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Opening session Ilmar REEPALU Chairman of the City Executive Board and Mayor of Malmö, Sweden Vice President of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions Member of the CEMR Policy Committee Substitute Member of the Executive Bureau and World Council, UCLG Member of the Committee of the Regions Hilde ZACH Mayor of Innsbruck, Austria, since 2002 Vice President of the Bureau of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Dr. Michael HÄUPL Mayor and Governor of Vienna, Austria President of CEMR since 2004 President of the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns Chairman of the Vienna organisation of the SPÖ, since 1993 Jerker SWANSTEIN President of the Regional Executive Board, Region of Skåne, Sweden Vice President of the Öresundskomiteen Board Member of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities Former Lord Mayor of the Municipality of Helsingborg Thriving or Surviving? - Meeting the international and European challenges Anders KNAPE President, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) Vice President of the Committee of the Regions First Vice President of CEMR, Member of UCLG Executive Bureau and World Council Councillor of Karlstad Municipality, Sweden Beate WEBER Former mayor of Heidelberg, Germany. During her term, Heidelberg was awarded twice the European Prize for Sustainable Cities Honorary member of ZMRN, association dedicated to the optimisation of regional policy for the Rhine-Neckar region Honorary member of ‘Sicheres Heidelberg’, association for urban security Cecilia MALMSTRÖM Minister for European Union Affairs of Sweden Substitute Member of the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Member of Västra Götaland Regional Council (1998-2001) Vice Chair of Göteborg Municipal Immigration Committee (1994-1998) Valéry GISCARD D’ESTAING President of the French Republic (1974-1981). Played a crucial role in the creation of the European Council and creation of the European Monetary System. Former Minister of Economy and Finance, former President of the Commission of Foreign Affairs of the National Assembly, President of CEMR (1997-2004). President of the European Convention Eva SREJBER Vice President, European Investment Bank, with responsibilities for financing operations, i2i programme (implementation of Lisbon strategy) Former First Vice Chairman of the Executive Board and First Deputy Governor, Sverige Riksbank, with responsibility in the asset management area. Crisis manager Robert MANCHIN Managing Director of the Gallup Organisation Europe Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges leading the European Commission Flash Eurobarometer Head of the European Observatory of Human Safety and Security Chairperson of the Europa Nova Foundation Nikitas KAKLAMANIS Mayor of Athens, Greece Executive President of CEMR President of the Central Union of Municipalities and Communities of Greece (KEDKE) Former Member of the European Parliament Former Minister of Health and Social Solidarity Bärbel DIECKMANN Lady Mayor of the City of Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany Executive President of CEMR President of the German Section of CEMR Chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change Håkan BUSKHE Chief Executive Officer and President of E.ON Nordic AB and E.ON Sverige AB, Member of the E.ON Group Executive Committee Member of the Board of Directors of the Transportation company Green Cargo AB M Sc at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Parallel sessions Democracy and Governance, session 1 : Participation and inclusion – Towards a deeper democracy Aina SIMONSEN Director of International Affairs, the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS), (work area : European Policy and EEA Agreement) Former Member of the Oslo City Council Jocelyne BOUGEARD Deputy Mayor of Rennes, France, since 2001, in charge of equality and time management issues Councillor of the Rennes Metropolitan Community Member of the Policy Committee of AFCCRE, the French Section of CEMR Chair of the CEMR commission ‘women local elected representatives’ Rosa AGUILAR RIVERO Mayor of Cordoba, Spain, since 1999 Vice President of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) Member of the governing board of the Organisation of World Heritage Cities Former Member of the Andalusian Parliament Patrizia DINI Secretary of the Tuscan Federation of AICCRE, Italy, since 2001 Vice President of the Regional Council of Tuscany Vice President of the Chamber of Regions, CLRAE, Council of Europe, since 1994 Annemarie JORRITSMA Mayor of Almere, Netherlands President of the Netherlands Association of Municipalities (VNG) Vice-President of CEMR Member of the Executive Bureau of CEMR and