The College Forum

The College of Europe welcomes high level speakers to both of its campuses, many of whom take this opportunity to further the European debate. Conferences and seminars are organised throughout the year, allowing practitioners and students to part take into critical dialogue and engage in direct exchanges of views over issues affecting European integration and international relations.

Selected speakers of the academic year 2011-2012 included in alphabetical order:

Mr José Manuel BARROSO, President of the European Commission Mr Jerzy BUZEK, President of the European Parliament Mr Emilio DE CAPITANI, Former Head of Unit, Secretariat of the LIBE Committee, European Parliament M. le Professeur Roger DE WECK, Directeur Général de la Société suisse de Radiodiffusion et Télévision S.E.M. l’Ambassadeur Philippe ERRERA, Représentant permanent de la France auprès de l’OTAN H.E. Ambassador Sandra FUENTES-BERAIN, Embassy of Mexico Mr Andrei GRACHEV, Former Spokesperson of Mikhael Gorbachev Mrs Corinne JACQUES (Jean Monnet Promotion 1980-1981), Vice-President, Rive Gauche Mr Ilkka LAITINEN, Executive Director of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX) Mr János MARTONYI, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary H.E. Ambassador Thomas MAYR-HARTING, Head of the EU Delegation to the UN in New York Professor Bronisław MISZTAL, Executive Director of the Permanent Secretariat of the Community of Democracies and Professor and Chairholder of the Sociology Chair at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC Mr Giorgio NAPOLITANO, President of the Republic of Italy Mr Boris NAVASARDIAN from the Yerevan Press Club who is Coordinator of the Civil Society Forum Working Group on Democracy, Human Rights, Good Governance and Stability Mrs Marija PEJCINOVIĆ-BURIĆ, Former Minister of European Integration of Croatia and former Deputy of the Croatian National Parliament (Hrvatski Sabor) Dr Marc F. PLATTNER, Vice-President for Research and Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Democracy Mr Jan ROELS, Partner and Global Tax Clients Leader, Deloitte Mr Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration Mr Alexander STUBB, Finnish Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade, Former Student of the College of Europe and former Visiting Professor (2000-2007) Mr Csaba TABAJDI, Member of the European Parliament, Head of the Hungarian Socialist Delegation H.E. Minister Steven VANACKERE, Deputy Prime Minister and Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Institutional Reforms Mr Frank VANDENBROUCKE, Belgian Minister of State Judge Marc VAN DER WOUDE (Jean Rey Promotion 1983-1984), Court of Justice of the European Union Mr Luuk VAN MIDDELAAR, Speechwriter of Herman Van Rompuy; Author of ‘The Passage to Europe’ Mr Joost VAN ROOST, CEO for Benelux, ExxonMobil Mrs Androulla VASSILIOU, Member of the European Commission responsible for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth