The College Forum
The College of Europe welcomes high level speakers to both of its campuses, many of whom take this opportunity to further the European debate. Conferences and seminars are organised throughout the year, allowing practitioners and students to part take into critical dialogue and engage in direct exchanges of views over issues affecting European integration and international relations.
Selected speakers of the academic year 2009-2010 included in alphabetical order:
- D. Jacquín ALMUNIA, Vice-President of the European Commission and Competition Commissioner
- H.E. Mr Egemen BAGIS, Turkish Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator
- Mr Fabrizio BARBASO, Deputy Director-General, DG Energy, European Commission
- Andrzej BLACHOWICZ, Member of COP15 Team (Poland), National Administrator of the Emissions Trading Scheme in Poland
- Mr Elmar BROK, Member of the European Parliament
- H.E. Ambassador Urs BUCHER, Head of the Swiss European Integration Office
- Mr Jerzy BUZEK, President of the European Parliament
- Mr Martin CAUDRON, Euralia, European Public Affairs
- Mr Daryl COPELAND, Canadian Diplomat, author of “Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations”
- Mrs Cesira D’ANIELLO, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, DG F “Press, Communication, Transparency”
- Mr Karel DE GUCHT, European Commissioner designate for Trade
- Mr Giuseppe DE PALMA, Vice-President, European Union Affairs
- Professor Panagiotis DELIMASIS, Assistant Professor of International Trade and European Law, Tilburg University; Senior Research Fellow, World Trade University, Switzerland; Guest Professor, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- H.E. Mr Radomir DKILIC, Ambassador, Embassy of Serbia in Belgium
- Mr Marek EVISON, Adviser to the President of the European Parliament
- Mr T. FARAGO, Secretary of State, Hungarian Ministry for the Environment
- Mrs Nicole FONTAINE, Attorney registered with the Bar of the Hauts-de-Seine (France), former President of the European Parliament, former Minister
- Mr Geoffrey HARRIS, Head of Human Rights Unit, European Parliament
- Mr D. HELM, Fellow in Economics, New College, Oxford, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford
- Dr. Antje HERRBERG, Director and Senior Mediation Advisor of the Crisis Management Initiative, Helsinki
- Mr Yaroslav HRYTSAK, Professor at Ukrainian Catholic University and Lviv National University, former visiting scholar at Harvard University and Central European University Budapest
- Mr Toomas Hendrik ILVES, President of the Republic of Estonia
- Mr Bruce JENKS, UN Assistant Secretary-General
- H.E. Mr Naim MANDRI, Albanian Consul in Brussels
- H.E. Mr Ricardo NEIVA TAVARES, Ambassador, Mission of Brazil to the EU
- Mr Emil PAULIS, Director, Directorate G, Financial Services Policy and Financial Markets, European Commission
- M. Jean-Claude PIRIS, Director General of the Legal Service, Legal Counsel of the European Council
- Mr A. RUNGE-METZER, Director, "Climate Change and Air" Directorate, responsible for international climate negotiations
- Mrs Odile QUINTIN, Director General, DG Education and Culture, European Commission
- Mr P. SERAFIN, Undersecretary of State, Polish Office of the Committee for European Integration, expert in European and International Environmental Issues (financial aspects), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
- Judge SANG-HYUN SONG, President of the International Criminial Court, The Hague
- Mr Yoshinori TANAKA, First Secretary, Mission of Japan to the EU
- H.E. Takako UETA, Ambassador, Mission of Japan to the EU
- M. Herman VAN ROMPUY, President of the European Council
- Mr S.J. VANDERLEEUW, Chemical Regional Director for Europe, Middle-East and Africa, ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical, Machelen
- Antonio VIGILANTE, Director of the United Nations Office in Brussels
- Mr Xining WANG, Counsellor, Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the EU
- Mrs Susanne WEBER-MOSDORF, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organisation Office at the European Union
- Martin WESTLAKE, Secretary-General of the European Economic and Social Committee
- Mrs Stella ZERVOUDAKI, DG Relex, European Commission
Selected speakers of the academic year 2008-2009 in alphabetical order.
Selected speakers of the academic year 2007-2008 in alphabetical order.