Rolling Back The Rollback program

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ROLLING BACK THE ROLLBACK
– Spaces & strategies for reviving democracy and open societies
in Europe –
8.30 AM – 6.30 PM, Monday, April 7, 2014
Auditorium, Faculty Tower, CEU
Nádor utca 9, Budapest 1051
Recent events and developments in a number of European countries give rise
to serious concerns about the stability of democracy in parts of the continent.
Constitutional and other legal changes, a cut-down on freedom of the press
as well as the freedom of association, challenges to the independence of the
judiciary, xenophobia, anti-EU attitudes, low voter turnout, erosion of trust in
government, and corruption—all pose growing challenges to the prospects
of open societies in Europe. These trends are addressed in a series of events
organized by the School of Public Policy at CEU in cooperation with the Hertie
School of Governance.
Based on a prior analysis of anti-democratic trends in Europe, the “Rolling
Back the Rollback” Forum will examine possible responses to the rollback
of democracy and open societies. How can some of the anti-democratic
processes be reversed and how can further erosion of the foundations of
open societies be prevented?
The morning panels aim to analyze drivers and dimensions of democratic
rollback and the role and credibility of the EU as a guardian of democracy.
The afternoon program breaks away from conventional conference format
and provides interactive forum space for young actors to discuss and debate
novel approaches, spaces and strategies for ‘rolling back the rollback’, with,
among others, a special focus on opportunities and limitations of new digital
forms of mobilization and participation.
The forum will lay the foundations for policy formulation and dissemination,
including a policy paper to be published in 2014. Its interdisciplinary approach
and policy focus will result in recommendations on potential strategies for
governments, local and international civil society and EU institutions.
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MONDAY – APRIL 7, 2014
8.30 – 8.45 Registration and Coffee / CEU Octagon Hall
8.45 – 9.00 Welcome Remarks / Auditorium
John Shattuck (President and Rector, Central European
University)
Introduction / Auditorium
Wolfgang H. Reinicke (Founding Dean, School of Public
Policy at Central European University)
9.00 – 10.30 Drivers and Dimensions of the Rollback Revisited:
Law, Politics, Economy, Society
This panel will revisit the rollback of democracy from an
interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on legal, political,
economicandsocietalissuesinthecontextofanti-democratic
trends. It will introduce the major themes that together
make up the broader picture of the rollback of democracy,
assessing the current state of affairs and pave the road for
the following discussions on how to address these trends.
Moderator: Kati Marton (Member, Board of Trustees,
Central European University)
Béla Greskovits (Professor, International Relations
and European Studies Department, Political Science
Department, Central European University)
G. M. Tamás (Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, Central European University)
Renáta Uitz (Professor, Chair of the Comparative
Constitutional Law program, Central European University)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break / Auditorium Foyer
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11.00 – 12.30 The EU – Towards a more Credible and Effective
Guardianship for Democracy?
This panel will focus on whether the European Union as
an institution has the authority and credibility to criticize
and sanction the rollback of democracy. The panelists
will discuss this from a legal and institutional perspective,
scrutinizing the EU’s own democratic track record, its
avenues to exert pressure on member states, and
institutional capabilities (Copenhagen Commission, among
others) to respond to ‘rogue states’ within its borders.
Moderator: Andre Wilkens (Director, Mercator Centre
Berlin)
Franziska Brantner (MP German Bundestag, Alliance ‘90/
The Greens)
Heather Grabbe (Director, Open Society European Policy
Institute, Director of EU affairs, Open Society Foundations)
András Jakab (Director, Institute for Legal Studies,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Schumpeter Fellow,
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and
International Law)
Jan-Werner Müller (Professor of Politics, Princeton
University)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch / Auditorium Foyer
13.30 – 15.00 Digital Democracy: Alternative approaches to Rolling
back the Rollback? Opportunities and limitations
In the wake of anti-democratic trends, new approaches
have emerged in resisting and reverting the rollback of
democracy. This panel will discuss new and unconventional
approaches to defend, strengthen and advance civil liberties
and democratic participation, from the perspective of young
civic and political activists. The discussion will examine
opportunities and limitations of new digital forms of
mobilization and participation.
