundestag Board member of the EPP Group in the EP Board member of the EPP Foreign Policy Spokesman of the EPP Chairman of the European Union of Christian Democratic Workers (EUCDW) Member of the CDU Federal Executive Chairman of the CDU Federal Advisory Committee on Foreign, Security and European Policy (since 1989) Member of the Executive National Council of the CDU in NRW District Chairman of the CDU OWL Other recent functions Honorary President of the European Union of Germany Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) Member of the Presidium of the German Society for Foreign Relations Board Member, Institute for German and European Law of Political Parties / Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for European Constitutional Studies of the University of Hagen Co-Chairman of the German-Hungarian Forum Member of the Foundation Board of the Marie Bielefeld Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Hedwig-folk high school Trustee of Friends of Europe

Claire BURY, Director “Services” (incl. online services) in DG Market, European Commission

Claire Bury is currently Director of Services in Directorate General Internal Market and Services. She was previously Head of Unit for Company Law, Corporate Governance and Financial Crime in Directorate Gen- eral Internal Market and Services, Deputy Head of Cabinet to Internal Market Commissioners Charlie Mc- Creevy and Frits Bolkestein. An English barrister by training, she worked in the Commission’s Legal Service and, before coming to Brus- sels, in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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9 Rocco BUTTIGLIONE, Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, President of UDC

Position: Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of deputies Background: Mr. Rocco Buttiglione was born on the 6th of June in 1948 in Gallipoli. He had studied law in the Universities of Turin and Rome, focusing on history of political doctrines. He is currently professor of Political Science “Saint Pius V” University in Rome. Political background: Professor Buttiglione has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament since 1994, and he was also elected member of the European Parliament in 1999. On 1994 he was elected Secretary of the “Partito Popolare Italiano”. On 1995 he is elected Secretary of the “CDU-Cristiani Democratici Uniti”. He was appointed as member of the Parliamentary Commission for Constitutional Reforms. On May 2001 he was reconfirmed as a Member of the Chamber for the electoral district of Milan and appointed as Minister of European Union Policies in the second government headed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and is currently holding that position.

Antonio CANCIAN MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Member of the EP Committee on ‘Industry, Research and Energy’

Position: Member of the EPP group in the European Parliament. Background: Born on 2 July 1951; Mareno di Piave (Province of Treviso) Member: Committee on Transport and Tourism Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula Substitute: Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo.

Curriculum Degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Padua (1975). Founder partner, chairman and managing director of Poolinvest, a group operating in the innovative high-tech service sector (1978-2009). Municipal councillor and then councillor with special responsibilities for Mareno di Piave (Treviso) (1973-1987); Mayor of Mareno di Piave (Treviso) (1987-1992). Member of the Christian Democrat (DC) Group in the Italian Parliament during the 9th parliamentary term; member of the Committee on productive activities (1992-1994).

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Lorne CRANER, President, International Republican Institute (IRI)

Lorne Craner holds a Bachelor degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and has a master’s degree in national security studies from George Town University. Craner was Senator John McCain’s foreign policy advisor, from 1986 to 1989, serving concurrently as the Republican Staffer on the Senate Central America Negotiations Observer Group. He began his Hill career as the foreign policy advisor to Congressman Jim Kolbe. From 1992-93, Craner was Director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. Between 1989 and 1992 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs. From 2001 to 2004, Craner served as Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the US State Department. Since the 2nd of August 2004, he has been the president of International Republic Institute. (IRI)

Paul CSISZAR, directing the “Basic Industries, Manufacturing and Agriculture” division, DG Competition, European Commission

Directing the “Basic Industries, Manufacturing and Agriculture” division, DG Competition, European Commission. After graduating from ELTE School of Law of Budapest, Paul Csiszár studied international comparative law and earned a second Juris Doctorate at Loyola Law School in the United States. Following his admission to the Bar in 1986 in California he practiced as a corporate, securities and M&A lawyer in the US and then from 1997 in Central Europe with the international law firm of Squire Sanders until 2003 when he joined the public sector. Between 2003 and 2006 Mr Csiszár served as General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Kosovo Trust Agency, an international trust established jointly by the United Nations and the European Union. From 2006 Mr Csiszár serves as Director of “Basic Industries, Manufacturing and Agriculture” at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission.

Maria da Graça CARVALHO MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Member of the EP Committee on ‘Industry, Research and Energy’

She is Principal Adviser to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers, a Department of the European Commission reporting directly to the President. In this bureau she is a policy analyst in the areas of Science, Higher Education, Innovation, Information Society, Energy, Transport, Environment, Space and Security Research Policy and Sustainable Development. She is a Full Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of IST-Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) since June 1992. In 1983 she obtained her Ph.D. at the Imperial College in London. She has participated in and coordinated a large number of international R & D Projects. She is author of 97 articles in scientific international journals and she has written more than 400 articles for books, international conferences and seminars. Her main research field is Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. She was Minister of Science and Higher Education of the XV Constitutional Government of Portugal and Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education of the XVI Constitutional Government, Director-General of GRICES-Office for International Relations in Science and Higher Education and Deputy President of the Portuguese Association of Engineers. She was a member of the Board of Directors President of the Scientific Board of Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon). She is a member of 22 national and international scientific associations and fellow of AIAA-American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of AAAS-American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was decorated by the President of Portugal with the designation “Great Official of the Order of Public Instruction” within the scope of International Women Day Programme (8 March 2002) and by the Chancellery of the International Order of Merit of the Discoverer of Brazil with the high honour of the Great Cross (26 April 2005). European Ideas Network

11 Joseph DAUL MEP, Chairman, EPP Group in the European Parliament

Joseph DAUL was born on 13 April 1947 in Strasbourg (France). Having studied agriculture at the Ecole d’Agriculture, he graduated from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale in Paris in 1981. Joseph Daul became active in the agricultural professional organisations, through the Centre National des Jeunes Agriculteurs, a highly-developed network at local, regional, national and European level. Thus, in 1976 he was appointed national Vice-Chairman of the CNJA with responsibility for European affairs. Between 1989 and 2002 he was Mayor of Pfettisheim. In 1999, after having been elected in the European Parliament, he naturally joined the EPP Group since it represented his most deeply held European convictions which had always guided his political work. He became a very active member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, being appointed its chairman in January 2002. In 2002, Joseph Daul was appointed chairman of the Conference of Committee Chairmen. In January 2007, he was elected Chairman of the EPP-ED Group. He remains member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and substitute member of the Committee on International Trade and of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He is also chairman of the European Parliamentary Association, which has its seat in Strasbourg and allows Members of the European Parliament to establish contacts in academic, economic and cultural circles.

Pilar del CASTILLO VERA MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Coordinator of the EP Committee on ‘Industry, Research and Energy’

Pilar del CASTILLO VERA, Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) Member of the Bureau Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Substitute on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs Curriculum vitae Law degree (Universidad de Complutense 1974). Fulbright scholarship (Ohio State University 1981-1982), Masters Degree in political science (Ohio State University 1982). PhD in law (Uni- versidad Complutense de Madrid 1983). Associate Professor of constitutional law (Universidad Española de Educación a Distancia, UNED, 1986). Professor of political science (1994). Editor and Director of the New Magazine of Politics, Culture and Art (Nueva Revista de Política, Cultura y Arte) 1995-1996. President of the Sociological Research Centre (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas) (1996-2000). Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, 2000-2004. Member of Parliament for the constituency of Granada (March- July 2004). Vice-coordinator of the EPP-ED group in the ITRE committee. Member of the Board of Governors of the European Internet Foundation. Author of publications on such topics as comparative electoral behaviour, political parties and political and public behaviour. Among the publications: La financiación de partidos y candidatos en las democracias occidentales, Madrid, Centro de In- vestigaciones Sociológicas, 1985. Comportamiento político y electoral (Ed), Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones sociológicas, 1994. Cultura y política (Ed), Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 1997. La Financiación de la Política en Iberoamérica (Ed), San José de Costa Rica, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, 1998. Award for PhD given by the Sociological Research Centre (1984). Member of various national and international political science and sociology associations.

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Gilles DRYANCOUR, Director, Government Affairs Europe-Africa-Middle East, John Deere & Company

Civil status Date of birth: 08.10.1961 Nationality: French Family status: married, three children

Education July 2000 : Ph. D. in economics, Faculty of Economics - University of Aix-Marseille III. Highest distinction (Doctorat ès sciences économiques. Mention très honorable avec les félicita- tions du jury).

1985 : Diplôme d’études. Approfondies (3e cycle) in International & European Law, (Diploma of Advanced Studies). CERIC, Faculty of Law - University of Aix-Marseille III (Diploma equivalent to Master of Law), with honors. 1984 : Master of Arts in Political Sciences, Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence. University of Aix-Marseille III, with honors.

Further education 2012 : Coaching skills. 1997 : Financial Analysis & Management, Institut d’Administration des Entreprises de Bruxelles, Free University of Brussels: six-month training program. 1992 : H.E.C. Management, Fontainebleau. Program for senior executives: Tools and Methods of Strategic Management. 1991: International Briefing Center (Farnham U.K.). Program for the Management of cultural diversity and intercultural communication.

Professionial experience Since 3/2001 : Deere & Company European Office Mannheim Germany : Government Affairs, Director (Corporate) – Europe, Africa, Middle-East. John Deere is the world leader for Agricultural equipment.

11/1994-02/2001: Cabinet de Conseil en Coopération Européenne (3CE) Brussels and Bordeaux Founding director of the cabinet, 3CE, specialized in supporting and representing major companies through legal and economic lobbying. References: Major companies Aérospatiale (aerospace), Sogerma (aeronautic maintenance), Smurfit (paper-craft and packaging-related), C.V.C. Partners (investment fund). Middle-sized and regional companies: Association Générale des Producteurs de Maïs (French Corn producers’ Association). Ma- rie-Brizard (liquors), Groupe Satelec (dental equipment), Groupe de presse Sud-Ouest (daily press), L & R U.K. (tourism). 1998 : Establishment of an office in Bordeaux.

