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Ann-Kristin Achleitner
| 1988 – 1991 | PhD in Business Administration, University of St. Gallen |
| 1990 – 1992 | PhD in Law, University of St. Gallen |
| 1992 – 1994 | Habilitation (post-doctoral degree), and University Lecturer on Finance and External Auditing, University of St. Gallen |
| 1995 – 2001 | Endowed Chair for Banking and Finance, and Chairwoman of the Board of the Institut für Finanzmanagment, European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel |
| 2001 – | Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance, supported by KfW Bankengruppe (former KfW-Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance), University of Technology Munich |
| 2003 – | Scientific Director, Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (CEFS), University of Technology Munich |
| Present Positions (Selection) | |
| 2008 – | Member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG) |
| 2011 – | Member of the Supervisory Board, Linde AG |
| 2011 – | Member of the Supervisory Board, Metro AG |
| 2011 – | Member of the Private Capital Industry Agenda Council of World Economic Forums (WEF) |
| 2012 – | Member of the Financing of Social Enterprises committee of the KfW-Bankengruppe on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth |
| 2012 – | Member of the Government Commission German Corporate Governance Code |
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Lord Andrew Adonis
| BA in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford | |
| DPhil, Christ Church College, Oxford | |
| 1987 – 1991 | Oxford City Councillor for Liberal Democrats representing the North Ward |
| 1988 – 1991 | Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford |
| 1991 – 1996 | Education and Industry correspondent, and Public Policy editor, Financial Times |
| 1996 – 1998 | Political columnist and contributing editor, The Observer |
| 1998 – 2005 | Education and constitution policy advisor in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Policy Unit |
| 2001 – 2003 | Head of Policy Unit, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office |
| 2003 – | Stepped down to write official biography of Roy Jenkins, but retained post of Senior Policy Adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair |
| 2005 – 2008 | Appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families |
| 2008 – 2009 | Minister of State for Transport, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office |
| 2009 – 2010 | Secretary of State for Transport, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office |
| 2010 – 2012 | Director, Institute for Government (IfG) |
| Present Positions | |
| Member of the House of Lords, UK Parliament | |
| President, Independent Academies Association (IAA) | |
| Non-executive Director, Baker Dearing Educational Trust | |
| Non-executive Director, Edge Foundation | |
| Trustee, Teach First | |
| 2012 – | Liveryman Honoris Causa of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers |
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Ilse Aigner
| 1990 | State-certified electrical technician, Specialised technical college |
| 1990 – 1994 | Development of system electronics for helicopters, eurocopter |
| 1994 – 1998 | Member of the Bavarian State Parliament |
| 1990 –1998 | Member of the Feldkirchen-Westerham Local Council |
| 1990 –1998 | Member of the Rosenheim District Committee |
| 1990 – 1999 | Advisor to the European Commission, several EU governments |
| 1998 –2013 | Member of the Federal German Parliament |
| 1998 – 2002 | CDU/CSU Spokesperson, Study Commission on the Future of Civic Activities Member, Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment |
| 2002 – 2005 | Deputy Chair, CSU Group; member of the Budget Committee |
| 2005 – 2008 | Chair, Working Group on Education and Research, Spokesperson, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment Member of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group’s Executive Committee |
| 2008 – 2013 | Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection |
| Present Positions | |
| 1995 – | Member of the Executive Committee; member of the CSU Upper Bavaria District Executive Committee |
| 1999 – | Deputy Chair, CSU Upper Bavaria District Executive Committee |
| 2007 – | Member, CSU Presidium; co-opted member of the Executive Committee of CSU Women’s Union of Bavaria |
| 2001 – | Chair of the Upper Bavaria District Executive Committee |
| 2013 – | Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology |
| Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria | |
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Jutta Allmendinger
| 1981 – 1983 | Research Assistant, Center for Survey Research and Methodology, Mannheim Head of project: Evaluation of Socio-Scientific Hiring Scales |
| 1982 | Degrees in Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Mannheim |
| 1983 – 1984 | Postgraduate Studies (Sociology, Economics and Statistics), University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1984 – 1988 | Research Assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge; Center for Educational Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1987 | MA Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 1988 – 1991 | Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
| 1989 | PhD Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 1991 – 1992 | Fellow, Harvard Business School, Program for Organizational Behavior, Cambridge |
| 1992 – 2007 | Professor of Sociology, University of Munich (on leave from February 2003 to February 2007) |
| 1996 – 1997 | Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University |
| 1999 – 2002 | Chairperson, German Society for Sociology (DGS) |
| 2003 – 2007 | Director, Institute of Employment Research, Nuremberg |
| 2003 – 2007 | Editor, Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung |
| Present Positions | |
| 2007 – | President, Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin |
| 2007 – | Professor of Educational Sociology and Labor Market Research, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 2009 – | Co-Editor of the journal Forschung. Politik – Strategie – Management, UVW UniversitätsVerlagWebler |
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Joaquin Almunia
| Academic Life | |
| 1971 | Graduated in Law at the University of Deusto, Bilbao |
| 1972 | Graduated in Economis at the University of Deusto, Bilbao |
| 1991 | “Senior managers in Government” programme at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 1992 – 1994 | Associate Lecturer on Employment and Social Security Law, University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid |
| 1991 – 1994 | Director, research program on “Equality and redistribution of income”, Fundación Argentaria |
| 2002 – 2004 | Founder and Director, progressive think tank “Laboratorio de Alternativas” |
| Political career | |
| 1979 – 2004 | Member of the Spanish Parliament |
| 1982 – 1986 | Minister of Employment and Social Security, Spain |
| 1986 – 1991 | Minister of Public Administration, Spain |
| 1994 – 1997 | Spokesperson of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Spain |
| 1997 – 2000 | Leader of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) |
| 2000 | Socialist candidate for Spanish Prime Minister |
| 2004 – 2010 | Commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Brussels Member of the European Commission, Brussels |
| Present Positions (Selection) | |
| 2010 – | Vice-President and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission, Brussels |
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Rolf Alter
| Post-graduate work in Germany and the United States | |
| PhD from University of Göttingen, Germany | |
| 1981 – 1987 | Staff Member, General Economic Policy Department, German Ministry of Economy, Bonn |
| 1987 – 1989 | Economist, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC |
| 1989 – 1991 | African Department, International Monetary Fund |
| 1991 | Transition Economies Division, OECD Economics Department |
| 1996 – 1998 | Advisor to the Executive Director, OECD |
| Senior Economist, Counsellor for the Directorate of Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs, OECD | |
| 2001 | Head, OECD Regulatory Reform Programme |
| 2002 | Deputy Director for Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD |
| 2006 – 2009 | Chief of Staff of OECD Secretary-General, Mr Angel Gurría |
| Present Position | |
| 2009 – | Director for Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD, Paris |
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Leszek Balcerowicz
| 1947 | Born in Lipno, Poland |
| 1970 | Graduated with distinction from Foreign Trade faculty in Central School of Planning and Statistics (CSPS) in Warsaw, (now Warsaw School of Economics (WSE)) |
| 1974 | MBA at St. John’s University in New York |
| 1975 | PhD in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics |
| 1985 | Fellowship at the University of Sussex |
| 1988 | Fellowship at the Marburg University |
| 1989 – 1992 | Minister of Finance, Republic of Poland |
| 1990 | “Balcerowicz Plan” to end hyperinflation and balance the national budget |
| 1997 – 2000 | Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Poland; President of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers |
| 2001- 2007 | President of the National Bank of Poland |
| Present Position | |
| 1992 – | Professor, Warsaw School of Economics (WSE) |
| 1993 – | Director of Chair of International Comparative Studies at Warsaw School of Economics |
| 2008 – | Chairman of the Board, Bruegel, Brussels |
| 2009 – | President of International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) |
| Memberships (selection) | |
| Distinguished Associates of the International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES); Group of Trustees, Institute of International Finance; Group of Thirty | |
| Awards and Honours (selection) | |
| 1992 | Ludwig Erhard Prize (Ludwig Erhard Foundation, German) |
| 1998 | „Finance Minister of the year“ (Euromoney Magazine) |
| 2000 | Friedrich von Hayek Prize, Germany |
| 2005 | Order of the White Eagle for his contribution to the system transformation |
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Richard Baldwin
| BA in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| MSc in Economics, London School of Economics | |
| PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 1990 – 1991 | Senior Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, Washington DC |
| 1998 – 1999 | Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 1999 – 2004 | Elected Member on the Council of the European Economic Association |
| 2006 – 2011 | Elected Member on the Council of the European Economic Association |
| 2008 – 2012 | Vice Chair, the Academic Advisory Committee, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC |
| 2012 – 2015 | Visiting Professor, Oxford University |
| Present Positions | |
| 1991 – | Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva |
| 2007 – | Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU.org, an economic policy portal |
| 2016 – | President of the Centre for Ecomic Policy Research (CEPR), London |
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Katinka Barysch
| 1994 | First degree in Political Science, Economics and Law, University of Munich |
| 1996 | MSc in Politics of the World Economy, London School of Economics |
| 1997 – 1998 | Research fellow, ZEW; Consultant, Brussels |
| 1998 – 2002 | Senior Editor, Eastern Europe, at The Economist Intelligence Unit, London |
| 2002 – 2013 | Chief Economist, later Deputy Director, Centre for European Reform (CER) |
| Advisor to the European Commission, several EU governments, the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum, as well as various financial institutions, multinationals and business federations | |
| Present Position | |
| 2013 – | Director of Political Relations, Allianz SE, Munich |
| Further Positions | |
| Young Global Leader, the World Economic Forum | |
| David Rockefeller Fellow, the Trilateral Commission | |
| Strategic Advisor to the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference | |
| Associate Fellow, Chatham House | |
| Advisory Board Member, Europe Program of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt | |
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Agnes Bénassy-Quéré
| 2011 –1987 | Graduate, École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris |
| 1991 – 1992 | French Ministry of Economy and Finance |
| 1992 | PhD in Economics, University of Paris-Dauphine |
| 1992 – 1996 | Lecturer, University of Cergy-Pontoise |
| 1995 | Research habilitation, University of Cergy-Pontoise |
| 1997 – 1998 | Professor, University of Lille 2 |
| 1999 – 2000 | Deputy Director, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII) |
| 2001 – 2004 | Professor of Economics, University of Paris-Quest |
| 2003 – 2011 | Associate Professor, École Polytechnique |
| 2006 – 2012 | Director of CEPII, French Research Center for International Economics |
| Present Position | |
| 2011 – | Professor, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
| Associate researcher, Paris School of Economics | |
| Researcher, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne | |
| Research Fellow of CESifo Network, Munich | |
| 2012 – | Director, Conseil d’Analyse Economique, Paris |
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Roland Berger
| 1958 – 1962 | Business Administration (Diploma degree) at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich |
| 1962 – 1967 | Consultant (up to Partner level) at Pietro Gennaro & Associati, Milan |
| 1967 – 2003 | Founded Roland Berger strategy consultancy: With Roland Berger as its CEO, the Roland Berger company grows from a one-consultant company to one of the leading management consultancies in the world (Top 5) with (currently) 50 offices worldwide and 2400 employees |
| 2003 – 2010 | Chairman of the Roland Berger GmbH |
| 2008 | Established the Roland Berger Foundation |
| Present Positions | |
| 1967 – | Consultant to large, multinational companies, governments and government departments, as well as to individual managers and politicians |
| 2007 – | Chairperson of the Executive Board of the Society for the Promotion of Economic Research (Friends of the ifo Institute) e.V. |
| 2010 – | Honorary Chairman at the Roland Berger GmbH |
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Marc-Michael H. Bergfeld
| Swiss School Singapore, Ettal Benedictine Monastery Boarding School | |
| 1998 – 2003 | MBA (Diplom-Kaufmann), Catholic University of Eichstätt, Ingolstadt School of Management |
| 2001 – 2002 | Assistant to the General Manager, GyD Latinoamericana S.A., Buenos Aires |
| 2003 – 2004 | Deputy Project Manager, Seidenschwarz & Comp. GmbH, Starnberg |
| 2005 – 2007 | PhD, Policy Research in Engineering Science and Technology, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School; Co-supervision at Center of Global R&D, Tsinghua University, Beijing |
| 2005 – 2007 | Senior Program Manager International Innovation, Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich, Germany and foreign subsidiaries |
| 2008 – 2009 | Part-time Lecturer: Strategy, Innovation and Family Firms, Munich Business School |
| 2009 – 2010 | Part-time Lecturer: Innovation and New Product Development, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Ingolstadt School of Management |
| 2010 | Executive Program Private Equity and Venture Capital, Harvard Business School |
| Present Positions | |
| 2007 – | Founder and Managing Director, Courage Partners GmbH & Co. KG, Feldafing |
| 2009 – | Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Family Firms, and Academic Director MBA in General Management and Designer of masterspecialization in International Family Firms, Munich Business School |
| 2012 – | Visiting Professor, Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Singapore Management University |
| 2012 – | Senior Fellow, Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center, Florida International University |
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Giuseppe Bertola
| Studies in Economics, University of Torino | |
| PhD in Economics, Institute of Technology, Massachusetts | |
| 1988 – 1993 | Assistant Professor, Princeton University |
| 1993 – 1995 | Associate Professor, University of Torino |
| 1997 – 2003 | Professor, European University Institute |
| 1999 – 2008 | Member, ifo Institute Scientific Advisory Council |
| 2006 – 2007 | Special Adviser to the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission |
| 2006 – 2009 | Senior Consultant: Wage Dynamics Network, European Central Bank |
| 2011 – 2016 | Chair Professor of Economics, EDHEC Business School |
| 2009 – 2011 | Council member and chairman, Bruegel Scientific Council, Brussels |
| 2011 – | Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges |
| Present Positions | |
| 1996 – | Professor of Economic Policy, University of Torino |
| 2006 – | Member of the European Economic Advisory Group (EEAG) |
| Memberships | |
| 1990 – | Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) |
| 2008 | International Member, UK Research Assessment Exercise |
| 2013 – | Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network |
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Kurt Biedenkopf
| Studies of Law and Economics, University of Munich and University of Frankfurt/Main | |
| 1958 | PhD in Law |
| 1963 | Post-Doctoral Degree in Law |
| 1964 – 1970 | rofessor, Department for Trade, Economic and Industrial Law, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 1967 – 1969 | Rector, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 1973 – 1977 | Secretary General, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
| 1976 – 1980 | Member of Parliament, German Bundestag |
| 1980 – 1988 | Member of Parliament, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 1987 – 1990 | Member of Parliament, German Bundestag |
| 1990 – 2002 | Minister-President, Free State of Saxony |
| 1990 – 2004 | Member of Parliament, Free State of Saxony |
| 1999 – 2000 | President, German Bundesrat |
| 2003 – 2005 | President, Dresden International University (DIU) |
| Present Positions | |
| 1970 – | Management Board Member, Henkel Group, Düsseldorf |
| 2003 – | Trustee and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin |
| 2006 – | Honorary President, Dresden International University (DIU) |
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Martin Blessing
| 1963 | Born in Bremen, Germany |
| 1983 – 1984 | Apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank AG |
| 1984 – 1987 | Studied Business Administration at the University of Frankfurt and the University of St. Gallen |
| 1988 | MBA, University of Chicago |
| 1989 – 1996 | Consultant, McKinsey, Frankfurt and New York |
| 1994 | Partner, McKinsey |
| 1997 – 2000 | Joint Manager, Private Customers, Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt |
| 2000 – 2001 | Chairman of the Board Advance Bank AG, Munich |
| Present Positions | |
| 2001 – | Member of the Board of Managing Directors, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt |
| 2008 – | Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt |
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Michael Böhmer
| 1995 – 2001 | Studies in Economics, University of Trier and the ESC Bordeaux |
| 2005 | PhD in Economics |
| 2001 – 2005 | German Council of Economists Experts |
| 2005 – 2017 | Member of Staff, later Chief Economist and Member of the Board, Prognos Institute |
| Present Positions | |
| 2017 – | Responsible Partner for the Economic Advisory practice EY in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GSA) |
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Anders Borg
| 1968 | Year of Birth |
| 1988 – 1991 | Studies in Political Science, Economic History and Philosophy, Uppsala University |
| 1990 – 1991 | Editorial columnist, Svenska Dagbladet |
| 1991 – 1993 | Political Adviser at the Prime Minister’s Office, Coordination Secretariat, with responsibility for coordination of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Ministry of Public Administration, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education and Science |
| 1993 – 1994 | Political Advisor to Carl Bildt, Prime Minister’s Office |
| 1995 – 1998 | Responsible for economic and political analysis, Transferator Alfred Berg |
| 1995 – 2000 | Studies in Economics, Stockholm University Postgraduate studies in Economics, Stockholm University |
| 1998 – 1999 | Chief Economist, ABN Amro Bank, Stockholm, responsible for analysis of financial and monetary policy in Sweden |
| 1999 – 2001 | Head, Economic Analysis Department, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken |
| 2001 – 2002 | Adviser on monetary policy issues to the Executive Board, Riksbank Sweden |
| 2002 – 2006 | Chief Economist and Administrative Director, Moderate Party |
| Present Position | |
| 2006 – | Minister for Finance, Kingdom of Sweden |
| Other Assignments | |
| 1992 – 1996 | Member of the Expert Group on Public Finance |
| 2005 | Member of the Board of the Swedish Labour Market Administration |
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Anton F. Börner
| 1979 | BA in Commerce, Friedrich-Alexander-University Nuremberg-Erlangen |
| 1991 – 2000 | Chairman, Domestic Technology Association of the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA), Bonn |
| 2001 – 2012 | President, BGA Domestic Technology Association, Bonn |
| 2001 – 2011 | Member, Committee of the Federal German Employers’ Association (BDA) |
| 2000 – 2004 | Vice President, EuroCommerce, Brussels |
| Present Positions | |
| 1983 – | Manager, Börner + Co, Ingolstadt |
| 1998 – | Member, BGA board |
| 2000 – | Member, Board of Supervisory Directors, KfW Group |
| 2001 – | Member, Federal German Ministry of Economics Advisory Committee on Export Trade |
| 2001 – | Board Member, Industrial Exhibitions Committee (AUMA) of the German Industry Association |
| 2001 – | Member, Board of Trustees, Ifo Institute |
| 2001 – | President, Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA), Berlin |
| Further Position | |
| Member of the specialised European Association F.E.S.T., Fédération Européenne des Grossistes en Appareils Sanitaires et de Chauffage | |
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Charles-Edouard Bouée
| MBA, Harvard Business School | |
| MSc, Ecole Centrale de Paris (ECP) | |
| Master’s degree in Law, Université Paris Sud XI | |
| Investment banker, Société Générale, Paris and London | |
| 1997 – 2001 | Vice President, A.T. Kearney |
| 2001 – | Senior Partner, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Paris |
| 2006 – | President & Managing Partner Greater China, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
| 2009 – | Head, Asian Leadership Team, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
| 2010 – | Responsible for France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Morocco, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
| 2013 – 2014 | COO, responsible for Global Operations, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
| Present Position | |
| 2013 – | CEO of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Shanghai, Munich and Paris |
| Memberships | |
| Board member, European Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai | |
| Advisor to the French Foreign Trade Ministry in Greater China | |
| Awards | |
| 2012 Shanghai Magnolia Gold Award | |
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Arko van Brakel
| 1993 – 1998 | Started EuroNet Internet, the Netherland’s first commercial internet service provider |
| 1997 | Established PuntEDU, first specialised training institute for Internet education |
| 1999 | Co-founder of Jamby (conceptual precursor of the current YouTube) |
| 2003 | Established the agency ‘Nieuwe Helden’ |
| Media | |
| Columnist for the entrepreneurs’ journal Sprout, the website NU and Management Team | |
| Author of Nieuwe Helden (2001), Iedereen Ondernemer (2009), Ondernemen met Lef (2013) | |
| Present Position | |
| 2012 – | CEO and Chief Inspiration Officer of the De Baak training institute, Noordwijk |
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Gerhard F. Braun
| 1975 | School Leaving Certificate (Abitur) |
| 1975 – 1976 | Military Service |
| 1981 | Graduate in Business Management |
| 1985 | Conferral of a doctorate |
| 1986 – 1988 | Assistant to the Executive Board, RASCHIG AG, Ludwigshafen |
| 1988 – 1991 | Managing Shareholder: responsible for Domestic Sales, KOB – Karl Otto Braun GmbH & Co. KG, Wolfstein |
| 1991 – 1997 | Personally Liable Shareholder: responsible for Sales and Marketing, Karl Otto Braun GmbH & Co. KG, Wolfstein |
| Present Positions | |
| 1998 – | Solely Personally Liable Shareholder, Karl Otto Braun GmbH & Co. KG, Wolfstein |
| 2007 – | Managing Director, Hans Braun GmbH; General Partner, Karl Otto Braun GmbH & Co. KG |
| Oct. 2007 – | Vice-President, Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA), Berlin |
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Karl-Ernst Brauner
| Studies of Law, First State Examination, University of Bielefeld | |
| BA in Law (LLB), Cambridge University | |
| Second State Examination, University of Düsseldorf | |
| PhD in Law | |
| Assistant Professor in Civil Law, University of Bielefeld | |
| Admission to the German Bar | |
| Since 1983 | Central Legal Division, German Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn |
| 1986 – 1987 | German Mission to the United Nations, New York |
| 1988 – 1991 | Chief of Staff to a Parliamentary State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn |
| 1991 | German-Australian Chamber of Commerce, Sydney |
| 1995 | Budget Division, later Head of the Parliament and Cabinet Office of the Minister of Economics and Director of Central Administration, German Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn and then Berlin |
| 2011 – 2013 | Director General for External Economic Policy, German Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn |
| Present Positions | |
| 2001 – | Full member, European Union’s Trade Policy Committee, Brussels |
| 2014 – | Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva |
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Elmar Brok
| 1980 – | Member of the European Parliament, Brussels |
| 1989 – | Chairman of CDU national advisory committee on Foreign, Security and European Policy |
| 1999 – | Co-Chair of the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue |
| 1999 –2007 | Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), European Parliament, Brussels |
| 2004 – | Member of the National Board of the Christian Democrats (CDU) |
| 2012 – | Chairman of the Board of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) |
| Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), the Conference of Committee Chairs (CPCO) and the Delegation for relations with India (D-IN) | |
| Deputy member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and the Delegation for Relations with the United States (D-US) | |
| Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), European Parliament, Brussels | |
| 2016 | Re-elected President, Union of European Federalists, Brussels |
| European People’s Party (EPP) representative for the European Parliament at the Intergovernmental Conferences for the | |
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Rainer Brüderle
| 1945 | Born in Berlin, Germany |
| 1971 | University studies in Journalism, Law, Economics and Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; MA in Economics (Diplomvolkswirt) |
| 1975 | Director, Office of Economic Affairs and Transport Development, City of Mainz |
| 1977 | Director, Office of Economic Affairs and Real Estate, City of Mainz |
| 1981 | City councillor and Head, Department of Economic Affairs, City of Mainz |
| 1981 – 1983 | FDP district Chairman for Rheinhessen-Vorderpfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) |
| 1983 – 2011 | FDP Chairman for the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 1987 – 1994 | Minister of Economy and Transport, Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 1987 – 1998 | Member, Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament |
| 1988 – 1998 | Deputy Minister-President, Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 1994 – 1998 | Minister of Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture, Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 1998 – 2009 | Deputy Chairman of the FDP Parliamentary Group |
| 1983 – 2011 | FDP Chairman for the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 2009 – 2011 | Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Federal Republic of Germany |
| Present Positions | |
| 1973 – | Member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) |
| 1983 – | Member of the FDP Federal Executive Committee (Bundesvorstand) |
| 1995 – | FDP Deputy Federal Chairman; Chairman of the FDP Liberal Forum on the Information Society |
| 1998 – | Member of the German Bundestag |
| 2011 – | Chairman, Free Democratic Party (FDP) Parliamentary Group, German Bundestag |
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Martin Brudermüller
| 1987 | PhD in Chemistry, University of Karlsruhe |
| Post-doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1988 | Ammonia Laboratory, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen |
| 1993 | New Business Development/Marketing, Intermediates division, BASF AG |
| 1995 | Head of Marketing and Sales intermediates, Pharmaceutical Chemicals, BASF, Italia Spa, Milan |
| 1997 | Member of staff to the Vice Chairman, Executive Board, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen |
| 2001 | Director, production of fat-soluble vitamins, Fine Chemicals operating division, BASF AG |
| 2001 | Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning BASF Group |
| 2003 | President, Functional Polymers division, BASF AG |
| 2006 | Member, Board of Executive Directors, BASF AG (since 2008 BASF SE) |
| Present Position | |
| 2011 – | Vice Chairman, Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE, Hong Kong |
| Memberships | |
| 2011 – | Deputy Chairman, Advisory Board, Styrolution Holding GmbH, Frankfurt |
| 2012 – | Chairman, China Committee, Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business |
| 2013 – | German Vice Chairman, Sino-German Consultative Business Committee |
| 2014 – | German Chairman, Sino-German Dialogue Forum |
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Bernd Brunke
| 1990 – 1996 | Engineering Degree, Technical University of Berlin |
| 1994 | Summer school in Business Law and Accounting, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1996 | Joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH |
| Present Positions | |
| 2006 – | Executive Vice President of the Board of Directors, bmp media investors AG |
| 2008 – | General manager and Head of the Berlin office, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
| 2008 – | Head of the Global Corporate Performance Competence Center, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants |
| 2010 – | Member of the Global Executive Committee, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Involved in projects in a large variety of industries, including financialservices, retail, engineering, automotive, chemicals, airlines and energy,and has been supporting clients in North- and South America, Europe, Middle East and Asia |
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Markus K. Brunnermeier
| Diplomvorprüfung in Economics, University of Regensburg | |
| MA in Economics, Vanderbilt Unversity | |
| PhD in Economics, London School of Economics, London | |
| 1999 – 2006 | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University |
| 2001 & 2002 | Visiting Professor, Northwestern University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2006 – 2008 | Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University |
| 2011 – 2015 | Advisory Scientific Committee, European Systemic Risk Board |
| Fall 2016 | Inaugural Lamfalussy Fellow at the Bank of International Settlement, Basel |
| Present Positions | |
| 2003 – | Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) |
| 2004 – | Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network |
| 2004 – | Member: Monetary Policy Advisory Group and Academic Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| 2006 – | Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
| 2008 – | Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University |
| 2011 – | Member, Advisory Group on Global Marco-Financial Tail Risks, International Monetary Fund |
| 2012 – | Member, Research Council, Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 2014 – | Member, Panel of Economic Advisers, US Congressional Budget Office |
| 2014 – | Director of Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University |
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Brian Carney
| 1975 | Year of birth |
| 1996 | BA, Philosophy, Yale University |
| 1999 – 2000 | Innovation in American Goverment, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 2000 | MA, Philosophy, Boston University |
| 2000 – 2003 | Editorial Page Writer, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Brussels |
| 2003 – 2004 | Deputy Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Brussels |
| 2004 – 2005 | Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Brussels |
| 2005 – 2009 | Member of the Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, New York |
| Present Position | |
| 2009 – | Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe, London |
| Awards | |
| 2003 | Bastiat Prize for Journalism |
| 2009 | Gerald Loeb Award for Business Journalism, Commentary |
| Book | |
| Freedom, Inc., Crown Business, 2009 (with Isaac Getz, professor, ESCP-Europe) | |
MES Participation
Xin Chen
| 1989 – 1999 | Assistant Professor, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| 1995 – 1998 | PhD in Law, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| 1999 – 2011 | Associate Professor, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) |
| 2003 – 2008 | Deputy Head, EU Enlargement Department, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) |
| 2007 – 2008 | Chinese Director, EU-China European Studies Centres Program (ESCP) |
| 2009 – 2012 | Deputy Head, and then Head of the Economic Department, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) |
| Present positions: | |
| 2008 – | Secretary General, Chinese Association for European Studies (CAES) |
| 2010 – | Council member, Chinese Association of International Economic Relations |
| 2012 – | Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Economic Department, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) |
MES Participation
Nakgyoon Choi
| 1986 | MA in International Economics, Seoul National University |
| 1991 | PhD in International Trade, University of Texas |
| 1995 – 1997 | Counselor to the Minister, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea |
| 1998 – 2000 | Director, Department of Policy Studies, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade |
| 2000 – 2005 | Director, Department of Trade and Investment Policy, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy |
| 2005 – 2006 | Chairman, Evaluation Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Vice President, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy |
| 2006 – 2007 | Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 2012 – 2013 | Advisor, Board of Audit and Inspection |
| 2013 | General Administrator, National Studies Group for East Asian FTAs |
| Present Positions | |
| 2007 – | Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy |
| 2008 – | Commissioner, Korea Trade Commission |
| 2010 – | Advisor, Foreign Policy Advisory Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 2011 – | Committee Member, Tariff Deliberation Committee, Ministry of Strategy and Finance |
| 2011 – | Advisor, Advisory Committee on International Cooperation Policy, Fair Trade Commission |
| 2013 – | Advisor, Private Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy |
MES Participation
Jürgen Chrobog
| Studies of Law in Freiburg, Aix-en-Provence and Göttingen | |
| Worked as an attorney at a Hanover law firm | |
| 1972 | Joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany; Attaché, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations |
| 1973 – 1974 | Office of the German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel; Areas of responsibility: European and Third-World Affairs, and Foreign Economic Policy |
| 1974 – 1977 | Office of the German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher; Areas of responsibility: European and Third-World Affairs, and Foreign Economic Policy |
| 1977 – 1980 | Deputy Chief of Mission and Economic Counselor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Singapore |
| 1980 – 1983 | Spokesman, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Community, Brussels |
| 1983 | Deputy Spokesman, Foreign Office, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1984 – 1991 | Spokesman and Head, Press Division, Foreign Office, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1989 – 1991 | Head, Office of the Federal Foreign Minister, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1991 – 1995 | Political Director, Foreign Office, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1995 – 2001 | Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States of America, Washington DC |
| 2001 – 2005 | State Secretary, Foreign Office, Federal Republic of Germany |
| Present Position | |
| 2005 – | Chairman of the Board of Directors, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Berlin and Munich |
MES Participation
Giancarlo Corsetti
| 1984 | Laurea in Economia e Commercio, Universita’ degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza |
| 1988 | MA in Economics, New York University |
| 1992 | PhD in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
| 2003 – 2011 | Pierre Werner Chair, Joint Professor, Economics Department and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies |
| Professor, University Institute, Fiesole (Firenze) | |
| 2004 – 2006 | Member of the Economic Policy Panel |
| 2007 – 2009 | Member of the ECB Shadow Council |
| Present Position | |
| 2000 – | Professor of Economics, University of Rome III (on leave) |
| Selected Current and Past Affiliations | |
| Co-director, Pierre Werner Chair Programme on Monetary Union, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI; Co-director of the International Macroeconomic Program; Member of the European Economic Advisory Group, CESifo, Munich; CESifo Research Fellow; Member of the Council; European Economic Association | |
| International Grants and Projects Direction | |
| EUI team leader and leader of macro area in the collaborative project ‘Politics Economics and Global Governance: the European Dimensions’, Oxford University, ECARES, CEPREMAP, University of Geneva, CEPR, University of Amsterdam, and the EUI | |
MES Participation
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Martina Dalic
| 1990 | BSc, University of Zagreb |
| 1994 | MSc, University of Zagreb |
| 1991 – 1995 | Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb |
| 1991 – 1997 | Head of Department for Macroeconomic Prognoses, Ministry of Finance of Croatia |
| 1997 – 2000 | Assistant Minister, Ministry of Finance of Croatia |
| 2000 – 2004 | Chief Economist, Privredna Bank Zagreb (PBZ) |
| 2004 – 2008 | State Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Central Government Office for Development Strategy and Co-ordination of EU Funds |
| 2005 – 2012 | Member of the Negotiating Team for the Accession Negotiations of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union |
| 2008 – 2010 | President of the Management Board of Partner Bank Zagreb |
| 2010 – 2011 | Minister of Finance of Croatia |
| 2012 | D.Phil., University of Split |
| Present Position | |
| 2011 – | Member of the Croatian Parliament (independent), member of the Financial and Budgetary Committee, the European Affairs Committee, the Committee for the Economy and the Delegation to Parliamentary Assembly of NATO |
| 2011 – | Senior Lecturer, Zagreb School of Economics and Management |
MES Participation
Karel De Gucht
| 1976 | Law Degree, University of Brussels |
| 1976 – 2001 | Lawyer |
| 1974 – 1977 | President, later National President, Flemish Association of Liberal Students, Brussels |
| 1977 – 1979 | National President, Young Flemish Liberal Movement |
| 1980 – 1994 | Member, European Parliament |
| 1985 – 1988 | National Vice-President, PVV (Flemish Party for Freedom and Progress) |
| 1991 – 2009 | Professor in European Law, University of Brussels (VUB) |
| 1994 – 1995 | Senator, Belgian Senate, Brussels |
| 1995 – 2003 | Member, Flemish Parliament |
| 1999 – 2004 | National President, VLD (Flemish Liberal and Democratic Party) |
| 2003 – 2009 | Member, Belgian House of Representatives |
| 2004 – 2009 | Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, Belgium |
| 2007 – 2009 | Minister for International Trade, Belgium |
| 2008 – 2009 | Deputy Prime Minister, Belgium |
| 2009 – 2010 | European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid |
| Present Positions | |
| 1977 – | Member of the Bureau of the PVV/VLD political party |
| 2010 – | European Commissioner for Trade |
| Further Position | |
| 2002 – | Minister of State (Honorary Title) |
MES Participation
Jörg Decressin
| 1993 | PhD in Economics, Harvard University |
| 1993 | Joined International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC |
| – 2014 | Deputy Director, IMF Research Department in charge of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook and multilateral surveillance work for the G-7 and G-20 |
| Present Position | |
| 2014 – | Deputy Director of European Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC |
Anne-Laure Delatte
| Studies in Economics and Management, University of Paris | |
| PhD in Economics, University of Paris | |
| 1999 – 2000 | Junior Brand Manager, Danone, Paris |
| 2002 | Intern, Economic Department, OECD Paris |
| 2008 – 2013 | Assistant then Associate Professor, RB School, Paris |
| 2012 – 2016 | Fellow, OFCE-Sciences Po, Paris |
| 2013 – | Tenured Research Fellow (currently on leave), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris |
| Present Position | |
| 2016 – | Deputy Director, CEPII, Paris |
| Memberships | |
| 2013 – | Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) |
| 2014 – | Member of a multi-stakeholder working group of the French National Council for Statistical Information to produce recommendations for better access to banking and financial data in France |
| 2015 – | Member of Scientific Committee of Fondation Banque de France |
| 2016 – | Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite |
| 2017 – | Member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (non partisan council of economic advisors to the French Prime Minister) |
MES Participation
Peter Dolton
| 1972 – 1975 | BA (Honours) in Economics, University of Essex |
| 1975 – 1976 | MA (Honours) in Economics, University of Warwick |
| 1976 – 1978 | PhD in Economics, University of Cambridge |
| 1978 – 1986 | Lecturer in Economics, University of Hull |
| 1986 – 1990 | Director, CTI Centre for Computing in Economics, University of Bristol |
| 1990 – 2005 | David Dale Professor of Economics, University of Newcastle (part-time from April 2000) |
| 2000 – 2003 | Professor of Economics of Education, Institute of Education, University of London (part-time from April 2000) |
| 2005 – 2011 | Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway College, University of London |
| Present Positions | |
| 2012 – | Professor of Economics, University of Sussex |
| Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance (CEP); London School of Economics; member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body; Research Fellow CESifo; Research Fellow IZA | |
MES Participation
Valdis Dombrovskis
| 1993 | BSc in Physics, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia |
| 1995 | BSc in Economics, Faculty of Engineering and Economics, Rīga Technical University |
| 1995 | MPhys Physics, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia |
| 1995 – 1998 | Research assistant at the University of Mainz (Germany), the Institute of Solid-State Physics (Latvia), and the University of Maryland (USA) |
| 1995 – 2002 | Senior-, and later Chief Economist, Bank of Latvia |
| 2002 – 2004 | Minister of Finance, Republic of Latvia |
| 2009 – 2014 | Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia |
| 01 – 06/2014 | Member of the Saeima (Parliament) of Latvia |
| 07 – 11/2014 | Head of the Latvian Delegation, European Parliament |
| Present Position | |
| 2011 – | Founder and board member of the political party Unity (Vienotība) |
| 11/2014 – | Vice-President, Euro and Social Dialogue, European Commission |
| Award | |
| 2014 | Order of the Three Stars (Triju Zvaigžņu ordenis), the highest State Decoration of the Republic of Latvia |
MES Participation
Paul Donovan
| MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford | |
| MSc in Financial Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
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| Present Position | |
| 1992 – | Global Economist and Managing Director, UBS Investment Bank, London |
| Further Positions | |
| Honorary Fellow, St Anne’s College, Oxford | |
| Member, Vice Chancellor’s Circle, Oxford University | |
| Co-founder, Peter Culverhouse Memorial Trust | |
| Economic adviser to the East London Business Alliance (an urban regeneration charity) | |
MES Participation
William M. Drozdiak
| 1971 | BA in Political Science and Economics, University of Oregon |
| Master’s degree, College of Europe in Bruges. Studies at the Institute of European Studies, University of Brussels | |
| Professional Career | |
| State Department Correspondent for Time magazine. Later, covered the Middle East while based in Cairo and Beirut for Time and The Washington Star | |
| 1986 – 1990 | Foreign Editor, The Washington Post |
| 1990 – 2000 | Bureau Chief in Paris and Berlin, The Washington Post |
| 2000 – 2001 | Chief European Correspondent, The Washington Post |
| 2001 – 2004 | Executive Director, Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States |
| Present Position | |
| 2005 – | President, American Council on Germany, New York |
MES Participation
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Barry Eichengreen
| 1952 | Year of Birth |
| 1974 | AB University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1976 | MA (Economics) Yale University |
| 1977 | MPhil (Economics) Yale University |
| 1978 | MA (History) Yale University |
| 1979 | PhD (Economics) Yale University |
| 1980 – 1986 | Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| 1981 – 1986 | Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
| 1986 – 1994 | Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1994 – 1999 | John L. Simpson Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1997 – 1998 | Senior Policy Advisor, International Monetary Fund |
| 2006 | Doctor Honoris Causus, American University, Paris |
| Present Positions | |
| 1984 – | Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) |
| 1986 – | Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
| 1999 – | George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2001 – | International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute of World Economics |
MES Participation
Georg Eisenreich
| Studies of Law, University of Munich | |
| 2008 – 2012 | Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Education, Youth and Sports |
| 2008 – 2013 | Spokesman on Education Policy, Christian Social Union (CSU) parliamentary group |
| 2010 – 2013 | Head of the Bavarian Landtag (State Parliament) multy-party working group on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
| 2013 – 2018 | Vice Minister, Bavarian Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Science and the Arts |
| Present Positions | |
| 1999 – | Chairman of the Executive Committee of the CSU for Munich South; Member of the CSU Regional Executive Committee of Munich |
| 2003 – | Member of the Bavarian Landtag |
| 2008 – | Chairman, CSU for the District of Nuremberg-Fürth-Schwabach |
| 2011 – | Deputy Chairman, CSU for the District of Munich |
| 2018 – | Bavarian State Minister for the Digital Agenda, Media and Europe |
| Memberships | |
| 1990 – | Member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) |
MES Participation
Karolina Ekholm
| 1988 | BSc, Uppsala University |
| 1993 | MSc, Lund University |
| 1995 | PhD, Lund University |
| 1995 – 1996 | Lecturer (högskolelektor), Department of Economics, Lund University |
| 1996 – 2000 | Research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm |
| 2000 – 2001 | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics |
| 2001 – 2006 | Associate Professor (Docent), Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics |
| 2001 – 2007 | Member of the Swedish Council, providing assistance to the Ministry of Finance and the National Institute of Economic Research |
| 2004 – 2009 | External research director at the Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS) in Stockholm |
| 2007 – 2009 | Member of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council |
| Present Positions | |
| 2006 – | Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm University (on leave) |
| 2009 – | Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm |
| Affiliations | |
| Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London | |
| CESifo Research Fellow, Munich | |
MES Participation
Knut Engelmann
| 1992 | BSc in Economics and History, University College, London |
| 1994 | MA (Economics), New York University |
| 1994 – 1995 | Correspondent, Bloomberg News, Frankfurt and Vienna |
| 1995 – 1998 | Senior Economics Correspondent, Austria and Balkans – Reuters, Vienna |
| 1998 – 2001 | Senior US Economics Correspondent – Reuters, Washington DC |
| 2001 – 2005 | Editor Switzerland and Austria – Reuters, Zurich |
| 2005 – 2010 | ditor Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Balkans – Reuters, Frankfurt |
| 2010 – 2011 | Global Company News Editor und Wall Street Editor – Reuters, New York |
| Present Position | |
| 2011 – | Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal Germany and Dow Jones Newswires Germany, Frankfurt |
MES Participation
John Evans
| 1973 | Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Oxford University |
| Research Officer, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels | |
| Industry Secretary, International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees (FIET – now UNI Global Union), Geneva | |
| Economist, Economic Department, Trades Union Congress (TUC), London | |
| Present Position | |
| 1985 – | General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), Paris |
| 2002 – | Chief Economist, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Brussels |
| Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Employment | |
| Member of the Comité Médicis at the Amundi Group | |
| Member of the Conseil d’Orientation, IDDRI (the French Institute for Research on Sustainable Development) |
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| Member of the Council of Ruskin College, Oxford | |
| Member of the Board, Global Reporting Initiative | |
| Member of the Helsinki Group | |
MES Participation
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Georg Fahrenschon
| 1968 | Born in Munich |
| 1999 | University degree in economics (Diplom-Ökonom), concluding studies of economics at the University of Munich and the University of Augsburg, with a concentration on public finance, economic policy and corporate strategy |
| 1985 – 2003 | Active in the Junge Union (JU), the youth organisation of the German conservative party: 13 years as member of the Executive Committee of the JU in Germany, of which 8 years as deputy chairman and 4 years as district chairman of the JU in Upper Bavaria |
| 1999 – 2002 | Project and organisational consultant in the private sector |
| 1999 – 2009 | District Vice-President of the CSU of Munich County |
| 2002 – 2007 | Member of the German Parliament |
| Member of the Finance Committee | |
| 2003 – 2009 | Area Treasurer, CSU of Upper Bavaria |
| 2005 – 2007 | Member of the Budget Committee |
| 2006 – 2008 | Deputy Chairman of the CSU Policy Commission |
| 2007 – 2008 | Secretary of State at the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance |
| Present Positions | |
| 1987 – | Membership of the Christian Social Union (CSU) |
| 2008 – | Chairman of the CSU Economic Commission |
| 2008 – | Bavarian State Minister of Finance |
| 2009 – | Deputy district chairman, CSU of Upper Bavaria |
MES Participation
Gabriel Felbermayr
| 1995 – 2000 | MSc in Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz |
| MSc in Trade Studies, Johannes Kepler University of Linz | |
| 2000 – 2004 | PhD in Economics, European University Institute, Florence |
| 2004 – 2005 | Associate Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Vienna |
| 2005 – 2008 | Assistant Professor, Chair of International Economic Relations, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen |
| 2008 | Post-doctoral degree (Habilitation), Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen |
| 2008 – 2011 | Professor for Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Present Positions | |
| 2010 – | Director, Ifo Centre for International Economics, Ifo Institute, Munich |
| 2010 – | Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network, Munich |
| 2011 – | Professor of Economics, especially International Economics, Chair for International Trade and International Finance, Faculty of Economics, University of Munich |
| Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Tuebingen | |
| External Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham | |
| Associate Editor, European Economic Review | |
| Associate Editor, International Review of Economics and Finance | |
| Selected Awards | |
| 2015 | Handelsblatt Ranking of Economists in German-speaking Counties: ranked No 4 among the top researchers under 40 years of age, and No 26 among the 100 most productive researchers |
| 2013 | Ralph C. d’Arge and Allen Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management |
| 2007 | Reinhard Selten Prize by the German Economic Association |
MES Participation
Stephen Fidler
| Degree in Economics, London University | |
| 1978 – 1987 | Correspondent for finance and business affairs, Reuters, New York, Middle East and London |
| 1987 – 1991 | Specialist in international capital markets and the developing country debt crisis, Financial Times, London |
| 1991 – 1998 | Latin America Editor, Financial Times, London |
| 1998 – 2001 | US Diplomatic Editor, foreign affairs, national security and international economic issues, Financial Times, Washington DC |
| 2002 – 2005 | Chief Reporter, foreign affairs, security and international business and financial matters, Financial Times, London |
| 2005 – 2009 | Defence and Security Editor, security, terrorism, defence and intelligence questions, Financial Times, London |
| 2009 | European Finance Editor, The Wall Street Journal, London |
| Present Position | |
| 2009 – | Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, Brussels |
| Further Positions | |
| Contributing author to Foreign Policy, Survival and International Affairs | |
| Former Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies | |
MES Participation
Joseph F. Francois
| 1982 | BA in History, University of Virginia |
| 1982 | BA in Economics, University of Virginia |
| 1983 | MA in Economics, University of Virginia |
| 1988 | PhD in Economics, University of Maryland |
| 1983 – 1987 | Economist, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington DC |
| 1987 – 1990 | Research Economist, US International Trade Commission, Washington DC |
| 1990 – 1991 | Senior Economist, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon and the International Business and Economic Research Corporation, Washington DC |
| 1991 – 1993 | Director, Office of Economics, US International Trade Commission, Washington DC |
| 1993 – 1996 | Economic Counselor, World Trade Organization, Geneva |
| 1996 – 2007 | Professor of International Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 2007 – 2013 | Professor of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz |
| Present Positions | |
| 1997 – | Director, European Trade Study Group (ETSG) |
| 1997 – | Director, Institute for International and Development Economics (IIDE) |
| 2001 – | Managing Director, Trade Partnership Worldwide |
| 2001 – | Editorial Board Member, World Trade Review (the WTO journal) |
| 2002 – | Editorial Board Member, Journal of Economic Integration |
| 2007 – | Senior Research Follow, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies |
| 2014 – | Professor of Economics and next Managing Director, World Trade Institute (WTI), Bern |
MES Participation
Clemens Fuest
| 1991 | Degree in Economics, University of Mannheim |
| 1994 | PhD in Economics, University of Cologne |
| 1995 – 2001 | Senior Research Assistant, Chair of Public Economics, University of Munich |
| 2001 | Post-doctoral degree (Habilitation), Venia Legendi for Economics, University of Munich |
| 2001 – 2008 | Professor, Chair of Public Economics, University of Cologne |
| 2008 – 2013 | Professor of Business Taxation and Research Director, Centre for Business Taxation, Sad Business School, University of Oxford |
| 2013 – 2016 | President and CEO, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim; Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim |
| Present Positions | |
| 2001 – | Member, European Academy of Sciences |
| 2003 – | Member, Academic Advisory Board and Chairman (2007 – 2010), German Federal Ministry of Finance |
| 2009 – | Board member and since 2014 Vice-President, International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Munich |
| 2014 – | Member, National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) |
| Member, High Level Group on Revenue (Monti-Group), European Union | |
| 2015 – | Member, Minimum Wage Committee of the German Federal Government |
| 2016 – | Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Munich |
| Director, Center for Economic Studies (CES), University of Munich | |
| President, ifo Institute, Munich | |
| President and CEO, CESifo GmbH | |
MES Participation
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Sigmar Gabriel
| 1989 | Final State Teaching Credentials after studies at the University of Göttingen |
| 1990 – 1999 | Elected to the State Parliament of Lower Saxony |
| 1999 – 2003 | Prime Minister of Lower Saxony |
| 2005 – 2009 | German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety |
| 2009 – 2017 | Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) |
| 2013 – 2017 | German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy |
| 2013 – 2018 | Vice-Chancellor of Germany |
| 2017 – 2018 | German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Present Position | |
| 2005 – | Member of the German Parliament, Berlin |
| Memberships | |
| 1977 – | Member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) |
| 1979 – | Member of the Trade Union for Public Services, Transport and Haulage (ÖTV) |
| 1979 – | Member of German Metalworkers’ Union IG Metall |
| 1979 – | Member of the Workers’ Welfare Federal Association (AWO) |
MES Participation
Vincenzo Galasso
| 1991 | BA in Economics, Università L. Bocconi, Milan |
| 1992 | MA in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1996 | PhD in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1996 – 2000 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| 2005 – 2006 | External Consultant, OECD – Economics Department, Paris |
| 2008 – 2010 | International Senior Expert, EU-China Social Security Co-operation Project |
| 2010 – 2012 | Director, Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics, Università L. Bocconi, Milan |
| Present Position | |
| Professor of Economics, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano | |
| Director, Centre for Economic and Political Research on Aging (CEPRA), Lugano | |
| Professor of Economics, Università L. Bocconi, Milan (on leave) | |
| Research Fellow of CESifo Network, Munich | |
| Research Fellow of IGIER – Università L. Bocconi, Milan | |
| Research Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London | |
| Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance | |
| Associate Editor, European Journal of Political Economy | |
Giampaolo Galli
| 1975 | Honours Degree in Political Economics, Bocconi University, Milan |
| 1979 | PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge |
| 1979 | Researcher, International Monetary Fund IMF), Washington DC |
| 1980 – 1992 | Study Service Department, Bank of Italy |
| 1992 – 1995 | Department Head, Study Service Department, Bank of Italy |
| 1994 – 2000 | Associate Editor, European Economic Review |
| 1995 – 2003 | Chief Economist, Confindustria, Rome |
| 1995 – 2003 | Member of the National Institute of Economic Research (London) |
| Advisor to the Monetary and Financial Affairs Commission of the European Parliament regarding European monetary policy issues | |
| Member of the EMU Monitor, Frankfurt | |
| Member of the Group of Economic Advisors to the President of the European Commission | |
| 2003 – 2009 | Director General, National Association of Italian Insurance Companies (ANIA), Rome |
| Lecturer in Econometrics, Monetary Policy and Economic Policy, Bocconi University, Milan, La Sapienza University, Rome, Luiss-Guido Carli University, Rome | |
| Present Positions | |
| Director General, Confindustria, Rome | |
| Lecturer in Insurance Economics and Finance, Luiss-Guido Carli University, Rome | |
| Counsellor, CNEL (National Labour and Economics Council) | |
MES Participation
Anthony L. Gardner
| Studies in Government, Harvard University | |
| Studies in International Relations, Oxford University | |
| Studies in Law, Columbia Law School | |
| Studies in Finance, London Business School | |
| Former Positions | |
| Managing Director at a growth capital private equity firm, London | |
| Executive Director at GE Capital, London | |