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Moderator: Mathieu Lefevre (Executive Director, New
Cities Foundation)
Balázs Bodó (Assistant Professor, Researcher, Budapest
University of Technology and Economics, Department of
Sociology and Communications, Center for Media Research
and Education)
Tim Dixon (Managing Director, Purpose Europe, Chief
Political Strategist, Purpose)
Julia Schramm (PhD Candidate, Humboldt University,
Former Board Member, Pirate Party Germany)
15.30 – 17.00 Recreating Strong Democracy: The role of the ‘Millennial
generation’ in shifting paradigms
(parallel working groups)
Legal Institutions / Monument Building, Room 203
With a special focus on the balance between majority rule
and minority rights, the group will critically assess the
potential and limitations of legal and judiciary institutions.
What spaces exist for fostering independent legal institutions
against the rollback of democracy? What are possible
strategies for bridging the gap between legal institutions
and their application in practice?
Moderator: Balázs Dénes (Director, European Civil Liberties
Project, Open Society Foundations)
Nicoletta Charalambidou (Vice-chair, European Network
against Racism Foundation)
Andrea Čolak (Legal Consultant, European Roma Rights
Center)
George-Konstantinos Charonis (Executive Board Member,
International LGBT Youth and Student Organization)
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Natalia Mileszyk (Researcher, Institute for Law and Society)
Political Narratives / Popper Room
This working group will explore a range of political narratives
from euroskepticism to populism and radicalization of
politics, with an eye on possible counter-narratives. What are
the dominant responses of mainstream political actors and
what are the implications for democratic and open societies?
What are possible counter-narratives and available political
spaces for strengthening democracy?
Moderator: Stephan Mergenthaler (Associate Director,
Deputy Head of Strategic Foresight at the World Economic
Forum)
Claudiu Craciun (Lecturer, Political Science Faculty, National
School of Political Studies and Administration of Romania)
Andrea L. P. Pirro (PhD Candidate, Centre for the Study of
Political Change, University of Siena)
Kristóf Szombati (PhD Candidate, Sociology and
Anthropology, Central European University)
Civil Society / Gellner Room
The group will assess spaces and strategies available to civil
society groups in ‘rolling back the rollback’ of democracy.
What forms and processes of social mobilization have been
most effective? What are the limits and opportunities of
pressure groups, NGOs and other civil society actors and
organizations in engaging with public frustration and trust
deficit in political actors and institutions?
Moderator: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick (Assistant Professor,
School of Public Policy at Central European University)
Daphne Büllesbach (Citizenship and Democracy Director,
European Alternatives)
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Michal Sutowski (Managing Editor, Krytyka Politiczna,
Poland)
Serdar Paktin (Social Semiotician, Strategist, Lecturer,
Writer, 140 Journos, Turkey)
Economic Regime / Nádor utca 11, Room 004
As a result of the European financial woes and sovereign
debt crisis, high unemployment and economic imbalances
persist, especially in Southern and Eastern parts of Europe.
Against the backdrop of tighter fiscal policies, what are
the implications for democratic societies? How does the
economic inequality interplay with anti-democratic trends?
Moderator: Michael Dorsch (Assistant Professor, School of
Public Policy at Central European University)
Eleni Balamoti (Public Administration Officer, Ministry of
Finance of Greece)
Bálint Misetics (PhD Candidate, Political Science PhD
Program, Central European University)
Panagiotis Vlachos (Founding Member, Greek European
Youth Association and Forward Greece)
17.15 – 18.30 Plenary and Closing Remarks / Auditorium
Moderator: Mathieu Lefevre (Executive Director, New
Cities Foundation)
Closing Remarks: Wolfgang H. Reinicke, Founding Dean,
School of Public Policy at Central European University
The plenary will recapitulate the threads of the four working
groups and thus synthesize different avenues for recreating
strong democracy and fostering open societies. With a
participant from each working group, this panel aims at
summarizing what young actors can do in rolling back the
rollback of democracy.
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18.30 – 20.00 Reception at the School of Public Policy:
Forum on “Hungary after parliamentary elections”
SPP premises, Október 6. utca 7, Floor 2
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HELMUT K. ANHEIER
Professor of Sociology and Dean, Hertie School of
Governance
Helmut K. Anheier is Professor of Sociology and Dean at
the Hertie School of Governance. He also holds a chair of
Sociology at Heidelberg University and serves as Academ-
ic Director of the Center for Social Investment. He received
his PhD from Yale University in 1986. From 2001 to 2009, he
was Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA’s
School of Public Affairs and Centennial Professor at the London School of Eco-
nomics. Prof. Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE
and the Center for Civil Society at UCLA. Before embarking on an academic
career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is currently
researching the role of foundations in civil society and focuses on concepts
and methods in civil society and globalization studies. Prof. Anheier is the ed-
itor of the annual Global Civil Society Yearbook (with Mary Kaldor and Marlies
Glasius) and the Cultures and Globalization Series (with Raj Isar). His recent
publications include Foundations and American Society (with David Hammack,
2009, Brookings Institution Press) and Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Man-
agement and Policy (2005, Routledge).
