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‘EIN: Achievements and its role to play in the future’

‘The success of the Political Networking’

19 June 2014

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Michael BORCHARD, Head of the Department of Politics and Consulting, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)

Michael Borchard is Director of the Department for Policy Consulting, a think tank at the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Berlin. Previously, he headed the unit on domestic policy in this department. Before joining the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Mr. Borchard served as the Head of the Speech-Writing Division at the State-Chancellery of Thuringia, as senior speech-writer to the Minister-President of Thuringia, Dr. Bernhard Vogel. Prior to this he worked as a member at the team of speech-writers for Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl in the office of the Federal Chancellor. His previous work experience includes several years as a freelance journalist as well as researcher for contemporary history.

Mr. Borchard holds a Ph.D. in contemporary history and political science from the University of Bonn, Germany. His dissertation on “The German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union. The political importance of the Prisoner-of-War-Problem for both German States and the Western Allies between 1949 and 1955” was awarded the Geffrub-Prize 1999 from the University of Bonn for the best dissertation. Borchard has been publishing widely on German Federalism, contemporary history (esp. prisoners of war) and Christian Democracy and a variety of other fields.

Edward BOWLES, Member of European Commission EU-US TTIP Advisory Group

Edward manages the Bank’s public affairs team for the West, and has a particular focus on relations with governments, regulatory issues and free trade negotiations. In addition to his role on the European Services Forum Policy Committee, which dates from 2007, he represents the Bank on other industry associations and committees in London and Brussels. As a member of the ESF PC, he was Rapporteur on the EU-India FTA, and has travelled to Geneva as a member of the ESF delegation. Edward joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2007, initially with the Group Compliance & Assurance team, where he had responsibility for the Bank’s relationships with regulators, as

well as the UK Government’s regulatory reform agenda. He managed the global regulatory filings for the acquisition of American Express Bank, and had extensive dealings with host regulators in Standard Chartered’s markets, notably in Asia, as well as the UK’s Financial Services Authority.Prior to joining the Bank, Edward worked for 5 years at the UK Ministry of Justice, including as Head of Human Rights policy, Chief of Staff to two Government Ministers and, latterly, the Permanent Secretary (Head of Department). He was accompanied his Minister on bilateral trade delegations to India and Brazil, negotiating market access for UK law firms. Edward also advised on regulatory reform concerning the legal professions, and worked with Baroness Cathy Ashton, now the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, for a number of years when she was a UK Government Minister in the Ministry of Justice.Edward qualified as a Barrister in 1993, spending eight years as a Prosecutor, and also holds an MBA from Imperial College, London. He is married, has two children and lives in London and Leuven (Belgium).

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Zsolt DARVAS, Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Zsolt Darvas, a Hungarian citizen, joined Bruegel as a Visiting Fellow in September 2008 and continued his work at Bruegel as a Research Fellow from January 2009, before being appointed Senior Fellow from September 2013. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest. From 2005 to 2008, he was the Research Advisor of the Argenta Financial Research Group in Budapest. Before that, he worked at the research unit of the Central Bank of Hungary (1994-2005) where he served as Deputy Head. Zsolt holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Corvinus University of Budapest where he teaches courses in Econometrics and but also in other institutions

since 1994. His research interests include macroeconomics, international economics, central banking and time series analysis. | Read more at Bruegel http://www.bruegel.org/about/person/view/19-zsolt-darvas/

Joseph DAUL MEP, Outgoing Chairman of EPP Group in the European Parliament, President of the European Poeple’s Party

Joseph Daul was born on 13 April 1947 in Strasbourg (France). Having studied agriculture at the Ecole d’Agriculture, he graduated from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale in Paris in 1981. Joseph Daul became active in the agricultural professional organisations, through the Centre National des Jeunes Agriculteurs, a highly-developed network at local, regional, national and European level. Thus, in 1976 he was appointed national Vice-Chairman of the CNJA with responsibility for European affairs. Between 1989 and 2002 he was Mayor of Pfettisheim. In 1999, after having been elected in the European Parliament, he naturally joined the EPP Group

since it represented his most deeply held European convictions which had always guided his political work. He became a very active member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, being appointed its chairman in January 2002. In 2002, Joseph Daul was appointed chairman of the Conference of Committee Chairmen. In January 2007, he was elected Chairman of the EPP-ED Group. He remains member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and substitute member of the Committee on International Trade and of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He is also chairman of the European Parliamentary Association, which has its seat in Strasbourg and allows Members of the European Parliament to establish contacts in academic, economic and cultural circles.


