Sandra Kalniete is a Latvian politician,author,diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture,Rural Development and Fisheries in 2004. Since 2009,she has served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the European People's Party.
The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP) is the chief co-ordinator and representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) within the European Union (EU). The position is currently held by Josep Borrell Fontelles.
Artis Pabriks is a Latvian politician. Since January 2019 he has been the Minister for Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Latvia. From 2014 to 2018,he was a Member of the European Parliament.
Andris Piebalgs is a Latvian politician and diplomat who served as European Commissioner for Development at the European Commission from 2010 until 2014. Between 2004 and 2009 he served as Commissioner for Energy. Between 4 June 2016 and 19 August 2017,he served as the leader of the Unity party.
The College of Europe is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges,Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw,Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading historical European figures and founding fathers of the European Union,including Salvador de Madariaga,Winston Churchill,Paul-Henri Spaak and Alcide De Gasperi as one of the results of the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague to promote "a spirit of solidarity and mutual understanding between all the nations of Western Europe and to provide elite training to individuals who will uphold these values" and "to train an elite of young executives for Europe". It has the status of Institution of Public Interest,operating according to Belgian law. The second campus in Natolin (Warsaw),Poland opened in 1992. The College of Europe is historically linked to the establishment of the European Union and its predecessors,and to the creation of the European Movement International,of which the college is a supporting member. Federica Mogherini,former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,was appointed as the Rector to start in September 2020;former President of the European Council Herman,Count Van Rompuy is chairman of the board.
Danuta Maria Hübner,née Młynarska is a Polish politician and Diplomat and Economist and Member of the European Parliament. She has served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009,when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform. In 2012,Professor Hübner became a member of the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy.
Sophia Helena "Sophie" in 't Veld is a Dutch politician of the Volt party,and formerly of the D66 party. As a D66 member,she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2004,and reelected in 2009,2014 and 2019. She was her party's top candidate for the three elections and has been its leader in the European Parliament since her first election. She left D66 and joined Volt in 2023.
The Secretary-General of the European Commission is the senior civil servant of the European Commission. The Secretary-General,who is responsible to the President of the European Commission,is in charge of the various Directorates-General,headed by Directors-General.
The European Commissioner for Trade is the member of the European Commission responsible for the European Union's common commercial policy.
Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova is a Bulgarian economist serving as the 12th managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. She was the Chief Executive of the World Bank Group from 2017 to 2019 and served as Acting President of the World Bank Group from 1 February to 8 April 2019 following the resignation of Jim Yong Kim. She previously served as Vice-President of the European Commission under Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2016.
Margaritis Schinas is a Greek politician and former civil servant. He took office in December 2019 as a vice-president in the Von der Leyen Commission with the portfolio of European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life. A member of the New Democracy party,he previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2007 to 2009 and served as chief spokesperson of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019,and as a deputy director-general of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communication between 2015 and 2019.
Federica Mogherini is an Italian politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. She previously served as Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from February 2014 to October 2014,in the centre-left Renzi Cabinet. She was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2008 to 2014. In 2020 she was appointed rector of the College of Europe,a post-graduate university for European studies in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland).
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 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.
Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen is a Danish diplomat who has served as Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union from 2015 to 2022.
Didier Seeuws is a Belgian civil servant and diplomat who has been appointed by the European Union (EU) to lead a special internal task force in connection with the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
Martin Selmayr is a European civil servant from Germany who was Secretary-General of the European Commission from 2018 to 2019 and chief of staff to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2018. During his time in the Juncker Commission,Selmayr was widely described as one of the most influential figures within the European Union. After taking office as secretary-general,he was described in a debate in the European Parliament as "the most powerful bureaucrat in the world." A resident of Brussels since 2000,he is a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) party of Belgium. He is considered by many to be close to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and its leadership,but the European Commission said he has never been a member of that party.
Sabine Weyand is a German EU senior official. She has played a prominent role in trade negotiations,as an EU co-negotiator for the TTIP and CETA agreements,and in EU Brexit negotiations.
The ninth European Parliament was elected in the 2019 elections and is to last until the 2024 elections.
Olivér Várhelyi is a Hungarian lawyer and diplomat,and European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement from Hungary in the von der Leyen Commission after the rejection of LászlóTrócsányi by the European Parliament.
Stefano Sannino is an Italian diplomat and European civil servant.
