Evelyne Gebhardt Studied Linguistics, Politics and Economics in France and Germany and Worked As a Freelance Translator
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Evelyne Gebhardt studied linguistics, politics and economics in France and Germany and worked as a freelance translator. She has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1994 and a Vice-president since 2017. At present, she is a member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee; She was inter alia rapporteur for the Services Directive, the Digital Single Market Act and is currently IMCO Rapporteur for the proposal on Contract Law on Digital Content. Very involved locally, Nathalie Griesbeck has occupied several functions in the city council of Metz and in the departmental council of Moselle for over 30 years in the areas of economics, social and cultural affairs. She obtained a Master of Law at the University of Metz and two post-graduate degrees at the University of Nancy as valedictorian. She continues to be a lecturer in public law at the University of Metz. First elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2004 for the French “Grand Est” Constituency, she joined the Civil liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) in 2009. On September 2017, she was elected Chair of the new special parliamentary committee on Terrorism. She is a substitute member in the Employment and Social affairs Committee (EMPL) and takes part in the Delegations to the ACP-EU and the Latin America-Euro Joint Parliamentary Assemblies. She is also vice-Chair of the Children’s rights intergroup. She is Secretary General of the Robert Schuman European Center in Scy-Chazelles. Daniel Schönpflug is a Professor of History at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2015, he has also been Academic Coordinator of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). His research focuses on modern-day revolutions, the history of European royal marriages, and the origins of terrorism. Aside from his academic activities, he devotes time to bringing academic knowledge to a wider audience, for example as a documentary filmmaker. His most recent work, ‘Kometenjahre. 1918. Die Welt im Aufbruch’ (Comet Years. 1918. A World on the Cusp), published in 2017, looks at the period immediately before and after the end of the First World War as a utopian time, when the collapse of the Old World led to the emergence of a plethora of ideas about the future, many of which continue to shape the world today. Lise Chasteloux was born in 1980 in Épinal. A former French national equestrian acrobatics champion, her first novel, ‘Un destin russe’ (A Russian Destiny), was published by Éditions Gallimard in 2016. It is loosely based on the life of her great-grandfather, a member of the Russian expeditionary corps sent to France in 1916. Also in 2016, her account of her life as a sportswoman, ‘Petite cosaque, le manège de la compétition’ (Little Cossack, the competition arena), was published by Les Belles Lettres. Étienne Bassot has been the Director of the Members’ Research Service in the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (DG EPRS) since 2014. Previously, he was Head of Unit of the Policy Department of the Directorate-General for External Policies. The Members’ Research Service responds to MEPs’ specific requests for information, analysis and research. It also produces briefing notes and other analysis and research on specific policies and issues for groups of MEPs. At Parliament, Mr Bassot worked in the secretariats of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Development. From 2000 to 2002, he was also an adviser to the then President of the European Parliament, Nicole Fontaine. Philippe Perchoc is a policy analyst in the European Parliamentary Research Service, where he covers topics relating to enlargement, neighbourhood policies and religious issues. Having studied history at the Sorbonne and King’s College London, he did postgraduate work on history and political science at UCLouvain and at SciencesPo in Paris, where he was awarded a PhD in 2010. He is also a visiting lecturer at the College of Europe in Bruges and the University of Louvain. He regularly writes for the EPRS on the history of European integration. His book ‘European Correspondence’ won the 2015 ‘Pour comprendre l’Europe’ (Understanding Europe) Prize. .