Věra Jourová is the Vice President of the European Commission.
Věra Jourová is a Czech politician and lawyer who has been the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency since 1 December 2019[1] and previously served as the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality from 2014 to 2019. She served as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies between 2013 and 2014 and as the Czech Minister for Regional Development in 2014.
Tomislav Tomašević was born in the Croatian capital of Zagreb in 1982. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Political Science in 2010 and obtained his Master’s in the field of Environment, Society, and Development from the University of Cambridge in 2013.
Tomašević’s interest in politics was apparent from a young age when he joined the Green Action at 16. Moreover, he was the organisation’s President from 2007 to 2012. During these years, he was also the president of the Croatian Youth Network and a member of the Youth Council.
He participated in the launch of Right to the City in 2006 and was a member of the Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Council of the Government of the Republic of Croatia from 2012 to 2015. In 2017, Tomašević became a member of the newly founded “Zagreb is Ours!” party. He was elected Mayor of the City of Zagreb on 30 May 2021.
Tomislav Kezarovski was born on 2nd June 1965 in Skopje, where he finishes elementary, high school and Law University. In June 1999, he started to write as a journalist at “Utrinski Dnevnik”. Five years later from July 2004 till June 2006 he was editor in “Vecer”, he works in “Business” and TV “Skay net”, where he prepares the TV show Revizor.
From September 2010 he’s a journalist in “Nova Makedonija”. Founder and editor-in-chief of the Crime Review “Svedok” and the weekly “Reporter92”.
He’s a participant in many seminars, tributes and workshops in Macedonia and the foreign countries. He’s a winner of many native and international awards for research studies.
In 2015, right after coming out of jail, he started studying political studies and diplomacy on the FON University. Now, he has a master’s degree in political science in foreign policy. At the moment he is preparing another master thesis on the topic: Fake news as a form of special warfare.
From August 2017 till August 2018 he’s a stipendist of the Foundation Hamburg for politically exiled persons. From Octomber 2018 he’s a stipendist of the PEN Centar Germany (Writers in exil).
He’s married to Marina Kezharovska and together they have a daughter, Stefanija.
Tom Tugendhat was elected as Member of Parliament for Tonbridge and Malling in 2015 and was re-elected in 2017. On his return to Parliament, he was elected to be Chair of the influential Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
He ran for office after leaving the British Army in July 2013. As a Reservist, he served on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and, most recently, as the military assistant to the Chief of the Defence Staff. He also worked for the Foreign Office and helped set up the National Security Council of Afghanistan and the government in Helmand Province.
Tom grew up in London and Sellinge, near Ashford, read Theology at Bristol University and studied Islamics at Cambridge University for a Master’s. His study included learning Arabic in Yemen. After graduating, Tom was a journalist based in Beirut, writing about the conflict as well as regional politics and economics.
Politically, Tom has been campaigning for transparency in financial institutions, including in pensions and asset management companies. He is a Dementia Friend and an active supporter of the Alzheimer’s Society. He has served on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee and writes regularly on a wide range of issues for outlets including the Spectator, Daily Telegraph, the Times, and the Financial Times.
Tom was appointed MBE for operational service in Afghanistan. He remains a reserve officer, is married to Anissia and has two children.
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of ten books of contemporary history and political writing, including most recently Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World and a third edition of The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague, with a new chapter analysing developments over the last 30 years. He also writes a widely syndicated column on international affairs in the Guardian. In 2017, he was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize for services to European unity.
Tim Dixon is co-founder of More in Common, a non-profit group that works on uniting divided societies, with a team of 35 staff across France, Germany, the UK and the US. Tim has led social change projects in more than 20 countries and co-founded six organisations including Purpose Europe (a communications firm focused on movement-building), The Syria Campaign (to promote democratic Syrian civil society and civilian protection) and Movilizatorio (to advance civic participation in peacebuilding in Colombia). Tim worked for two Australian Prime Ministers as chief speechwriter and senior economic adviser, and has a background as an economist, lawyer and entrepreneur.
Thomas Carothers is interim president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an independent global think tank. He oversees all of the Endowment’s research programs and directs the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program. Widely recognized as a leading authority on democratization and international support for democracy, he has worked on democracy and governance assistance projects around the world for many public and private organizations. He is the author or editor of numerous critically acclaimed books and reports as well as many articles in prominent journals and newspapers. His most recent book is Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (co-edited with Andrew O’Donohue). He previously worked as a lawyer at the U.S. Department of State and the law firm of Arnold & Porter. He has been a visiting faculty member at Oxford University, the Central European University, and Johns Hopkins SAIS. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the London School of Economics, and Harvard College.
Graduated in Budapest at the Faculty of Economics (today Corvinus University), he got his PhD degree and habilitated at the same University. He is a ScD of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In parallel with his government and diplomatic career he has been teaching and doing research. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in 2000 and joined the CEU as a full time Professor in 2005. He is regularly lecturing at international conferences and universities in English, French, German and Hungarian languages.
After 1990 Prof. Balázs joined the Government and the diplomatic service of Hungary several times. He was a State Secretary for Industry and Trade (1992-1993) and a State Secretary for European Integration (2002-2003). He was nominated Ambassador of Hungary to Denmark (1994-1996), Germany (1997-2000) and to the EU in Brussels (2003-2004). In 2009-2010 he was Foreign Minister of Hungary.
He also acquired experience in various EU positions. He was the Government Representative of Hungary in the European Convention drafting the Constitutional Treaty which has become, after several modifications, the Lisbon Treaty. In 2004 he was nominated the first Hungarian Member of the European Commission responsible for regional policy. On the invitation of the European Commission he coordinates priority projects of the Trans-European Transport Network
Prof. Balázs is holding an Ad Personam Jean Monnet Chair. His research activities are centered on the foreign policy of the EU and problems of the late modernization and European integration of the Eastern part of the continent. He also analyzes questions of European and global governance including the future of European institutions. At the CEU he is teaching two courses: EU Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy (fall semester) and European Governance (winter semester). He established (in 2005) and directs the CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS). Prof. Balázs published several books, chapters in books and articles.
Professor Balázs received on February 21, 2016 the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Tufts University and the Institute for Global Leadership “in recognition of his integrity and valor as Foreign Minister, encouraging respect for humanities values and rule of law and fighting discrimination.”
Born: October 19, 1969, in Taichung City, Taiwan
Education: Department of Law, National Taiwan University
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