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Read the biography of Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen

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Vos is a Belgian political scientist affiliated to Ghent University, where he teaches on the history of European integration and on current issues in European politics.

He is a columnist for the Belgian quality paper, De Standaard.

Through books, podcasts, and media appearances he illuminates the intricacies of European politics to a large audience. 

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Grapperhaus is an internationally acclaimed Dutch cellist who has been living in Belgium for many years. He previously created a solo performance on Bach’s cello suites. Except for the European hymn, the music for this performance is entirely his own.

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Directs performances and creates exhibitions. Standaert conceives and produces very diverse artistic and social projects, in co-creation with specialists. 

He is the cofounder of Handalsreizigers in ideeën (Merchants in ideas – Ghent, Belgium) that delivers ideas and devises customised concepts. 

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Lucia Mokrá is professor of international and European Law at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is also a visiting professor at other universities in Europe and chairperson of the TEPSA board. She is member of the Administrative Council of College of Europe and High Council of the European University Institute.

Her research interests include: human rights; external relations; EU institutional settings and enforcement in international and European law. She regularly publish on the topics internationally.

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Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and author of The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002), Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (2008), Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012, with Dana H. Allin), and The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014).

He is editor or co-editor of more than thirty books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy including The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015).

Professor Jones is co-editor of Government & Opposition. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America.

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Federica Mogherini is the Rector of the College of Europe (since September 2020) and Director of the Pilot Programme of the European Diplomatic Academy, implemented by the College of Europe (since August 2022).

Previously she has served as the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, from 2014 to 2019.

Prior to joining the EU, she was Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2014), and a Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (2008-14). In her parliamentary capacity, she was Head of the Italian Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Vice-President of its Political Committee (2013-14); i.a. 

She has co-chaired the United Nations High Level Panel on Internal Displacement from January 2020 until September 2021.
Federica Mogherini is a member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (ADBM), of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group and of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Fellow of the German Marshall Fund, member of the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and of the Italian Institute for Foreign Affairs (IAI) and member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Professor Natalia Chaban of the Media and Communication Department at the University of Canterbury (UC), New Zealand, focuses her interdisciplinary research on cognitive and semiotic aspects of political and media discourses, image and perceptions studies within the EU and IR contexts, and public diplomacy and political communication.

Professor Chaban is a twice awarded Jean Monnet Chair, President of Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, co-editor of the peer-reviewed Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, winner of multiple research awards and leader of a number of transnational research projects supported by European Commission (including the Jean Monnet Action), EU member states and NATO.

She is a founder and director of an interdisciplinary UC research centre “Public Diplomacy and Political Communication Forum” collaborating with international scholars and diplomatic community. Natalia widely publishes including articles in high impact journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of European Integration, Comparative European Politics.

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Christopher Changwe Nshimbi is SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Research Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

His research focuses on African migration, borders, regional integration, the informal economy and water governance.

He sits in on regional and international technical working groups on trade, labour, migration and water governance. He is also a member of the Platform for African European Studies (PAES).

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Aline Beltrame de Moura is a professor at the Law School of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies. She is also the Director of the European Union Studies Chair at the European Institute of International Studies (Sweden). She earned her Ph.D. in International Law from the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), where she received the "Riccardo Monaco Prize" for the best doctoral thesis in international law defended in Italy in 2014.

Currently, she co-coordinates the Jean Monnet Network Policy Debate – BRIDGE Watch (2023) and has led a Jean Monnet Chair (2023). She previously coordinated the Jean Monnet Network – BRIDGE Project (2020-2023) and the Jean Monnet Module (2018-2021). All these projects were co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Aline is the Director of the Latin American Center of European Studies (LACES), which includes over 70 Latin American and European academics and stakeholders. Aline also serves as Chief-Editor of the Latin American Journal of European Studies.

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Stefaan Hermans is Director of Policy Strategy and Evaluation in the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture at the European Commission. He was Head of Cabinet of the Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Marianne Thyssen in the Juncker Commission. Previous posts include Head of the ‘Universities and Researchers’, ‘Skills’, and ‘Reflective Societies’ Units in DG Research and Innovation, and Secretary of the Employment Committee of the European Union. He also lectures on EU Affairs at the KU Leuven.