ELENI BALAMOTI
Public Administration Officer, Ministry of Finance of Greece
Eleni Balamoti is a public administration officer at the
Ministry of Finance of Greece. Her duties include legal
research for the Ministry in administrative courts. She has
also served as Administrative Management Officer at the
Council of Economic Advisors, coordinating with senior
officials at national and international level. Eleni Balamoti
holds a law degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is an
honored graduate of the Greek National School of Public Administration.
She has been researching the new rules of EU Economic Governance
introduced during the crisis and their social and political impact. Within this
framework, she has written an article titled “Evaluating the new rules of EU
Economic Governance in times of crisis”, which is expected to be published
in the European Labor Law Journal later this year, and has attended and
presented in various academic seminars, including a presentation on “Labor
Law, Social Protection and the Crisis: Evaluating the case of Greece”, organized
by the Institute of Labor Law of Leuven.
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BALÁZS BODÓ
Marie Curie Fellow, Institute for Information Law, University
of Amsterdam
Balázs Bodó was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford
University’s Center for Internet and Society in 2006/7 and
a Fulbright Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society at Harvard University in 2012/13. Since 2013 he is
based in Amsterdam, working as a researcher and a Marie
Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the
University of Amsterdam. Before moving to the Netherlands, he was deeply
involved in the development of the Hungarian internet culture. He was the
project lead for Creative Commons Hungary. He is a member of the National
Copyright Expert Group. As an Assistant Professor at the Budapest University
of Technology and Economics, he helped to establish and led the university’s
Master’s Program in Cultural Industries. He has advised several public and
private institutions on digital archives, content distribution, online communities
and business development. His academic interests include copyright and
economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground
libraries, digital archives and informal media economies. In his free time he was
one of the core members of “One Million for the Freedom of Press in Hungary”
(MILLA) movement. He was on stage at one of the early demonstrations, later
acted as an informal spokesperson, editor of the Facebook page and member
of the informal steering committee until the summer of 2012. He emigrated
from Hungary that year, but continues to produce a bi-weekly radio show on
Sexual Cultures on the Budapest based community radio Tilos, with his partner.
FRANZISKA BRANTNER
MP German Bundestag, Alliance ‘90/The Greens
Franziska Brantner has been Member of the German
Bundestag and the Greens group in the Bundestag (Bündnis
90/Die Grünen) since October 2013. Prior to this, she was
Member of the European Parliament for four years where
she served as the spokesperson for foreign affairs of
the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and
Parliament’s standing rapporteur for the Instrument for Stability. She also
was her group’s chief negotiator for the establishment and review of the
European External Action Service. Franziska Brantner served as Member
and coordinator on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and as substitute
member on the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, the Committee on
Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and on the Committee on Budgets.
Before being elected to the European Parliament, Franziska Brantner worked
as consultant on EU foreign policy for the Bertelsmann Foundation and as
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consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
She holds a Doctorate from the University of Mannheim for her research on
the reformability of the United Nations and a dual degree (M.A. and diplôme)
from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in
New York and Sciences Po in Paris.
DAPHNE BÜLLESBACH
Citizenship and Democracy Director, European Alternatives
Daphne Büllesbach is the Citizenship and Democracy
Director at European Alternatives, a Europe-wide civil society
organization devoted to exploring and developing the
potential for transnational politics and culture. Previously
she worked in social science research and the evaluation
of government programs. She also has a background in
international humanitarian and development organizations
in Kenia, Morocco, Argentina and Belgium. Her academic background is in
European Studies and Social and Political Science, she studied at King’s College
London, Sciences-Po Paris and the University of Cambridge, UK.
NICOLETTA CHARALAMBIDOU
Vice-chair, European Network against Racism foundation
Nicoletta Charalambidou studied Law in the University
of Athens Law School and thereafter obtained LL.M in
European Legal Studies from the University of Exeter. She
worked at the House of Representatives in Cyprus as the
Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Interior Affairs
and Human Rights as well as at the Law Office of the Republic
of Cyprus at the European Union Law Section. During her
years at the European Union Law Section of the Law office, she specialized
in social and employment law and policy and more particularly labor law
and discrimination as well as on asylum, migration, trafficking in human
beings, Schengen acquis, and free movement of persons and fundamental
rights. In 2009 she established a private law firm specializing in European
Union law, asylum, migration, trafficking in human beings, discrimination and
fundamental rights. Currently, she serves as the legal advisor to the Cypriot
Commissioner for the Protection of Children Rights and as a part time lecturer
on immigration and asylum at the European University Cyprus. Since 1999,
Nicoletta Charalambidou is also a member of the Steering Committee of KISA-
Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism, a national NGO with a mandate to
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support and advice to migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and victims of
trafficking. She is the Chair of European Network Against Racism Foundation
(ENAR) for Cyprus Coordination and the elected Vice Chair of ENAR in Brussels.
GEORGE-KONSTANTINOS CHARONIS
Executive Board Member, International LGBT Youth and
Student Organization
George-Konstantinos Charonis is the Executive Board
Member of IGLYO – the International LGBTQ Youth and
Student Organization responsible for Education and Social
Inclusion. He is also the Manager of Color Youth – Athens
LGBTQ Youth Community. One of George’s focus areas in
both Color Youth and IGLYO has been education, and more
specifically, homophobic and transphobic bullying. He drafted the IGLYO
Minimum Standards to combat homophobic and transphobic bullying, based
on the outcomes of a relevant conference held in June 2013. He is currently
involved in the ‘Vote for your rights’ project run by Athens Pride and Color Youth
ahead of the May 2014 municipal and European Parliamentary elections. The
project is aimed at empowering LGBTQ youth to vote in favor of political parties
and candidates that support LGBT rights, while raising the profile of LGBT rights
on the political agenda by putting pressure on politicians and candidates to
prioritize these rights. He holds an MSc in Climate Change and Policy from the
University of Sussex and a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Bath.
During his studies in the UK he was actively involved in students’ unions locally
and nationally, as a representative of the National Union of Students, as well as
internationally through his involvement in the European Students’ Union.
AUSTIN CHOI-FITZPATRICK
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy at Central
European University
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is a political sociologist and founding
faculty member at SPP, whose work focuses on social
movements and human rights. His current research,
funded by the National Science Foundation, explores the
impact of social movements on human rights violators in
India, particularly slaveholders engaged in contemporary forms of slavery.
Recent publications include an edited volume (From Human Trafficking to
Human Rights, 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press) in which leading scholars
contribute to an emerging human rights approach to human trafficking. Austin
Choi-Fitzpatrick teaches classes on Modern Governance and Human Rights
Advocacy at the School of Public Policy.
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ANDREA ČOLAK
Legal Consultant, European Roma Rights Center
Andrea Čolak has a degree in International Law from the Law
School University of Belgrade. As an Open Society Institute
fellow in 2004/05, she attended the undergraduate exchange
program at the Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania,
USA. She has been working on Roma rights issues since 2007
and in 2009–2012 was the Executive Director of the Minority
Rights Center (MRC), a Belgrade-based human and minority rights NGO. During
her work with MRC, she was involved in project management, monitoring and
implementation of Roma related policies and anti-discrimination legislation,
particularly in relation to hate crimes, discrimination in education, health care
and housing. She completed a two-year legal training program at a law office
in Belgrade and has experience in representation before domestic courts and
administrative bodies. She joined the European Roma Rights Center in May
2012 as a Legal Consultant for Western Balkans and Turkey.
CLAUDIU CRACIUN
Lecturer, Political Science Faculty, National School of Political
Studies and Administration of Romania
Claudiu Craciun has obtained a PhD from National School
of Political Studies and Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest
and is Lecturer in Comparative and European politics at its
Political Science Faculty. His research interests are in political
parties, representative institutions, social movements and
Europeanization. He worked in several expert positions in
the Government of Romania and since 2009 as an expert with the European
Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on fundamental rights, immigration and
home affairs. He is involved in various civic and environmental campaigns in
Romania, especially those related to environmental and heritage protection, civil
and political rights and improvement of citizen participation in decision-making.
