Field of activity: Technology & Innovation Policies and Digital Economy.
Field of Activity: EU Single Market and industrial policy, better regulation, burden reduction and institutional affairs.
Field of activity: Labour Law, Industrial Relations, Social Protection, Human Rights
Field of activity: Enterprise Policy.
Delegate of CCI France to the European Union and to Eurochambres. Member of the SME and Economic Policy committee of Eurochambres. More than 30 years of concrete experience working alongside companies in the implementation of European regulations. Longstanding expertise in collaborative work at Community level: in the Commission's official European business support networks (former Euro-Info-Centres then Enterprise Europe Network as coordinator), as well as for EU Institutions and business organisations. Also specialised in regional policy and use of the structural funds by SME’s at the local level.
Field of activity : social economy and work integration social enterprises
Field of Activity: Liberal Professions, Internal Market for Services.
Field of activity: urban governance, local government, sustainable urban development, environment, climate, mobility and digital transformation
Mr Antonio Estella de Noriega is Associate Professor of Administrative Law and Jean Monnet Professor "ad personam" of European Economic Governance Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). He has been Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law in 2006- 2010. He graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 1991. He started his academic career at the UC3M in 1997, where he obtained a tenured position as Associate Professor in 2003. In 2006 he obtained a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law and in 2013 he was granted a Jean Monnet Chair "ad personam" in European Economic Governance Law
Mr Hamilton has worked in a range of different roles as a consultant in London, a civil servant in 3 different national authorities (Consumer, Competition and Business) as well as the Danish Business Ministry and the European Commission. He has furthermore worked for 8 years for the Chamber for Commerce in Brussels – as a Senior Director for EU- and International Affairs.
Linked by profession and conviction to the third sector of social action of disability through her work at CERMI, where she began her activity in 2001, after a stay of eight years in Brussels. Europeanist at heart. Convinced that social transformation is achieved through digital transformation. Executive Director of the State CERMI and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the CERMI Women Foundation. She is Co-Director of the Generosity, Gender and Disability Collection at CERMI. She has participated in several collective works: Treaty on Disability (Thompson Aranzadi, 2007), Towards a Disability Law, (Thompson Aranzadi, 2009), 10 years of non-discrimination legislation in Spain (Ediciones CINCA, 2012), Manual on the Transversality of Gender in Public Disability Policies (Ediciones CINCA, 2012).
Field of activity: Human Rights, Migration, Asylum and Integration, Better Regulation, Public Administration.
Goranka Lalić Novak is an Associate Professor of Administrative Science at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, and a president of Croatian Law Centre, a civil society organization which focuses on human rights protection and rule of law. For the last 20 years, she has been an active member of civil society in Croatia, advocating for raising the standards for the protection of human rights of vulnerable groups and individuals and civil society’s participation in decision-making processes. Professor Lalić Novak published several books and many scientific articles in the field of public administration, human rights, migration and asylum governance, integration of migrants and regulatory management.
Field of Activity: European railway operators and railway infrastructure companies, transport related policy topics, economics and environment
Field of activity: Entrepreneurship-SME’s, Law (corporate), Collaborative economy, Social economy, Sustainable development
Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther has been Director and Member of the Presidium of the German Economic Institute since July 2004. He studied from 1982 to 1987 economics as well as medieval and modern history at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen. Upon completion of his doctorate in economics, in 1991 he became a member of the scientific staff of the Council of Experts for the Evaluation of Macroeconomic Development. In 1995 he was appointed Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Advisers. In 1999, he joined DekaBank as chief economist and in 2001 additionally as Division Manger economics and communication.
Since August 2001 Prof. Hüther is Honorary Professor at the EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and since April 2019 Prof. Hüther is chair of the supervisory board of TÜV Rheinland AG.
In the academic year 2016-17 as well as in autumn 2019 and 2022 he was Gerda Henkel Adjunct Professor in the Department of German Studies at Stanford University, CA, USA.
Field of activity: SME Policy, Better regulation, Employment and social dialogue, Economic Policy, International & Trade, Single Market and Sustainability.
Véronique Willems is representing Crafts and SMEs in Europe as the Secretary General of SMEunited (formerly known as UEAPME) since January 2017. Beforehand and as from 2009, she was the Head of European affairs at UNIZO (SMEunited Belgian member organisation) and was responsible for advocacy on policies affecting SMEs at EU-level. Ms Willems started her career at UNIZO in 1999 as Policy Officer in charge of education, training and SME counselling and went on to work at the regional office (Vlaams-Brabant & Brussel) as responsible for advocacy at regional level, mentorship programs and individual counselling for entrepreneurs. Ms Willems holds a Law degree from Vrije Universiteit Brussels and a Master’s Degree in Commercial sciences / Business management from VLEKHO Brussels.
Mr. Vasco de Mello has been the representative for CCP – Portuguese Retail and Services Confederation, a social partner - in several European institutions, as the EESC – European Economic and Social Committee, EuroCommerce and SMEUnited.
Mr. Mello holds a Law degree and a History degree. He also holds a post-graduate in European Studies.
Currently, Mr. Mello is director of several Portuguese Retail Companies.
Education
Graduated in economics and commerce at La Sapienza University in Rome (1989)
Professional experience
Stefano Palmieri, is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), since 2009, and is currently Vice-President of the Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion. He also served as President of the same Section from 2019 to 2023 and as President of the EESC's Europe 2020 Steering Committee from 2013 to 2016.
He is member of the International and European Department at the Italian trade union: Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) (since 2016). He served as head of the CGIL's Europe office in Brussels (2009-2010). Previously he held several positions including: Coordinator of research in "Local development and industrial policy" at Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali (IRES); member of the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD, of the Steering Committee of the Institute de la Protection Sociale Europeenne (IPSE), of the ICFTU/ITS/TUAC Committee for International Co-operation on Workers Capital, of the Macroeconomic Group of the Social Dialogue Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation at the European Commission; researcher at the Italian National Council for Economy and Labor (CNEL), at Monitor lavoro s.r.l., and expert on the Science of Finance and Financial Law at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
