We are delighted to announce that two of Europe’s most distinguished political and academic leaders are becoming Trustees of the Europaeum. They are Dr Herman Van Rompuy, who served as the first full-time President of the European Council (2009-14), having already been Prime Minister of Belgium, and Professor Brigid Laffan, currently Chancellor of Limerick University, who was previously Director of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. They are also Honorary President and President respectively of the European Policy Centre (EPC) think tank in Brussels.
Dr Andrew Graham, Chair of the Trustees and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, said: ‘We are delighted to welcome Herman Van Rompuy and Brigid Laffan to the Europaeum. They bring remarkable records of public service and intellectual insight, in and on Europe, to our organisation. Their understanding and lived experience of European politics and policy will be of huge benefit to our students and to the 17 leading universities which comprise the network’.
Herman Van Rompuy and Brigid Laffan join an impressive line-up of Europaeum Trustees, who already comprise, in addition to Dr Graham:
• Andrienne d’Arenberg, management consultant;
• José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission;
• Professor Isabel Gil, Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal;
• Lord William Hague, Chancellor of Oxford University;
• Baroness Margaret Jay, former Leader of the UK House of Lords;
• Professor Maximilian Kiener of Hamburg University of Technology;
• Pascal Lamy, former WTO Director General and European Commissioner;
• Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, Vice-Chancellor of St Andrews University;
• Professor Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute; and
• Professor Wim van den Doel of Leiden University.
