Jacques Delors (né le 20 juillet 1925) occupe plusieurs postes à la Banque de France durant les années 1940-1960, dans les domaines bancaires et de planification. Il s’engage alors aux côtés de la CFTC. En 1962, il quitte la Banque de France, où il avait rapidement atteint un poste de direction, à la tête de la division des affaires sociales de la commission de planification générale de l’État. De 1969 à 1972, il occupe le poste de conseiller en chef des affaires sociales auprès du ministre gaulliste Jacques Chaban-Delmas. En 1974, Jacques Delors rejoint le Parti socialiste devenant, en 1976 délégué national du parti pour les relations économiques internationales. En 1979, il est élu au Parlement européen, où il devient président de la commission économique et monétaire. Durant la présidence de François Mitterrand, Jacques Delors exerce le poste de Ministre de l’Economie et des finances de 1981-1983 et de l’Economie, des finances et du Budget de 1983-1984. Il devient Président de la Commission européenne en janvier 1985. Durant sa présidence, il supervise les importantes réformes budgétaires et initie les bases d’un marché unique au sein de la Communauté européenne. En 1996, Delors fonde à Paris le think tank « Notre Europe » et demeure l’un de ses présidents jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

Mario Monti (né le 19 mars 1943) est diplômé en économie de l’Université Bocconi et de l’Université de Yale. De 1978 à 1994, il contribue au quotidien italien « Corriere della Sera ». De 1989 à 1994, Mario Monti est recteur de l’Université Bocconi de Milan. En 1994, il est nommé président. Après avoir été professeur d’économie et directeur de l’Institut d’économie de Bocconi, il enseigne aux universités de Trento et Turin avant de retourner à son alma mater. En tant que membre de la Commission européenne de 1999 à 2004, Mario Monti est charge du Marché unique, des Services financiers et de la Politique fiscale de 1995 à 1999. Au cours de la législature suivante, il est nommé Commissaire européen en charge de la concurrence. Avec son récent rapport pour la Commission sur le marché unique, Mario Monti continue de contribuer au projet européen à travers la pierre angulaire de l’intégration européenne : le Marché unique.

Joschka Fischer (né le 12 avril 1948) est un homme politique allemand, membre de « l’Alliance 90/les verts ». En 1985, il devient ministre de l’environnement dans le Landtag de Hesse. Joschka Fischer est à nouveau ministre de l’environnement en Hesse de 1991 à 1994 et, plus tard, devint co-président du parti parlementaire « Verts » au Bundestag. En septembre 1998, Joschka Fischer devient ministre des affaires étrangères. En mai 2000, il reprend le débat sur la Constitution européenne et y défend l’approche fédéraliste. De septembre 2006 jusqu’en 2007, Joschka Fischer est senior fellow à l’Institut du Liechtenstein sur l’autodétermination et professeur invité à la Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Université de Princeton). Depuis 2008, Fischer travaille avec le groupe Albright, une société de consultance en stratégie internationale dirigée par Madeleine Albright.

Pat Cox (né le 28 novembre 1952) est un homme politique irlandais. Ancien professeur d’économie, journaliste et présentateur de télévision. Il est membre du Parlement européen de 1989 à 2004. En 1998, il est élu président du groupe des Libéraux-Démocrates et réformistes, ELDR. Il est réélu à l’unanimité en juin 1999 après les élections au Parlement européen. De 2002 à 2004, il est président du Parlement européen. Le 20 mai 2004, il reçoit le Karlsprize pour ses contributions à l’élargissement de l’Union européenne et pour son travail dans la promotion d’une plus grande démocratisation de l’Europe. En 2005, Pat Cox devient président du Mouvement Européen, une association internationale pro-européenne. En juin 2009, il milite activement en faveur du Traité de Lisbonne lors du référendum irlandais.

Róża Thun est une femme politique polonaise (née le 13 avril 1954). Elle est diplômée de l’Université Jagellonne de Cracovie, avec une maîtrise en philologie anglaise (1979). Pendant ses études, elle devient membre et porte-parole plus tard, de la Comité étudiant « Solidarité ». Entre 1977 et 1980, elle est également associée à la Commission de la défense des travailleurs, une organisation qui aide les prisonniers politiques et leurs familles. Entre 1992 et 2005, Róża Thun est la directrice générale et présidente de la Fondation Robert Schuman en Pologne, une organisation non gouvernementale de promotion de l’intégration européenne. Entre 2005 et 2009, Róża Thun est chef de la représentation de la Commission européenne en Pologne. Elle est élue en 2009 membre du Parlement européen. Députée européenne, Róża Thun est membre de la Commission du marché intérieur et de la Protection des consommateurs, de la délégation pour les relations avec Israël et de la délégation de l’Assemblée parlementaire euro-méditerranéenne.

