Ref. Ares(2014)526978 - 27/02/2014 SETTING THE AGENDA FOR THE EUROPEAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY High level conference on the European defence sector Brussels, 4 March 2014 SPEAKERS AND PARTICIPANTS Enterprise 3 and Industry KEYNOTE SPEAKERS JOSÉ MANUEL DURÃO BARROSO President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso became President of the European Commission in 2004. He was re- elected for another five-year term by the European Parliament in September 2009. Mr. Barroso served as head of the International Relations Department of Lusíada University in Portugal from 1995 to 1999 and was a visiting professor at Georgetown University in the United States from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Barroso was first elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1985. He served as State Secretary for Home Affairs, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and Minister for Foreign Affairs in successive governments. In 1999, he was elected President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and became the Leader of the Opposition. Mr. Barroso served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 2002 to 2004. DIMITRIOS AVRAMOPOULOS Minister of Defence Greece Dimitrios Avramopoulos, born in Athens in 1953, was elected member of the Greek Parliament in 1993, after 13 years in the Greek Diplomatic Service. In 1995 and until 2002, he was mayor of Athens. During that period he founded the “Athens’ International Prize for Democracy”, under the auspices of UNESCO, and the “World Union of Olympic Cities”. In 2004, already reelected member of the Greek Parliament, he was appointed Minister of Tourism and in 2006 Minister of Health and Social Solidarity, an appointment that lasted until 2009. In 2011 he was appointed Minister of National Defence until 2012, when he was appointed Minister of External Affairs. From 2013, he is again Minister of National Defence. Mr Avramopoulos holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in Public Law, Political Science and European Studies. He is married and has two sons. 5 1ST PANEL PROMOTING A MORE COMPETITIVE DEFENCE INDUSTRY ANTONIO TAJANI, Introductory Speaker Antonio Tajani, in addition to his experience in the Italian Air Force, law studies and journalism, was elected a member of the European Parliament in 1994, 1999 and 2004. He was a Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe. In 2002 he was appointed Vice-Chair of the European People’s Party. Since May 2008 he is European Commission Vice-President, in charge of Transport until February 2010, and from then on he is in charge of Industry and Entrepreneurship. He received the Optical Society of America Prize for his commitment to the promotion of Key Enabling Technologies, the Honors for commitment to SMEs and EU integration from the Spanish Royal Institute of European Studies, the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit from Spain, as well as the Legion of Honour of the French Republic. DANIEL KOSTOVAL Daniel Kostoval has been appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic in February 2014, after having served as First Deputy Minister of Defence, position held since April 2013. Before taking office at the Ministry of Defence, he was Director General at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the section of Non-European Countries. Previously, Mr Kostoval had served at the same ministry for more than 16 years. During this period, he had held various positions in Prague, Brussels (Permanent Representative to the Political Committee NATO), Moscow (First Secretary, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Political Section) and Washington (Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Czech Republic). Mr Kostoval studied political science and international relations at Charles University in Prague. Born in 1971, he is married and has three children. MICHAEL GAHLER Michael Gahler has been a member of the European Parliament since 1999 and is currently (2009- 2014) serving on the Committee on foreign affairs, the Subcommittee on security and defence (where he is EPP coordinator), and is a substitute member of the Committee on transport and tourism. He is the chairman of the delegation for the relations with the Pan-African Parliament. Since January 2012, he is a vice-chairman of the CDU/CSU group in the European Parliament. He is the rapporteur of the parliamentary report on the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base which was adopted in November 2013. Mr Gahler studied law in Germany, with further studies in France and Belgium, and later joined the diplomatic school of the foreign office (1990-1991), after which he spent two years as desk officer in the department of ‘international environmental politics’. From 1993-1995, he was assistant in the international office of the Christian DemocraticU nion (CDU). Between 1995 and 1999, again with the German foreign office, he was desk officer for the Baltic States and the Council of the Baltic Sea states. DANIELE ROMITI Daniele Romiti is the Chief Executive Officer of AgustaWestland S.p.A., the