1989-1994 : Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Bordeaux (C.C.I.B.) European Affairs manager. Other missions: Development of international contacts for senior executives and elected officials of the C.C.I.B. Co-coordinator of the Eurometropolis Club, a European network of city councils, chambers of commerce, ports, airports and universities of 23 cities in the E.U.

1985-1989 : European Commission (Brussels) Directorate General IX, Expert, managing the data bank sector (DG IX SIS).

Activities and interests Lecturer Contributor of articles

Board and membership responsibilities CEMA (European Agricultural machinery Association): President (Chairman) of the board of directors. http://www.cema-agri.org/contentSUB.php?subID=42 CEMA represents: 4500 manufacturers, 30 billion € production volume, 135.000 persons employed directly, 125.000 indirectly, 450 types of machines. European Irrigation Association Board of Directors

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13 Jose Maria EGEA, Managing Director of Energy Planning, Gas Natural Fenosa

Position: Managing director of Energy Planning, Gaz Natural Fenosa. Background: Born in 1954 in Murcia. Mr. Jose Maria Egea holds a degree in Chemistry, specializing in Industrial Chemistry, from the Universidad de Murcia, and a Masters degree in Business Management from ICADE. holds a degree in Chemistry, specializing in Industrial Chemistry, from the Universidad de Murcia, and a Masters degree in Business Management from ICADE. He later joined Planning and Control Management, first as Planning and Research Manager, then as Manager of Research, International Planning and Other Business. He has been Managing Director of Gas Management since May 2005. He began his professional career in Espanola de Zinc, a post that he combined with teaching responsibilities, and also worked at UNIGAS. In 1991, he began his career in the Company, working initially in Investee Companies Management. Previously, he served as General Director of Gas Management since 2005 and before that as Corporate Manager of Planning within the Company since 2002. Since May 19, 2009, Mr. Jose Maria Egea serves as General Director of Energy Planning of Gas Natural.

Federico EICHBERG, FareFuturo Foundation

Federico Eichberg after obtaining his master’s degree in Political Sciences at la Sapienza University in Rome. He specialized in Advanced Studies in political, economical and social sciences at Notre Dame University (USA), and he obtained his PhD in history and policy of contemporary time at university of Bologna. Federico Eichberg worked at the presidency of Ministry’s Council and today he is in the Cabinet of economic development ministry. Eichberg is also member of the group for strategies for Italian interests for medium and long term at international levels of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the political level Federico Eichberg is responsible for international affairs at the “FareFuturo” foundation. He is author of several publications about integration and international relations.

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Georg FAHRENSCHON, President, German Savings Banks Association

Born on 8 February 1968 in Munich, married, two daughters 1999 Completed his studies in business administration and economics in Munich and Augsburg with a degree in economics (German university degree: Diplomökonom) 1999 – 2000 Management consultant and division manager of arf-Gesellschaft für Organisationsberatung mbH, Nuremberg 2000 – 2002 Project and organisation consultant at Bayerische Landesbank, Head of Risk and Controlling Processes Unit, Munich 2002 – 2007 Member of the German Parliament (Bundestag) 2002 – 2007 Member of the Finance Committee 2005 – 2007 Member of the Budget Committee 2007 – 2008 Undersecretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, Munich 2008 – 2011 Bavarian State Minister of Finance 2011 – 2012 Member of the Bavarian Parliament since 16 May 2012 President of the German Savings Banks Association, Berlin; Chairman of the Administrative Board of DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg GmbH; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sparkassenstiftung für internationale Kooperation e.V., member of the Executive Board of the Bundesverband Öffentlicher Banken. Ex officio / By virtue of his office, President Fahrenschon is Chairman of the Council of the University of Applied Sciences of the Savings Banks Finance Group Honorary posts Member of the Board of Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Member of the Steering Committee of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), as well as member of the boards of trustees of other social and cultural institutions.

Markus FERBER MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Co-Chairman of the German Delegation

Vice-Chair of Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee. Member of Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. Degree in electrical engineering (1990). Development engineer (1990-1992). Engineer in a marketing department (1992-1994) CSU district chair, Augsburg district (since 1999). CSU regional chair, Swabia (since 2005). Town councillor in Bobingen (1990-1999). Member of Augsburg district council (since 1996). Chair of the CSU European Affairs Group (since 1999). Land chair, Europa-Union Bavaria (since 2000). Member of the European Parliament (since 1994). Federal Cross of Merit. Bavarian Medal of Honour for Bavarians in Europe.

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15 Ján FIGEL, Vice-President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic; Former Deputy Prime Minister, Slo- vak Republic, former European Commissioner for Education, Training & Culture

Nationality: Slovak Birth date and place: 20 January 1960, Vranov nad Topľou, Slovakia Marital status: Married, 4 children

Political Career 2012 – : Vice President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic 2010 – 2012: First Deputy-Prime Minister of the Government of the Slovak Republic and Minis- ter for Transport, Construction and Regional Development

2009 – : Chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) 2004 - 2009 : Member of the European Commission - Education, Training, Culture and Youth portfolio 2004 - May – November : Member of the European Commission - Enterprise and Information Society portfolio 2003 - 2004 : Head of the Standing Delegation of Observers of the National Council of the Slovak Republic in the European Parliament, also Member of the Presidency of the EPP-EP fraction of the European Parliament 2002 – 2003 : Representative of the Slovak National Council in the Convention on the Future of Europe 1998 – 2003 : State Secretary, Chief Negotiator of the SR for negotiations on the accession of Slovakia to the EU 1992 – 1998 : Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, also Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Vice-Chairman of the EPP fraction in the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE (1998) Since 1990 : Founding Member of the Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH)

Academic Career and Formation 2002 – 2007 PhD at St. Elisabeth University, Bratislava 1995 – 2000 Lecturer in International Relations, Trnava University, Slovakia 1994 Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA, Semestrial course on International relations 1994 UFSIA Antwerp, Belgium, Semestrial course on European economic integration 1978 – 1983 Engineer in Power Electronics, Technical University Košice

Membership in Non-Governmental Organizations Former President of the Pan-European Union in Slovakia Member of the International Committee for Support of Democracy in Cuba Member of the Board of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association Honorary Chairman of the Centre for European Policy Honorary President of the Kolping Society in Slovakia Presidency member of the Anton Tunega Foundation

Publications Ján Figeľ: In the Centre of Common Europe, MCP Zilina, 2011 Ján Figeľ: Maturation for Europe, Negotiator´s Chronicle, MCP Zilina, 2005 Ján Figeľ, Miroslav Adamiš: Slovakia on the Road to the European Union – Chapters and Contexts, 2003 Ján Figeľ, Wolfgang Roth: Slovakia on the Road to EU Membership (co-editor), 2002

Awards Human Tolerance and Humanitarian Award (The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Science, Washington DC), Knight of the Honorary Legion (President of the French Republic), The Interfaith Gold Medallion (International Council of Christians and Jews, Cambridge, Great Britain), Freedom award (International Peace Centre in Sarajevo), 2006 - Doctor honoris causa, Technical University Košice 2007 - Doctor honoris causa, Dimitri Cantemir University in Bucharest 2009 - Doctor honoris causa, Trnava University 2010 – Doctor honoris causa, St. Elisabeth University, Bratislava European Ideas Network

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Roland FREUDENSTEIN, Rapporteur of the EIN Working Group 9

Roland Freudenstein (born 1960) studied political science, Japan studies, economics and international relations in Bonn (M.A. 1988) and Los Angeles. From 1989-93 he was a fellow at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Affairs, Bonn. From 1993-95 member of the planning staff for Foreign and Security Policy of the European Commission, Brussels. 1995-2001 Director of the Warsaw Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, working on civil society building and political networking. 2002-2004 Head of unit, Foreign and European Affairs, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin. Numerous publications on international security, Central Europe and German foreign policy.

Ranier FSADNI, Rapporteur of the EIN Working Group 3

Ranier Fsadni is Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malta on Mediterranean and Maritime Affairs. He teaches social and cultural anthropology at the University of Malta with special reference to the Mediterranean and the Arab world. He is a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Journal of Mediterranean Studies and a reviewer for the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights. As Chairman of the Academy for the Development of a Democratic Environment (AZAD), he has been involved in EIN activities since 2004. He serves as an expert member of the Maritime Task

Force of the European Commission and has also recently contributed to a draft report on maritime governance for DG Mare.

Lothar FUNK, Professor of Economics, FH Düsseldorf/University of Applied Sciences (Germany)

Prof. Dr. Lothar Funk is Professor of Economics and International Economic Relations at the Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences (for: Fachhochschule Düsseldorf). He is also the Coordina¬tor of Foreign Exchange at the Business Studies Department and heads the International Management Bachelor. Until mid-2005 he was also responsible for research in International Labour Relations at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research where he is still a Fellow now. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for German Studies, University of Birming¬ham, as well as a member of the council of economic advisers of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin, and a co-editor of Sozialer Fortschritt. Unabhängige Zeitschrift für Sozialpolitik (German Review of Social Poli¬cy). He has published widely on labour market-related issues, varieties of capitalisms and questions of welfare state reform. He (co-)authored and edited several books on these issues as well.