Kalypso Nicolaïdis (née en 1962) est titulaire d’un doctorat en économie politique de l’Université d’Harvard, une maîtrise en Administration publique de la Kennedy School of Government, d’une maîtrise en économie internationale et est diplômée de l’Institut Politique de Paris (Service Public). Avant de revenir en Europe, elle enseigne les affaires européennes et des relations internationales à l’Université d’Harvard où elle est professeur agrégé à la Kennedy School of Government. Kalypso Nicolaïdis est actuellement professeur de Relations internationales et directrice du Centre européen d’études à l’Université d’Oxford. Le professeur Nicolaïdis est impliqué dans la politique européenne, en 1996 elle est conseiller sur les affaires européennes de la ministre grecque des Affaires Etrangères, George Papandreou puis, en 2004 conseiller à la présidence néerlandaise de l’UE sur le thème « l’Europe : une belle idée ». Kalypso Nicolaïdis travaille également avec la Commission européenne sur le livre blanc sur la Gouvernance ainsi qu’en tant qu’expert sur le Commerce et la Réglementation de la CNUCED et de l’OCDE. Plus récemment, elle a produit un rapport sur la politique européenne de voisinage pour le Parlement européen.

Danuta Hubner (born 8 April 1948) is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker. In 1971, Hübner obtained her degree in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, after which she promoted in economics (1974). Hubner has been professor in economics since 1992. She regularly taught abroad. Since 1994, Hubner has been politically active. From 1994-1996, she was the Secretary of State for Industry. In 1997 she became the head of the office of the Polish President. In 1998-2001, she was a member of UN Commission for Europe. From 2001-2003, she was the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and from 2003 to April Minister. Since the accession of Poland to the European Union in May 2004 she has been Member of the European Commission, initially without portfolio. From November 2004 until her resignation in July 2009, she was in charge of regional policy. Since July 2009, she is a Member of the European Parliament where she chairs the Regional Affairs Committee.

Gesine Schwan (born 22 May 1943) is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 1962, she began her studies in history, philosophy, romance languages, and political science at the Free University of Berlin and later at University of Freiburg. After research conducted in Warsaw and Kraków, she obtained her Ph.D. in 1970 from FU Berlin for a dissertation on the Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski. In Krakow University, she became assistant professor and continued her work on the critique of Marx for which she received a habilitation in 1975. Schwan was appointed full professor at the Department of Political Science at FU Berlin in 1977. The SDP has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections.

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (born July 23, 1940) is an Italian banker and economist. He graduated from Bocconi University, Milan in 1966 and received a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. After a first job in Germany, he joined the Bank of Italy in 1968, eventually becoming Vice-Director General from 1984 to 1997. In 1980, he became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, ‘the Group of Thirty’. From 1993 to 1997, he was president of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The following year, he was the Head of Consob, Italy’s stock market supervision agency. Padoa-Schioppa became a member of the European Central Bank’s six-member executive board from its foundation in 1998 until the end of May 2005. In 2006, he was appointed Economy and Finance Minister in the government of Romano Prodi, serving until May 2008. In October 2005, he became president of Paris-based think tank Notre Europe, which he still is today.

Eli Barnavi is Professor of European Early Modern History at Tel Aviv University (emeritus), the Scientific Advisor to the Museum of Europe in Brussels and the Scientific Director to the Forum de Paris.

From 2000 to 2002 he served as the Ambassador of Israel to France.

Eli Barnavi wrote some fifteen books on France and Europe in the turmoil of the Religious Wars and on the contemporary history of Israel and of the Jewish people. He published numerous studies in professional journals in Europe, the US ands Canada, as well as political articles in the Israeli and European press.

Currently, he is a columnist with the French weekly Marianne.

Among his latest books:

• Les religions meurtrières, Flammarion
• La Révolution européenne, 1945-2007, Perrin, (with Kzrysztof Pomian)
• L’Europe frigide. Réflexions sur un projet inachevé, André Versaille éditeur
• Aujourd’hui, ou peut-être jamais. Pour une paix américaine au Proche-Orient, André Versaille éditeur

Jean-Marc Ferry is a French philosopher and Professor in political science and moral philosophy at the ULB in Brussels. He is also a researcher at the CNRS in Paris and teaches at the Institute of European Studies in Brussels and the College of Europe in Bruges. Ferry is a former fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn). He was awarded with the ‘Prix Louis Marino’ of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France, for the « Question de l’Etat Européen » (2000) and in 1995, he won the price ‘La Bruyere’ of the French Academy in Philosophy, Ethics and Sociology, for the entity of his work. Ferry is known for his dissertations on the post national identity in Europe. His work has been described by Paul Ricoeur as « one of the most important works recently published in the field of social and political philosophy ».

