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.

• 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

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