Muddling Through or Starting Anew?
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SprachePolitics of austerity, worsening levels of solidarity, social and security challenges at home and abroad – these phenomena destabilise the foundations of European integration. The mechanisms which distribute sovereignty from Brussels appear to be no longer functioning as they should. How can we define forward-looking aims and return to a common European path?
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Kristalina GEORGIEVA
Chief Executive Officer, The World Bank, Washington
| Kristalina Georgieva has been CEO of the World Bank since January 2017. From February 1, 2019 to April 8, 2019, Georgieva was the Interim President for the World Bank Group. As Interim President, Georgieva was responsible for the World Bank Group’s efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to boost shared prosperity around the world. | |
| As CEO of the World Bank, which comprises of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association, Georgieva has built support across the international community to mobilize resources for poor and middle-income countries and to create better opportunities for the world’s most vulnerable people. | |
| Previously Georgieva, a Bulgarian national, helped shape the agenda of the European Union starting in 2010, first as Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, where she managed one of the world's largest humanitarian aid budgets and established herself as a global champion for resilience. As the European Commission Vice President for Budget and Human Resources, Georgieva oversaw the European Union's €161 billion (US $175bn) budget and 33,000 staff across its institutions around the world, and tripled funding available to the refugee crisis in Europe. | |
| Before joining the European Commission, Georgieva had a successful tenure at the World Bank, starting in 1993 as an Environmental Economist. In 2004, Georgieva was made Director for the Russian Federation, based in Moscow. From 2007 to 2008, she was Director for Sustainable Development in charge of policy and lending operations in infrastructure, urban development, agriculture, environment and social development, including support to fragile and conflict-affected countries. From 2008-2010, she was Vice President and Corporate Secretary. | |
| Kristalina Georgieva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1953. She holds a Ph.D in Economic Science and a M.A. in Political Economy and Sociology from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, where she was an Associate Professor between 1977 and 1991. |
Dr. Ulrike GUEROT
Head of Department, European Policy and the Study of Democracy, Danube University Krems - University for Continuing Education; Director and Founder, European Democracy Lab, European School of Governance, Krems
| Since 2016 Ulrike Guérot is Professor at Danube-University Krems and head of the department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. Core activities of the department are both interdisciplinary research and network building. The main goal is to initiate a citizen-oriented and sustainable debate on key issues surrounding today’s Europe. Since September 2017 Ulrike Guérot is holder of Alfred-Grosser visiting professorship at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. Furthermore, she founded the Berlin based think tank "European Democracy Lab. The lab seeks to rethink and redesign European democracy. Currently, the lab is building a campaign platform advocating for both the principle of political equality beyond nation states and the empowerment of regional stakeholders within the EU-setup. | |
| Prior to her work in Krems and Berlin, Ulrike Guérot built up the office and served as Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and lectured at various internationally renowned universities, such as Bucerius Law School Hamburg, John Hopkins University, INSEAD Singapore and Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt. In addition she conducted research at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) on the topics of democracy and democratization. In April 2016 her first book 'Why Europe needs to become a republic! A political utopia' was published by Dietz. The principal idea of the book is the creation of a ‘European Republic’ based on the concept of equality in front of the law in a union of citizens. Her latest work 'The new civil war - the open Europe and its enemies', published by Ullstein is a bestseller in Germany. In this cutting edge pamphlet she describes the great divide throughout the European societies. She has been publishing widely in Germany, English and French on European, transatlantic and global issues in various newspapers, journals and books. In times of turmoil and crisis, Ulrike Guérot aims at creating a sustainable blueprint for Europe in the 21st century, which puts the citizen first. |
Michael ROTH
Minister of State for Europe, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
| 1990 | Higher education entrance qualification (Abitur), Werratal school, Heringen |
| 1990-1991 | Non-military national service, Protestant Church |
| 1991-1997 | Political science, public law, German studies, sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2000-2002 | Lecturer, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin |
| since 1987 | Member, SPD - Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| 1993-1995 | Deputy Federal Chairperson, Young Socialists |
| since 1996 | Member, Executive Committee, North Hesse district, SPD |
| since 1998 | Directly elected member, German Bundestag, electoral district 169 Werra-Meissner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg |
| 2009-2014 | Secretary-General, SPD Land Hesse |
| Spokesperson, SPD members of the Bundestag from Land Hesse | |
| 1998-2013 | Spokesperson on Europe, SPD parliamentary group, Berlin |
| since 2013 | State Minister for Europe, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin |
Ph.D. M.Sc Nathalie TOCCI
Special Advisor to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Deputy Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome
| 1995-1998 | BA (Hons), PPE - Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University College, Oxford |
| 1998-1999 | M.Sc. in Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London |
| 1999-2003 | Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels |
| 2000-2003 | Ph.D. in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, London |
| 2003-2004 | Jean Monnet Fellow, Mediterranean Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute |
| 2005-2007 | Marie Curie Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence |
| 2006-2010 | Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome |
| 2009-2010 | Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Washington |
| since 2011 | Deputy Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome; Editor, The International Spectator |
| since 2013 | Member of the Board of Administrators, Edison |
| 2014 | Strategic Advisor to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rome |
| since 2015 | Special Advisor to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs; Vice President of the European Commission |
Mag.a MA Verena RINGLER
Head of International Department, Stiftung Mercator, Essen
| 2002-2006 | Associate Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine |
| 2006-2009 | Media and Communications Advisor, ICO/EUSR - The International Civilian Office - European Union Special Representative, Pristina |
| since 2005 | EU Strategy Entrepreneur, Vienna, www.europeancommons.eu |
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