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related to the European Union and foreign affairs,
and the European Parliament with its Medal.
Michael Dauderstädt
is currently the man-
aging director of the publishing house J.H.W.
Dietz in Bonn and works as a free-lance consult-
ant. His work focuses on the European integra-
tion process, international political economy, and
German economic policy. He has published over
300 papers and books (see
www.dauderstaedt.
de). He has served as the Director of the Economic
and Social Policy Division of the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation in Bonn between 2006 and 2013.
Prior to this position, he was head of the
International Policy Analysis Unit, a think tank di-
vision of the FES. At the Foundation, he also
worked in the Central and Eastern Europe
Department for more than a decade. Michael
Dauderstädt gained international experience in
the 1980s as Director of the Portuguese Centro
de Estudos para o Desenvolvimento Internacional
(CEDI) and Secretary General of the Instituto de
Estudos para o Desenvolvimento (IED) in Lisbon.
He also served as head of the Development
Planning Unit at the German Foundation for
International Development in Berlin. Michael
Dauderstädt studied Mathematics, and
Economics at the German RWTH Aachen
University as well as Mathematical Economics at
the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et
Administration Economique in Paris and develop-
ment policy at the German Development
Institute. He received an advanced degree in
Mathematics and his PhD. in Economics from
RWTH Aachen University.
Michael Ehrke
, born 1950 in Hameln,
Germany, studied social and political sciences in
Hannover, Germany and in México D.F. He
worked as a researcher at the Centro de
Investigación y Docencia Econòmicas (CIDE) and
the Centro de Estudios Educativos (CEE) in
México, as well as at the Institute for Latin
American Studies in Hamburg, Germany and at
the Research Institute of the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation in Bonn. He directed the offices of
the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Tokyo,
Budapest, Belgrade and Madrid.
Paloma Favieres
has been coordinator of
the state legal service of the Spanish Commission
for Refugee Aid (CEAR) since 2012. A counsellor
of the Illustrious Bar Association of Madrid since
1990, she is an expert counsel in Human Rights,
Migration and Asylum. She specialises in legal
advice to applicants for international protection
and refugees in the territory and at border posts,
as well as in litigation before the Spanish and,
when necessary, European courts.
– Representative of the organisation in the
European Council on Refugees and Exiles net-
work (ECRE)
– Member of the Legal Committee of the
Forum for the integration of immigrants in
Spain.
– Representative of the organisation in the
Council for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination or Ethnic (Ministry of Health,
Social Services and Equality).
– Writer of the CEAR Annual Report on the
situation of refugees in Spain.
Jonás Fernández Álvarez
is a MEP in the
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
He is member of the Committee on Economic
and Monetary Affairs and the Subcommittee on
Security and Defence. In addition, he is a mem-
ber of the parliamentary delegations with Russia,
NATO and Latin America. Jonás Fernández
Álvarez holds an Executive MBA from IESE
Business School (2010-12), a M.A. in Economics
and Finance from CEMFI-Bank of Spain (2002-04)