Brexit: Departure into the Unknown
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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in englischer Sprache’Brexit, the Mother of all Messes’, was the Economist’s headline in mid-January. No-one knows what will happen over the coming weeks and months between London and Brussels. At the Political and Legal Symposium we plan to discuss, with reference to the current situation, the economic, legal, political and social consequences of Brexit – or of the UK staying in the EU.
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Amanda CHETWYND-COWIESON
Head of Student Mobilisation, FFS - For our Future's Sake, London
| 2011-2014 | Workshop Facilitator, Eden Project |
| since 2012 | Photographer |
| 2012-2015 | Bachelor of Arts, Photography, Falmouth University |
| 2013-2015 | Teamleader of BA Photography Mentors, Falmouth University |
| Student Ambassador, Falmouth University | |
| 2014-2015 | Narrator, Eden Project |
| 2015-2017 | Students' Union President, Falmouth & Exeter Students' Union |
| 2017-2018 | Student Communities Coordinator, Middlesex University Students' Union |
| since 2018 | Co-Founder and Director, For our Future's Sake, London |
Dr. Katy HAYWARD
Reader, Queen’s University Belfast
| Dr Katy Hayward is Reader in Sociology and a Fellow of the Senator George Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security & Justice in Queen’s University Belfast. She is also an Eisenhower Fellow (2019) and a Senior Fellow in the UK in a Changing Europe initiative - the UK’s leading academic think-tank on Brexit. | |
| Dr Hayward has 20 years’ research and teaching experience in border studies, British-Irish relations, EU integration, and the conflict/ peace process in Ireland. She is the author of over 200 publications, including a research report on the Irish border region Brexit at the Border (2018), the co-edited book Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland (2017) and co-authored report on UK Withdrawal and the Good Friday Agreement for AFCO in the European Parliament (2017). | |
| Katy has presented widely on the topic of Brexit to media, policy, civic and academic audiences, including through articles in the Guardian, the Times, the Irish Times, the Daily Telegraph and Prospect. She has given evidence before parliamentary committees in the UK and Ireland. Outside the University, she is a Board Member of the Centre for Cross Border Studies and Conciliation Resources. |
Dr. Daniel SCHADE
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
| 2012-2016 | PhD researcher, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom |
| 2014 | Vice-Chairman, Project for Democratic Union (PDU), Munich, Germany |
| 2016-2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher in International Relations, Vienna School of International Studies, Austria |
| since 2017 | Visiting lecturer, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris), France |
| Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany | |
| since 2018 | Policy Fellow, Das Progressive Zentrum, Berlin, Germany |
Mag. Alexander SCHALLENBERG
Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna
| 1989-1994 | Law studies, University of Vienna and université Paris II Panthéon-Assas |
| 1995 | Research assistant at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris |
| 1995-1996 | Postgraduate studies in European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium |
| 1997 | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs |
| 1999-2000 | Head of Unit for General Affairs of EU Integration |
| 2000-2005 | Head of the Legal Affairs Department at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU |
| 2005-2008 | Cabinet Member and Press Spokesperson of the Minister for Foreign Affairs Ursula Plassnik |
| 2008-2013 | Cabinet Member and Press Spokesperson of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (and Vice-Chancellor) Michael Spindelegger |
| 2009-2013 | Head of the Staff Unit 1 (coordination of foreign-policy communication, public diplomacy) and as of 2011 also Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger |
| 2014-2016 | Head of the new Strategic and Policy Planning Unit reporting directly to Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz |
| 2016-2018 | General Director for Europe at the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs |
| since 2018 | General Director for Section IV Coordination at the Federal Chancellery |
| since 2019 | Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs |
| 2019-2020 | Federal Minister within the Federal Chancellery for the EU, Arts, Culture and Media |
| since 2020 | Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna |
Leigh TURNER
Ambassador, British Embassy Vienna
| Leigh Turner grew up in Nigeria, Lesotho and Swaziland before studying at Manchester Grammar School and, in 1976, Downing College, Cambridge. | |
| He started work at the Department of Transport in 1979 and subsequently worked in the Department of the Environment and HM Treasury before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983. He had postings in Vienna, Moscow and Berlin before being posted as HM Ambassador Kyiv in 2008, HM Consul-General and Director General UK Trade and Investment Turkey, South Caucasus, Central Asia in Istanbul in 2012 and HM Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to other International Organisations in Vienna in 2016. In his spare time, he writes fiction and walks around Austria. He tweets as @leighturnerFCO and is on Instagram as leighturnerFCO. |
Stephen SACKUR
Journalist and Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, London
| 1985 | Bachelor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MA |
| John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | |
| 1986-1990 | Trainee, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, London |
| 1990-1992 | Foreign Affairs Correspondent, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, London |
| 1992-1995 | Correspondent in the Middle East, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Cairo |
| 1995-1997 | Correspondent in the Middle East, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Jerusalem |
| 1997-2002 | Correspondent in Washington, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Washington |
| 2002-2004 | Europe Correspondent, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Brussels |
| since 2004 | Host, HARDtalk, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation World News, London |
| since 2017 | Honorary Doctor, International Relations, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva |