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17 Michael GAHLER MEP, EPP Group Co-ordinator, EP Security and Defence Sub-Committee

Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) Member of the Bureau Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands Born on 22 April 1960, Frankfurt/Main Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament Coordinator of the EPP Group in the Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Member Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Security and Defence Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Substitute Committee on Transport and Tourism Delegation for relations with Afghanistan Curriculum vitae Military service in Koblenz (1979-1980), law studies in Mainz and Dijon (1981-1987). First state law examination (1987). Trainee lawyer (1987-1990); second state law examination (1990). At the diplomatic training establishment of the Foreign Office (1990-1991). Competition for the senior foreign service (1991). International environment policy specialist at the FO (1991-1993). Specialist in the CDU international office (1993-1995). Head of section, Baltic and Scandinavian states, and Baltic Council, Foreign Office (1995-1999). Municipal councillor in Hattersheim/Main (1986-1989). Member of Main-Taunus district council (1989-2001). Delegate to the regional planning assembly, Darmstadt province (1993-1997). Municipal, district and regional chairman of Junge Union (1985-1993). Member of the international commission of Junge Union, Germany (1990-1995). Deputy Chairman of the Main-Taunus branch of the CDU (1994-2000). Delegate to the EPP congress (since 1995). Member of the European Parliament (since 1999).

Marielle GALLO MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Vice- Coordinator of the EP Committee on ‘Legal Affairs’, Member of the EU/US Delegation

Position: Member of the Epp Group in the European Parliament, vice coordinator of the EP Committee on “Legal affairs” Background: born on 19 May 1949, Lons-le Saunier. Member: • Committee on Legal Affairs • Special Committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering • Delegation for relations with the Unites States

Substitute: • Committee on Employment and Social Affairs • Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection • Delegation with relations with India Curriculum vitae: • She holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in general private law from Paris 1 Panthéon -Sorbonne. • Since 1978, she can practise law in Paris. • Author of eight novels published under the name Marielle Gallet. European Ideas Network

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Massimo GARBINI, CEO and President, Italian Company for Air Navigation Services (ENAV)

Massimo Garbini is CEO of ENAV since 2011. He began his career in the Italian Air Force and joined ENAV in 1991. He started out as an air traffic controller, working in the Area Control Centre (ACC) of Rome and the Air Traffic Control (ATC) towers of Bologna and Milan Malpensa’s airports. He then went on to become the Head of ATC Operations, then Director of Operations, and in 2009, ENAV’s Director General and the President of TechnoSky, an ENAV controlled company. Mr Garbini’s international experience is wide. He has acted as Chairman of Eurocontrol’s Operations Coordination Group (OCG), and was also appointed a member of the European Aviation Platform by Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr Siim Kallas. Moreover, he has been Chairman of the European CANSO (Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation) Committee and currently Member of the Global Executive Committee of CANSO. Since 2011 he has been designated by the European Commission as Chairman of the European Network Management Board.

Jaime GARCÍA-LEGAZ PONCE, Spanish Secretary of State for Trade

Born in Murcia on June, 1968, he holds a degree in Economics from the University Complutense of Madrid and he is a member of the Commercial Technicians and State Economists corps. He has been an economist and financial analyst at the Bank of Spain and has been assigned to the Directorate General of the Treasury and Financial Policy of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In January 2009 he was appointed advisor to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the cabinet of the Prime Minister and in June 2000 he was designated to the office of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society. On august 2, 2002, he was appointed director of the department of Welfare and Education by the Council of Ministers. It was the same cabinet of Prime Minister José Maria Aznar. When the government of José Maria Aznar lost the elections of March 2004, Garcia-Legaz was appointed director of the Economics and Public Policy at the Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (FAES). In June 2007, he was assigned general secretary of FAES, replacing Javier Fernandez-Lasquetty. In the general elections held in 2008, he was elected deputy for Murcia for the list of the PP. Since December 2011, he is the Secretary of State for Trade.

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19 Peter GUENTER, President Global Europe, SANOFI

Position: President Global Europe, SANOFI Peter Guenter holds a Masters Degree in Physical Education at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium. He started his career in Sales at SmithKline in 1986. He joined the Group in 1995 and held various positions in France, Europe and Global Marketing. In 2000, he was appointed General Manager Belgium and then Vice President for Eastern Europe, Northern Europe & Scandinavia. In 2008, he was appointed General Manager, Commercial Operations for Germany, and in 2011, he was General Manager for the Multi-Country-Organisation for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He was appointed to his present position in July 2011.

Malcolm HARBOUR MEP, Member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, Chairman of the EP Committee on ‘Internal Market and Consumer Protection’

Malcolm Harbour was educated at Bedford School (1960–64), Trinity College, Cambridge (1964–67) where he gained a BA in Mechanical Services, and at the University of Aston (1967–70) where he gained a Diploma in Management Studies. He began his career in the motor industry, working as an apprentice at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham (1967–69). From then until 1980 he held various posts in design, development and product planning in the Rover Triumph Division. In 1980, Harbour became a director of Austin Rover with responsibilities for planning, sales and marketing. He co-founded Harbour Wade Brown, a motor industry consultancy, in 1989 and the International Car Distribution Programme Ltd in 1993, of which he remains a director. He was also briefly project director of the Three Day Car Programme (1998–99). Harbour became an active member of the Conservative Party in 1972. He first stood for the European Parliament in 1989 in the constituency of Birmingham East but failed to win election. He missed out again in 1994, before finally, in 1999, being placed high on the Conservative list for the new multi-memberWest Midlands region constituency, ensuring his election in the 1999 European Parliament election. Initially a member of the European People’s Party–European Democrats Group (EPP–ED) he gained an influential position on the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, serving as the EPP–ED spokesman and co-ordinator. Harbour was also delegated several other responsibilities in the European Parliament. He was Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Science Policy Panel (STOA), and a member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee and the Inter-Parliamentary Delegation to Japan. He is a co-chairman in Parliamentary Forums for the Automobile and Society, the Ceramics Industries, and the European Internet Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Conservative Technology Forum. From 2004 to 2006, he played a determining role in steering the Services Directive through the Parliament. He has also been active on the single market strategy, communications framework legislation, type-approval of motor vehicles, and the digital economy. On 13 January 2005, Harbour was appointed by the European Commission to ‘Cars 21’, a High Level Group convened to discuss the competitiveness in the European automobile industry. After the 2009 European Parliament election, Harbour transferred to the new European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR). He was nominated by the ECR and then subsequently elected as the chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, making him one of the most influential and powerful ECR MEPs.

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Gordian HEINDRICHS, PSA Peugeot - Citroën, Berlin

Position: PSA Peugeot, - Citroën, Berlin Mr. Heindrichs has a degree in Industrial Design that he has obtained from the University of Duisburg- Essen (1978-1980). From 1980 to 1987, he studied visual communication where he specialised in photography. In 1987, he obtained a diploma in communication designer. From 1987 to 1993, he started his career by being a photographer. He then worked for 2 years for a communication agency in Düsseldorf. From 1995 to 1998, he was a press officer for the Parliamentary group of the Liberal Party. From 1998 to 2008, he was a press officer for the Peugeot Deutschland GmbH, Sarrebruck. He is currently the director of Public Affairs for PSA Peugeot Citroën, Berlin.

Frank HENKEL, Mayor and Senator for the Interior and Sport of Berlin

Frank Henkel (CDU) took office as Mayor and Senator for the Interior and Sports inBerlin in December 2011. He has served as a member of the Berlin House of Representatives (Abgeordnetenhaus) since November 2001. In addition, he has been chairman of the CDU party’s Berlin state association and a member of the CDU’s national executive committee since November 2008. Henkel has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 1986 and has been heavily involved in CDU politics in Berlin for many years. His positions have included Chairman of the CDU Caucus in the Berlin House of Representatives, Party Chair of Berlin-Mitte, First Parliamentary Whip of the Berlin CDU caucus, and Secretary General of the CDU Berlin. Before he entered politics full-time, he worked for Krupp’s Berlin office and Hundert 6, Medien GmbH. He also headed the Office of Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) in 2001. Henkel apprenticed as a salesman in wholesale and foreign trade before studying economics and social sciences at the Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin.

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21 Heinrich HIESINGER, CEO ThyssenKrupp

Born 1960, studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, graduated (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1986, gained doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in 1991. Career: From 1986 until 1992 Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Hiesinger was a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich. From 1992 until 2000 he held various positions in various countries in the Power Transmission and Distribution Group of Siemens. In 2000 he became President of the Power Transmission and Distribution Group and in 2003 President and CEO of Siemens Building Technologies AG, Zug/Switzerland. In 2007 he was appointed Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG. In 2008 he was additionally appointed CEO of the Industry Sector of Siemens and head of the central department Corporate Information Technology. From October 2010 to January 2011 Dr.-Ing. Hiesinger was Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG. With effect from the close of the General Stockholders’ Meeting on January 21, 2011, Dr.-Ing. Hiesinger is Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG.

Gunnar HÖKMARK, Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) Vice-Chair

Born on 19 September 1952, Ystad

Chair D-HRDelegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee Member CPDEConference of Delegation Chairs ECONCommittee on Economic and Monetary Affairs D-BYDelegation for relations with Belarus

Substitute ITRECommittee on Industry, Research and Energy DSCADelegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees DEPADelegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly

Degree in economics, Lund University (1975). Reserve officer, armoured troops (1975). Trainee within the Unilever Group (1976). Product manager, Unilever (1977). Head of Timbro Idé (1985-1991). Managing Director of the Reform Institute (2000-2002). Chairman of the Moderate Party Youth League (1979-1984); member of the party’s Executive (1979-1984); Party Secretary of the Moderate Party (1991-2000). Chairman of Democrat Youth Community of Europe (1981-1983). Member of the Swedish Parliament (1982-2004); chairman of the Committee on Laws (2000-2004). Vice-Chairman of the European Enterprise Institute (2004). Chairman of European Friends of Israel (2006-2011) Chairman of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association. Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian decorations.

