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

• Herman Van Rompuy
  President Emeritus of the European Council; former Prime Minister of Belgium

Members

• 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
  Group Chief Operating Officer of Meridiam Infrastructure; 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

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