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Seminar of European Ideas Networkand centre-right Think Tanks andPolitical Foundations in Europe

‘Different perception of Europe in a time of crisisEurope as an opportunity / Europe as a risk’

8 February 2012Brussels

VADE-MECUM of the Speakers

EPP GroupGroup of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) in the European Parliament

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Fréderic ALLEMAND, Researcher, ENS, Sciences Po

Frédéric Allemand is Researcher at Centre virtuel de connaissance sur l’Europe (a Luxembourg-based public research and documentation centre dedicated to the European integration process, www.cvce.eu) where he is in charge of the EU institutional issues, as well as economic governance. He is also Associate Researcher at the Centre de géostratégie of the Ecole normale supérieure (an elite higher education institution) and lecturer in EU law at Sciences Po Paris, HEC Business School and Ecole nationale d’administration. He was formerly Deputy Director of the Europe-International Department at Fondation pour l’innovation politique (a French centre-right think tank) and, before that, Researcher at the Robert Schuman Foundation (Paris) and lawyer in Legal

Department at the ECB. He is graduated from Sciences Po and the Pantheon Sorbonne University. He has published many scientific contributions about the EMU and the EU law. His last publication: “Crise de la zone euro: modernité du plan Werner (1970) /Crisis in the Eurozone: The Contemporary Relevance of the Werner Plan of 1970”, Revue Futuribles, février 2012 (see: http://www.futuribles-revue.com/index.php?option=com_article&access=doi&doi=10.1051/futur/38263&Itemid=129).

Mauro CALVANO, Project Coordinator, Prima Press Agency

Born in Ravenna (Italy), the 07th November 1964. Italian Citizen.Present position: President and C.E.O. Magister Ludi S.r.l., Milan ItalyPrimapress: Project coordinatorEducation: Graduated at London City University, Airline Management, London UK, with previousPolitical and Sociological studies in Bologna University.Experienced Aviator and Communication Specialist with wide-ranging international managerial experience.In 1989 Funder and Director of Edimedia S.r.l. the first Italian company fully dedicated to Multimedia Production, with main customer Agusta Helicopters.

In 1995 he led the founding of Magister Ludi in Milan, Italy, established to provide consultancy services, with an international team of experts coming from the EU Joint Research Center of Ispra. During the 90s Magister Ludi was deeply involved in studying Human Factors in the aviation domain, developing communication and training solutions and a series of published researches with a hands-on aviation operations.In 1998 appointed in Lauda Air as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) manager, developing an innovative communication programme, before starting a series of international experiences as General Manager and entrepreneur in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Kenya (Nairobi).An intense experience was the managing of Humanitarian Flights under United Nations contracts in areas like Sudan (Darfur) and Pakistan (Kashmir) in 2004/05.From 2009 CEO of Eagles Airlines in Venice, Italy, leading the initial concept development, to funding, licence acquisition, and the launching. After a successful start-up, left the company in April 2011.Key expertise is the development and managing of companies in international environments, with a particular attention in structuring the company through dedicate communication patterns.In Primapress he coordinates all activity related to new media and new communication technologies, merging communication expertise with new media tools, from web radio to satellite communication.

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Allan JANICK, Professor in Philosophy, University of Innsbrück

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.

Dimitri KONSTANTAKOPOULOS, Journalist, Athens News Agency “Kosmos toy Ependiti” weekly

Born in Athens, GreeceStudies:• Diploma of Physics, University of Athens• DEA on Information Processing, University of RennesMain Posts:• Advisor at the Office of Prime Minister of Greece on East/West Relations and arms control, 1985/88• Chief correspondent in Moscow for Athens News Agency, 1988/98• Senior analyst and commentator for “Kosmos tou Ependiti”, Athens News Agency, “Epikaira”

on Greek Foreign Policy, international politics, geopolitics Author of three books: • Soviet Secret Services and Greece, 1925-1949 (the Dimitrov archive), Nea Sinora, Athens 1993, in Greek• The kidnapping of Cyprus (the Annan Plan and US policy in Eastern Mediterranean), Livanis, Athens 2004, in Greek• Cyprus in a trap (Left in Cyprus and Greece and the National Question), Livanis, Athens, 2008, in Greek He has published extensively in various Greek, Russian and French reviews.

Carlo CASSINI MEP, Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, chair of the EP committee on ‘Constitutional Affairs’

• Degree in law (1958). Lawyer (1960); Magistrate (1961). Magistrate with special duties (1963). Deputy State Prosecutor (1966). Judge of the Supreme Court of Cassation (1999).

• Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th parliamentary terms); rapporteur on the code of criminal procedure, adoption, drugs and terrorism.

• Member of the European Parliament (1984-1999 and since 2006). Rapporteur on artificial human procreation, international adoption and exploitation of minors. Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs (1994-1997). Vice-President of the EC-ACP Parliamentary Assembly (1989-1992).

• President of the Italian Pro-Life Movement. Member of the national executive of the ‘Scienza e Vita’ (Science and Life) Committee.

• Lecturer in international law, human rights and bioethics at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum (Rome, 2002-2010). • Former member of the National Bioethics Committee (CNB). Former member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE). • Silver Medal of Merit for Social Rehabilitation awarded by the Ministry of Justice (1974).

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Ioannis PAPADIMITRIOU, Journalist, Deutsche Welle

Ioannis Papadimitriou is a Greek-German journalist and jurist, gratuated from the University of Bonn, Germany and specialized in European and Public International Law. For about 15 years he has worked as an editor, presenter and producer for German Television (WDR TV Cologne, SWF TV Baden Baden, Deutsche Welle TV) and for Deutsche Welle Radio. He has also worked as a live-news anchorman and foreign desk editor for various Greek TV-channels, including the leading news channel ‘Skai’. Currently he is an Athens correspondent for Deutsche Welle Radio and the German newspaper ‘Die Tageszeitung’. Furthermore, he is covering the monthly sessions of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. In 2008 he was nominated for the first Journalism Prize of the European Parliament and in 2010 he was awarded the “Calligas Journalism Prize” in Greece for promoting European integration. In 2011 he has won first prize in the German-Greek translation competition, organized by the Goethe Institute in Athens.

Paulo RANGEL MEP, Vice Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Member of the EP Committee on ‘Constitutional Affairs’

• Graduate 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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Dr. Bert VAN ROOSEBEKE, Head of department, EU Financial Markets Regulation, Centre for European Policy

Academic Experience1996 – 2000 : University Gent, Belgium; School of Economics

University Stockholm, Sweden: School of Economics University Bergen, Norway: School of Economics

2000 : Masters Degree in Economics, University Gent, Belgium Masters Thesis: “Should Norway join the EMU? An Economic Analysis.”

2000 – 2001 : University Hamburg, Germany, European Masters in Law and Economics (EMLE)

2001 – 2004 : PhD in Economics at IInstitute of Law and Economics, Hamburg and George Mason University, Arlington, USA“State Liability for Breaches of EU Law. An Economic Analysis”, Gabler Verlag 2007

Professional Experience03/2005 – 11/2006 : Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am MainTasks: Infrastructure in Clearing and Settlement, CRD and MiFID-Directive, Bank Supervision, IMF-Department (Art. 4 Procedures)

Since 12/2006 : Centrum für Europäische Politik – CEP; Stiftung Ordnungspolitik, Freiburg im BreisgauMember of Research Departments EU-Telecommunication Regulation, EU-Financial Markets Regulation

Since 01/08 : Head of Department EU-Telecommunications Regulation at CEPSince 05/08 : Head of Department Financial Markets Regulation at CEP

Since 2008 : Lecturer in European Regulatory Questions at University Hamburg, Jacobs University Bremen, Julius-Maximilian-University Würzburg

LanguagesFluent : English, Dutch, GermanVery Good : FrenchPassive : Swedish

PublicationsPublications on a large number of regulatory topics in the field of EU Financial Market Regulation, such as: Rating Agencies, Own Funds Requirements, Deposit Guarantee Schemes, Financial Transaction Tax, Auditing, European Banking Supervision.

Cornelis-Mario VIS, Bureau of the European Policy Advisors, European Commission

Cornelis Vis (1960) holds degrees in economics and law (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands) and is specialised in the European policy domains of research, science and technology, innovation, higher education and the digital agenda, industry and internal market.Before joining BEPA he worked at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research, initially as policy adviser on EU funding programmes in the strategy and policy unit, later on as policy coordinator in the Directorate “European Research Area; Knowledge-based economy”, involved in the development of initiatives with other Directorates General, such as the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the “European partnership for researchers”.Other previously held positions include those of deputy director for international relations (Europe and the Russian Federation) at the Netherlands Research Council NWO, The Hague;

executive director of the Netherlands house for Science and Technology (NEST), Brussels; and personal adviser to the President of the European Science Foundation (ESF), Strasbourg.

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Publication date : February 2012

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