Mag. Alexander EGIT

Executive Director, Greenpeace in Central and Eastern Europe, Vienna

	Abgeschlossenes Diplomstudium der Politikwissenschaften, Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Lehramtsstudium der Leibeserziehung, Geschichte und Sozialkunde
	Universitätslektor am Institut für Politikwissenschaften der Universität Wien
	Trainer für Kampagnen in Europa, Südostasien und Japan
1986-1995	Mitglied der Geschäftsführung und Sprecher der Umweltschutzorganisation GLOBAL 2000
bis 1995	Stellvertretender Präsident der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Umwelt und Technik
1996	Freiberuflicher Konsulent für Non Profit Organisationen
1996-2004	Umweltpolitischer Leiter von Greenpeace Österreich
1993-1995	Vorstandsmitglied des ÖKO-BÜROs, Koordinationsstelle österreichischer Umweltorganisationen
1997-2004	Vorstandsmitglied des ÖKO-BÜROs, Koordinationsstelle österreichischer Umweltorganisationen
1997-2005	Vorstandsmitglied der IÖGV - Interessensvertretung Österreichischer Gemeinnütziger Vereine
seit 2000	Aufbau von Greenpeace in Osteuropa
2003-2005	Aufbau und Teamleiter von Greenpeace Polen
2005-2006	Beratung des Aufbaus von Greenpeace in China
2006	Teamleiter Greenpeace Ungarn
seit 2006	Geschäftsführer Greenpeace in Zentral- und Osteuropa

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

1983-1989	Politische Wissenschaften, Geschichte und Volkswirtschaft, Köln, Bonn und Paris
1984-1989	Stipendiatin, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
1986-1988	DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium, Institut d'Etudes de Sciences Politiques de Paris & Sorbonne
1989-1992	Promotionsstudium, Universität Münster, über die Geschichte der Sozialistischen Partei Frankreich
1995-1996	Director of Communication, Association for the Monetary Union of Europe, Paris
1996-1998	Referentin von Jacques Delors, Notre Europe, Paris
1998-1999	Assistant Professor European Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.
1999-2000	Referentin für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten, Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände, BDA, Berlin
2000-2003	Leiterin, Arbeitsstelle Europa, DGAP - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Berlin
2004-2007	Director Foreign Policy & Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF - German Marshall Fund
2007-2013	Büroleiterin, ECFR - European Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
2013-2014	Senior Fellow, OSIFE - Open Society Initiative for Europe, German Operation, Berlin
2014	Gastforscherin, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
seit 2014	Gründerin und Direktorin, European Democracy Lab, European School of Governance, Berlin
seit 2016	Director, Department for European Policy and the study of Democracy, Donau-University Krems

Slawomir SIERAKOWSKI

Director, Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw

	Slawomir Sierakowski is a Polish sociologist and political commentator, who founded and leads Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), the biggest eastern European movement of liberal intellectuals, artists and activists, with branches in Ukraine and Russia. He is the director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw and the president of the Stanislaw Brzozowski Association, overseeing its publishing house; its online daily "Dziennik Opinii"; cultural centres in Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz and Cieszyn, in Poland, and in Kiev, Ukraine; and 20 local clubs.
	Mr. Sierakowski has been awarded fellowships from Yale, Princeton and Harvard and from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has written for many journals and newspapers, including The Guardian, ElPaís, Haaretz and die tageszeitung, Dissent, Transit, A2. He contributes a monthly column to the Polish leading daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" and to the international edition of the New York Times. Mr Sierakowski has been ranked as one of the most influential Poles by "Polityka", "Wprost" and"Newsweek".
	https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/slawomir-sierakowski

Jan ZIELONKA

Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow and Professor of European Politics, St Antony's College, University of Oxford

Jan Zielonka is Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford and Ralf Dahrendorf Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College. His previous appointments included posts at the University of Warsaw, Leiden and the European University Institute in Florence. His work oscillates between the field of international relations, comparative politics and political theory. Zielonka has produced seventeen books including Is the EU doomed? (2014), and Europe as Empire. The Nature of the Enlarged European Union, (2006). His new book - Counter-revolution. Liberal Europe in Retreat will soon be published by Oxford University Press. Zielonka frequently contributes articles for various European newspapers and online journals.

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