Emilio Rui Vilar
Former Director General of the European Commission

Emilio Rui Vilar is a former Portuguese politician and Director General of the European Commission. He currently serves as the chairman of the Audit Commission of Banco de Portugal, and the president of the Board of Trustees of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Former Director General of the European Commission
Area of Expertise: Business and Globalization, Youth Issues
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, Europe, North Africa and Middle East
Languages: English, French, Portuguese
Field of Work: Government, Politics
City: Lisbon
Country: Portugal
Continent: Europe
Enrique Iglesias
Secretary-General, Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat

Enrique Iglesias took office as the first Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat (SECIB) on October 1st, 2005, following his election by the Ibero-American Conference member-states in May.
Secretary-General, Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat
Area of Expertise: Business and Globalization, Development, International Relations
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean
Languages: English, Spanish
Field of Work: Government, Politics, United Nations
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Continent: Europe
Erik Brattberg
Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University

Erik Brattberg is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C. He is also a Research Associate at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm.His research interests include European foreign and security policy, global security governance and transatlantic [...]
Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
Area of Expertise: Defense and Security, International Relations, Politics and Governance, Terrorism, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Northern Ireland
Languages: Danish, English, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Erling Dessau
Senior Advisor Humanitarian Futures Programme, Kings College

Erling Dessau is an economist and statistician from Denmark, and is Senior Advisor to the Humanitarian Futures Programme at Kings College, London.
Senior Advisor Humanitarian Futures Programme, Kings College
Area of Expertise: Business and Globalization, Development
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, Europe, North Africa and Middle East, North America, Subsaharan Africa
Geographical Expertise - Country: Afghanistan, India, Somalia
Languages: English, French
Field of Work: Think tank/Research center, United Nations
Country: France
Continent: Europe
Esther Bendahan Cohen

Esther Bendahan Cohen is writer and Cultural Manager at Casa Sefarad-Israel. She has PhD. in French Philology and MA. in Creative Writing and a degree in Psychology from Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Area of Expertise: Migration and Integration, Religion
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Field of Work: Author/Novelist, Journalist/Commentator
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Continent: Europe
Etienne Piguet

Etienne Piguet is Professor of geography at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), where he holds the “Geography of mobilities” chair. He is a member of the Population geography commission’s steering committee of the International Geographic Union and former director a.i of the Swiss forum for migration studies.
Area of Expertise: Migration and Integration
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Subsaharan Africa
Languages: English, French, German
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist
City: Neuchatel
Country: Switzerland
Continent: Europe
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