BALÁZS DÉNES
Director, European Civil Liberties Project, Open Society
Foundations
Balázs Dénes is a Hungarian lawyer and a human rights
activist. In 1997 he joined the Hungarian Civil Liberties
Union (HCLU), the country’s leading civil liberties watchdog
organization, and after holding various positions he served
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he is the Director of the European Civil Liberties Project at the Open Society
Foundations. He is a founding member of many Hungarian NGOs, and serves on
the board of the Common Sense for Drug Policy Foundation. He focuses on civil
liberties, human rights, communication and new forms of civic advocacy and
activism. He received his law degree in 1998 from the Eötvös Loránd University
in Budapest and is a 2003–2004 Columbia University/PILnet Fellow.
TIM DIXON
Managing Director, Purpose Europe, Chief Political
Strategist, Purpose
Tim Dixon is the managing director of Purpose Europe in
London, and the chief political strategist of Purpose globally.
Purpose is a social mission business that incubates new
online social movement organisations on issues such as
human rights, women’s rights, humanitarian crises, poverty
and inequality, economic reform, education reform and reform of the food
industry. Movements begun or co-founded by the Purpose team have engaged
more than 42 million people around the world. Tim Dixon worked as senior
economic adviser and chief speechwriter to Australian Prime Ministers Kevin
Rudd and Julia Gillard between 2007 and 2010. He was previously a technology
lawyer for global firm Baker & McKenzie, but began his career as an education
entrepreneur, founding Leading Edge Education, an integrated publishing and
educational services business focused on economics, business studies and
commerce for Australian school students and teachers. During this time, he co-
authored a book which has become Australia’s best-selling economics textbook.
MICHAEL DORSCH
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy at Central
European University
Michael Dorsch is an applied economist and founding faculty
member at SPP, whose research and teaching interests are
mainly in public economics and political economics. His
current research program investigates the political economy
ofdevelopment,withaparticularinterestineconomiccauses
and consequences of political instability, civil conflict, and democratization.
His previous research has explored topics such as the political economy of
special-interest legislation in the United States, the role of social mobility in
the political economy of taxation, and the economics of pro-environmental
behavior. He has published papers in interdisciplinary journals such as Public
Choice, New Perspectives on Political Economy, and Social Science Quarterly.
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HEATHER GRABBE
Director, Open Society European Policy Institute, Director of
EU affairs, Open Society Foundations
Heather Grabbe joined the Open Society Foundations in
2009. As both the Director of the Open Society European
Policy Institute and Director of EU affairs, she works to ensure
that open society values are at the heart of EU policies and
actions, both inside and outside its borders. From 2004 to
2009 she was senior advisor to then European Commissioner for Enlargement
Olli Rehn, responsible in his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Before joining
the commission, she was deputy director of the Centre for European Reform,
the London-based think tank, where she published widely on EU enlargement
and other European issues. Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times,
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, among others. Her
academic career includes teaching at the London School of Economics, and
research at Oxford and Birmingham universities, the Royal Institute for
International Affairs (Chatham House, London), and the European University
Institute (Florence). Heather Grabbe has a PhD from Birmingham University
and a BA and MA from Oxford University. She speaks French, Italian, and
German.
BÉLA GRESKOVITS
Professor, International Relations and European Studies
department, Political Science department, Central European
University
Professor Greskovits has been teaching at the International
Relations and European Studies and Political Science
Department of CEU since 1993. He held the Luigi Einaudi
Chair at Cornell University, was Visiting Professor at Harvard
University and Visiting Fellow at the European University
Institute. His research interests include comparative capitalism, politics of
policy making, democratization, and social movements. His articles appeared
in Studies in Comparative International Development, Labor History, European
Sociological Review, West European Politics and Journal of Democracy. His
most recent book Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery (co-authored with
Dorothee Bohle) was published by Cornell University Press and was awarded
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ANDRÁS JAKAB
Director, Institute for Legal Studies at the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, Schumpeter Fellow, Max Planck
Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
András Jakab is the Director of the Institute for Legal Studies
at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest where
he also holds a tenured research chair, and a Schumpeter
Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law
and International Law in Heidelberg, where he is currently leading a five-year
project on comparative constitutional reasoning. Formerly he held different
research and teaching positions at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in
Budapest (2010–2011); at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
(CEPC) in Madrid (2008–2010); at the University of Liverpool (2006–2008); at
the Nottingham Trent University (2004–2006); at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2003–2004);
and at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Budapest
(2001–2003). His main research interests are legal theory (especially theory of
norms), constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law.
