THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION REPORT. Europe in a period of transition

125 Biographies Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga has been Chair of International Relations in the Department of Internation- al Public Law and International Relations of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid since 2000, having previously served as chair of the same discipline at the University of the Basque Country (1990-2000). He has also held a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies (conferred by the European Commission) since 1994 and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies of the University of Bucharest in 2009. Aldecoa studied under the late Antonio Truyol y Serra, former co-director of the Com- plutense University of Madrid’s Centro de Excelencia Antonio Truyol and one of Spain’s most highly respect- ed theorists on the process of European construction. Dean of the Complutense’s Faculty of Political Science and Sociology from May 2002 to May 2010, Aldecoa has also served as president of the Spanish Association of Professors of International Law and International Re- lations (2005-2009) and director of the Complutense’s Centre for Studies in Management, Analysis and Eval- uation (2012-2016). In addition to being the co-chair of the Federal Council of the European Movement since 2013, he is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Real Instituto Elcano (2001-present), the Consejo Académico Eurolatinoamericano (2012-present) and the Advisory Board of the United Nations University Insti- tute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) (2015-present). José Enrique de Ayala. Brigadier General of the Army, retired. Ayala holds diplomas from the Spanish Army General Staff and Joint Staff Colleges as well as a degree in International Relations from the Centre for International Studies. He has served as military attaché to the Spanish Embassy in Germany and as Chief of Staff of the Eurocorps. As an international policy analyst specialized in the European Union, he collaborates with numerous media both written and audio-visual. He is a member of the European Affairs Advisory Committee of Fundación Alternativas. José Candela Castillo is a member of the Euro- pean Affairs Council of the Fundación Alternativas. He has been an official of the European Commission since 1986 to 2014 as member of the Cabinet of the Vice-Pres- ident of the Commission and as Head of the Units of Application of Community Law and Governance in the Secretariat General of the Commission. He took part in the Group of Commissioners responsible for preparing the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, chaired by Jacques Delors and was editor of the European Commission’s White Paper on European Governance in 2001 and Assistant to the representation of the European Commission in the Convention on the future of Europe that drafted the European Constitution in 2003. He has also been an advisor to the Spanish Secretary of State for the Europe- an Union. He has given numerous courses and lectures and published several chapters of collective books and articles on Community Law and Governance in journals