Catherine Dalling Taylor Stihler is a Scottish former politician who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Creative Commons from 2020 to 2023. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,she was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 1999 to 2019.
Pilar del Castillo Vera is a Spanish politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. She previously served as Minister for Education,Culture and Sport in the government of Prime Minister JoséMaría Aznar from 2000 to 2004.
Othmar Karas is an Austrian politician who has been serving as the First Vice-President of the European Parliament since January 2022,having been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP),which in turn affiliates with the European People's Party.
Markus Ferber is a German engineer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Social Union,part of the European People's Party. In addition to his parliamentary work,Ferber has been serving as president of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) since 2020.
Alexander Sebastian Léonce von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff,commonly known as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP),part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe,who has been serving as the German ambassador to Russia since 2023.
Jacqueline Kay Swinburne,Baroness Swinburne,is a British politician and life peer. She was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales between 2009 and 2019,representing the Conservative Party,and became a member of the House of Lords in 2023. She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities from 1 March 2024 for Baroness Penn as a Minister on Leave.
Esther M. R. de Lange is a Dutch politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2007. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA),part of the European People's Party (EPP),she was elected as delegation leader in the European Parliament at a party conference on 2 November 2013 in Leeuwarden,a position she assumed the following year. In July 2014 she was elected as Vice President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament and in June 2018 as Vice President of the EPP Party.
Sven Giegold is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2021.
Burkhard Balz is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany,part of the European People's Party. From 2009 until 2018,he served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany.
Future Italy was an Italian liberal-centrist think tank,formed in 2009 by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo,chairman of Alitalia and former chairman of Ferrari (1991–2014),FIAT (2004–2010) and Confindustria (2004–2008).
Monika Hohlmeier is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. She is a member of the Christian Social Union,part of the European People's Party. Between 1998 and 2005 she served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs.
Marisa Isabel dos Santos Matias is a Portuguese sociologist and politician. She is a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024. She was also a Member of the European Parliament,between 2009 and 2024. She currently seated on the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Industry,Research and Energy (ITRE) Committees. She was also Chairwoman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with the Mashreq countries. Between 2010 and 2016 she was Vice-President of the Party of the European Left.
Roberto Gualtieri is an Italian historian,academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD),incumbent Mayor of Rome since 2021 and Minister of Economy and Finances in the second government of Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021. He previously was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019,where he chaired the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee within the Parliament from 2014 until 2019.
Jakob von Weizsäcker is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President of the Saarland Anke Rehlinger since the 2022 state elections.
Eva Maydell is a Bulgarian politician. She is a member of the European Parliament and President of the European Movement International.
Miriam Dalli is a Maltese politician of the Labour Party and former journalist who has been serving as a member of the Parliament of Malta since 2020. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 until 2020.
Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou is a Greek lawyer and politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Dorien Rookmaker is a Dutch politician of the More Direct Democracy (MDD) party,who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2020. Initially serving as a non-attached member,she joined the European Conservatives and Reformists in December 2021. She is a member of the Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
Anne-Karin Glase is a German former Christian Democratic Union of Germany politician who has served three terms as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Germany constituency for the European People's Party Group from March 1991 to July 2004. She had previously represented the Potsdam constituency as a member of the East German parliament Volkskammer between March 1990 and October 1990. Glase was on various committees such as the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Budgets during the period she was an MEP.
