Daniel Daianu, Friends of Europe – member of the Board of Trustees
President
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| Viscount Etienne Davignon is a former Vice-President of the European Commission and a former President of the International Energy Agency (IEA). He has held mandates in numerous companies, in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Royal Sporting Club d’Anderlecht, and CSR Europe. |
Secretariat General
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A former Brussels Correspondent of the Financial Times, Giles is a journalist, author and broadcaster who has specialised in the study and analysis of European public policy issues since 1978. Since 1984, Merritt has been a columnist for the International Herald Tribune and Project Syndicate and his articles range widely across EU political and economic issues. Merritt began his newspaper career in 1968, when he joined the Financial Times. From 1972 he was successively FT staff correspondent in Paris, Dublin/Belfast and Brussels, until leaving the newspaper in 1983. In 1982 he published „World Out of Work”, an award-winning assessment of the unemployment crisis in industrialised countries, and in 1991 „Eastern Europe & the USSR: The Challenge of Freedom”, published in four languages.
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Co-Founder & Director
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Geert Cami co-founded Friends of Europe in 1999. Prior to that, he worked for in the Information and Communications Unit of the then newly set-up European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), where he was responsible for the setting up of media events (exhibitions, seminars, press conferences, concerts, television debates, Humanitarian Days in Member States, etc). He also headed Forum Europe and produced music programmes at the BRTN (Belgian Public Radio) as well as special television reports for international organisations as NATO and CSCE.
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Board of Trustees
Giuliano Amato, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy. He is a former Prime Minister of Italy and he also served as Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe.László Andor, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission.Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament and before that France’s Minister for both Agriculture and Foreign Affairs.
Enrique Barón Crespo, President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and the European Foundation for Information Society. He is also a former President of the European Parliament.
Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg.
Carl Bildt, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2006-2014. He was the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Balkans and Sweden’s Prime Minister in the early 1990s.
Joachim Bitterlich, former Diplomatic Advisor to Helmut Kohl and a former German Ambassador to NATO and Spain.
Franziska Katharina Brantner, Member of the German Bundestag and a former Member of the European Parliament.
Elmar Brok, Chairman of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee and Delegation for relations with the United States.
John Bruton, Prime Minister of Ireland’s Rainbow Coalition government in the mid-1990s.
Carme Chacón Piqueras, former Minister of Defence of Spain.
Dacian Ciolos, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission.
Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament and a former Irish TV journalist.
Robert Cox, former European Commission Representative to Turkey and former Senior Advisor to the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, President of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs. He is a former NATO Secretary General and former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Daniel Daianu, Member of the Board of the National Bank of Romania. He is a former Finance Minister of Romania and a former member of the European Parliament.
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He is a former Prime Minister of Portugal.
Anna Diamantopoulou, former Greek Minister for Education and Development. She was previously EU Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs and is President of the Network-DIKTYO.
Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, Vice Governor of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB). He is the former Secretary of State for EU Affairs and Economic Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Sorin Ducaru, Assistant Secretary General of NATO. He is the former Ambassador of Romania to NATO.
Monica Frassoni, Co-President of the European Green Party. From 1999 to 2009 she was Member of the European Parliament.
Catherine Gernay, Member of Management Board and Director of Veolia Environnement and Cliniques de l’Europe and is a former Managing Director of Belgium’s CEN-SCK (Centre d’études sur le Nucléaire).
Ana Gomes, Member of the European Parliament.
Sylvie Goulard, Member of the European Parliament.
Elisabeth Guigou, President of the French National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee. She is a former Minister for EU Affairs.
Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia.
Baron Daniel Janssen, President of the Board of Directors of Solvay and his Honorary President. He is a former Member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Elysée’s Secretary General. He was formerly Chairman of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and French Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs.
Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of Re-Define, an international think tank.
Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic.
Pascal Lamy, honorary President of Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute and a former chief of the World Trade Organisation and a former European Commissioner for Trade.
Spiro Latsis, President of EFG Eurobank.
Yves Leterme, Secretary General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). He is a former Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and previously Prime Minister of Belgium.
Linas Antanas Linkevicius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Philip Lowe, former Director General of the European Commission.
Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs.
Mario Monti, former Prime Minister of Italy and former European Commissioner.
Alojz Peterle, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament and former Prime Minister of Slovenia.
Hans-Gert Pöttering, former Member of the European Parliament and its former President, as well as former Chairman of the EPP-ED Group.
Paul Révay, European Director of the Trilateral Commission.
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament. He was formerly Chairman of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee and Polish Minister for European Affairs.
Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament.
Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for NATO’s Emerging Security challenges Division.
Javier Solana, former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy. He was previously Secretary General of NATO and before that Spain’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Anna Terrón, Special Representative and Spokesperson for the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean. She is the former Spanish Secretary of State for immigration and emigration.
Frans Van Daele, Chief of Staff to the King of Belgium. He is the former Head of Cabinet to the President of the European Council, and has been Belgium’s Ambassador to NATO, the EU and the United States.
Frank Vandenbroucke, former Deputy Minister-President of the Flemish Region and a former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister. His ministerial portfolios have included foreign affairs, employment, social affairs and education.
Androulla Vassiliou, EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth.
Guy Verhofstadt, Leader of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament. He is also a former Prime Minister of Belgium.
Veronika Wand-Danielsson, Swedish Ambassador in Paris.
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