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EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service EPRS Book Talks

Who were the architects of the euro? A conversation with Kenneth Dyson and Ivo Maes

Wednesday 10 January 2018 | 13:30-15:00 Library Reading Room, 5th floor, Altiero Spinelli Building European Parliament, Brussels

SPEAKERS

Kenneth DYSON is Visiting Research Professor in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds University, and in Political Economy at the University of Luxembourg. His best-known books include The State Tradition in Western Europe (republished as an ECPR Classic); The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union, with K. Featherstone (Choice Academic Book of the Year; also, chosen by the European Parliament as one of the ‘100 best reads’ on European integration); States, Debt and Power: ‘Saints’ and ‘Sinners’ in European History and Integration (UACES Book of the Year); and Architects of the Euro: Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union, with I. Maes. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Academician of Social Sciences, as well as holding an honorary doctorate from Aston University. He was awarded the German Federal Service Cross for services to Anglo- German relations.

Ivo MAES is Senior Advisor at the Economics and Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium and a Professor, Robert Triffin Chair, at the Université Catholique de Louvain, as well as at ICHEC Brussels Management School. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as a M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. In 2003, he was a member of the Committee for Institutional Reform of the West African Monetary Union. Since May 2015, he serves as the President of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. He has been a visiting professor at Duke University (USA), the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and the Università Roma Tre. He has published extensively on European monetary integration and the history of central banking and monetary theory. Recent books include Alexandre Lamfalussy. The Wise Man of the Euro. A conversation with Christophe Lamfalussy, Ivo Maes and Sabine Péters. (Preface by Jacques de Larosière, LannooCampus, February 2014) and Architects of the Euro. Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union (editor, with Kenneth Dyson, Oxford University Press, August 2016). Anthony TEASDALE is Director General of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), Brussels, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE). He has been a political adviser and civil servant in both London and Brussels. In Whitehall, he served as Special Adviser to Sir Geoffrey Howe during his time as UK Foreign Secretary, and to Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Within the European Parliament, he was head of policy strategy and legislative planning for the EPP Group, deputy chief of staff to the President of the Parliament, and Director for EU Internal Policies, before taking up his current role in 2013. A former Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, Mr Teasdale is a co-author of The Penguin Companion to European Union (2012).

Gaby UMBACH is a member of the Strategy and Coordination Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service in Brussels. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (Florence), Director of “GlobalStat” and Adjunct Professor within the International Master of Environmental Science at the University of Cologne. Since 2015, she serves as Book Review Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Cologne University, where she was Senior Research Associate from 2000 to 2014. In 2009, she received the Stiftung Demokratie Best PhD Thesis Award for outstanding research on democratic decision-making within the EU’s supranational polity. Her current academic work focuses on evidence-based policy-making, measuring as governance technique, global governance by indicators and sustainable development. Among her most recent publications is the Palgrave Handbook on Indicators in Global Governance (co-edited with D.V. Malito and N. Bhuta; forthcoming).