| Director for European Affairs on the US National Security Council | |
| 2014 – 2017 | United States Ambassador to the European Union |
| Present Position | |
| Senior Adviser, Brunswick Group, London | |
| Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP, London | |
| Memberships | |
| Member of the Council on Foreign Relations | |
| Board member of Iberdrola and Brookfield Business Partners | |
| Non-resident fellow of the German Marshall Fund | |
| Adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | |
MES Participation
Arancha González
| Studies in Law, University of Navarra and University of Carlos III | |
| 2002 – 2004 | European Commission Spokeswoman for Trade and advisor to EU Trade Commissioner, Brussels |
| 2004 – 2005 | Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission, Brussels |
| 2005 – 2013 | Chief of Staff , World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva |
| Present Positions | |
| 2013 – | Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC), the joint development agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation, Geneva |
| Co-Chair, Future of Trade and Investment, World Economic Forum (WEF) Agenda Council | |
MES Participation
Daniel Gros
| Degree in Economics, University of Rome | |
| 1984 | PhD in Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1983 – 1986 | Economist, European and Research Departments, International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
| 1986 – 1987 | Visiting Research Fellow, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) |
| 1987 –1993 | Visiting Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) |
| 1988 –1990 | Economic Advisor for Monetary Affairs, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs DG ECFIN (Delors Committee) |
| 1993 – 1994 | Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Frankfurt |
| 1998 – 2005 | Advisor to the European Parliament |
| 2001 – 2003 | Member, Conseil d’Analyse Economique (EU) |
| 2003 – 2005 | Member at Conseil Economique de la Nation (Advisory body to France’s Prime Minister and Finance Minister) |
| 2008 –2012 | Member of the Bank Stakeholder Group (BSG) of the European Banking Authority (EBA) |
| Present Positions | |
| 1999 – | CESifo Network Fellow |
| 2000 – | Director, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels |
| 2002 – | Founding member of the Shadow (ECB) Council organised by Handelsblatt |
| 2005 – | Vice Chairman – Independent member, Eurizon Capital Asset Management,. Luxembourg |
| Member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) at the European Central Bank | |
| Editor of Economie Internationale and of International Finance | |
MES Participation
Richard Gutjahr
| Studies in Journalism, Deutsche Journalistenschule, Munich | |
| Studies in Political Science and Communications, LMU Munich | |
| Present Positions | |
| German freelance journalist | |
| Contributor to ARD, the largest German public radio and TV network and Bavarian TV; | |
| Held assignments from CNN and Süddeutsche Zeitung; | |
| Writes regular columns for Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf, Tagesspiegel in Berlin as well as for various specialized magazines | |
| Awards | |
| 2006 | Ernst-Schneider-Preis for business journalism |
| 2011 | Journalist of the Year by Medium Magazin |
| 2012 | Net Journalist of the Year by Zeit Online |
| 2013 | Lifetime achievement award by Grimme Institute |
MES Participation
H
Aida Hadzialic
| 2012 | LL.M, Lund University |
| 2007 – 2010 | Board member, Halmstads Fastighets AB |
| 2010 – 2014 | Municipal Commissioner, Halmstad |
| Management Committee, Municipal Executive Board | |
| Member, Municipal Executive Board, Halmstad | |
| Board member, Halmstad Rådhus AB | |
| Board member, Halmstads Näringsliv AB | |
| Board member, Halmstad City Airporty | |
| 2011 – 2014 | Alternate Member, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions / Drafting Committee on Democracy |
| 2012 – 2014 | Board member, Science Park Halmstad |
| Present Position | |
| 2014 – | Minister for Upper Secondary School and Adult Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden |
MES Participation
Karl Haeusgen
| Studies in Business Administration, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland | |
| 1992 – 1993 | Assistant to the Board of Management, supply chain sector, MAHO AG, Pfronten |
| 1993 – 1994 | Controller, Barmag Far East Ltd., Hong Kong |
| 1994 – 1996 | Head of International Sales, HAWE Hydraulik Group, Munich |
| 1996 – 2008 | Managing Director, HAWE Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KG, Munich |
| Present Positions | |
| 2008 – | Speaker of the Board of Management (CEO), HAWE Hydraulik SE, Munich |
| Vice President, Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), Frankfurt/Main | |
| Member of the Advisory Board, Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH, Regensburg-Reinhausen | |
| Member of the Board, Lyric Cabinet Foundation, Munich | |
| Member of the Advisory Board BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH | |
| Member of the Supervisory Board of Child Protection Association, Munich | |
MES Participation
Eric A. Hanushek
| 1965 | BS (Distinguished Graduate) US Air ForceAcademy |
| 1968 | PhD (Economics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1968 – 1973 | Associate Professor of Economics, US Air Force Academy |
| 1971 – 1972 | Senior Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers – US Government |
| 1975 – 1978 | Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Yale University |
| 1978 – 2000 | Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of Rochester |
| 1983 – 1985 | Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office – US Government |
| 2004 – 2010 | Member, Board of Directors, National Board for Education Sciences – US Government (Chair 2008 – 2010) |
| 2005 – 2008 | Member, Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence, California |
| 2006 – 2008 | Member, Scientific Advisory Council, Ifo Institute |
| Present Positions | |
| 1995 – | Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
| 2000 – | Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| 2001 – | Professor of Economics, Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| 2003 – | Chairman, Executive Board, Texas Schools Project, The University of Texas at Dallas |
| 2004 – | Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network |
| 2006 – | Research Professor, Ifo Institute |
| 2008 – | Area Director, Economics of Education, CESifo Research Network |
| 2011 – | Commissioner, Equity and Excellence Commission, US Department of Education |
MES Participation
Dietmar Harhoff
| 1984 | Diplom-Ingenieur (Mechanical Engineering), University of Dortmund |
| 1987 | Master of Public Administration (MPA), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 1991 | D.Phil., MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge |
| 1991 – 1993 | Senior Researcher, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim |
| 1993 – 1995 | Assistant Professor, University of Mannheim |
| 1995 – 1998 | Associate Scientific Director, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim |
| 1996 | Post-doctoral degree (Habilitation), University of Mannheim |
| 1998 – 2013 | University Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Munich |
| Director, Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (INNO-tec), Munich | |
| Co-Director of the ODEON Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Munich | |
| 2005 – 2007 | Dean, Munich School of Management, University of Munich |
| 2007 – 2011 | Research Dean, Munich School of Management, University of Munich |
| Present Positions | |
| 2013 – | Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition |
| Honorary Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Munich | |
| 2014 – | Director, Research Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Munich |
MES Participation
Takamasa Hisada
| 1980 | Bachelor of Economics, University of Tokyo |
| 1980 | Joined the Bank of Japan |
| 1982 | Seconded to Ministry of International Trade and Industry |
| 1986 | Yale University Graduate School |
| 1987 | MA, Yale University |
| 1988 | Representative, Chief Rep. Office for Europe (LDN) |
| 1991 | Associate Director, Governor’s Office |
| 1993 | Director, Budget and Management Department |
| 1995 | Director, Policy Planning Department |
| 1998 | Director, Head of Policy Research Division, Policy Planning Office |
| 2000 | Director, Head of Research Division I, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies |
| 2002 | General Manager, Matsue Branch |
| 2004 | Deputy Director-General, Financial Systems and Bank Examination Department |
| 2007 | Deputy Director-General, International Department |
| Present Position | |
| 2009 – | Chief Representative in Europe, Bank of Japan, London |
MES Participation
Ulrich Hörning
| 2000 | Degree in International Economics, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen |
| 2005 | Master in Public Administration, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 2000 – 2003 | Consultant, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Frankfurt |
| 2004 – 2005 | Intern & Consultant, World Bank, Brazil Country Office, Brasilia |
| 2005 – 2008 | Project Manager, Booz & Company, Berlin |
| 2008 – 2009 | Desk Officer for Strategy and Political Planning, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin |
| 2010 – 2013 | Head of Administrative Reform, City of Mannheim |
| 2013 – 2015 | Senior Economist: Social Protection, World Bank, Washington DC |
| Present Position | |
| Nov 2015 – | Deputy Mayor of General Services, City of Leipzig |
MES Participation
Timotheus Höttges
| Studies in Business Administration, University of Cologne | |
| 1992 – 2002 | Various positions, VIAG Group, Munich |
| 2000 – 2004 | Managing Director, Finance and Controlling, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn |
| 2005 – 2006 | Chairman, Board of Management responsible for T-Mobile International, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn |
| 2006 – 2009 | Member, Board of Management responsible for the T-Home unit, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn |
| 2009 – 2014 | Member, Group Board of Management responsible for Finance and Controlling, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn |
| Present Position | |
| 2014 – | Chairman of Management Board and Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn |
MES Participation
Werner Hoyer
| 1974 | MA in Economics, Cologne University |
| 1978 | PhD in Economics, Cologne University |
| 1978 – 1993 | Associate lecturer in International Economic Relations, Cologne University |
| 1985 – 1987 | Director, Economics and Information Department, Carl Duisberg Society, Cologne |
| 1987 – 2011 | Member, German Bundestag |
| 1989 – 1993 | Whip of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) Parliamentary Group |
| 1990 – 1994 | Security Policy Spokesman, FDP Parliamentary Group |
| 1990 – 1994/ 1999 – 2009 |
Deputy Chairman, German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group |
| 1993 – 1994 | Secretary General, FDP |
| 1994 – 1998 | Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2000 – 2005 | President, European Liberal Democratic Reform Party (ELDR), Brussels |
| 2002 – 2009 | Deputy Chairman and Foreign Affairs Spokesman, FDP Parliamentary Group |
| 2009 – 2011 | Minister of State, German Foreign Office, responsible for Political and Security Affairs, European Affairs, United Nations and Arms Control; Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation |
| Present Positions | |
| 2012 – | President, European Investment Bank and Chairman of its Board of Directors, Luxembourg |
MES Participation
Ken Hu
| BSc, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China | |
| 1990 – | Joined Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and has held several senior positions within the company: |
| Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer | |
| Chief Sales and Service Officer | |
| President of Global Sales | |
| Regional President of Huawei Latin America | |
| President of Huawei’s Chinese market | |
| Present Positions | |
| Deputy Chairman and Rotating CEO, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen | |
| Chairman, Huawei USA | |
| Head, Human Resources Committee, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen | |
| Head, Global Cyber Security Committee, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen | |
| 2010 – | Member, World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Technology Pioneers selection committee |
| 2012 – | Member, World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Connected World advisory board |
MES Participation
Bernd Huber
| 1984 | Degree in Economics, Giessen University |
| 1985 – 1994 | Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Würzburg |
| 1988 | Doctoral Degree in Economics, University of Würzburg |
| 1993 – 1994 | Visiting Professor, University of Bochum, Dresden University of Technology and University of Munich |
| 1994 | Habilitation (post-doctoral degree), University of Würzburg |
| 1998 – 2004 | Associate Editor, International Tax and Public Finance |
| 2000 – 2002 | Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Munich |
| Present Positions | |
| 1994 | Chair of Public Finance, University of Munich |
| 1999 – | Member, Scientific Council to the German Ministry of Finance |
| 2002 – | President, University of Munich |
| 2008 – | Chairman, League of European Research Universities (LERU) |
MES Participation
Michael Hüther
| 1962 | Born in Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1982 – 1987 | Studies in Economics and History, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen |
| 1985 | Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich |
| 1986 | Internship, Department for Economic Studies, Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 1987 | MA in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) |
| 1987 – 1991 | Research and Teaching Assistant, Chair of Economics II, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen |
| 1990 | Dr. rer. pol. (eq. PhD) in Economics, summa cum laude |
| 1990 | Lecturer, Handelshochschule Leipzig |
| Lecturer, Fachhochschule Giessen | |
| Lecturer, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena | |
| 1991 – 1994 | Staff Member, German Council of Economic Advisers, Wiesbaden |
| 1991 – 1995 | Member, “Tax Estimation” working group, Federal Ministry of Finance, Bonn |
| 1995 – 1999 | Secretary General, German Council of Economic Advisers |
| 1999 – 2004 | Chief Economist, DekaBank, Frankfurt/Main |
| Present Positions | |
| 2001 – | Honorary Professorship in Economics, European Business School Schloss Reichartshausen, Oestrich-Winkel |
| 2004 – | Director and Member, Executive Board, Cologne Institute for Economic Research |
MES Participation
J
Harold James
| Historical Tripos, Cambridge University | |
| 1982 | PhD in History, University of Cambridge |
| 1982 | Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz |
| 1989 – 1992 | Jonathan Dickinson Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University |
| 1994 | Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna |
| Present Position | |
| 1986 – | Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History, Princeton University |
| Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society and International Affairs, Princeton University | |
| Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School | |
| Marie Curie Visiting Professor, European University Institute | |
| Chairman Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History | |
MES Participation
Lady Barbara Judge
| BA, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Law School JD, New York University | |
| 1973 – 1980 | Attorney, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York |
| 1980 – 1983 | Commissioner, US Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, DC |
| 1984 – 1986 | Main Board Executive Director, Samuel Montagu & Co, Hong Kong |
| 1985 – 1989 | Advisory Director, Klockner Humboldt Deutz AG, Germany |
| 1986 – 1990 | Senior Vice-President, Bankers Trust Company, New York |
| 1990 – 1993 | Managing Director, Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn Inc |
| 1993 – 1994 | Main Board Executive Director, News International, London |
| 1996 – 2000 | Chairman, Whitworths Group Ltd, and Scotia Haven Group |
| 2000 – 2004 | Chairman, Private Equity Investor |
| 2004 – 2006 | Deputy Chairman, Financial Reporting Council, UK |
| Present Positions | |
| Chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority | |
| Chairman, The Energy Institute of University College London | |
| Chairman, Industrial Advisory Board, National Nuclear Centre of Excellence | |
| Memberships (selected) | |
| UK Nuclear Development Forum | |
| Chairman, UK/US Task Force on Corporate Governance | |
| Public Member, International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants | |
| Member, US Council on Foreign Relations | |
MES Participation
K
Anatole Kaletsky
| 1973 | BA in Mathematics, First Class, King’s College Cambridge |
| 1976 | MA in Economics, Harvard University,Cambridge |
| 1976 – 1979 | Business Correspondent, The Economist, London |
| 1979 – 1981 | Leader Writer, Financial Times, London |
| 1981 – 1983 | Washington Correspondent, Financial Times |
| 1983 – 1986 | International Economics Editor, Financial Times |
| 1986 – 1990 | New York Bureau Chief, Financial Times |
| 1990 – 1996 | Economics Editor, The Times, London |
| 1996 – 2006 | Associate Editor and Principal Economic Commentator, The Times, London |
| 1996 – 2002 | Economic consultant to investment institutions |
| 2006 – 2012 | Editor at Large and principal economic commentator, The Times, London |
| 2007 | DSc Hon, University of Buckingham |
| Present Positions | |
| 2002 – | Co-Chairman and Chief Economist, GaveKal Dragonomics Ltd, Hong Kong |
| 2003 – | Director, JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC |
| 2009 – | Chairman, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), New York |
| 2012 – | Economic Commentator, Reuters and International Herald Tribune, London |
MES Participation
Robert Kimmitt
| 1947 | Year of Birth |
| 1969 | BS, US Military Academy, West Point, NY |
| 1977 | JD, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; Editor-in-Chief, Law & Policy in Intl. Business |
| 1976 – 1983 | Staff Member, National Security Council, Washington, DC |
| 1977 – 1978 | Law Clerk, Judge Edward A. Tamm, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Washington, DC |
| 1983 – 1985 | Executive Secretary and General Counsel, National Security Council, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, The White House, Washington, DC |
| 1985 – 1987 | General Counsel, US Treasury, Washington, DC |
| 1987 – 1989 | Partner, Sidley & Austin |
| 1989 – 1991 | Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, US Department of State, Washington, DC |
| 1991 – 1993 | American Ambassador to The Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin |
| 1993 – 1997 | Managing Director, Lehman Brothers |
| 1997 – 2000 | Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering |
| 2000 – 2001 | Vice Chairman and President, Commerce One, San Francisco Bay area, CA |
| 2001 – 2005 | Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy, Time Warner Inc., New York |
| 2005 – 2009 | Deputy Secretary, US Treasury, Washington, DC |
| 2009 | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Marymount University, Arlington, VA |
| Present Positions | |
| Chairman, Deloitte Center for Cross-Border Investment, Washington, DC | |
| Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale, Washington, DC | |
MES Participation
Mukhisa Kituyi
| 1982 | BA in Political Science and International Relations, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda |
| 1986 | Master of Philosophy in Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway |
| 1989 | PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen |
| Researcher, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen | |
| 1989 – 1991 | Programme Director, African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi |
| 1992 | Elected to the Kenyan Parliament and re-elected twice |
| 2002 – 2007 | Minister of Trade and Industry, Kenya |
| 2002 – 2007 | Chairman, Council of Ministers of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and Chairman, African Trade Ministers’ Council |
| 2002 – 2007 | Chairman, Council of Ministers of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States |
| 2008 – 2012 | Member of a team of experts advising the presidents of the nations of the East African Community |
| 2011 – 2012 | Consultant to the African Union Commission |
| 2012 | Chief Executive, Kenya Institute of Governance, Nairobi |
| 2012 | Non-resident Fellow, Africa Growth Initiative of the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC |
| Present Position | |
| 2013 – | Secretary-General, UNCTAD, Geneva |
MES Participation
Karl-Ludwig Kley
| 1979 | Studies of Law, University of Munich |
| 1979 – 1982 | Practical training as a lawyer, Hamburg and Johannesburg |
| 1986 | PhD in Law, University of Munich |
| 1982 – 1998 | Bayer AG |
| • Corporate Finance, later Assistant to the Chairman of the Management Board | |
| • 1987 – 1991 Chief Financial Officer, Bayer, Japan | |
| • 1991 – 1994 Various senior executive positions in sales and marketing, Pharmaceutical division, Bayer AG | |
| • 1994 – 1997 Head, Pharmaceutical division, Bayer, Italy | |
| • Head, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations | |
| 1998 – 2006 | Chief Financial Officer, Executive Board, Deutsche Lufthansa AG |
| 2006 – 2007 | Vice Chairman of the Executive Board, Merck, Darmstadt |
| Present Position | |
| 2007 – | Chairman of the Executive Board, Merck Group, Darmstadt |
| Further Positions | |
| President, German Chemical Industry Association (VCI), Berlin | |
| Vice President, Federation of German Industry (BDI), Berlin | |
| Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, BMW AG, Munich | |
| Member of the Supervisory Boards of Bertelsmann, Dusseldorf, and Lufthansa, Frankfurt | |
| Chairman of the Management Board, Baden-Baden Entrepreneur Talks | |
| Vice Chairman and Member of the General Meeting, Business and Industry Advisory Board, Goethe-Institut e.V., Munich | |
| Honorary Professor, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar | |
MES Participation
Wolf Klinz
| 1963 | MSc in Economics, universities of Paris, Vienna and Berlin |
| 1965 | PhD in Economics |
| 1966 | MBA INSEAD, Fontainebleau |
| 1966 – 1970 | Professional experience in the automotive industry, UK, Germany and USA |
| 1970 – 1981 | Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc. London, Düsseldorf, Paris |
| 1981 –1984 | Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing, VEGLA Vereinigte Glaswerke GmbH, Aachen; Managing Director, Sekurit Glas-Union GmbH |
| 1984 – 1990 | Member of the Management Board, Head of the International and Telecom Divisions, Landis & Gyr AG, Zug |
| 1990 – 1994 | Member of the Management Board, Treuhandanstalt, Berlin (government agency to privatise East German industry) |
| 1994 – 1996 | Vice Chairman, Lurgi AG, Frankfurt/Main |
| 2000 – 2003 | CEO until merger of AGIV with HBAG-Hamburg, AGIV AG, Frankfurt/Main |
| 2001 – 2004 | President, Member of the Board, DIHK-Berlin (Confederation of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry), Frankfurt/Main; Vice Presiden, Eurochambres, Brussels |
| Present Position | |
| Member of the European Parliament, Brussels | |
| Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs | |
| Substitute on the Committee of Transport & Tourism | |
| Member of the Supervisory Board, AGIV AG, Frankfurt/Main | |
MES Participation
Roland Koch
| 1983 | First state law examination, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main |
| 1985 | Second state law examination, admission as lawyer, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main |
| 1986 – 1999 | Lawyer, special focus on business and labour law |
| 1987 – 2010 | Member of the Hessian Parliament |
| 1993 – 1999 | Chairman, CDU Parliamentary Group, Hessian Parliament |
| 1999 – 2010 | Minister-President, State of Hesse |
| Present Position | |
| 2011 – | Chairman of the Executive Board, Bilfinger SE, Mannheim |
MES Participation
Horst Köhler
| 1943 | Born in Skierbieszów, Poland |
| 1963 | High-school (Abitur) examination |
| 1963 – 1965 | Military Service in the armoured infantry of the German Army |
| 1965 – 1969 | Degree in Economics, University of Tübingen |
| 1969 | Marries Eva Luise Bohnet |
| 1969 – 1976 | Academic Assistant at the Institute for Applied Economic Research, Tübingen |
| 1976 – 1981 | Policy Principles Directorate-General of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn |
| 1977 | Doctorate in Economics (Dr. rer. Pol.), University of Tübingen |
| 1981 | Joins the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) |
| 1981 – 1982 | Advisor to Gerhard Stoltenberg, then Minister-President of Land Schleswig-Holstein, in the State Chancellery |
| 1982 – 1990 | Head of the Finance Minister’s Office, Bonn Heads the Policy Principles Directorate-General and the Finance and Credit Directorate-General, which is responsible for international financial and monetary policy |
| 1990 – 1993 | State Secretary to German Federal Finance Minister Theo Waigel |
| 1993 – 1998 | President, German Savings Bank Association |
| 1998 – 2000 | President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London |
| 2000 – 2004 | Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC |
| 2003 | Awarded an Honorary Professorship by the University of Tübingen, Germany |
| March 2004 | Resigns as Managing Director of the IMF in Washington, DC |
| Present Position | |
| July 2004 – | President of the Federal Republic of Germany (re-elected for a second term on 23 May 2009) |
MES Participation
Thomas Kreuzer
| 1979 | Basic military service, First Lieutenant in Germany’s reserve army |
| 1980 – 1986 | Law degree, University of Augsburg |
| 1987 – 1994 | Public prosecutor and then judge, Regional Court of Kempten/Allgäu |
| 2003 – 2011 | Vice-Chairman, CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian Parliament |
| 2011 | State Secretary, Bavarian Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs |
| Present Positions | |
| 1983 – | District Chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) in Kempten/Allgäu |
| 1984 – | Member of the town council, Kempten/Allgäu |
| Directly elected Member of the Bavarian Parliament for the constituency of Kempten-Upper Allgäu | |
| 2001 – | State Chairman, Working Group of Lawyers (Arbeitskreis der Juristen) in the CSU |
| Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Kempten University of Applied Sciences | |
| 2008 – | Parliamentary Secretary, CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian Parliamen |
| Nov. 2011 – | State Minister and Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery |
MES Participation
Andrius Kubilius
| 1979 | Diploma of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius State University |
| 1984 | Postgraduate studies, Vilnius University |
| 1992 – 1996 | Member, Committee on Environment Protection |
| 1993 – | Member, Homeland Union, Lithuanian Christian Conservatives |
| 1996 – 2000 | First Deputy Speaker, Seimas, Republic of Lithuania |
| Chair, Committee on European Affairs | |
| Member, Committee on Legal Affairs | |
| Member, Commission on NATO Affairs | |
| 1999 – 2000 | Prime Minister, Republic of Lithuania |
| 2000 – 2003 | First Deputy Chairman, Homeland Union |
| 2000 – 2004 | Member, Committee on Budget and Finance |
| Member, Committee on European Affairs | |
| 2004 – 2008 | Leader of the Opposition, then Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Member of the Board of the Seimas |
| Member, Committee on Environment Protection | |
| Member, then Chair, Committee on European Affairs | |
| Member, Committee on the Development of Information Society | |
| Member, Committee on Rural Affairs | |
| 2008 – 2012 | Prime Minister, Republic of Lithuania |
| Present Positions | |
| 2003 – | Chairman of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats |
| 2012 – | Leader of the Opposition, Member of the Board of the Seimas |
| Member, Committee on Economics of the Seimas | |
| Member, Committee on European Affairs of the Seimas | |
| Member, Energy Commission of the Seimas | |
| Chair, Homeland Union | |
| Member, Conference of Chairs | |
MES Participation
Christiane Kuptsch
| Studies in Law, University of Hamburg | |
| Political Scientist (D.E.S. rel.int.), University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva | |
| 1992 – 1994 | Associate Expert, Migration and Population Branch, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva |
| 1994 – 2001 | Research Officer, International Social Security Association (ISSA), Geneva |
| 2001 – 2004 | Outreach and Research Officer, International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva |
| 2004 – 2008 | Senior Research Officer, International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva |
| Present Position | |
| 2008 – | Senior Specialist in Migration Policy, Labour Migration Branch, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva |
| Memberships | |
| 2007 – | Member of International Advisory Board ‘Population, Space and Place’ |
| 2008 – 2013 | Member of Academic Advisory Board Settling Into Motion – The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship Programme in Migration Studies, Zeit-Stiftung |
| Authored Books | |
| Co-Editor, Indian Skilled Migration and Development: To Europe and Back | |
| Editor, The Internationalization of Labour Markets |
|
| Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-first Century, with P. L. Martin and M. I. Abella |
|
| Co-Editor, Competing for Global Talent | |
| Editor, Merchants of Labour | |
MES Participation
Jerzy Kwieciński
| PhD, Warsaw University of Technology | |
| 1993 – 2004 | European Commission Representation, Warsaw |
| 2005 – 2008 | Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Republic of Poland, Warsaw |
| 2015 – 2018 | Secretary of State in the Ministry of Development, Republic of Poland, Warsaw |
| Present Positions | |
| 2008 – | Deputy President and later President of the Management Board of the European Center for Enterprise Foundation |
| 2015 – | Member, National Development Council appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland |
| 2018 – | Minister of Investment and Economic Development (MIED), Republic of Poland, Warsaw |
MES Participation
L
Hans J. Langer
| PhD in Physics, University of Munich | |
| Previous Positions | |
| Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | |
| Managing Director Europe, General Scanning, Inc. | |
| Present Position | |
| 1989 – | Founder and CEO, EOS Group, Munich |
| Distinctions | |
| 2008 – | Bavarian State Medal |
| 2011 – | Ranked one of twenty most influential personalities in Additive Manufacturing, British AM Magazine TCT |
MES Participation
Christian F. Lettmayr
| MSC in Business Administration and Economics, Economic University of Vienna | |
| MA in Vocational and Technical Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | |
| 1985 – 1994 | Deputy Director, Austrian Institute for Small Business Research (KMU Forschung Austria) |
| 1994 – 2001 | Director, Austrian Institute for Small Business Research (KMU Forschung Austria) |
| 2001 | Assignment with the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry at the European Commission |
| Lecturer, Hernstein Institute for Management and Leadership, Social Academy in Vienna, Continuing Education Institution Wifi-Wien, and Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck | |
| Member of professional commissions awarding vocational diplomas of several trades in Vienna | |
| Present Positions | |
| April 2005 – | Deputy Director, Cedefop (European Centre for Development of Vocational Training), Brussels |
| Oct. 2010 – | Acting Director, Cedefop, Brussels |
MES Participation
Ursula von der Leyen
| 1958 | Born in Brussels |
| 1964 – 1971 | European School in Brussels |
| 1971 – 1976 | Grammar school, specialising in mathematics and science |
| 1977 – 1980 | Studies of Economics at the Universities of Göttingen and Münster |
| 1978 | London School of Economics |
| 1980 – 1987 | Studies of Medicine, Hanover Medical School (MHH) |
| 1987 | State examination in Medicine and licence to practice |
| 1988 – 1992 | Assistant doctor, Hanover Medical School Women’s Clinic |
| 1991 | Doctorate |
| 1995 | Market analysis, Stanford Health Services Hospital Administration |
| 1998 – 2002 | Researcher, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research Department at MHH |
| 1999 | Member of the Medical Doctor Working Group of CDU Lower Saxony |
| 2001 | Master’s Degree in Public Health |
| 2001 – 2004 | Local political mandates in the Hanover region |
| 2003 – 2005 | Minister for Social Affairs, Women, Family Affairs and Health of Lower Saxony |
| 2003 – 2005 | Member of the CDU in the State Assembly of Lower Saxony |
| 2005 – 2009 | Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Federal Republic of Germany |
| Present Positions | |
| 1990 – | Member of the parliamentary group, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
| 2004 – | Member of the Executive Committee of the CDU Germany |
| 2009 – | Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany |
MES Participation
Edward Lucas
| 1988 | Berlin Correspondent, BBC |
| 1996 | Berlin Correspondent, The Economist |
| 1998 | Moscow Bureau Chief, The Economist |
| 2002 | Central and East European Correspondent, The Economist, London |
| 2010 | Editor for International Section, The Economist, London |
| 2013 – 2014 | Energy, Commodities and Natural Resources Editor, The Economist, London |
| Present Position | |
| 2010 – | Senior Editor, The Economist, London |
| Further Positions | |
| Regular broadcaster on international and British outlets, including the BBC’s “Today” programme, “Start the Week” and “Newsnight” | |
| Non-resident fellow at CEPA, a think-tank in Washington, DC | |
| Authored Books | |
| The New Cold War, published in 2008 | |
| Deception, published in 2012 | |
| Cyberphobia, published in 2015 | |
MES Participation
M
Sami Mahroum
| BA, Political Science and Economic Development, University of Oslo | |
| MSc, Science and Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam | |
| PhD, Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg |
|
| Senior Analyst, OECD, Paris | |
| Researcher, Policy Analyst, Advisor at various institutions, including: Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria; Ontario Government, Canada; OECD, France; TNO and RAND, the Netherlands; European Commission think-tank, Spain; University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and University of Manchester, UK |
|
| Research Director of Regional and International Innovation, UK National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA) | |
| 2000 | Contributed to the Europe Future’s project of the European Commission’s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies |
| 2008 | Contributed to UK Innovation White Paper |
| 2010 | Contributed to the OECD Innovation Strategy |
| 2014 | Contributed to the World Economic Forum book on Education 2.0 |
| Present Position | |
| 2010 – | Founding Director of INSEAD Innovation & Policy Initiative, Abu Dhabi |
MES Participation
Cardinal Reinhard Marx
| Studies in Theology and Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Paderborn and Paris | |
| 1979 | Ordained a priest |
| 1989 | PhD in Theology, University of Bochum |
| Director, Sozialinstitut Kommende, Dortmund | |
| 1996 | Professor of Catholic Social Teaching, Faculty of Theology, Paderborn |
| 1996 – 2001 | Consecrated bishop and appointed Titular Bishop of Pedena and Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn |
| 2001 – 2008 | Bishop of Trier |
| Present Positions | |
| 2006 – | Member of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) |
| 2008 – | Archbishop of Munich and Freising |
| 2012 – | Elected President of COMECE (re-elected in 2015) |
| 2013 – | Member of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinal Advisors |
| 2014 – | Coordinator of the Vatican Council for the Economy |
| Elected President of the German Bishops’ Conference | |
MES Participation
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
| Studied at University of Salzburg, Harvard University and London School of Economics | |
| 1998 – 2003 | Assistant Professor, Harvard University |
| 2003 – 2008 | Associate Professor, Harvard University |
| 2007 – 2008 | Visiting Professor, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin |
| 2008 – 2010 | Director, I+I Research Center, National University of Singapore |
| Present Position | |
| 2010 – | Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford |
MES Participation
Andrew McCoshan
| University of Cambridge and PhD, London School of Economics (LSE) | |
| 1993 | Analysed the development of British Vocational Education and Training (VET), London School of Economics (LSE) |
| 2008 | Lead author of a study of VET pathways for the European Commission |
| 2012 | Co-leader of a study of learning outcomes curricula in initial VET |
| Directed a UK study to develop indicators on the responsiveness of vocational qualifications | |
| Present Positions | |
| 1993 – | Research and Consulting leading studies for the UK government and the European Commission |
| Associate Fellow und Senior Researcher, Centre for Education and Industry, University of Warwick | |
| Visiting Research Fellow, UK Commission for Employment and Skills | |
| Associate, UK Higher Education Academy | |
MES Participation
Bill McDermott
| BA, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York | |
| MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois |
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| Career launch at Xerox Corporation | |
| Senior executive roles at Siebel Systems and Gartner Inc., USA | |
| 2002 – | CEO, SAP America |
| 2008 – | appointed to Executive Board of SAP, Waldorf |
| 2010 – 2014 | co-CEO (with Jim Hagemann Snabe) of SAP SE, Waldorf |
| Present Position | |
| 2014 – | CEO, SAP, SE, Waldorf |
MES Participation
Friedrich Merz
| 1955 | Born in Brilon, Germany |
| 1976 – 1982 | Law studies, Universities of Bonn and Marburg |
| 1982 | First State Law Examination |
| 1982 – 1985 | Legal clerkship, Appellate Court Saarbrücken and Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 1985 | Second state law exam (bar exam), Saarbrücken |
| 1985 – 1886 | Judge, local court Saarbrücken |
| 1986 – 1989 | German Association of Chemical Industry, Frankfurt am Main and Bonn |
| 1989 – 1994 | Member of the European Parliament |
| 1989 – 2004 | Partner with two national law firms in Cologne |
| 1994 – 2009 | Member of the German Parliament |
| 1998 – 2000 | Deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group |
| 2000 – 2002 | Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group and Minority Leader in the House |
| 2002 – 2004 | Deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group |
| Present Positions | |
| 2005 – | Partner, Mayer Brown LLP |
| 2009 – | Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke e.V., Berlin |
MES Participation
Georg Milbradt
| 1968 | Degree in Economics, University of Münster |
| 1970 – 1980 | Lecturer, Institute of Finance, University of Münster |
| 1973 | PhD in Economics, University of Münster |
| 1980 – 1983 | Professor of Economics, Department of Finance and Economics, University of Mainz |
| 1983 – 1990 | Treasurer, City of Münster |
| 1983 – 1986 | International Economics Editor, Financial Times |
| 1985 – 2000 | Professor of Economics, University of Münster |
| 1990 – 2001 | Minister of Finance, Free State of Saxony |
| 1994 – 2009 | Member of the Saxon State Parliament |
| 2002 – 2008 | Minister-President, Free State of Saxony |
| Present Position | |
| 2009 – | Professor of Economics, University of Dresden |
| President, Kramer Foundation of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management | |
| Research Professor, Ifo Institute | |
| 2010 – 2014 | Arbitrator for collective negotiations in the public sector |
| 2012 – | Member of the Supervisory Board, GÖK AG, Berlin |
| 2013 – | Chairman of the Board of Directors, Forum of Federations, Ottawa |
MES Participation
Philipp Mißfelder
| M.A. in History, Technische Universität Berlin | |
| 1998 – 2000 | Federal President, School Students Association, Junge Union |
| 1998 – 2002 | Member, Federal Board, Junge Union |
| 2009 | Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group |
| 2014 | Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation in the Field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy, German Bundestag, Berlin |
| Present Positions | |
| 1993 – | Member, Federal Board, Junge Union |
| 1995 – | Member, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
| 1999 – | Member, Federal Board, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
| 2002 – | Federal President, Junge Union |
| 2005 – | Member, German Bundestag |
| 2006 – | Member, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation |
| 2008 – | Member, CDU executive committee |
| 2009 – | Member of Parliament, Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary group, Berlin |
| Memberships | |
| Member, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly | |
| Member, Executive Board of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) | |
| Founder, Kurdish-German Friendship Group | |
