Edmond Alphandéry – Chairman of CNP Assurances in Paris since 1998. Prior to this appointment he was Chairman of Electricité de France. From 1993-1995 he worked as a Minister of the Economy in the Government of Edouard Balladur, where he launched a widespread program of privatization, including BNP, Elf, and Renault. Mr. Alphandéry graduated in 1966 from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and after studying at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley, he obtained his French Ph.D. in Economics in 1969 and his “Agrégation” in Political Economy in 1971. He began his university career at the University of Nantes and from 1974-1992 served as a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Paris II…

Tony Barber – Present position: Europe Editor, Financial Times. Columnist and specialist writer on European political, economic and business news. 2007-2010: Brussels bureau chief, FT. 2002-2007: Rome bureau chief, FT. 1998-2002: Frankfurt bureau chief, FT…

Michel Barnier – Having been active from an early age in the pro-Europe wing of the Gaullist movement, Michel Barnier was appointed in 1993 Minister for the Environment and would go on to be Minister for European Affairs (1995-1997), Minister for Foreign Affairs (2004-2005) and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (2007-2009). In 1999 he resigned from national office to take up his post, alongside Romano Prodi, as European Commissioner for regional policy and institutional reform…

José Manuel Durão Barroso – He was named President of the party in 1999 and re-elected three times. During the same period, he served as Vice President of the European People’s Party. In April 2002, he was elected Prime Minister of Portugal. He remained in office until July 2004 when he became President of the European Commission. He was re-elected for another five-year term by the European Parliament in September 2009. Mr. Barroso holds a Master in Political Science and European Affairs from the University of Geneva, served as Head of International Relations Department of Lusíada University, Portugal, from1995-1999 and was Visting Professor at Georgetown University, USA, from 1996-1998.

Elena Carletti – Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, where she holds a joint chair in the Economics Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. She is also Research Fellow at CEPR, Extramural fellow at TILEC, Fellow at the CesIfo, the Center for Financial Studies and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center…

Vítor Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio is Vice-President of the European Central Bank since 1 June 2010. He was Governor of the Banco de Portugal from 1985 to 1986 and from February 2000 to May 2010.
He graduated in Economics from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Before having been appointed as Governor of the Banco de Portugal, he was Executive Director of the Banco Português de Investimento (1995-2000) and…

Fulvio Conti – currently service as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel SpA, Italy’s largest power company, a position he has held since May 2005. From 1999 until his appointment as CEO and General Manager, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Enel…

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo – Chairman of Ferrari S.p.A. since November 1991. Born in Bologna (Italy), he graduated in Law from the University of Rome in 1971, later specialising in International Commercial Law at Columbia University in New York. He joined Ferrari in 1973 as assistant to Enzo Ferrari, a position he held until 1977, and was also the company’s Sporting Director from 1974 to 1975…

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987.
He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England).
In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997)….

Daniel Gros – Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since 2000, Vice-President of Eurizon Capital Asset Management since 2005, and member of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Iceland since October 2009. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and is the author of several books and numerous contributions to scientific journals and newspapers.

In the past Daniel worked at the IMF (1984-86), at the European Commission (1989-91) as economic adviser to the Delors Committee, which developed the original plans for the Economic and Monetary Union, and has also taught at several universities.