Ulrich Beck is German and (born May 15, 1944) has studied sociology, philosophy, psychology, and political science at Munich University. In 1972, he obtained his title of Doctor of Philosophy and worked as a sociologist at Munich University. Beck was professor at the universities of Münster (1979-1981) and Bamberg (1981-1992) and founded the research centre at the University of Munich, Sonderforschungsbereich in 1999. Currently he is Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich, and has been the British Journal of Sociology LSE Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology. Beck has received Honorary Doctorates from several European universities. In his work, Beck focuses on modernization, ecological problems, individualization, and globalization. He has also contributed a number of new words in German sociology, including « risk society », « second modernity » and reflexive modernization.

Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an eminent Indian economist and philosopher. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from the years 1998 to 2004. Amartya Sen is best known for his work on famine, social choice theory, welfare economics, and the underlying causes of poverty and hunger. He received the Nobel Prize for his work in mathematical economics in 1998. The government of India awarded him with the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1999. Among academics Sen’s reputation is almost unrivalled. He has served as a full-time or visiting professor at a dozen of the world’s most prestigious universities.

Andrew Duff is a British politician. He is currently spokesman for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) on Constitutional Affairs. He was a member of the Convention on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Convention on the Future of Europe. He represented the Parliament in the Intergovernmental Conference on the Treaty of Lisbon. He is currently the Parliament’s rapporteur on electoral reform. Duff has been the Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for the East of England since 1999. Elected President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) in 2008, Duff also chairs the Federalist Intergroup in the European Parliament. Duff was Director of the Federal Trust for Education and Research, 1993-99. He is a founder member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He was Vice-President of the Liberal Democrats, 1994-97, and a City Councillor in Cambridge, 1982-90.

Elmar Brok is a German politician (born 14 May 1946). He studied law and politics in Germany and at the Centre for European Governmental Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a radio journalist and newspaper correspondent, before he became Senior Vice President for Media Development at Bertelsmann AG. Within the Christian Democratic Party in Germany, Brok has held numerous leadership positions, before entering the European Parliament in 1980. As a member of the Convention on the Constitution for Europe and in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Mr Brok contributed crucially to the Constitution of the European Union. Brok was also the European Parliament Representative on the Council’s Reflection Group for Maastricht II, the European Parliament Representative at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Treaty of Amsterdam, the European Parliament Representative at the 2000 Intergovernmental Conference and lately rapporteur on the European Externa Action Service (EEAS). He received many honours, including the First Class Federal Cross of Merit.

Tibor Dessewffy (born December 28 1962) is a Hungarian sociologist. He obtained a degree in Law in 1989 and in Sociology at the Eötvös University. He obtained a PhD in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam in 1996. He was a visiting fellow at the New School for Social Research in 1998 and Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh in 2001. He won the Pro Scientia and Erdei Ferenc Prize for his academic achievement. He is the scientific leader of the Hungarian researches of the World Internet Project and member of the National Council for Communication and Information Technology. Fields of interest: theories of information society, social effects of the technological development and the sociology of everyday life. Dessewffy is currently chairman of the DEMOS think tank Hungary Foundation and associate professor at the Faculty of Social Siences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Sandro Gozi (born 25 March 1968) is an Italian Member of Parliament. He obtained his Law degree from the University of Bologna in 1992. The following years, he studied in London and Paris. In 1996, he received his PhD in Public Law from the University of Bologna. From 1996 until 1998, Gozi pursued a Master in International Politics at ULB in Brussels.

He served as a diplomat at the Italian Foreign Office. Then, in 1998, he became an EU civil servant and later a member of the Cabinet of European Commission of President Prodi and policy advisor to President Barroso.

Between 2006 and 2008, he has been the Chairman of the Parliamentary Oversight Bicameral Committee on the Implementation of the Schengen agreement, Europol and Immigration Affairs and he is now spokesperson of the Democratic Party for EU Policies.

He has been nominated in 2010 as Vice President of the European Federalist Movement.

As a professor, he has given lectures at numerous universities, including the European College of Parma, University of Bologna, College of Europe in Bruges, University of Calabria and Institut de Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.

Sandro Gozi is also author of various publications on European and comparative politics as well as of editorials on European and national policies.

Paweł Świeboda (born in 1972) is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of London. He served as the EU Advisor to the President of Poland from 1996-2000. He then headed the Office for European Integration in the Chancellery of the President. From 2001-2006 he served as Director of the Department of the European Union in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was responsible for EU accession negotiations and subsequently institutional reform in the Union and negotiations on the Financial Perspective. In July 2006 he became President of demos EUROPA – Centre for European Strategy. In addition to his role at the BDF, he is also a Member of the Lisbon Council, Member of the Advisory Board of the European Policy Centre, Co-President of BELA (Broader European Leadership Agenda) Foundation, Member of the Council of the Amicus Europae Foundation. He is the author of numerous articles on issues of European integration and international relations. He is columnist on foreign policy in « Gazeta Wyborcza », Poland’s largest daily newspaper.

Kurt Vandenberghe obtained a licenciate in Romance literatures and linguistics in 1988 at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1999, he graduated in Public and International Affairs at Université Catholique de Louvain. After that, he obtained a Master in International Relations at the John Hopkins University of Washington DC and Bologna, Italy. He started his career in 1993 as manager of Ernst & Young Association management in Brussels. In 1996, Kurt Vandenberghe started working for the European Commission in the DG Transport Research and Development. In 1999 he became member of Cabinet of Philippe Busquin, Commission Member for Research. Particular areas covered research policy, life sciences and biotechnology and Space technology. In 2004 he became Head of Cabinet.

Gaetane Ricard-Nihoul (born 29 May 1972) graduated at the University of Liege in political science and public administration. She then obtained a Master and a PhD in European politics at the University of Oxford. Her research focused primarily on the formation of public policy within the European Union and in particular on education policy. From 1999-2002, Ricard- Nihoul was responsible for European and International Affairs in the Cabinet of Isabelle Durant, who was then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Mobility and Transport within the Belgian government. She was very active during the Belgian Presidency of the European Union and represented the Deputy Prime Minister at the Ministerial Conference of WTO in Seattle and at the Intergovernmental Conference. She followed the European Council in Biarritz, Nice and Laeken and the Working Group of the Belgian government for the Laeken Declaration closely. Gaetane Ricard-Nihoul then joined the European Commission, to work in the DG Education and Culture, Audiovisual Policy Unit. As Member of the Sector for External Relations, she took part inat the accession negotiations with 13 candidate countries. In April 2004, she joined the staff of Notre Europe, as adviser to the President and then as Secretary General of this think thank.

Anna Triandafyllidou received her BA in sociology from Panteion University in Athens, Greece (1990) and her PhD in the Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute of Florence (1995). She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Surrey (1994-95), London School of Economics (1995-97), Consiglio Nazionale per le Ricerche in Rome (1997-99), New York University (2001), Bristol University (2001-02) and the European University Institute of Florence (1992-1994 and 1999-2007). She has been Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002. She has been awarded a part time Professorship at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy as of December 2009. She is also Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. Her main areas of research are migration, nationalism, European integration, media and discourse studies and her expertise covers Southern, Western and Central Eastern Europe including comparative highlights with the US.

Diogo Pinto was born in Mozambique. From 1996 until 2002, he studied Sociology at the Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa. From 1995-1198, he was President of the Portuguese National Youth Council – CNJ. He became national director of Intercultura – AFS Portugal in 2001. In May 2005, he became Secretary General of the European Youth Forum, an organization aiming at empowering young people to participate actively in society and improving their living conditions by representing their interests towards the European Institutions, the Council of Europe, the United Nations and others. He remained in office until May 2009, when he became Secretary General of the European Movement. Pinto is the current Secretary General of the European Movement International, an organization aimed at improving European Integration. He is co-author of two books: “20 Ideias para 2020 – Inovar Portugal”(2005) and “Ideias Perigosas para Portugal”(2010).

In the latter is stated why European Federalism is the best option for Portugal.

Heather Grabbe holds a PhD from Birmingham University and a BA and MA from Oxford University. Before joining the European Commission, Grabbe was deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think-tank, where she published widely on EU enlargement and other European issues. From 2004–2009 she was senior advisor to European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn, responsible in his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Her academic career includes teaching at the London School of Economics, and research at Oxford and Birmingham universities, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House, London) and the European University Institute (Florence). Grabbe is currently director of the Open Society Institute–Brussels and director of EU affairs for the Soros network.