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Jacques DELPLAAdjunct professor, Toulouse School of Economics

Jacques DELPLA was born on 7 May 1966.Education: • Master of Business Degree in Philosophy at the University of Paris I Panthéon - Sorbonne (1987-1989)• Former student at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Ulm (1987-1992)• A graduate of ENSAE - National School of Statistics Economic Administration (1992).Present postions:• Member of CAE (since 2004) • Senior Advisor Fixed Income, BNP-Paribas (since 2005)

Previous positions: • Economic advisor to the Russian government in Moscow (1992-1994) • Lecturer at HEC (1992-2001) • Technical Adviser, Cabinets of Finance Ministers (Messrs Madelin and Gaymard, then Arthuis and Galland) later Affairs Adviser for competition (1995-1997) • Lecturer at the IEP Paris (2004) • Economist Europe, Barclays Capital (1998-2005)

Albéric DUMONT, General Coordinator, ‘La Manif pour Tous’ foundation

Student in Public Law in the University of Panthéon-Assas, paris. Cofunder of the non-profit organisation La Manif Pour Tous in October 2012, organisation of which he has perfomed the general coordination since its foundation. Among his other duties, he was responsible for the organisation of demonstrations which have gathered more than one million people and he has taken in charge the liaisons with the authorities.

Roman ESCOLANO, President, Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO)

In accordance with Royal Decree 77/2012, January 5th, published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on January 6th 2012, Román Escolano is appointed Chairman of Instituto de Crédito Oficial.Román Escolano was assigned the post of Chairman of Instituto de Crédito Oficial at the Council of Ministers meeting held on January 5th 2012.Born in Zaragoza in 1965, he is married with three children. He has a degree in Economic and Business Sciences from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has completed the Top Management Programme organised by the IESE Business School. He belongs to the Corps of State Officers of

Commerce and State Economists.He has worked as Adviser to the Secretary of State for European Communities (1991-1992); as Director at the Spanish Trade Office in Thailand (1992-1997); and as Adviser to the Minister of Labour.From 2000 to 2004, he was the Director of the Prime Minister’s Economy Department. He has also been a member of the Boards of Directors of Correos, FEVE and ICEX.From 2006 to his current appointment, he was Director of Institutional Relations at BBVA

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Javier FERNANDEZ-LASQUETTY, Former Secretary General, FAES Foundation, Member of the Assemby of Madrid

Javier Fernández-Lasquetty has been Secretary General of FAES Foundation and Member of Spanish Parliament (2004-2007). Recently he was Regional Minister of Health of Madrid (2010-2014), in charge of the management of public Health Service within Madrid Region. Prior to this responsibility he has been Regional Minister of Immigration and International Cooperation of Madrid (2007-2010). He served as Deputy Director of the Cabinet of President of the Spanish Government, José María Aznar, from 2002 to 2004. Previously he served as Director of Cabinet of Ms. Esperanza Aguirre, at the Ministry of Education and the Presidency of the Senate.

Currently he is Member of Madrid’s Regional Parliament, where he chairs the Statute and Rules Commission. He is member of the Board of FAES Foundation. Born in 1966, he has a Degree in Law and a Degree in Political Sciences (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).From 2006 to his current appointment, he was Director of Institutional Relations at BBVA

José Manuel FERNANDES MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

Born on 26 July 1967, Vila VerdeGraduate in systems engineering and computer science, University of the Minho; currently in the third year of a law degree at the University of the Minho.Founder of Moure Youth Association and Chair of its executive committee (1990-1992); Chair of its General Assembly (1992-1994).Founder and Vice-Chair of the Moure Social and Parish Centre (1994-1997); Chair of the Young Social Democrats (JSD) in Vila Verde (1992-1993), subsequently elected Chair of the bureau of

the plenary assembly; Chair of the Braga District Political Committee of the JSD in the 1994-1996 term, and member of the District Political Committee of the Braga PSD during the same period.Chair of Vila Verde municipal council (December 1997 to July 2009). President of the Cávado Regional Development Agency and Chair of the Association of Cávado Valley Municipalities; President of the executive council of the Cávado Valley Intermunicipal Community (Cávado CIM) (from 17 November 2008 to July 2009); member of the general council of the Northern Region Coordination Commission and the general council of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities until July 2009.PSD councillor from December 1993 to December 1997; Chair of the Policy Committee of the Vila Verde Section of the PSD (1997-2002); head of the PSD list for the Braga constituency, elected as a deputy in the 1999 elections; PSD leader of the bureau of the Braga District Assembly (2000-2002); Chair of the PSD Braga District Policy Committee (2002-2004); elected as a member of the PSD National Policy Committee at the 26th Congress in Barcelos in 2004; PSD Chair of the bureau of the Braga District Assembly (2005-)


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Richard FONTAINE, President of the Center for the New American Security

