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PLENARY SESSION II
Gunnar Hökmark, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in the EP, Chairman of the 'Economic and Financial Recovery' Working Group
Gunnar Hökmark was born on 19 September 1952 in Ystad. He has a degree in economics (Lund University-1975). He was reserve officer in the armoured troops (1975).
He was trainee within the Unilever Group (1976), product manager at Unilever (1977) and head of Timbro Idé (1985-1991). Then he was managing Director of the Reform Institute (2000-2002). After he was Chairman of the Moderate Party Youth League (1979-1984), member of the party's Executive (1979-1984), Party Secretary of the Moderate Party (1991-2000), Chairman of the Democrat Youth Community of Europe (1981-1983).
From 1982 to 2004 he was member of the Swedish Parliament and from 2000 to 2004, chair of the Committee on Laws. He was also Vice-Chairman of the European Enterprise Institute in 2004 and Chair of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association.
He is member of the Conference of Delegation Chairs, of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social CrisisHe is substitute of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
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Wolfgang Schaüble, German Finance Minister
Wolfgang Schaüble was born on 18 September 1942 in Freiburg. In 1961 he studied Law and Economics in Freiburg und Hamburg and joined the Junge Union, the CDU youth organisation. Since 1965 he is member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). From 1966 to 1970, he received his state law examination, then he became assistant lecturer at Freiburg University and representative of the Vice-Chancellor on political education and he received his second state examination. In 1971 he conferred a doctorate in a subject of commercial law and joined the tax authorities of the federal state (Land) of Baden-Württemberg. From 1969 to 1972 he was the district Chairman of Junge Union Südbaden. From 1978 to 1984 he wasbarrister in the regional court of Offenburg. From 1976 to 1984,Chairman of CDU Special Committee for Sport.
Since 1972 he is Member of the German Bundestag. From 1975 to 1984 he was Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. From 1984 to 1989 he was Federal Minister of Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery, then Federal Minister of the Interior and from 1981 to 1984, the Parliamentary secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. From 1998 to 2000 Wolfgang Schaüble was the Federal Chairman and since then member of the Presidium of the Christian Democratic Union Germany (CDU). From 1991 to 2000 he was also Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.
From 2005 to 2009, he was the Federal Minister of the Interior and from 2002 to 2005, the Vice-Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag for foreign policy, security policy and European policy. Since October 2009 he is the Federal Minister of Finance.
Phone: +49 3018 682-0Fax: +49 3018 682-4248
Email: [email protected]
Juan Jose Daboub, Managing Director World Bank
Juan José Daboub, Ph.D., joined the World Bank in June 2006. He is the Managing Director who is responsible for the Bank’s operations in 74 countries (in Latin America and the Caribbean, East Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa). In addition, Juan oversees other administrative vice-presidencies and functions, including the Information Systems Group (ISG) and the Department of Institutional Integrity (INT).
Prior to joining the Bank Group, Juan served concurrently as El Salvador’s Minister of Finance and Chief of Staff to the President. In this capacity, he helped to navigate his native country through several regional economic challenges – securing and sustaining El Salvador’s investment grade rating, dollarizing the economy, and completing a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. During this period, he also oversaw the reconstruction of El Salvador after the two earthquakes in 2001.
Juan distinguished himself in both the public and private sectors, as well as in academia. He led family-owned businesses for nearly a decade before joining the Board of CEL, El Salvador’s electric utility, and he presided over El Salvador’s electric distribution companies. Subsequently, he was named President of ANTEL, the state-owned telecommunications company, which he re-structured and privatized through a competitive process. He served in three different Governments over twelve years, and then returned to the private sector.
In 2004, he joined former President Flores of El Salvador in forming the America Libre Institute, where he worked in several projects implementing proven public policies that had been successfully deployed throughout Latin America.
Juan holds a BS, MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University.
+1 202 473 5572 [email protected]
Ingrida Šimonytė, Finance Minister of Lithuania
Ingrida Šimonytė was born on 15 November 1974 in Vilnius. In 1998 she graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University with Master’s Degree in Finance. In 1996 she graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University with Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration. In 1992 she finished Vilnius Secondary School
Professional experience:
As of 7 July 2009: Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania May 2004 - July 2009: Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance of the
Republic of Lithuania January 2002 - April 2004: Director of Tax Department, Ministry of Finance of
the Republic of Lithuania November 1998 - December 2001: Head of Indirect Taxes Division, Tax
Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania March 1997 - October 1998: Chief Economist of Tax Division, Fiscal Policy
Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania
tel. +370 5 2390 008mob. tel. +370 616 94846 e-mail: [email protected]
tel. +370 5 2199337mob. tel. +370 612 77 232e-mail: [email protected]
tel. +370 5 2390187e-mail: [email protected]
Mihály Varga, Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary, Chief of staff, former Finance Minister
Mihály Varga was born on 26 January 1965. He is a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance between 2001 and 2002. He is member of the Fidesz from the beginnings (1988). He is one of the party's four vice presidents since 2005.
Varga became state secretary of the Prime Minister's Office in 2010. His role is to maintain a contact between the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the ministers.
