1 Bernaerts I. As Cabinet Member, Inge Bernaerts Advises Marianne

Bernaerts I.

As Cabinet member, Inge Bernaerts advises Marianne Thyssen, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, on a broad range of topics, such as free movement and posting of workers, social security coordination, European labour law and occupational safety and health.

Inge holds a law degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1995, summa cum laude) and a complementary degree in European Law from the Universität des Saarlandes (1995, magna cum laude). From 1996 to 2003, she was a member of the Brussels bar where she practiced European competition law consecutively with Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, two leading international law firms. In parallel she was teaching seminars on European law as Assistant to Professor Koen Lenaerts at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2003, Inge joined the European Commission. She worked for 7 years in the Competition Directorate General, before being appointed Head of Unit in the Energy Directorate General, where she was in charge of the development of the internal market for electricity and gas and the promotion of security of supply.

Inge Bernaerts has published and lectured extensively on a broad range of European law and policy issues. She is Belgian and speaks Dutch, English, French and German.

Bollen A.

Anouk Bollen is appointed as Professor in Cross border Pension Tax Law at Maastricht University and is affiliated at the Department of Tax Law since 1996. She graduated in Tax Law at the same university (1991-1995) and defended her PhD in 2004. She is Deputy Judge at Rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant and member of the Disciplinary Board of the NOAB. She is Director of Double Degree Master Programme in International and European Tax Law. Since 2015 she is director of ITEM / Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility.

Bovens T.

Since October 2011, Theo Bovens has been Governor of the province of Limburg. Previously, from 2003 till 2011, he was vice president, respectively president of the Open University. From 2006 till 2012, he also held the honorary membership and membership of the executive committee of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER). From 1993 till 2003, he was alderman for Economic Affairs of the city of Maastricht. Between 1989 and 1994, he held a managerial position at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. Theo Bovens studied History at Radboud University in Nijmegen and is member of the Christian Democrats.

Cörvers F.

Professor Frank Cörvers is leader of the Human Capital in the Region research programme at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). He combines this position with the endowed chairs for Demographic Transition, human capital and employment at Maastricht University and for the Teacher Labour Market at Tilburg University. His most recent publications address issues such as the quality and relevance of secondary vocational education, migration and brain drain, regional labour markets, and the quantity and quality aspects of the teacher labour market. He is member of the scientific board of ITEM.

See for further information: http://roa.sbe.maastrichtuniversity.nl/?page_id=689

Lambertz K.H.

Karl-Heinz Lambertz studied law in Belgium and Germany. He was Minister as of 1990 and later Minister-President of the German-speaking Community of Belgium from 1999 to 2014. Until September 2016, he held the function of President of the Parliament. Currently, Mr. Lambertz represents the German-speaking Community in the Belgian Senate. In this quarter of a century, Karl-Heinz Lambertz has become a renowned expert for cross-border cooperation that constitutes a crucial topic for the smallest Belgian entity on both a bilateral level as well as in the framework of Euregio Meuse-Rhine and the Saarlorlux Euroregion.

On the European level, Karl-Heinz Lambertz is member of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) since 2001 and holds the positon of its First Vice-President since February 2015. He is member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe since 2000 and its Vice-President since October 2016. In 2010, he was elected President of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR).

Monfret A.

Agnès MONFRET was born in Rouen in 1970. Married to a French man, she and her husband settled in Flanders in 1994 and brought up their 4 daughters in a Franco-Dutch- speaking environment.

With her passion for the European project, she embarked upon a long multidisciplinary training from the French Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne (English LLM and aggregation) to King's College London (LLB), Sciences Po Paris and the Europa College in Brugge (LLM).

After a few years teaching European Law at the Sorbonne, she joined the Commission in 2000. She served at the Directorate General for Budget as legal officer, then internal control coordinator, before taking charge of Commission Human Resources and decentralised administrative expenditure

as Head of unit between 2007 and 2013, when she took over the Interreg Cross-Border Cooperation unit in the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy.

Peyrony J.

Born in 1961, at present Director General of Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT), a non-profit organization helping local authorities to develop cross border cooperation projects. Before, has been working in the European Commission, DG REGIO, in the Unit "Urban development, Territorial cohesion"; in DATAR (French national agency for spatial planning and regional development) where he was in charge of European territorial development and cooperation (ESPON, North West Europe and Alpine Space Interreg programmes), and of policy design of the EU cohesion policy; in the regional agency for spatial planning in Paris region, where he was head of the Observation Unit, and he took part in the writing of the regional plan; in public/private partnerships for urban development in Paris agglomeration and in La Reunion island (French outermost region), where he was project manager.

Prokisch R.

Prof. Dr. Rainer Prokisch studied law at the University of Munich, Germany. After some years in practice in Germany and abroad, he became assistant lecturer for public law and tax law at the chair of Prof. Dr. Klaus Vogel at the University of Munich where he finished his doctoral thesis in 1992. The underlying research was focussed on the issue of the powers of the German Constitutional Court in respect of the provisions of the German financial constitution. After that he became deputy head of the Research Institute for International and Foreign Tax Law and was responsible for the project of a commentary on Double Taxation Treaties in German und English language. During these years he was, inter alia, General Reporter on behalf of the International Fiscal Association and consultant of the OECD, Paris. In 1998, he joined the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam, where he was responsible for the department Europe I and later for the International Tax Academy. Since 1 April 2000 he is full time professor for International and European tax law at the University of Maastricht.

Reverda N.

Nol Reverda (1952) is scientific director of Neimed and in that capacity he is also honorary lecturer of demographic decline at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. He furthermore has been lecturer of social inclusion since 2005, also at the Faculty of Social Studies and Education of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. He studied sociology at Tilburg University and obtained a degree in general sociology and social philosophy. He took his doctoral

degree at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the field of regionalisation and globalisation.

Nol Reverda focuses on research into and knowledge development about the influence of population decline and population ageing on the political, economic and socio-cultural quality of life. He connects issues of social inclusion to topics originating from demographic transitions; always keeping his focus on the search for the future quality of life. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Intervention and has written many publications in the field of social inclusion, community development, social capital and demographic decline.

Schneider H.

Hildegard Schneider is Professor of European Union Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. She studied Law, Political Science and Art History in Freiburg (Breisgau), London, Paris and Münster. She completed her legal education in Germany with the '1.Staatsexamen' in 1980 and the '2. Staatsexamen' in 1986 with distinction. She obtained her Ph.D. defending a thesis entitled 'Die Anerkennung von Diplomen in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft' at Maastricht University. Since 1986, she has worked at Maastricht University, teaching various courses in the area of European Union law, Migration law as well as Art and Cultural Property law. Her research covers the same areas. She has been a Jean Monnet chair holder in European Migration Law. Since September 2011 she serves as Dean of the Law Faculty and is a member of the Management Team of Maastricht University.

In her research she is particularly interested in the free movement of natural and legal persons and migration issues, the recognition of diplomas and EU policies in the field of education and culture, art law and comparative law. Hildegard is involved in several EU projects including at this moment the FP 7 project EURA-NET and the coordination of the Marie Curie ITN Research network TRANSMIC. Furthermore she is a member of the scientific board of the Maastricht Centre of Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE), the Institute of Transnational and Euregional crossborder cooperation and Mobility (ITEM), the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL), the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM) and the Maastricht Centre for Art and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH). Furthermore she is a member of several international research groups, including the Research-school IUS COMMUNE.

Soares A.

Dr Anthony Soares is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies, based in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Ever since its creation in 1999, the Centre has supported, advocated and promoted cross-border cooperation on the island of Ireland as a contribution to the peace and reconciliation process there. The Centre also supports cooperation between the island of Ireland and Great Britain, as well as being

involved in cross-border cooperation efforts with its European partners through the TEIN network. Anthony’s principal responsibilities are to lead the Centre in its research activities and on policy.

Thevenet A.

Ms Anne Thevenet works at the Euro-Institut, Institute for training and counselling on cross-border issues, since 2005. She holds a Diploma in political sciences, and Masters in European studies and in management. As Deputy Director, she is in charge of human resources, contacts with funders and the development of new strategies, as well as the design and delivery of training courses in different areas of cross-border interest. She also lectures at universities in the Upper Rhine region. Since 2010 she has coordinated the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN), which brings together 14 centres, universities and institutes of cross-border cooperation in 8 different European border regions.