| Member, German-Chinese Dialogue Forum | |
MES Participation
Jan Mládek
| 1983 | Degree in Economics, Prague School of Economics |
| 1989 | Degree in Mathematics, Charles University, Prague |
| 1990 | CSc in Economics, Prognostic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences |
| 1984 – 1998 | Senior advisory positions in academic and government spheres |
| 1994 – 1998 | Director, Czech Institute of Applied Economics |
| 1998 – 1999 | Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy, Czech Republic |
| 1999 – 2001 | First Czech Deputy Minister of Finance |
| Vice-Governor of the IMF for the Czech Republic, Washington, DC | |
| 2000 – 2002 | Director, Czech Institute for Applied Economics |
| 2002 – 2005 | Member, Czech Republic Parliament |
| 2004 – 2005 | Economic advisor to the Czech Republic Prime Minister |
| 2005 – 2006 | Minister of Agriculture, Czech Republic |
| Chairman of the Presidium of the Czech Land Fund | |
| 2006 – 2013 | Director, Czech Institute of Applied Economics |
| Present Position | |
| 2014 – | Minister of Trade and Industry, Czech Republic |
MES Participation
Marius Moeller
| 1984 – 1989 | MBA, University of Mannheim |
| 1992 | German Tax Consultant (Steuerberater) |
| 1989 | Assistant Tax Service Team, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Frankfurt |
| 1997 | Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions for Tax Department, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Frankfurt |
| Present Positions | |
| 2002 – | Member of the Executive Board, Responsible for the Tax Department, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Stuttgart |
| 2009 – | Head of Human Capital Germany; Member of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Human Capital Leadership Team, Frankfurt |
| 2011 – | Senior Relationship Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Stuttgart |
MES Participation
Marek Mora
| Studies in International Trade, University of Economics, Prague | |
| Postgraduate studies in Economics in Saarbrücken and Hamburg | |
| Taught at the University of Leipzig | |
| 2003 – 2006 | Worked in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission |
| 2006 – 2010 | Worked for the Czech public administration: Deputy Minister of Education, Deputy to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for European Affairs, Adviser to Prime Minister |
| 2010 – 2017 | General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union: head of the Cabinet of the Secretary-General of the Council, from February 2016 as the head of the Budget, Tax and Regional Policy Directorate |
| Present Position | |
| 2017 – | Member of the Board of the Czech National Bank |
| Awards and Honours | |
| 1999 | “Young Economist of the Year 1998”, Czech Republic |
MES Participation
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Dennis M. Nally
| Graduate of Western Michigan University | |
| Executive Programs studies at Columbia University and Penn State University | |
| 1974 | PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., Detroit |
| 1985 | Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. |
| 1992 – 1995 | National Director of Strategic Planning, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. |
| 1995 – 1998 | Vice Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., responsible for finance and key client service support |
| Member of US Management Committee, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. | |
| 1998 – 2000 | Audit and Business Advisory Services Leader for the Americas Theatre |
| 2000 – 2001 | Managing Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. |
| Present Position | |
| 2002 – | Chairman and Senior Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., New York |
| Public Appearances | |
| World Economic Forum | |
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit | |
| Financial Executives International | |
| St. Petersburg International Economic Forum | |
| Detroit Economic Club | |
| Global Competitiveness Forum | |
| New York University’s Stern School of Business | |
| World Business Forum | |
| Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business | |
| Memberships | |
| American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPAs | |
| Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors | |
| The Carnegie Hall Society Board of Trustees | |
| The Business Roundtable | |
MES Participation
Armin Nassehi
| 1985 | Degree in Education, University of Münster and University of Hagen |
| 1989 – 1994 | Lecturer and Assistant Professor, University of Münster |
| 1992 | PhD in Sociology, University of Münster |
| 1994 | Post-doctoral degree (Habilitation), University of Münster |
| 1994 – 1998 | Professor of Sociology, University of Münster |
| 2005 – 2009 | Vice-Dean, Faculty of Social Science, University of Munich |
| Present Positions | |
| 1998 – | Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Munich |
| 2001 – | Management Consultant and Keynote Speaker for business companies, government departments, cultural institutions, and trade associations |
| 2009 – | Senator and member of the University Council, University of Munich |
| 2012 – | Member, Research Institute of Philosophy, Hannover |
| 2012 – | Editor, Kursbuch |
MES Participation
Manfred J. M. Neumann
| 1940 | Born in Berlin Zehlendorf |
| 1966 | Dr.rer.Pol. at the University of Marburg |
| 1967 – 1969 | Economist, Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 1969 – 1972 | Researcher, University of Konstanz |
| 1973 – 1981 | Professor of Monetary Economics, Free University of Berlin |
| Present Position | |
| Professor of Economics, Institute for International Economics, University of Bonn | |
MES Participation
O
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay
| 1972 – 1976 | Oxford City Councillor |
| 1974 | Contested (as Labour) Horsham and Crawley general election |
| 1981 – 1982 | Member, Social Democratic Party (SDP) National Committee |
| 1981 – 1985 | SDP National Economic Policy Committee |
| 1983 | Contested (as Alliance) Cambridge general election |
| 2001 – 2011 | Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Treasury |
| 2002 – 2010 | Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Work and Pensions |
| 2010 | Chairman, Business Advisory Group to Rt Hon Vince Cable MP |
| Awards and Honours | |
| 2000 | Raised to the peerage as Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, of Seagrove Bay in the County of the Isle of Wight |
| Present Positions | |
| Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords | |
| Governor and Member of Council, National Institute of Economic and Social Research | |
| Chairman, Coltstaple Trust (registered charity) | |
| Joint Managing Director, OLIM Ltd (investment managers), a subsidiary of Close Brothers Group plc | |
MES Participation
Günther H. Oettinger
| 1982 | Completed Studies of Law and Economics, University of Tübingen |
| 1979 – 1993 | District Councillor, Ludwigsburg |
| 1984 – 2005 | Lawyer and CEO of an audit and tax consultancy |
| 1984 – 2010 | Member of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament |
| 2005 – 2009 | Chairman, Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in Baden-Württemberg |
| 2005 – 2010 | Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg |
| 2006 – 2010 | Chairman, Federal Media Policy committee of the CDU |
| 2007 – 2009 | Chairman, Federalism Reform II commission |
| 2010 – 2014 | European Commissioner for Energy, Brussels |
| 2014 – 2016 | European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Brussels |
| Present Positions | |
| 2005 – | Member of the Governing Board and Federal Executive Committee of the CDU |
| 2017 – | European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources, Brussels |
MES Participation
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Pier Carlo Padoan
| Degree in Economics, University of Rome | |
| Professor of Economics, University La Sapienza of Rome (retired) | |
| He has held various academic positions in Italian and foreign universities, including at the University of Rome, College of Europe (Bruges and Warsaw), Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Urbino, Universidad de la Plata, and University of Tokyo. | |
| He has published widely in international academic journals and is the author and editor of several books. | |
| Professional Career | |
| 1998 – 2001 | Economic Advisor to the Italian Prime Ministers Massimo D’Alema and Giuliano Amato |
| 2001 – 2005 | Italian Executive Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
| 2006 | Director, Fondazione Italianieuropei, a policy think-tank focusing on economic and social issues |
| 2007 – 2009 | Deputy Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
| 2009 – 2014 | Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
| 2014 – 2018 | Minister of Economy and Finance, Republic of Italy, Rome |
| Feb 2014 – May 2018 | Minister of Economy and Finance, Republic of Italy, Rome |
| Present Position | |
| March 2018 – | Member of Parliament, Republic of Italy, Rome |
MES Participation
Hedda Pahlson-Moller
| BA in International Relations, Brown University, USA | |
| MA in Political Economics, Lund University, Sweden | |
| 1999 – 2003 | SAP Process Engineer and later Business Programs Manger, Hewlett Packard (HP), Belgium and France |
| 2003 – 2004 | Managing Director, JCC Consulting, Luxembourg and UK |
| 2004 – 2006 | MBA, Copenhagen Business School |
| 2004 – 2012 | Managing Director Benelux, Evalueserve S.à.r.l, Luxembourg |
| 2006 – | Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sacred Heart University Luxembourg |
| 2012 – | Executive PhD Programme, Nordic International Management Institute (NIMI) |
| 2013 – | Valataire, Social Enterprise and Social Innovation (SESI) programme, University of Luxembourg |
| 2014 – | Adjunct professor of Strategic Management and Business Policy, European University |
| Present Positions | |
| 2003 – | Founder/Managing Director, Omnisource International S.à.r.l., Luxembourg |
| 2012 – | Advisory Board member and investor, Chameleon Invest SCPA, Luxembourg; Co-founder and board member, NYUKO, Luxembourg; Board member, Luxembourg Business Angel Network |
| 2013 – | Board member, European Business Angel Network; Board member, European Venture Philanthropy Association; Vice Chair, Luxembourg Microfinance & Development Fund SICAV |
| 2014 – | Advisory Board member, Shærpa Fund (SF) |
MES Participation
Demetrios G. Papademetriou
| 1976 | PhD in Comparative Public Policy and International Relations, University of Maryland |
| 2009 – 2011 | Chair, Global Agenda Council on Migration, World Economic Forum |
| 2010 – 2015 | Chair, Advisory Board, Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) International Migration Initiative |
| Chair, Migration Committee, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) | |
| Director for Immigration Policy and Research, U.S. Department of Labor | |
| Chair, Immigration Policy Task Force, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor | |
| Executive Editor, International Migration Review | |
| Present Position | |
| President of Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Europe, Brussels | |
| Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus, Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC | |
| Chair Emeritus, Metropolis (an International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities) | |
| Member, Board of Trustees, Migration Policy Institute | |
| Convener, Transatlantic Council on Migration | |
MES Participation
Liliana Pavlova Nikolova
| BA, International Economic Relations, University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofia | |
| MA, Public Administration and European Integration, Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar” | |
| PhD in Economics | |
| 2009 – 2011 | Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia |
| 2011 – 2013 | Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia |
| 2013 – 2014 | Member, 42nd National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia |
| 2013 – 2014 | Member, Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Government and Committee on European Affairs and Oversight of the European Funds, Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia |
| 2014 – 2017 | Member, 43rd National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia |
| 2014 – 2017 | Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia |
| Present Positions | |
| 2017 – | Member, 44th National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia |
| 2017 – | Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council 2018, Sofia |
MES Participation
Daniels Pavluts
| 1995 – 1999 | Bachelor of Arts, Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music |
| 1999 – 2000 | Post-Graduate Diploma in Cultural Management, London City University |
| 1997 – 2001 | Executive Director, International Boys’ Choir Festival “Rigas Doms” |
| 2001 | dviser to the Director on Management and Communication, Latvian National Opera |
| 2001 – 2003 | Brand Director, DDB LATVIJA Ltd |
| 2003 – 2006 | State Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Latvia |
| 2006 – 2007 | Master of Public Administration, Edward S. Mason Public Administration Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 2008 – 2010 | Member of the Board, Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
| 2010 – 2011 | Member of the Management Team, Head of Corporate Affairs, Swedbank AS |
| Present Positions | |
| 2007 – | Member of the Board, ZENO Consulting |
| Oct. 2011 – | Minister for Economics, Republic of Latvia |
MES Participation
Quentin Peel
| 1970 | Honours Degree in French, German and Economics, Queens College, Cambridge |
| 1975 | Foreign desk, Financial Times, London |
| 1976 – 1984 | Africa Editor, Financial Times, Johannesburg |
| 1984 – 1987 | Bureau Chief, Financial Times, Brussels |
| 1988 – 1991 | Moscow Correspondent and Bureau Chief, Financial Times, Moscow |
| 1994 – 1998 | Foreign Editor and Assistant Editor, Financial Times |
| 1998 – 2008 | Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times |
| 2010 – 2014 | Associate Editor and Chief Correspondent Germany, Financial Times, Berlin |
| Present Position | |
| 2014 – | Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London |
| Further Positions | |
| Writer for several major newspapers: Standard (Austria); The Daily Times (Nigeria); The Irish Times | |
| Awards and Honours | |
| 1990 | David Holden Prize for International Reporter of the Year, UK Press Awards |
| 2002 | Premio di Napoli, awarded by the city of Naples and the European Parliament, for reporting on European affairs |
| 2006 | Honorary doctorate, University of Birmingham |
| 2006 | Chevalier, French Légion d’Honneur |
MES Participation
John Peet
| Honours Degree in Economics, Cambridge University | |
| 1976 – 1989 | Treasury and Foreign Office, British Civil Service |
| 1986 | Health Correspondent, The Economist, London |
| 1998 | Business Affairs Editor, responsible for business, finance and science and technology coverage, The Economist, London |
| Britain Correspondent, Finance Correspondent, Washington DC, Brussels (EU) Correspondent and Executive Editor – all with The Economist | |
| 2003 – 2015 | Europe Editor, The Economist, London |
| Present Position | |
| 2015 – | Brexit and Political Editor, The Economist, London |
MES Participation
Rick van der Ploeg
| 1974 – 1977 | BSc, First Class Honours, University of Sussex |
| 1977 – 1981 | PhD Engineering, University of Cambridge and King’s College, Cambridge |
| 1979 – 1983 | Junior Research Officer, Cambridge Growth Project, University of Cambridge |
| 1983 – 1988 | University Lecturer and Reader-Elect in Economics, LSE, University of London |
| 1985 – 1991 | Research Professor of Quantitative Economics, Tilburg University |
| 1986 – 1989 | Founding Director, Dutch PhD Network for Quantitative Economics (NQE) |
| 1988 | Professor of Economics, European University Institute, Florence |
| 1991 – 1998 | Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam |
| 1994 – 1998 | Member of Parliament, The Netherlands |
| 1998 – 2002 | State Secretary of Education, Culture and Sciences, The Netherlands |
| 2002 – 2010 | Professor of Political Economy, University of Amsterdam |
| 2003 – 2007 | Elected Member and Chair, Dutch Delegation, Unesco World Heritage Committee, and Vice Chairman of the World Heritage Convention, Vilnius |
| 2003 – 2007 | Professor of Economics, European University Institute, Florence |
| Present Positions | |
| 2008 – | Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford |
| 2008 – | Co-Director, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies; Senior Research Fellow, New College, Oxford |
| 2011 – | Adjunct Professor, VU University Amsterdam |
| Chair of CES Scientific Council and Area Director, Public Sector Economics, CESifo, Munich; Research Fellow of: CESifo Network, Munich; CEPR, London; and Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam/Rotterdam | |
MES Participation
Reinhard Ploss
| 1986 | PhD in Process Engineering, Technical University of Munich |
| 1986 | Joined Infineon Technologies AG (Siemens AG until 1999), Munich Process Engineer for chip manufacturing, Siemens AG, Munich |
| 1993 | Head of Technology, Siemens AG, Villach, Austria |
| 1996 | Head, Power Semiconductor Business Unit, Siemens AG, Munich |
| 1999 | Head, Industrial Power Business Unit, Infineon Technologies AG; President, eupec GmbH Co. KG, a subsidiary of the Infineon Technologies AG |
| 2000 | President, Automotive, Industrial & Multimarket Business Group, Infineon Technologies AG |
| 2005 | Head of Development and Manufacturing and Operational Management, Automotive, Industrial & Multimarket Business Group, Infineon Technologies AG |
| Present Positions | |
| 2007 – | Member of the Management Board, Infineon Technologies AG |
| 2012 – | Chief Executive Officer, responsible for Divisions, Group Strategy, Manufacturing, Logistics, Quality, Communications & Government Relations, Human Resources (Labour Director), Legal, Research & Development and Customs, Infineon Technologies AG |
MES Participation
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Stefan Quandt
| 1987 – 1993 | Engineering (M.Eng.), University of Karlsruhe |
| 1993 | Internship, Boston Consulting Group, Munich |
| 1993 – 1994 | Cost Accounting and Corporate Accounting, DataCard Corporation, Minneapolis |
| 1994 – 1996 | Marketing Manager, DataCard Asia Pacific Ltd, Hong Kong |
| 1996 | • Entrepreneur |
| • Member of various boards of family-owned companies | |
| Present Positions | |
| Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, BMW AG, Munich | |
| Member of the Board of Trustees, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Berlin and Munich | |
| Chairman and Managing Director of AQTON SE, Bad Homburg | |
| Chairman of the Supervisory Board, DELTON AG, Bad Homburg | |
| Member of the Board of Directors, DataCard Corporation, Minneapolis, MN | |
| Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Johanna Quandt Foundation, Bad Homburg | |
MES Participation
Cornelia Quennet-Thielen
| 1976 – 1984 | Studies of law in Freiburg and Trier; Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
| 1984 | Second State Examination in Law |
| 1985 | Judge, State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 1985 – 1987 | Personal Secretary to the Minister for Environment and Health, Rhineland Palatinate |
| 1987 – 1990 | Personal Secretary to the Federal Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Prof. Dr. Klaus Toepfer |
| 1987 – 2004 | Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety |
| 1990 – 1999 | Head, International Cooperation Division, Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety |
| 1999 – 2004 | Deputy Director General for Policy Issues, Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety |
| 2003 | Studies at Yale University (World Fellow of Yale) |
| 2004 – 2008 | Director General, Office of the Federal President since 2006 also Deputy Head of the Office of the Federal President |
| Present Positions | |
| Nov. 2008 – | State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Federal Republic of Germany |
MES Participation
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Jay Ralph
| B.B.A. Finance and Accounting, University of Wisconsin | |
| M.B.A. Finance and Economics, University of Chicago | |
| 1981 – 1983 | Senior Auditor, Arthur Anderson & Company, Chicago |
| 1984 – 1991 | Investment Officer, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee |
| 1991 – 1996 | Vice President, President Centre Re Bermuda Ltd, Bermuda |
| 1996 – 1997 | Member of the Executive Board of Zurich Re, Zurich |
| 1997 – 2006 | President and CEO, Allianz Risk Transfer, Zurich |
| 2007 – 2009 | CEO, Allianz Re within Allianz SE, Munich |
