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Stronger with the EU a united Europe closer to the citizens Speakers Poul Skytte Christoffersen Chairman of Think Tank EUROPA Mr.

He is the former Ambassador at the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the EU (1995-2003 and 2009-2010) as well as former Danish Ambassador in Rome (2003-2005) and Danish Ambassador to Belgium

Christoffersen s take on European challanges in wake of the Trump victory please click here: https://goo.gl/4vwgos Herman Van Rompuy Former President of the European Council Mr.

1 Stronger with the EU a united Europe closer to the citizens Speakers Poul Skytte Christoffersen Chairman of Think Tank EUROPA Mr. Christoffersen is Chairman of the Danish think tank EUROPA as well as Chairman of the Board to the think tank European Policy Centre in Brussels. He is the former Ambassador at the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the EU ( and ) as well as former Danish Ambassador in Rome ( ) and Danish Ambassador to Belgium until Mr. Christoffersen has served as Head of Cabinet to Commissioner Fischer Boel, and in 2010 he was Special Advisor to High Representative Ashton. For Mr. Christoffersen s take on European challanges in wake of the Trump victory please click here: Herman Van Rompuy Former President of the European Council Mr. Van Rompuy has a long political career in Belgian and European politics behind him. He is the former President of the European Council, appointed from 2009 to A politician from Belgium's Christian Democratic and Flemish party, Van Rompuy served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to In November 2009, he was selected by the members of the European Council as the first full-time President of the Council under the Treaty of Lisbon. In March 2012, he was reelected for a second term from June 2012 to November For an interview with Mr. van Rompuy on the consequences of Brexit for the EU, please click here: Ivan Krastev Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies Mr. Krastev is the Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of a range of organizations, amongst others a member of the advisory board of the ERSTE Foundation and a member of the global advisory board of Open Society Foundations in New York. Mr. Krastev is also associate editor of Europe s World and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and Transit Europäische Revue. For an opinion by Mr. Krastev in The New York Times on Trump and Europe, please click here:

Lykke Friis Prorector of the University of Copenhagen Mrs. Friis is the Prorector of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, but have a long political career behind her.

on European politics. For an article on how the EU could reform European universities, please click here: https://goo.

2 Lykke Friis Prorector of the University of Copenhagen Mrs. Friis is the Prorector of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, but have a long political career behind her. She has been the Minister of Climate and Energy as well as Minister for Equality in Denmark ( ), and was a member of the Danish Parliament from Mrs. Friis also has a career in academia. She holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and has been an affiliate professor at the Copenhagen Business School as well as having taught at a range of Danish institutions of higher education on European politics. For an article on how the EU could reform European universities, please click here: Enrique Barón Crespo President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Mr. Crespo is the President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation as well as a member of the advisory board of the British think tank Gold Mercury International. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Worker s Party and sat in the European Parliament for the group until He was previously President of the European Parliament from Before Mr. Crespo was Chairman of the Group of the Party of European Socialists in the European Parliament ( ) and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( ) amongst other roles. For a recent speech by Mr. Crespo on the monstrous or civic nature of the EU, please click here: Connie Hedegaard CEO of KR Foundation Mrs. Hedegaard is the CEO of the KR Foundation which works on climate change. Climate change has also been a key subject in her political career. She is former European Commissioner for Climate Action ( and prior to her position as Commissioner, she was Minister for The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (2009), Danish Minister of Climate and Energy ( ), and Danish Minister for Environment ( ). She has also been a member of the Danish Parliament from and from For an interview on her legacy as the first Commissioner for Climate Change, please click here:

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen Former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Denmark Mr.

He has been a long-time member of the Danish Parliament being elected in 1977, but withdrew in 2001. He was also the President of the European Liberal Party ELDR from 1994-2000.

For an opinion for Project Syndicate on Brexit by Mr. EllemannJensen, please click here: https://goo.gl/pmubqp Eske Willerslev Professor at Centre for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen Mr.

3 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen Former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Denmark Mr. Ellemann-Jensen was Minister of Foreign Affairs in Denmark from and President of the Danish Liberal Party, Venstre, from He has been a long-time member of the Danish Parliament being elected in 1977, but withdrew in He was also the President of the European Liberal Party ELDR from Furthermore, he was Chairman of the former Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights from and an affiliate professor at the University of Copenhagen in For an opinion for Project Syndicate on Brexit by Mr. EllemannJensen, please click here: Eske Willerslev Professor at Centre for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen Mr. Willerslev is Director of Centre of Excellence in GeoGenetics and the National CryoBank and Sequencing Facility, situated at the National History Museum and the Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen. During his PhD, he established the first ancient DNA facility in Denmark, which became internationally recognized for establishing the fields of ancient sedimentary and ice core genetics. Mr. Willerslev is now an internationally recognized researcher in the fields of ancient DNA, DNA degradation, and evolutionary biology. He has 38 publications in Science and Nature, and 160 publications in other high profile peer review journals. For an interview with Mr. Willerslev in the New York Times, please click here: Bjarke Møller Director of Think Tank EUROPA Mr. Møller is the Director of Think Tank EUROPA, a proeuropean think tank based in Copenhagen. Before joining EUROPA, he was Editor-in-Chief at the weekly magazine and Danish think tank, Monday Morning from 2008 to For more than twenty years he has worked as a journalist, foreign correspondent and editor at leading newspapers and at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Møller is the author of several books on globalisation, European affairs and nationalism. For a speech given at the Model Europan Parliament for European students, please click here:

Stronger with the EU a united Europe closer to the citizens Participants in the political debate Jan

He was elected as a candidate for the Danish Liberal Party, Venstre, and is the party s spokesperson

He was elected as a candidate for the Social Democrats Party, and is the party s spokesperson on EU

4 Stronger with the EU a united Europe closer to the citizens Participants in the political debate Jan E. Jørgensen Mr. Jørgensen has been a since He was elected as a candidate for the Danish Liberal Party, Venstre, and is the party s spokesperson on EU affairs. Peter Hummelgaard Thomsen Mr. Hummelgaard has been a since June He was elected as a candidate for the Social Democrats Party, and is the party s spokesperson on EU affairs. Zenia Stampe Mrs. Stampe has been a since She was elected as a candidate for the Danish Social-Liberal Party, and is the party s spokesperson on EU affairs.

Participants in the business leader panel Jørgen Tang-Jensen CEO of VELUX Mr.

VELUX is a 75-yearold Danish company specializing in roof windows that now operates in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Pertola has been the CEO of Siemens Denmark since 2002 and was also the CEO of Infrastructure and Cities for Siemens in the North European Region from

5 Participants in the business leader panel Jørgen Tang-Jensen CEO of VELUX Mr. Tang-Jensen has been the CEO of VELUX since 2001, but has been affiliated with the company since VELUX is a 75-yearold Danish company specializing in roof windows that now operates in more than 40 countries worldwide. Jukka Pertola CEO of Siemens Denmark Mr. Pertola has been the CEO of Siemens Denmark since 2002 and was also the CEO of Infrastructure and Cities for Siemens in the North European Region from Furthermore, he was elected President for the Academy for the Technical Sciences in April Torben Möger Pedernsen CEO of PensionDanmark Mr. Pedersen has been the CEO of PensionDanmark since the company s beginning in Furthermore, he is a board member of, amongst others, the Danish Society for Education and Business, the Danish Insurance Association and a member of the Investment Committee of Copenhagen Infrastructure I and II.

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