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Carlos Carnero.
Managing Director of
Fundación Alternativas. Carnero has served as a
member of the European Parliament (1994-
2009), Spanish ambassador-at-large for
European integration 2009-2012), and Vice-
President of the Party of European Socialists
(2006-2009). He was also a member of the
Convention that drafted the European
Constitution. He has collaborated on several
books, including
Construyendo la Constitución
Europea. Crónica política de la convención,
Manual de instrucciones de la Constitución
Europea, Europa en la encrucijada
and
La diplo-
macia común europea: el servicio europeo de
acción exterior, Gobernanza económica de la
Unión Europea y salida de la crisis
. Carnero holds
a degree in Tourism. He is a professor in the mas-
ter programme on EU of the Institute of European
Studies at the University CEU-San Pablo. Carnero
is member of the Scientific Council of Real
Instituto Elcano. The Spanish government
awarded him the Order of Constitutional Merit
and the Order of Civil Merit for his work related
to the European Union and foreign affairs, and
the European Parliament with its Medal.
José Luis Escario Díaz-Berrio
graduated in
lawand isMaster of International andCommunity
Law from the University of Leuven. He has
worked in the European Commission, European
Parliament and the Spanish Administration. He
has been Policy Advisor for Taxation in Oxfam
Intermón and Coordinator for European Union
Affairs at Fundación Alternativas (FA). Currently
he is Advisor of MEP Ramón Jáuregui to the
Inquiry Committee on the Panama Papers. He is
also member of the FA Council of European
Affairs and has been coordinator of the
State of
the European Union Report
. He is the author of
books and numerous scientific articles on
European and taxation issues.
Philipp Fink
is policy officer in the division
of economic and social policies in the Friedrich-
Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany.
Antoine Guillou
is the energy and climate
change coordinator with Terra Nova, France.
Mercedes Guinea Llorente
is professor of
International Relations at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. Guinea Llorente is a
specialist in European integration. Her primary
lines of research are the political model of the
European Union and European foreign policy. In
2016 she collaborated with Fundación
Alternativas as the co-author of
Renegotiation by
the United Kingdom of its constitutional relation-
ship with the European Union: Issues related to
Sovereignty,
a study commissioned by European
Parliament’s Committee on Parliamentary Affairs
and conducted jointly with Francisco Aldecoa.
Diego López Garrido
is an economist, has a
Chair in Constitutional Law and is Legal consult-
ant for the Spanish Cortes. Former member of
the Spanish Parliament and of the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly. He was Secretary of
State for the European Union (2008-2011) and
coordinated the 2010 Spanish Presidency of the
EU. He also served as the Socialist Group’s spokes-
man in the Congress of Deputies and has been
elected as MP for six terms. He was member of
the Convention for drafting the European
Constitution, representing the Spanish Parliament
(2002-2003). He is author of many books on hu-
man rights, economics, politics and European
Community Law. His last book (2015) is
The Ice
Age. Bailing out the welfare state in the era of
austerity
, London Publishing Partnership.
Gero Maass
represents the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation in Spain. He studied political science