| 2010 – 2011 | Member of the Board of Management, Allianz SE |
| 2011 | Member of the Board of Management and Chief Operating Officer, Allianz Global Investors AG |
| Present Position | |
| 2012 – | Member of the Board of Management, Allianz SE |
| Chairman of Allianz Asset Management | |
MES Participation
Dieter Reiter
| 1981 | Public Management Degree, Civil Service Academy |
| 1982 – 2008 | Munich City Treasury, various positions |
| Last position up until 2008: Senior Administrator to the Lord Mayor and Deputy Treasurer | |
| 2009 – 2014 | Councillor, Head of the Labour and Economic Development Department, City of Munich |
| Present Positions | |
| 2014 – | Lord Mayor, City of Munich |
| Member of the Supervisory Board, Münchner Gewerbehof GmbH (Commercial Park) | |
| Member of the Supervisory Board, Flughafen München GmbH (Munich Airport) | |
| Treasurer, Bavarian School of Administration | |
| Member of several boards of trustees | |
MES Participation
Norbert Reithofer
| 1956 | Born in Penzberg, Germany |
| 1974 | College Preparatory Examination (Fachabitur) |
| 1974 – 1978 | Mechanical Engineering, Munich University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule München), Engineering Degree |
| 1978 – 1983 | Production Technology and Operating Science, Munich University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule München) Engineering Degree |
| 1984 – 1987 | Scientific Assistant, Institute for Machine Tools and Operating Science, Technical University of Munich |
| 1987 | PhD, Technical University of Munich |
| 1987 | Joined BMW AG Head of Maintenance Planning |
| 1989 – 1991 | Director of Control Technologies and Process Data Management |
| 1991 – 1994 | Director of the Body-in-White Division |
| 1994 – 1997 | Technical Director of BMW South Africa |
| 1997 – 2000 | President of BMW Manufacturing Corporation, South Carolina, USA |
| Present Position | |
| 2006 – | Chairman, Board of Management, BMW AG, Munich |
MES Participation
Thomas Rodermann
| 1990 – 2006 | Various senior management positions in Private Banking, Wealth Management and Product Management, Allianz Group/Dresdner Bank |
| Co-Head Wealth Management Germany, Allianz Group/Dresdner Bank | |
| 2006 – 2011 | Global Head of Investment and Insurance, Deutsche Bank Private and Business Clients (PBC) |
| Member, Global Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank Private and Business Clients (PBC) |
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| 2011 – 2015 | CEO of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank Private and Business Clients (PBC) |
| Member, Global Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank Private and Business Clients (PBC) |
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| Present Positions | |
| 2015 – | Group Country Head, UBS Deutschland AG |
| Member, European Wealth Management Executive Committee, UBS Deutschland AG | |
| Mandates | |
| Member of the Supervisory Board, UBS Global Asset Management Deutschland GmbH | |
| Member of the Management Board, UBS Optimus Foundation | |
| Member: Landeskuratorium Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland des Stiftverband für die Deutsche Wirtschaft | |
| Member, Board of Trustees, House of Finance, University of Frankfurt | |
MES Participation
Sir Ivan Rogers
| BA Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford | |
| D Phil Studies, Balliol College, Oxford and École Normale Supérieure, Paris | |
| 1986 – 1994 | Various policy jobs in the Department of Social Security and HM Treasury |
| 1994 – 1995 | Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke |
| 1995 – 1996 | Head of Aid, Diplomacy and Intelligence Branch, HM Treasury |
| 1996 – 1999 | Chief of Staff to Vice-President of the European Commission, Sir Leon Brittan |
| 1999 – 2002 | Director, Europe Strategy, HM Treasury |
| 2002 – 2003 | Director, Tax and Budget, HM Treasury |
| 2003 – 2006 | Principal Private Secretary to British Prime Minister, Tony Blair |
| 2006 – 2010 | Senior Government Banker, Citigroup UK |
| 2009 – 2011 | Non-executive Director of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, UK’s deposit guarantee scheme |
| 2010 – 2011 | Head of UK and Ireland Government Banking, Barclays Capital |
| 2011 – 2013 | Chief EU advisor to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron |
| 2013 – 2017 | UK Permanent Representative to the EU (November 2013 – January 2017) |
MES Participation
Marie-Elisabeth Rusling
| MA in International Management, ESCP EUROPE Business School, Paris – Oxford – Berlin | |
| MA in Literature and Languages, La Sorbonne University, Paris | |
| Worked as EU Projects Manager and co-founded a small business | |
| International Affairs & Trade Director, Head of Corporate Affairs, Eurochambres, Brussels | |
| Director of European Affairs at CCI France, Brussels | |
| Present Position | |
| 2017 – | CEO & Member of the Board, Business Angels Europe (BAE), the European Confederation for Angel Investing, Brussels |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
| 1976 | BA in Economics, Harvard College, Cambridge |
| 1978 | MA in Economics, Harvard Department of Economics, Cambridge |
| 1980 | PhD in Economics, Harvard Department of Economics, Cambridge |
| 1982 | Consultant, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC |
| 1983 | Consultant, OECD, Paris; Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris |
| 1984 – 2002 | Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University |
| 1984, 1986 | Visiting Professor, Institute of World Economics, Kiel |
| 1986 – 1987 | Visiting Scholar, Bank of Japan and Japan Ministry of Finance |
| 1990 | Visiting Professor, World Institute of Development Economics |
| 1992 | Research (WIDER), United Nations University, Helsinki |
| 1994 – 1996 | Founder and Executive Committee Chair, Institute of Economic Analysis, Moscow |
| 1995 – 1999 | Director, Harvard Institute for International Development |
| 1998 – 2002 | Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University |
| 1999 | Member, International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission |
| 2000 – 2001 | Chair, Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO |
| 2002 | Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan |
| 2006 | Director, United Nations Millennium Project |
| Present Positions | |
| Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York | |
| Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon | |
| Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University | |
| Economic Advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia | |
| Co-Chair, Asian Economic Panel of Economists | |
| Co-Founder and Director, Millennium Promise | |
MES Participation
Kemal Şahin
| Studies in Engineering, RWTH Aachen | |
| 1982 | Founder of Santex Moden GmbH, Würselen |
| 1984 | Founder of clothing company Konteks, Turkey |
| 2003 – 2006 | Founding Chairman, TD-IHK (Turkish-German Industry and Trade Chamber), Istanbul |
| 2012 | Founder and CEO, STIFTUNG: BILDUNG! EĞİTİM!, Cologne |
| Present Positions | |
| Founder and Entrepreneur, Şahinler Group, Istanbul | |
| Chairman of Board of Trustees, TEMA Foundation, Aachen | |
| Chairman of the Council of Advisors, Platform of Turkish-German Students and Academicians, (TD-Platform), Düsseldorf | |
| Awards | |
| 1997 | “German Entrepreneur of the Year” by Schitag Ernst & Young and Germany’s manager magazin |
| 2000 | “Order of Merit” by Süleyman Demirel, 9th president of the Republic of Turkey |
| Honorary PhD by Selçuk University, Konya | |
MES Participation
Jochen Sanio
| 1947 | Born in Hameln/Weser, Germany |
| 1966 – 1971 | Degree course in Law, in Berlin and Geneva |
| 1971 | First state examination for entry to the legal profession |
| 1974 | Second state examination to commence professional practice |
| 1974 – 1995 | Head of various sections in the Policy Department, Federal Banking Supervisory Office, Berlin |
| Head of Policy Department, Federal Banking Supervisory Office, Berlin | |
| 1995 – 2000 | Vice President of the Federal Banking Supervisory Office, Berlin |
| 2000 – 2002 | President of the Federal Banking Supervisory Office |
| Present Position | |
| 2002 – | President of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Bonn |
| Further Position | |
| Member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) | |
MES Participation
Michael Schaefer
| 1974 | First State Examination in Law, University of Munich |
| 1978 | Second State Examination in Law, University of Heidelberg |
| 1980 | Dr. jur., Max-Planck Institute Heidelberg /University of Mannheim |
| 1978 | Joined Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1980 | Office of the State Secretary, Foreign Office, Bonn |
| 1981 – 1984 | Political Advisor, Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, New York |
| 1984 – 1987 | Advisor, United Nations Department, Foreign Office, Bonn |
| 1987 – 1991 | Permanent Representative, German Embassy to Singapore |
| 1991 – 1995 | Head of Training for Higher Diplomatic Service, Foreign Office, Bonn |
| 1995 – 1999 | Head of the Political Department, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, Geneva |
| 1999 – 2001 | Head of the Task Force Western Balkans, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2001 – 2002 | Deputy Political Director, Commissioner for Stability Policy in South-Eastern Europe, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2002 | Legal Advisor of the German Federal Government / Head of the Legal Department, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2002 – 2007 | Political Director, Foreign Office, Berlin |
| 2007 – 2013 | Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the People’s Republic of China, Beijing |
| Present Position | |
| July 2013 – | Chairman of the Board of Directors, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Berlin and Munich |
MES Participation
Oleg Sepelev
| 1980 | MA in International Economic Relations, Moscow State University |
| Diplomatic Career | |
| More than 30 years of service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the former Soviet Union and then Russian Federation, including long-term missions to different countries such as Republic of the Congo, Algeria, USA, UK, and Austria. | |
| Vast experience of working for and within the UN system. | |
| Further Position | |
| 2012 – | Senior Coordinator for UNIDO-BRICS Cooperation and UN System-wide Coherence, Vienna |
MES Participation
Konstantinos Simitis
| 1936 | Born in Athens, Greece |
| 1959 | PhD (Law) Philipps University of Marburg, Germany |
| 1961 – 1963 | Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 1971 – 1975 | Lecturer at various West German universities |
| 1977 – 1981 | Professor of Commercial Law at the Panteion University, Athens |
| 1981 – 1985 | Minister of Agriculture |
| 1985 | Election as a Deputy to the Greek Parliament |
| 1987 – 1989 | Minister of National Economy |
| 1989 – 1990 | Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs |
| 1994 – 1995 | Minister of Industry, Energy, Research and Technology Minister of Trade |
| 1996 – 2004 | Prime Minister of Greece Chairman of Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) |
| 2003 | President of the European Council |
MES Participation
Hermann Simon
| 1972 | MSc in Economics and Business Administration, University of Bonn |
| 1976 | PhD in Economics and Business Administration, University of Bonn |
| 1979 – 1989 | Professor of Business Administration and Marketing, University of Bielefeld |
| 1989 – 1995 | Professor of Business Administration and Marketing, University |
| 1984 – 1986 | President, European Marketing Academy (EMAC) |
| 1995 –2009 | CEO, Simon-Kucher & Partners |
| Present Positions | |
| 2009 – | Chairman, Simon-Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants, Bonn |
| Member of the editorial boards of business journals such as International Journal of Research in Marketing, Management Science, Recherche et Applications en Marketing, Décisions Marketing, European Management Journal , as well as several German journals | |
| Author of Hidden Champions (Boston 1996, cover story of BusinessWeek in 2004) and Power Pricing (New York 1997), Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share (Boston 2006), Hidden Champions of the 21st Century, Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders (New York 2009), and Beat the Crisis (New York 2010), as well as a regular columnist for business monthly Manager Magazin since 1998 | |
| Co-founder of the first Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) listed on the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt | |
| Awards | |
| Honorary Doctorates from IEDC Business School of Bled (Slovenia), the University of Siegen (Germany) and Kozminski University Warsaw (Poland) |
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| Honorary Professor, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing | |
MES Participation
Hans-Werner Sinn
| 1972 | Degree in Economics, University of Münster |
| 1978 | Doctorate in Economics, University of Mannheim |
| 1978 – 1979 | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| 1978 – 1983 | Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Mannheim |
| 1983 | Associate Professor, University of Mannheim |
| 1984 – 1985 | Full Professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| 1997 – 2000 | Chairman, German Economic Association |
| 1999 | Honorary Doctorate, University of Magdeburg |
| 2006 – 2009 | President, International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Munich |
| 2011 | Honorary Doctorate, University of Helsinki |
| Present Positions | |
| 1984 – | Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Munich |
| 1991 – | Director, Center for Economic Studies (CES), University of Munich |
| 1995 – | Senior Editor, Economic Policy |
| 1999 – | President, Ifo Institute, Munich |
| 1999 – | President and CEO, CESifo |
MES Participation
Neo Boon Siong
| 1957 | Year of Birth |
| 1981 | Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours), National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 1981 | Auditor, Arthur Andersen Singapore |
| 1981 – 1984 | Management Accounting Manager, Hewlett Packard Singapore |
| 1984 -1985 | Internal Auditor, Shell Eastern Petroleum, Singapore |
| 1985 – 1989 | Senior Tutor, NUS and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) |
| 1988 | MBA, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1989 | PhD in Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1989 – 1990 | Lecturer, NTU |
| 1990 – 1998 | Director, Information Management Research Centre |
| 1991 – 1995 | Senior Lecturer, NTU |
| 1992 – 1993 | Vice Dean, Nanyang Business School (NBS) |
| 1993 | Learning Organization Program, Sloan School of Management, MIT |
| 1993 – 1995 | Division Head, Auditing and Information Systems, NTU |
| 1995 – 1998 | Vice Dean and Division Head (Strategy and IS), NTU |
| 1996 | Managing Information Services Program, Harvard Business School |
| 1996 – 1999 | Associate Professor |
| 1998 – 2004 | Dean, NBS |
| 2000 | Senior Management Program, Civil Service College, Singapore |
| Present Positions | |
| 1999 – | Strategy Professor and Former Dean, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore |
| Professor and Director, Information Management Research Centre (IMARC), Nanyang Business School (NBS) | |
MES Participation
Peter Birch Sørensen
| 1955 | Year of Birth |
| PhD in Economics, University of Copenhagen | |
| 1980 – 1983 | Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen and Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Illinois |
| 1983 – 1985 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Royal Agricultural University, Copenhagen |
| 1985 – 1991 | Associate Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen |
| 1991 – 1995 | Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School |
| 1995 – 2010 | Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen |
| Present Position | |
| 2001 – | Assistant Governor and Chief Economist, Danish Central Bank, Copenhagen |
| Scientific activities | |
| Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters | |
| Research Fellow in the CESifo Research Network and former Director of the Network’s Public Sector Economics Area | |
| International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation | |
| Co-founder and former Director of the Economic Policy Research Unit, University of Copenhagen | |
| Former Vice President and Executive Vice President of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) | |
| Former Co-Editor and current Associate Editor of the journals International Tax and Public Finance and FinanzArchiv | |
| Puclic service | |
| 2004 – 2010 | Chairman of the Danish Economic Council |
| Served as a consultant on issues of tax policy for the OECD, the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and a number of national governments | |
MES Participation
T.N. Srinivasan
| 1954 | MA in Mathematics, University of Madras, India |
| 1960 | MA in Economics, Yale University |
| 1962 | PhD in Economics, Yale University |
| 1955 – 1957 | Statistical Quality Control Officer, Indian Statistical Institute |
| 1964 – 1979 | Research Professor and later Professor, Indian Statistical Institute |
| 1972 | Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1977 – 1980 | Special Adviser, Development Research Center, The World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1997 – 2000 | Chairman, Department of Economics, Yale University |
| 1979 – 2011 | Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University |
| 2001 – 2013 | Consulting Professor, Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford University |
| Present Positions | |
| 1980 – | Consultant, The World Bank, Washington DC |
| Professor Emeritus, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore | |
| Professor Emeritus of Economics, Economic Growth Center, Yale University | |
| Awards and Honours | |
| 2008 | Anne O. Krueger Award for Scholarship and Service in International Development |
| 2007 | Padma Bhushan Award, awarded by the President of India |
| 2003 | Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association |
MES Participation
Aigars Štokenbergs
| 1963 | Born in Riga |
| 1981 – 1986 | Faculty of Law, University of Latvia |
| 1985 – 1988 | Senior Investigator, District Prosecution, Riga |
| 1988 – 1990 | Agrofirma Tervete, assistant to the Chairman |
| 1990 – 1993 | Judge, City Court of Jurmala |
| 1993 – 1997 | Project Coordinator, Agriculture Development in Latvia World Bank project |
| 1997 – 1999 | Latvia Banking College |
| 1997 – 2001 | Faculty of Economics, BA School of Business and Finance |
| 1997 – 2001 | Project Coordinator, Rural Development in Latvia World Bank project |
| 2002 – 2004 | Attorney at Law, Brigis, Èapkevics un partneri Law Firm |
| 2004 – 2006 | Economic Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis |
| 2006 | Minister of Economics, Republic of Latvia |
| 2006 – 2007 | Minister of Regional Development and Local Government |
| 2007 – 2010 | Member of the 9th Parliament |
| Member of the Legal Affairs Committee, the Social Affairs and Labour Committee | |
| Present Positions | |
| 1993 – | Deputy to the Director-General, State Land service |
| 1996 – | Finance and Investment Consultant |
| 2010 – | Minister of Justice, Republic of Latvia |
| Member of the 10th Parliament, Republic of Latvia | |
MES Participation
Margret Suckale
| Research Associate, University of Hamburg | |
| Executive MBA from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, and Kellogg School of Management, Illinois | |
| Executive Master of European and International Law, University of St. Gallen | |
| 1985 | Legal Adviser for Marketing, Sales, Contract, Competition, and Antitrust Law, Labour Law, Supply and Distribution, Mobil Oil AG, Hamburg |
| 1991 | Employee Relations Manager for Austria, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Mobil Oil Austria AG, Vienna |
| 1995 | Employee Relations Manager, Nordic: responsible for Human Resources and Law for Denmark, Mobil Nordic Office, Copenhagen, Member of the Staff Redesign Project, Mobil Europe Ltd, London |
| 1996 | Joint Venture Mobil/BP, Integration Team, Mobil Europe Ltd, London |
| 1997 | Head of Legal Division, Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin |
| 2004 | Head of Central Staff Units, Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin |
| 2005 | Member of the Management Board, responsible for Human Resources, Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin |
| 2008 | Member of the Management Board, responsible for Human Resources and Services, Deutsche Bahn Mobility Logistics AG, Berlin |
| 2009 | Senior Vice President, Global HR Executive Management and Development, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen |
| Present Position | |