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Danuta HÜBNER MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Chairwoman of the EP Committee on ‘Regional Development’

Born on 8 April 1948 in Nisko, Poland, Danuta Hübner is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker. She served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009, when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform. Academic CV: 2005 Honorary Degree in Laws of the Sussex University since 1992 full Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, currently on leave 1994-1997 Editor-in-Chief of Gospodarka Narodowa, Polish economics monthly 1991-1994 Deputy Director, Institute for Development and Strategic Studies, Warsaw 1991-1997 Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekonomista, Polish bi-monthly 1988-1990 Fulbright scholar, University of California, Berkeley 1981-1987 Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Developing Countries, Warsaw School of Economics 1980 Post-doctoral degree in international trade relations, Warsaw School of Economics 1974 Ph.D. in economics, Warsaw School of Economics 1974 Visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Sussex 1970’s Visiting scholar Universidad Autonoma in Madrid since 1971 professor at the Warsaw School of Economics 1971 MSc in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (Central School of Planning and Statistics) Political, policy and administrative CV: 7 June 2009 elected MEP for Poland in Warsaw Constituency (from Civic Platform) since 1 May 2004 Member of the European Commission, since November 2004 Commissioner for Regional Policy 2003-2004 Minister for European Affairs, Poland 2001-2003 Head of Office of the Committee for European Integration and Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland 2000-2001 United Nations Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva 1998-2001 Economic Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland 1998-2000 Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva 1997-1998 Minister Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland 1996-1997 Government Plenipotentiary for establishing the Committee for European Integration (KIE), Secretary of KIE with the rank of Secretary of State and Head of the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE) 1995-1996 Chief Negotiator for accession to OECD 1994-1996 Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Industry and Trade 1994-1995 Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Co-author of the Government Programme Strategy for Poland 1992-1996 Chairperson of the Council for Social Planning, Central Office for Planning In the years 1970-1987 she was a member of communist Polish United Workers’ Party PZPR

Dirk HUDIG, Director, FIPRA International Limited

Dirk Hudig was former Secretary General of the Union of Industrial & Employers’ Confederations of Europe from 1998 to 2001. He held several other posts including Chairman of the BIAC Environment Committee in the OECD, Secretary and Treasurer of the Society of Chemical Industry Europe Committee, and one of the founding members of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) and its Programme Committee, as well the chemicals coordinator for the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, TABD. He is also a former President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. In 1970 he joined ICI, the UK Chemicals company, and worked in various businesses within the group in Rotterdam, London & Brussels before becoming national Head and Group Manager of EU Government Relations for ICI from 1987-1998. Currently he is Chairman of the European Risk Forum on EU regulation and impact assessment with a particular interest in risk, regulatory reform, cost benefit analysis and the quality of regulation. In 2001 he joined FIPRA, the public affairs consultancy network, as first Chairman of the FIPRA group’s representation in Brussels.

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23 Ignacio IBÁÑEZ, Analyst at the Strategic Studies Group of Spain (GEES)

Ignacio F. Ibáñez Ferrándiz is an Analyst at the Strategic Studies Group of Spain (GEES), since 2009. He also works, since 2007, as Manager of the Legal and Counter-Terrorism Financing Program of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC, USA. He is a member of the Executive Board of the People’s Party of Spain (PP) in the United States of America. Prior to his position at the OAS, Mr. Ibáñez worked for the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), both based in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Ibáñez, who has received OAS Outstanding Performance Awards in 2009 and 2010, has traveled extensively throughout Latin-America, the Caribbean and Europe providing policy and technical-level assistance and expertise on security matters. He has participated as invited expert in high-level visits of the 1373 Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations and of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF of the OCDE). Additionally, he has been an invited speaker at multiple international fora such as the Council of Europe (CoE), the Asia Pacific Economic (APEC) Forum, the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum (GCTF), the European Ideas Network (EIN), the ATLAS Economic Research Foundation, and the Acton Institute, among others. Mr. Ibáñez was an invited guest to the Regional and General Meetings of the Mont Pelerin Society held, respectively, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in April 2011, and in Prague, the Czech Republic, in September 2012. Mr. Ibáñez holds a Law Degree (honors) and a Master’s Degree in International Relations (Cum Laude, Valedictorian), specializing in International Law and Security. He has studied at the Universidad Complutense and the Universidad San Pablo-CEU (Madrid, Spain), Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and Cambridge University (Cambridge, United Kingdom). He has been invited to participate as guest lecturer at the University of Maryland (USA), the University Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), and the “XXXV Hemispheric Course on International Law” (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Mr. Ibáñez has published a variety of works and articles about law, political philosophy, and international security, including a thesis on bioterrorism.

Gia JANDIERI, founder and the Vice-president of New Economic School - Georgia

Position: Founder and the Vice president of the New Economic School Background: Born in August 12, 1961 in Telavi, Georgia Education: Mr. Gia Jandieri holds two degrees. He has one from the Georgian Technical University where he has studied from 1978 to 1983, in Engineer of Energy Supply Systems. The second degree he holds is from Tbilisi State University (1988 - 1993) where he has obtained a diploma in Economist of Trade. Professional Career: In 1989 Mr. Jandieri with several friends founded the Association of Young Economists of Georgia – the very first NGO in the Soviet Republic of Georgia whose goal was to eliminate the obligatory study of Marxism at the Tbilisi State University. After several years of working at public offices (parliament, state audit, central election commission) in 2000 he decided to leave the public sector and organize another think-tank with a goal of supporting free market economic education in Georgia and the region. As an economist Gia Jandieri has participated in various discussions and public forums to promote free market public policies.

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Allan JANIK, University of Innsbrück

Allan Janik, citizen of both Austrian and the United States, is a philosopher and historian of ideas. He is senior research, fellow of the Brenner Archives at the University of Innsbruck and honorary professor of philosophy at the university of Vienna. His many books include Wittgenstein’s Vienna (with S. Toulmin), The Concept of Knowledge in Practical Philosophy (in Swedish), Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy as well as the study Towards a New Philosophy for the EU (Foundation for Political Innovation 2008). He is especially interested in problems surrounding the European Union’s “democracy deficit”, the nature of participatory democracy and the role of conflict in democratic society.

Danuta JAZLOWIECKA MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Member of the EP Committee on ‘Employment and Social Affairs’

Member EMPLCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs D-CNDelegation for relations with the People’s Republic of China

Substitute ECONCommittee on Economic and Monetary Affairs D-USDelegation for relations with the United States

I was born in Opole and I am bound to the city and region of place of birth with my heart and work. I use my college education,training and courses related to the nature of my work to know more and do more,and, as a result to work better. I graduated: from scholarship program at Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin in the United States, the study “Regional Policy and Structural Funds” on the Luiss University in Rome, and the scholarship program Japan International Cooperation Agency in Tokyo, post-graduate study “International Relations” at the College of Humanities and Humanities Training on “Strengthening the implementation of the acquis at the regional level” at the Danish School of Public Administration in Copenhagen. I participated in study visits in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France and Belgium. I know very well how to obtain EU funds for the benefit of our country, region and its inhabitants and how to actively participate in the life of Europe. For many years I worked in the regional institutions preparing our region for European integration. Together with my colleagues from the Lower Silesia I was preparing a strategy for the development of Polish-Czech border. Exchanging experience with foreign partners and our neighboring regions carried out only in our country, author, international program, “a European officer in each municipality,” preparing the personal staff of nearly one hundred specialists in European affairs. Together we have reached first European funds. We won dozens of projects for the region and we received millions of euros. Today, also thanks to these people we are at the forefront of the regions in using European funds and the European Commission highly appreciates the implementation of those projects. I participated in the International Cooperation Committee, I was the Vice- President of the Commission’s Regional Co-operation Programme PHARE ODBUDOWA. For two terms I represented our region in the Polish Parliament, dealing with European issues and issues of regional development. I used the experience while chairing the Polish delegation to the Council of Europe and being an active Vice- President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe.

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25 Staffan JERNECK, Director, Director of Corporate Relations, CEPS, Centre for European Policy Studies

Staffan Jerneck, economist, is Director and Director of Corporate Relations of CEPS, which is a leading Brussels-based politically independent and influential European think tank having excellent networks and contacts with the EU Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament, business executives, diplomats, politicians and other strategic decision makers. CEPS has a strong influence in the EU as it anticipates important trends and issues. Jerneck is in charge of the corporate sector with 120 international companies as corporate members - the major financial contributor to CEPS – and the programmes. He is substantially involved in policy shaping. 1986 to 1997 Secretary General and Director General of the Swedish International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). During his period, the Swedish ICC became the biggest in the world in terms of members. ICC is the world business organisation representing international business in 140 countries. Staffan Jerneck was assistant to the CEO of the Federation of Swedish Industries - the major lobbying organisation for industry. He was secretary of the Boards of the Federation and the General Export Association of Sweden. Staffan Jerneck has during his professional career always worked in organisations based on corporate membership which has given him a longstanding experience in relation with business members. He has established a wide international network of corporate executives, diplomats, representatives of the EU institutions and other policy makers and is an excellent net-worker. Bachelor of Arts, University of Lund, Sweden, 1968. Master of Arts in Economics, University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, USA, 1970.

Ioannis KASOULIDES, MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Responsible for the ‘Foreign Affairs’ Working Group

Ioannis Kasoulides was born on the 10th of August 1948 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He studied medicine at the University of Lyon in France and specialised in geriatrics in London. Ioannis Kasoulides served the centre-right wing party Democratic Rally from various posts including the post of the President of the Youth Organization of the Party. In 1991 he was elected as an MP in the House of Representatives of Cyprus. In March 1993 he was appointed as the Government’s Spokesman where he served until April 1997, when he was appointed Foreign Minister until the end of term of Clerides administration in 2003. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ioannis Kasoulides leaded the diplomatic attempt that marked the beginning, the process and the completion of the process of integration of Cyprus in the EU. In June 2004 Ioannis Kasoulides was elected for the first time as a Member of the European Parliament. A full Member in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and substitute in the Transport and Tourism Committee, Ioannis Kasoulides served in various other positions including the Presidency of the ad hoc Delegation for the Human Rights in Western Sahara. In June 2009 Ioannis Kasoulides was re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament. Shortly afterwards he was elected by his EPP colleagues as Vice Chairman of the Group in the European Parliament, responsible for external affairs.

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Christof KLITZ, Vice-President of the European Movement International

Personal details Date of birth: 08.09.1959 Place of birth: Hamburg, Germany Nationality: German

Professional background Christof-Sebastian Klitz has been head of the Brussels based Volkswagen EU Group Representation since 2008. Mr. Klitz joined Volkswagen in 1999 and prior to his current position held various positions at the Volkswagen Group’s offices in Berlin and Brussels. A graduate of University Hamburg’s School of Law, he has a vast amount of Public Affairs experience. He served in various positions at Federation of German Industry (BDI), and as Deputy-Director of the Office of German Industry and Trade in Washington, D.C. He also served as Burson Marsteller’s Head of Government Relations in Bonn and Berlin, and worked for Deutsche Telekom. Mr. Klitz is Vice- President of the Economic Council, Brussels as well as Vice-President of the European Movement International.

Stefan KRAWCZYK, Associate General Counsel and Head of Government Relations Europe, Ebay Inc.

Position: Associate General Counsel and Head of Government Relation Europe, Ebay Inc. A specialist in intellectual property, government relations and litigation, Stefan heads eBay’s European Government Relations Team. He uses his experience to defend eBay’s position on issues such as counterfeiting and online hosting provider liability and to promote the interests of eBay and its millions of users with the EU institutions. Prior to eBay, Stefan Krawczyk was Deputy Regional Director Europe, Director Middle East & North Africa for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), where he oversaw government affairs, legal and operational lobbying activities. Stefan joined the IFPI in 1995 after five years as a trademark and copyright litigator at major Dutch law firm Nauta Dutilh. Stefan acts as general spokesperson for the EU liaison office as well as on the policy areas that fall under his competence.

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27 Karel LANNOO, CEO of the Center of European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Chief executive of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since 2000. CEPS is one of the leading independent European think tanks, with a strong reputation in economic and foreign policy research. It budgets total revenues of € 9 million for 2012 and employs about 50 persons. Directs the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) and the European Credit Research Institute (ECRI), both separate legal entities that are managed by CEPS. Regular speaker at hearings of EU, other national and international institutions and in executive programmes. Published some books and numerous articles in newspapers (FT, WSJ, NYT, Financieel Dagblad, De Standaard, De Tijd), specialised magazines and journals on general European policy, and specific financial regulation and supervision matters. Co-authored The Mifid Revolution with Jean-Pierre Casey, published by Cambridge in September 2009, and MiFID 2.0 with Diego Valiante, published by CEPS in February 2011. On asset management, he published in 2008 with Jean Pierre Casey, UCITS and Asset Management in the EU after MiFID., and in 2012 Rethinking Asset Management with Mirzha Demanuel. Other recent publications and opinion pieces include: The roadmap to banking union: a call for consistency (August 2012); The Commission’s CRD IV requires a deeper reading (January 2012); EU federalism in crisis (December 2011); MiFID 2.0 unveiled (November 2011); Lessons from the 2008 crisis for a 2011 Eurotarp (October 2011),Opinion polls support a more European approach to the crisis, (August 2011), The EU’s Response to the Crisis: A Mid-term Review, (April 2011), The forest of Basel III has too many trees, (February 2011). Independent director of BME (Bolsas Y Mercados Espanoles), the listed company that manages the Spanish securities exchanges. Karel Lannoo holds an MA in history (1985) from the University of Leuven, Belgium and obtained a postgraduate in European studies (CEE) from the University of Nancy, France (1986). He is fluent in English, French, Dutch and Spanish, with good notions of German.

Christophe LECLERCQ, Publisher and Founder, EurActiv

Publisher and Founder, EurActiv Christophe Leclercq is Founder and Publisher of EurActiv.com, and also of the Foundation EurActiv. Previously, he was an EU Commission official with DG Competition, management consultant with McKinsey, and before that market research manager with Renault Deutschland. Mr Leclercq wrote several books and articles, on international alliances, corporate governance, EU communication, published in French, English, and Russian. He speaks French, English and German, plus some Italian and Russian. He studied political science (‘Sciences Po’ Paris), business administration (HEC Paris, also at NYU & Köln), and international relations (ULB, Brussels).

Karim LESINA, Vice-President, International External Affairs EU, CCLA &Trans-Atlantic Relations - AT&T

Vice President, International External Affairs EU, CCLA & Trans- Atlantic Relations. : Born in Dakar (Senegal) : He holds a Master Degree in Economics of development from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve. Karim Antonio Lesina is the EMEA Government Affairs Executive Director of AT&T. He leads AT&T’s advocacy in Brussels towards the EU Institutions and in most of the EU Members States. He also follows the OECD and Council of Europe activities. Lesina is also the Chair of the Digital Economy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU. Prior to joining AT&T, Lesina held senior positions with another leading US-headquartered ICT company, and a number of leading public affairs agencies in Brussels. Lesina has worked on external affairs projects in several countries across the EMEA region. European Ideas Network

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Michael C. MAIBACH, President and CEO of European-American Business Council

Michael Maibach was the 1st American elected under 21 years of age when elected to the Dekalb County Board (Illinois) as a college student. During the summers of 1970 and 1971 he was a Governor’s Fellow in the Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs. After completing BS & MA degrees (Cum Laude) in Political Science at Northern Illinois University (NIU), he served as an Illinois State Senate Legislative Intern. In 2011 he was elected to the Samuel K. Gove Legislative Internship Hall of Fame in Springfield, Illinois. In 2012 he was named the first recipient of the NIU Honors Program Outstanding Alumni Award. In 1976 Maibach joined the Caterpillar Tractor Co., first as a machine shop foreman, then as a Government Affairs Manager in Illinois, California & Washington DC. He opened Caterpillar’s California Government Affairs Office in 1979. During this period he earned a BS degree (Cum Laude) in American and Latin American History at California State University. In 1983 Maibach joined the Intel Corporation to establish their Government Affairs Department and serve as assistant to Intel Co-Founder, Dr. Robert Noyce. Noyce was the co-inventor of the integrated circuit. Maibach was named an Intel Vice President in 1996. At Intel he was an industry leader in the passage of the US Semiconductor Chip Protection Act, the first R&D Tax Credit, the US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement, SEMATECH funding, the GATT Uruguay Round, the 21st Century Patent Reform Act… and China WTO membership. Maibach opened the Intel’s Washington, Brussels and Beijing Offices, and grew his Department from one person to a worldwide staff of 90 professionals in 18 years. He is the only Intel employee to have ever received 3 Intel Individual Achievement Awards. At Intel he was involved in President Reagan’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, as well as President Bush’s National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors. Mr. Maibach came to be a leading spokesman for America’s ICT industry on trade and technology policy. He has testified on behalf of industry 17 times before the US Congress. In 1992 he was a candidate for the US Congress from Silicon Valley. While at Intel Maibach earned a BA in International Business at American University and an MA in Political Philosophy at Georgetown University. He has served on the Boards of the Peoria Jaycees, the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Electronics Association, the Information Technology Industry Council, the Alliance For the Protection of Software Innovation, the RFID Technology Council, the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute, the Churchill Club, the World Affairs Council Boards of Peoria Illinois, San Jose California and Washington DC, and on the national Board of the World Affairs Councils of America. He served as President of the Illinois State Society and was a member of the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy from 2005 to 2011. He served as the first Vestry of Christ the King Church in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2011 he was inducted into the Samuel K. Gove Legislative Internship Hall of Fame in Springfield, Illinois.

In 2003 Mr. Maibach became President & CEO of the European-American Business Council. Mr. Maibach has grown the EABC from 6 to 75 member companies and opened its first Brussels Office in 2005. Today he serves on the Boards of the EABC, BritishAmericaBusiness, the Witherspoon Institute, the Tocqueville Forum, the World Affairs Council of Washington DC, and the Advisory Boards of the Institute of World Politics, the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress, as well as PolicyAction Inc. and Optimos Inc., Mr. Maibach has published 70 essays on American history and society, commercial policy and global competitiveness. He speaks on these issues across the USA. Mr. Maibach has also studied at Oxford University and Cambridge University. Today is a graduate student at the Institute of World Politics. [email protected]

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29 Wilfried MARTENS President of the European People’s Party ( EPP); former Prime Minister of Belgium (1979-1992)

Wilfried MARTENS was born in Sleidinge, 19th April 1936 Education Doctor of Law - K.U. Leuven - 1960 Licentiate in Notary Science - K.U. Leuven - 1960 Baccalaureus in Thomistic Philosophy - K.U. Leuven - 1960 International Seminar - Harvard University - 1968

Professional activities Lawyer at the Court of Appeal, Ghent since 1960 Adviser to Office of Prime Minister P. Harmel (1965) Adviser to Office of Prime Minister P. Vanden Boeynants (1966) Chargé de mission to Office of Minister L. Tindemans (Community Affairs) (1968) Chairman of the Police Restructuring Commission in Bosnia Herzegovina, OHR (2004-2005) Government functions Prime Minister from 1979 until 1992 (with an interruption of 8 months in 1981) Political activities President of the CVP Jongeren (CVP Youth Organisation) (1967-1971) President of the CVP (1972-1979) CVP Deputy (District Ghent Eeklo) (1974 until Nov. ‘91) CVP Senator (Brussels Halle Vilvoorde) (1991 - 1994) Co founder of the European People’s Party (EPP) (1976) President of the ”Program Commission” (Working Committee on Policy) of the EPP (1976_1977) President of the European Union of Christian Democrats - EUCD (1993-1996) President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament (1994-1999) President of the Christian Democrat and People’s Parties International- IDC(2000-2001) President of the EPP since 10th May 1990 Varia Chairman of the Kaaitheater (8 September 1993 - May 2003) Charles V Price (Spain), handed over on 25 June 1998 Grand Croix de l’Ordre de Léopold II (2000); numerous decorations from European, African and Central American countries

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Scott MASTIC, Regional Director Middle East and North Africa, International Republican Institute (IRI)

Position: Regional Director Middle East and North Africa, International Republican Institute.

Scott Mastic joined IRI in September 1998 and has helped grow IRI’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division to become the Institute’s largest regional division with programs in 12 countries. He was made regional director in 2009. Mastic has led IRI political party building, civil society development and democratic governance initiatives throughout the MENA region. He has also played a key role in groundbreaking IRI public opinion polling conducted in Tunisia, Pakistan and elsewhere. Mastic served as an IRI international election observer for historic elections held in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011 and 2012. He has also served on elections assessment and observation missions in Afghanistan, Jordan, Macedonia, Pakistan, Timor- Leste, Ukraine and the West Bank/Gaza. Prior to joining IRI, Mastic worked in the State Legislature of Ohio first as an aide to State Representative Pat Tiberi and later serving the Chairmen of the Ohio Senate Finance and Economic Development Committees through an Ohio Legislative Service Commission program. Mastic holds a master’s from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. He attended the American University in Cairo and participated in Middlebury College’s intensive Arabic language program.

Mario MAURO MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Head of the Italian Delegation (PDL Party)

Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 and Delegation for relations with the United States Substitute of Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis and Delegation for relations with South Africa Degree in philosophy (1985). Lecturer. Member of the European Parliament (since 1999); Vice-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (1999-2004); Vice-President of the European Parliament (2004-2009). Chief whip of the Popolo della Libertà (PDL) party in the European Parliament (since 2009). Personal representative of the OSCE Chair-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, with particular reference to discrimination against Christians (2009). Professor under contract to the European University of Rome, ‘Fundamental human rights in natural law and in international conventions’ and ‘History of the European institutions’ (since 2008).

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31 Jaime MAYOR OREJA MEP, Vice-Chairman, responsible for Political Strategy and the European Ideas Network EPP Group in the EP

Jaime MAYOR OREJA was born in 1951. Elected from San Sebastián. Agronomist Engineer. Member of the National Executive Committee of the PP (1999). Former President and spokesman of the Grupo Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament. Apointed Vice-Secretary-General of the PP (1996) and Honorary President of the PP in the Basque Country. Minister for Tourism in the Pre-autonomous Government of the Basque Country (1980); Member for Guipúzcoa. Government Delegate in the Basque Country (1982). President and spokesman of the Coalición Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament (1984-1986). Elected autonomous Member of Parliament within the UCD (1980). President of the Grupo Parlamentario Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament (2001-2004). Member of the Cortes for Vizcaya (1989). PP national member of parliament for Álava in the I, IV, VI, VII and VIII parliamentary terms. Minister of the Interior from 1996-2001. MEP since 2004. Head of the Spanish Delegation to the EPP Group. Committees: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Member) Foreign Affairs (Substitute); Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (Substitute).

Jorge NUNEZ FERRER, Associate Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Dr Jorge Núñez Ferrer is an independent economist and policy analyst associated to the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). After his studies in the UK (London School of Economics, Wye College and Imperial College) he established himself as researcher in CEPS in 1998. He has been a consultant and advisor to various member states, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the FAO, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the International Trade Centre of the UN and has published for various think tanks on a wide range of issues. He has also worked in the European Commission’s Economic and Financial Affairs Directorate General between the years 2000-2004 as EU budget specialist and evaluator of EU policies. He is presently working group coordinator and Chairman of the Finance Working Group of the EU’s ‘Smart Cities Stakeholder Platform’. This platform initiated by the European Commission brings together specialist representatives of public banks, industry and cities to discuss and design new financial instruments to accelerate the development of new - and the deployment of existing - technologies for smart cities.

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Günther OETTINGER, European Commissioner responsible for Energy

Born on 15 October 1953 in Stuttgart Member of the European Commission responsible for energy since February 2010 Political career 2005 - 2010 Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Member of the Governing Board and the Federal Executive Committee of the Christian Demo- cratic Union of Germany (CDU Deutschland) since 2005. Member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1984 to 2010. Chairman of the Federal Committee on Media Policy of the CDU from 1999 to 2006 and of the Media Policy Experts’ Group of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany from 2006 to 2010. Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Baden-Württemberg (CDU Baden-Württemberg) from 29 April 2005 to 20 November 2009. Co-Chairman of the Commission on the Modernisation of Financial Relations between the Federal Government and the German States (Federalism Reform II) from March 2007 to March 2009. District Chairman of the CDU in northern Württemberg (CDU Nordwürttemberg) from December 2001 to July 2005. Chairman of the CDU in Ditzingen from 1977 to 1985. Federal State Chairman of ‘Junge Union Baden-Württemberg’ (youth section of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg) from 1983 to 1989. District Councillor in Ludwigsburg from 1979 to 1993. Town Councillor in Ditzingen from 1980 to 1994. Leader of CDU members of Ditzingen Municipal Council from 1982 to 1994. Professional career Chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg parliamentary group in the State Parliament from January 1991 to April 2005. From 1988 to 2005, lawyer and CEO of a firm of auditors and tax consultancy. From 1984 to 1988, lawyer employed by a firm of auditors and tax consultancy. From 1982 to 1984, employed by a firm of auditors and tax consultancy. Member and Presidency (March 2007-February 2009) of ‘Four Motors of Europe’. Education Studied law and economics in Tübingen. First State Law Examination in 1978. Scientific Assistant at Tübingen University. Second State Law Examination in 1982. Primary school in Ditzingen, grammar school and ‘Abitur’ (upper secondary school leaving certificate) in Korntal.

Jan OLBRYCHT MEP, Vice-President and Treasurer of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Responsible for ‘Intercultural Relations’

Dr Jan Olbrycht has been a Doctor of Sociology, lecturer, expert, politician and social activist. Between 1990 and 1998 Mayor of Cieszyn, founder member of the Euroregion Śląsk Cieszyński- Tesinske Slezko. Vice-Chairman of the Association of Polish Cities responsible for contacts with European local and regional government organisations. Vice-Chairman of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions. Chairman of the Polish delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. Between 1998 and 2002 Marshal of Silesian Voivodship. Founder member of the Marshals’ Convent. Member of the Management Board of the Assembly of European Regions. Member of the National Council for Regional Policy. Member of the World Council of the United Cities and Local Governments. Since 2002 lecturer at the University of Bielsko-Biala and University of Economics in Katowice. Participant at numerous international conferences about the role of regions in the EU. Regional policy expert of the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw. Since 2004 Member of the European Parliament on behalf of Civic Platform (EPP-ED). Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Regional Development; European Parliament’s rapporteur on the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), REGI Committee rapporteur on urban transport. Founder member and Vice-Chairman of the EP Intergroup URBANHousing. Member of the Editorial Board of the Parliament Magazine. Winner of the European Prize of Caesar Maximilian for the impact on local and regional policy development in Europe. Winner of the Golden Ribbon of Association of Polish Cities - a merit award for outstanding service for territorial self-government. MEP of the year - winner of the 2007 Parliament Magazine’s MEP. Awards in the field of regional policy. Winner of the Silesian Quality Prize.

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33 Kaisa OLKKONEN, VP Global Government Relations, Nokia

Kaisa Olkkonen, Vice President, Government Relations, is responsible for Nokia Corporation´s regulatory work globally. Before her current global role, she lead Nokia´s EU Representative Office in Brussels, being responsible for Nokia´s regulatory work in Europe and for Nokia´s policy approach to privacy and data protection questions globally. Before moving to the Government relations organization, she worked in several leadership po- sitions in Nokia´s Legal and IP Organization, most recently as the head of the team responsible for providing legal support to Nokia´s Internet Services businesses. Kaisa Olkkonen has more than a twenty year long professional background of working in vari- ous positions in international business enterprises. Her tasks have covered a broad range of legal matters, including technology law and contracting, various forms of co-operation agreements, intellectual property matters, consumer protection and marketing law, product safety and liability, mergers and acquisitions and associated integration. For the past years she has been especially focusing on the broad range of topics around Internet law and content licensing. She has lead various multinational teams of lawyers located around the world, and has besides working at the Nokia head- quarters in Finland also spent a period in Asia, Singapore, heading the regional legal team there, as well as in Brussels. She has also been part of the management team renewing the operational mode of Nokia´s Legal & IP team, from a traditional line organization to Internet way of working model based on coaching and communities. During her Nokia career she has also participated in the business management team work in several Nokia Corporation units. As part of her leadership roles in Nokia Kaisa Olkkonen has been actively involved in Nokia Corporation´s regulatory strategy building and the regulatory work and lobbying efforts globally, her current priority responsibility area.

Csaba ŐRY MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Coordinator of the EP Committee on ‘Employment and Social Affairs’

Csaba Őry born on 12 May 1952 in Budapest. He is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People’s Party. Since 2004 he sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Since 2009 he is member of the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia. Since 2004, he is substitute in the Committee on Development and since 2009 he is substitute in the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) From May 2004 to July 2004 Csaba Őry was member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities. From 2004 to 2009 he was member of the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee and member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In 2009, he was substitute in the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

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Eric PETERS, Advisor at office of political advisors of the President of the European Commission (BEPA)

Born on 25 January 1970, Eric Peters attended the École normale supérieure (Lyon) and the École nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts (ENGREF). He holds a Master’s degree in molecular and cellular biology and is a qualified ingénieur en Chef du Génie rural des Eaux et Forêts (senior agriculture, forestry and water management engineer). From 1996 to 2001, he fulfilled different management posts within the French National Forest Office in France and in La Martinique. From 2001 to 2005 he worked as an administrator within the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade and then served as an adviser to the Cabinet of Christine Lagarde, France’s trade minister, for European and international issues. In May 2007 he was appointed diplomatic adviser to Christine Lagarde, who was then Minister of Agriculture and subsequently became Minister for Economic Affairs, Finance and Employment. In December 2007 he was appointed deputy Head of Cabinet to Peter Mandelson, European Trade Commissioner and then served Baroness Catherine Ashton of Upholland, European Trade Commissioner, as deputy Head of Cabinet. Before joining the BEPA and since mid 2010, he was adviser to the French Permanent representative to EU institutions on international issues and strategic partnerships. He finally joined the Bureau of European Policy Advisers in 2011 as adviser for international and economic issues.

Walid PHARES, Co-Secretary General, Transatlantic Legislative Group on counter Terrorism (TAG)

Walid Phares was born in Lebanon, where he studied at the Lebanese and St Joseph Universities. After earning degrees in law, political science and sociology, he practiced law in Beirut. He then earned a Masters degree in International Law from the Université de Lyon in France and a Ph.D. in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami. He emigrated to the United States in 1990. As of 2008, Phares teaches Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels. In 2008 he also became the Coordinator of the Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism. Phares taught at the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University between 1993 and 2005. He has been a senior lecturer at the Lifelong Learning Society since 1994. His courses include Middle East Politics, Political History, Ethnic and Religious Conflict and International Terrorism. He has given lectures throughout North America and Europe.

Godelieve QUISTHOUDT-ROWOHL MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Chairwoman of the EIN Working Group on ‘Transatlantic Relation’

Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl is a member of the European People’s Party group in the European Parliament. Her constituency is the Lower Saxony. After obtaining a MS in chemistry, she served as a Fellow from 1972 to 1973 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and received her PhD in physical chemistry. From 1974 to 1979, she researched for the Medical University of Hannover before working as Research Fellow (Akademische Rätin) at the University of Hildesheim from 1979 to 1989. Today she teaches pro bono at the University’s Institute of Social Sciences and has been an honorary professor at the Department of Education and Social Sciences since 2009. Quisthoudt-Rowohl is a member of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and serves on its regional board in Lower Saxony as well as on the national party board. She was first elected to the European Parliament in 1989 and has since been continually reelected. She focuses on international trade and international affairs and is an expert on education. Currently she serves on the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade. She was born in Etterbeek (Brussels region, Belgium), is married with four adult children, and lives in Hildesheim.

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35 Herbert REUL MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Head of the German Delegation

Position: Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Head of the German Delegation. Background: Born on 31 August 1962, Langenfield. Member: Conference of delegation Chairs Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Substitute: Committee on Regional Development Delegation to EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

Curriculum Vitae: First state examination (1979); second state examination (1981). Teacher (1981-1985). District Chair, Rheinisch-Bergisch CDU (1990-2007); Secretary-General, North-Rhine Westphalia CDU (1991-2003); mem- ber, North-Rhine Westphalia CDU Regional Executive (since 1987); district chair of the Bergisches Land CDU (since 2004). Member of the EPP bureau (since 2005). Municipal councillor in Leichlingen (1975-1992). Member, North-Rhine Westphalia Regional Assembly (1985-2004). Member of the West German Radio (WDR) Broadcasting Council (2003-2009). Substitute Member of the West German Ra- dio (WDR) Broadcasting Council (since 2009). Chair, CDU/CSU group, European Parliament (since 2012). Chair, Delegations for relations with the Korean Peninsula (since 2012).

Javier REYES MATHEUS, Professor of Constitutional Law, Madrid University

Xavier Reyes Matheus was born in Venezuela and lives in Madrid. He is Secretary-General of the Foundation Dos de Mayo, Nación y Libertad, a Madrid Government institution devoted to the study and promotion of the Spanish civic identity. He is also Academic Director of RANGEL (Redes para la Acción de Nuevos Grupos de Estudios Latinoamericanos), a think tank that studies the relationships between culture and development in Latin America. He is the author of “Más liberal que libertador. Francisco de Miranda y el nacimiento de la democracia moderna en Europa y América”, and, along with Miguel Ángel Cortes, member of the Spanish Parliament for the Partido Popular, “Era cuestión de ser libres. Doscientos años del proyecto liberal en el mundo hispánico”.

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Javier RUPÉREZ, former Executive Director at the United Nations security council, former Ambassador in Washington

Javier Rupérez, a Spanish politician, diplomat and writer, was born in Madrid on April 24, 1941. He holds degrees in Law (1962) and Journalism (1975) from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2006 he has held the rank of full Ambassador within the Spanish Diplomatic Service, which he joined in 1967 and from which he retired in 2011. Already active in politics in his university years as a member of the clandestine Christian Democratic opposition to General Franco, he was one of the founders, in 1962, of the monthly magazine “Cuadernos para el Dialogo”, edited by Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, where he wrote regularly about foreign policy, cinema and theatre. After Franco’s death in 1975 he joined the centrist party Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD) led by Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, of which Rupérez was Secretary for Foreign Relations and member of the Executive Committee. In 1982 he joined the Partido Demócrata Popular (PDP), later called Democracia Cristiana (DC), of which he was elected Vice President and later (1988) President. He was instrumental in facilitating the merging of the PDP/DC party with other center right parties-in particular Alianza Popular led by Manuel Fraga Iribarne- to form the new Partido Popular(PP), led by the future Prime Minister (1996–2004) José María Aznar. He was Vice President of the new party and member of its leadership committee. As a diplomat he has been posted to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1967–1969), Warsaw, Poland (1969–1972), Helsinki, Finland (1972–1973) Geneva, Switzerland (1973–1975) and Chicago, USA (2007-2011). Between 1976 and 1977 he was Chief of Staff to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was Ambassador of Spain to the Madrid session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1980–1982), Ambassador of Spain to NATO (1982–1983) and Ambassador of Spain to the United States of America (2000–2004). He was Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations in New York between 2004 and 2007 as Executive Director of the Counter Terrorism Committee of the Security Council. He was a Member of the Spanish Parliament between 1979 and 2000, in the Spanish Congress of Deputies (1979–1983 and 1986–2000) and as a Senator for the Castille-La Mancha region (1983–1986). As a member of the House he represented the electoral districts of Cuenca (1979–1982, 1986–1989), Madrid (1989–1993) and Ciudad Real (1993-2000.) He was the Foreign and Defense Affairs Parliamentary Spokesman for the UCD, PDP and PP. He was Vice President of the European Union of Christian Democrats between 1986 and 1988 and President of the Christian Democratic International (1998–2000). He presided over the NGO “Humanismo and Democracia”, based in Madrid, from 1989 to 2000. In 1979 he was kidnapped by the Basque terrorism group ETA and held captive for a month (November 11 to December 12). He was Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Spanish House of Representatives (1996–2000) and Chairman of the Defense Committee (2000). He was President of OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly (1996–1998) and President of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly (1998–2000). Between 1979 and 1983 he was active in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He has been and remains a regular contributor to Spain’s national newspapers –“ABC”, “El Mundo”, “El País”, “El Imparcial” - and to a number of leading periodicals –“Revista de Occidente”, “Cuadernos de pensamiento político”, “Cuenta y Razón”, “Revista de Libros” and “Análisis del Instituto Elcano” among others. He has lectured at several Spanish - Complutense in Madrid, Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU in Madrid, Menendez Pelayo in Santander- as well as American universities - NYU and Columbia in New York City; Brigham Young in Provo, Utah; University of Wisconsin at Madison; DePaul and Northwestern in Chicago; Central Connecticut State University in New Britain; and at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

His awards include the Great Cross of Isabel la Católica, Spain; Commander of the Order of Carlos III, Spain; Officer of the Legion of Honour, France; Commander of the Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany; and other decorations from Italy, Belgium, Holy See, Portugal, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Colombia and Panamá. Javier Rupérez is married to Rakela Cerovic. He has two daughters, Laura, by his present wife, and Marta, by the late Geraldine Molenveld, his first wife. Javier Ruperez is at present Member of the Board of Abengoa Bioenergy LLC as well as Member of the Board of several Non For Profit Organizations: Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales (FAES) in Madrid; Círculo Cívico de Opinión, en Madrid, and Fundación para la Libertad, en Bilbao. He lives with his family in Chicago.

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37 Tokia SAÏFI MEP , Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, Vice-Coordinator of the EP Committee on ‘International Trade’

Member Committee on International Trade Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Substitute Committee on Foreign Affairs Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula

Founder and leader of the association Espace Intégration in Lille (1987). Manager of projects for young people of immigrant descent (1988-1989). Coordinator of a project to help create economic micro-projects in urban districts (1998-1999). Member of the European Parliament (1999-2002). Minister for sustainable development in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin (2002-2004). Instigator of the national sustainable development strategy (2003). Introduced national sustainable development week (2003). Member of the EP Committee on International Trade (since 2004). Member of the High-Level Group on Textiles and Clothing (2004). Rapporteur on the future of the textile and clothing sector after the elimination of quotas (2005). Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) (since 2004). European Parliament representative on the administrative council of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA). Vice chair of Jean-Louis Borloo’s Radical Party (since 2008).

José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA, MEP Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

Chair of Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), Conference of Delegation Chairs, Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee. Education Degree and further courses in law at the Complutense University of Madrid. Honorary doctorate from the University of the Americas, Chile. Diplomas in European integration from the Diplomatic School of Madrid and the National Institute of Public Administration. Political career 2000: Chairman of the observation mission for the presidential elections in Colombia (2002) and Chairman of the European Parliament’s observation mission for the presidential elections in Peru 2001: European Parliament representative at the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean (Madrid, 2002) and at the Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean (Guadalajara, Mexico, 2004), and head of the parliamentary delegation to the 12th, 13th and 14th San Jose Ministerial Conferences with the Rio Group (2000, 2001) and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership European Parliament’s rapporteur on the bi-regional strategic association between the EU and Latin America and the association, political dialogue and cooperation agreements between the European Community and Mexico, Chile and the Andean Community Patron of the Fundación Activa, patron of the Hispano-Cuban Foundation, Vice-President of the Juan de la Cosa Foundation In 2006, Salafranca was the chief of a committee of 70 electoral observers from the European Union for the Mexican general election.