leading helicopter company owned by Finmeccanica which employs about 13,000 people worldwide with the main industrial activities concentrated in Italy, the UK, Poland and the USA. In August 2011 he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of AgustaWestland N.V. with the responsibility of the operations of the company ensuring effectiveness and efficiency throughout the whole AgustaWestland organisation, being responsible for all operations covering the whole product lifecycle. In 2009 he joined the newly formed Alenia Aermacchi, as Chief Operating Officer and he was instrumental in driving the operations of the new company. Mr Romiti joined Agusta S.p.A. Engineering Department in 1984, where he was involved in the EH101 international helicopter programme. Born in 1958, he earned a doctorate in Aeronautical Engineering from the Turin Polytechnic University. 6 1ST PANEL PROMOTING A MORE COMPETITIVE DEFENCE INDUSTRY ANTONIO MISSIROLI Antonio Missiroli became Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies in 2012. Previously, he was Adviser at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers of the European Commission; Director of Studies at the European Policy Centre in Brussels; Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the W/EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris; Head of European Studies at CeSPI in Rome and a Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. As well as being a professional journalist, he has also taught at the Universities of Bath and Trento and Boston University and SAIS/Johns Hopkins (Bologna). He is currently visiting lecturer at the College of Europe (Bruges) and Sciences Po (Paris). Dr Missiroli holds a PhD degree in Contemporary History from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and a Master’s degree in International Public Policy from SAIS/Johns Hopkins University. CLAUDE FRANCE ARNOULD Claude-France Arnould is the Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency, since January 2011. Previously, Ms Arnould headed the Crisis Management and Planning Directorate at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union between 2009 and 2010, and was Director for Defence Issues at the General Secretariat of the Council from 2001 to 2009. From 1998 to 2001, Ms Arnould was the Director of International and Strategic Affairs at the French National Defence General Secretariat /Prime Minister. Claude-France Arnould started her career as a diplomat, in 1981. After serving at the Private Office of the Minister for European Affairs in 1987, she became Secretary-General of the French National School for Public Administration (ENA), until 1989. She was then appointed Deputy Director of European Community Affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1994 to 1998 she was First Counselor at the French Embassy in Germany. OLIVIER JEHIN, Moderator Olivier Jehin is Editor-in-Chief of «Europe Diplomacy & Defense», a twice-weekly newsletter on CSDP and NATO published by AGENCE EUROPE. His career as a journalist on European issues spans more than 25 years, with special focus on institutional questions, international relations, security and defence matters. He formerly served as Head of the Brussels office of IFRI, the French Institute for International Relations, and previously as Editor-in-Chief of AGENCE EUROPE daily bulletin. He contributes on a regular basis to the work of think tanks and their publications. 7 2ND PANEL CREATING A GENUINE INTERNAL MARKET FOR DEFENCE MICHEL BARNIER, Introductory Speaker Having been elected in his late twenties as a national Parliamentarian, Michel Barnier was appointed in 1993 Minister for Environment. He went on to be Minister for European Affairs (1995-1997), Minister for Foreign Affairs (2004-2005) and Minister forA griculture and Fisheries (2007-2009). In 1999 he resigned from national office to take up his post, as part of Romano PRODI’s team, as European Commissioner for regional policy and institutional reform. In 2009 he led the French Presidential majority’s campaign in the European elections and was the head of the French Delegation of the EPP Group in the European Parliament. He was then proposed as European Commissioner by the President of the Republic Nicolas SARKOZY and took up his post, alongside José Manuel BARROSO, as Member of the European Commission responsible for Internal Market and Services in early 2010. PHILIP DUNNE In September 2012, Philip Dunne was appointed Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology with responsibility for defence procurement and defence exports. Mr Dunne is Member of Parliament since 2005. Following the 2010 General Election in UK, Mr Dune was appointed an Assistant Government Whip, having previously served as an Assistant Opposition Whip. Before politics, Mr Dunne had a twenty year business career. He has experience of business both big and small having worked for investment banks in London, New York and Hong Kong and having helped start and build businesses. His former chairmanship of a Venture Capital Trust reflects his enthusiasm for encouraging entrepreneurship in the small business sector.