Dermot Christopher Ahern is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Justice and Law Reform from 2008 to 2011,Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2008,Minister for Communications,Marine and Natural Resources from 2002 to 2004,Minister for Social,Community and Family Affairs from 1997 to 2002 and Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of Defence from 1991 to 1992. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency from 1987 to 2011.
The College of Europe is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its first campus opened in Bruges,Belgium,a second campus located in Warsaw,Poland,and a third one established in Tirana,Albania.
Barry Andrews is an Irish politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency. He is a member of Fianna Fáil,part of Renew Europe. He previously served as Minister of State for Children from 2008 to 2011. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2002 to 2011.
David O'Sullivan is the Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA). He was previously a European civil servant served as Ambassador of the European Union to the United States from 2014 to 2019,Chief Operating Officer of the EEAS from 2010 to 2014,Director-General of DG RELEX from October 2010 to December 2010,Director-General of DG Trade from 2005 to 2010,Secretary General of the European Commission from 2000 to 2005.
Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak politician and diplomat,former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In addition,Lajčák also served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session from 2017 until 2018.
Lawrence E. Butler was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia from 2002 to 2005.
The Institute of International and European Affairs is an Irish policy think tank focusing on European and international policy trends based in Dublin,Ireland. It is known for its seminars and speaking events which attract notable international figures.
Patricia O'Brien is Ambassador of Ireland to Italy. She served as Ambassador to France and to Monaco from 2017 to 2021. She had served from 2013 as the Permanent Representative (Ambassador) of Ireland to the United Nations and other International Organizations at Geneva.
John O'Brennan is an Irish political scientist. He is a professor of European Politics at the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University in Ireland. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at Maynooth University and is director of the Maynooth University Centre for European and Eurasian Studies. From 2020 to 2023,the centre was a designated Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence,with a focus on governance in South-eastern Europe,including EU enlargement issues,rule of law and EU relations with the Western Balkans and Ukraine. O'Brennan is a specialist in EU enlargement policy and also publishes on Ireland's relationship with the European Union (EU).
Sir Julian Gordon Priestley was an English civil-servant who served as Secretary-General of the European Parliament 1997–2007. He was the second President of the Young European Federalists 1974–1976.
Sir Julian Beresford King is a British diplomat and civil servant who served as the final British European Commissioner from 2016 to 2019 prior to Brexit,having previously served as the British ambassador to Ireland (2009–2011) and France (2016).
Andreas Reinicke is a German diplomat and currently the German Ambassador to Tunisia. He has been the European Union Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process. Alberto Oggero,an Italian diplomat,served as his deputy until 31 December 2013. Reinicke was appointed by the Council of the European Union on 23 January 2012,and his mandate was repealed on 1 January 2014,following proposals to the Political and Security Committee (PSC) by High Representative of EU for Common Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,Catherine Ashton.
Petras Auštrevičius is a Lithuanian liberal politician,diplomat,civil society activist,former member of Seimas,and since 2014,a member of the European Parliament.
Alison Kelly is a former Irish diplomat.
Daniel Mulhall is a retired Irish diplomat and a former Ambassador of Ireland to the United States. He has also been Ireland's Ambassador to the United Kingdom,Germany and Malaysia.
DaithíÓCeallaigh is a former Irish diplomat.
Bob McDonagh was an Irish diplomat,two of whose sons,Philip McDonagh and Bobby McDonagh,also served in the Irish diplomatic service.
Philip McDonagh is a poet and former Irish diplomat. His father,Bob McDonagh,and brother,Bobby McDonagh,also served as diplomats.
Pádraig Murphy is a former Irish diplomat.
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