Zagreb 2005 Speakers

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UACES 35th Annual Conference and 10th Research Conference
The European Union: Past and Future Enlargements

Speakers

In addition to the research papers to be presented at Zagreb, there are a number of invited plenary and keynote speakers, which have been listed below.

Othon Anastasakis (University of Oxford)
Dr Othon Anastasakis is the Director of the South East European Studies Programme (SEESP). Previously he was Research Fellow at the London School of Economics; Expert & Advisor on European Union matters at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Lecturer at the National School of Administration in Athens. He has written extensively on comparative authoritarian regimes, the European extreme right, EU’s eastern enlargement, EU-Balkan relations and Greek foreign policy. His current focus is on democratisation and transition in South East Europe and Turkey’s accession into the European Union. He studied Economics at the University of Athens, Comparative Politics and International Relations at Columbia University, New York and obtained his PhD in Comparative Government from the London School of Economics.

Erhard Busek (Special Coordinator, Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe)
Dr. Erhard Busek was born in Vienna, Austria, on March 25, 1941. He received his law degree from the University of Vienna in 1963. In April 1989 he was appointed Minister for Science and Research. From 1994 until May 1995 Dr. Busek was Minister for Education.
He was elected Chairman of the Austrian People’s Party in 1991 and served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 1991 to 1995. In 2000-2001 Dr. Erhard Busek served as Special Representative of the Austrian Government on EU-Enlargement.
Since January 2002 Dr. Busek serves as Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. Furthermore he is the Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI); Chairman of the “Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe” and President of the European Forum Alpbach

Marise Cremona (Queen Mary, University of London)
Marise Cremona is Professor of European Commercial Law and Associate Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. She has a particular interest in the relationships between the EU and its near neighbours, including the countries of central and eastern Europe, the emerging economies of the former Soviet Union, the EFTA States, and the Mediterranean States. She has contributed to a number of training programmes for lawyers and judges from central and eastern Europe and has acted as consultant on European integration for governments including Romania, Cyprus and Croatia. Marise Cremona’s research interests and major publications are in the field of EU external policy, especially relations with the wider Europe, the constitutional dimension to EU commercial policy, and the position of the EU with its distinctive regulatory system within the wider global context, including relations with the WTO.

Atila Eralp (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Prof Dr Atila Eralp is the Jean Monnet Chair and the Director of Center for European Studies, Middle East Technical University. He is also the Head of the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University. He graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Public Administration, and he completed his MA in the School of International Relations, University of Southern California, USA (1974-1975) and his PhD in the School of International Relations, USA (1975-1983).
His research interests concerning the European integration issues are politics of European integration, enlargement process of the EU, theories of European integration, comprehensive security, European security, Euro-Mediterranean Relationship, Globalisation and the process of European integration. He has been Jean Monnet Professor on European Political Integration since 2002. In the last twenty years he has written extensively on different aspects of Turkey-EU relations.

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Croatia)
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, having formerly been Head of Delegation for the negotiations on the accession of Croatia to the European Union. In 2003 she was appointed Minister of European Integration after having been elected Member of the Croatian Parliament earlier that year. Her work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia has included being Minister Counsellor and she was Head of Department for North America. She has worked in Canada for three years as Diplomatic Counsellor and Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of Croatia in Ottawa. She has an MA in Political Science from the University of Zagreb and has more recently completed a pre-doctoral research fellowship in international relations and security policy at George Washington University in Washington DC as a Fulbright scholar.

Samuel Issacharoff (Columbia Law School)
Samuel Issacharoff is the Harold R. Medina Professor of Procedural Jurisprudence at Columbia University in New York City. He is a leading American expert on the law governing the political process. Among his publications are The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, the leading work in the area in the United States. He also recently edited with Keith Ewing of London a compilation of essays on the law governing the funding of political parties in various countries around the world.

Antoinette Primatarova (Centre for Liberal Studies, Bulgaria)
In early 2002 Antoinette Primatarova joined the Bulgarian NGO Centre for Liberal Strategies. At the CLS she is researching in the framework of different projects linked both to the EU in general and to Bulgaria’s accession to the EU in particular, continuing thus in the NGO environment the line of her former diplomatic career. From 1993 to 1997 she served as Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Sweden, Norway and Iceland, from 1997 to 1999 as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and from 1999 to 2001 as Bulgaria’s Ambassador to the European Communities. Upon the opening of negotiations with the EU in early 2001 she was entrusted with the position of Bulgaria’s Deputy Chief Negotiator as well.

Loukas Tsoukalis (University of Athens, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and College of Europe)
Professor Loukas Tsoukalis is Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens, President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. In 2005 he was appointed Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission. His previous appointments include: Professorial Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence; Professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science; Director of European Economic Studies, College of Europe, Bruges; President of the Administrative Council and Director of the Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM), Athens; University Lecturer and Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford; Ambassador and Special Adviser for EC affairs to the Prime Minister of Greece. Author of many books and articles on European and international affairs, including The New European Economy and What Kind of Europe?, published by Oxford University Press and translated into several European languages. Updated and expanded paperback edition in 2005.

Boris Vujčić (Croatian National Bank, Zagreb)
Boris Vujčić (born 1964) holds a BA, MA and a PhD in Economics from the University of Zagreb. In addition, he received diplomas in Economics from the Montpellier University (France), the Michigan State University and in-service training at the European Commission in the Monetary Matters Department in Brussels. Between 1992 and 1994 Mr Vujčić was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, visiting lecturer at the University of Freiberg, Germany and visiting scholar at the University of Kentucky, USA. From 1994 to 2000, Mr Vujčić was External Collaborator for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and consultant to the European Commission. He joined Croatian National Bank in 1997, where he was Director of the Research Department for three years, before becoming Deputy Governor in 2000. Mr Vujčić also started as assistant professor at the University of Zagreb in 1989 and became Professor in 2003. He is, also, lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the University of Zagreb, Department of Mathematics. Mr Vujčić’s fields of expertise are macroeconomics, International finance and labour economics. He speaks English and French fluently.

Neil Walker (European University Institute)
Neil Walker has been Professor of European Law at the European University Institute, Florence since 2000, and prior to that was Professor of Legal and Constitutional Theory at the University of Aberdeen. He has written extensively about questions of transnational constitutional theory and also about the evolving constitutional structure of the EU, both generally and with specific reference to the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. His recent publications include two edited collections; Sovereignty in Transition (Hart, 2003) and Europe's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Oxford, 2004).

Renate Weber (Counsellor to the President of Romania)
Renate Weber is Presidential Counsellor on Constitutional and Legal Affairs to the President of Romania. Until December 2004 she was Chair of the Open Society Foundation in Romania, and she continues to serve as a member of the sub-board on Law and Human Rights of the Open Society Institute. As well as having been an Attorney at law on the Bucharest Bar, Renate Weber has also been a Lecturer on Human Rights and International Relations at the University of Bucharest. In 2003 she published a report on measures to combat discrimination in the 13 Candidate Countries and has written widely on the human and minority rights situation in Romania.

Peter Wierts (DG Economic & Financial Affairs)
Peter Wierts works as an economist in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. He previously worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands on international issues related to Economic and Monetary Union and on financial markets. He is one of the main authors of the 2003 and 2004 editions of the yearly report 'Public Finances in EMU' (European Commission, European Economy) and has published on fiscal policy in EMU, financial supervision and economic policy co-ordination.