MATHIEU LEFEVRE
Executive Director, New Cities Foundation
Mathieu Lefevre is the Executive Director of the New Cities
Foundation, a non-profit organization that incubates,
promotes and scales urban innovation. Previously, he
worked for the World Bank in the area of governance and
as a political officer for the UN Department of Peacekeeping
Operations, serving in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Mathieu Lefevre is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
and of the London School of Economics. He is a citizen of France and the US
and has published articles in The Economist magazine, the Foundation for
Strategic Research, the French Almanac of International Relations and the
Afghanistan Analysts Network. Mathieu Lefevre frequently speaks at events
on cities, innovation, participation and governance.
KATI MARTON
Member, Board of Trustees, Central European University
Kati Marton is the author of seven critically received books,
including the ground breaking “Enemies of the People—My
Family’s Journey to America”, based on the Hungarian secret
police files on her family, and the Best Seller, “Hidden power
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—presidential Marriages that Shaped our History”, as well as a biography of
Raoul Wallenberg which has just been re-released to mark the 100th anniversary
of Wallenberg’s birth. Kati Marton, a Peabody Award winning journalist and
former ABC News foreign correspondent has combined a career as author
and journalist with public service. She served in the United Nations secretariat,
working on issues related to child soldiers, has been head of the International
Women’s Health Coalition and the Chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Marton’s books have been translated into five languages and she has been
awarded one of Hungary’s highest civilian honor, the Commanders Cross of
the Order of Merit. Marton’s latest book, her eighth, “Paris—a Love Story”, a
memoir, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2012.
STEPHAN MERGENTHALER
Associate Director, Deputy Head of Strategic Foresight at the
World Economic Forum
Stephan Mergenthaler is Associate Director, Deputy Head
of Strategic Foresight at the World Economic Forum. In this
capacity, he leads the Forum’s regional policy initiatives in
Europe and Eurasia with a focus on governance, regional
integration and economic reforms. He is also a Non-resident
Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and teaches international
relations at the University of Geneva. Previously, he worked as Research
Associate with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, as well as with
the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington DC.
NATALIA MILESZYK
Researcher, Institute for Law and Society
NataliaMileszykisaresearcheratthelegalthinktankInstitute
for Law and Society (INPRIS) based in Warsaw. At INPRIS,
she works on several projects including “Transparency in
Court and Tribunal Appointments” and “Making the Charter
of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) a
living instrument”. Her academic research focuses on the
phenomenon of human rights in the Internet environment. Her LL.M. thesis
examines the online protection of fundamental rights in the EU, particularly
freedom of expression and privacy rights, and explores European legislation
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studies at CEU, Natalia Mileszyk was involved in various NGO-initiatives,
mainly on legal clinics aiming at facilitating access to justice for individuals in
need. She was a coordinator of the project “Empowering women in Thailand
through human rights and language education” with the Polish Aid Program
of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The aim of the project was to prepare
a group of Thai students to become trainers of street law program and to
establish a network of trainers in Chiang Mai (Thailand).
BÁLINT MISETICS
PhD Candidate, Political Science PhD Program, Central
European University
Bálint Misetics studied social theory and social policy in
Budapest, Berkeley and Oxford. He wrote his thesis on the
politics of East-European welfare states, which is also his
current research topic at the Political Science PhD program
of CEU. He has been involved in activism around issues of
homelessness and housing since 2005, and he is one of the main organizers of
the recent pro-democracy protests and civil disobedience actions in Hungary.
JAN-WERNER MÜLLER
Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Jan-Werner Müller is a Professor of Politics at Princeton
University, where he also directs the Project in the History
of Political Thought. His publications include “Contesting
Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe”
(2011), “Constitutional Patriotism” (2007), “A Dangerous
Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought” (2003)
and “Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity”
(2000). In addition, he has edited “German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in
the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic” (2003) and “Memory
and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past” (2002).
In 2013 Suhrkamp published “Wo Europa endet: Brüssel, Ungarn und das
Schicksal der liberalen Demokratie.” Professor Müller has been a fellow at All
Souls College, Oxford, the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study,
and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; he was also a Member of the
Institute of Advanced Study Princeton. His book “Christian Democracy: A New
Intellectual History” is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
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SERDAR PAKTIN
Social Semiotician, Strategist, Lecturer, Writer, 140 Journos,
Turkey
Serdar Paktin graduated from Military High School and quit
Air Force Academy. He obtained his BA in Cultural Studies,
worked as an editor for Arena Magazine’s Turkish edition,
and holds MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for
Social Research in New York City, as a Fulbright Scholar.
He also worked at Whitman Insight Strategies, a strategic
communications firm in New York that served politicians such as Bill and
Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg, as a part-time researcher. He did
Strategic Planning for Marketing Communications back in Turkey. He worked
as Strategic Director of Social Media campaign for Republican People’s Party
(CHP) in 2011 Turkish General Elections. He took part in GriZine.com and
bugunbugece.com as Content Strategist. He is writing articles for Yeni Harman
Magazine, GQ Magazine, The Perspectives by Heinrich Böll Institute and
XOXO Magazine. He worked as a Senior Campaigner at Change.org Turkey.
Currently, Serdar Paktin is teaching an Online Reputation Management course
at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, consulting for Adam Mickiewicz Institute on
their content strategies for 2014 600th year of Polish Turkish Relations. He is
working together with Institute of Creative Ideas on 140Journos, which is an
innovative citizen journalism community.
ANDREA L. P. PIRRO
PhD Candidate, Centre for the Study of Political Change,
University of Siena
Andrea L. P. Pirro is PhD candidate at the Centre for the
Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena, and
co-convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and
Democracy. His research focuses on the ideology, impact,
and electoral performance of populist radical right parties in
Central and Eastern Europe. His research interests include
the relation between extremism and democracy, Euroscepticism, social and
political change in Europe, parties and elections. His contributions appeared
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WOLFGANG H. REINICKE
Professor and Founding Dean, School of Public Policy at
Central European University
Wolfgang H. Reinicke is SPP’s founding dean. He is also
president of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a
Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the foreign policy studies
program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His
areas of expertise include global governance, global finance,
international economic institutions, public-private partnerships and global
public policy networks as well as EU-US relations. Prof. Reinicke was a senior
scholar with the Brookings Institution from 1991–1998 and a senior partner
and senior economist in the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank in
Washington, DC, from 1998–2000. From 1999–2000, while in Washington, Prof.
Reinicke directed the Global Public Policy Project, which provided strategic
guidance on global governance for the UN Secretary General’s Millennium
Report. He co-founded the Global Public Policy Institute in 2003. Prof. Reinicke
holdsdegreesfromQueenMaryCollegeofLondonUniversity(BScineconomics)
and Johns Hopkins University (MA in international relations and economics). He
received his MPhil and PhD in political science from Yale University.
JULIA SCHRAMM
PhD Candidate, Humboldt University, Former Board
Member, Pirate Party Germany
Julia Schramm is a German politician, political scientist and
author. Formerly a board member of Pirate Party Germany,
she has been very active in the promotion of interactive
democracy in the Pirate Party, as well as anti-fascist
engagement and theoretical works on the societal impact
of the Internet. She studied political science, American and
Public Law at the University of Bonn since 2012 and is working on a doctoral
thesis at the Humboldt University in Berlin on the subject of privacy as a
political idea. Julia Schramm is a freelance writer for various media and her
blog “Leben in der Metamoderne” about policy, Internet, society, and feminism.
From 2009 to 2014 she was a member of the Pirate Party and also a member
of the Federal Executive. In September 2012, she published her literary debut
“Click Me”—a discussion about the growth of the Internet.
BIOGRAPHIES
BIOGRAPHIES

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JOHN SHATTUCK
President and Rector, Central European University
John Shattuck, an international legal scholar and human rights
leader, became the fourth President and Rector of Central
European University on August 1, 2009. Before coming to CEU,
he was CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Boston,
and Senior Fellow at Tufts University, where he taught human
rights and international relations. He also served as Assistant
Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
under President Clinton and as US Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Prior
to his government service, President Shattuck was a Vice-President at Harvard
University. Shattuck’s career began at the American Civil Liberties Union. He is
the author Freedom on Fire, a study of the international response to genocide
and crimes against humanity in the 1990s, and Rights of Privacy.
MICHAŁ SUTOWSKI
Managing Editor, Krytyka Politiczna, Poland
Michał Sutowski is a Polish political commentator, editor
and translator. He obtained his MA in political science at
the College of Inter-Faculty Studies in the Humanities, at the
University of Warsaw in 2009. He has translated numerous
high-profile books, including some of Ulrich Beck’s and
Manuel Castells’, into Polish. As a commentator on political
and social issues, he has written for some of Poland’s
biggest newspapers, such as Gazeta Wyborcza, and Rzeczpospolita, with his
main fields of interest being European integration, German politics, and the
history of ideas, particularly in recent Polish and Central European history. He
has been an activist of Krytyka Polityczna since 2007 and coordinator of the
Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw since 2012.
