PUBLIC HEARING EU Own Resources and Fiscal Policy harmonisation: untapped potential for synergies?

SPEAKERS

László ANDOR László Andor is Secretary General of FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies). He was EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (2010-2014). He is Senior Fellow at Hertie School of Governance (Berlin) and a visiting professor at ULB (Brussels) as well as Sciences Po (Paris). Between 1991 and 2005, Andor taught political science and economic policy in Budapest. He has authored, edited or co-edited a dozen books in Hungary, including on economic and political history, comparative economics and globalization. Andor has also taught at Rutgers (State University of New Jersey, USA) as Visiting Fulbright Professor (1997-8) and worked as an adviser for the World Bank on SAPRI (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative). He also worked as an adviser for the Budget Committee of the Hungarian Parliament (1998-9) and the Prime Minister’s Office (2002-5). He was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at Sofia University of National and World Economy and the Legion of Honour by the French President in 2014.

Miguel Poiares MADURO Miguel Poiares Maduro is Director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute. Before, he was Professor at the Law Department and at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute where he was the Founding Director of the Global Governance Programme (from 2010 to 2013). From 2013 to 2015 he was Minister Deputy to the Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development in . Until 2009 he was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice. From June 2016 to May 2017 he was Chairman of the new Governance and Review Committee of FIFA. He was a member of the EU High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism. He is a Doctor of Laws by the European University Institute (Florence). He co-edited with Joseph Weiler the Special Book Review Issue of the European Law Journal. He is the author of We the Court - The European Court of Justice and the European Economic Constitution (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 1997) He has been honoured by the President of the Portuguese Republic with the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada for literary, scientific and artistic merit. In 2010 he was awarded the Gulbenkian Science Prize.

Emmanuelle MAINCENT Emmanuelle Maincent is head of unit in DG Budget, in charge of the revenue policy and the control of the VAT based own resource. She joined the in October 2003 and worked in various Directorate Generals (Enterprise, Transport and Energy, Economic and Financial Affairs). Prior to the Commission, she worked in several think tanks, among which CREDOC, Research Centre for the Study and Monitoring of Living Standards. She holds a Ph.D. in applied economics (IEP Paris, 1994) and a DES in European Economics (ULB Brussels, 2002).

Peter PALUŠ Peter Paluš serves as the Head of the Financial Unit at the Permanent Representation of Slovakia to the European Union and a Member of the EFC and EWG. His portfolio includes Financial Services and Financial Stability, Economic Affairs, Taxation, Customs, EU Budget including Multiannual Financial Framework, Cohesion Funds and State Aid Coordination. He is an acting Deputy for the Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic at the Eurogroup meetings. Mr. Paluš also represents Slovakia at the Board of Directors of the ESM and the EFSF. He was elected a member of the ESM Board Risk Committee and the EFSF Audit Committee. Mr. Paluš is also the Vice President of the Centre for Financial Innovation at the Slovak Ministry of Finance, where he primarily focuses on innovations in FinTech. He is a frequent public speaker and an author of several publications focused primarily on the area of financial services.

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