Ref. Ares(2016)2126156 - 04/05/2016
AECA
high level dialogue for a globalised world
Round-Table Conference-Luncheon
with Speaker
Mr. Ben SMULDERS,
Head of Cabinet of the 1st Vice-President Frans Timmermans,
Commissioner for Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law
and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
“Dealing with regulatory burden”
hosted by
Mr. D
Director EU Affairs and Head of the Brussels office,
DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
on
Thursday 14th January 2016 starting at
12:30
PARTICIPANTS LIST
Former Vice
Vice President EU Affairs
Vice President Xerox Corporation, President &
EXXONMOBIL Petroleum &
Head Government Affairs
Head of Public
Chemical
Europe
Affairs Europe
XEROX
Samsung
Member of the Board and Council Electronics
Vice President, Government and
of British Chamber of
Former VP Global
Regulatory Affairs
Commerce in Belgium
Affairs at Philips
IBM Europe
Former Senior Lawyer at Philips
Consumer
Lifestyle
Vice President European Affairs
Former Russian
TOTAL
Ambassador
Special
RUSSIAN Federation Mission to
Representative
the EU
for Cyprus (97-
Senior Vice President & Head of
Former Russian Deputy Foreign
00
the EU Representation Office
Minister (02-05)
VOLVO Group
Former Russian Special
Representative for the Balkans
(00-02)
Partner & Head of Brussels Office
BRUNSWICK Group LLP
Head Regulatory and
Parliamentary Engagement
EU Affairs Director
Representation Brussels
JT International
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO
Director of Post
Chief Executive, Retail UK
Office Financial
Division
Services and
BANK of IRELAND
First Rate
Director of New Ireland
Exchange
Assurance plc.
Services
Former Deputy
Member Advisory
Minister of
Senior Managing Director
Board Women's
Vice-President, Member (Poland,
Culture (93)
FTI CONSULTING
Forum for the
ECR)
Former Minister
Member Management Committee Economy
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
for European
European Public Affairs
Society
Vice-Chair of Delegation to the
Integration (97-
Consultants Association
Euronest Parliamentary
99)
(EPACA)
Assembly
Former Minister -
Member of Committee on
member of the
Budgetary Control
Cabinet (98-99)
Ambassador
Member of Delegation to the EU- Former
AUSTRALIAN Embassy to
Ukraine Parliamentary
parliamentary
Belgium, Luxembourg, the EU &
Cooperation Committee
representative
NATO
to NATO (91-
93)
Director Communication &
Advisor OECD
Government Relations
Pro-Vice Rector
INTERNATIONAL PAPER
UGent (University Ghent)
Europe
Dean Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration
Former Chair
Director General
CBI's trade
DIGITALEUROPE
association
Managing Director Regulatory
Member industry/government
council
Affairs
information assurance and
Chair of the audit
DELOITTE EU Public Policy
security board and
committee
Centre
Vice chair of RISC
University of
Warwick
President & CEO
Former EU
GODIVA
Head of EU Institutional Affairs
Manager
ARCELOR MITTAL
VNO/NCW
Former Director Energy & Climate
Honorary Director Financial
Change EUROMETAUX
Operations
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Member of the Steering
Ambassador
Committee of the Thomas More
DANISH Permanent
Institute.
Representation to the EU
Director General
Vice-President, Head of
EUROPEAN ALUMINIUM
Corporate Representation
Association (EAA)
DEUTSCHE POST- DHL
HOST
Head of EU Government Affairs,
Director European Union Affairs,
Global Policy & International
Head of Brussels Office
Public Affairs
DOW Chemical Company
PFIZER
Former Director General
Senior Director Pfizer Corporate
European Retail Round Table
Affairs
Former General
Deputy General Counsel Legal &
Counsel at
Compliance, Company Lawyer
Philips
SWIFT
Vice President Legal & Corporate
Director Global Gov.Rel. & Public
Affairs Europe
Policy Europe, India, Middle
AB InBev
East & Africa
Former Director Corporate
PROCTER & GAMBLE Services
Communications COCA-COLA
Company NV
Europe
Former Director
Head Economic Department
Vice President-International
The Centre,
NETHERLANDS Permanent
External Affairs
Brussels
Representation to the EU
AT & T - EMEA
Former Executive
Vice Chairman American
Director EMEA
Chamber of Commerce to the
Government
Partner
European Union (AmCham EU) Affairs at AT&T
AFORE Consulting
Former Senior Policy Advisor
FLEISHMAN-HILLARD
Managing Director
European Salt Producers'
Association - EuSalt
Director of EU Government
Relations
BARCLAYS BANK
Director, Head of Brussels office
INDRA
Director European Union Affairs
MSD Europe
Vice President Corporate Affairs
AMWAY
Head of International Industrial
Former Director
and Economic Policy
Managing Partner
General
EVONIK Industrie ag
PAPPAS & Associates
Consumer
Member Athens & Brussels Bar
Policy EC (95-
Associations
01)
European Public Affairs Manager
Director General and Professor at Former Director
ELI LILLY - BeNeLux
the European Institute for Public General
Administration in Maastricht
Information,
Former Director
Former Judge Greek Supreme
Communication,
Ambassador
General
Court
Culture and
NORWEGIAN Mission to the EU
Norwegian
Former Senior Advisor &
Audiovisual
Former President of EFTA
Foreign Affairs
International Lawyer Hammond
Policy EC
(European Free Trade
Ministry
Suddards Edge
Association)
Former Ambassador Norwegian
Mission to the EU
Secretary General
CECCM (Confederation Euro of
Ben SMULDERS
SPEAKER
Community Cigarette
Head of Cabinet of 1st VP Frans
