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.
Chair
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Herman Van Rompuy
President Emeritus of the European Council; former Prime Minister of Belgium
Members
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Rudy Aernoudt
Member of the Chief Economist Team of the European Commission; former Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Economic and Social Committee -
Gordon Bajnai
Chairman of the Global Advisory Board, Campbell Lutyens; 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
Former Irish Prime Minister; former Head of the EU Commission Delegation in the United States -
Goran Buldioski
Co-Director, Open Society Initiative for Europe -
Poul Skytte Christoffersen
Former Ambassador of Denmark to Belgium; former Permanent Representative of Denmark to the European Union -
Philippe de Buck
Member of the European Economic and Social Committee; former Director General of BUSINESSEUROPE -
Aart De Geus
Chairman of the board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung -
Nikiforos Diamandouros
Former European Ombudsman -
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 -
Roberto Gualtieri
Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats -
Danuta Hübner
Chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) -
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Former President of the Republic of Estonia -
Nina Obuljen Koržinek
Minister 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 Conservatives and Reformists; former Minister of Justice of Romania -
Ana Palacio
Member of the Spanish Council of State; former Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain -
Anne-Sophie Parent
Secretary General, AGE Platform Europe -
Xavier Prats Monné
Director-General for Health and Food Safety at the European Commission -
Iveta Radičová
Former Prime Minister of Slovakia -
Maria João Rodrigues
Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats; former Minister of Employment in Portugal -
Artur Santos Silva
Former President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation -
Rafał Trzaskowski
Member of the Polish Parliament; former Polish Minister of Administration and Digitisation; former member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People’s Party -
Loukas Tsoukalis
President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP); Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens -
Luc Van den Brande
Former President of the European Committee of Regions; former Minister-President of Flanders-Belgium -
Philippe Van Parijs
Professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven; Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence); Associate Member of Nuffield College (Oxford) -
António Vitorino
Former European Commissionner for Justice and Internal Affairs; former Defence Minister of Portugal -
Helen Wallace
Emeritus Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science