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CERIS - ULB Open Days Diplomatic by Zoom Videoconference School of Brussels Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB OPEN DAYS – February 5th to March 6th, 2021 Registration ([email protected]) / phone: +32(0)2 537 40 75 www.ceris.be Executive Master in International Politics (MIP) Executive Master in Governance & Development Policy (MADEV) 05/02 18:00-19:30 The rise and fall of Donald Trump MIP Michael Cox (London School of Economics & Political Science- LSE, Director of IDEAS) 06/02 09:30-12:30 Prospects for the Biden Presidency MIP Michael Cox (London School of Economics & Political Science –LSE, Director of IDEAS) Professor Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE. In addition, he is currently working on a history of LSE. He helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre in 2004 and expand it into IDEAS, a foreign policy centre based at the LSE, which aims to bring the academic, and policy words together, in 2008. In a 2014 nd international survey, IDEAS was ranked 2 in the world amongst the best university affiliated Think Tanks. Since joining the LSE he has also acted as Academic Director of both the LSE- PKU Summer School and of the Executive Summer School. In 2011, he launched a new Executive Masters in Global Strategy designed to teach senior foreign policy practitioners. 1 CERIS asbl / Phone : +32(0)2 537 40 75 / Email : [email protected] / Web Site : www.ceris.be Open Days by Zoom Videoconference 06/02 14:00-18:00 The climate change and the global politics. MIP-MADEV Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (UCLouvain, Former Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-IPCC) Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele is a Belgian academic climatologist. He is a professor of Environmental Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). He is specialized in modelling climate and the climate effects of human activities, and has recently focused his research on climate change at the regional scale (modelling and impacts) and on integrated assessment of climate change. He chairs the Energy & Climate Working Group of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development. In 2008, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele has been elected Vice-chair of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared with Al Gore the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), after participating in its work since 1995. In that capacity, he led a reflection group on the future of IPCC, which proposed a number of reforms that were adopted by the IPCC Plenary in 2009. In 2009, he was elected a Member of the Belgian Royal Academy. He has participated to a number of United Nations conferences on climate issues as scientific advisor and was instrumental in creating in 2002 the UN work programme on climate communication and education. Among other prizes, he received in 2006 the « Energy and environment award » from the International Polar Foundation, the “Francqui Chair” from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2007-2008, and was made Honorary Member of the Club of Rome EU Chapter in 2010. In 2011, he received the « Francqui Chair » form HUBrussel, co-organized the first Stephen Schneider Symposium, was made honorary citizen of the city of Dinant (Belgium), and received the highest distinction awarded by the Government of the Walloon Region: "Commandeur du Mérite wallon”. 12/02 18:00-19:30 & 13/02 9:30-12:30 NATO and the Future of Transatlantic Relations MIP Jamie Shea (University of Exeter, Former Senior NATO Official) Jamie Shea is professor of strategy and security at the University of Exeter since September 2018. From 1980 to 2018, Mr. Jamie Shea was a member of the International Staff of NATO in Brussels. His last position was deputy assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges where he was responsible for taking NATO’s work forward in areas such as non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyber defense, counterterrorism, and energy security. His previous positions with NATO include Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division, Director of Information and Press, Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press, Deputy Head and Senior Planning Officer in the Policy Planning and Multilateral Affairs Section of the Political Directorate as well as Assistant to the Secretary General of NATO for Special Projects. Mr. Jamie Shea is a regular lecturer and conference speaker on NATO and European security affairs and on public diplomacy, political communication and many other areas of contemporary international relations. He holds a D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University (Lincoln College), 1981. Amongst his many associations and memberships, Jamie Shea is a member of the Advisory Board, Security and Defence Programmes at Chatham House, a member of the Policy Council at the World Economic Forum in Geneva and founder and member of the Board, Security and Defence Agenda Brussels and Friends of Europe. He serves on the Board of the Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, and the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris. 2 CERIS asbl / Phone : +32(0)2 537 40 75 / Email : [email protected] / Web Site : www.ceris.be Open Days by Zoom Videoconference 13/02 14:00-18:00 60 Years of European development policy: an essential instrument of EU foreign Policy MADEV Mr. Stefano Manservisi (Former Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development - DEVCO) Stefano Manservisi is Chair of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) and Special Advisor to Commissioner Gentiloni. He has occupied different functions in the European Union: Head of Cabinet to Monti (Commissioner for Internal Market, taxation, customs and competition), to Prodi (President of the European Commission) and lastly to Mogherini (High Representative for Foreign Policy/Vice President of the Commission). Director- General for Development and political relations with Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, then Director-General for Migration and Home affairs and finally EU Ambassador to Turkey. Manservisi last position has been Director-General for International Cooperation and Development. He is Scientific Advisor at IAI and distinguished Fellow in various think tanks. He also lectures in universities (Sciences-Po/Paris School for International Affairs, European University Institute) and advises several UN specialised agencies. 19/02 18:00-19:30 Europe at the Crossroads: current challenges and future trends Jacques Rupnik (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris-IEP, CERI, Harvard University) MIP 20/02 09:30-12:30 From EU enlargement to unstable neighbourhoods: Balkans, East and South Jacques Rupnik (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris-IEP, CERI, Harvard University) MIP Jacques Rupnik is currently Research Professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Since he joined CERI, Sciences Po in 1982, he has been writing and lecturing about East and Central European history and politics and European integration. He was advisor to president Vaclav Havel in the 1990’s. Executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996) and drafter of its report Unfinished Peace (1996); member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000) and co-drafter of The Kosovo Report (Oxford UP, 2000). Among the various positions held: advisor to the European Commission (2007– 2010). Member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague 2010-2017. Member of the board of directors of the European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). He has been a visiting Professor in several European universities and at Harvard. J.Rupnik’s publications include The Other Europe (1989), Le Printemps tchécoslovaque 1968 (1999), and, more recently, 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the new international system, with an introduction by V.Havel, London, Routledge, (2014), Géopolitique de la démocratization, l’Europe et ses voisinages, Presses de Sciences Po (2014), Europe at the Crossraods: Democracy, neighbourhoods, migrations, published by the Vaclav Havel Library, Prague, 2018, Senzo il muro, l’Europa et il mondo dopo il crollo del communismo, Rome, Donzelli, 2019. 3 CERIS asbl / Phone : +32(0)2 537 40 75 / Email : [email protected] / Web Site : www.ceris.be Open Days by Zoom Videoconference 20/02 14:00-18:00 The European Green Deal: internal and external perspectives MADEV Christian Egenhofer (Senior Research Associate, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence & Associate Senior Research Fellow, CEPS, Brussels, Visiting Professor, SciencesPo, Paris and College of Europe, Natolin/Poland) Prior to joining the School for Transnational Governance, Christian Egenhofer has been (Founding) Director of Energy Climate House, the research division on energy, climate change and resources since 2015 and since 2000 a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at SciencesPo and the College of Europe. Other prior university assignments included the Free University of Brussels (U.L.B), Guido Carli LUISS University, Rome, MGIMO, Moscow and the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland/UK where he also held a part- time position as Senior Research Fellow from 1998 to 2005. Preceding his position at CEPS, he was Director & Owner of IMPACT SPRL, a public affairs consulting group and for a brief spell worked at the Ministry for the Interior of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). He has published 8 books and written more than 160 articles, book chapters or policy reports. Selected articles and book chapters have been translated into 9 languages. He holds a Master in Business Administration of the University of Konstanz, Germany, and LLM (Public Law Degree, A-grade; qualifying exam for civil service).