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Wolfgang SCHÄUBLE MP, Minister for Finance of Germany

Wolfgang Schäuble was born in Freiburg on 18 September 1942. He is Protestant, married and has four children. He studied law and economics and was awarded the degree of Dr. jur. in 1971. Dr Schäuble has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1972 and served as the Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group from 1981 to 1984. He then held the offices of Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery, before serving as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1989 to 1991. Dr Schäuble has been a member of the CDU National Executive Committee since 1989. He headed the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag from 1991 until 2000; from 1998 until 2000 he was also the national chairman of the CDU. He has been a member of the CDU Presidium since that timeen. He was the Deputy Head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag for Foreign, Security and European Policy from 2002 until he was again appointed Federal Minister of the Interior in 2005. Dr Schäuble has been the Since 2009 he is Federal Minister of Finance since 2009.

György SCHÖPFLIN MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Member of the EP Committee on ‘Foreign Affairs’

Position: Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament; Member of the EP Committee on “Foreign Affairs” Background: Born on 24 November 1939, Budapest Member: Committee on Foreign Affairs Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo.

Substitute: Committee on Constitutional Affairs Subcommittee on Security and Defence Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

Curriculum Vitae: Secondary education certificate, Scotland. University of Glasgow, MA (1960), LLB (1962). College of Europe, Bruges, Certificate (1963). Employed by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London (1963-1967) and the BBC (1967-1976). Teacher (1976- 2004) and Jean Monnet Professor (since 1998), University of London. Various publications: ‘Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992’ (1993), ‘Nations, Identity, Power’ (2000), ‘The Dilemmas of Identity’ (2005).

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39 Veiko SPOLITIS, Lecturer, Riga Stradins University

Lecturer at Riga Stradin University, Parliamentary secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Defence. Veiko Spolītis holds his lectureship at the Faculty of European Studies at the Riga Stradins University and simultaneously has his affiliation as a research fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. He finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Tartu in 1996. A year later graduated with MA degree in European Studies from the Central European University in Budapest. From 1998 - 2000, he directed the Baltic chapter of the non profit Civic Education Project, and in 2003 received DEA degree from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva. In 2005 Veiko Spolitis resumed his lectureship at the RSU, and continued his free lance job at the Estonian Broadcasting Corporation. Since 2006 he continues his dissertation research at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences with the project ’’Governance in the Baltic States from 1999 – 2009 - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania between Europeanized regionalization and continued Post-Soviet political culture’’. Since 2010 he is parliamentary secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Defense.

Branislav STANICEK, Administrator EU Committee of the Regions

Member of the EIN since 2003, Branislav Stanicek is Administrator at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. He studied Geopolitics at Sorbonne University and International Law at Harvard University. His publications for EIN include topics such as social implications of the financial crisis. Previously to his appointment at the Committee of the Regions he worked at the Foundation for Political Innovation in Paris.

Andreas TEGGE, SAP, Vice President EU Government Relations

Dr. Andreas TEGGE is Vice President for EU Government Relations at SAP and heads up SAP’s EU Representation Office in Brussels. In this capacity he is responsible for managing all relations of SAP with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council. He also represents SAP in various European Trade Associations and policy platforms such as EICTA, the European Internet Foundation, the Business Software Alliance, the European Software Association, the Transatlantic Policy Network and the American European Community Association. Within EICTA he is Chairman of the Digital Economy Policy Group and Chairman of the eGovernment Issue Group. Andreas is also a Member of the Executive Board of the European American Business Community and the Executive Committee of the European Software Association. He serves as the rapporteur of the Digital Economy Working Group of the European Ideas Network. In his previous career at Deutsche Telekom (1991-2005), Andreas had held various senior positions: From 2001 until 2005 he served as Senior Vice President for EU Government Affairs, based in Brussels. From 1997 until 2001 Andreas headed Deutsche Telekom’s Government Affairs office in Washington, DC. Andreas Tegge studied at the Universities of Göttingen, Germany and the University of California in San Diego, USA. He received an MA in Social Science and a PhD in Economics at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

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Dr. Ansgar TIETMEYER, Delegate of the Management Board for EU Affairs, European Affairs Office, Deutsche Bank AG

Ansgar Tietmeyer was appointed Delegate of the Management Board for EU Affairs and Head of Deutsche Bank’s EU Representation in Brussels, in 2005. He represents Deutsche Bank towards the EU Institutions and is in this capacity member of different associations. He is a Member of the Board of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum as well as of the Kangaroo Group, both of which are related to the European Parliament. He is also Chairman of the “Council of Economic Advisers“ (CDU Wirtschaftsrat) in Brussels. Before joining Brussels, he held various positions within Deutsche Bank AG, which he joined in 1996 as a Management Trainee. His positions included Financial Analyst, Executive Assistant to the former Chairman as well as Senior Relationship Manager for the Public Sector. Ansgar Tietmeyer also served as Head of Business Management Global Banking Division and Senior Banker at Deutsche Bank AG in Paris. Prior to his professional career at Deutsche Bank, Ansgar Tietmeyer received a PhD in the field of Monetary and Economic Theory. He served as Research Assistant at the Universities of Bonn and Bochum. Ansgar Tietmeyer studied Economics and Social Science at the Universities of Münster, Paris, Bonn and Bochum.

Carole ULMER, Director of Studies, Confrontation Europe

She is a graduate from “Institut d’etude Politiques” in Strasbourg. She has continued her studies in Belgium where she obtained a Masters degree in European Economics Carole Ulmer has started her career by joining the Public Affairs team of Renault in 2006 in Brussels. In 2008, she became a consultant for the European Public Affairs and Risk&CO in 2008. Since 2009; she has been part of the team Confrontations Europe where she holds the position of director of institutional relations community.

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41 Joao VALE de ALMEIDA, Ambassador, Head of Delegation, Delegation of the European Union to the United States

Born in 1957 in Lisbon. Ambassador João Vale de Almeida is the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. In this capacity, he represents European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, under the authority of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. Mr. Vale de Almeida presented his credentials to US President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on August 10, 2010. Prior to his appointment in Washington, he served as the Director General for External Relations at the European Commission, the European Union’s executive body. As the most senior official under the authority of the High Representative/European Commission Vice-President Baroness Ashton, he helped formulate and execute the EU’s foreign policy and played a key role in preparing for the new European External Action Service (EEAS) introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2009 Mr. Vale de Almeida was the Head of Cabinet (Chief of staff and main adviser) for European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. He accompanied President Barroso in all European Council (EU Summit) meetings and ensured coordination with the private offices of Heads of State and Governments in all 27 Member States of the EU. He also acted as President Barroso’s permanent Personal Representative (“Sherpa”) for G8 and G20 Summits and as his Personal Representative for the negotiations on the Treaty of Lisbon. Earlier in his career, Mr. Vale de Almeida held several senior positions in the European Commission and worked closely, in different capacities, with former Commission Presidents Jacques Delors, Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi. Before joining President Barroso’s team in 2004, Mr. Vale de Almeida held a senior position in the Directorate General for Education and Culture and served as Deputy Chief Spokesman of the European Commission. Mr. Vale de Almeida joined the European Commission in 1982 at the European Commission Delegation in Lisbon, after spending seven years as a journalist. He holds a degree in history from the University of Lisbon and has studied journalism and management in the United States, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

Nicolas VÉRON, Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Nicolas Véron is a senior fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels-based international economy think, and a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC. His research focuses on financial systems and financial regulation around the globe, including ongoing developments in the European Union. He has been involved in the creation and development of Bruegel since 2002, and has divided his time since 2009 between the US and Europe. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines, his earlier experience combines policy work as a French civil servant, and corporate finance as a junior investment banker, chief financial officer of a small listed company, and independent strategy consultant. In 2006 he co-authored Smoke & Mirrors, Inc.: Accounting for Capitalism (Cornell University Press), and is also the author of several books in French. He writes a monthly column which is published by leading newspapers and online media including Vox, Caixin, FT Deutschland, the Globe and Mail, Il Sole 24 Ore, Les Echos, Radikal, and RBC Daily.

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Martin WANSLEBEN, Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce

Dr. Martin Wansleben is the current CEO of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) in Berlin, a position he has been holding since November 2001. Prior to being elected CEO of DIHK, he was the chief executive of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA e.V.) in Frankfurt from 1999 until October 2001. He started his career representing business with the VDMA back in 1982 with different positions within the VDMA . Born in Cologne in 1958, Dr. Martin Wansleben studied economics at the universities of Bonn and Cologne from 1977 to 1982.

In 1986, Dr. Wansleben obtained his PhD from the University of Tübingen. He wrote his doctoral thesis on “Productivity- Oriented Wage Policy.” Dr. Wansleben is married and has three sons.

Peter WILLBRANDT, CEO Aurubis AG

Chief Executive Officer Born in 1962. After studying metallurgy at the Technical University Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Peter Willbrandt started at Aurubis (then Norddeutsche Affinerie) in Hamburg in 1988 as Plant Assistant in the primary smelter (RWO). He was appointed Production Manager of the RWO in 1993 and was put in charge of the Metallurgy Division in 2001. Peter Willbrandt was granted power of procuration in 2003. He has been head of the primary copper production sector since 2004 and is responsible for the Group Environmental Protection department. Peter Willbrandt was appointed deputy member of the Aurubis AG Executive Board in 2007 and has been a full member since April 19, 2008. Peter Willbrandt was appointed Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2012.

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Publication date : September 2012

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