Unfried M.

Martin Unfried (1966) has been working in the Netherlands at the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA) since 1997 and for a couple of years, he has also started working as ‘ontgrenzer’ for the province of Limburg and the Dutch ministry of internal affairs. As of January 2016, he is also attached to ITEM as ‘ontgrenzer’. In 2013, he wrote the report “Van stilstand naar Verandering. Praktische Oplossingen voor verbetering van de arbeidsmobiliteit in de grensregio”. Recommendations from this report are today part of policy recommendations from several governmental institutions. As ‘ontgrenzer’, he is involved in the realisation of among other things the ‘Grensinformatiepunt Maastricht (GIP)’ for the situation of the Netherlands-Flanders that started in spring 2016, following the example of GIP Aachen-Eurode and the realisation of cross border employment service teams. Martin is in particular working on ITEM’s annual cross border impact assessment and the theoretical support of the cross border employment service teams.

Vaeßen C.

NAME Prof. Dr.Christiane Vaeßen DATE OF BIRTH 04/08/1957 in Dortmund NATIONALITY German TELEPHONE 49 (0) 02415682793 MOBILE 49 (0) 1716983611 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION – WORK EXPERIENCE 1977-1986 Chemistry RWTH Aachen, Dipl. Chem. 1988 PhD Studies RWTH Aachen, Dr.rer.nat 1989-1993 Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf, Department Chemical Engineering 1993-2009 Professor for Technical Chemistry, FH Aachen, Campus Jülich 2009-6/2015 Vicerector for Research, Development and Technology Transfer Since 7/2015 Director of the Region Aachen – Zweckverband (regional Development Organisation) since 5/2012 Honorary consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1/2014 Member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Association, Germany since 2015 Member of the Advisory Board if ITEM, University of Maastricht van Delden A. Th.

Drs. A. Th. (Bert) van Delden is director of the intergovernmental programme management team of City at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations as well as vice-Director-General of “Bestuur en Wonen” (Policy and Living). In the latter capacity, he i.e. contributes to the government efforts related to cross border collaboration. Previously, he held managerial positions at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, the InterProvincial Consultative Committee and the Regional Body Amsterdam. He furthermore has worked at “De Nationale Investeringsbank” (National Investment Bank), the City of the Hague and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Bert van Delden moreover is active in the Forum for Urban Renewal. He studied Business Management at Nyenrode Business Universiteit and the then Interfaculty Business Management in Delft. van der Giessen M.

Mariska van der Giessen (July 14th 1977) finished a binational double degree M.A. programme Niederlande Studien / Duitsland Studies offered in joint cooperation between the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany) and Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (The Netherlands). After graduating in 2002, she worked as a desk officer at the Joint Technical INTERREG-Secretariat in Kleve (Germany). She continued working in the field of Dutch-German cross-border cooperation first as PR coordinator and later as project-coordinator at the Euregion Rhein-Waal, also in Kleve. She started her PhD-project in 2009 at the Department of Human Geography, Planning and Environment at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Since October 2013 she is a professor (Dutch lector) for International Business and Management in a Euregional Perspective at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo.

van Trier, S.

Simone van Trier is a versatile and experienced moderator and presenter. Ranging from business meetings, conferences, TV programmes to special concerts. During her study, she already started presenting but in 1997, her presentation skills took a professional turn when she became news presenter for the regional broadcast.

Verschueren H.

Herwig Verschueren is professor of International and European Labour and Social Security law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is also a visiting professor at the University of Brussels (VUB). From 1992 to 2004, he was a civil servant at the European Commission (Brussels) working in the field of free movement of workers and the coordination of social security schemes.

His research concentrates on European social law and more specifically on the legal position of migrant workers and persons with regard to labour and social security rights. He is the author and co-author of books, articles and reports and regularly acts as a consultant for Belgian and European public authorities, including the European Commission, on these issues.

For more information, please consult: www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/herwig-verschueren [email protected]