Richard Fontaine is the President of the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as a Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at CNAS from 2009-2012 and previously as foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain for more than five years. He has also worked at the State Department, the National Security Council and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Mr. Fontaine served as foreign policy advisor to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign and, following the election, as the minority deputy staff director on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Prior to this, he served as associate director for Near Eastern affairs at the National

Security Council (NSC) from 2003-04. He also worked in the NSC’s Asian Affairs directorate, where he covered Southeast Asian issues.During his time at the State Department, Mr. Fontaine worked in the office of former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and in the department’s South Asia bureau, working on issues related to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Mr. Fontaine began his foreign policy career as a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, focusing on the Middle East and South Asia. He also spent a year teaching English in Japan.A native of New Orleans, Mr. Fontaine graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in International Relations from Tulane University. He also holds a M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, and he attended Oxford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He also served as the chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the United States. Mr. Fontaine lives in Falls Church, Va., with his wife and four children.

Roland FREUDENSTEIN, Deputy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, rapporteur of the EIN Working Group on ‘Transatlantic Relation’

Roland Freudenstein (born 1960) studied political science, Japan studies, economics and international relations in Bonn (M.A. 1988) and Los Angeles. From 1989-93 he was a fellow at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Affairs, Bonn. From 1993-95 member of the planning staff for Foreign and Security Policy of the European Commission, Brussels. 1995-2001 Director of the Warsaw Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, working on civil society building and political networking. 2002-2004 Head of unit, Foreign and European Affairs, Konrad

Adenauer Foundation, Berlin. Numerous publications on international security, Central Europe and German foreign policy.

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Lothar FUNK, Professor of Economics and International Economic Relations, Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Lothar Funk is Professor of Economics and International Economic Relations at the Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences (for: Fachhochschule Düsseldorf). He is also the Coordina¬tor of Foreign Exchange at the Business Studies Department and heads the International Management Bachelor. Until mid-2005 he was also responsible for research in International Labour Relations at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research where he is still a Fellow now. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for German Studies, University of Birming¬ham, as well as a member of the

council of economic advisers of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin, and a co-editor of Sozialer Fortschritt. Unabhängige Zeitschrift für Sozialpolitik (German Review of Social Poli¬cy). He has published widely on labour market-related issues, varieties of capitalisms and questions of welfare state reform. He (co-)authored and edited several books on these issues as well.

Antonio H. GARCIA DEL RIEGO Director European Corporate Affairs, Banco Santander

Antonio has more than 30 years of experience in the banking sector, having worked for the two most international Spanish banks in eight different jurisdictions in Managing positions. He accounts with extensive experience dealing with financial regulators as well as in leading interdisciplinary teams of different cultural backgrounds.As from April 2008, he has been appointed as Director of European Corporate Affairs of Banco Santander in Brussels.Antonio is a Fulbright Scholar, holds a Master’s degree from State University of New York and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Universidad de Valladolid.


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Anthony GLEES, Director of BUCSIS, University of Buckingham

Anthony Glees (MA MPhil DPhil (Oxford)) is Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham and directs its Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS). With more than twenty students taking MA, MPhil and PhD programmes, it is one of the largest such centres in Europe. He is the author of six books (four of which are single authored), numerous chapters in books, and scholarly articles. He sits on several advisory and editorial boards in his subject. His work has received detailed and repeated attention from BBC TV and Radio (numerous outlets), ITN, Sky TV, CNN, Korean TV, and radio networks in the USA, Canada, Germany and from Reuter, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail,

The Guardian and many other newspapers throughout the world. He has a specialist concern with security and intelligence issues and has written and lectured on aspects of the history of British intelligence, on Islamism, on terrorism and counter-terrorism, on subversion in western democracies both today and in the past. He takes a particular interest in European Union and German affairs. In 2003 Simon and Schuster published his study of the UK operations of the East German intelligence service, known as the Stasi. Past publishers of his work have included Oxford University Press, Jonathan Cape and Berg. He was the advisor to the War Crimes Inquiry in the Home Office (1988-90) and his work on the Stasi was debated in Parliament on 21 December 1999. He has been invited to speak to expert audiences within the UK, the United States and the European Union (since 2001 he has been a senior security policy advisor to the EPP Parties in the European Parliament via the European Ideas Network, the EIN).Professor Glees is “professor of trust” (Vertrauensdozent) for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Allan JANIK, Professor, University of Insbrück

Allan Janik, citizen of both Austrian and the United States, is a philosopher and historian of ideas. He is senior research, fellow of the Brenner Archives at the University of Innsbruck and honorary professor of philosophy at the university of Vienna. His many books include Wittgenstein’s Vienna (with S. Toulmin), The Concept of Knowledge in Practical Philosophy (in Swedish), Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy as well as the study Towards a New Philosophy for the EU (Foundation for Political Innovation 2008). He is especially interested in problems surrounding the European Union’s “democracy deficit”, the nature of participatory democracy and the role of conflict in democratic society.

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Jacob Funk KIRKEGAARD, Senior fellow, The Peterson Institute for International Economics

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, senior fellow, has been associated with the Institute since 2002. Before joining the Institute, he worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is a graduate of the Danish Army’s Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant; the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; the Columbia University in New York; and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is coeditor of Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity (2012), author of The Accelerating Decline in America’s High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy (2007), coauthor of US

Pension Reform: Lessons from Other Countries (2009) and Transforming the European Economy (2004), and assisted with Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology (2006). His current research focuses on European economies and reform, foreign direct investment trends and estimations, pension systems, demographics, offshoring, high-skilled immigration, and the impact of information technology.

Christof –Sebastian KLITZ, Head of the Volkswagen Group EU Representation, Vice-President of the European Movement International

Personal detailsDate of birth: 08.09.1959 Place of birth: Hamburg, GermanyNationality: GermanProfessional background Christof-Sebastian Klitz has been Head of the Brussels based Volkswagen EU Group Representation since 2008. Mr. Klitz joined Volkswagen in 1999 and prior to his current position held various

positions at the Volkswagen Group’s offices in Berlin and Brussels. A graduate of University Hamburg’s School of Law, he has a vast amount of Public Affairs experience. He served in various positions at Federation of German Industry (BDI), and as Deputy-Director of the Office of German Industry and Trade in Washington, D.C. He also served as Burson Marsteller’s Head of Government Relations in Bonn and Berlin, and worked for Deutsche Telekom. Mr. Klitz is President of the Economic Council, Brussels as well as Vice-President of the European Movement International.

Pascale JOANNIN,Director General, Robert Schuman Foundation

Ms Joannin is a graduate in International Relations and now Director General of the Robert Schuman Foundation. She is also a lecturer at the National School for Administration. Ms Joannin also worked as an auditor at the 56th National Session of the “Institute for Higher Education - National Defence (Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN)). She has published several publications, amongst those:• “L’Europe au féminin”, in Schuman Report 2007 and in Schuman Report 2009 on the State of the Union, éditions Lignes de repères, March 2007 • “L’Europe, une chance pour la femme”, a paper by the Robert Schuman Foundation, May 2004,

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Jim KOLBE, Vice Chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI) Board, former Congressman

Jim Kolbe currently serves as a senior transatlantic fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He advises on trade matters as well as issues of effectiveness of U.S. assistance to foreign countries, on U.S.-EU relationships, and on migration and its relationship to development. From 2008 to 2010 he co-chaired the Transatlantic Taskforce on Development with Gunilla Carls-son, the Swedish minister for international development cooperation. The Taskforce consisted of experts from both sides of the Atlantic from governments, NGOs, foundations and corporations and made strategic recommendations on development for the U.S. administration as well as to European audiences. In 2011-12, he co-chaired another task force with the Swedish minister for

trade. This task force developed a strategic plan for the launching of U.S.-EU trade negotiations, now known as the Transat-lantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks. He currently chairs a third task force funded by the Finnish Foreign Ministry looking at private sector investment to assure food sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa.In addition to his work with the German Marshall Fund, Kolbe serves as a senior advisor and strategic consultant to McLarty Associates and is president of JTKConsulting, which represents the interests of Arizona clients to the United States Congress. Kolbe serves as vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Republican Institute, and is a member of the boards of directors for Freedom House, the Institute for Science and Global Policy, the Project on Middle East Democracy. In Arizona, he serves on the boards of directors for the Community Food Bank and Critical Path Institute. He is also co-chair of the Governor’s Transportation and Trade Task Force, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.For 22 years, Kolbe served in the United States House of Representatives, elected for 11 consecutive terms, from 1985 to 2007. He represented the Eighth (previously designated the Fifth) congressional district, comprising the southeastern part of Arizona with Tucson as the main center of population. Prior to coming to Congress, he served for six years in the Arizona State Senate. While in Congress, Kolbe served for six years on the House Budget Committee and for 20 years on the Appropriations Com-mittee. In that capacity he was responsible for deciding the allocation of the budget and the terms for spending appropriated funds. He was chairman of the Treasury, Post Office, and Related Agencies subcommittee for four years, and for his last six years in Congress, he chaired the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Agencies subcommittee.Education: Kolbe graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and from Stanford University with an MBA and a concentration in economics.Military:Koble was commissioned in the United States Naval Reserves in 1965 and served for more than ten years before retiring as a Lieutenant Commander, USNR. His active duty included a year of service in the Republic of Vietnam with Coastal forces (Swift boats).Honors:He has received numerous awards and tributes, but notable among them is the George Marshall Award for Distinguished Service from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Order of the Aztec from the President of Mexico, and the lifetime achievement in trade award from the Washington International Trade Association.

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Antonio LOPEZ ISTURIZ MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Secretary General of the European People’s Party, Secretary Treasurer of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Professional experience2002- Secretary-General of the European People’s Party (EPP)2004- Member of the European Parliament, EPP Group:

• Legal Affairs Committee, Member• Foreign Affairs Committee, Substitute• Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Substitute• Delegation to Israel, Euro Latin-American and Euro Mediterranean Parliamentary Assemblies.

2002- Member of the National Board of the Partido Popular Spain (PP)2002- Executive-Secretary, Centrist Democrat International (CDI)2007- Secretary-General and Treasurer of the Centre for European Studies (CES)1999-2002 Personal Adviser to José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain1997-1999 Assistant to the spokesperson of the Spanish Delegation in the European Parliament1996-1997 Coordinator for Education and Culture of Partido Popular, Region of Madrid1994-1997 Advisor for International Relations of Nuevas Generaciones, PP Youth Movement

Languages Spanish, English, French, and Italian

Education2008-2009 Postgraduate degree in Public Management Leadership, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Madrid (Spain)1989-1994 Law Degree and Diploma in Business Studies, San Pablo CEU University, Madrid (Spain)

Konstantinos KYRANAKIS, President, Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP)

Konstantinos was born in Luxembourg, raised in Athens and Brussels where he obtained the European Baccalaureate. He earned his degree in Law at the University of Athens. and his Masters in Communication Management at the American College of Greece. He has worked as an advisor and speech writer to the Minister of Interiors, and a researcher in Nea Demokratia ‘s Political Planning Department. He currently works as a Creative Partner in a New Media Agency focused on Digital Communication and Political Campaigning. Konstantinos was the International Secretary of ONNED and a member of the National Political Board from June 2010 until September 2012. He has also managed 5 National University Election campaigns since 2008. He is a member of the

LEAP team of campaign managers at the International Republican Institute and alumni of the Democrat Youth Community of Europe. He is the youngest ever elected president in the history of YEPP.


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Jaime MAYOR OREJA MEP,Outgoing Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Responsible for Political Strategy and the European Ideas Network

Born on 12 July 1951, San Sebastian. Member of the National Executive Committee of the PP (1999). Former President and spokesman of the Grupo Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament. Vice-Secretary-General of the PP (since 1996) and Honorary President of the PP in the Basque Country. Minister for Tourism in the Pre-autonomous Government of the Basque Country (1980); Member for Guipúzcoa. Government Delegate in the Basque Country (1982). President and spokesman of the Coalición Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament (1984-1986). Elected autonomous Member of parliament within the UCD (1980).

President of the Grupo Parlamentario Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament (2001-2004). Member of the Cortes for Vizcaya (1989). PP national member of parliament for Álava in the I, IV, VI, VII and VIII parliamentary terms. Minister of the Interior from 1996-2001. Head of the Spanish Delegation to the EPP-ED Group.

Nuno MELO MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament,Rapporteur of the report on the draft directive of the European Parliament and of the Council regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal mattersHead of the CDS Portuguese Delegation of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

Born on 18 March 1966, JoaneGraduate in law. Vice-President, CDS-PP (Centre Social Democrats - People’s Party); President, Braga District Political Committee, CDS-PP.President of the Municipal Assembly, Vila Nova de Famalicão.

Member of the Assembly of the Republic during its 8th, 9th and 10th legislative terms; chair, CDS-PP parliamentary group (22 July 2004 - 12 October 2006); Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic during its 10th legislative term; chair of the 8th Committee of Inquiry into the Camarate tragedy; CDS-PP coordinator for the following committees: Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees; Committee on Ethics; Committee on Parity, Equality and Family Opportunities; Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the management of the TAP airline; Committee of inquiry into the Foundation for Prevention and Safety; 7th Committee of Inquiry into the Camarate tragedy; Committee of Inquiry into the background to the nationalisation of the BPN bank and banking supervision. Head of the Portuguese (CDS-PP) delegation in the PPE Group (since 14 July 2009).

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Jan OLBRYCHT MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Head of the Polish Delegation of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

Dr Jan Olbrycht has been a Doctor of Sociology, lecturer, expert, politician and social activist. Between 1990 and 1998 Mayor of Cieszyn, founder member of the Euroregion Śląsk Cieszyński-Tesinske Slezko. Vice-Chairman of the Association of Polish Cities responsible for contacts with European local and regional government organisations. Vice-Chairman of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions. Chairman of the Polish delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. Between 1998 and 2002 Marshal of Silesian Voivodship. Founder member of the Marshals’

Convent. Member of the Management Board of the Assembly of European Regions. Member of the National Council for Regional Policy. Member of the World Council of the United Cities and Local Governments. Since 2002 lecturer at the University of Bielsko-Biala and University of Economics in Katowice. Participant at numerous international conferences about the role of regions in the EU. Regional policy expert of the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw. Since 2004 Member of the European Parliament on behalf of Civic Platform (EPP-ED). Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Regional Development; European Parliament’s rapporteur on the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), REGI Committee rapporteur on urban transport. Founder member and Vice-Chairman of the EP Intergroup URBANHousing. Member of the Editorial Board of the Parliament Magazine. Winner of the European Prize of Caesar Maximilian for the impact on local and regional policy development in Europe. Winner of the Golden Ribbon of Association of Polish Cities - a merit award for outstanding service for territorial self-government. MEP of the year - winner of the 2007 Parliament Magazine’s MEP. Awards in the field of regional policy. Winner of the Silesian Quality Prize.

Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES MEP, Outgoing Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Professor of Ethics, University of the Azores (Portugal)

MA in philosophy, specialising in metaphysics and anthropology (1986); Doctorate in philosophy, specialising in philosophy of knowledge (1991); Post-doctorate in bioethics, Georgetown University and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, USA (1992-1993); Post-graduate teaching qualification specialising in axiology and ethics (1998).Definitive appointment as auxiliary professor, University of the Azores (1995); Associate professor of philosophy, specialising in general philosophy (1996); Holder of Chair of axiology and ethics - University of the Azores (2000).

Regional delegate for the Azores in Aníbal Cavaco Silva’s campaign for President of the Republic (2006).Director of the Centre for Bioethical Studies, Azores (1995-); Coordinator in philosophy at the University of the Azores (2000-2009); Portuguese coordinator for Portugal-Brazil relations in the field of bioethics (2002-); Member of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences(2003); Consultant to the President of the Republic on life ethics (2006-2009). Editorial board of: ‘Biomedical Ethics’; ‘Ethical Perspectives’; ‘Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. A European Journal’; ‘Medical Science Monitor’ (1996); Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics (2003); Coordinator of the Network of the International Association of Bioethics (2004); Portuguese representative at the Intergovernmental Meeting of Experts Aimed at Finalising a Draft of a Declaration on Universal Norms on Bioethics (UNESCO Headquarters) (2005).


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Joao PINHEIRO, Former MEP, former Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group, former European Commissioner for Development and ACP countries

Born on 11 July 1945, Lisboa Political groups20.07.2004 / 13.11.2004 : Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats - Vice-Chair 14.11.2004 / 08.03.2005 : Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats - Vice-Chair

09.03.2005 / 14.02.2007 : Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats - Vice-Chair 15.02.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats - Vice-Chair 20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Partido Social Democrata 20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Coligaçao Força Portugal (PPD/PSD.CDS-PP) Member21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Foreign Affairs 15.09.2004 / 12.10.2004 : Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly 13.10.2004 / 13.03.2007 : Delegation for relations with Mercosur 15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Foreign Affairs 31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Foreign Affairs 14.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation for relations with Mercosur 23.05.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly Substitute22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on International Trade 15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on International Trade 31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Industry, Research and Energy 31.01.2007 / 27.02.2007 : Committee on International Trade

Walid PHARES, Co-Secretary General, Transatlantic Legislative Group on counter-Terrorism (TAG), Rapporteur of the EIN Working Group on ‘Making Europe a safer place’

Walid Phares was born in Lebanon, where he studied at the Lebanese and St Joseph Universities. After earning degrees in law, political science and sociology, he practiced law in Beirut. He then earned a Masters degree in International Law from the Université de Lyon in France and a Ph.D. in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami. He emigrated to the United States in 1990.As of 2008, Phares teaches Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for

Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels. In 2008 he also became the Coordinator of the Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism. Phares taught at the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University between 1993 and 2005. He has been a senior lecturer at the Lifelong Learning Society since 1994. His courses include Middle East Politics, Political History, Ethnic and Religious Conflict and International Terrorism. He has given lectures throughout North America and Europe.

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Countess Josephine QUINTAVALLE, Founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE)

Josephine Quintavalle is founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE), a public interest group focusing on ethical dilemmas surrounding human reproduction, particularly the new technologies of assisted conception. She was involved in the legal cases which challenged the HFEA’s right to license research using embryos created using cloning techniques and the HFEA’s ruling to allow tissue-typing for the Hashmi family in order for them to select an embryo which could provide umbilical cord blood to a sibling with the blood condition thalassaemia.

Paulo RANGEL MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Head of the PSD Portuguese Delegation of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

Born on 18 February 1968, V.N. GaiaGraduate of the Faculty of Law, Portuguese Catholic University of Porto; Master’s in Juridical-Political Sciences, Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra, and Doctorate in Public Law, Law Faculty of the Universidade Nova of Lisbon.Member of the Cuatrecases Gonçales Pereira & Associate Legal Partnership. Speciality: Public Law. Lecturer in the Law Faculty of the Portuguese Catholic University. In charge of Political

Sciences and responsible for leading the Cuatrecases Seminars on Public Procurement and Precautionary Measures in Administration Law. Administrator of the Robert Schuman Foundation, and member of the board of directors of the Porto Trade Association; commentator in various branches of the media.Chair of the PSD parliamentary group in 2008-2009, and member of the Assembly of the Republic during the 10th legislature; deputy Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice under the XVIth constitutional government.Publications: many speeches and lectures, scholarly articles and books on legal, political and constitutional issues, including Repensar o Poder Judical, Publicações Universidade Católica, 2001, O Estado do Estado, D. Quixote, 2009. Research work: with the DAAD in Frankfurt, with the European Institute in Florence, the University of Osnabrück, the University of Upsala, the University of Lausanne, the University of Bologna, the University of Genoa and the University of Freiburg. Awarded the Grosse Verdienstkreuz mit Stern by the Federal Republic of German (2009); the Council of Europe’s René Cassin Prize (1989); the D. António Ferreira Gomes Prize (1986).


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Javier RUPÉREZ, Former Executive Director at the United Nations security council, former Ambassador in Washington

Javier Rupérez, a Spanish politician, diplomat and writer, was born in Madrid on April 24, 1941. He holds degrees in Law (1962) and Journalism (1975) from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2006 he has held the rank of full Ambassador within the Spanish Diplomatic Service, which he joined in 1967 and from which he retired in 2011.Already active in politics in his university years as a member of the clandestine Christian Democratic opposition to General Franco, he was one of the founders, in 1962, of the monthly magazine

“Cuadernos para el Dialogo”, edited by Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, where he wrote regularly about foreign policy, cinema and theatre. After Franco’s death in 1975 he joined the centrist party Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD) led by Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, of which Rupérez was Secretary for Foreign Relations and member of the Executive Committee. In 1982 he joined the Partido Demócrata Popular (PDP), later called Democracia Cristiana (DC), of which he was elected Vice President and later (1988) President. He was instrumental in facilitating the merging of the PDP/DC party with other center right parties-in particular Alianza Popular led by Manuel Fraga Iribarne- to form the new Partido Popular(PP), led by the future Prime Minister (1996–2004) José María Aznar. He was Vice President of the new party and member of its leadership committee.As a diplomat he has been posted to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1967–1969), Warsaw, Poland (1969–1972), Helsinki, Finland (1972–1973) Geneva, Switzerland (1973–1975) and Chicago, USA (2007-2011). Between 1976 and 1977 he was Chief of Staff to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was Ambassador of Spain to the Madrid session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1980–1982), Ambassador of Spain to NATO (1982–1983) and Ambassador of Spain to the United States of America (2000–2004). He was Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations in New York between 2004 and 2007 as Executive Director of the Counter Terrorism Committee of the Security Council.He was a Member of the Spanish Parliament between 1979 and 2000, in the Spanish Congress of Deputies (1979–1983 and 1986–2000) and as a Senator for the Castille-La Mancha region (1983–1986). As a member of the House he represented the electoral districts of Cuenca (1979–1982, 1986–1989), Madrid (1989–1993) and Ciudad Real (1993-2000.) He was the Foreign and Defense Affairs Parliamentary Spokesman for the UCD, PDP and PP. He was Vice President of the European Union of Christian Democrats between 1986 and 1988 and President of the Christian Democratic International (1998–2000). He presided over the NGO “Humanismo and Democracia”, based in Madrid, from 1989 to 2000. In 1979 he was kidnapped by the Basque terrorism group ETA and held captive for a month (November 11 to December 12).He was Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Spanish House of Representatives (1996–2000) and Chairman of the Defense Committee (2000). He was President of OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly (1996–1998) and President of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly (1998–2000). Between 1979 and 1983 he was active in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.He has been and remains a regular contributor to Spain’s national newspapers –“ABC”, “El Mundo”, “El País”, “El Imparcial” - and to a number of leading periodicals –“Revista de Occidente”, “Cuadernos de pensamiento político”, “Cuenta y Razón”, “Revista de Libros” and “Análisis del Instituto Elcano” among others.He has lectured at several Spanish - Complutense in Madrid, Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU in Madrid, Menendez Pelayo in Santander- as well as American universities - NYU and Columbia in New York City; Brigham Young in Provo, Utah; University of Wisconsin at Madison; DePaul and Northwestern in Chicago; Central Connecticut State University in New Britain; and at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.His awards include the Great Cross of Isabel la Católica, Spain; Commander of the Order of Carlos III, Spain; Officer of the Legion of Honour, France; Commander of the Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany; and other decorations from Italy, Belgium, Holy See, Portugal, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Colombia and Panamá.Javier Rupérez is married to Rakela Cerovic. He has two daughters, Laura, by his present wife, and Marta, by the late Geraldine Molenveld, his first wife.Javier Ruperez is at present Member of the Board of Abengoa Bioenergy LLC as well as Member of the Board of several Non For Profit Organizations: Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales (FAES) in Madrid; Círculo Cívico de Opinión, en Madrid, and Fundación para la Libertad, en Bilbao. He lives with his family in Chicago.

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György SCHÖPFLIN MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

Secondary education certificate, Scotland. University of Glasgow, MA (1960), LLB (1962). College of Europe, Bruges, Certificate (1963).Employed by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London (1963-1967) and the BBC (1967-1976). Teacher (1976-2004) and Jean Monnet Professor (since 1998), University of London.Various publications: ‘Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992’ (1993), ‘Nations, Identity, Power’ (2000), ‘The Dilemmas of Identity’ (2005).

José SILVA PENEDA, Former Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

José Albino Silva Peneda was born in S. Mamede de Infesta (Portugal) in 1950.Education : Graduate in Economics (1975). Diploma in Development Administration (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 1977).Career : Lecturer in Economics, University of Oporto. (1973-1975). Technician (1972-1974), secretary (1974-1978) and manager (1978-1979), Northern Region Planning Commission. Vice-Chairman (1981-1985) and Chairman (1994-1996), Northern Region Coordination Committee.Member of the Assembly of the Republic (1985/1987, 1987-1991 and 1991/1994).Secretary of State for Regional and Local Government (1979-1980); Secretary of State for Planning

and Regional Development (1985-1987); Minister of Employment and Social Security (1987-1993). Prime Minister's personal representative on the group of personal representatives of EU heads of state and government for the trans-European transport networks. Member of the National Political Executive of the PSD party (1985-1989). Member of the PSD National Council (1985-1995).Chairman of the board of directors of a number of undertakings belonging to the Sonae group (1996-2004). Chairman of the board of directors of Global Notícias, a holding company owning important Portuguese newspapers (2004-2005).Administrator of the Luís Figo Foundation. Chairman of the General Assembly of the Cyclists’ Union of Maia. Chairman of the Surveillance Board of the Maratona Clube de Portugal.Member of the European Parliament. Member of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and Substitute of the Committee on Budgets.


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Manfred WEBER, Chairman of EPP Group in the European Parliament

Graduate engineer (applied sciences and arts university) (1996). Founded two consulting firms (1996 and 1998).Regional Chairman, Bavarian Youth Section, CSU (2003-2007). Member of CSU Bureau. CSU District Chair, Lower Bavaria (since 2008). Member of the CSU Bureau and Executive (since 2008). Chairman of the CSU Committee on the Future of Bavaria (since 2009).Member of Kelheim District Council (since May 2002). Member, Bavarian Regional Assembly (2002-2004).

Member of the European Parliament (since 2004). Member of the Committees on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (full member since 2004; substitute member since 2012), Regional Development (substitute member since 2004) and Constitutional Affairs (full member since 2012). EPP coordinator, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, (2006-2009). Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group (since 2009).

Francesca TRALDI, Secretary General, Magna-Carta Foundation

Present and past position2014 up to now, Secretary General, Magna Carta Foundation, Rome2011 -2013, Director of International Relations and Head of Digital Agenda Board, Magna Carta Foundation, Rome2010-2008, Coordinator of Scientific Board, Magna Carta Foundation, Rome2008-200, Researcher, German-Historical Center, Kessler Foundation, Trento2006, Research Fellow, Political Science Dept, Brown University, RI, USA2006-2004, Research Fellow, Sozialgeschichte und Geschichtswissenschaft, Bielefeld University,

Germany2003 Research Fellow, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Bonn, GermanyEducation2010, Master in Lobby and Political Affair, Lumsa University, Roma 2006, PhD in political contemporary and comparative History (XIX-XX Centuries). Political, Institution, History Dept, Bologna University 2006, PhD in Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean Building on the Past, Ca Foscari University2002, BA Degree with honor in Political Science, Bologna University

Javier ZARZALEJOS, Secretary General, FAES Foundation

Mr. Zarzalejos was born in 1960 in Bilbao, Spain. He studied law and graduated at Deusto University, Bilbao. He is a member of the High Corp of Civilian Officers of the State.As high officer of the Spanish Public Administration he held important positions, the most relevant being Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government of José María Aznar (1996 – 2004). From January 2012 he is Secretary General at the Foundation for Social Analysis and Studies, FAES, where he previously held the position of Director of the Constitution and Institution Unit and Director of the in-house publication “Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político”.

He is married and has three children.

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