Jean-Paul Gauzès, MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the EP
Jean Paul Gauzes is a professional European politician from the top of his head right down to the tips of his toenails! Since the main qualification for politicians these days is a thorough knowledge of law rather than practical experience in the outside world of commerce it is hardly surprising that he is a qualified lawyer with a Certificate of Aptitude for Professional Advocates and a BSE in economics. His wife, also, perhaps unsurprisingly, is an advocate and they have three children and several grandchildren.
A member of the European Parliament, representing North Western France, he is also a member of the European People's Party, a party which claims to occupy the political centre ground. He is also, however, a member of the splinter group called the Union for a Popular Movement; a somewhat right wing leaning Conservative Association whose original president Allain Juppe was forced to resign after being convicted on charges of corruption; several other members were also involved in police enquiries. French President Jacques Chirac was strongly supported by the UPM but his support for the proposed membership of Turkey in the EU last a lot of support and Nicolas Sarkozy took over the presidency of the party in 2004 as a steppingstone to the French presidency.
Many honours and have been heaped upon Jean Paul Gauzes, all of a legal or political category. He is a Knight of the National Order of Merit, Knight of the Legion D'honneur, Knight of the Order of Academic Palms. He has been a lecturer in social science, a mayor of St-Agathe-d'Ailermont, a Paris lawyer, an advisor in banking taxation, a departmental head in the Ministry for Education. As part of his duties as a member of the European Parliament he is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, is vice president of a commission of enquiry looking into the circumstances surrounding the fall of the Equitable Life Insurance Company and works with a number of delegations fostering friendly relationships with Eastern Europe and Iran
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Jakob von Weizsäcker, Thüringer Wirtschaftsministerium, Germany
Jakob von Weizsäcker, a German citizen, joined Bruegel from the World Bank in Washington (2002-2005) where he was Country Economist for Tajikistan.
Previously, he worked for the Federal Economics Ministry in Berlin (2001-2002) where he headed the office of a junior minister and Vesta, a venture capital firm (2000-2001). Before that, he held research positions at the Center for Economic Studies in Munich and CIRED in Paris.
Jakob's research is focused on migration, ageing, economic development and presently, the economic crisis.
Phone 0049 36 13 79 72 [email protected]
Daniel Gros, CEPS, Brussels
Daniel Gros is the Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. Originally from Germany, he attended university in Italy, where he obtained a Laurea in Economia e Commercio. He also studied in the United States, where he earned his M.A. and PhD (University of Chicago, 1984).
He worked at the International Monetary Fund, in the European and Research Departments (1983-1986), then as an Economic Advisor to the Directorate General II of the European Commission (1988-1990). He has taught at the European College (Natolin) as well as at various universities across Europe, including the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Frankfurt, the University of Basel, Bocconi University, the Kiel Institute of World Studies and the Central European University in Prague. He worked at CEPS from 1986 to 1988, and has worked there continuously since 1990.
His current research concentrates on the impact of the euro on capital and labour markets, as well as on the international role of the euro, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. He also monitors the transition towards market economies and the process of enlargement of the EU towards the east (he advised the Commission and a number of governments on these issues).
He was advisor to the European Parliament from 1998 to 2005, and member of the Conseil Economique de la Nation (2003-2005); from 2001 to 2003, he was a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (advisory bodies to the French Prime Minister and Finance Minister). Since 2002, he has been a member of the Shadow Council organised by Handelsblatt; and since April 2005, he has been President of San Paolo IMI Asset Management.
He is editor of Economie Internationale and editor of International Finance. He has published widely in international academic and policy-oriented journals, and has authored numerous monographs and four books.
[email protected] (+32/2) 229.39.38
Otmar Issing, President of the Center for Financial Studies Goethe University Frankfurt
Otmar Issing is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the House of Finance, Frankfurt University (2007), President of the Center for Financial Studies (2006), International Advisor to Goldman Sachs Int. (2006) and member of the Advisory Board of Globalisation and Monetary Policy Institute at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. As a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from June 1998 to May 2006 Professor Issing was responsible for the Directorates General Economics and Research. From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of the Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank with a seat in the Central Bank Council. From 1988 to 1990 he was a member of the Council of Experts in Germany for the Assessment of Overall Economic Developments. In 2008 he was appointed by Chancellor Merkel Head of the Advisory Group on the New Financial Order. He became also member of the High Level Group of the European Commision chaired by J. De Larosière.
Otmar Issing is Honorary Professor at University of Frankfurt (2007) and University of Würzburg (1991). He held Chairs of Economics at the Universities of Würzburg (1973-1990) and Erlangen-Nuremberg (1967-1973). In addition to many distinctions Professor Issing received the Große Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (order of merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) in 2006. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Frankfurt (1999), Konstanz (1998), and Bayreuth (1996). Otmar Issing is an active member of Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Academy of Sciences and Literature), Mainz, and of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (European Academy of Sciences and Arts). Besides publishing numerous articles in scientific journals and periodicals, he is the author of, inter alia, two textbooks, namely "Einführung in die Geldtheorie" (Introduction to monetary
theory), fourteenth edition, 2006, and "Einführung in die Geldpolitik" (Introduction to monetary policy), sixth edition, 1996. His recent publication is "Der Euro -- Geburt - Erfolg - Zukunft" (The Euro -- Birth - Success - Future), 2008.
Phone: +49 (0)69 798-30050Fax: +49 (0)69 798-30077E-mail: [email protected]
Jacques DELPLA, CEO, Liberfund; Member, Prime Minister’s Economic AdvisoryCommittee, France
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)
+33158306101 +33660435894 [email protected]
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University
He grew up in Rochester, New York and he attended East High School. He excelled at Chess and by age 14, he was a U.S. master and New York State Open champion, and shortly thereafter became a senior master, the highest US national title. By 16, he was U.S. under-21 champion and representing the United States in the World championships in Stockholm. At 17, he played first board for the US team which won the world championship in Haifa, Israel. At 18 he was accepted into Yale University where he began studying economics and continued to play Chess. He became an International Master in 1974, and in 1978 he was finally awarded the title of International Grandmaster, the highest title in chess.
E-Mail: [email protected]: 617-495-4022Fax: 617-495-7730
Michael Wohlgemuth, Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg
Michael Wohlgemuth is an economist and Managing Research Associate at the Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg. He has been lecturer at the Universities of Freiburg, Erfurt, Friedrichshafen and Witten/Herdecke, Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Economics in Jena, Affi liate Assistant Professor at George Mason University and New York University and Friedrich von Hayek-Professor at the University of Innsbruck. Since the very beginning Rapporteur of EIN working group 8 on European Goverance / Democracy. Main Research areas and publications in the fields of New Institutional Economics, Austrian Economics, Public Choice Theory, and the History of Ideas. Policy recommendations mainly in the fi elds of European integration and reforms of German policy making procedures.
+ 49 761 7909710 [email protected] [email protected]
Carmen Reinhart, Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Maryland
Carmen M. Reinhart is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Reinhart held positions as Chief Economist and Vice President at the investment bank Bear Stearns in the 1980s, where she became interested in financial crises, international contagion and commodity price cycles. Subsequently, she spent several years at the International Monetary Fund. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Reinhart has served on numerous editorial boards, panels, and has testified before congress. She has written and published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and international finance and trade including: international capital flows, exchange rates, inflation and commodity prices, banking and sovereign debt crises, currency crashes, and contagion. Her papers have been published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises for over a decade. In the early 1990s, she wrote (with Guillermo Calvo) about the fickleness of capital flows to emerging markets and the likelihood of abrupt reversals--before the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995. Prior to the Asian crisis (1997-1998), she documented (with Graciela Kaminsky) the international historical links between asset price bubbles and banking crises, and how the latter could lead to currency crashes creating a "twin crisis." She identified (with Ken Rogoff) the possibility of severe economic dislocations from the sub-prime crisis in 2007. Her work is frequently featured in the financial press around the world, including The Economist, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She has appeared in CNN, CSPAN, BBC, and NPR, among others.
Her latest book (with Kenneth S. Rogoff) entitled This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton Press) documents the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history.
Tel: (301) 405-7006Email: [email protected]
Ross Walker, UK Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, EIN Working Group 1
He is based in RBS’s corporate and investment banking division in London, which deals principally in fi xed income, currency and derivatives markets, but with some involvement inequities and commodities. His main responsibilities are analysing and forecasting macroeconomic data and monetary policy. RBS is a prominent economic forecaster, participating regularly in surveys by the Bank of England, HM Treasury and private sector polls. Ross appears regularly in the print and broadcast media and has written for the Institute of Economic Affairs think-tank and The Daily Telegraph newspaper. Prior to working in the fi nancial sector, Ross was an economic policy researcher in the UK Conservative Party’s research department (1995-1998), principally covering trade & industry policy in addition to the transport brief. Over the years, Ross has maintained ties with the European political scene, from an internship in the European Parliament in summer 1995 through to his ongoing involvement with the EIN where he has served as the rapporteur on Working Group 3 (economic & monetary affairs) and having participated in all of the EIN Summer Universities.
+44 20 7085 3670 +44 7984 938 512 [email protected] [email protected]
Pilar del Castillo Vera, MEP, Member, EP Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Chairwoman of the 'Energy and Environment' Working Group
Pilar del CASTILLO VERA, Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) Member of the BureauMember of the Committee on Industry, Research and EnergySubstitute on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Curriculum vitae: Law degree (Universidad de Complutense 1974). Fulbright scholarship (Ohio
State University 1981-1982), Masters Degree in political science (Ohio State University 1982). PhD in law (Universidad Complutense de Madrid 1983). Associate Professor of constitutional law (Universidad Española de Educación a Distancia, UNED, 1986). Professor of political science (1994).
Editor and Director of the New Magazine of Politics, Culture and Art (Nueva Revista de Política, Cultura y Arte) 1995-1996.
President of the Sociological Research Centre (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas) (1996-2000).
Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, 2000-2004. Member of Parliament for the constituency of Granada (March- July 2004). Vice-coordinator of the EPP-ED group in the ITRE committee. Member of the Board of Governors of the European Internet Foundation. Author of publications on such topics as comparative electoral behaviour,
political parties and political and public behaviour.
Among the publications: La financiación de partidos y candidatos en las democracias occidentales, Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 1985. Comportamiento político y electoral (Ed), Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones sociológicas, 1994. Cultura y política (Ed), Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 1997. La Financiación de la Política en Iberoamérica (Ed), San José de Costa Rica, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, 1998.
Award for PhD given by the Sociological Research Centre (1984).Member of various national and international political science and sociology associations.
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Herbert Reul, Chairman of ITRE
Chair of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the EuropeanParliament.Herbert Reul became a member of the European Parliament in 2004. His party, the CDU, belongs to the European People’s Party (EPP). Since 2005, he has been a member of the EPP Bureau and the deputy chairman of the group of MEPs belonging to the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).
After holding the position of speaker on energy issues of the CDU/CSU delegation in the European Parliament from 2006 to 2009 and being the EPP's deputy coordinator in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) from 2007 to 2009, Reul became the chair of the ITRE Committee at the start of the new legislative period in 2009. Herbert Reul was born on 31 August 1952 in Langenfeld, NRW, Germany. After graduating from high school, Reul studied education at the University of Cologne from 1972 to 1979 and took his second state exam in 1981. From 1981 to 1985, he worked as a teacher at the Gymnasium (secondary school) in Leichlingen.
Since 1971, he has been an active member of the CDU, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. Already in 1975, he became a member of the City Council of Leichlingen, where he served till 1992. Reul was the district chair of the JU (Young Christian Democratic Union, YCD) in the region Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis from 1976 to 1983. He was also a member of the Bureau of the YCD in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from 1980 to 1987.
In 1985, Reul got voted into the Landtag (the assembly) of North Rhine-Westphalia and was re-elected three times until he left the Landtag in 2004. From 1985 to 1991, he was the speaker on educational policy of the CDU-Group in the assembly. Since 1987, he has been a member of the Bureau of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia and has been the district chair of the CDU in the region Bergisches Land since 2003. He also served as Secretary-General of the CDU in NRW from 1991 till 2003.
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Maria da Graça CARVALHO, MEP, Principal Adviser to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers
She is Principal Adviser to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers, a Department of the European Commission reporting directly to the President. In this bureau she is a policy analyst in the areas of Science, Higher Education, Innovation, Information Society, Energy, Transport, Environment, Space and Security Research Policy and Sustainable Development.
She is a Full Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of IST-Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) since June 1992. In 1983 she obtained her Ph.D. at the Imperial College in London. She has participated in and coordinated a large number of international R & D Projects. She is author of 97 articles in scientific international journals and she has written more than 400 articles for books, international conferences and seminars.
Her main research field is Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. She was Minister of Science and Higher Education of the XV Constitutional Government of Portugal and Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education of the XVI Constitutional Government, Director-General of GRICES-Office for International Relations in Science and Higher Education and Deputy President of the Portuguese Association of Engineers. She was a member of the Board of Directors President of the Scientific Board of Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon). She is a member of 22 national and international scientific associations and fellow of AIAA-American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of AAAS-American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was decorated by the President of Portugal with the designation “Great Official of the Order of Public Instruction” within the scope of International Women Day Programme (8 March 2002) and by the Chancellery of the International Order of Merit of the Discoverer of Brazil with the high honour of the Great Cross (26 April 2005).
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Péter Olajos, Hungarian Secretary of State, responsible for renewable energy, former EPP Member of the European Parliament
Péter Olajos was born on 18 April 1968 in Budapest. He is a Hungarian politician. He is a former Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Democratic Forum, part of the European People's Party.
He was member: 20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian
Democrats) and European Democrats 21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and
Food Safety 15.09.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan
and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia
15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
He was substitute: 22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer
Protection 28.09.2004 / 31.12.2006 : Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary
Committee 31.01.2007 / 12.02.2007 : Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer
Protection 13.02.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Budgets 15.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary
Assembly 10.05.2007 / 04.02.2009 : Temporary Committee on Climate Change
Education: 1990: Industrial engineer (BSc) 1992: Chemical Engineer (MA) 1993: Environmental Technology Engineer (MSc)
Career: 1994-1996: Head, Chairman's Secretariat, MDF party 1996-1998: Principal Private Secretary 1996-2004: Head, European Integration Office
1998-2000: Party directorTel.: +36 (1) 795-5957Fax: +36 (1) 795-0565Email: [email protected]
William C. Ramsay, IFRI, senior Fellow, Director of the Energy Program
Ambassador William C. Ramsay is Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency and Director of its relations with countries outside its membership. He was formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Energy Issues, Economic and Foreign Policy Sanctions and Strategic Commodities for the United States Department of State.
In his previous work, Ambassador Ramsay was U. S. Ambassador to the Republic of Congo, principal U.S. negotiator for the North American Free Trade Agreement for energy and petrochemical issues, economic/ commercial officer in Kinshasa, Zaire, and in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. He served in the Office of Fuels and Energy in Washington and subsequently in the U.S. delegation to the European Community in Brussels with responsibilities for policies on commodities, energy and nuclear policy. In the 1980s, he was Deputy Chief of the U.S. Liaison Mission in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and afterwards, Economic Counselor in the Embassy there before serving again in Washington as Director of the office which formulated and oversaw implementation of U.S. international energy policy.
As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Resources and Food Policy from 1989 - 1993, he was responsible for U.S. policy in the international trade and production of energy, industrial and agricultural commodities. At the same time he was the U.S. delegate to the International Energy Agency's Governing Board and Chairman of its senior standing policy committee.
Ambassador Ramsay is a native of Michigan, and a graduate of Michigan State University, where he obtained bachelor's and master's degrees, and the University of Stanford, where he received a graduate degree in international economics.
Ned Helme, President of the Center for Clean Air Policy
Ned Helme is the founder and president of the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP). As a leading expert on climate and air policy, he advises Members of Congress, state governments, the European Commission and developing countries on these issues.
A noted speaker and facilitator, Ned is the author of more than 50 key studies on climate change, air quality, electricity regulation, and transportation policy. With more than twenty-five years experience in climate and air policy, Ned has a broad and deep understanding of cap-and-trade programs and other market and non-market approaches to addressing climate change. Ned played an instrumental role in the development and passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990, which established the first national emissions trading program in the U.S. He was also a driving force behind the Decin Project in the Czech Republic, a pilot program to implement projects that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable development, and led stakeholder discussions that produced the design of the Clean Development Mechanism. Ned also led the expert team that developed the original design of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme.
He serves on the Board of the Transportation Research Board and has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Prior to starting CCAP, Ned directed the Natural Resources Division of the National Governors Association and was a legislative director to a U.S. Congressman.
He holds an M.P.P. from the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley and a B.A. in political science and psychology from Haverford College.
Headquarters: 750 First Street, NE Suite 940 Washington, DC 20002 Tel: 202-408-9260 Fax: 202-408-8896
GORDON MOFFAT
Gordon Moffat is the Director General of the EUROFER, the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries, founded in 1976, and located in Brussels It represents 100% of steel production in the EU.
Its members are steel companies and national steel federations throughout the European Union (EU).The major steel companies and national steel federations in Switzerland and Turkey are associate members.
0032 2 738 79 23
Viola Groebner, DG Industry
Director, Industrial Policy and Economic ReformsDirectorate General Enterprise and IndustryEuropean Commission, Brussels
Mrs Groebner began her career at the European Commission in 1978 as an administrator with the Directorate General for Agriculture where she worked on the wine market organisation and in particular on relations with 3rd countries. She then joined the DG for External Relations dealing with various topics such as the GATT Uruguay negotiations, steel agreements, relations with the European Parliament. In 1997 she became Head of Unit of the automotive sector in DG Enterprise and as of 1.9.1999 worked as a Cabinet member for President Romano Prodi. As a Cabinet member she was in charge of all dossiers concerning the environment, industry and enterprises, regional policy, health and consumer policy. Before rejoining DG Enterprise in September 2008, she was Director in charge of Resources Management in DG Environment for 5 years.
Viola Groebner studied law at the universities of Bonn and Munich and holds a law degree.
+(32) 2 [email protected]@ec.europa.eu
Wolfgang Eder, President of EUROFER
Wolfgang Eder has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of Voestalpine AG since April 1, 2004 and serves as its Head of Steel Division. Mr. Eder is responsible for group development, strategic human resources management, legal matters and M&A, corporate communications and corporate image, investor relations, auditing, strategic environmental management. Mr. Eder serves as Chairman of the Managing Board and Managing Director of Voestalpine Stahl GmbH at Voestalpine AG. He has been a Member of Management Board of Voestalpine AG since 1995. He served as Deputy Chairman of Management Board of Voestalpine AG until April 1, 2004 and also served as its Head of Motion Division. He serves as Chairman of Supervisory Board at Boehler-Uddeholm AG. Mr. Eder has been a Member of Supervisory Board of Boehler-Uddeholm AG since May 16, 2006. Mr. Eder serves as a Member of the Supervisory Board of Oberbank AG and Allianz elementar Versicherungs AG.
Avenue Ariane, 5Building "Integrale" E3 (3rd floor)B-1200 Brussels
Tél.: +32 2 738 79 20Fax.: +32 2 738 79 55
Jos Delbeke, DG Climate
Academic qualifications: 1986: PhD in Economics, K.U. (Katholieke Universiteit) Leuven, Belgium 1972-1977: Master in Economics, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Professional experience in the European Institutions: February 2008 to date: Deputy Director General DG Environment February 2003-January 2008: Director DG ENV.C (Climate Change, Air Quality
and Chemical Substances), DG Environment 2002: Head of Task Force during World Summit on Sustainable Development
in Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) 1999-January 2003: Head of Unit for Climate Change, DG Environment. Chief
negotiator of the Commission at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties on Climate Change
1994-1998: Head of Unit "Economic Analysis and Environmental Perspective", Directorate of Environmental Instruments, DG Environment, Nuclear Security and Civil Protection.
1986-1995 : Administrator in DG Social Affairs and DG Environment
Professional experience before joining the European Institutions: 2004 to date: Fellow of the Economics Faculty, K.U. Leuven 1985: Temporary Staff at International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA 1982-1986: Professor (docent) in Macro-Economics at Flemish Business
School VLEKHO, Brussels 1977-1982: Research assistant in Economics at K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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Roland-Jan Meijer, VP Environmental Affair Holcim
Experience: VP Environmental Affairs, Holcim : November 2003 — Present Director VAT / Customs, Andersen: March 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 6
months) Director External Affairs / Taxes, The Coca-Cola Company: (May 1991 — April
2000 (9 years )
Education: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen : 1981 — 1987 Christelijk Lyceum Arnhem : 1972 — 1979
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Ranier Fsadni, Director of AZAD, Centre for Political Studies, EIN Working Group 3
Ranier Fsadni is Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malta on Mediterranean and Maritime Affairs. He teaches social and cultural anthropology at the University of Malta with special reference to the Mediterranean and the Arab world. He is a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Journal of Mediterranean Studies and a reviewer for the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights. As Chairman of the Academy for the Development of a Democratic Environment (AZAD), he has been involved in EIN activities since 2004. He serves as an expert member of the Maritime Task Force of the European Commission and has also recently contributed to a draft report on maritime governance for DG Mare.
+356-21 247 515+356-7963 [email protected]@europe.com
Pascal Lamy, Director General, WTO
Pascal Lamy was born on 8 April 1947 in Levallois Perret (Seine). Mr Lamy has formerly held the positions of European Commissioner for Trade, CEO of Credit Lyonnais Bank, and Chief of staff for the President of the European Commission. He took office as Director-General of the World Trade Organization in September 2005. Mr. Lamy holds degrees from the Paris based Ecole des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) and from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).
He began his career in the French civil service at the Inspection Générale des finances and at the Treasury. He then became an advisor to the Finance Minister Jacques Delors, and subsequently to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.
In Brussels from 1985 to 1994, Pascal Lamy was Chief of staff for the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, and his representative as Sherpa in the G7. In November 1994, he joined the team in charge of rescuing Credit Lyonnais, and later became CEO of the bank until its privatisation in 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Pascal Lamy was Commissioner for Trade at the European Commission under Romano Prodi.
After his tenure in Brussels, Pascal Lamy spent a short sabbatical period as President of “Notre Europe”, a think tank working on European integration, as associate Professor at the l’Institut d’études politiques in Paris and as advisor to Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the European Socialist Party). Publications: • Towards World Democracy (Policy Network) (La démocratie monde: pour une autre gouvernance globale (Seuil, 2004)) • L’Europe en première ligne avec Erik Orsenna (Seuil, 2002) (in French) • The Europe we Want with Jean Pisani-Ferry (Policy Network) (L’Europe de nos volontés (Plon, 2002)) • Monde-Europe (Dunod, 1993) (in French) Tel: +41 (0)22 739 51 11Fax: +41 (0)22 731 42 06email: [email protected]
Béla Glattfelder, Hungarian EPP member of the European Parliament
Born on 4 May 1967, Budapest
Member 20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian
Democrats) and European Democrats 21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on International Trade 15.09.2004 / 13.03.2007 : Delegation for relations with Mercosur 15.09.2004 / 28.03.2007 : Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary
Cooperation Committee 01.12.2005 / 06.09.2006 : Committee on Budgetary Control 15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on International Trade 31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on International Trade 14.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation for relations with Mercosur 14.07.2009 / ... : Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) 16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China
Substitute 22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Fisheries 22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Fisheries 15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Fisheries 31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on International Trade 16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation
Committee 16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
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Daniel Caspary, MEP, Member of EP Committee on International Trade, Chairman of the 'Globalization and International Trade' Working Group
Member Committee on International Trade Delegation to the Cariforum — EC Parliamentary Committee Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
Substitute Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Committee on Petitions Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly
Curriculum vitae School-leaving certificate, Thomas Mann Gymnasium, Stutensee (1995).
Studied technical economics at the University of Karlsruhe (1997-2002). Employed by J.P. Morgan, Frankfurt and London (2000 and 2001). Authorised representative, MVV Energie AG, Mannheim (2002-2004).
First Lieutenant in the Bundeswehr reserve (1995-1997). District Vice-Chair of the CDU Youth Section for Baden-Württemberg (1999-
2002); regional press spokesman, CDU Karlsruhe-Land (since 1999); district chair of the North Baden CDU Youth Section (2001-2008); chair, CDU municipal association, Stutensee (2002-2007); member of the CDU Federal Committee on European Policy (since 2003); chair of the CDU Baden-Württemberg Committee on European Policy (since 2006). Substitute Member (2004-2008) and Member of the EPP Bureau (since 2008).
Municipal councillor in Stutensee (1999-2009). Member of the European Affairs Committee of the Bundestag (since 2007).
Member of the European Parliament (since 2004). Executive member, European Energy Forum (EEF) (since 2004); member,
European Internet Foundation (EIF) (since 2008). Member of the Board, Baden in Europe Association (since 2004); committee
member, Karlsruhe International Association (since 2006).
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Karel de Gucht, European Commissioner
Born January 27, 1954 in Overmere, Belgium
Current functions:Since February 2010 : European Commissioner for Trade
Political career: 2009 - 2010 : European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian
Aid 2008 – 2009 : Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium 2006 – 2009 : Mayor of Berlare and Chairman of the Municipal Council 2004 – 2009 : Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Affairs 2007 – 2009 : Minister for International Trade 2003 – 2009 : Member of the Belgian House of Representatives 1999 – 2004 : National President of the VLD (Flemish Liberal and Democratic
Party) 1995 – 2003 : Member of the Flemish Parliament 1994 – 1995 : Senator 1989 – 2009 : Municipal Councillor at Berlare 1985 – 1988 : National Vice-President of the PVV (Flemish Party for Freedom
and Progress) 1983 – 1988 : Alderman responsible for Finance at Lebbeke 1980 – 1994 : Member of the European Parliament 1977 – 1979 : National President of the Young Flemish Liberal Movement Since 1977 : Member of the Bureau of the PVV/VLD political party 1975 – 1977 : National President of the Flemish Association of Liberal
Students 1974 – 1975 : President of the Flemish Association of Liberal Students in
Brussels
Professional career: 1976 – 2001 : Lawyer 1991 – 2009 : Professor in European law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB) Currently gives several hours of lectures in European law (free of charge) at
the VUB
Education: 1976: Law degree, VUB 1971 : Secondary school certificate (Latin-Maths), Koninklijk Atheneum Aalst
mail: [email protected] : Mr ClancyPhone (+32-2) 29 53773fax: (+32-02) 29 80899
Eric Chaney, Chief economist of AXA Group
Career highlights Chief Economist for the AXA Group since November 2008. Responsible for
providing:economic research on long term trends and themes, which will be integrated across AXA IM investment strategy, medium term economic scenarios and an assessment of macroeconomic risks to the AXA Group management.
Member of the French Economic Council of the Nation, which advises the Minister of economics and finance since 1997.
Member of the Executive Committee of the French Economic Association. Regular columnist for international newspapers such as Newsweek and the
Wall Street Journal. Chief economist for Europe at Morgan Stanley from 2000 to 2008. European
economist from 1995 to 2000. Previously, headed the economic forecasting unit of the French statistical
office (INSEE) after having been responsible for global economic forecasts at the French Treasury.
Former Associate professor at the French School of Administration (ENA). Former professor of Mathematics. Holds a Masters Degree in pure mathematics from the University of Lyon and
from the Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance (ENSAE).
Espace presse (AXA France)
Formulaire de contact
Sally Razeen, European Centre for international Political Economyò
Razeen Sally is co-Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a international economic policy think tank based in Brussels. He is presently on a leave of absence from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has taught since 1993. He received his PhD from the LSE in 1992, and did post-doctoral research at INSEAD in France.
He is Senior Research Associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut D’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and Director, Trade Policy, at the Commonwealth Business Council in London. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, and on the Advisory Board of the Cato Centre for Trade Policy Studies in Washington DC.
Dr. Sally’s research focuses on trade policy in Asia, the WTO and preferential trade agreements. His new book on trade policy will be published in 2008. He has also written on the intellectual history of political economy, especially the theory of commercial policy. He lectures and consults for governments, business and international organisations, and comments regularly on international economic policy issues in the media.
00442079556788 [email protected]
Barid Baran Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi, India, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister
Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Barid Baran Bhattacharya chairs the International Comparison Project Committee (ICP) and the National Sample Survey working group reporting to Indian government ministries. As an international expert in econometric prospective and models, his analyses serve as a benchmark in the field.
Tél. : +33 (0)1 47 53 67 [email protected]
Hans-Peter Keitel, Chairman of the BDI
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Peter Keitel was elected BDI President at the BDI General Meeting on 24. November 2008. He entered office on 1 January 2009 for a period of two years. He was born in 1947.
Education: 1966-1971 Studies of Civil Engineering Stuttgart University (TH) 1971-1973 Studies of Business Administration and Economics Munich
Technical University 1975 Doctorate in civil engineering Munich Technical University
Professional Experience: 1971-1972 Alfred Kunz & Co. Contractors, Munich 1973-1975 Prof. Burkhardt KG, Consulting Engineers, Munich 1975-1987 Lahmeyer International GmbH, Consulting Engineers, Frankfurt am MainSection Head for Hydraulic Engineering and Dams Management of large-scale projects in Germany and abroad Long-term assignments in Argentina and Guatemala Consultant to the Arranging Banks of the Channel Tunnel Consortium 1988-2007 HOCHTIEF AG, Essen 1990-1992 Member of the Executive Board Responsible for the international
business 1992-2007 Chairman of the Executive Board 1992-1999 Member of the Executive Board of parent company RWE AG since 1988 Member of several Boards and Supervisory Boards President of the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)Member of the Board of the German cademy of Science and Engineering (acatech) 2005-2008 President of the Federation of German Construction Industry
(HdB) 2005-2008 Vice President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) since 2009 President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
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Phone +49 (0) 30 2028-0 [email protected]
Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics at the Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris
Patrick Messerlin is professor of economics at the Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris, known as Sciences Po, and the director of the Groupe d'Economie Mondiale de Sciences Po (GEM) since its creation in 1997. GEM is an independent research unit seeking to improve the performance of French and European public policies in a global world.
He has specialized in international trade and trade policy. His current research deals with WTO issues (from the Doha Round to trade and climate change); liberalization in services and the associated regulatory reforms; and EC commercial and enlargement policies.
In 2001-2002, he was a special advisor to Mike Moore, WTO Director General. He also served as a member of the Preparatory Conference to the G7-G8 Summits (a group of independent persons gathered by the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Tokyo Foundation). Since June 2008, he is serving as co-chair, with Ernest Zedillo, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, of the joint World Bank & UK Department for International Development Task Force on Global Finance and Trade Architecture. He is a member of the Global Trade Council of the World Economic Forum (2009-) and he is chairman of the steering committee of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE).
After having been a visiting professor at the University of Houston (Texas) and at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia), he has been, from 1986 to 1990, a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the World Bank, and since then, a consultant to various international organizations, governments and firms.
His recent books include Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s, Institute for International Economics (Washington) 2001; Commerce international, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris) 1998; Antidumping Industrial Policy: Legalized Protectionism in the WTO and What to Do about it, (with Brian Hindley) American Enterprise Institute (Washington) 1996; La nouvelle organisation mondiale du commerce, Dunod (Paris) 1995. He has written a hundred articles for professional journals, including the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, World Economy, Economic Studies, European Economy and Revue Economique.
33(0)1-4549-7256 [email protected] [email protected]
Raja Mohan, Singapore University
Dr C. Raja Mohan is Professor at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang, Technological University, Singapore and is acknowledged as one of India's leading foreign policy analysts. He has a Masters Degree in Nuclear Physics and a Ph.D. in International Relations. Earlier he was Professor of South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (2003-05) and Editor (Strategic Affairs) with the Indian Express and Diplomatic Editor and Washington Correspondent of The Hindu. Dr. Mohan was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board during 1998-2000 and 2004-06. His recent books include 'Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's Foreign Policy' (New York: Palgrave, 2004) and 'Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order' (New Delhi: India Research press, 2006).
Email: [email protected]: 6790 4909
Paul Blustein, the Brookings Institution, Journalist in Residence, Former Washington Post Editor
Paul Blustein is Journalist in Residence in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. His primary fields of expertise are international trade and international economic policy.
Prior to joining Brookings in 2006, Blustein was a staff writer at the Washington Post, where he mostly covered economic policy and related issues. He started at the Post in 1987 and served in its Tokyo bureau as Asian economics correspondent from 1990 to 1995. As the Post’s international economics correspondent, a position he assumed in September 1995, he reported stories from countries all over the world including Pakistan, Egypt, Argentina, Honduras, Indonesia, China, Qatar, Greece, Mali and Ethiopia. He took two book leaves from the Post, during which he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (in 1999 and 2000) and a Guest Scholar at Brookings (in 2003 and 2004). Before working at the Post he was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal from 1979 to 1987, the last four years of which he was the paper’s chief economics correspondent, covering the Federal Reserve, budget and tax policy; he came to the Journal after working at Forbes Magazine as a writer from 1976 to 1979. Among the prizes he has received for his reporting is the Gerald Loeb Award, generally regarded as the most prestigious prize in the field of business and economic journalism. In his books, Blustein specializes in writing about complex economic issues and institutions using dramatic narratives and behind-the-scenes reporting, with the aim of making the subjects appealing for expert and non-expert readers alike. He is the author of The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF (Public Affairs, 2001), and And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (Public Affairs, 2005). His current focus is a book about the World Trade Organization and the Doha Round, which will recount how hopes once rose high for creating a global trading system that would significantly benefit the world’s poor—and how those hopes have been dashed. His work has received support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Pew Fellowships in International Journalism, and the United States-Japan Foundation.
Born in 1951 in Washington, D.C., Blustein received his B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in 1975. He is married to Yoshie Sakai and is the father of four children.
Phone: 202.797.6105 or 202.797.6000Fax: 202.797.6004Email: [email protected]
Hanns Glatz, EIN Working Group 10
Dr Hanns Glatz is head of the CNC Brussels office. With his 40 years career as a "business diplomat", Dr Glatz has a profound knowledge of the political processes in the EU. He is appreciated as an adept mediator and experienced communication professional in Brussels.
Since 1989, and until the end of October 2009, Dr. Glatz was responsible for Daimler’s relations with the EU. He is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Brussels’ chapter of the Wirtschaftsrat Deutschland. Moreover, he is Chairman of the European Business Committee of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) and Member of the Advisory Board of the European Policy Centre (EPC). He chaired the US working group of BusinessEurope (the European federation of national industry associations) until October 2009.
Dr Glatz relocated to Brussels in 1970. He worked at Ford of Europe for nine years, and then established the then federation of EU National Associations of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, which he headed for 10 years as Secretary General. Dr Glatz studied Law and Economics at the University of Vienna and the College of Europe in Bruges. He started his professional career in the policy department of the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture.
Fluent in German, English and French, Dr. Glatz maintains a dialogue on "lobbying" or the "representation of interests" with university students, journalists, officials and politicians. Moreover, he regularly speaks to professional audiences.
[email protected]: +32 2 233 384 0 Fax: +32 2 233 384 [email protected]