Berlin 7-8 November Shaping the Future: Europe’s New Voices Participants list Austrevicius Petras Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs for the Lithuanian parliament Lithuania, as member of the Liberals Movement. First elected in 2004, he is an Liberals Movement economist and the co-founder of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute and the Institute of Liberal Thought. He is an initiator and supporter of the public [email protected] movement Knowledge Economy Forum. Interested in European Integration and the art of bargaining. He is the President of the United European Federalists of Lithuania. Previously, the chief negotiator for Lithuania's membership in the EU. Baddenhausen Heike Head of the secretariat of the Committee on the European Affairs of the Germany, Bundestag. She has been Secretary of the committee since 2009. After joining Bundestag Committee on the administration of Parliament as Legal adviser in 1992 in the Research European Affairs Services, the Petitions Committee and a standing committee, she focussed on Parliamentary law, procedural law, constitutional law and election law. 2000 [email protected] until 2003, she lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia, and represented the German Foundation of international legal cooperation (IRZ),and participated in training programmes for judges and public notaries. In 2005, she worked as Head of European Research Division and in projects in Pristina, Yerewan and Tbilissi. She is member of the German association of parliamentary Law and the German association of legislation. Bergamini Deborah Bergamini Deborah is a professional journalist. After obtaining a degree in Italy, American Studies and Political Marketing she begins working as a journalist in Popolo delle Libertà 1993. She is chief editor for Analyses et Synthèses based in Paris and in 1997 becomes a journalist for Bloomberg. She is then employed by Silvio [email protected] Berlusconi as communications consultant. She then occupied various management positions in Rai, the Italian national public broadcasting company and is appointed as a consultant to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. to parliament for the first time in 2008 with Popolo della Libertà, she is then re-elected a second time in 2013. She is the secretary of the delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the council of Europe and Member of the Foreign and Comunitarian Affairs Committee. Blaha Lubos Blaha Lubos is a Slovak philosopher, political scientist and politician. Slovakia, Currently he is a Member of Parliament for the left-wing SMER party. He SMER worked for the former Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Pavol Paška (SMER). [email protected] Blaha worked for the Communist Party of Slovakia as the Head of the International Department. After the 2006 Slovak parliamentary election Blaha worked for the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Pavol Paška of the social democratic SMER party. Additionally Blaha works as a political scientist at Slovak Academy of Sciences and as a doctor of philosophy. In the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election Blaha ran as a candidate for the SMER party. In 2006 Blaha wrote a book called "Social Justice and Identity" and yet another in 2009 called "Back to Marx?" which was awarded by the Prize of Slovak Literature Fund as the 2009 best book in Slovakia in the category of Humanities and Social Sciences. Within this book Blaha draws a philosophy of a social security system deriving from conservative, liberal and social democratic concepts. Brantner Franziska Franziska Brantner has been Member of the German Bundestag and the Germany, Greens group in the Bundestag (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) since October The Greens 2013. Prior to this, she was a Member of the European Parliament for four years, acting as the Greens’/EFA’s foreign affairs spokesperson and as [email protected] rapporteur for the Instrument for Stability. She also was her group’s chief negotiator for the establishment and review of the European External Action Service. She served as Member and coordinator on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and as substitute member on the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and on the Committee on Budgets. Bullesbacḧ Daphne Bullesbacḧ Daphne is the director of European Alternatives Berlin e.V. Germany, which she founded in 2010 and sits on the Transnational Board of European European Alternatives Berlin Alternatives. This is a transnational NGO striving for democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state with offices in 4 different countries and [email protected] activities in the area of citizenship & participation, advocacy as well as arts and culture. She also works as a research officer in an evaluation and research institute for social/public policy. Her academic background is in European Studies and Social and Political Science, she studied in London, Cambridge and Paris. Busto Mirko Holds a degree in Environmental Engineering and a Phd in Productive Italy, Systems. Researcher for the