Management Committee

Born on 15 December 1938, Szprotawa, Poland

• Member of the European Parliament 1979-2009
• President of the European Parliament 1994-1997
•  Vice-Chairman of the PES group 1989-1994 and 1997-2009
• Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Security and Defence Policy.
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne.
• Member of the Board of Directors of the École nationale d’administration (ENA) in France and of the Scientific Board of the Institute for European Politics in Bonn.
• Honorary citizen of the Polish city of Szprotawa.
• Honorary doctorates from the British University of Loughborough and the Poznań Academy of Economics.
• Recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Born on 26 April 1959, Pistoia, Italy

• Member of the European Parliament, 1994-1999.
• Deputy President of the Committee for Culture, Youth, Education, Information and Sport.
• President of the Working Group on Climate Change and Small Island States of the ACP-EU Joint Assembly (Africa-Caribbean-Pacific and European Union).
• Member of the Committee for Environmental Protection, Public Health, and Consumer Protection, of the Women’s Rights Committee and coordinator in the Committee for Development and Cooperation.
• Member of the Italian Parliament, 2001-2006.
• Architect, Expert in urban planning, Politician and Author.
• Honored with the title of Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic.
• President of Pinocchioworld and Emeritus of the Cultural Association Pinocchio by Carlo Lorenzini.
• Vice President Ars Pace and Honorary President of the Paolo Frosecchi Foundation.
• Honorary Consul of Italian Historic Companies Union and Co-founder of MADEINITALYforever.
• Active in supporting foreign policy, sustainable development, humanitarian actions and women’s rights.

Born on 12 June 1952, Tulle, France

• Member of the European Parliament 2005 – 2014.
• Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control from 2009 to 2012
• Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries from 2010 to 2014
• Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly from 2013 to 2014
• Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Committee on International Trade, Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya)

Born on 13 October 1950, Barcelona, Spain.

• Member of the European Parliament 2004-2014.
• S&D coordinator of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy 2007-2014.
• Rapporteur of the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation: Horizon 2020.
• Member of the RISE-Advisory Group of Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science (2014-2019)
• Professor of Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Balearic Islands.
• Chair of Science Policy Advisory Committee at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS).
• Member of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies Council (FEPS)- Scientific Council.
• Member of the Balearic Group of the Club of Rome Spanish Chapter.
• President of the Balearic Islands-Council of the European Movement.

Born on 11 April 1947, Blackburn, United Kingdom

• Member of the European Parliament 1984 – 1999.
• Vice-President of the External Economic Affairs Committee with Parliamentary responsibilities for scrutiny of the entire range of EU external bilateral and multilateral relations 1989-1999
• Expert for European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) 2008-2020
• Former Associate Professor at Georgetown University of the MBA Programme ‘Government Business Relations in the age of globalization’
• Former lecturer of ‘European Studies’ at Lancaster University, London School of Economics (LSE), University of California (Berkeley) and Taras Shevchenko University (Kiev)
• Election observer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (EESC)
• Guest lecturer for “EP to Campus” programme in Germany, India, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Russia and Malta.

Born on 30 January 1940, Madrid, Spain

• After 14 years of exile, Member of the National Directorate of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party and Secretary General of the Party in the region of Castilla-La Mancha.
• Member of the Spanish Parliament from 1977 to 1999.
• Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014 and Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2007 to 2014.
• Honorary President of the Inter-Parliamentary World Union
• Honorary President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the House of European History
• Honorary Doctorate from the Universities of Aberdeen (Scotland/UK), Bratislava (Slovakia), Cluj (Romania) and the NGIMO in Moscow (Russia)
• Awards: Spanish Order of Merit for the Constitution, the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit and the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica. He has also received other awards in over thirty countries.
• Medal of Honor of the Western European Union, Honorary Citizen of the Island of Kos in Greece and of the City of Kork in Ireland

Born on 15 August 1945, Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Member of the European Parliament, 1984-2014
• Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, 1997-2001
• Vice-President of the European Parliament for Democracy & Human Rights, 2004-2014
• Winner of the Parliament magazine ‘Outstanding Contribution’ for his work on Arab Spring, 2012
• Medal of Honour from European University Institute, for his human rights work 2013
• Chairman of the Single Seat campaign 2010-2014
• Patron of the UK European Movement
• Lobbyist in Westminster

Born on 18 June 1947, Etterbeek, Belgium

• Studies of Physical Chemistry in Leuven/Belgium
• Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen with Prof. Dr. Manfred Eigen (Nobel Prize winner)
• Doctorate to Dr. phil. nat.
• Wiss. Assistant MHH Medical University Hannover
• Academic Council of the University of Hildesheim Foundation
• Former Member of the European Parliament
• Honorary Professorship active in Research and Teaching Foundation University of Hildesheim
• Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit on the Band
• Member of the Management Committee meeting of the FMA

Born on 15 June 1943, Coimbra, Portugal

• Quaestor of the European Parliament and the Parliament’s Bureau 1992-1994
• Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets 1994-1997
• Member of the Academic Council of the Jean Monnet Action
• Former World President of the ECSAs, the European Community Studies Associations 2002-2008
• Director of the Association of European Studies (University of Coimbra)
• Lecturer of ‘Policies of the European Union’ at Univeristy of Lusíada of Oporto and ‘International Economic Law’ at University of Lusíada of Lisbon
• Visiting Professor of the University and Institute of European Studies of Macau
• Vice Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon

Born on 6 May 1953, Wels, Austria

• Member of the EESC 2020 –
• Member of the EIT Governing Board 2020 –
• Member of the Advisory Board of Rübig Holding GmbH 2019 –
• Member of the European Parliament 1996-2019
• Metallurgical Forging company Rübig 1972 – 1996
• Member of the Upper Austrian Parliament 1991 – 1995
• Member of the National Parliament 1996
• Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. From 1991 – 2020
• Chairman of the EU Education Policy of the Federation of Austrian Industries 2001 – 2005
• Lectureships: University of Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Linz
• Publications (e.g. licence- and patentmarketing, telecommunication, entrepreneurship)

Appointed by the College of Quaestors of the European Parliament to serve as non voting Member of the Managing Committee.

Appointed by the College of Quaestors of the European Parliament to serve as non voting Member of the Managing Committee.