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Under his direction, the institute renamed
Infratest dimap in 1997 became Germany’s mar-
ket leader in political research. In 2013, the
Association of German Market and Social
Researchers awarded him the title of “Researcher
of the Year”. In June 2015, he and Rita Müller-
Hilmer co-founded
policy matters
, specializing
in strategic political research and consulting.
Diego López Garrido
is the President of
Fundación Alternativa’s Council of European
Affairs. He is an economist, has a Chair in
Constitutional Law and is Legal consultant for
the Spanish Cortes. Former member of the
SpanishParliament andof theNATOParliamentary
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 spokesman 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, repre-
senting the Spanish Parliament (2002-2003). He
is author of many books on human rights, eco-
nomics, politics and European Community Law.
His last publications are:
La Edad de Hielo. Europa
y Estados Unidos ante la Gran Crisis: el rescate del
Estado de bienestar
(RBA, 2014),
The Ice Age.
Bailing Out the Welfare State in the Era of
Austerity
(London Publishing Partnership, 2015),
Paraísos fiscales. Veinte propuestas para acabar
con la gran evasión
(La Catarata, 2016). Recently
he published
Lecciones de Derecho Constitucional
de España y de la Unión Europea
(Tirant Lo
Blanch, 2018).
Gero Maass
represents the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation in Spain. He studied political science
and economics at Hamburg and holds a Ph.D. in
economics. After graduating, he worked for the
Institute of African Affairs and then for the
University of Hamburg. He joined FES in Portugal
in 1985 and has worked both at the Foundation’s
head office in Germany (where he was director
of the FES department for industrialized west-
ern countries from 2005 to 2006, and director
of the department of international political
analysis) and abroad (having directed the foun-
dation’s offices in Paris, London and Stockholm).
His particular areas of interest include the future
of the welfare state, the process of European
integration, common European foreign and se-
curity policy, and the development of social de-
mocracy in Europe.
Sébastien Maillard
was a journalist at
La
Croix
, where he recently covered the campaign
of Emmanuel Macron. Previously correspondent
of the daily in Brussels and then in Rome, he
made numerous reportages across the conti-
nent. He is a specialist in European affairs that
he taught at Sciences Po. (Paris) and Boston
College. He is also involved in various actions for
Europe (EuropaNova, Comece, Robert Schuman
House), and wrote
What We Have made of
Europe?
(edited by Salvator, 2013). He is prepar-
ing a new book on Europe with Enrico Letta,
president of the Jacques Delors Institute, to be
published in September. He is currently Director
of the Jacques Delors Institute.
Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins
is an execu-
tive trustee of the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Portuguese coordinator of the
European Year of Cultural Heritage (2018). He
has been president of the Court of Accounts
(2005-2015), president of the National Culture
Centre (2002-2016), Presidency minister (2000-
2002), Tax minister (2001-2002), Education min-
ister (1999-2000), Secretary of State for