KRISTÓF SZOMBATI
PhD Candidate, Sociology and Anthropology, Central
European University
Kristóf Szombati studied sociology and political science at
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and social anthropology
at the University of Cambridge (UK). As a student he was an
active member of the Hungarian green movement and later
worked on participatory development projects with Roma
communities in Northeastern Hungary. In 2007, Kristóf Szombati co-founded
the green party Lehet Más a Politika (LMP, Politics Can Be Different) where he

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was responsible for Roma integration policy and international relations until his
departure in 2010. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Central European University
on everyday anti-Gypsyism and demand for far-right politics in Hungary. He is
also member of the editorial board of the Green European Journal.
BIOGRAPHIES
BIOGRAPHIES
G. M. TAMÁS
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Central European University
Professor Tamás graduated from Babes-Bolyai University,
in 1972. He originally studied philosophy and classics.
After a stint as an assistant editor of a literary weekly in his
native Transylvania, he got into political difficulties with the
authorities of the time and emigrated to Hungary where he
taught at the University of Budapest (ELTE). Sacked for political reasons again, he
became known as a dissident intellectual and published only in the underground
or abroad. Elected as a liberal member of the Hungarian Parliament in 1989, he
quit professional politics in 1994. He was the head of the Institute of Philosophy
of the Hungarian Academy and has taught at Columbia, Oxford, Chicago,
Georgetown, Yale and other universities and was a visiting research fellow in
Paris, Vienna, Washington DC and Berlin. He was recently granted the Lifetime
Achievement Award of the Soros Foundation Hungary. He published books on
political philosophy and social theory. His works have been translated into 12
languages.
RENÁTA UITZ
Professor, Chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law
program, Central European University
Renáta Uitz is professor of comparative constitutional law,
chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law program and
co-director (with Károly Bárd) of the clinical specialization
at CEU Legal Studies. She obtained her Doctor iuris degree
(with summa cum laude) at Eötvös Loránd University,
Faculty of Law in 1996 and received an LLM in Comparative
Constitutional Law at CEU Legal studies in the following year. Her S.J.D. (summa
cum laude) in comparative constitutional law earned in 2001 is also from CEU
Legal Studies. She started teaching at CEU in 2001, and became chair of the
Comparative Constitutional Law program in 2007. Her teaching covers subjects
in comparative constitutional law in Europe and North America, transitional
justice and human rights protection with special emphasis on the enforcement
of constitutional rights and on issues of bodily privacy and sexuality. Theories

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and practices of good governance in and after democratic transition, and the
role of courts in constructing the constitutional subject are at the center of
her research interests. “Constitutions, Courts and History” (2004) was her first
book, while her most recent is “Freedom of Religion in European Constitutional
and International Case Law” (2007). In addition she is the author of over 30
articles and book chapters which appeared mainly in English, Hungarian and
Russian. She regularly speaks at international conferences on comparative
constitutional subjects.
PANAGIOTIS VLACHOS
Founding Member, Greek European Youth Association and
Forward Greece
Panagiotis Vlachos is a lawyer, a political scientist and a public
policy innovator. He has studied Law, International Relations,
European Governance and Public Administration in Greece
(National University of Athens), the UK (LSE) and the USA
(Harvard Kennedy School). A founding and leading member
of non-governmental movements “Greek European Youth Association”
and “Forward Greece”, he has worked as a political, legal and political
communications manager and director to political parties, corporations,
governmental institutions, the Hellenic Parliament, the European Parliament
and start-ups focusing on open government and political technology. He is a
former Spokesperson of the Ministries of Homeland Security and Economy &
Competitiveness in Greece and publishes articles and political commentary
for research institutes, newspapers and political journals.
ANDRE WILKENS
Director, Mercator Centre Berlin
Andre Wilkens has been the Director of the Mercator Centre
Berlin since 2011. From 2009–2011 he served as Director of
the Centre for International Affairs at Mercator Foundation.
He was previously Head of Strategic Communications with
the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. Andre
Wilkens also headed the Soros Foundation’s Open Society
Institute (OSI) in Brussels and coordinated Soros’ activities in Europe (2003–
2009). He was co-initiator and founding member of the European Council for
Foreign Relations and is the Chairman of the OSI Roma Advisory Board. His
positions prior to this were at the Ogilvy & Mather communications agency
in Brussels, the European Training Foundation in Turin and at the European
Commission and European Parliament in Brussels.

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