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50 Years of the Treaty of Rome

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Last updated: Monday, 26 March 2007

Dr Martyn Bond, London Press Club
Martyn Bond began his career in the BBC in 1966 producing programmes for the external services in Bush House. He subsequently taught European Studies in the New University of Ulster before joining the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Brussels in the Press Office in 1974. He was BBC correspondent in Berlin from 1981 to 1983, returning to Brussels late that year to work on overseas aid issues in the Council of Ministers and on relations with the European Parliament. From 1989 to 2000 he headed the European Parliament Office in the UK. From 2000 to 2003 he was Director of the Federal Trust, where he is now special advisor on EU Enlargement. He pursues his journalistic interest as a freelance and is a Director of the London Press Club.

Prof Simon Bulmer, University of Manchester, UK
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Simon Bulmer is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Manchester. His research interests cover European Union-member state relations (especially Germany and the UK); EU governance; and new institutionalism. Over the recent period he has worked on the impact of the EU upon British central government; British devolution and EU policy-making; and policy transfer in the EU. His most recent books are: The Member States of the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2005), co-edited with Christian Lequesne and Policy Transfer in European Union Governance: Regulating the Utilities (co-authored with David Dolowitz, Peter Humphreys and Stephen Padgett), which was published by Routledge in January 2007. He was joint editor with Andrew Scott of JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 1991-8.

Mr Poul Skytte Christoffersen, Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commission
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•   Master of Economics from the Copenhagen University (1973)
•   Studies at the European College in Brugge, Belgium (1973)
•   Served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen (1973-1977)
•   Lecturer at the Copenhagen University (1973-1977)
•   1st Secretary of Embassy at the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the EC (1977-1980)
•   Head of Cabinet to the Secretary General of the Council of the European Union (1980-1994)
•   Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen (1994)
•   Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Denmark to the European Union, Brussels. (1995- 2003)
•   As such President of the Permanent Representatives Committee in 2nd semester 2002 and EU Chief negotiator at the level of officials in the final phase of enlargement negotiations in 2002
•   Ambassador, Royal Danish Embassy, Rome
•   Permanent Representative to FAO, WFP and IFAD (2003-2005)
•   Professor, Copenhagen Business School (2004-  )
•   President, WFP Executive Board (2005)
•   Nationality: Danish

Prof Alan Dashwood, University of Cambridge, UK & Barrister, Henderson Chambers
Alan Dashwood is Professor of European Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He is also a Barrister in Henderson Chambers and a Bencher of the Inner Temple. As a Barrister, he specialises in the law of the European Union, and he appears regularly in proceedings before the European Court of Justice. Before election to his Chair at Cambridge, he was a Director in the Legal Service of the Council of the EU. He was the founding Editor of European Law Review and is presently one of the Joint Editors of Common Market Law Review. He is co-author of Wyatt and Dashwood’s European Union Law, the fifth edition of which has recently been published, and contributes frequently to legal periodicals. At the invitation of the FCO, he led a team of Cambridge lawyers in drafting a model EU Constitution, as a contribution to the work of the Convention on the Future of Europe.

Prof Paul De Grauwe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Paul De Grauwe is professor of international economics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He was a member of the Belgian parliament from 1991 to 2003. He is doctor honoris cause of the University of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), of the University of Turku (Finland), and the University of Genoa. He obtained his Ph.D from the Johns Hopkins University in 1974.
He was a visiting professor at various universities, the University of Paris, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Amsterdam. He was also a visiting scholar at the IMF, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. He is a member of the Group of Economic Policy Analysis, advising President Barroso.
His research interests are international monetary relations, monetary integration, theory and empirical analysis of the foreign-exchange markets, and open-economy macroeconomics. His published books include The Economics of Monetary Union, Oxford, International Money. Post-war Trends and Theories, Oxford, and The exchange rate in a behavioural finance framework, Princeton

Prof Jaap de Zwaan, Clingendael Institute
Prof Jaap de Zwaan was born in 1949 in Amsterdam, and studied Law at Leiden University and the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. In 1993 he obtained his PhD degree in Law at the University of Groningen with a thesis entitled 'The Permanent Representatives Committee, its role in European Union decision making'.
De Zwaan started his professional career in 1973 as a member of the The Hague Bar. From 1979 until 1998 he worked for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague (European Integration Department and Legal Service), as well as in Brussels (Permanent Representation of the Netherlands at the EU). During his work in The Hague (1979-1983 and 1988-1995) he acted inter alia as Agent for the Netherlands Government in numerous cases before the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg. As Legal Advisor of the Permanent Representation (1983-1988 and 1995-1998) he was involved in the negotiations on and the drafting of several European treaties, such as the Treaties of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities, the European Single Act and the Treaty of Amsterdam. In the period 1995-1998 he also was involved in the development of the Justice and Home Affairs cooperation of the European Union.
In 1998 Jaap de Zwaan became professor of the Law of the European Union at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 2001-2004 he was also Dean of his Faculty. After being appointed as Director of the Clingendael Institute in September 2005, he has continued his work for Erasmus University Rotterdam on a part-time basis.