Common Research Centre of the European Movimento 5 Stelle Commission. In recent years has worked mainly on assessing the environmental impact of European agriculture through simulations with [email protected] mathematical models. The goal of being that of providing research-based support to the development and implementation of European environmental policy aiming at greater sustainability. Was elected in 2013 with the Movimento 5 Stelle. Colomina Carme Head of the International Section of the newspaper ARA. Carme Colomina Spain, has been a correspondent for Catalunya Ràdio in Brussels, where she worked Journalist for ARA with the BBC and Deutsche Welle, and has covered international summits in some twenty countries as well as the Afghanistan War in 2001. She has also [email protected] worked as a consultant in several press projects in the European and Euro- Mediterranean spheres and was head of Interregional Cooperation in the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia. She lectures on European Union institutional dynamics and policies and contributes on a regular basis in different areas of the mass media as an analyst of European news. Her main areas of professional interest are the European Union, its institutions and foreign relations. De la Fuente Vazquez Maria Maria de la Fuente holds a degree in Philosophy at Universitat de Barcelona Spain, and a PhD in Political Sciences at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is Fundació Nous Horitzons vice-president of Fundació Nous Horitzons (www.noushoritzons.org), a think tank linked to ICV, and former chief editor of Nous Horitzons Journal (2007- [email protected] 2010). She is also member of the Ethics and Democratic Guarantees Committee in ICV, and she was Secretary of Women and Gender Policies at ICV’s Executive Board between 2001 and 2007. She has carried out several researches focused on feminist theory and gender in politics and policies. She is involved in the women’s movement at local level and leads a non-profit project aimed to transfer statistical knowledge about gender inequalities in Catalonia (Observatori IQ, www.iqobservatori.org). Dokos Thanos Eliamep Director - General, received his Ph.D. in International Relations Greece, from Cambridge University and has held research posts at the Hessische ELIAMEP Stiftung Friedens und Konfliktforschung (1989-90) and the Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA) at Harvard University (1990-91). He served [email protected] as the Director for Research, Strategic Studies Division, Hellenic Ministry of National Defence (1996-98) and as an Advisor on NATO issues to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998-1999). He was a NATO research fellow for 1996-98. He is currently the Director-General of ELIAMEP. He has taught at the Universities of Athens and Piraeus, the Hellenic National Defense College, the Diplomatic Academy and the Hellenic National Security School. Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven has been Deputy Director General of the Arndt European Union department of Germany’s Foreign Office in Berlin since Germany 2010. Following his entry into the foreign service in 1986 he held different political and strategy positions, including at Germany’s embassies in Moscow [email protected] and Paris. He was Vice President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst from 2007 to 2010. Arndt holds a PhD in Sciences. From 1984 to 86 he was a researcher at Munich’s Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. His earlier studies – including at Oxford University, in Berlin, and Bonn – included history, philosophy and biochemistry. Gil Paula Paula Gil, from Lisbon, has for many years been involved in grassroot Portugal, movements and was one of the initiators and organizers of the “Geracao a Activist Rasca” (“Precarious Generation”) protest that gathered 500,000 people in the streets [email protected] of Portugal on March 12th, 2011. The aim was better labour conditions, especially for university graduates who were desperate to start a career and earn a living. The protest’s momentum spread throughout the country on the basis of a manifest (“The Precarious Generation Manifest”). Paula Gil graduated in International Relations at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and has a Masters in International Politics and Security Studies at the Peace Studies Department of the University of Bradford, UK. Janning Josef Josef Janning is Mercator Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations Germany, (DGAP) in Berlin, and Founder and President of Minds & More – Global DGAP Network Partners, a Bonn based company for policy research and advice on European and International Affairs. He holds a BA in International Relations [email protected] from Elmira College, New York, U.A.S., and a MA in Political Science from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Germany. Previously Director of Studies at the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Prior to that he worked as Senior Director for International and Global Affairs for a decade at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Germany.