Imola Streho obtained a degree from the College of Europe. From 2000 to 2002, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law where she was the Executive Director of its Jean Monnet Center. From 2002 until 2008, she was a référendaire at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. She is a Doctor of Law by the Law Faculty of the University of Paris 2 (Pantheon-Assas) where she teaches on the European Judicial System and the Law of the International Market (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales). She has also taught EC law at the College of Europe (Natolin campus), the Central European University in Budapest, the National University of Singapore and the University of Melbourne. She writes in the field of EU law. Currently she is Senior Lecturer at Sciences Po, Paris, where she is Program Director of the Master of European Affairs.

Alina Roxana Girbea ( born 4 March 1985) has a Master degree in European Affairs from Sciences Po and is a graduate of Bucarest University. She started her Europea, carreer as an assistant to a Romanian Member of the European Parliament. She also worked as a teacher assistant in Sciences Po, Paris. Girbea pursued internships at the French Ministry of Foreign Affaires and at Notre Europe in Paris. She currently works for Europuls, a website dedicated to opinion and analysis of EU affairs.

Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium, is currently President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament. As rapporteur, he contributed largely to the new European External Action service.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 4 April 1945) is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. In 1994 he was elected for the first time to the European parliament.

Sylvie Goulard (born 6 December 1964) is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. As rapporteur, she contributed largely to the new Europen Financial Supervision .

Isabelle Durant (born 4 September 1954) is currently Vice President of the European Parliament. She is member of The Greens and holds membership in the Budget Committee and the Committee of Transport and Tourism.

Sergio Cofferati (né à Sesto ed Uniti le 30 Janvier 1948), est Député européen pour le groupe des Socialistes et Démocrates .

En 1990 Il est nommé au secrétariat national de la CGIL en 1990 et succède en 1994 à Bruno Trentin en tant que Secrétaire général. La période durant laquelle il est le chef du plus grand syndicat italien est à la fois l’une des plus difficiles mais aussi la plus importante en termes de réussites pour le syndicat : accord sur la consultation en 1993, réforme des retraites de 1995. Dans un contexte de lutte pour le maintien de l’article 18 du Statut des travailleurs, Sergio Cofferati est à la tête des plus grandes manifestations depuis la Seconde guerre mondiale en Italie, le 23 Mars 2002 au Circus Maximus de Rome il s’exprime devant une foule d’environ trois millions de personnes.

En Juin 2004, il est élu maire de Bologne avec une large majorité.

Depuis le 23 mai 2007 il est l’un des 45 membres du Comité national pour le Parti démocrate qui regroupe les chefs des composantes du PD avenir.

Koert Debeuf (born May 25 1974) is the Chief of Cabinet of Guy Verhofstadt, President of the ALDE group in the European Parliament. Debeuf studied Ancient History at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He was president of Klio, the circle of students of Ancient History and Classical Philology; he was president of the students of the Faculty of Arts; he won the Interfaculty Eloquence tournament and he was conference chairman of the Social Council and student representative on the Academic Council of the KU Leuven. In 1995-1996, Debeuf studied in Italy, at the University of Bologna, where he graduated with distinction. In 1998-1999 he started his career as political assistant of Carl Devlies, who was deputy mayor at that time. In 2000 Debeuf became President of the youth division of the Christian’s People Party. Few years later, he left the Christian People Party to join the Liberal Open VLD, where he became the spokesman of Prime Minister Verhofstadt.

Edouard Gaudot (born 1975), is an historian and political scientist. A former history teacher, Edouard worked between 2004 and 2008 for Professor Bronislaw Geremek, first at the Natolin College of Europe, in Warsaw, as Coordinator for the Chair of European Civilisation, and later in Brussels at the European Parliament. He notably ensured the scientific coordination of B. Geremek’s last opus (co-directed with Prof. R. Picht): Visions d’Europe, Odile Jacob, 2007. After a brief passage at the European Commission’s Representation in France, he joined Daniel Cohn-Bendit and worked for the Europe-Ecologie movement as a campaign advisor. Since April, Edouard works as a Political adviser for the Green Group at the European Parliament. He has lived and worked in Australia, Poland, Austria, Belgium and France.

Guillaume McLaughlin is currently a policy advisor in the ALDE Group in the European Parliament. Prior to this, he was political advisor to Andrew Duff MEP and as such worked in the Convention on the Future of Europe as well as the Convention on the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Before working in the European Parliament, he spent three years at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, dealing with institutional issues and before that, 4 years at the Federal Trust in London, also focusing on European and institutional questions. Guillaume McLaughlin studied at Queen Mary College and SOAS in London. He was born in London, of Franco-British parentage and grew up in Brussels.