Mr Brendan Donnelly, Federal Trust, UK
Brendan Donnelly has been Director of the Federal Trust since January 2003. He is a former Member of the European Parliament (1994 to 1999). He was educated at Oxford, where he studied classics, and later worked in the Foreign Office, the European Parliament and the European Commission.

Prof Kenneth Dyson, Cardiff University, UK
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Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications on EMU include Elusive Union (1994), The Road to Maastricht with Kevin Featherstone (1999), Politics of the Euro Zone (2000), European States and the Euro (2002) and Enlarging the Euro Area: External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe (2006). He is currently working on the second edition of European States and the Euro: The First Decade; Continuity and Change in European Central Banking with Martin Marcussen; and European Economic Governance and Policies: A Critical Analysis of Key Documents with Lucia Quaglia: all to be published by OUP. Another book project is Whose Europe? The Politics of Differentiated Integration with Angelos Sepos. His other key interest remains German politics and policies. Recent books include Germany, Europe and the Politics of Constraint with Klaus Goetz (2003) and The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany with Stephen Padgett (2006). He was adviser to the BBC2 series on the making of the euro.

Prof Jolyon Howorth, Yale University, USA & University of Bath, UK
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Jolyon Howorth has been Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University since 2002. He is also Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics ad personam at the University of Bath (UK).
He has published extensively in the field of European politics and history, especially security and defense policy and transatlantic relations. Recent books include: Defending Europe: the EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy, 2003 (edited with John Keeler); European Integration and Defence: the Ultimate Challenge?, 2000. His new book, Security and Defence Policy in the European Union will be published by Palgrave/Macmillan in April 2007.

Prof Knud Erik Jørgensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Knud Erik Jørgensen is Jean Monnet Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus. He is the former editor of the journal Cooperation and Conflict and editor or co-editor of Reflective Approaches to European Governance (Macmillan, 1997), European Approaches to Crisis Management (Kluwer, 1997), (with Thomas Christiansen and Antje Wiener) The Social Construction of Europe (Sage, 2001), (with Tonny B. Knudsen) International Relations in Europe. Traditions, Perspectives and Destinations (Routledge, 2006) and (with Mark Pollack and Ben Rosamond). Handbook of European Union Politics (Sage 2007). He is currently preparing a monograph on European foreign policy and a new textbook on IR Theory.

Prof Wolfram Kaiser, University of Portsmouth, UK
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Wolfram Kaiser joined the University of Portsmouth as Professor of European Studies in 2000. He was previously a (senior) research fellow and lecturer at the universities of Saarbrücken, Cambridge, Paris IV, Vienna and Edinburgh. He also teaches at the College of Europe and the universities of Bonn and Trondheim. His publications include Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (CUP 2007 – forthcoming), Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space (ed. with Peter Starie, Routledge 2005), European Union Enlargement: A Comparative History (ed. with Jürgen Elvert, Routledge 2004).

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG, Chairman, Imperial College London & Honorary President UACES
John Kerr was a UK diplomat (1966-2002), serving as FCO EU UnderSecretary (1987-1990), member of COREPER, and Maastricht Treaty negotiator, (1990-1995), Ambassador to the USA (1995-1997), and FCO Permanent UnderSecretary (1997-2002). On leaving government service he became Secretary-General of the EU Constitutional Treaty Convention (2002-3). A crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2004, he serves on the Lords EU Committee. He is Chairman of Imperial College, London; Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell plc and the National Gallery; a Rhodes, Fulbright, and Carnegie Trustee; and current Honorary President of UACES.

Prof Jean-Victor Louis, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Hon. professor, ULB, Hon. general counsel, National Bank of Belgium, Former president, Institute of European Studies of the ULB. Formerly Part time Professor, European University Institute, Florence; Docteur honoris causa, University of Paris II.
President, Foundation Wiener- Anspach, director, Cahiers de Droit européen, TEPSA Board member.
Recent Publications:
Jean-Victor Louis & Marianne Dony (ed.), Relations extérieures, Commentaire J. Mégret, vol. 12, 2^nd ed., Brussels, Editions Université de Bruxelles, 2005, 643 p.
Jean-Victor Louis & Thierry Ronse, L’ordre juridique de l’Union européenne, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Bruylant, LGDJ, Basle, Brussels, Paris, 2005, 458 p.
Jean-Victor Louis & Stéphane Rodrigues (ed.), Les services d’intérêt économique général et l’Union européenne, Buylant, Brussels, 450 p.
Jean-Victor Louis, L’Europe. Sortir du doute, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2006, 150 p.

Dr Kalypso Nicolaïdis, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
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Kalypso Nicolaïdis is Director of the European Studies Centre and University Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford. She is also chair of Southeastern European Studies at Oxford and holds the professorial chair on Visions of Europe at the College of Europe in Bruges. Previously she was Vincent Wright Chair at Sciences-Po, Paris, associate Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and taught at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris. She has published widely on the internal and external aspects of European integration in numerous journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy and International Organization. Her most recent is The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and the EU (edited w/ Robert Howse). More information is on her website: http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/esc/knicolaidis/

Sir William Nicoll, retired official
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Ukrep Counsellor, External, 1972-75; Deputy Permanent Representative, 1977-81; Director-General, General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers 1981-91. Fulbright Fellow, Center for European Studies, George Mason University, Virginia, 1991-92. Editor of European Business Journal, 1992-2002; Associate Director, Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies, 1995-2002

Mr John Palmer, Member of the Governing Board of the European Policy Centre, Belgium & Commentator on European Affairs
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John Palmer is a member of the Governing Board of the European Policy Centre. He was a founding director and – until his retirement in 2006 – Political Director of the EPC. John Palmer was for more than 35 years a journalist with The Guardian and for 20 years – until 1985 – European Editor of The Guardian in Brussels. Between 1983 and 1987 he was seconded as a Director of Public Affairs to he Greater London Enterprise Board and was a board member of London Transport in 1987. He is the author of three books on European affairs.

Mr Quentin Peel, The Financial Times
Quentin Peel is International Affairs Editor of the Financial Times, responsible for writing editorials, features and a regular column on international affairs. His main areas of specialisation are the European Union, Russia and eastern Europe, transatlantic relations, Africa and questions of economic development.
He was formerly Foreign Editor, from 1994-98, during a period of rapid expansion of the FT network of correspondents in Asia, eastern Europe and the Americas. From 1991-94 he was chief correspondent in Germany, reporting on the aftermath of German reunification. He was bureau chief in Moscow from 1988-91, throughout the main years of the Gorbachev revolution. Earlier he was European community correspondent in Brussels (1984-87) when the Single European Act was negotiated, and Jacques Delors became president of the European commission.
He was Africa Editor based in London, but travelling widely on the continent, including Nigeria, from 1981-84. Before that he was Johannesburg correspondent, covering southern Africa, from 1976-81. He joined the Financial Times in 1975, after starting in journalism in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1970, with a degree in economics (with French and German).

Prof Mark Pollack, Temple University, USA
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Mark A. Pollack is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, having previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His research agenda focuses on the role of international institutions in the regional and global governance, with specific projects examining the delegation of powers to the supranational organizations in the European Union, the creation of new mechanisms for the governance of the transatlantic relationship, and the “mainstreaming” of gender issues in international organizations. Prof. Pollack is the author of The Engines of European Integration: Delegation, Agency and Agenda Setting in the EU (Oxford University Press, 2003), and co-editor of five books, including most recently The Handbook of European Union Politics (with Knud Erik Jørgensen and Ben Rosamond, Sage Publications, 2007), as well as over two dozen articles and book chapters. He is currently at work on a book (with Gregory Shaffer) on the transatlantic dispute over genetically modified foods and crops, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Dr Elfriede Regelsberger, Institut für Europäische Politik, Germany
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Since 1989 Elfriede Regelsberger has been deputy director at the Institut für Europäische Politik Berlin. Main research areas: European foreign and security policy with particular emphasis on the CFSP institutions, procedures, the CFSP external, national foreign policies and the CFSP with particular emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany. Recent publications include:
Elfriede Regelsberger: Die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der EU (GASP) - Konstitutionelle Angebote im Praxistest 1993-2003, Band 80, Baden-Baden 2004; Elfriede Regelsberger (together with Nicole Alecu de Flers): The EU and New Regionalism, in The International Relations of the EU, Oxford University Press 2005 edited by Christopher Hill and Michael Smith.

Prof Vivien Schmidt, Franqui Chair, Brussels & Boston University, USA
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Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations at Boston University. She is currently on leave, having been named to the Franqui Interuniversity Chair, held jointly at the Free University of Brussels and Louvain (January to June 2007). She has published widely in the areas of European political economy, institutions, and democracy. Her books include: Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities (Oxford 2006), Policy Change and Discourse in Europe (co-ed C. Radaelli, Routledge 2005); The Futures of European Capitalism (Oxford 2002), Welfare and Work in the Open Economy (2 vols, with F. W. Scharpf, Oxford 2000); From State to Market? (Cambridge l996); and Democratizing France (Cambridge l990). She has also published over eighty articles and chapters in books.

Prof Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Jo Shaw holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, having previously held Chairs of European Law, and Jean Monnet Chairs, at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust. She was formerly Chair of UACES (2003-2006). Jo Shaw's teaching and research focuses on the field of the EU constitution and institutions, particularly in socio-legal and interdisciplinary perspective. Further details, including recent papers on the EU constitutional process, can be found on her homepage: www.law.ed.ac.uk/staff/joshaw_88.aspx.

Mr David Spence, Political Counsellor, Delegation of the European Commission, Geneva
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David Spence has just been EU political advisor to the Special Representative of the United Nations for the Elections in the Ivory Coast.
He is currently political counsellor for the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy and disarmament at the European Commission's delegation to the United Nations in Geneva. He has also been secretary of the task force for German unification, head of training for the Commission's External Service and advisor on European Security and Defence Policy and relations with NATO.
Until his move to Geneva in 2003 he was the Commission representative in the G8 and EU Council Terrorism Working Groups. Before joining the Commission, David Spence was lecturer in politics at the Sorbonne and Ecole Normale Supérieure, advisor to Wilton Park, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office¹s conference centre, then Head of European Training at the UK Civil Service College. He has published widely on European affairs and is the editor of Foreign Ministries in the European Union: integrating diplomats, Palgrave, 2005 and The European Commission, published by Harper, 3rd edition 2005.

Mr Peter Sutherland, KCMG, former EU Commissioner
Mr Sutherland is Chairman of BP plc (1997 - current). He is also Chairman of Goldman Sachs International (1995 - current). He is currently UN Special Representative for Migration and Development. Of Irish nationality he was born on 25th April 1946 and was educated at Gonzaga College, University College Dublin and the King’s Inns. In addition to his Chairmanships listed above he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. He has recently been appointed as a Consultor for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. Prior to his current positions, Mr Sutherland served as Attorney General of Ireland (1981-1984); EC Commissioner responsible for Competition Policy (1985-1989); Chairman of Allied Irish Banks (1989-1993) and Director General of GATT and then of The World Trade Organisation (1993-1995).

Prof Helen Wallace, Member, Better Regulation Commission
Helen Wallace holds degrees from Oxford (1963-7), Bruges (1967-8), and Manchester (1969-73). Her career has included working at UMIST, the Civil Service College, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (now Chatham House), and the College of Europe. From 1992-2001 she was Director (later Co-Director) of the Sussex European Institute and Professor of Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex. She was the Director of the ESRC “One Europe or Several?” Programme from 1998-2001. Helen was until August 2006 the Director of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She holds several honours, including Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (French award), Elected Fellow of the British Academy and Chaire ad honorem Conseil universitaire européen pour l’Action Jean Monnet. She received the 2006 UACES Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to European Studies.
Recent publications include An Agenda for a Growing Europe (OUP, 2004) in which she was a co-author, Policy-Making in the European Union, 5^th ed, coedited with William Wallace and Mark Pollack, OUP, 2005; and The Council of Ministers of the European Union, co-author with Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, 2^nd edition, Palgrave, 2006.

Prof Richard Whitman, Chatham House, UK & University of Bath, UK
Professor Richard Whitman is Professor of Politics at the University of Bath and Senior Fellow, Europe at Chatham House (formerly known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs). From April 2004 to April 2006 he was Head of the European Programme at Chatham House. Prior to arrival at Chatham House he was Professor of European Studies at the University of Westminster and where he was also Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy from 2001-2003.

Sir Nigel Wicks, Euroclear, London, UK
Sir Nigel is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of both Euroclear plc and Euroclear SA/NV and a non-executive director of the Edinburgh Investment Trust plc. From 1989 to 2000, Sir Nigel was Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury during which he was Chairman of the EU Monetary committee between 1993-98. Before this, he spent periods as Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Economic Minister at the British Embassy in Washington DC and as UK Executive Director at the World Bank and the IMF and as Private Secretary to Prime Ministers James Callaghan and Harold Wilson.