of UCLG Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Affairs Former Minister of Transport and Public Works (1994-1998) Richard KEMP Liverpool City Councellor for 28 years (housing, community safety, education, finance) Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Local Government Association, where he is also Deputy Chair and European and International Portfolio holder Jokin BILDARRATZ SORRON Mayor of Tolosa, Spain President of the Association of Basque Municipalities, EUDEL Deputy Chair of the Monitoring Committee of Kutxa, major financial institution in Gipuzkoa Former Member of the Basque Parliament and of the Spanish Senate Carlos DIAS TEIXEIRA Mayor of Loures Municipality, Portugal Chair of the Board of Local Authority Services – Water and Environmental Sanitation for Loures and Odivelas, since 2002 Vice President of the Junta Metropolitana de Lisboa Vice President of both European and Portuguese Forum for Urban Safety Risto RAIVIO Head of Unit, DG Education and Culture, European Commission, in charge of Citizenship policy and the Europe for Citizens programme Administrator of the Committee of the Regions (1996-2002) Researcher at the University of Tampere (1989-1996) Former Chair of the Executive Board of Pirkkala Municipality, Finland Quality services for tomorrow’s Europe, session 1: Demographic change – what impact on our services and workforces? Carl CEDERSCHIÖLD President of the European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises with General Economic Interest (CEEP) High Representative of the Mayor of Stockholm for European and International Relations of the City ; former Mayor of Stockholm Former President, KFS, Swedish employers organisation of local public enterprises Lenia SAMUEL Deputy Director General of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission, since 2005. Responsible for the European Social Fund She coordinated the preparatory work for the Cyprus accession to the EU (labour law, gender equality, non-discrimination, working conditions, health) Ilija BATLJAN Chair of the Executive Committee of the municipality of Nynäshamn, Sweden Former Director and Chief Analyst at the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs Ph.D. in Economics Jolanta BARSKA Mayor of the municipality of Nysa, Poland Former Deputy Mayor Former Director of “Opole”, national foundation for the disabled Carola FISCHBACH-PYTTEL General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unions, EPSU Former Trade Union Secretary, German Public Service and Transport Union (ÖTV), 1979-1986, and Regional secretary, Public Services International (PSI), 1986-1992 Marku JALONEN Director General of the Commission for Local Authority Employers in Finland (CLAE) CLAE pleads for the interests of local and joint authority employers and negotiates the collective agreements of the sector. Democracy and Governance, session 2: Local and regional government facing change Christophe CHAILLOU Local elected representative in the conurbation of Orléans, France CEO of the French Association of CEMR (AFCCRE) Former researcher, DATAR (Delegation for territorial planning and regional action) Head of Cabinet of the Secretaries General, CEMR (1992-2007) Daniel LILJEBERG Political Adviser to the State Secretary of Local Government and Public Administration of Sweden Hanna Birna KRISTJÁNSDÓTTIR Mayor of Reykjavik (Iceland) Chairperson of the Council for City Planning (2006-2008) Former Chairperson of the Minister of Educations’s Committee on Continuing Education Former Member of the Board, Conference “Women and Democracy” Roberto DI GIOVAN PAOLO Secretary General of AICCRE, Italian Association of CEMR, since 2006 Member of CEMR Policy Committee Founding member of ELANET Member of the Italian Senate, since 2008 Journalist Emile EICHER Mayor of the municipality of Munshausen, Luxembourg, from 1994 Vice President of SYVICOL, Association of Luxembourg Towns and Municipalities, since 2007 Full member of the Permanent Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and Delegate in the Chamber of Local Authorities, from 2004 Mårten JOHANSSON Mayor of the new municipality of Raseborg, Finland, (Raseborg being the result of the consolidation of three former municipalities) Twenty years experience of central administration in Finland, as senior councillor and as negotiator of EU regional policy reforms. Responsible for twinning cooperation projects with Baltic countries. Prof. (em.) Dr. Hellmut WOLLMANN Professor of public policy and public administration at Humboldt University, Berlin. Research and publications on comparative (local) government. Recent work: “Comparing local government reforms in Great Britain, Sweden, France and Germany” Quality services for tomorrow’s Europe, session 2: Focus on quality – improving