Advisory Group
The Advisory Group will bring together high-ranking policy-makers, academics, NGO representatives and other stakeholders – a mixture of past and current national and European leaders from different sectors and backgrounds.
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Giuliano Amato
Member of the Constitutional Court of Italy; former Prime Minister of Italy; former Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe -
Gordon Bajnai
Founder of the Patriotism and Progress Public Policy Foundation; former Prime Minister of Hungary -
Franziska Brantner
Member of the German Bundestag; former Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance -
John Bruton
President of IFSC Ireland; former Irish Prime Minister; former Head of the EU Commission Delegation in the United States -
Poul Skytte Christoffersen
Former Ambassador of Denmark to Belgium; former Permanent Representative of Denmark to the European Union -
Philippe de Buck
Former Director General of BUSINESSEUROPE -
Aart De Geus
Chairman of the board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung -
Andrew Duff
Former Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe -
Elsa Fornero
Professor of Political Economy at the University of Turin; former Minister of Labor, Social Policies and Gender Equality of Italy -
Emilio Gabaglio
President of Forum Lavoro of the Partito Democratico; former General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) -
Roberto Gualtieri
Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats -
Danuta Hübner
Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) -
Nina Obuljen Koržinek
Research Fellow at the Institute for International Relations; former State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture of Croatia -
Ivan Krastev
Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia -
Roger Liddle
Chair of the Policy Network think tank; former Economic Adviser to the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso -
Monica Macovei
Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People's Party; former Minister of Justice of Romania -
Ana Palacio
Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain; member of the Council of State -
Anne-Sophie Parent
Secretary General, AGE Platform Europe -
Xavier Prats Monné
Director-General for Education and Culture at the European Commission -
Maria João Rodrigues
Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats; former Minister, Policy Advisor to EU institutions; and Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles -
Gesine Schwan
Former President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin; former presidential candidate of the Federal Republic of Germany -
Rafał Trzaskowski
Secretary of State in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; former Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People’s Party -
Rudy Aernoudt
Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Economic and Social Committee -
Frans van Daele
Head of Cabinet to His Majesty the King of the Belgians; former Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy -
Luc Van den Brande
Former President of the European Committee of Regions; former Minister-President of Flanders-Belgium -
Philippe Van Parijs
Director of the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics, University of Louvain (UCL), Fellow of Nuffield College (Oxford) -
Guy Verhofstadt
Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe -
António Vitorino
President of Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute -
Helen Wallace
Emeritus Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science