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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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