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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
Former Russian
Vice President EU Affairs
Ambassador
Special
EXXONMOBIL Petroleum &
RUSSIAN Federation Mission to
Representative
Chemical
the EU
for Cyprus (97-
Former Russian Deputy Foreign
00
Minister (02-05)
Vice President, Government and
Former Russian Special
Regulatory Affairs
Representative for the Balkans
IBM Europe
(00-02)
Former Deputy
Partner & Head of Brussels Office
Minister of
BRUNSWICK Group LLP
Vice-President, Member (Poland,
Culture (93)
ECR)
Former Minister
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
for European
EU Affairs Director
Vice-Chair of Delegation to the
Integration (97-
JT International
Euronest Parliamentary
99)
Assembly
Former Minister -
Former Vice
Member of Committee on
member of the
Vice President Xerox Corporation, President &
Budgetary Control
Cabinet (98-99)
Head Government Affairs
Head of Public
Member of Delegation to the EU- Former
Europe
Affairs Europe
Ukraine Parliamentary
parliamentary
XEROX
Samsung
Cooperation Committee
representative
Member of the Board and Council Electronics
to NATO (91-
of British Chamber of
Former VP Global
93)
Commerce in Belgium
Affairs at Philips
Former Senior Lawyer at Philips
Consumer
Advisor OECD
Lifestyle
Pro-Vice Rector
UGent (University Ghent)
Dean Faculty of Economics and
Vice-President EU Affairs & Head
Business Administration
of EU office
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO
Former Chair
Managing Director Regulatory
Director General
CBI's trade
Affairs
DIGITALEUROPE
association
DELOITTE EU Public Policy
Member industry/government
council
Centre
information assurance and
Chair of the audit
security board and
committee
Vice chair of RISC
University of
Honorary Director Financial
Warwick
Operations
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Former EU
Member of the Steering
Head of EU Institutional Affairs
Manager
Committee of the Thomas More
ARCELOR MITTAL
VNO/NCW
Institute.
Former Director Energy & Climate
Change EUROMETAUX
Director General
EUROPEAN ALUMINIUM
Ambassador
Association (EAA)
DANISH Permanent
Representation to the EU
Head of EU Government Affairs,
Global Policy & International
Vice-President, Head of
Public Affairs
Corporate Representation
PFIZER
DEUTSCHE POST- DHL
Senior Director Pfizer Corporate
Affairs
HOST
Director European Union Affairs,
Head of Brussels Office
Director General
DOW Chemical Company
ORGALIME (European
Former Director General
Engineering Industries
European Retail Round Table
Association)
Former General
Member Advisory
Deputy General Counsel Legal &
Counsel at
Senior Managing Director
Board Women's
Compliance, Company Lawyer
Philips
FTI CONSULTING
Forum for the
SWIFT
Member Management Committee Economy
European Public Affairs
Society
Former Senior
Consultants Association
Director EU Affairs
Public Affairs
(EPACA)
DANISH INDUSTRY
Manager AIM -
CONFEDERATION
European
Brands
Ambassador
Association
AUSTRALIAN Embassy to
Belgium, Luxembourg, the EU &
NATO
Vice President Legal & Corporate
Affairs Europe
AB InBev
Director Communication &
Former Director Corporate
Government Relations
Communications COCA-COLA
INTERNATIONAL PAPER
Europe
Europe
Former Director
Vice President-International
The Centre,
Director Global Gov.Rel. & Public
External Affairs
Brussels
Policy Europe, India, Middle
AT & T - EMEA
Former Executive
East & Africa
Vice Chairman American
Director EMEA
PROCTER & GAMBLE Services
Chamber of Commerce to the
Government
Company NV
European Union (AmCham EU) Affairs at AT&T
Head Economic Department
Managing Director
NETHERLANDS Permanent
European Salt Producers'
Representation to the EU
Association - EuSalt
Partner
Director, Head of Brussels office
AFORE Consulting
INDRA
Former Senior Policy Advisor
FLEISHMAN-HILLARD
Former Senior
President & Managing Director
Vice President
MPA - Motion Picture Association & EMEA Policy
Director European Union Affairs
Director at MPA
MSD Europe
Former Assistant
U.S. Trade
Representative
Head of International Industrial
for Intellectual
and Economic Policy
Property and
EVONIK Industrie ag
Innovation
Former Associate
Counsel at
European Public Affairs Manager
Office of the
ELI LILLY - BeNeLux
U.S. Trade
Representative
Former Director
Ambassador
General
Former Director
NORWEGIAN Mission to the EU
Norwegian
Managing Partner
General
Former President of EFTA
Foreign Affairs
PAPPAS & Associates
Consumer
(European Free Trade
Ministry
Member Athens & Brussels Bar
Policy EC (95-
Association)
Associations
01)
Former Ambassador Norwegian
Director General and Professor at Former Director
Mission to the EU
the European Institute for Public General
Administration in Maastricht
Information,
Ben SMULDERS
SPEAKER
Former Judge Greek Supreme
Communication,
Head of Cabinet of 1st VP Frans
Court
Culture and
Timmermans, Commissioner for
Former Senior Advisor &
Audiovisual
Inter-Inst.Relations
International Lawyer Hammond
Policy EC
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Suddards Edge
Former Director - Principal Legal
Adviser - INST Team
(Institutions), DG F
Secretary General
Former Member Cabinet Hans
CECCM (Confederation Euro of
van den Broek
Community Cigarette
Manufacturers)
Chief Executive Officer
AECA
Managing Director, Government
and Public Affairs
MOODY's CORPORATION
François TULKENS
Henri van ENGELEN
Former Managing
Partner
Chief Executive Officer
Director ATOS
NAUTA DUTILH - European Law
WOLTERS KLUWER - Belgium
ORIGIN BeLux
Firm
Caroline WUNNERLICH
Erick TYSSIER
Executive Vice President &
Head of Government Affairs
Senior Partner
Europe
FLEISHMANHILLARD
TEVA Pharmaceuticals Europe bv
Regional Director EMEA
Former Director EU Affairs
SANOFI
Frans Baron van DAELE
Former Belgian
Principal Private Secretary to
Perm Rep to EU
H.M. the King of Belgium
(97-02)
Cabinet de Sa Majesté le Roi
Former Belgian
ROYAL PALACE
Ambassador to
Board Member BAEF (Belgian
US (02-06)
American Education
Forrmer
Foundation)
Ambassador
Board Member AECA
Belgian Perm
Former Honorary Ambassador to
Rep to NATO
H.H. the King
(06-09)
Former Chief Cabinet of the
Former Belgian
President H.van Rompuy
Ambassador to
Former Member Cabinet PM
Greece & Italy
Y.Leterme in 09 (4m)
Former Member Cabinet PM
Y.Leterme in 09 (4m)
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.
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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.
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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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