Manufacturers)
Timmermans, Commissioner for
Inter-Inst.Relations
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Managing Director, Government
Former Director - Principal Legal
and Public Affairs
Adviser - INST Team
MOODY's CORPORATION
(Institutions), DG F
Former Member Cabinet Hans
van den Broek
Former Belgian
Chief Executive Officer
Principal Private Secretary to
Perm Rep to EU
AECA
H.M. the King of Belgium
(97-02)
Cabinet de Sa Majesté le Roi
Former Belgian
Honorary Director
ROYAL PALACE
Ambassador to
Chairman
GENESIS Chile
Board Member BAEF (Belgian
US (02-06)
MERIFIN CAPITAL
Fund &
American Education
Forrmer
Chairman GENESIS Emerging
GENESIS
Foundation)
Ambassador
Markets Fund
Malaysia Mayu
Board Member AECA
Belgian Perm
Board Member AECA
Fund
Former Honorary Ambassador to
Rep to NATO
Chair AECA / ISC Foundation
H.H. the King
(06-09)
Director CHARTERHOUSE
Former Chief Cabinet of the
Former Belgian
Group
President H.van Rompuy
Ambassador to
Director VISCARDI ag
Former Member Cabinet PM
Greece & Italy
Y.Leterme in 09 (4m)
Former Member Cabinet PM
Partner
Y.Leterme in 09 (4m)
NAUTA DUTILH - European Law
Firm
Executive Vice President &
Senior Partner
Head of Government Affairs
FLEISHMANHILLARD
Europe
Regional Director EMEA
TEVA Pharmaceuticals Europe bv
Former Director EU Affairs
SANOFI
BEN SMULDERS - BIOGRAPHY
-
Since November 2014,
Head of Cabinet of the First Vice President of the European
Commission, Frans Timmermans
March 2008-October 2014:
Director and Principal Legal Advisor, Head of the Institutional Law
& Economic and Monetary Union Team, Legal Service, European Commission, acted in more
than 90 cases relating to various fields of EU law before the General Court and the Court of Justice
of the European Union as well as the EFTA Court; member of the Commission delegation at more
than 25 European Council meetings.
-
December 2004-February 2008:
Head of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for
Competition Neelie Kroes.
-
September 2000-November 2004:
Member of Cabinet of the European Commission President
Romano Prodi.
-
September 1999-August 2000:
Member of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for the
Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union Frits Bolkestein.
-
January 1995-August 1999:
Member of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for External
Relations and Enlargement Hans van den Broek.
-
January 1991-December 1994:
Member of the European Commission Legal Service: 1993-94,
Member of the
Antitrust & Merger & State aid Control Team; 1991-92, member of the
Internal
Market and Economic and Monetary Union Team.
-
March 1985-December 1990:
advocate, member of the Amsterdam Bar, practising consecutively
in the
Banking & Company Law, Intellectual Property Law and
EU Law department of
NautaDutilh, co-managing its Brussels office from 1988-1990 and elected
partner in that firm in
June 1990.
Other professional activities
- Substitute
judge
(
'Raadsheer Plaatsvervanger') in the
Court of Appeal of The Hague (since 2012)
-
Part-time professor of International and European Competition law at the
Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (2013-2016); Visiting Professor of EMU law at the
Bruges College of Europe (since
2013), part time lecturer in various fields of EU law
at the
Collegio europeo di Parma (since 2003),
the
Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) & II (Panthéon-Assas) (since 2007), the
Europa
Institute of Amsterdam University (1992-2007) and the
Grotius Academie of the Radboud
University Nijmegen (1994-2005).
-
Member of the editorial board of
Common Market Law Review (since 2008); collaborator of the
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (Netherlands Journal of European Law) (2001-
2006).
-
President of the board of governors (
Curatorium) of the
Europa Institute of Leiden University (since 2002); member of the scientific board of the
College of Europe's Global Competition Law
Centre (since 2009); Member of the management board of the
Nederlandse Vereniging voor
Europees Recht (Dutch section of
Fédération Internationale du Droit Européen) (2003-2012);
Member of the Advisory Committee for the Vienna
European Law Institute project
Towards
Restatement and Best Practices Guidelines on EU Administrative Procedural Law (since 2014).
-
Member of selection panels for
NATO 's Chief Legal Advisor (2008 and 2013), member of the
selection panel for members of the
European Commission's European Group on Ethics (2010),
member of the selection panel for the Chief Legal Advisor of the
European Asylum Support
Office (2011).
-
Member of the supervisory board of the
Amsterdam Foundations of Catholic Education (
Amsterdamse Stichtingen voor Katholiek Onderwijs) (1987-1990).
Education & diplomas
-
Senior executive education programs: November 2010, certificate of the
London Business
School's
Essentials of Leadership Programme, September 2011, certificate of
INSEAD's
Managerial Skills for International Business Programme.
-
1984-1985, traineeship in the
European Commission's Directorate General for Competition.
-
1984: degree of Master of Laws (LL.M),
London School of Economics and Political Science.
-
1983: degree of Master of Laws (LL.M)
, Leiden University.
Languages
Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (proficient), Italian (proficient).
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