Jacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French retired politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. He served as Minister of Finance of France from 1981 to 1984. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981. As President,Delors was the most visible and influential leader in European affairs. He implemented the policies that closely linked the member nations together and promoted the need for unity. He created a single market that made the free movement of persons,capital,goods,and services within the European Economic Community (EEC) possible. He also headed the so-called Delors Committee which proposed the monetary union to create the Euro,a new single currency to replace individual national currencies. This was achieved by the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
Anna Lührmann is a German political science professor and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 German federal election. In addition to her work in parliament,she has been Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office in the Scholz cabinet since 8 December 2021.
Peter Denis Sutherland was an Irish businessman,barrister and Fine Gael politician who served as UN Special Representative for International Migration from 2006 to 2017. He was known for serving in various international organisations,political and business roles.
António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino is a Portuguese lawyer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS).
Danuta Maria Hübner(née Młynarska,Polish:[daˈnutaˈxʲybnɛr] or;born 8 April 1948) is a Polish politician and Diplomat and Economist and Member of the European Parliament. She has served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009,when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform. In 2012,Professor Hübner became a member of the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy.
Paul Charles Ram Flather is a British academic. Until 2018 he served as the Secretary-General of the Europaeum,an association of leading European universities,and is Fellow of Mansfield College,Oxford. He is the son of Shreela Flather,Baroness Flather. He was formerly a journalist working for the BBC,Times newspapers and the New Statesman where he was deputy editor. He has written for many publications on education and politics.
The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is the trade-negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which commenced in November 2001 under then director-general Mike Moore. Its objective was to lower trade barriers around the world,and thus facilitate increased global trade.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist,who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. Notably,she is the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General. She sits on the boards of Danone,Standard Chartered Bank,MINDS:Mandela Institute for Development Studies,Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,Georgetown Institute for Women,Peace and Security,One Campaign,GAVI:Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization,Rockefeller Foundation,R4D:Results for Development,ARC:African Risk Capacity and Earthshot Prize plus others. She also previously sat on the Twitter Board of Directors,and stepped down in February 2021 in connection with her appointment as Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
This is a timeline of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Rufus Hawkins Yerxa is an American lawyer and former U.S. government and international official. He is currently a Senior Advisor with the global consulting firm McClarty Associates. He served as Deputy United States Trade Representative during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations,and served for 11 years as Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). From 2016 to 2021 he was President of the National Foreign Trade Council.
Jean-Michel Severino is a French banker with particular interest in sustainable development. He has held senior positions in the World Bank,and served for more than nine years as the CEO of France's government agency for international development,AFD. Since 2011 he has been CEO of an investment group,Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P),and a board member for several private companies.
The Jacques Delors Institute,which also uses the name Notre Europe,is an independent think tank based in Paris. Founded in 1996 by Jacques Delors,it aims to "think a united Europe." Enrico Letta currently serves as president of the Jacques Delors Institute,while Sylvie Matelly is its director.
Jean Pisani-Ferry is a French economist and public policy expert. He is a fellow at think tanks Bruegel in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington,D.C. He is also a senior professor in economics and public management at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin,and a professor at the European University Institute near Florence.
Friends of Europe is a Brussels-based,not-for-profit think tank for European Union policy analysis and debate.
Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013.
Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo is a Brazilian career diplomat who served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 2013 until 2020. Since 2020,he has been Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Affairs at PepsiCo.
María Aránzazu "Arancha" González Laya is a Spanish lawyer who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs,European Union and Cooperation in the Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez from 2020 to 2021. Currently,González is the dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at the elite French university Sciences Po.
Jakob von Weizsäcker is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President of the Saarland Anke Rehlinger since the 2022 state elections.
Henrik Enderlein was a German economist and political scientist. He was president and professor of political economy at the Hertie School in Berlin and founding director of the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School. He held degrees from Sciences Po,Columbia University and earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. From 2001 to 2003,he worked as an economist at the European Central Bank. He held visiting professorships at Harvard Kennedy School and at Duke University.
Andreas Jung is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2005.