| 2011 – | Member of the Board of Executive Directors and Industrial Relations Director, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, currently responsible for Human Resources, Engineering and Maintenance, Environment, Health and Safety, Verbund Site Management Europe |
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Robert Thomson
| 1961 | Born in Melbourne, Australia |
| Studies at Christian Brothers’ College, East St Kilda and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | |
| 1979 | Finance and general affairs reporter for The Herald in Melbourne; later Sydney Correspondent for the same newspaper |
| 1983 | Senior feature writer for the Sydney Morning Herald |
| Nominated for Australian Journalist of the Year award for his ground-breaking work examining the country’s judiciary | |
| 1985 – 1989 | Financial Times correspondent, Beijing |
| 1989 – 1994 | Financial Times correspondent, Tokyo |
| 1994 – 1996 | Financial Times Foreign News Editor, London |
| 1998 | Editor of the US edition of the Financial Times |
| Editor of the Weekend FT | |
| 2001 | US Business Journalist of the Year chosen by the journal TJFR |
| Editor of the US edition of the Financial Times | |
| 2002 – 2007 | Editor-in-Chief, The Times, London |
| 2010 | Honorary Doctorate from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) |
| Present Positions | |
| Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York | |
| Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones & Company, New York | |
MES Participation
Jean-Claude Trichet
| 1942 | Born in Lyon, France |
| 1964 | Mining Engineering degree, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy |
| 1966 | Economics degree, Université de Paris; Graduate of the Institute of Political Studies (Science Po), Paris |
| 1969 – 1971 | Ecole Nationale d´Administration |
| 1971 – 1975 | Deputy Finance Inspector; General Inspectorate of Finance; Treasury Department |
| 1976 | Secretary General of the Interministerial Committee for Improving Industrial Structures (CIASI) |
| 1978 | Adviser to the Minister for Economic Affairs; Presidential Adviser on Industry, Energy and Research |
| 1981 – 1985 | Head of the Development Aid Office; Deputy Director of Bilateral Affairs; Head of International Affairs, Treasury Department |
| 1985 – 1993 | Chairman of the Paris Club |
| 1986 | Director, Cabinet of the Minister for Economic Affairs, Finance and Privatisation |
| 1987 | Director of the Treasury Department; Alternate Governor of the World Bank; Censor of the Banque de France |
| 1987 – 1993 & 1995 – 2003 |
Alternate Governor of the International Monetary Fund |
| 1992 – 1993 | Chairman of the European Monetary Committee |
| 1993 | Governor of the Banque de France (second term in 1999); Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements |
| 1993 – 1995 | Governor of the World Bank |
| 1994 | Chairman of the Monetary Policy Council of the Banque de France; Member of the Council of the European Monetary Institute |
| 1998 | Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank |
| Present Position | |
| 2003 – | Chairman of the Group of Ten Governors; President of the European Central Bank |
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Christian Ude
| Editorial Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich | |
| Studies of Law, University of Munich | |
| 1973 – 1978 | Honorary Spokesman, Social Democratic Party (SPD), Munich |
| 1970 – 1990 | Editor of SPD Newspaper Münchner Post |
| 1979 – 1990 | Attorney at Law |
| 1990 – 1993 | Deputy Mayor, City of Munich |
| 1996 – 2001 | Deputy Chairman of the Bavarian Association of Cities |
| Present Positions | |
| 1993 – | Lord Mayor, City of Munich |
| 2005 – | President of the German Association of Cities |
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Tommaso Valletti
| PhD in Economics, London School of Economics | |
| 2001 – 2005 | Associate Professor in Economics & Management, Politecnico di Torino, Turin |
| 2002 – 2005 | Board Director of Consip, the Italian Public Procurement Agency, Rome |
| 2003 – 2006 | Associate Professor in Economics, Imperial College London, London |
| 2005 – 2006 | Associate Professor of Economics & Management, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome |
| 2006 – 2016 | Professor of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata (part-time; on leave) |
| 2007 – 2011 | Member, Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB), London |
| 2007 – 2014 | Member, academic panel, UK Competition Commission, London |
| 2007 – 2016 | Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London |
| 2008 – 2009 | Member, Advisory Board, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome |
| 2013 – 2016 | Joint Academic Director, Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), Brussels |
| 2013 – 2016 | Member, Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP), DG Competition, European Commission, Brussels |
| Present Positions | |
| 2004 – | Academic advisor, Ofcom, London |
| 2016 – | Chief Competition Economist, DG COMP, European Commission, Brussels |
| Memberships | |
| 1999 – | Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) |
| 2017 – | Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network |
MES Participation
Manuel Valls
| History degree, Université Paris I-Tolbiac | |
| 1983 – 1986 | Parliamentary attaché to the MP for the 1st Ardèche constituency |
| 1986 – 2002 | Ile-de-France Regional Councillor |
| 1988 – 1991 | Special Adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office, French Republic |
| 1989 – 1998 | Deputy Mayor of Argenteuil (Val d’Oise) |
| 1990 – 2000 | First Secretary of the Val d’Oise department Socialist Federation |
| 1991 – 1993 | Deputy Inter-ministerial Delegate to the Winter Olympics in Albertville |
| 1993 – 1994 / 1995 – 1997 |
National Secretary, responsible for communications, French Socialist Party |
| 1997 – 2001 | Head of Communications and Media Relations, Prime Minister’s Office, French Republic |
| 1998 – 2002 | Vice-Chairman of the Ile-de-France Regional Council |
| 2001 – 2012 | Mayor of Evry, French Republic |
| 2003 – 2004 | National Secretary, responsible for organisation, French Socialist Party |
| 2008 – 2012 | Chairman of the Evry-Centre-Essonne Urban Community |
| 2012 – 2014 | Minister of the Interior, French Republic |
| Present Position | |
| 2002 – | Parliamentary attaché to the MP for the 1st Ardèche constituency |
| 2014 – | Prime Minister, French Republic |
MES Participation
Christian Vorländer
| 1994 – 2000 | Studies in Law, University of Munich |
| 1996 – 1997 | Studies at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London |
| 1998 | Traineeship, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), United Nations Headquarters, New York City |
| 2000 – 2002 | Legal clerkship, among other training periods elective traineeship, German Federal Ministry of Justice, Berlin |
| 2002 | Second German State examination in law, University of Munich |
| Present Positions | |
| 2003 – | Self-employed attorney-at-law |
| 2010 – | Board member, Munich-based SPD |
| 2014 – | Councillor, City of Munich |
| 2016 – | Deputy chair, SPD party group, Munich City Council |
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Theo Waigel
| 1939 | Born in Oberrohr, Germany |
| 1963 | Passed 1st state law examination degree in legal and political science at Munich and Würzburg Universities |
| 1966 – 1972 | Member of Krumbach county council |
| 1967 | Conferral of doctorate and 2nd state examination |
| 1969 – 1970 | Personal assistant to the Undersecretary of State at the Bavarian Ministry of Finance |
| 1970 – 1972 | Personal assistant to the Bavarian Minister of State for Economic and Transport Affairs |
| 1971 – 1975 | Chairman of the Junge Union Bayern, the junior arm of the Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria |
| 1972 – 2002 | Member of the Bundestag, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1973 – 1988 | Chairman of the CSU’s Doctrinal Commission |
| 1982 – 1989 | Chairman of the Bavarian CSU faction in the Bundestag and 1st Vice-Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group |
| 1988 – 1999 | Chairman of the CSU (Christian Social Union) |
| 1989 – 1998 | Federal Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Germany |
| Present Positions | |
| 1999 – | Lawyer in the office GSK Stockmann + Kollegen, Munich |
| 2008 – | Compliance Monitor, Siemens AG, Munich |
MES Participation
Paul Wallace
| 2000 – | Joined The Economist, London |
| Currently: covers the economies and public finances of the European Union | |
| Previously: Britain Economics Editor, The Economist, London | |
| Council member, Royal Economic Society | |
| Previous Positions | |
| Economics Editor, The Independent, London | |
| Producer and presenter on the economy and business for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV | |
| Authored Books | |
| Agequake, which investigates the causes and effects of population ageing | |
| Co-author, The Square Mile, which examines the City of London’s financial revolution in the 1980s | |
MES Participation
Jeremy Warner
| 1994 – 2009 | Business and City Editor, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday |
| Present Position | |
| 2009 – | Columnist and Assistant Editor; Chief Economics Commentator, The Daily Telegraph, London |
| Awards | |
| 1995 | Special award for “an outstanding contribution in defence of freedom of the media” by the Guild of British Newspaper Editors |
MES Participation
Axel A. Weber
| 1982 | MA in Economics and Management, University of Constance |
| 1987 | PhD in Economics, University of Siegen |
| 1994 | Post-Doctoral Degree in Economics, University of Siegen |
| 1994 – 1998 | Professor of Economic Theory, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn |
| 1998 – 2001 | Professor and Director of the Center for Financial Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main |
| 2001 – 2004 | Professor and Director of the Center for Financial Research, University of Cologne |
| 2002 – 2004 | Member of the German Council of Economic Experts |
| 2004 – 2011 | President of the German Bundesbank |
| Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank | |
| Member of the Board of Directors, Bank for International Settlements | |
| German Governor of the International Monetary Fund | |
| 2010 – 2011 | Steering Committee member, European Financial Stability Board |
| 2011 | Steering Committee member, European Systemic Risk Board |
| 2011 – 2012 | Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Present Postitions | |
| 2012 – | Chairman of the Board of Directors, UBS AG, Zurich |
MES Participation
Theodor Weimer
| 1959 | Born in Wertheim, Germany |
| 1978 – 1984 | Studies in economics, business administration, geography at University of Tübingen and University St.Gallen |
| 1984 – 1987 | Dr.rer.pol. in Mathematical Organisational Theory, University of Bonn |
| 1988 – 1995 | Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company in Düsseldorf |
| 1995 – 2001 | Senior Partner, Member of the Global Management Committee, Bain & Company, Inc., Munich |
| 2001 – 2004 | Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, Frankfurt |
| 2004 – 2007 | Partner, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs, Frankfurt |
| 2007 | Head of Global Investment Banking in the Markets & Investment Banking Division, UniCredit Group in Munich |
| 2008 | Executive Chairman of Global Investment Banking, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG/UniCredit Group |
| Present Positions | |
| 2009 – | Board Spokesman (CEO) at UniCredit Bank AG (former Bayerische Hypo- and Vereinsbank AG) |
| Member of the Management Committee as Country Chairman Germany, UniCredit Group | |
| Further Positions | |
| Member of the Executive Board, Association of German Banks | |
| Member of the Executive Board, Deutsches Aktieninstitut | |
MES Participation
John Whalley
| 1965 – 1968 | BA Hons., Economics, University of Essex |
| 1968 – 1969 | MA, University of Essex |
| 1969 – 1973 | MA, MPhil, PhD in Economics, Yale University |
| 1973 – 1976 | Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics |
| 1976 – 1978 | Associate Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, Canada |
| 1985 – 1986 | Senior Advisor, Department of Finance, Government of Canada |
| 1986 – 1990 | William G. Davis Professor of International Trade, UWO |
| 1990 – 1991 | Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington DC |
| 1992 – 1993 | Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, Washington DC |
| 1994 – 1998 | Professor of International and Development Economics, UWO |
| 1994 – 1998 | Associate Director, Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick |
| 2003 – 2004 | Guest Professor, University of Peking, China |
| 2004 – 2009 | William G. Davis Professor of International Trade, UWO |
| Present Positions | |
| 1978 – | Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| 1979 – | Director, Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations (CSIER), University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| 1985 – | Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 2003 – | Global Economy Area Director, CESifo Research Network, Munich |
| 2006 – | Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Ontario |
MES Participation
Brett Wigdortz
| Honours Degree in Economics, University of Richmond | |
| MA in Economics, University of Hawaii | |
| Researcher, East-West Center, Honolulu | |
| Journalist in Asia | |
| Developer of Asia policy and business programmes, Asia Society, New York | |
| Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company | |
| Named the UK Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of 2007 | |
| Received the 2010 CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) European Leadership Award | |
| Present Positions | |
| 2002 – | Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Teach First, London |
| 2007 – | Co-Founder, Board Member and Chief Strategy Adviser, Teach For All |
| Trustee of PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) and Future Leaders | |
MES Participation
Margret Wintermantel
| 1966 – 1970 | Psychology and Media Studies, University of Mainz |
| 1970 – 1972 | Scholarship of the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Highly-Gifted Students; Lecturer, TH Darmstadt; teacher, grammar school in Bergstraße |
| 1972 | PhD, University of Mainz |
| 1972 – 1977 | Research Assistant, Psychology Institute, University of Heidelberg |
| 1977 – 1979 | German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Grant |
| 1979 – 1986 | Lecturer, Psychology Institute, University of Heidelberg; Project Director, DFG research unit “Speaking and Language Understanding” |
| 1983 – 1985 | DFG (Habilitation) Scholarship Holder |
| 1986 | Habilitation (post-doctoral degree) in Psychology, University of Heidelberg |
| 1986 – 1992 | Language and Situation Project Director, Heidelberg/Mannheim Collaborative Research Centre |
| 1992 | University Professor, Saarland University |
| 1994 – 1997 | Vice-President, Teaching and Studies, Saarland University |
| 1999 – 2000 | Member, Evaluation Committee on Psychology, Northern Network Universities; Ombudswoman, Saarland University |
| Deputy Dean, Faculty of Social and Applied Human Sciences | |
| Member of the Advisory Board on Women’s Affairs and of the Senate, Saarland University | |
| 2000 – 2006 | President, Saarland University |
| 2001 – 2006 | German Rectors’ Conference Vice-President for Research and Young Scientists |
| Present Positions | |
| 2006 – | President of the German Rectors’ Conference |
| 2012 – | President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) e.V., Bonn |
MES Participation
Ludger Woessmann
| 1999 – 2003 | Researcher, Kiel Institute for World Economics |
| 2001 | PhD, Economics, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel |
| 2006 | Habilitation (post-doctoral degree), Economics, Technical University Munich |
| 2010 | National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| Present Positions | |
| 2003 – | Ifo Institute, Munich |
| 2004 – | Head, Capital and Innovation Department, Ifo Institute, Munich |
| 2006 – | Professor of Economics, Economics of Education, Department of Economics, University of Munich |
| Selected Awards | |
| 2003 | Young Economist Award, European Economic Association |
| 2005 | IEA Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) |
| 2011 | Ranked 5th among “Top-100 Researchers below 40”, Handelsblatt Economists Ranking |
| Selected Scientific Activities | |
| 2002 – | Research Affiliate, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University |
| 2003 – | Coordinator, European Expert Network on the Economics of Education |
| 2011 – | Member, Executive Committee, German Economic Association |
| 2007 – | Fellow, International Academy of Education |
| 2007 – 2010 | Member, Teaching Committee of the European Economic Association |
| 2009 – | Member, Academic Advisory Council, Federal Ministry of Economics |
| 2011 – | Co-editor, Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland |
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Martin Wolf
| 1971 | M.Phil. in Economics, Oxford University |
| joined the World Bank | |
| 1974 | Senior Economist, World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1981 – 1987 | Director of Studies, Trade Policy Research Centre, London |
| 1987 – 1996 | Chief Economics Leader Writer, Financial Times, London |
| 1989 & 1997 | Wincott Foundation Senior Prize |
| 1994 | RTZ David Watt Memorial Prize |
| 2000 | Commander of the British Empire award |
| 2003 | Winner of the “Accenture Decade of Excellence” at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards |
| Newspaper Feature of the Year Award at the Workworld Media Awards | |
| 2006 | Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, Nottingham University |
| Doctor of Science (Economics), honoris causa, London School of Economics | |
| 2008 | AMEC Lifetime achievement Award at the Workworld Media Awards |
| “Commentator of the Year”, Business Journalist of the Year Awards | |
| 2009 | Winner of the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary |
| “Commentariat of the Year 2009” at the Comment Awards | |
| 15th in Foreign Policy’s list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” | |
| Joint Winner of the Award for Columns in “Giant Newspapers” at the Best in Business Journalism Competition, Society of American Business Editors and Writers | |
| Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Warwick University | |
| 2010 | Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, Kingston University |
| 37th in Foreign Policy’s list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” | |
| Present Positions | |
| Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London | |
| 1999 – | Forum Fellow and International Media Council member, World Economic Forum |
| 2010 – | Member of the UK Government’s Independent Commission on Banking |
| Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) | |
| Special Professor at the University of Nottingham | |
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Martin Zeil
| Trained as a lawyer at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich | |
| 1990 – 2005 | Member, Gauting Municipal Council |
| 1990 – 2008 | Member, Starnberg County Council |
| 1996 – 2002 | Deputy County District Commissioner, Starnberg |
| 2002 – 2005 | Deputy Mayor, Gauting |
| 2005 – 2008 | Member, German Bundestag |
| 2007 – 2009 | General Secretary, Free Democratic Party (FDP) in Bavaria |
| Professional Experience | |
| Head of the legal department of a private bank in Munich | |
| Present Postitions | |
| 2005 – | Chairman of the policy working group, FDP in Bavaria |
| 2008 – | Member, Bavarian Parliament |
| 2008 – | State Minister of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology and Deputy Minister-President, Free State of Bavaria |
| 2009 – | Vice-chairman, Free Democratic Party (FDP) in Bavaria |
| FDP Spokesman on municipality finances and administrative reform | |
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William Y. Zhang
| Studied at the China University of International Relations, China University of International Business and Economics, and the University of Salford, UK | |
| Previous Positions | |
| Deputy Secretary General, China Society for Strategy and Management Research (CSSM) | |
| Special Assistant to Zheng Bijian, Chairman of China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS) | |
| Deputy Secretary General, China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS) | |
| Further Positions | |
| Chief Executive Officer, China Great Wall Group Holdings Co. | |
| Chief Executive Officer, China Elderly Foundation, Beijing | |
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