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.
,
Director EU Affairs and Head of the Brussels office,
DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
on
Thursday 14th January 2016 starting at
12:30
PARTICIPANTS LIST
Vice President EU Affairs
Head Regulatory and
EXXONMOBIL Petroleum &
Parliamentary Engagement
Chemical
Representation Brussels
EU TN°: 0745650927-75
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO
EU TN° 2427500988-58
Director
BRUNSWICK Group LLP
Managing Director Regulatory
EU TN°: 26255464458-25
Affairs
DELOITTE Global (DTTL)
EU Public Policy Centre
Vice President, Government and
EU TN° : 53994278504-37
Regulatory Affairs
IBM Europe
EU TN°: 7721359944-96
Partner
DELOITTE Belgium
EU TN° : 53994278504-37
EU Affairs Director
JT International
EU TN°: 71175716023-03
Honorary Director Financial
Operations
Former Vice
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Vice President Xerox Corporation, President &
Member of the Steering
Head Government Affairs
Head of Public
Committee of the Thomas More
Europe
Affairs Europe
Institute.
XEROX
Samsung
Member of the Board and Council Electronics
of British Chamber of
Former VP Global
Director General
Commerce in Belgium
Affairs at Philips
EUROPEAN ALUMINIUM
Former Senior Lawyer at Philips
Consumer
Association (EAA)
EU TN°: 162771718573-47
Lifestyle
EU TN°: 9224280267-20
Head of EU Government Affairs,
Vice-President, Head of
Global Policy & International
Corporate Representation
Public Affairs
DEUTSCHE POST- DHL
PFIZER
EU TN°: 48544465107-88
Senior Director Pfizer Corporate
Affairs
HOST
EU TN°: 4263301811-33
Director European Union Affairs,
Head of Brussels Office
DOW Chemical Company
Director General
Former Director General
ORGALIME (European
European Retail Round Table
Engineering Industries
EU TN°: 38235121060-73
Association)
EU TN°: 20210641335-88
Former General
Deputy General Counsel Legal &
Counsel at
Member Advisory
Compliance, Company Lawyer
Philips
Senior Managing Director
Board Women's
SWIFT
FTI CONSULTING
Forum for the
EU TN°: 011095511691-05
Member Management Committee Economy
European Public Affairs
Society
Former Senior
Consultants Association
Director EU Affairs
Public Affairs
(EPACA)
DANISH INDUSTRY
Manager AIM -
EU TN°: 29896393398-67
CONFEDERATION
European
Brands
EU TN°: 5749958415-41
Association
Ambassador
AUSTRALIAN Embassy to
Former Director
Belgium, Luxembourg, the EU &
Vice President-International
The Centre,
NATO
External Affairs
Brussels
AT & T - EMEA
Former Executive
Vice Chairman American
Director EMEA
Director Communication &
Chamber of Commerce to the
Government
Government Relations
European Union (AmCham EU) Affairs at AT&T
INTERNATIONAL PAPER
EU TN°: 92442218459-37
Europe
EU TN°: 47376536890-44
Former Vice Chair
Global Corporate Affairs Director
at EDAA -
Former Chair
AB InBev
European
Director General
CBI's trade
Interactive
DIGITALEUROPE
association
Digital
Member industry/government
council
Advertising
information assurance and
Chair of the audit
Alliance
security board and
committee
Former Director of
Vice chair of RISC
University of
Public Affairs at
EU TN°: 64270747023-20
Warwick
World
Federation of
Former EU
Advertisers
Head of EU Institutional Affairs
Manager
EU TN°: 161157710612-65
(WFA)
ARCELOR MITTAL
VNO/NCW
Former Director Energy & Climate
Change EUROMETAUX
Managing Director
EU TN°: 23527541824-60
European Salt Producers'
Association – EuSalt
EU TN°: 03451096957-77
Former Director
Director, Head of Brussels office
Managing Partner
General
INDRA
PAPPAS & Associates
Consumer
EU TN°: 208351410839-33
Member Athens & Brussels Bar
Policy EC (95-
Associations
01)
Director General and Professor at Former Director
Vice President - Head of
the European Institute for Public General
European Government Affairs
Administration in Maastricht
Information,
ENI SpA (Italian Oil & Gas
Former Judge Greek Supreme
Communication,
Company) - Brussels Office
Court
Culture and
EU TN°: 99578067285-35
Former Senior Advisor &
Audiovisual
International Lawyer Hammond
Policy EC
Former Director of
Suddards Edge
Chief Exeuctive
NVB - Dutch
EU TN°: 312274317374-38
European Banking Federation
Banking
(EBF)
Association
Former Senior
Secretary General
Vice President
CECCM (Confederation Euro of
ABN-AMRO
Community Cigarette
Bank - EU
Manufacturers)
EU TN°: 4722660838-23
Liaison Office
EU TN°: 1496873833-97
Managing Director, Government
Director Government & Corporate
and Public Affairs
Affairs EMEA
MOODY's CORPORATION
EXPEDIA Inc.
