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Parliament (Special Commitee on Tax Rulings).
He is also Coordinator for European Union
Affairs at Fundación Alternativas (FA), as well as
member of the FA Council of European Affairs.
He is the author of books and numerous scien-
tific articles on European and taxation issues. He
has been coordinator of the “State of the
European Union Report”.
Severin Fischer
is an associate at Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP, German Institute for
International and Security Affairs) in Berlinwhich he
joined in 2011. He has six years of working experi-
ence in the field of energy and climate policy.
Between 2008 and 2011, he worked as project co-
ordinator at the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP)
in Berlin. During 2009 and 2010, he joined the of-
ficeof theChairmanof the Environment Committee
in the European Parliament as a policy advisor. He
earned his PhD for a dissertation on the
Europeanization of German Energy and Climate
Policies. He is currently working on topics such as
the creation of an Energy Union in the EU and new
models of governance for energy and climate poli-
cies in the EU.
Oliver Geden
is Head of the EU/Europe
Division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
(German Institute for International and Security
Affairs) in Berlin which he joined in 2006. He has
been a visiting scholar at the University of
California, Berkeley and the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH), Zurich. He also worked for
the Federal Foreign Office’s Policy Planning Unit
and, most recently, for the Federal Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Energy, Directorate General
Political Staff and Policy Planning. His main area of
expertise is the EU’s energy and climate policy.
Carlos González-Valderrama
gained his
M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering
from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He
joined the research Group on Information and
Communications Technologies (GTIC) at the
same university, where his is a research fellow
from 2013. He usually collaborates with the
State Secretary on Telecommunications and
Information Society through the Red.es Chair, as
well as other industry projects regarding tele-
communications regulation and policy. His is a
member of the Spanish Internet Governance
Forum whose Secretariat he belongs to.
Diego López Garrido.
Chairman of the
Council on European Affairs at Fundación
Alternativas and member of the Scientific
Committee of the Foundation for European
Progressive Studies (FEPS). He is MP for Madrid
and spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the
Parliamentary Defence Committee and member
of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO (Vice-
Chair of the Mediterranean and Middle East
Special Group and Vice-Chair of the
Subcommittee on Transatlantic Economic
Relations). He has also assumed the role of
spokesperson for the Socialist group in the
Spanish Parliament (2006–2008). From April
2008 to December 2011, he was Secretary of
State for the European Union and coordinated
the Spanish Presidency of the EU in 2010. López
Garrido was a member of the Convention that
drafted the European Constitutional Treaty, the
accord that paved the way for the Lisbon Treaty,
as a representative of the Spanish Parliament
(2002–2003). He is an economist and professor
of Constitutional law. Author of various books
on human rights, economics, politics, contem-
porary history and European law; he is also a
regular contributor to the Spanish daily
El País
.
His last book:
The Ice Age. Europe and USA vs.
the Great Crisis: bailing-out the Welfare State
(RBA, 2014).