PROFILE OF SPEAKERS
Klaus HÄNSCH
Dr. Klaus Hänsch (born 1938 in Sprottau) is a German politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 2009, and a member of the Party of European Socialists group, of which he was Vice-Chairman from 1989 to 1994 and from 1997 to 2009. Klaus Hänsch was Presidium-Member of the Convention drafting a European Constitution (2002-2003) and Parliament’s representative in the Intergovernmental Conference on the Constitutional Treaty for the European Union (2003-2004). He was Member for Germany (SPD) from 1979 to 2009 and President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997. Klaus Hänsch is currently President of the Former Members Association.
Danny DE PAEPE
Danny de Paepe is head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in the Netherlands. After studying development studies, he worked for the Netherlands Ministry of Justice. In 2002, he became a press officer in the European Parliament. In 2008 he moved to the Liaison Office of the European Parliament in the Netherlands (The Hague) where he worked as PR officer. As of 2020 he is the head of the office. In that same year, he became a lawyer.
Manuel PORTO
Manuel Porto (born on 15 June 1943, Coimbra, Portugal) was a Quaestor of the European Parliament and the Parliament’s Bureau between 1992-1994. He was the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets 1994-1997 and a Member of the Academic Council of the Jean Monnet Action.Porto was the former World President of the ECSAs, the European Community Studies Associations (2002-2008) and the Director of the Association of European Studies (University of Coimbra).He is a lecturer of ‘Policies of the European Union’ at the Univeristy of Lusíada of Oporto and of ‘International Economic Law’ at the University of Lusíada of Lisbon. He is also a visiting Professor of the University and Institute of European Studies of Macau and the Vice Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.
Michael HINDLEY
Micheal Hindley (born on 11 April 1947, Blackburn, United Kingdom) was a Member of the European Parliament between 1984 – 1999. He was the 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. He was an expert for the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) 2008-2020.He was a former Associate Professor at Georgetown University of the MBA Programme ‘Government Business Relations in the age of globalization’ and a 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). He has also been a Guest lecturer for “EP to Campus” programme in Germany, India, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Russia and Malta.
Marietje SCHAAKE
Marietje Schaake is a non-resident Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and at the Institute for Human-Centered AI. She is a columnist for the Financial Times and serves on a number of not-for-profit Boards as well as the UN’s High Level Advisory Body on AI. Between 2009-2019 she served as a Member of European Parliament where she worked on trade-, foreign- and tech policy. She is the author of The Tech Coup.