EU TN°: 55916968748-36
EU TN°: 70614728635-77
Former Senior
Director Global Gov.Rel. & Public
President & Managing Director
Vice President
Policy Europe, India, Middle
MPA - Motion Picture Association & EMEA Policy
East & Africa
Director at MPA
PROCTER & GAMBLE Services
Former Assistant
Company NV
U.S. Trade
EU TN°: 5519077766-10
Representative
for Intellectual
Property and
Partner
Innovation
AFORE Consulting
Former Associate
Former Senior Policy Advisor
Counsel at
FLEISHMAN-HILLARD
Office of the
EU TN°: 03013154889-05
U.S. Trade
EU TN°: 95201401713-39
Representative
Director European Union Affairs
MSD Europe
EU TN°: 09824113589-92
Head of International Industrial
and Economic Policy
EVONIK Industrie ag
EU TN°: 5958991861-30
CHAIR
European Public Affairs Manager
Principal Private Secretary to
ELI LILLY – BeNeLux
H.M. the King of Belgium
EU TN°: 04657143399-39
Cabinet de Sa Majesté le Roi
Former Belgian
ROYAL PALACE
Perm Rep to EU
Former Director
Board Member BAEF (Belgian
(97-02)
Ambassador
General
American Education
Former Belgian
NORWEGIAN Mission to the EU
Norwegian
Foundation)
Ambassador to
Former President of EFTA
Foreign Affairs
Board Member AECA
US (02-06)
(European Free Trade
Ministry
Former Honorary Ambassador to Forrmer
Association)
H.H. the King
Ambassador
Former Ambassador Norwegian
Former Chief Cabinet of the
Belgian Perm
Mission to the EU
President H.van Rompuy
Rep to NATO
Former Member Cabinet PM
(06-09)
Ben SMULDERS
SPEAKER
Y.Leterme in 09 (4m)
Former Belgian
Head of Cabinet of 1st VP Frans
Former Member Cabinet PM
Ambassador to
Timmermans, Commissioner for
Y.Leterme in 09 (4m)
Greece & Italy
Inter-Inst.Relations
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Former Senior
Former Director - Principal Legal
Head of EU Relations and
Director EU
Adviser - INST Team
Brussels EU Affairs Office
Public Affairs at
(Institutions), DG F
NOVARTIS
Novartis
Former Member Cabinet Hans
Former acting
van den Broek
Head European
Public Affairs at
EU TN°: 91269481588-28
Novartis
Ambassador to the EU, NATO &
Sweden
President Alumni
NEW ZEALAND Embassy to the
Managing Director
University of
EU
Hotel METROPOLE - Brussels
Columbia Club
Member Chamber of High
(N.Y.)
Commerce, Arts & Luxury
Member
Chief Executive Officer
International
AECA
Institutes for
EU TN°: 996568414630-62
Physics &
EU TN°: 290712020208-88
Chemicals
Head of Government Affairs
Europe
Executive Vice President &
TEVA Pharmaceuticals Europe bv
Senior Partner
Former Director EU Affairs
FLEISHMANHILLARD
SANOFI
Regional Director EMEA
EU TN°: 27116427434-57
EU TN°: 56047191389-84
BEN SMULDERS - BIOGRAPHY
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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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