8xav��������

Mrs Anne Calteux has been, since September 2021, the Head of the European Commission’s Representation to Luxembourg. Following her position as Head of European and International Affairs and Senior Advisor to the Minister of Health in Luxembourg, she manages political communication and strategic coordination for the European Commission in Luxembourg. Ms Calteux has held a number of senior positions with a high level of responsibility, including in the COVID-19 crisis unit at the Ministry of Health. She represented Luxembourg at the EU in the fields of public health and social security between 2004 and 2013. Mrs Calteux holds a Master’s degree in comparative European law from LLM, King’s College London, and practised as a lawyer at the Luxembourg Bar from 1999-2003.

Mr Pat Cox was born in Dublin in 1952 and grew up in Limerick, the capital of the Mid West region. He was a member of the Dáil Éireann, the Irish Parliament, in the early 1990s (1992-1994), but it is as a member of the European Parliament that he is best known. He was elected in 1989 in the Munster constituency, and then re-elected as an independent parliamentarian in 1994 and 1999. He chaired the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) of the European Parliament (1998-2002). Mr Cox was elected President of the European Parliament in January 2002 for a two-and-a-half year term. At that time, he was resolutely committed to the enlargement of the European Union. He has carried out internal reforms in the European Parliament and has enabled it to carry out the work of the Convention on the Future of Europe. He finally represented the European Parliament at the Intergovernmental Conference on the draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union. He has been a member of several advisory committees at the European level, notably at Microsoft and Pfizer. He is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Michelin, as well as the European Advisory Board of Liberty Global and Chairman of the Public Interest Committee of KPMG in Ireland. Pat Cox holds several Honorary Doctorates, including from Trinity College Dublin, the National 8xav�������� of Ireland, the 8xav�������� of Limerick, the American 8xav�������� of Ireland and the Open 8xav��������. He was the winner of the 2004 Aachen International Charlemagne Prize for his parliamentary commitment to the enlargement of the European Union. He is Commander of the Legion of Honour and has received several high national awards in Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy and Romania. Pat Cox became President of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe in 2015.

Source:

Dr Elena Danescu is a Research Scientist in the Contemporary History of Europe Department at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), 8xav�������� of Luxembourg a PhD supervisor at the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (DSHSS). Her areas of expertise include history of economic thought, contemporary history of Europe, oral history and the EU’s eastward enlargement. She has authored various academic publications in her specialist areas. At the 8xav�������� of Luxembourg, she is in charge of the Master’s courses “Histoire de la contruction européenne depuis 1919” and “Histoire économique et sociale de l’Europe après 1945” and the Bachelor’s course “Transitions démocratiques en Europe centrale et orientale”. Since April 2019 she has been the coordinator of the Europe Direct Centre at the 8xav�������� of Luxembourg.

Mr Robert Goebbels is a journalist, a former politician in Luxembourg and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP). Over the course of his career he has held senior positions including General Secretary of the LSAP (1971–1985), President of the Luxembourg Association of Journalists (1972–1974), Councillor for Luxembourg City (1976–2005), State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Cooperation and State Secretary for Small Businesses (1984–1989), Minister for the Economy, Minister for Public Works and Minister for Transport (1989–1994), and Minister for the Economy, Minister for Public Works and Minister for Energy (1994–1999). In 1999 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (1999–2014), Vice-President of the Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists (1999–2004) and Vice-President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament (2004–2009). In March 2016 the Luxembourg Government appointed him as the Luxembourg representative on the Board of Governors of the Asia–Europe Foundation (ASEF). Robert Goebbels is the negotiator and signatory of the Schengen Agreement for Luxembourg.

Prof. Marie-Hélène Jobin is the Vice Rector for Partnerships and International Relations at the 8xav�������� of Luxembourg. She is a Canadian national and was previously Vice-Rector (Director) for International Relations and Partnerships at HEC Montréal, a French-speaking academic institution with internationally renowned teaching programmes and research in management. Her area of expertise is operations management and logistics and her research includes activities in the optimisation of public health sector operations.