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Once more, the RCC and the RCC Director´s Jean Monnet ad personam Chair in European Law and Government at Harvard University are proud to sponsor The Summit on the Future of Europe. The Summit is an initiative of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. Since 2014, this annual conference convenes scholars and public leaders to debate critical challenges facing Europe. The fifth annual Summit is a partnership of CES, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute, European Stability Initiative (ESI) and Central European University (CEU).
The Summit is open to the public excluding the luncheon keynote address which will be viewable via livestream. Seating for all other panels is on a first-come, first-served basis with the following exception: Harvard students only may request a reserved seat here. For full information on this event please click here.
Speakers:
- Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government; CES Director, Harvard University
- Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School
- Karen Donfried – President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States; Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University
- Daniela Schwarzer – Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
- Mary Elise Sarotte – Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Research Associate, CES, Harvard University
- Michael Ignatieff – President & Rector, Central European University; Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University
- Monica Macovei – Member of the European Parliament, European Conservatives and Reformists, Romania
- Ayşe Kadıoğlu – Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University; Acting President, Sabancı University (Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2017); Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University (Sept. 2013 - Oct. 2017); Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University
- Sigmar Gabriel – Member of the Bundestag; Vice Chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs (2013-2018), Federal Republic of Germany; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2018, CES, Harvard University
- John Dalhuisen – Senior Fellow, European Stability Initiative (ESI)
- Kyriakos Pierrakakis – Director of Research, diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute
- Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University; Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, European Union, CES, Harvard University
- Steven Erlanger – Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Europe, The New York Times
- Stefan Kornelius – Foreign Policy Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Eleni Varvitsiotis – EU Correspondent, Kathimerini
- James Geary – Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University
Sponsors: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; RCC; Jean Monnet ad personam Chair in European Union Law and Government; Harvard University Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute; Central European University; European Stability Innitiative. This event is made possible by the John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellowship.