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Hannes Swoboda is leading the Parliamentary Bruno Group of Socialists & Democrats (S&D Group) in Liebhaberg is the the since January 2012. After President of the having held various political posts at regional and Scientific Council national level in Austria, he became a member of of the Foundation the European Parliament in 1996. Mr Swoboda has for European a long experience as an MEP, having also Progressive previously served as the leader of the Austrian Studies. A former SPÖ delegation and then as Vice-President of the adviser to Jacques S&G Group for Parliamentary Affairs. He is a committed co-founder of Delors, he is the President of the the Progressive Economy initiative and a leading political voice "Gauche Réformiste Européenne" against the current strict austerity agenda at European level. and the Director General of CERRE (Centre on Regulation in Europe). He is also professor at the Solvay is the former Brussels School of Economic and President of the Party of European Management. Socialists (2004-2011) and a former Prime Minister of (1993-2001). He has also served as a member of the European is the French Parliament from 2004 to 2009. Poul Nyrup Minister of Finance and Economic Rasmussen has prominently pushed for Affairs since May tighter European regulation on financial 2012. He has service activities already before the crisis, a rich experience notably on hedge funds. Under his leadership, the PES developed in national and into a pro-active political party at European level, notably with a European politics, strong focus on economic and social policy matters. having been a member of the European is a member of the European Parliament - and Parliament and the S&D Group coordinator on one of its Vice-Presidents - and economic and monetary affairs since January 2012. European affairs minister to Lionel Mrs Ferreira, a Portuguese member, is one of the Jospin (1997-2002). leading progressive parliamentary voices on EMU and macroeconomic policy, having notably been EP rapporteur for part of the six-pack and two-pack Marco Buti is the Director General of legislation, as well as on the Commission's 2013 the Commission's powerful DG for Annual Growth Survey. Mrs Ferreira holds a PhD in economic and economics, and a position as lecturer in economics at the Oporto financial affairs University in Portugal. She is a former Minister for the Environment since December (1995-1999) and for Planning (1999-2002). 2008. Mr Buti has also been a Jòzef Niemiec is a Deputy Secretary General of the visiting European Trade Union Confederation since 2011. A professor to former member of the National Commission of various Solidarnosc in Poland, Mr Niemiec has a longstanding universities, trade union background. At ETUC, he started his including ULB, Brussels and the carrier as a Confederal secretary in 2003. Florence European Institute, and has published extensively on EMU, macroeconomic policies, welfare state reforms and unemployment. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - PANELS

Professor James Kenneth Galbraith works and teaches at Austin University, Texas. He is a leading international academic and the author of several Professor Dr. Gustav Horn books and numerous articles. His latest book is is, since 2005, the Director entitled ’Inequality and of the German Instability: A Study of the macroeconomic institute World Economy Just IMK, located in Düsseldorf Before the Great and part of the Hans- Crisis’ (Oxford University Böckler Foundation. Press, 2012). His re-search Before this position, he notably focuses on the held various posts at the issues of inequality, Berlin-based economic macroeconomic policy and institute DIW. Prof. Dr. comparative economic and Horn is also a member of development policy. He the German SPD chairman's Economic Council. is also a member of the executive committee of the He is one of the main co-authors of the "iAGS", World Economics Association created in 2011. joinlty with economists from OFCE and ECLM.

Professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi is a leading voice Professor Pier Carlo Padoan among progressive economists and co-author of is, since June 2007, the several major books, notably with several Nobel Deputy Secretary General Prize winning economists and, since 2009, the chief including Joseph Stiglitz, economist of the OECD in Amartya Sen and Christopher Paris. He is also a former Pissarides, as well as of Director of the progressive numerous academic articles on think tank Italianieuropei. He inflation and unemployment has experience at the IMF, as theories, open-economy theory, the Italian Director, and having been in charge of macroeconomic theory and European Coordination at the Fund. Mr. Padoan policy, and European has a degree in Economics from the University of integration. Professor Fitoussi Rome and has held various academic positions in has been President of the Paris-based economic Italian and foreign universities, including at the institute OFCE from 1990 to 2010. He is Professor University of Rome, College of Europe (Bruges Emeritus of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Warsaw), Université Libre de Bruxelles, (Sciences-Po), Paris. He currently still holds a University of Urbino, Universidad de la Plata, and position as research director at the OFCE. He has University of Tokyo. He has published widely in received several important prizes, academic and international academic journals and is the author governmental distinctions in France and and editor of several books. internationally. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - PANELS

Stephen Hughes is a Vice-President of the S&D Group in the European Parliament, in charge of economic and social policy. A highly experienced MEP, he has been chairman of the EP's employment and social affairs committee and the S&D coordinator for the same committee until 2009, following which he became a Group Vice- President. He is a member of the UK .

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba is the Secretary is the Luxemburgish General of the Spanish PSOE party and Minister for Labour, Employment and leader of the opposition Migration since 2009. He previously in the Spanish served as Minister Delegate for Parliament since Foreign Affairs and Immigration February 2012. Mr (2004-2009). He holds a doctorat in Rubalcaba has economics and a degree from IEP. Mr extensive ministerial Schmit has experience, having extensive served as Minister for experience of Education (1992-93), European Minister of the politics, having President's Office and notably served Relationships with as Luxemburg's Congress until 1996, and Minister for the ambassador Interior (2006-2011). In addition, he was First and permanent Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2011. representative from 19998 to 2004. He also chairs the ministerial coordination within the Party of European Socialists on employment and social affairs.

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Jacki Davis, also journalist, Véronique Adriana Cerretelli, journalist, has extensive Auger, Chief Il Sole 24 Ore. Expert in experience as a Editor, France international moderator for TV. She politics and European and presents in EMU international weekly a TV related conferences. programme matters. entitled ‘Avenue de l’Europe’, on France 3. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - WORKSHOPS

Liem Hoang Ngoc, MEP, France

James Galbraith, Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Guntram Wolff, Deputy Director, Bruegel Institute

Sergio Cofferati, MEP, Italy

Patrick Itschert, Deputy Secretary General, European Trade Confederation (ETUC)

Giuseppe Porcaro, Secretary General, European Youth Forum

Sergio Gasparinni, Vice-Chair of the Macro-economic Task Force, European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public Services (CEEP)

Udo Bullmann, MEP, Chair of the SPD Delegation, Germany

Xavier Timbeau, Director, OFCE, Paris

Dr. Jo Michell, AUGUR project, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Andrew Watt, Deputy Director, IMK, Düsseldorf