The Central European University’s Department of Public Policy invites you to the

2010 GUEST LECTURES of the Jean Monnet Module on European Integration

Chair: Professor Uwe Puetter

“Heavy storms, uncharted waters, safe havens: The financial crisis and ECB policy” by

Gabriel Glöckler, Deputy Head, EU and International Fora Division, European Central Bank, Frankfurt

Date: Thursday, February 25 from 17.20 -19.00 Venue: Monument Building, Gellner Room (103)

“Implementing EU Policies: Challenges for the Member States and the European Commission” by

Professor Gerda Falkner, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna

Date: Thursday, March 4 from 15.30-17.10 Venue: Monument Building, Gellner Room (103)

“Ethics, Reform and Lobbying in the European Commission” by

Professor Michelle Cini, Department of Politics, University of Bristol

Date: Friday, March 5 from 13.30-15.10 Venue: Monument Building, Gellner Room (103)

“Executive power of the ” by

Professor Deidre Curtin, Faculty of Law,

Date: Thursday, March 11 from 17.20-19.00 Venue: Monument Building 203

“European crisis management; Responses by the European Council and the Council to the economic and financial crisis” by Dr Carsten Pillath, Director General, Economic and Social Affairs Directorate, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Brussels

Date: Tuesday, March 30 from 17.20-19.00 Venue: Monument Building, Gellner Room (103) Gabriel Glöckler Gabriel Glöckler holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University (St. Edmund Hall) and an MA in European Studies from the , Bruges. He joined the European Central Bank (ECB) in January 1999. From 2003 until 2009 he was Counsellor to the ECB Vice-President and the Vice-President’s Chief of Staff. He is now Deputy Head of the EU Institutions Division in the Directorate General International and European Relations.

Professor Gerda Falkner Gerda Falkner studied political science, economics and journalism at the University of Vienna (M.A.1987). She holds a post-graduate degree in European integration from the College of Europe, Bruges/Belgium (M.E.S. 1991). She was research group director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne from 1998 to 2003. From 2002 to August 2008 she was Head of the Department of Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. Since 2008 she serves as Director of theInstitute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is Professor at the Department of Government, University of Vienna.

Professor Michelle Cini Michelle Cini is Professor of European Politics and Head of Department at the Department of Politics, University of Bristol. She originally had joined the University of Bristol as a Jean Monnet Lecturer in 1991. She also was an Executive Officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and hold academic visiting positions at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Grenoble, 1995; at the New York Consortium for European Studies (Columbia and NYU), 1998; at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Lille, 2002; at the College of Europe, Bruges, 2003-04 as well as at Nanjing University, China, 2007. She was also a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, 1999-2000.

Professor Deirdre Curtin Deirdre Curtin is Professor of European Law of the University of Amsterdam and director of the newly established Amsterdam Centre of European Law and Governance (ACELG). She also holds part-time the Chair in European and International Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance of the University of Utrecht. She is an elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW, since 2003) where she is a member of the management team of the law section. In 2007 she was awarded the top-level Spinoza prize by the Dutch Scientific Organization (NWO) for her research in the field of European law and governance, the only time it has been awarded to a lawyer. In 2008 she was conferred with an honorary doctorate in law by University College .

Dr Carsten Pillath Carsten Pillath holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne. He has worked in various positions at the German Federal Ministry of Finance from 1991 to 1998 and again from 2003 to 2008. During this time he was as an adviser to the German Executive Director at the IMF in Washington and served as Head of the Directorate General for Europe. From 1999 until 2003 he was Head of Group for Foreign Trade Policy and the G8 Sherpa staff, as well as Head of Group for Coordination of European Policy at the German Federal Chancellery. Since September 2008 he is Director General of the Economic and Social Affairs Directorate of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels.