THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. Reforming Europe in a time of war

101 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 Eu- ropean Commission) since 1994 and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies of the University of Bucha- rest in 2009. Aldecoa studied under the late Antonio Truyol y Serra, former co-director of the Complutense University of Madrid’s Centro de Excelencia Antonio Truy- ol and one of Spain’s most highly respected 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 In- ternational Law and International Relations (2005-2009) and director of the Complutense’s Centre for Studies in Management, Analysis and Evaluation (2012-2016). In addition to being the co-chair of the Federal Council of the European Movement since 2013, he is also a mem- ber of the Scientific Council of the Real Instituto Elcano (2001-present), the Consejo Académico Eurolatinoameri- cano (2012-present) and the Advisory Board of the Unit- ed Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) (2015-present). 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 such as the Revue du Marché Unique Européen, the Re- vue du Marché Commun et de l’Union Européenne or the Revista Española de Derecho Europeo. José Candela Castillo is Professor of Philosophy of Law, Morals and Politics at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Com- plutense de Madrid. Carlos Carnero González is senior advisor at Vinces Consulting. He has served as a member of the European Parliament (1994-2009) and member of the Convention that drafted the European Constitution. He has been Spanish ambassador-at-large for European integration, and Vice-President of the Party of European Socialists. He has also been member of the regional parliament of the Community of Madrid (Asamblea de Madrid), where he is the spokesperson for economy of the Socialist Group and President of the Committee for the Recovery. He has been Managing Director of Fundación Alternativas. Carnero is